Has the Worm Turned?

Not to minimize the ongoing human disaster in New Orleans, I was just watching the morning news and it seems even the most banal segments of the Mainstream Media are in serious attack mode.

I just watched Katie Couric, of all people, grill Michael Brown, the head of FEMA, on Washington's mind scrambling failure to bring this thing under control. The storm hit Monday. It is now Friday. FRIDAY! and the scene is worse this morning than it was last night. When asked when he expects the Guard to restore some kind of order, and ease the suffering on the ground (in the water), Brown had the balls to say, with something like professional pride, this weekend.

THIS WEEKEND?? THIS WEEKEND?? One week after the event? Nine months ago we managed to airdrop food and water into fucking Thailand 2 days after the tsunami. Christ almighty!

To her credit, Couric gave Brown a lashing, and actually began probing him about the issue regarding the Fed's lack of funding for precisely this type of catastrophe.

If Couric is this viscous, let's how Timmy and the other Sunday jokers perform this weekend.

Bush is going down on this, and he should!

UPDATE : 7:42 a.m.

Harry Connick Jr. is being interviewed right now. Apparently he has been on the ground in New Orleans at the convention center and he has been on a tear... He is baffled about the scene there. He said he can't understand why the government can't drive a few trucks of food in there. He said he could drive a car load of water in there right now. He went on a 3 or 4 minute rant that was right on the money. Where is the help? How could it possible take so long within our own boarder!!! In a major American city.

WHAT THE FUCK!

If I had left Philly yesterday, my Prius filled with food and water, I'd still probably beat the feds into the city.

Holy shit... this is a total melt-down.

UPDATE : 8:02 a.m.

I'm hearing right now that a chemical plant has exploded about 3 miles from downtown New Orleans, a huge plume of smoke drifting over the city. The Fed's say it's non-toxic, but who can believe a fucking thing they say now!

A chemical plant has exploded

I'm not sure I can continue watching the news today... it literally makes me sick. So horrible.