[Rutles4Ever]

I saw that Planned Parenthood is donating free morning-after pills.

MONSTERS! The blood of the saints cries out in vengeance!

They will have a ring all to themselves...

[Spktyr]

With all the rapes that have been going on in NO, that's not a bad idea.

AA and SWA have sent planes to evac stranded travellers from Armstrong airport. AA brought a hold full of bottled water.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Japan's large daily newspaper YOMIURI reporting now in Japanese: "LOOTING, SHOTS FIRED, DIFFICULTY IN SAVING THE VICTIMS OF HURRICANE IN NEW ORLEANS" (my translation) 11:10 a.m. Eastern

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20050901-00000015-yom-int

It is rather bleak indeed. It states in Japanese that looters are now on a free for all. That every time they head into a store, or private residence, or even hospital, there is looting and then further shots fired. It states that "in America, even in some (super) markets, guns are for sale. When any of these are broken into, the guns will circulate among the looters, so they have this crisis". Reports that a 'man shot a family' (that's what it sez!), and other reports from "AP", including vehicles stolen, commandeered, and 'even a vehicle from a senior home' has been stolen.

Not painting a good picture for us overseas, folks. Most people in Japan I would say, egged on by their media, are inclined (unfortunately) to look at this as an American news story, not a Louisiana or New Orleans news dispatch per se.....