Hurricane Katrina Devastates The Gulf Coast.

[MDS]

He's12 years old, I guess he better start learning that his dad is a zesty pile of crap.

[TexasEagle]

This is farging ridiculous. I can't believe all the back slapping and mugging for the camera these iceholes are doing while people are still dying. All the resources this country has and they can't get food or water into a city or people out. This is a god damn farging joke and it's sickening.

[T_Section224]

don't worry, the guns are on their way down so the can take care of the criminals so they can then get food, water, shelter, and medical help to those who need it.

[rjs246]

Well, that only took a week. Napalm would have smelled better. Like victory.

[T_Section224]

i love the smell of napalm in the morning

[PhillyGirl]

Like I said...here's a great reason for Napalm:

Farrakhan: God punishing U.S. for Iraq with storm

Speaking to a large crowd in South Philadelphia last night, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan suggested that the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina was divine punishment for the violence America had inflicted on Iraq.

"New Orleans is the first of the cities going to tumble down... unless America changes its course," Farrakhan said.

"It is the wickedness of the people of America and the government of America that is bringing the wrath of God down," he told several hundred people at Tinsley Temple United Methodist Church.

His remarks were enthusiastically received.

He was in town as part of a multicity tour designed to drum up support for an Oct. 15 event in Washington designed to build on and commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Million Man March he organized in 1995. The new effort is called the Millions More Movement.

Farrakhan made similar remarks at a luncheon hosted by District 33 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which represents blue-collar city workers.

"The justice of God is coming home now," he said in an hour-long speech. Among those attending were City Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell, Mayor Street's son Sharif Street, and Imam Shamsud-din Ali, the Muslim cleric convicted in the City Hall corruption probe.- Frederick Cusick
and Michael Currie Schaffer

From throughout the world, compassion for the victims

From papal prayers to telegrams from China, the world reacted with an outpouring of compassion yesterday for the victims of Hurricane Katrina in messages tinged by shock that a disaster of this scale could occur in the United States.

Venezuela, which has had tense relations with Washington, offered humanitarian aid and fuel if requested. French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder sent President Bush messages of sympathy, and Saudi King Abdullah did the same by phone.

Amid the sympathy, however, there were opposing reactions.

Islamic extremists rejoiced, declaring in Internet chatter that "Private" Katrina had joined the global jihad, or holy war. With "God's help," they declared, oil prices would hit $100 a barrel this year. - AP

NBC benefit tomorrow for Katrina relief fund

NBC Universal yesterday announced plans to televise a benefit concert tomorrow to raise money for Katrina victims.

The hour-long special, A Concert for Hurricane Relief, is set for 8 p.m. on NBC, MSNBC and CNBC and will air live on the East Coast. NBC's Matt Lauer will be host; performers will include Tim McGraw, Harry Connick Jr. and Wynton Marsalis, the network said. Viewers will be encouraged to donate to the American Red Cross.

Evangelist says storm 'destroyed a wicked city'

Repent America, the Christian ministry in Lansdowne known for its street demonstrations against homosexuality, said yesterday that Katrina was "an act of God" that "destroyed a wicked city" because it hit on the eve of a large gay festival in New Orleans.

Michael Marcavage, Repent America's leader, cited Southern Decadence, an often-raucous celebration that was to open today in the French Quarter for the 34th year. "Let us pray for those ravaged by this disaster," he said. "However, we must not forget that the citizens of New Orleans tolerated and welcomed the wickedness in their city for so long."

Doug Fulenwider, superintendent of the Louisiana district council of the Assemblies of God, said Marcavage was "flinging barbs" at the wrong time. "Many of our pastors have lost their churches," Fulenwider said, "and they certainly didn't do anything against God."

I have a better idea for that Napalm.....

[TexasEagle]

Weee... one week and a few hundred dead bodies later and help arrives. Inside the continental U.S. Right on!

[PhillyGirl]

Weee... one week and a few hundred dead bodies later and help arrives. Inside the continental U.S. Right on!

They'd have been in Iraq in one day. Great priorities this wonderful government has. 

[T_Section224]

let's not underestimate the poor job done by the city and state government in planning for this storm.  they knew it was coming, they knew there was always a possibility of this happening, but they didn't have a plan?  now they're left with lawlessness to the point that the troops have to be sent in to settle the area down and get the rest of the people out.  that's some great planning on their part.

[rjs246]

Dude, they had pre-hurricane parties to worry about.

[T_Section224]

of course, duh.

[T_Section224]

so, is it agreed we go full force with the rjs-plan?

[rjs246]

You know. I'm only half-kidding about naping that city. The police are corrupt. The city is filthy. There is so much crime there that it's not really safe at all. The entire economy of the area is built around debauchery, which I have no problem with but means that after a catastrophe like this which will completely destroy the tourism industry for several months if not longer that the city will be generating no income on its own. The people what are left in the city are homeless and resorting to mob violence and anarchy...

[Diomedes]

The city must be razed.  Seriously.  Tens of thousands of homes must be destroyed.  You cannot salvage any of it.  Literally, the city has been destroyed.

Move everyone out.  Post signs when it will be destroyed.  Send in the napalm.  Halliburton will be glad to help.

[MadMarchHare]

MOABs.  It's not the 60s guys!