I think that it will be found that some of that petrol was siphoned off years ago. I've heard that USD 20,000,000 was "diverted" from levee work to building a casino -- although I have no way of determining the truth of this.

This was a long time a-borning, and that is no excuse for it happening at all.

Right now, solve the problem. If you want to keep the disaster and its aftermath in the face of the public, fine. Do so. But send help NOW.

I did not intend to act as a publican to Jimmyt's pharisee, and I hope that he did not take it that way (if you don't understand this, read the New Testament). I just don't like talking about what good I can do, and I know that normally he's the same. It's just the way I was brought up.

He might be a conservative, but I think that he's a true one, not one of the current "borrow and spend" types of neo.