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p>Some observations on my part. Bush's speech last night was filled with some very expensive wording, yet I am hoping out of this money and effort, we will get those most responsible for this tragedy and that is the left wing eco-nuts who have blocked what was needed to protect places like New Orleans from natural disasters. Another thing we saw was how the media could only focus on attacking the President and how the Democrats' only concern was how much political mileage this would give them. Herr Dean, of course, was true to form and able to garner a little comedy time. The rest of the nut cases each had their moment in the sun (water). Recovery will be going forward, people will rebuild their lives (as always happens) and some will be better off because of this, in spite of the tragic events. The one important thing I am seeing however, is that we now know who our friends are, who we can count on when something happens. This event has separated the children from the adults (men from the boys). If nothing else, at least we know where we all stand. br> -- Pete Chagnon /p>

So it was a great political speech. Big deal. The speech will be forgotten by next week.

The far bigger deal, which will be impossible to forget to decades to come, is that the president has committed us to spend literally tons of money in rebuilding a dysfunctional city situated in a place where the Lord himself could hardly be more clear that the particular geographic and atmospheric conditions are, duh, not exactly propitious.

And hey, what a wonderful precedent! Under that precedent, when San Francisco or Los Angeles falls apart when The Big One hits, we will have little choice but to start erecting the house of cards all over again.

Hello. Is anybody out there? What about the notion of not building, or rebuilding, on hurricane paths or seismic fault lines (or river flood plains or barrier islands) is so bloody hard to understand?

p>Why must common sense and incalculable tax dollars always take a back seat to personal vanities and short-term political imperatives? Go ahead, punch me again. I'm already loopy from the looniness of it all. br> -- Charles R. Vail /p> p> INTO THE LOUISIANA DRAIN br> Re: George Neumayr's

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