Regarding #4 and voting dem...I saw a car on I-10 the other day with a:
Remember Katrina:
Vote Democrat
Yeah, Blanco and Nagin did such a wonderful job and the dem "lack of" leadership the past 40 years made the people sit on their asses waiting for the government to take care of them.
Only if I drove a piece of crap car with no windows that was fireproof, bulletproof, crackhead proof, I would have them all, I live in St Tammny, the Republican capital of LA, that would not be a problem, but work in NaginLand = Problem