I woke up this morning about 6am with the thought that I would feel better with a loaded shotgun laying next to me.

I hope all of you have a bead on where you will ride out the apocalypse.

The hog is in the tunnel, just thought you might like to know.

when's the runoff?

Yeh, this whole Katrina aftermath has raised a lot of issues, but fuck if I'm gonna point 'em out.

I was talking to my dad (he of war veteran/hired murderer provenance) and he told me: "Look at who benefits from this. There are people who have been PRAYING for Katrina."

Aside from land rapers and racists in New Orleans, I believe he was hinting at marshall law and societal breakdown. Read up on the Great Depression. I hope all of you like tomato soup made from water in an empty ketchup bottle.

Also, had a guy in my office (who is black) tell me today that "If they really get agitated these folk could turn this into a third world country in a matter of weeks"

Senator Warren ZeGAR

It sure feels like End Times.

Good to have you back online Senator.

The pictures today of the evacuation of the Superdome already looks like a Somalian bread line, complete with armed gangsta's

My momma waiting on the Rapture right about now.

"And in the last days blah blah things will wax worse and worse blah get right with Jesus blah, etc."

I can send lawyers with guns, but I ain't got no dough...

It's a [parish] of human wreckage, so the drag-queens of Memphis are no longer the South's biggest problem.

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Perhaps you go go out on a limb and educate us backward folks about (A) what the End Times feel like, and (B) why you are certain of these End Times to the point of being repetitive and insistent that the planet is just going to implode, leaving us mere mortals as space confetti.

SCHWARZENEGGER IS GOVERNOR!!!

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You wouldn't understand, mortal.

I was initially one of those insensitive pricks who thought your kind of asking for it when you try to stick out a Category 4-5 Hurricane in a city below sea level, but then I considered the fact that most of the people stuck in NO are unbelievably poor and stuck in any city facing a natural disaster.
I gave some money to the Red Cross while purchasing some light bulbs today, so I'm starting to come around.
I was really amazed when Old Bullee stated that they weren't showing Saint Bernard due to floating corpses and then an hour later they finally started giving casualtie estimates in NO.
It sort of freaks me out that a major disaster has happened in late summer after Dubya has won a Presidential Election. In 2001, He was essentially on vacation until 9-11 and in 2005 his lengthy vacation is interrupted by a major hurricane that essentially wipes out another major city at least temporarily.
Anyways, I hope everyone down in that area either makes it out to a safer place or gets all the help they need.

But don't expect another post-disaster bounce for the President. His handling of this affair has been much less dexterous.

From Political Animal:

"BUSH AND KATRINA....As Laura Rozen points out, even George Bush's defenders over at National Review think his reaction to Hurricane Katrina has been oddly detached from reality. I have to agree. While New Orleans was undergoing a slow motion catastrophe on Monday and Tuesday, Bush was mugging for the cameras, cutting a cake for John McCain, playing the guitar for Mark Wills, delivering an address about V-J day, and continuing with his vacation. Then, on Wednesday, when he finally got around to saying something, it turned out to be a flat, defensive, laundry list of a speech.

"These are not the actions of a president in touch with the country — especially a president who usually excels at reacting to tragedies like this. When you put this together with his increasingly robotic speeches about progress in Iraq, his tone deaf reaction to Cindy Sheehan's vigil, and the continuing meltdown in public support for the war, I think that for the first time in his presidency Bush has found himself in a corner he doesn't know how to get out of. And it's showing."

drinks are much better with ice

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050901/ap_on_en_mu/katrina_fats_domino

Fats is missing in the 9th Ward..............

That's because I'm not fluent in sap.

if you were, i could get you 6 figures, easy.

You do television production?

I didn't know Fats was still alive.

St. Bernard and Plaquemines are pretty roughed up, but west of the 17th Street Canal appears to not be totally devastated. I got in touch with one friend whose family is mostly rooted in Harahan, and he said though they aren't there, reports are that they suffered little if any flooding. I also was watching the WWL feed last night, and as they choptered over Metairie and Kenner standing water was minor and even some dry land was visible, except on the lakefront.

place for donations: http://www.secondharvest.org/

My brother just told me that the president of Plquemines Parrish (where my brother was stationed) said that the ocean is several miles further inland than it used to be.

Read: The toe of the boot is underwater.

I don't know if any of you are familiar with a metal band called Soilent Green, but if anyone's heard any info on them I'd love to hear it. They are from New Orleans and were supposed to start a tour today I think.

They have had a Spinal-Tap-drummer-like series of horrible things happen to them and they were just about to finally put out a new album, etc. Obviously, I am sad for all the lives that were affected or ended by this hurricane, but it would really suck if after all they'd been through Katrina hit them too. Hopefully they were already out of New Orleans.