[mabelkitty]

On the upside, you have to look at this in a global context.
The rest of the world is blaming us and saying our poor folks were left to fend for themselves in a flood and hurricanes and dead bodies....
Pan to Shep greeting very angry black women with her baby on her hip coming out of the water:
"I've been in my attic with water up to my neck for three days, I've had no sleep, nothing to eat, I've lost all that I have except what is on my back, I had to fight off an alligator, I'm tired as hell, and where the hell is the Governor and the Mayor?? My baby needs diapers!"
Now I ask you - when fancy Euros see poor folks in a horrible natural disaster, they usually collapse upon themselves in tears and lament all that they have lost.
America's poor folks, who have decided to stay or couldn't leave, rise up out of the water and give the proverbial middle finger, and are fighting for their very lives. Add to that, after all that mess, there we are - shopping (looting).
Yes, it's safe to say, the rest of the world will just never understand us Americans.
But you have to admit - I'm sure all of these images are scaring the living hell out of the rest of the world right now.
France lost hundreds of folks because it was hot. BECAUSE IT WAS HOT.

[eternity]

Silent Running by Mike and the Mechanics
http://www4.tripnet.se/~bot/mm/alb_1.htm#a1s01

This song was written in 1985. Seems this is where we have arrived.

[Howlin]

I just LOVE this post:

France lost hundreds of folks because it was hot. BECAUSE IT WAS HOT.

[buckleyfan]

Now I ask you - when fancy Euros see poor folks in a horrible natural disaster, they usually collapse upon themselves in tears and lament all that they have lost. America's poor folks, who have decided to stay or couldn't leave, rise up out of the water and give the proverbial middle finger, and are fighting for their very lives. Add to that, after all that mess, there we are - shopping (looting). Yes, it's safe to say, the rest of the world will just never understand us Americans. But you have to admit - I'm sure all of these images are scaring the living hell out of the rest of the world right now. France lost hundreds of folks because it was hot. BECAUSE IT WAS HOT.

That's funny, except that Chicago loses folks because it is HOT... New York as well. This is a national tragedy. It is not a time for trite little stories or cheap anthems. We need to support our own, Americans who are suffering.

I don't know your intentions and I don't mean to take offense, but it just seems to be an odd time to joke about people dying - anywhere. When people die from heatwaves, it is usually the elderly, and the ones who are sick. Hey, what a coincidence - that seems to charachterize the first deaths from Katrina - not just in New Orleans, but in Mississippi and Florida as well.