the guy by the door …

-Ellen; calling in to Jerry Springer on Air America Radio

It is genocide and it was foretold.

Most genocides are the result of deliberate barbarous action. This one
is the result of deliberate barbarous inaction. Ned Sublette was right
across the board. Everybody did know about it for years. the Army Corps
of Engineers, the then Senator, the local paper – The Times-Picayune.   
Last year, CNN ran an public service announcement featuring the
playdough figure Mr. Bill. “Gee kids, todays show will be cancelled
becasue the levees are unsafe.”

Overwhelmed rescue workers do not have time to recover the remains of
the dead. One rescue worker was quoted as saying, “We have to push the
bodies aside. We have to focus on the living.”

The human body can survive about a day without drinking water. Many of
the people who lost all safe drinking water during the storm or shortly
after are dead now. Push their bodies aside.  Some have been
drinking the flood water. Contaminated with petrochemicals, sewage, and
vermin, many of the people who drank it are dying of diseases that will
go untreated. Push their bodies aside. Some people in the Superdome
have been evacuated to the Astrodome. But many remain and they are
dying They are coverd and left where they die.

The mayor of  New Orleans says that there are a large number of
drug starved addicts roaming the streets and they are armed. The
hospitals have been repeatedly looted for drugs. Charity hospital moved
it’s patients to the higher floors to protect them from looters. Now
they are moving them to Tulane Hospital across the street. The rich
patients were evacuated days ago.

“The best we can do is set up a perimeter around an area and hope we are not overrun.”
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“Let’s have a moratorium on press conferences until the people are here.
Don’t tell me there are 40,000 people coming. They’re not here.”
-Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleasns. The full interview from Air America Radio.

Dick Chenay’s secretary “does not have handy” the date when he will return from vacation.
Condy Rice went to see Spam Alot on Broadway Wednesday night. Shopping
for shoes yesterday, she had the Secret Service remove a woman who
asked her how she dared.

Anderson Cooper saw a woman in the streets being eaten by rats. Telling
Senator Mary Landieau about this, “Do you see the anger here.”

Even Ted Koppel was outraged last night.

And it continues.