From: Richard B. 

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:39:14 -0600, John Cuccia  wrote:

>I just wish the Chicago folk had kept that fat fraud Ditka to
>themselves.

They have some tough fans up there, I don't know I'd want to play for
'em if I had that alternative reality profession.

>Yep, everything.

Jeese...now if they made those on virtual machines it might be something
worth considering.

>>So does the other consultant get a kick-back? 

I'll send someone 'round to collect my hush money.

>Anyway, Louisiana set up something called The Road Home program to
>help distribute the $7.5 billion allocated to homeowners in the state
>but very little of that money has been awarded.  According to the
>article below, in the 15 weeks since the program began accepting
>applications, it has received 95,144 and closed 118.   It's going to
>take a while at that rate.
>
>http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/viewStory.cfm?recID=17903

My wife was in 'Nawlins for a convention and said the people there were so
happy they came.  All the shop owners just seemed exceptionally grateful
for the business.

You know, it is possible (as we've seen) for several storms to inflict
massive damage to major metropolitan areas and after all this time and
money we still aren't prepared.  It's not like hurricanes started with
Katrina (although much noise is mostly political).   It's just
incredible no one can fix it.  If it came to the gubmint (R or D) or a
company like Haliburton to take it over, I'd trust the latter.

- Richard

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