[Strategerist]

I'm a pretty good judge of what a certain group of people on FR thinks, and I stand behind it; and it's also based on a variety of specific posts (now long buried in the tens of thousands of posts on the main Katrina threads.)

I think a contributor to it is they know the question is going to be raised if there was an over-focus on terrorism in comparison to natural disaster awareness, and that it's not a totally invalid question to ask.

I know that some of the same people that routinely mock posting about scientists warning of various natural disasters are some of the same people that get worked into a frenzy over a report of some swarthy guy taking a picture near a reservoir, or Joseph Farah's scare-of-the-week stories.

[George W. Bush]

I'm a pretty good judge of what a certain group of people on FR thinks, and I stand behind it; and it's also based on a variety of specific posts (now long buried in the tens of thousands of posts on the main Katrina threads.)

I recall all the America-must-be-punished comments on varioius threads here after 9/11. A regular deluge after Falwell said the same kind of stuff publicly and then had to apologize.

[My Favorite Headache]

Local weather and city officials told residents in Miss along the coastal communities to go into the closet and put a mattress over their bodies if the wind took off the roof of their house.

The surge rushed in and they drowned in large numbers.