Hey guys, I haven't been on in awhile, thought I'd swing by.
I've been watching and listening to all the covererage of Katrina and the aftermath, the horrible human suffering, the looting and breakdown of civilized society after the storm, ineptitude at every level of government, then of course you have political opportunists and celebrities trying to get a political advantage out of the whole thing.
The interviews with looters where they expressed the belief that they were "just getting back at the society that has oppressed them" saddened me to hear, those people have bought into all the victim-mentality brainwashing that their community and political leaders have heaped on them, they have no sense of individual responsibility, and thus no belief in their own potential as people, which is very sad and makes me angry with people like Jackson and Sharpton and others who perpetuate that mindset, because for them to stay influential those people need to stay poor and "oppressed."
Being a Constitutionalist and libertarian-minded individual, I don't believe the federal government should be very involved in internal affairs like this in the first place, but they've crapped on the Constitution and made themselves involved, taxed us all to fund bloated incompetent federal agencies like FEMA, when the state and local governments and private organizations could have used that same money much more effectively, so the Feds get to share the blame.
As for New Orleans, I've started hearing people say that the only way to cleanse the area of all the various forms of filth that are contaminating it is to boil the water off. Or rather flash-boil it off. 10 megatons would probably be sufficient.
That's a joke of course, but I do think we need to question the wisdom of rebuilding New Orleans. The historical areas certainly should be preserved, but as for the rest of it, I'm not so sure.
Many believe that within 50 years the Mississippi may likely change course again as it has countless times in the past, and no longer flow past NO. With the way the river wanders and how low the land is, it doesn't take much for the river to bust out into a new path to the Gulf. I wouldn't have been that surprised if the surge last week had changed the river's course.