In the really long view (thousands of years), evolution will solve the problems we face today.

People with the mentality of the people who stayed in New Orleans will deselect themselves from the human race.

And with socialism and Islam ascendant, it will simply happen faster.

From the astute AP:

By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer Mark Stevenson, Associated Press Writer – 4 mins ago

LOS CABOS, Mexico – Heavy winds, battering waves and intense rain pummeled residents and tourists in this vacation resort as Hurricane Jimena, one of the largest hurricanes this year, raked the coast late Tuesday.

Baja California prepared shelters to hold up to 29,000 people as Jimena, which weakened to a still threatening Category 3, churned northward offshore. But the state’s biggest resort, Los Cabos, appeared to escape major damage from the storm beyond power outages and mud-choked roads.

Rest of article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/tro.....DMQ–

—–See, here’s a sterling example of good common sense.

Mexico, one of the poorest of nation’s, though also very socialista, seems to have sense where other nation’s citizens lack.

Although it is unclear that the evacuation is a state-ordered deal, which I suspect it is…it is, nonetheless, potentially life-saving.

And, with regard to thousands, I wonder what mode(s) of transportation they are using. Looks like a lot of them are walking.

The levees weren’t the problem. The problem was the po’ folks who had ONLY 5 days warning that the storm of a lifetime was bearing down upon them. Even if whitey wasn’t workin’ overtime keepin’ the black man down, dem folks dint stand a chance cause President Bush don’t care ’bout black people!

Nagin

2010, Proud to see him gone…

True Rusty but this is ghetto world, where you don’t just paint it, you put some chrome 24s on it and install a slammin’ 2000W sound system. These lowlifes will never change. Cradle to grave is a way of life for these scumbags.

By the way, speaking of dunces, where is Spike Lee and the power of X?

I was wanting to see if, in fact, all the rhetoric that the left was screaming was worth it. I had thought, that perhaps the area would become a bastion of liberal ideas…a “Paris of the US” if you will by becoming a reborn area with new and exciting architecture that they all talked about in years past.

But, no. Not even a visit by Brett Favre could inspire these people to anything. I do not read tidbits in the paper or on Brian Williams “ain’t-we-great?” segments at the end of Nightly Spews that outline inspirational stories of never-say-die-ism in the Gulf Coast region.

Nope….looks like it’s been abandoned except on slow news days where the media has to stick it to the Bush administration yet one more time, like a parent opening the door to a teenager’s disastrous room and saying something like, “See? THIS is what you did”.

But the connection is incorrect, of course.

The fault lay with the citizenry and always has. From the top to the bottom and everywhere in-between it’s corruption and selfishness at every single step of the way. Ever since I saw N.O. cops stealing…I said, “That’s it. I have ceased to care”.

Granted, it’s probably a few that make the rest look bad but I have only the bad examples I saw to go on. I didn’t see a whole lot of civic-minded duty going on. And four years later, well, other flood-addled areas have recovered and taken the time to plan ahead for the future.

The answer is not to throw money at it. The answer is to find those people who are willing to put forth the effort to rebuild it and thus, when the “gimmees” come around again, (and they always come around) they won’t “get” because there will be FORMER ‘gimmees’ who will say NO.

New Orleans could’ve been something to marvel at. Instead, it’s a joke to anyone who wants to look. Billions wasted. I knew there was a problem when Nagin made the Saints a top priority. Sure, something to inspire but…in the real world, you don’t spend the money to paint your car when the tires are all flat.

It’s going to take another hurricane to hit the area to demonstrate the levees will hold

Of course with the city under sea level the levees matter not one whit when a major hurricane hits and tens of inches of water fall directly on the city.

This statement is like saying several major earthquakes will need to hit San Francisco or Los Angeles without damage before people and businesses move there.

For better or worse, many of the nation’s major cities are not possible disaster targets but are instead 100% certain of experiencing them.

There has to be a compelling reward there to outweigh the risk.

New Orleans’ is…

Not saying there isn’t one, just that a strong case needs to be presented to show one.