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As of midnight Sunday night, there was no power on earth that could have prevented a huge death and damage toll.

Four days after the disaster, I think that we've done one hell of a good job so far. My biggest gripe right now is that the full power of our military should have been brought to mobilization on day one, day two at the worst. I still don't think people understand the scale of this disaster. I'm sure that there are a lot of towns with fancy equipment to contact FEMA, Homeland Security and whatnot and they're being told 'deal with it the best you can, we've got bigger fish on our plate.'

Prioritizing services is one of the toughest jobs in a disaster, but one thing that the managers have to be ready to do is to come out and say 'WAY TOO BIG FOR US' and openly call for everything this country has.

I hope that tomorrow that our president makes yet another hard call and takes one for all of us when he uses his abilities and alas, his position, as a lame duck president and calls in the military in full force. We need a million hands down there - but a hundred thousand would be a good start.

My wife keeps asking me about this, and I keep answering: Without the governor of a state requesting it, the president cannot just waltz into action.

Is that not the case? Doesn't a request have to come from Blanko?

"Prioritizing services is one of the toughest jobs in a disaster, but one thing that the managers have to be ready to do is to come out and say 'WAY TOO BIG FOR US' and openly call for everything this country ha"

Reminds me. I caught a bit of a Wed early am interview that dingbat LA Gov. had. When the first big interview was finished a young woman aid was in a crouched position in front of the distraught gov. suciking up kind of and sort of leading her thoughts. I heard the gov. say, and this is nearly verbatim, "..Oh, that's right. I'VE GOT TO CALL THE MILITARY. Thanks for reminding me. I knew there was something I had to do this morning but I forgot it."

I AM NOT KIDDING FOLKS. SOMEONE SHOULD REMEBER THAT AND WHO HAS THE SKILLS COULD GET THAT SEGMENT!! My jaw dropped and I nearly fell out of my chair. It was around 5:30 am Central Time Wed. am.