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I'm sure the kiss of doom will soon descend, but meanwhile.

In the name of Jesus have you no compassion for those poor people. Left to rot and die by inches in the street. The world is watching in total horror as you let your poor starve in the street and make jokes about rap music.

I don't even know what to say to you as a Christian if you don't see the problem with letting the people without valid credit cards starve in the street.

Number of murders to mid-August: 192 - which annualises to 294 or 0.8/day.

Number of bodies found at Superdome after 6 days: 10 - of which three or so are widely reported as having died of thirst or pre-existing conditions of old age, and certainly more will have. And we don't know whether the 10 include two alleged to have been killed by police.

Number of corpses found at the Convention Centre: Gary Yonge, debunking rumours, says zero but other apparently eyewitness accounts differ.

There was certainly a lot of rumour-mongering, both among the refugees and by cops and in the media. It seems to me that some of the "we saw" accounts may turn out to mean "we all, we stuck here saw... someone told me".

So - not counting police killings - NO does so far appear to be in the ballpark of the background rate. (MH)

"The poor will be with you always" Bernie. The world commits horrors like this quite regularly - let me just name a few, you ever heard of the Laogai in China, Bernie? How's about the slow death of tens of thousands by malaria (and the debilitation of millions) which is made worse by our "ban on DDT?" How's about sharia law in Iran making half of the citizens of that country into virtual slaves, and that rogue state's quest for a nuke? Thousands starve to death in North Korea every year, Bernie - so lets get come balance and perspective on this situation, eh? We may find, Bernie, that the French killed more of their old people last year with their power outage than died in this act of nature. Given how the world reacts to these and other outrages, I could care less what the world thinks.

Don't think you can guilt us into rebuilding this disaster again, either. NO is DONE. If it can't be rebuilt as a profit making enterprise then it shouldn't be done. And by the way I NEVER said a damn thing about rap music so I have no idea who you think you are talking to.

BTW, I thought you were done with Freerepublic. Or would that be too much to hope for.