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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — The Times-Picayune of New Orleans printed this editorial in its Sunday edition, criticizing the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina and calling on every FEMA official to be fired: An open letter to the President
Dear Mr. President:
We heard you loud and clear Friday when you visited our devastated city and the Gulf Coast and said, "What is not working, we’re going to make it right."
Please forgive us if we wait to see proof of your promise (…)

New Orleans prison inmates desperate to get water fell out of cell windows onto razor wire where they hung for hours waiting to be rescued, according to a sheriff’s deputy.
Luis Reyes, who guarded a prison during Hurricane Katrina and the days after, said that some detainees drowned in their cells as flood waters rose.
In an interview with AFP, Mr Reyes said many prisoners broke out of their cells because there were just not enough guards to control the Community Correctional Centre (…)

GILLIGAN DIES
By Peter Fredson, Fan
September 6, 2005
The LouisvilleChannel.com reported today, September 6, 2005, that Bob Denver, TV’s Gilligan, died at age 70, Friday at Wake Forest University Baptist Hospital in North Carolina, after quadruple bypass surgery earlier.
His wife, Dreama, and 3 children were with him when he died. Denver was born Jan. 9, 1935, in New Rochelle, N.Y. Bob Denver’s was best known as “Gilligan”, the goofy first mate of "The S.S. Minnow," that made him a (…)

There is nothing “unnatural” about the disaster of New Orleans. When politicians
by Dave Zirin
http://www.opednews.com
Nowhere is this personified more painfully than in a monument to corporate greed that has rapidly become the earth’s most damnable homeless shelter, the Louisiana Superdome.
The Superdome is perhaps the most unintentionally appropriate name since Mr. and Mrs. Cheney looked at their newborn son and said, “Dick.” It was birthed in 1975 with pomp and bombast, as the (…)

by Luke Harding in Cottbus
Sixteen years after the fall of the Berlin wall, Ellen Müller looks back with nostalgia at her life in the then communist East Germany.
"I didn’t have to worry whether we had enough to eat," she says. "Brötchen [bread rolls] cost five pfennigs. People cared more about children. And if you were ill you didn’t have to wait to see a doctor. It was all free."
Far from enjoying the "blooming landscapes" promised by the then chancellor, Helmut Kohl, when the wall (…)

by Gary Younge in Baton Rouge
There were two babies who had their throats slit. The seven-year-old girl who was raped and murdered in the Superdome. And the corpses laid out amid the excrement in the convention centre.
In a week filled with dreadful scenes of desperation and anger from New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina some stories stood out.
But as time goes on many remain unsubstantiated and may yet prove to be apocryphal.
New Orleans police have been unable to confirm the (…)

By Matthew Davis
In a small boat chugging round the streets of eastern New Orleans, the surreal scene dumbfounds even seasoned rescuers.
Road signs crane above the stagnant waters, power lines hang inches above head height.
Beneath the surface, cars have become the twisted equivalent of sandbanks.
Our boat passes rows of houses marked with red spray paint - signs that show the building has been checked, and which tell of the fate of their occupants.
Brown lines along the wooden (…)

by Ben Frank
After the Hurricane struck, Bush did NOTHING to mitigate the disaster, instead he continued on his scheduled photo ops- yucking it up with Seniors, eating cake with John McCain, and playing guitar for the cameras. Meanwhile, a US Navy ship with amphibious landing vehicles, hopsital facilities with 600 beds, 9 million meals (MREs) and the capacity to make 100,000 gallons of water per day- sat unused for a week- awaiting Bush’s orders. In this BBC interview with Lt. Commander (…)

No one is saying one way or the other but I find it extremely interesting to note that not one word has come from the Vice President concerning Katrina nor has he been seen in the media.
Also...
I visited his "fan club" website and all they would say when asked where Cheney was is..."undisclosed location ?".
Question mark,theirs.

OK, I think we need to find little Dicky because he’s probably in a hospital somewhere or dead. Why the government would conceal this is a real question, but keep a sharp eye out for a Cheney sighting at the funeral of the Chief Justice this week. Cheney needs to attend.
If he’s not there, he’s probably a goner. Somebody please keep posting "Where’s Dick" stories so this stays in front of people.