[aldo_14]

(read and... contrast?)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/katrina/story/0,,1797717,00.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/27/AR2005092701960_pf.html
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050919/blumenthal

Yep,  Brownie did a great job.......

[Turambar]

i gotta say, that's pretty awful.

that thing with the cruise ships just reeks of somebody with carnival having a friend in FEMA

[Colonol Dekker]

First one unintersting,
2nd had a picture of a nasa robot so 50/50 interesting
3rd had comic bush with goggle eyes i the ads banner so   <two thumbs up>

[Mefustae]

Isn't humanity great! In the face of a massive disaster, we can still go above and beyond to cheat money out of people that need it just to make a quick buck [EDIT: and pr0n]. Heartwarming, really.

Now, regarding the latter article, i'm not too familiar with this Pat Robertson character, beyond the occaisional thread mocking him, but that article makes him sound like a f***ing supervillian!

[Kosh]

Wow, just wow. That's really all I can say.

[Dough with Fish]

......

Welcome to last year. Really, this is all oooooold news here in America. Only reason I can think that none of this was posted her when it first broke was that us Americans knew that it was all ****ed up, but we were (and to an extent, still ARE) exhausted from all the bull**** in the government that we are just kind of giving up.

Yeah, the government screwed people over, people screwed people over, and Robinson screwed people over. How is this different from any and every other tragedy in America these days?

[Turambar]

cause i predict that that city, in the fragile state that it's currently in, is going to get ****ed again, repeatedly, by every hurricane that goes over it.  that is, until they smarten up, and move the city a few miles inland, and start fresh with good levees and a nice positive number under the heading "feet above sea level"

[redsniper]

Yes, but that would be thinking, which is strongly discouraged in the US.

[NGTM-1R]

Actually, what they really ought to be doing is letting the friggin' Mississippi run the course it wants to, which is about five miles to the west of the city, and just build themselves a new terminal for ships over there instead of trying to keep this one open.

It would have cost them a lot less then Katrina did.