It's Human Nature

to blame everyone and everything when it comes to a major calamity such as Hurricane Katrina. A few things about the situation should be pointed out:

• Mother Nature has neither conscience nor ill will. All this talk about "Mother Nature's Revenge" or "wrath" or "fury" is just sensational crap. No human is to blame for this storm; the President didn't order it up. Our refusal to handicap ourselves by not signing on the the Kyoto Protocol also had no bearing on this storm. The atmosphere didn't think to send the storm because it's warming up slowly. The people who advocate such ideas are idiots.


• It's time for all the politicians to quit crying racism over the response of the federal government to the disaster. The response to 9/11 was so much more rapid because New York already had some disaster plans in place on the local level. New Orleans didn't. Case closed. By the way, the people on TV ranting about calling the last people in the city refugees need to consult their dictionary- a refugee is one who seeks refuge. If those people don't meet the definition, no one does. The term 'refugee' is not racist in any way. So get over it.


• Finally, it occurs to me that any half-way observant Islamic terrorist would now be eyeing New Orleans as an excellent target when things get back to normal... It would be far easier to blow up levees than to hijack airplanes; I hope Homeland Security is on its toes from now on in New Orleans. We're just now seeing the disruption in gas prices nationwide, not to mention all the things (grain exports) that go through the port down there. To see the same disaster repeat in New Orleans at the hands of terrorist thugs is probably more than many can take.