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Seems eco-tourism is more profitable than ever - in touring the battered areas of New Orleans.

http://www.pangeaday.org/filmDetail.php?id=49

And we have to thank the Army Corps of Engineers, the Bush Administration, Congress and the government of the state of Louisiana for the progress.

According to George Will, that is.

I’m not entirely inclined to completely agree or disagree, but he makes several points worth examining.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/iacocca.asp

http://www.bordersstores.com/features/feature.jsp?file=wherehavealltheleadersgone

Where *are* the leaders?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/24/nola.firehouses/index.html

Zero firehouses rebuilt in 2.5 years. Volunteers, musicians and actors, even some from other countries, are having to step in and fix them.

Your tax dollars not at work.

Lady Liberty now says “Bring us your poor, and we’ll stomp the hell out of them.”

When replacing the fish at the New Orleans Aquarium, the staff had two options:

• Spend $600k buying them from commercial suppliers.
• Spend just under $100k catching live specimens in the sea.

The Aquarium chose the latter option and now, FEMA’s “quality control” won’t fund ANY of it.

So an effort to save the US government, and effectively, you me and Joe Blow Taxpayer $500,000 gets kicked in the shorts.

I’m a little surprised that they weren’t asked to come up with insurance records noting the exact size and weight of the fish, so that they could be replaced with exact duplicates. After all, that is the law, and we know they always follow the “letter of the law”.