Originally posted by kestra
This is the kind of guy that has the president's ear!! Is this kind of rhetoric really any different in style and substance than that which you'd find on extremist Islamic websites? You have to wonder.
I can hook you up with a link to Nick Berg's beheading to help clear that up for you, that confusion about the difference between this guy and terrorists.

Anyhow I hope this thread stays more or less hurricane related.

Am I the only person who is not sure that the forced evacuation of New Orleans needs to be executed against the last holdouts? If they just don't bring in food and water, and continue to offer people help getting out, won't the biggest part of the public health risk of having people there more or less take care of itself?

On the other hand, the people choosing to stay there so far have come across as pretty floopy. I keep seeing this one guy on Fox who says he had been flushing his toilet with draft beer........ Maybe some people just have to have things spelled out to them in terms of force, I dunno. I don't think the cleanup efforts need to be having to deal with people who refuse to leave, though. So I'm sort of torn. I saw one clip of them having to manhandle this old woman. Still, she needed to be out of there, right?

Hard to watch though.