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Frustrated: Fire crews to hand out fliers for FEMA IMHO: I'm sorry, there was no "miscommunication" here. Does anyone seriously think that these firefighters would come all the way down to New Orleans if all they were going to do was hand out flyers, take sexual harrasment seminars, and try to...

Now IT has!

The stories I'm hearing are causing me great concern. Was this really an unknown? The situation is really serious. People are dying right now. It's going to be dark soon and things could get really bad. I'm resisting my visceral temptations to be angry at the government. But I could be pushed...

I have no special insight into the damage sustained by New Orleans. Certainly looks really bad. But it got me thinking, at what point do we decide that New Orleans is not worth rebuilding? I say "we" because I figure the taxpayers will probably pick up the tab for a significant portion of the...