Or like Marian says it, not being a public figure and all

That's Marian who writes Marian's Blog.

Security: Iraq is OK but Not New Orleans??

Honest to God the Bush administration has totally lost touch with reality. They keep holding toothless 'cya' (cover your a**) news conferences. 2PM Thursday afternoon, Sept. 1st: "Hopefully most people have gotten themselves on a roof and have been picked up" - Michael Chertoff, Bush Homeland Security czar. Well Michael, the answer is no... they have not been picked up,
and since Monday or Tuesday no one has even come by in a boat or a
copter to toss them a few bottles of water. I have to wonder how many
New Orleans and Louisiana families have already lost children and other
loved ones in Iraq. Each of those stories would be extremely
instructive. But right now these families need massive emergency aid,
but the so-called "rescuers" announce today that their latest excuse
why they still are not delivering water, food and medicine to stranded, sick and dying people
- nor taking away the deceased - in New Orleans is because some areas
are insecure. Well, la-dee-da. The National Guard has been going to and
dying in Baghdad for how long? But tens of thousands of terrified,
starving people in New Orleans is too much for them to face? Are we
supposed to believe that? I have worked in Kosovo, Srebrenica, Croatia
and elsewhere; I have worked around and personally avoided and reported
on landmines and on landmine incidents (sometimes fatal explosions),
including in the same central Bosnia town where Princess Diana went
just before her death. In international talk what people in New Orleans
need right now today is called humanitarian aid. And there are two choices for US authorities. I will not use the colloquial way of saying it; I will just say "Do the job now - do it right, or shut up."