New Katrina Information and Links

The other day, when I posted that others were saying this better than me, I hadn't yet found these links. 

Anyway, they're pretty amazing... I have to say I found most of them through Bitchypoo.

Two paramedics stranded in New Orleans in the wake of hurricane Katrina give their account of self-organisation and abandonment in the disaster zone

A very humanizing rundown of how people in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast may have felt in the days before the hurricane hit...

And what I have to say may be the best encapsulation of how I feel about our president right aboout now.

These are all great reads, which I have to say I recommend... by writers who are able to really lay out what's been making me crazy all week long.

I just heard Chertoff took Brownie off of local operations and moved him back to Washington... where he had this to say:

"I'm going to go home and walk my dog and hug my wife and, maybe get a good Mexican meal and a stiff margarita and a full night's sleep. And then I'm going to go right back to FEMA and continue to do all I can to help these victims."  (I pulled this quote from the San Diego Union Tribune, but it's being reported everywhere.)

Well, gee... I hope he has a nice relaxing meal, don't you?  And at the rate he's going, maybe it would be better for the victims if he just stayed out.

argh.

girlie