A little more from Gulfport as I have a friend there who can only intermittently send email which gets forwarded to the rest of us. Quoting a few salient facts from her forwarded email.

My cable will be out for months, supposedly. The main cable sources here in MS were destroyed, so they have to rebuild them. I may be able to order dsl in the next month or so, that is depending on how many nodes are available here, or since the phone lines are in the streets, and we’re driving over them, I might not be able to get it at all. I’m aggravated as hell. Cut off from the outside world completely.

Imagine being cut off entirely from everything, it must be incredibly difficult. And just try to get news from the TV, provided you have one that works, can’t cause it is all about New Orleans. Every day, hour after hour, New Orleans. Nothing about the rest of the Gulf Coast. That’s her situation.

Everything I’ve ever known here has been wiped out.

She was lucky she was far enough inland to survive the hit but when everything else is gone, not doing her a lot of good. Especially with a hole in the roof she can’t get help in repairing. Roofs are essential. Especially since hurricane season is not over.

I just paid my Insurance up through 2006, and since I’m leasing to own, they won’t pay for my roof, because it isn’t yet in my name. But I had to pay the Insurance, or get foreclosed on.

Now that sucks. I imagine others will have equally unpleasant experiences rebuilding especially if an insurance company is involved. Renting to own isn’t such a good idea, methinks.

They are still around and still causing problems. Quote the Yahoo:

More than a dozen highly coordinated bombings ripped through Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 160 people and wounding 570 in the capital’s bloodiest day since the end of major combat. Many of the victims were day laborers lured by a suicide attacker posing as an employer.

Al-Qaida claimed responsibility for the attacks in the name of Sunni insurgents, saying it was a retaliation for the rout of militants at a base close to the Syrian border.

All cause U.S. and Iraqi forces routed the terrorists from Tal Afar. I knew there was a reason this caught my eye.

The carnage was believed to have produced the second-worst one-day death toll since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003. On March 2, 2004, coordinated blasts from suicide bombers, mortars and planted explosives hit Shiite shrines in Karbala and Baghdad, killing at least 181 and wounding 573.

Setting records here, at least they aren’t here. Think they should stick to stampedes.

Some might wonder why the President of Iran was allowed on U.S. soil considering his past accomplishments of the terrorist kind. I wonder why the U.N. is allowed on U.S. soil considering most of it’s member countries are less than democratic, are not fond of the U.S. and utterly loathe Israel. Oh and some of them support, aid and abet terrorism.

Maybe we should give them the boot. The U.N. could possibly move to France or some other more supportive country.