CNN not completely gone...This on front page:

[blonndee]

Victims feel forgotten in southeastern Louisiana
'St. Bernard Parish and Plaquemines was ground zero'

Thursday, September 8, 2005; Posted: 1:37 p.m. EDT (17:37 GMT)

CHALMETTE, Louisana (AP) -- The cars were swallowed, the homes shattered and the people left clinging for life. Survivors waited for help, but it seemed like so little, so late.

More than a week since Hurricane Katrina cut its swath along the Gulf Coast, word is only now starting to trickle out from this outlying area of some 66,000 people on Louisiana's southeastern edge.

What's said is filled with anger -- residents feeling even more abandoned than hard-hit New Orleans -- and disbelief....

"If you dropped a bomb on this place, it couldn't be any worse than this," said Ron Silva, a district fire chief in St. Bernard Parish. "It's Day 8, guys. Everything was diverted first to New Orleans, we understand that. But do you realize we got 18 to 20 feet of water from the storm, and we've still got 7 to 8 feet of water?"

more at http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/08/katrina.forgottentown.ap/index.html

[blonndee]

1. Oh, BTW, the front page lead-in is even stronger:

'We got left; they didn't care'

Cars were swallowed, homes were shattered and people were left clinging for life. No, not in New Orleans. More than a week after Hurricane Katrina hit, word is only now trickling in from outlying areas on Louisiana's southeastern edge. Residents say they feel even more abandoned than hard-hit New Orleans -- and they feel disbelief.

From cnn.com

[opihimoimoi]

2. The Ramifications of Inept Leadership have yet to be felt.

Think of what can happen with this same leadership in larger Disasters... They are clueless as to True Problem Solving..they seem to be guessing....brain freeze and incompetence go together

Global Warming is THE LARGER PICTURE...affects the ENTIRE PLANET...our "Leader" does not believe we should address this???

It seems "Warnings", even from credible sources, fall off Bushies back as water off a Duck.... He seems to IGNORE WARNINGS...even the DIRE ones.....