[Pyro7480]

The local government gets along better with Christians than the "hippies"? LOL

[TxCopper]

Wow! I guess you have never been to the "deep south."

The people of LA, MS, AL, GA, and FL have no use for "hippies."

Seriously...did you not really know?

[TWohlford]

Bar none, the various church groups out-performed the various NGA’s and Fed agencies in the effectiveness of their aid. The Salvation Army, and the disaster teams from the Presbyterians, United Methodists, Roman Catholics, etc were far ahead of the Red Cross and FEMA.

Cudos to the good guys (and gals).

[PAR35]

I recently drove along part of the Mississippi coast. The only beachfront businesses for several miles were Waffle Houses and Casinos. Lots of still vacant lots. There were several new high end condo developments surrounded by nothing.

[Salvation]

I thought you were going to say “Catholics”. In a way, they are blaming all Christians, right?

[festus]

Its been almost two years ago. If they aint getting along better on their own by now then they weren’t doing any better before.

[Lancey Howard]

Katrina? Wasn’t that like in the ‘90s?

[gulfcoast6]

Let me go further, to this day we have Christian youth groups and men from churches coming down to help with those who have nothing, they just look at the situation and correct it.

THEN the federal government, so much paper work and elapse time between inspection and something being done continues since the storm.

[gracesdad]

Guess you missed this part of the story.

“Porter, 48, of Penrod, Ky., drove to Mississippi after the storm hit, and started grilling hamburgers in Pass Christian. The one-man operation quickly grew into a bustling food distribution center. At its peak, in March 2006, the kitchen was serving 3,500 meals a day.

Before long, however, neighbors started to complain about noise from the group’s religious services, while restaurant owners saw it as competition for their customer-starved businesses.”

[crashthe24]

If it wasn’t for the unwashed hippie volunteers.
They wouldn’t need a soup kitchen.

[Senator_Blutarski]

It appears that the press is desperate for hurricane stories, since there have been no storms this year. This is the third Katrina related story I've seen this week.

The "climate change" folks need to keep the legend alive.

[gracesdad]

And God’s Katrina Kitchen is secular? Strange.

[Dick Vomer]

The disappointment for me is that so many families still need our help and we're not going to be able to give it to them," he said.

geez, twenty years from now the "victims" will still be living off this crap. gawd.

our house was trashed by Hurricane Charlie, guess what we did? We picked up. duh.

Went back to work and consider ourselves lucky that nobody got hurt.

I'm so sick of seeing the ER filled with the people of New Orleans. The first thing out of their mouths is, "We're here cause of Katrina." ...yeah, well it's gone now, so ....leave.

[Mamzelle]

This is a phenom you'll find with any church "panty" kitchen anywhere. It's a universal frustration for the charitably-minded. You help a lot of needy, but you attract a lot of rifraf. I guess they're attracting more rifraf than helping the needy.

Sometimes the charitable do get a bit vain--vanity happens to the best of us--