Theo, in NO a flare gun wouldn't have helped. The eyewitness said that people were waving their arms at the National Guard troops who they LOOKED IN THE EYES, but they wouldn't stop to help them - even when women nearby were being abused and they ran out of water.

Given that circumstance, I think I would have become very desperate - and I may have tried to call attention to myself using unusual means.

Trudy, that said, I did hear about hospitals being invaded. So...? There were really desperate people and there were desperate criminal people. Disaster preparedness would have had plans for helping the former people and preventing the latter people from doing too much damage.

I did hear about hospitals being invaded. So...? There were really desperate people and there were desperate criminal people. Disaster preparedness would have had plans for helping the former people and preventing the latter people from doing too much damage.

Very very true.

I suspect that the assumption of evil intent was heightend because of the blackness though. With white people we may have heard about "a few bad apples". (this is speculation of course)

New Orleans will have to be abandoned for at least nine months, and many of its people will remain homeless for up to two years, the US government believes.

The bleak assessment will deepen the biggest crisis faced by President George Bush, who last week called the devastation of Hurricane Katrina a " temporary disruption".

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George Bush, who last week called the devastation of Hurricane Katrina a " temporary disruption".

Alright, him I might wing to get attention (instead of shooting into the air).

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This is a link regarding the volunteer physicians who are trying to head to LA, but can't get approval to serve because the federal government isn't properly coordinating this effort. Physicians who go to Baton Rouge seem to have greater success.

George Bush, who last week called the devastation of Hurricane Katrina a " temporary disruption".

He's probably thinking about oil. Or his vacation.

He's probably thinking about oil. Or his vacation.

Bush is on record as thinking about Iraq. Every! Day!

I've got the unfortunate mantra of "The American people get the government they deserve" running through my mind today. Unfortunately most of the agony that the suburban SUV-driving Capital-C Christian American people who voted for this gov't are experiencing right now is at the gas pump.

(Yeah, yeah, I know, gross overgeneralization of Bush voters, etc.....)

Sorry, double-post because of connection difficulties. I will refrain from blaming them on the Bush KleptocracyAdministration....

A quote seen in another place, and quite worth repeating here: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."