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Inmates at a prison in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans have rioted, attempted to escape and are now holding hostages, a prison commissioner told ABC News affiliate WBRZ in Baton Rouge, La.
Efforts to fix the levees have ended, pumps are expected to fail soon (?), and nine more feet of water is expected in 12-15 hours. Residents […]

Via Atrios.
It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a […]

Salon.com - Daou Report
The unbridgeable divide between the left and right’s approach to Iraq and the WoT is, among other things, a disagreement over the value of moral and material strength, with the left placing a premium on the former and the right on the latter.
A very good read.

While it’s not quite the ‘almighty smite sinful N’awlinsers’ I was expecting, The Free Republic does seem to draw some goddish inferences between hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and Gaza, of all things. Katrina and Gaza: is God speaking in New Orleans?

Now we are the occupiers. True, we liberated Iraq from Saddam Hussein, but not from us.
–Howard Zinn

Well, its not looking good for New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina is apparently now a class 5, and looks to be heading right for the city. Unfortunately, the city is actually below sea level, and with potential storm surges of 20 to 25 feet predicted, its quite possible the entire bowl-like city is about […]