[the invisib1e hand]

new orleans isn't worthy of Rudy. Come to think of it, I don't think New York is either.

[dk/coro]

You may have this one just right.

A decade ago, my cousin from North Carolina and his wife were visiting New Orleans.

In broad daylight a duo of young black assailants accosted hi as he was parking their car in the vicinity of the cathedral in the French Quarter.

My cousin was mugged and stabbed to death in front of his wife for the contents of his wallet.

Of course, the blacks were never caught. and the police treated the crime as "just another day's work" in the Cesspool of the South.

In my view, Nagin and New Orleans deserve each other. And, if the truth be known, no matter what Bush did in the aftermath of Katrina, it would not have made ANY difference whatever to the political outcome of this sordid mess.

Pox on this over-rated and under-criticized hell-hole of a metropolis. Let Bechtel Co. in there to re-build it into a Petro-Port and be done with it.