"This Is A Desperate Plea For Help"... Times-Picayune Online Reveals Horrors Of Disaster...

"Last time I was in New Orleans, to see a friend off to the Yucatan, I was working in Columbus, Mississippi, near the Waverly Plantation for the archaeology of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Canal, I had been to Memphis, Graceland was closed, out of respect for Elvis' dad who died, the day before. There was a hurricane coming, and staying in the LaSalle Hotel, I watched some of the city being boarded up for the August storm, the wettest summer in Mississippi's history, 1979. The oil embargo was on, and people lined up for gas. In the Times-Picayune Sunday edition was the strangest story. It seems, as the legend goes, President Thomas Jefferson was related by marriage to the LaFitte family, and a 'swap' was made with Napoleon Bonaparte (sticks and his long coat, the guard used to let him walk way off on the beach, where's he going to go?) who had a heart attack within sight of the Yucatan peninsula, off of Mexico. Legend has it, he's buried outside New Orleans in the LaFitte cemetery under another name. Please, Emperor Bush, do all you can for the city! Republican mistakes in policy leading up to the 2005 New Orleans disaster.