Some More Good Posts on Katrina

Too much out there for individual posts:

Harpers Magazine Weekly Review
Posted on Tuesday, September 6, 2005. By Paul Ford.

"Fifty-five countries offered aid to the United States....The United States was performing a "needs assessment" to decide whose help to accept."

Financial Times: Tragic costs of Bush’s Iraq obsession
By Michael Lind

San Francisco hopes FEMA prediction was only 2/3 correct, because "In early 2001, shortly after President George W. Bush was inaugurated and before 9/11, the Federal Emergency Management Agency warned of the three most devastating disasters that could strike the US: a terrorist attack on New York City, a hurricane flooding New Orleans and a San Francisco earthquake. The Bush administration was focused on its priority: Iraq."

Would-be rescuers cool their heels

Chaos in New Orleans delays California team eager to enter fray(registration required; use www.bugmenot.com to get username & password)

"The 83 members of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Urban Search and Rescue team from Orange County, Calif., have been told to stay downtown at the Hyatt Regency Dallas at Reunion.
Since Friday, FEMA rescuers have been stuck in Dallas, waiting for the call to head to New Orleans. Since Friday, they have been sitting tight at the luxury hotel with members of five other teams of specialists from California, Nevada and Washington state – about 500 people all diverted to Dallas on the way to the Gulf Coast."

We're Still Only Talking To Each Other

If you don't read blogs, and most people in the country don't, you probably don't know anything reported on this site. A commenter suggests creating an uber-blog newspaper to get the word out. Good idea.