Thanks to Mickey Kaus at Kausfiles, for posting a link to this article from the City Journal about the recovery of the Big Easy. The words may be tough to say, but they probably still need to be said… here is snippit…

The truth is that even on a normal day, New Orleans is a sad city. Sure, tourists think New Orleans is fun: you can drink and hop from strip club to strip club all night on Bourbon Street, and gamble all your money away at Harrah’s. But the city’s decline over the past three decades has left it impoverished and lacking the resources to build its economy from within. New Orleans can’t take care of itself even when it is not 80 percent underwater..

My mom has some cousins down there that they have been unable to get ahold of. I have never met them, but I hope I get the chance to someday.

As much as the looting and violance down there disgusts me.. The folks trying to make this a political thing pisses me off almost as much… We can point fingers and assign blame… (I am sure there is plenty to go around at the local, state, and federal levels which can go back years and years and years and years.) A hurricane this size could have wiped out the city during the Clinton years, or Bush I years, or the Carter years or the Kennedy years or whatever…

It does not matter… for now just save the people and put a bullet into the heads of the looters. (The ones stealing the TV’s not the ones taking the food/water.)

Sorry for the rant. Actually, I blame the terrorists… I’m pretty sure they created a weather changing device to create the hurricane.

-Chris