Hurricane Katrina

I don't think here's a whole lot I can say about the hurricane (and the response to it, or lack thereof) that hasn't already been said, other than watch the spin, check the facts, and if you can, call your congressmen and women and demand an independent bipartisan investigation of the response to this disaster (as you may know, Republicans voted on almost universal party lines to shoot down this idea -- wonderwhat they're hiding?), so that we can find out who's at fault, and how to fix this debacle so it doesn't happen again in the future. Seriously, 4 years after 9/11, a new Department of Homeland Security, "stream-lined" (aka: underfunded) FEMA, and billions of our tax dollars wasted, and we're not even safe from a storm and flood that they had early warnings about. They better fix this, and soon. Sorry, I'm not even trying to be funny here. It's damn near impossible.