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[mrph]

I see Michael Brown has just resigned his role as director of FEMA.

From the same article: "In the city, the bodies of 44 mostly elderly patients have been found dead in a flooded hospital"

Edit: Meanwhile, as many op-ed writers are discussing Katrina, Ann Coulter is spending her time writing about other matters. Such as her imaginary version of Teddy Kennedy's 'confidential communications with his lawyer the day after he drove Mary Jo Kopechne off a bridge at Chappaquiddick'. Now in its second week. Maybe I'm cynical, but I wonder how many more chapters of this we'll get - enough for Katrina and New Orleans to drop off the front pages, maybe? I can see how she might struggle to write about that, given her usual viewpoint and tactics... there are some articles about it on her website, but they tend to be tacky cheap shots like putting a "Gore airlifts victims from New Orleans" link under a "Why so many New Orleans residents refuse to leave their homes" heading...

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[zotz]

Coulter's fairly high on my "just needs a good kicking" list.

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But surely it's ok, that piece is "based on the facts".

[zotz]

So is her desperate need of a good kicking.

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I do get the sinking feeling with all the comments about airlifting people out of New Orleans to start a new life, means that they have no intention of rebuilding a lot of the Big Easy, and are taking the opportunity to send the poor elsewhere.

Whilst on about strange comments did I mention the guy who was being interviewed on News 24 the other morning, and came out with the draw dropping statement that most of the New Orleans poor were better off than the average French person? I was so amazed that I didn't get just which part of the US Government he was speaking for!
The really sad thing is I think he actually believed it.