I thought I heard a young woman I think at the NOLA Convention Center state, "Continuation of the Discrimination"

de-construct that word: Dis crimi nation, a nation of criminals, portrayed as that on their FOX TV world, by the Christianamals that are the ones showing their ugly underbelly to be the criminal animals of America's trust they are...

I see it as the "Perpetuation of the Discrimination"

As Aaron Brown said tonight, "the one thing no one can say is, they didn't know what The Big One looked like..."

AP's well done interactive site

Aaron Brown interviewed the young sisters who got a hug from the President on his visit Friday 09-02-2005, I think in Biloxi, MS. My dad, from that Greatest Generation used tell me stories of flying into Keisler field by the seat of his Keister between the wars as radioman in US Army Air Corp B-25 "Billy" Mitchell bombers (featured in the feature film "Catch 22") flying in on one engine, just clearing power lines to get to the field.  The taller sister was named Bronwynne. Her younger sister, the one whose crying on the President's shoulder as he held her tight BROKE MY HEART.

It showed what I truly believe, the President has genuine empathy for people, one on one. One gets that from the humbling one takes in from being perhaps a little out of control and in need of support and the infrastructure is there to help you through. He said at his talk at the NOLA Airport before he flew out, that he sometimes had "a little perhaps too much fun in NOLA." Hey, he's a fun-loving, charming, twinkle in the eye kinda guy, that shoots from the hip and doesn't encumber himself with analysis paralysis. He's perfect for a machine to run him from behind him. I feel though, that this fiasco has cost more than just the interest instead of the infrastructure we are giving are kids and grandkids with the fool-hardy and now true emergency deficit spending, that this, like the federal surplus, has evaporated i think now run the political capital well dry with this non-response and this bankrupting of the future whose evidence is a persistent black tarry vile mess of Death that will refuse to evaporate.

I heard the fireworks on the National Mall tonight about almost dusk. A friend who has been to numerous Jazz Fests who lives a block above me over on the southern bank of the Rock Creek Park called wondering what they were. I reminded him it was the commenration of the 60th anniversary of the end of WW II, The Greatest Generation, as Tom Brokaw wrote. Sect'y Rumsfeld who lives two blocks over from here was giving the speech at the new WW II memorial. I haven't been there yet. Because like NOLA, I think it 'will always be there, I got plenty of time," all time spent is borrowed against the future, or perhaps just leveraged, to hopefully never have the note come due. I was up at the Washington Monument at about midnight August 6th, the 60th anniversary of Hiroshima, as my cousin Anthony's daughter who i call my cuzint Toni came in for the first time to DC and I had to give her the night tour that i love to do myself. I never tire of being a tourist at night here. Upon my first visit to NOLA, i immediately felt like my spirit lived or at least visited there before, so I imagine people are wanting their beloved NOLA back, so they could play tourist in the Fairgrounds again.

Watching Aaron Brown, he had on Michael Barker, former head of the US Army Corp of Engineers discussing the levee system. He stated it was 1965 when it was started and to be paid for by 1975, the year i took my first job. So it was The Greatest Generation that paid for this infrastructure and gave it to their kids and grandkids as a gift to us and we squandered it. Mr. Barker said it was 85% finished when Katrina hit 40 years later. He said he parted ways with the US Army Corp of Engineers, in 2003 I believe, over the lack of budget to accomplish what he thought was needed to have a state of MISSION ACCOMPLISHED with the canal.

The lower Mis sis si ppi LA wetlands were protected by signature of Presdent Bush 41 and upheld by President Clinton. President Bush 43 relaxed these protections to allow development. It is modelled that two feet of storm surge to NOLA would have dampened by those wetlands removed by the resultant development there. The interests of the few WITH came before the many WITHOUT. Now the World is mourning missing one of her ports of call that welcomed all mindful citizens of the World without judgement. America has neglected her, and disrepected her with its ignorance and indifference or incompetence, either of which is, as the President first reacted, probably from that shoot from the hip, UNACCEPTABLE.