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+  From: "Architexturez." <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+  Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 23:15:46 +0530
| off topic, but way too funny. wish we have
| this kind of fun with our disasters, instead of
| those dratted NGO ratting and whining'

Bush Takes Responsibility for Blunders
Tuesday September 13, 2005 9:16 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush for the first time took responsibility Tuesday for federal government mistakes in dealing with Hurricane Katrina and suggested the calamity raised broader questions about the government's ability to handle both natural disasters and terror attacks.

``Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government,'' Bush said at a joint White House news conference with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.

cont'd...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5275896,00.html

| and arguably, this one is more innovative,
| certainly takes more work to write...

New Orleans: A Choose Your Own Adventure (Fiction)

By PoopyPeanutz
Wed Sep 7th, 2005 at 11:59:10 AM EST

You are an African-American living in a crack house in a New Orleans slum. You decided to stay and weather out Hurricane Katrina since you were not sure if you could score crack at any of the evacuation centers. The windows of the crack house were already boarded up, you had a couple days worth of rocks and some Fiddy Cent CDs to listen to on a portable boom box. In addition, most of your fellow crack heads had abandoned the house, leaving you to rummage through their stuff for stray crack rocks. You find a couple.

When the worst seems to be over, the levee breaks and water floods into your crack house. That's okay. You grab your boom box and crack pipe and run up to the attic. You are lucky and water doesn't reach to the roof like it does the houses down the block.

cont'd...
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/9/6/34041/87727


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