A Note to the Federal Disaster Planners

When you have a Category 5 hurricane barreling down the Gulf of Mexico heading directly for a major coastal city you mobilize the troops before, not almost a week after the catastrophe. We live in the age of digital doppler radar, so take your eyes of the farmers alminac for once and live in the right now.

The federal response to this disaster has been atroucious. Not enough people in not enough time. There are looters on the streets, people are starving, there is no clean water. There isn't even anywhere to go to the bathroom. You can throw all the facts and figures that you want. We know that people aren't getting the things that they need at the time that they need them most. We have the news. Not Fox News, the real kind. It tells us that things are really bad down there. It tells us that you are failing us.

Here's my forcast for what's going to happen in the next few days. Feel free to ignore it just like you did the weather channel. Your spinmeisters are going to go into overdrive to minimize the negative press.

Fox News is going to do everything it can to avoid pinning this on the administration. Even if that means eating a certian Republican governor of Louisiana for dinner.

Conservative pundits are going to say things like "Why don't we hear about the good news from New Orleans." They may even try to organize a "truth rally".

Our glorious leader will go on national television and proclaim that everything is fine and that we are doing everything in our power. Even though everything in our power would include the manpower currently unavailable to us because it's in Iraq.

You are going to continue failing the people in New Orleans. Disaster. Anarchy. Etc. will reign.

My prayers go out to the people who suffer on your watch.

Sincerely,

ME