Hurricane Katrina Devastates The Gulf Coast.

[Sgt PSN]

My mother owns a daycare and one of the fathers is a full time guardsmen about to be deployed there. His wife said they probably will not be given live ammunition.

In that case, why go? No, seriously. Why go? It's a dogfight. You gotta be able to return fire.

They're going to be armed with Snickers bars with the hope that they have a more devastating effect on people than they do deer. 

[Diomedes]

Fats Domino decides to stay at home and not evacuate...now he's missing

And now he is found.

[Drunkmasterflex]

My mother owns a daycare and one of the fathers is a full time guardsmen about to be deployed there. His wife said they probably will not be given live ammunition.

In that case, why go?  No, seriously.  Why go?  It's a dogfight.  You gotta be able to return fire.

I won't disagree with you there, but we all know the consequences if you don't.  In general this is just an unbelievably sad situation.  You watch the news and you would swear that this was a 3rd world country.

[Diomedes]

One displaced resident at the Louisiana Superdome, however, issued a warning to authorities who may be headed to the stadium, where up to 30,000 people had sought refuge after Monday's hurricane and now await evacuation to Texas by bus.

"Please don't send the National Guard," he said. "Send someone with a bullhorn outside the place that can talk to these people first."

He described scenes of lawlessness and desperation, with people simply dragging corpses into corners.

"They have quite a few people running around here with guns," he said. "You got these young teenage boys running around up here raping these girls."

Elsewhere, groups of armed men wandered the streets, buildings smoldered and people picked through stores for what they could find.

hell on earth, on television 24/7.  I wonder how you can find out how much the rates for ads on CNN  and the other news networds have increased during Katrina.

[Geowhizzer]

Fats Domino decides to stay at home and not evacuate...now he's missing

And now he is found.

Am I the only one who was surprised that he was still alive?

[Diomedes]

Hadn't really thought about his chances that much.

[Geowhizzer]

Hadn't really thought about his chances that much.

Actually, I meant alive in the first place.   

[Diomedes]

Hadn't really thought about his chances that much.

Actually, I meant alive in the first place.

Oh.  No, that didn't surprise me.  I knew he was still around.

[Rome]

"Escape From New Orleans"

[Diomedes]

300 Guardsmen dropped into New Orleans with orders to kill hoodlums.

maybe they can send in another 25,000 and knock this shtein off.  we'll cover the overtime. 

also:

[Colonel Henry Whitehorn of the Louisiana State Police] admitted that a number of police officers, who had lost everything in flooding after Hurricane Katrina which roared ashore last Monday, had handed in their badges, unwilling to take the fight to looters.

[Diomedes]

link

published June 6, 2005

In fiscal year 2006, the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is bracing for a record $71.2 million reduction in federal funding.

It would be the largest single-year funding loss ever for the New Orleans district, Corps officials said.

...

There is an economic ripple effect, too. The cuts mean major hurricane and flood protection projects will not be awarded to local engineering firms. Also, a study to determine ways to protect the region from a Category 5 hurricane has been shelved for now.

...

One of the hardest-hit areas of the New Orleans district's budget is the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, which was created after the May 1995 flood to improve drainage in Jefferson, Orleans and St. Tammany parishes. SELA's budget is being drained from $36.5 million awarded in 2005 to $10.4 million suggested for 2006 by the House of Representatives and the president.

[JTrotter Fan]

I give up.  I can't watch CNN or MSNBC anymore.  I can't keep seeing these little kids that are near death or already dead.  It's killing me.  This is farging America!!  Our government is more interested in Iraq than the U.S.  It's insane.  I want to do something and i can't.  I want to help those people...cripes...what in the hell can we do?  It seems like the money getting sent in isn't really doing anything right now. 

[BigEd76]

SaintsReport.com

The Saints' top MB, there's stories of posters checking in from places other than their regular homes... 

[phillymic2000]

This is dragging on too long, If we can drop big arse food and water drops after the tsunami within three  days, how can we not be air dropping food and water to these people at least stuck at the superdome, and convention center. I know I was defending the efforts yesterday, but after looking at the extended time to get them just the basics wow, I am amazed we have not had drops into these areas. It scares the crap out of me for a couple of reasons, the worst being if there was another disaster or terrorist attack in or around Chicago, this could be me on tv with my family. It makes me want to go and get extra cases of water at the least and store them for this. Our goverment as a whole needs to be drilled for this from the bottom to the top, congress is on vacation and the president has been telling us help is on the way for four days, and not even the basics are there.At least get them air drops of water and food. I am deeply dissapointed in the efforts of just getting our American brothers and sisters just food and water.

[PhillyGirl]

Our government is more interested in Iraq than the U.S.  It's insane.  I want to do something and i can't.  I want to help those people...cripes...what in the hell can we do?  It seems like the money getting sent in isn't really doing anything right now. 

Some of us have seen this all along.