Comments on: Gustav Gains Speed Headed For La.

As Category 3 Hurricane Approaches New Orleans, Curfew Will Go Into Effect At Dusk; Bush, Cheney Cancel RNC Visits

[tpraskac]

We have lots of nice homes and Townhomes, Condos that people can enjoy with lots to do. New York City is close as is Philly. The weather is cooler and jobs galour. So if you are thinking of getting out of New Orleans now come here. You will love this place.

[tpraskac]

Move to New Jersey. No storms here.

[cbsfan73]

George Bush is a Great President!

[deacon20081]

OBAMANATION3

The CHANGE
We need the winds of CHANGE! Just for a few good examples we had Katrina. It left the people in New Orleans happy and loved? The winds of CHANGE left them homeless and distraught, a good thing right? The winds of CHANGE brought economic disaster, where the people suffered hardships unimaginable to the average person! The winds of CHANGE WAS STRONG IN ITS INFLUENCE in the lives of these individuals! The winds of CHANGE stood tall when it hit! The winds of CHANGE WERE STRONG IN ITS APPROACH! The winds of CHANGE could not be reversed once it struck!
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You are talking like Obama caused the Wind Of Change under George Bush...Katrina and the FEMA SNAFU was BUSH..."Good Job BROWNIE" Get a grip fool.
I don''t really care that much for Obama, but ANYTHING IS BETTER THAN JOHN MCBUSH !

[sistatee-2009]

Why is it up to the government to have to evacuate these people? Answer: The government has to do EVERYTHING for them, storm or not! So the feds send in every possible means of support. In the long run, you and I pay for the entire thing. And don''t forget, the levee system will have to be rebuilt again, and the evacuees will have to be housed and fed for the next three years. Guess who gets that bill. Yup. Thanks, New Orleans. The Big Helpless.

[downtowner97]

One of the reasons it was so hard to evacuate New Orleans last time was that Katrina hit just before welfare checks were to be issued. This is the case again.

I''ve got a solution: During disasters, issue welfare checks through Western Union so the money can be picked up anywhere.

[tpraskac]

The longer you wait to leave the further you will have to go to find a place to stay

[obamanation3]

The CHANGE
We need the winds of CHANGE! Just for a few good examples we had Katrina. It left the people in New Orleans happy and loved? The winds of CHANGE left them homeless and distraught, a good thing right? The winds of CHANGE brought economic disaster, where the people suffered hardships unimaginable to the average person! The winds of CHANGE WAS STRONG IN ITS INFLUENCE in the lives of these individuals! The winds of CHANGE stood tall when it hit! The winds of CHANGE WERE STRONG IN ITS APPROACH! The winds of CHANGE could not be reversed once it struck! The winds of CHANGE have left devastation for years to come! Yes I can see why we need a CHANGE for a wind that we know does not know where it will hit! Or what it will do! Or where it will go! All we know is the winds of CHANGE IS ALWAYS PRESENT BUT NOT MOVING UNTIL IT HITS without warning! Oh if we could only stop it!

Should we allow Barack Hussein Obama to CHANGE us with his wind?
NO and NO again!

[lloydbest1]

The latest from The NHC:

Gustav appears to have weakened considerably. Top sustained winds are in the neighborhood of 120 mph and the central pressure has risen to 960 mb or about 28.35 inches. In addition, he has just about left that pool of hot "loop current" water and is having to contend with an unexpectedly strong wind shear and a drying air mass.
But let''s not get all warm and fuzzy. Gustav is still a Cat 3 storm, still capable of packing a knockout punch. He is still chugging along on a path that puts N.O. in his northeast quadrant. Now that the weather wonks believe he will strike Monday rather than early Tuesday, there is even less time to prepare/evacuate and the new moon influence on high tide will be at its strongest when Gustav roars ashore.
Even given the potential to weaken further I doubt it will go much below mid Cat 2 status. That means a 10 to 15 foot storm surge, minimum. IF the levees are as strong as the Army Corps of Engineers thinks they are, they MIGHT withstand that surge. Given that Nagin thinks they might not and has issued a mandatory evac order, it would be prudent to obey it..

[hawksprings]

Oh, so Nagin is going to use the buses this time instead of just whine about Bush?
I guess even old liberals can learn new tricks.

New Orleans should be thankful they at least have a Republican governor this time instead of Blanco.

[tpraskac]

To all the SMART people. Why would you want to live in New Orleans. Havent you learned a lesson. How many more Canes does it take. Sell and move out this time

[silverstar06]

New Orleans has been picked apart by the worst corruption for decades now, which has funnelled millions -if not billions of dollars into the pockets of anti government minded corrupt politicians. Their massive chiselling away of state funds intended to safeguard the levees in New Orleans had led to disasters like Kathrina and now potentially Gustav.

Foreseeable natural disasters are the issues that local politics and state (not federal!) taxes are regulated and distributed for. Calling on Washington to provide aide and funds for money that has gone wayward into someone else''s pockets is absolutely irresponsible and dangerous corrupt politics, using the lives of the impoverished victims to enforce these activities. The wretched poverty in New Orleans (and Louisiana) is a result of these corrupt politics, and forcing these people into other communities is going to increase the conflict that it causes in other parts of the country. In those parts that need it least.

This Mr Bobby Jindal could care less, I''m sure, though has acquired the southern drawl a little too perfectly for my suspicion not to arise. Knowing the workings of certain similar communities in the US, I can say the stench of the worst kinds of prostitution and drug involovement permeates disgustingly from them.

[promaclaura]

Another hurricane, another bunch of losers who will try to ride it out. The first group who tried to ride it out with Katrina deserved what they got. The state and local elected officials were to blame for not providing a means to escape for the poor who could not. All of them played russian roulette and lost. Today they are using the buses they should have used in Katrina. No more rebuilding under sea level, it''s wasteful spending and pouring money into a swampland. Let''s develop a weather tax, those who choose to live in proven risk areas should pay a tax to live there, that way the rest of the country doesn''t have to bail them out every time the weather comes around to bite them again.

[tpraskac]

GET OUT NOW if you are SMART. IF not dont complain. ITS NOW OR NEVER

[timberagain]

Read what jbright9 said at 09:55 AM.

Then read it again.

McCain - McSame.

Vot for change.

[richnj1]

Supposedly McCain and his mistress, er, running mate may show up in the Gulf. Has Sarah Palin even been to Louisiana before? Anyway, the big political danger to the GOP isn''t relief efforts, it''s whether the levees hold. If they break, when the Feds have had three years to build them, it will be a sign of GOP incompetence that will further doom them, and give Obama a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.

[jbright9]

What a break for the GOP. Now they have an excuse to hide Bush away just like they''re hiding Cheney. Just remember that Bush and Cheney will ride into the sunset January 20th but if you vote for McCain a lot of other incompetent insiders will be still be there. That is something to think long and hard about.

[hhroams]

If Dubya, Brownie, or Darth were to go to New Orleans the people probably would state them out on a post at the lowest place below sea level, that way they would know if the ***** & levees worked!!!

[hhroams]

I think Dubya should attend the convention, maybe he could re-enlist Michael Brown to go down to New Orleans to handle things. After all didn''t he give a Medal Of Freedom or something to "You''re doing a good job Brownie" after Katrina? Or maybe he could send down Darth Cheney, he''s a capable charmistic sympathetic person that would make the victims and evacuees feel better just by coming there I''m sure!!!!

[generey]

Bush "Unlikely" To Attend GOP Convention Due To Storm

Why should he go; it is''nt about him anymore. He is now an official has-been.