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good point, but none the less, i am glad they are doing something.

In reply to: Aren't you reimbursed per mile/km nope, I'm not actually an eployee of the company I work for. Technically, I'm refered to as an "indepandant contractor". It's really like being in business for myself as a rep or agent. In reply to: I thought I was the only one who noticed the disparities in the media coverage ya' know I pay attention hon.

Ontario has offered up a mobile hospital. We're also sending linemen and equipment to help out the electrical utility.

It's probably the smartest move Premier DOLTon McGuinty has made (don't worry, dumb-ass politicains are universal)

The hospital where I work sent a mass email saying if any nurses, physicians, MA's, etc. wanted to go and volunteer down there, the hospital would continue to pay them thier salary while they are away.

I'm also pissed off that George Bush can't get his but up and do something. I heard he stayed and extra two day's on his vacation before he decided to do something. Meanwhile more people were dying. Sounds familiar when he made up that little excuse of having to finish reading a story to the little children before he had gone to help on 9/11. What a great president he is...

I'm sorry for any of you who may have family or friends who live in New Orleans, Missippi, and other states that were affected. I have 2 friends and a cousin who live there and I'm not sure what they're doing but I heard my cousin was ok just injured.

Thats pretty cool!

In reply to: he made up that little excuse of having to finish reading a story to the little children Well, you have to admitt, he does live in Story-book Land.

Frank Rich:In reply to:The president's declaration that "I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees" has instantly achieved the notoriety of Condoleezza Rice's "I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center." The administration's complete obliviousness to the possibilities for energy failures, food and water deprivation, and civil disorder in a major city under siege needs only the Donald Rumsfeld punch line of "Stuff happens" for a coup de grâce. How about shared sacrifice, so that this time we might get the job done right? After Mr. Bush's visit on "Good Morning America" on Thursday, Diane Sawyer reported on a postinterview conversation in which he said, "There won't have to be tax increases."The only reason W. could think that is because he don't think. He doesn't seem to know shit from Shinola about the details of anything.

it's pure arrogance!"it can't happen here, everyone, especially god, loves America"Frankly, Bush beleaves so strongly in the indomitable nature of his soverginity that Iceland could invade the US by surprise and the new national anthem woud be written by Bjork! indomitable ... sounds a bit like unsinkable said the Titanic to the iceburg"glug glug glug"

New Orleans is Baghdad II. Screw up twice in three years through lack of planning? Inexcusable.Friday Bush told his FEMA director that he was doing a great job. Ghe FEMA guy (Brown) is totally in over his head. Completely incompetent. But given past experience, Bush will probably have Brown awarded the Congressional Medal. No one is ever held accountable. As long as they remain loyal, the more they screw up, the more their career advances.I wonder what Bjork thinks about all of this.

hmmmmmBrown's situation sounds very familliar. Let's think... gross failier, incopetence, under-qualified, disasterous results, loyaltyI'm thinking of someone else in the administration but I can't quite put my finger on it. Maybe I'll go cook up some brown rice.

She also had trouble in the prediction department. Her PhD didn't seem to help.

Frankly, I don't think it was entirely Rice's fault either. She is a smart and capable individual. I just beleive that she wasn't appointed to the best role.Here's my theory (sit down)Bush, in an attempt to diminish some of the "good ol' white boy" image, picked his black, female friend for a role that sounded important but, in his arrogance, he didn't beleave had a real relavance.

She was apponted to a position of leadership, but she lacks the requisite qualities of a leader. It kind of makes you wonder about Stanford...or whether academic leadership is relevant in a lead government position.

I think that any government would be well served by a few more members that have spent part of their lives working for a living.

Goldy, blogging, said:In reply to:If we were like Japan, a nation that at least feigns a deep respect for honor… then President Bush would be keeled over on the floor of the Oval Office with his sword in one hand and his guts in the other.The American news cameras are sanitizing this disaster just as they did on 9/11, while dozens and dozens of people were jumping off the burning towers. It was raining human bodies. Crushed bodies and body parts were all over.In the case of New Orleans, dead, bloated bodied are floating everywhere.

As an adjoinder to Steve's post, when George W. Bush took office there was a proposal in congress to increase flood protection and water control around the Mississippi. The estimated cost was about $2.2bn and the idea was vetoed under heavy pressure from Bush's administration for a number of reasons, the main one of which was cost.Also, between 1998 and 2003, an initiative to raise the 'flat' level of the levees by more than 200 metres (I don't know exactly what this means) was cut back so that the raise would be by a mere 50 metres; too low according to many experts. This work ceased completely in 2003.Bush's government should be forced to explain how they allowed this situation to develop, when they were being told over and over again that it was a growing likelihood.

The problem is that New Orleans is slowly sinking (through a process called subsidence), becauase the natural geography of the area has been messed up (including the straightening of the Mississippi River), and the silt that maintain the land is no longer being depisited at a high enough rate. An area of land the size of Manhattan is lost through erosion every year. The levees and sea walls just add to the problem. Within 50 years, if nothing is done, the Gulf will be up to the city of New Orleans, and the game will be over. It will be permanently under water.This is a problem for many, if not most, costal American cities. Miami Beach is not that far above sea level, and if the ocean rises two meters, I'll be living in Atlantis. Forget about Cape Cod and the Outer Banks...they will be a memory. And so will New York.

With all that info kind of makes you wonder why they are going to bother rebuilding the city period?

The way it usually works is, they will rebuld, but they won't spend the money to do things right, and another powerful hurricane will inevitably hit New Orleans again, and the results will probably be even more devastating (since there will be even less of a natural barrier to the Gulf, and the area will have sunk even lower).

And New Orleans is by no means the only vulnerable coastal American city.