No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

In the wake of Katrina many have had to walk by scores of dead in the streets, navigate through pools of toxic water and undergo a difficult journey to escape the aftermath of what is left of New Orleans. With the city at a loss for any kind of civility among those who choose to take advantage of all that they can.

People shooting at the helicopters trying to evacuate the people out of the Superdome. People shooting other people over bottles of water and food and looting. To the police shooting at eight people carrying guns as they were crossing a New Orleans bridge, killing five or six of them, which happened to be contractors on their way to repair a canal. With no other details immediately available, of course.

And now you’ve got the religious ones out there that are preaching that ‘This is the work of Satan right here’ of the floods & al Qaida-linked Web sites calling our catastrophe the evidence of the ‘wrath of God’ striking an arrogant America. The terrorist strike upon our Nation was the act of arrogance. I didn’t realize that natural disasters were the act of God or Satan. I thought hurricanes were from sea-surface temperatures and the influence of the earth’s rotation to initiate a spinning circulation? To place the blame on God for anything that goes on in this world to me is just a cop out towards the responsibilities of ones own actions. People need to learn to be accountable for their own actions and quit trying to lay the blame elsewhere.

Whatever the ‘cause’ of Katrina to wreak havoc over part of our country, New Orleans is in a dire state of need. I know I personally don’t have a lot of money, but I have donated what little money that I can to go towards the relief efforts. As for Bush’s slow start to the recovery effort, I think enough has already been said.