On Katrina...

First, give to the charity of your choice, whatever it may be.
Second, I can't even begin to comprehend the massive destruction there. I lived through the flooding in Northeastern Pennsylvania when Agnes stalled and dropped a couple of feet of rain in 1972. A dear friend of the family had to be pulled out of the second floor of his house by a passing boat. Second-floor water was commonplace. But even there, probably about 200,000 people at most were affected in the Wyoming Valley, but there were very few deaths. When they say it's going to take years to rebuild New Orleans, believe it.
Third, give to the charity of your choice, whatever that may be.
Fourth, you've probably read by now the moonbatty comments from the German environmental minister and Bobby Kennedy Jr. Some basic knowledge of science would immediately refute this. My daughter's report on hurricanes last school year would refute their idiocy. Both deserve to be tarred and feathered... or at least regrooved.
Fifth, give to the charity of your choice, whatever that may be.
Sixth, there's some profiteering going on with the oil companies. No doubt about it. But I will devote an entire post to that topic later on.
Finally, give to the charity of your choice, whatever that may be.... and remember the victims of this disaster in your prayers. Seems like they could surely use a few.