[longtermmemmory]

I guess the author did not read that the combined deaths have not even reached 500.

GWBush does not play the "claim the issue" game.

GWBush is a solution oriented leadership style.

This is just a sucker solicitation to join the gutter poltics of democrat slimes.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

GWBush does not play the "claim the issue" game. GWBush is a solution oriented leadership style

Bush needs to take leadership and talk turkey. This event is going to touch every single one of us in many ways. We are going to be reminded of it every day, whether or not it's politicized.

This area of the country is vital to our shipping and energy needs, it isn't just a local problem. Rebuilding will create shortages in other areas of the country. It needs to be addressed and with no sugar coating.

He needs to get in front of this.

We're Americans We can take it and deal with it.

[HawaiianGecko]

	Has anyone heard of any report of anyone dying of dehydration or starvation in New Orleans? I might be wrong, but when I think of people starving I have mental images of bloated bellies, sunken faces, in short images such as you see in third world countries, and I haven't seen those images on any network or on even the most left wing blogs. I just simply cannot imagine that people were dying from lack of food. I am personally a diabetic and I don't go anywhere without more medicine than I need, so I simply don't buy that people going to the Super Dome only took 2 days of supplies with them. It just isn't the way diabetics think regardless of your position on the class totem pole. The normal mortality rate in this country is 1:113 which calculates to about 4 people per day dying anyway. When you figure in that the people not evacuated are from a population who's mortality rate must be higher than 1:113, the numbers dead to date don't seem unreasonable. I'd really be interested in reading a coroner's report when this is all over to see how many drowned, died from lack of food/water or managed to get shot by someone that didn't like them to begin with. (I'm sure a lot of gangs were out popping each other because they knew it would be "free retribution." I'm betting that 99% of deaths are the result of the immediate hurricane damage (drowning, hit in head by 2x4's and the like) and took place in the first 24 hours before help could arrive.

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Has anyone heard of any report of anyone dying of dehydration or starvation in New Orleans? I might be wrong, but when I think of people starving I have mental images of bloated bellies, sunken faces, in short images such as you see in third world countries, and I haven't seen those images on any network or on even the most left wing blogs.

I just simply cannot imagine that people were dying from lack of food. I am personally a diabetic and I don't go anywhere without more medicine than I need, so I simply don't buy that people going to the Super Dome only took 2 days of supplies with them. It just isn't the way diabetics think regardless of your position on the class totem pole.

The normal mortality rate in this country is 1:113 which calculates to about 4 people per day dying anyway. When you figure in that the people not evacuated are from a population who's mortality rate must be higher than 1:113, the numbers dead to date don't seem unreasonable.

I'd really be interested in reading a coroner's report when this is all over to see how many drowned, died from lack of food/water or managed to get shot by someone that didn't like them to begin with. (I'm sure a lot of gangs were out popping each other because they knew it would be "free retribution."

I'm betting that 99% of deaths are the result of the immediate hurricane damage (drowning, hit in head by 2x4's and the like) and took place in the first 24 hours before help could arrive.