In the Black(water)

Why do you think it tok the Bushites so long to respond to Katrina?

They were lining up all their contributors for contracts to clean up the mess, so that wealthy white people will want to re-build New Orleans, for their ilk, of course

And speaking of 'Blackwater,' in the subculture of RV owners, blackwater is the term used for piss and crap. Appropriate, don't you think?

In the Black(water):

"Tens of thousands of Hurricane Katrina victims remain without homes. The environment is devastated. People are disenfranchised. Financial resources, desperate residents are told, are scarce. But at least New Orleans has a Wal-Mart parking lot serving as a FEMA Disaster Recovery Center with perhaps the tightest security of any parking lot in the world. That's thanks to the more than $30 million Washington has shelled out to the Blackwater USA security firm since its men deployed after Katrina hit. Under contract with the

Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Federal Protective Service, Blackwater's men are ostensibly protecting federal reconstruction projects for FEMA. Documents show that the government paid Blackwater $950 a day for each of its guards in the area. Interviewed by The Nation last September, several of the company's guards stationed in New Orleans said they were being paid $350 a day. That would have left Blackwater with $600 per man, per day to cover lodging, ammo, other overhead--and profits. "