Reflections on Gustav

This storm and the events it bring should be interesting at least. I have several disjointed thoughts on the matter. I'll present them here, in no particular order.

- Let's hope it wipes NOLA from the map. Finish what Katrina started and end the drain on the US taxpayer. If the city is not even there anymore, maybe the bellyaching and whining about how everyone else hasn't done enough will stop. In all candor, forgive my cold heartedness. I know people have homes and lives there, but I'm sick to freaking death of hearing about how the 'government dropped the ball' during Katrina. We've seen the uber-dependent welfare state at its worst, and it is NOLA. Maybe if it's gone some of the culture of dependence will go with it.

- Mandatory evacuations - does the government's audacity know no bounds? From the linked article: They threatened arrest, loaded thousands onto buses and warned that anyone who remained behind would not be rescued. So it's a crime to stay in your own house? (I know it's stupid, but criminally stupid?)

- Looters. Ray "This City Will Be Chocolate" Nagin had this to say: "Looters will go directly to jail. You will not get a pass this time," he said. "You will not have a temporary stay in the city. You will go directly to the Big House." So, Ray, are you admitting that last time (in the aftermath of Katrina) you were knowingly giving violent thugs a free pass while at the same time you had every LEO you could recruit playing Gestapo and forcibly disarming the law-abiding ? I know you're stupid, Ray, but you're not that stupid. No, I think you're just that evil. Your evil is borne of cowardice - cowardice that recoils at the notion of a human being affirming their dignity in the act of self defense. To defend their lives and property without needing you, or your thug storm troopers, Ray. I know that sends chills down your slimy statist spine. I hope this time next week you're the mayor of nothing. It's what you've earned.