Hurricane Katrina

Many stories are coming out of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath. Many are acts of heroism; many are acts of looting, rapes and murders. The one I am writing about is of negligent homicide. You might be asking yourself, why are you writing about negligent homicide when you have the brutal crime stories mentioned above? The homicide is actually homicides. They occurred in a nursing home. ST. Ritas Nursing Home is located in St. Bernard Parish. There were 34 people found dead from drowning in the nursing home. Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti charged Mable and Salvador Mangano, owners of St. Rita's Nursing Home. St. Rita's have a contract with an ambulance service; they did not use them to evacuate the residents. St. Rita's also refused an offer from St. Bernard Parish authorities of buses to evacuate the residents.

Mayor Nagin had quite a few working buses but did not evacuate the New Orleans residents yet he is not charged with any of the deaths that occurred, neither is Governor Blanco.

President Bush took responsibility for the response to the hurricane. He pledged billions of dollars to rebuilding the gulf area. We are looking at spending about 200 billion dollars with estimates going as high as 400 billion dollars. I am sure there are people who think it will not be enough, not quick enough, that he is a racist or on vacation, blah, blah, blah, etc.

Everybody in the United States should be questioning their local and state politician's qualifications and evacuation plans but nobody will. I live in New Jersey very close to New York. If we had to evacuate, most of us would be doomed.

Supreme Court

The Democratic Senators tried to nail him down but they could not. Judge Roberts would not answer questions on cases that might come before the court. He was correct to do this. Senators Ted Kennedy, Charles Schumer and Joe Biden tried to get Judge Roberts to answer these types of questions.

North Korea

After two years of negotiations, North Korea has agreed to stop its nuclear development. In exchange, the United States said it would provide energy assistance and would not attack North Korea. If everything goes correctly, I am sure President Bush will not get the glory but if it goes wrong President Bush will get all of the blame.

Club Moron

Mable Mangano
Salvador Mangano


Personal Note:

Happy birthday to:

Christopher, (my nephew)
Anthony, (my brother-in-law)

Congratulations to:

Gus, (great person, great co-worker), good luck with the new gig, I know you will kick butt.

Remember,
Keep a frown upside down :)