[Carrie]

How on earth is Harry Conick Jr and a Photojournalist for NBC walking around the convention center unscathed yet we couldn't get any military help in?

That's what I'd like to know. The whole time no help was showing up, news crews were able to get in and out freely. Hell, Brian Williams was reporting from what looked like a roof right next to the Superdome, and that hispanic guy... can't remember his name... was reporting from the highway (I-10?) right next to it. Other reporters were out wandering the streets and going along in rescue boats that the residents were running.

Now, lets wait until all the "Gov can do no wrong and the negroes are bad people" group swaggers in.

Why you gotta take that route? This ain't a black/white thing, this is a people thing.

Then there should have been no reason for it to take until Friday to get the shit in there.

Damn straight. We all knew Sunday night that there were people in the Superdome, yet the head of FEMA says he didn't know until Thursday afternoon or so? Bullshit!! And if the reporter crews could come and go freely, then the FEMA guys could have as well.
And this shit with them purposely keeping the Red Cross out of there... something stinks. Badly.

It's going to all come down to Bush because he appointed these people, even though he did declare states of emergency very early so help could be waiting. I've heard he turned down physical (not monetary) help from other countries earlier this week. I want to know WHY. I want to know if those idiots heading up FEMA (that were too stupid to know there were people in the Dome) and Homeland Security (who kept getting on the radio and tv saying everything was going great) were feeding Bush the same line of bullshit they were TRYING to feed us. Apparently the state Governors down there were stringing along a pretty good line of bullshit as well. I read in one article that Cooper Anderson really took Gov. Barbour to task, caught somewhere between screaming and crying, when Barbour was trying to say the relief efforts were going along great and Anderson had just seen rats eating a dead woman's body in the streets.

Lots of folks are slamming on Nagin for his radio interview - which really shocked me - but I can sure see where he's coming from. We had the reporters right there showing us the true story, we had Buff & company blogging out the true story, then we had all those talking heads saying how great it was going... bullshit. The Mayor had every right to be pissed and upset. Yeah, there were things he could've done (and should've done) beforehand to help be prepared, but once it was over where was his help? Nowhere to be found. His governor's out there blowing smoke up people's asses and his city is falling apart.

There's a real big smell around this. Almost like it's some kind of purposely engineered experiment. If it's not that, then it's definitely a bunch of people trying desperately to keep their asses looking and smelling rosy while thinking we're too fucking stupid to believe the live videos coming out of the disaster areas.