Just supposing...

We really need some rain to fill our country's reservoirs, though not anything on the scale that the poor folk in Louisiana have recently endured - let's face it, our generation is buggering up the world's climate with global warming.

Is it a case of 'What goes around, comes around?' - George Bush has blocked legislation for mandatory pollution limits on industry in his own country. He also impeded investment in the upgrading of Louisiana's Levees. Who's crying now?

Sorry to go off on a tangent on this posting but when the world's only superpower can't help its own people in its own backyard, then something is going seriously wrong.

Makes you wonder what would happen if the same thing happened in London or Norwich though, doesn't it? Would the masses loot, rape and pillage within a few days as they have in New Orleans? Or would we form orderly queues, something for which we are world famous (Have you ever seen an orderly queue in Germany/Netherlands/Spain - no, I haven't, either!)

The next few weeks and months will be very interesting, to see how the American people handle another disaster on their own doorstep - this time from Mother Nature.

In the meantime, no jokes about Mississippi Mud Pie, please...!!