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All of the bigots are coming out.

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We need an FDR in office, but instead we have Hoover.

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I was just telling one of the psychologists in our building today that economic conditions are incredibly similar to those right before the 1929 stock market crash. "There are safeguards in place today to keep the market from such a catastrophe, but still it's a volatile situation."

The economy is already feeling a surge in Katrina's wake. Coffee, sugar prices up. Meanwhile, the prices of our exports (like that bumper crop of corn up in the Heartland) will drop because it will cost so much get to ports other than the Gulf.

Some places in the U.S. are already seeing $6 for gas.

This dwarfs 9/11. And we can't blame anyone. As they say in the insurance business, it's an act of God.

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Don't be pissed at me if I talk about Katrina for the next couple of days.

I cannot begin to communicate how this is affecting me.

New Orleans rocked by huge blasts

Amid lawlessness, New Orleans mayor blasts efforts

The Man-Made Disaster

A Can't-Do Government

Anyone want to give this a quick look-over?

I'm sending this out today.

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