SPARSE NOTES TODAY

• The Boortz Show is a bit short-staffed, and Nealz Nuze is taking the hit ... but I do have some random thoughts to share
• We're now about 10 days out from the seawall break in New Orleans.  There are tens of thousands of people from New Orleans and Mississippi who are in desperate straights ... but the most pathetic people out there are those who have been working so earnestly over the last week to blame this situation on George Bush.  Funny how hate can make you so irrational.
• Speaking of irrational ... how many fools do we still have running around unsupervised spouting that absurd "war for oil" line ... other than Cindy Sheehan of course.
• The feds are handing out $2000 debit cards to hurricane victims.  Question:  Why is a victim of Hurricane Katrina more entitled to a $2000 debit card from the American taxpayers than would be a woman in Sepulveda who's home was destroyed by fire last week?  Just what is the role of private insurance here? 
• Did you hear about the St. Rita's nursing home near New Orleans?  The staff abandoned the nursing home, leaving the patients behind.  The patients tried to barricade the doors using anything they could get their hands on, including wheelchairs.  Rescuers found 30 bodies in that nursing home yesterday.  Bush's fault, wasn't it?
• There are some wealthy residents of certain high-end neighborhoods in New Orleans who have hired private security guards to protect their properties.  They are having bottled water and food helicoptered in to their homes.  This, according to some television news anchors, is a bad thing. I guess the rule is that no wealthy person should be allowed to use their resources to obtain food and water if there is one pour family out there that doesn't have the supplies they need.
• Howard Dean was screaming yesterday about the fact that so many of the hurricane victims were poor and black.  First of all, Howard, two-thirds of New Orleans is black.  Big "duh" there.  Secondly; it should be no surprise that the "poor" are disproportionately affected by disasters such as this.  Survival often depends on resourcefulness, self-reliance and the ability (or willingness) to make tough decisions -- traits that aren't exactly evident in those we call poor. 
• Now listen to this ... Democrat Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid is now questioning whether or not George Bush's so-called "vacation" at his Crawford ranch contributed to the ineffective response to Hurricane Katrina.  Yeah -- that's it.  People died because Bush was in Texas and not in Washington DC.
• More unimaginable violence in New Orleans. While authorities were trying to evacuate patients from a New Orleans hospital yesterday they had a bit of a problem.  They were being shot at.  That's right ... predators were shooting at patients as they were being evacuated from a hospital.  And what would Sean Penn, Pierce Brosnan, Celine Dion, Harry Reid, Ted Kennedy, Michael Moore and the rest of the angry left have to say about this?  Bush's fault, of course.

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Who was really in charge of the federal effort in New Orleans?  Lawyers.  And nobody is particularly happy with the situation.

Uh oh.  Atlanta passes an ordinance banning panhandling in certain areas ... and who would be one of the first people arrested? Wouldn't you just know it? 

Larry Elder writes of Katrina, the race card, and the welfare state.

OK ... let's address this "global warming" nonsense.  Not that anyone is really willing to listen to facts here.

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Morning Sickness: Native Alaskans want the walrus cam turned off for their annual hunt. For some reason, they think there might be outcry if walrus fans see their favorite tusked buddy shot and butchered live.

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