Today's Gulf Coast Roundup

First off, Bush's tour of the affected areas can be summed up by his patented arrogance and lack of sensitivity when he "joked":

The good news is -- and it's hard for some to see it now -- that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- he's lost his entire house -- there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch. (Laughter.)

President Arrives in Alabama, Briefed on Hurricane Katrina

Next, I first hesitated to post this as it looked to be too much of a hoax, but as you will see from the last item in this post, sadly, these people live among us:

A member of a fundamentalist Christian group relates the number of abortions centers in Louisiana to the above image of a "fetus" hurricane punishing those who should repent.

And finally:

New Orleans now is abortion free. New Orleans now is Mardi Gras free. New Orleans now is free of Southern Decadence and the sodomites, the witchcraft workers, false religion -- it's free of all of those things now," Shanks says. "God simply, I believe, in His mercy purged all of that stuff out of there -- and now we're going to start over again."

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