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advance_copy, i can incorporate some of your list into my theory (post #32).

1. The school/city buses stuck in the water
After revamping the school system, they were ticked off at Nagin. When Nagin called he got, "Sorry no one is here right now ...."

2. No evacuation of low areas all day Tuesday after the levee broke on Monday night
The levee broke because it was made of hollow concrete (like the Springfield's dam on the Simpsons). No evacuation because there's no one to drive them. Cops are busy with crowd control and hiding evidence, union drivers have their own evidence to burn. How many building burned?

3. Empty contraflow lanes next to packed outbound lanes
Seems not to be true, just no pics. Word is that this was going on, albiet late.

5. Failure to call evacuation 72 hours before the storm (standard)
*shrug*

6. Delays in asking for U.S. troops
7. 1/3 of a major city police force abandoning their post
See my post. #32 I believe that in one press conference a Guardsman or Military spokesman said the cops went from 1500 to 500. That's 2/3rds gone.

8. Convention Center never announced as an evacuation point
Without the cops or the Guard around it's hard to say. Had they been there it may have been used for a base or safe haven for themselves or a storehouse for supplies.

9. Two police suicides
10. All police radios down
The corrupt cops. Were they really suicides? Were these two officers hiding something they saw being exposed? Radios were down so the MIA cops could not be called from their evidence-burning and relocating of 'operations'.

And that's where the AK-47s came from. The drugs come in from Venezuala via Citgo. The cops & dealers & even the bus drivers peddle 'em. Blanco keeps the Feds out, occasionaly squandering money from the Feds to feed the operation. Jesse Jackson keeps the poor down by playing the race card. You need an inner city to hide the operation and provide plenty of customers.

3. Empty contraflow lanes next to packed outbound lanes
Seems not to be true, just no pics. Word is that this was going on, albiet late.

Actually, WDSU has a weather cam focused on the mainland side of the Ponchartrain Causeway (http://www.wdsu.com/wxcam/1475332/detail.html). I was watching the camera through out the 28th of August, and the outbound lanes were bumper to bumper, while the lanes inbound to NOLA, were empty, with the exception of the occasional vehicle heading into the city. I was watching it to see how the weather was changing through out the day - didn't think to save any of the images though. In any case, the last time I checked the cam, traffice flow was still limited as it had been all day.