The NFL season has started and by ESPN's account, the Saints won and helped divert the minds of the displaced hurricane victims for a few hours.

New Orleans water is receding now that pumps are working. Bodies are being recovered and as I post this, the count was in the 200's. Pretty low number considering the estimate of 10,000's. By the way, the Mayor and Governess apparently spend too much time pointing blame rather than understanding their own census and demographic numbers. Had they paid closer attention, the Mayor and Governess could have reacted quicker and used those stranded buses for moving people out of the area rather than opening up the SuperDome.

Which takes me back to my original post. The Hurricane simply caught everyone off guard and has a section of the south already dependant on government programs to be more dependant on a government program (FEMA). As Americans have come to know, government works slow and the bigger it gets, the slower it works.

Personally, I think FEMA should be a sub-dept of the National Guard. The dad-gum National Guard gets called in anyway to execute the emergency delivery of aid. Why not close the loop a little?

Remember, local, county, state, federal. In that order.