Priorities
I actually wanted to refrain from commenting on New Orleans - after all, one doesn't know what determines thinking more, the grief over the unnecessary victims or the anger at the bungling activities of the government there, but when I read something like Rogers Cadenhead: Go to the Back of the Bus Line I really feel sick. Because this is no longer just bungling, this is pure racism (and before I'm accused of anti-Americanism and other things again: look at the skin color of the majority of those who, for some reason, could not be evacuated from New Orleans).
It's simply disgusting. And now the religious right is coming along and blaming gays and abortion clinics for the hurricane.
And the President? He makes a detour to Biloxi and has the relief workers clear the exact spot he visits beforehand - and after the visit the relief workers disappear again. By the way, it was in the Tagesschau - the reporter herself could not quite believe what was going on ...