ST. BERNARD PARISH

Hurricane Rita's storm surge (minimumat best) topped the levees in New Orleans.

This has once again caused flooding in St. Bernard Parish, just days after already-devastated neighborhoods had been pumped dry.

“It’s like looking at a murder,” Quentrell Jefferson of the Ninth Ward said Friday as he watched news of the flooding at a church in Lafayette, 125 miles west of New Orleans. “The first time is bad. After that, you numb up.”

You numb up.

You numb up?

Are you serious? Is that what has happened? We are now numb to neighborhoods and homes being flooded away?!?!?! Wow...I'll let you marinate in that for a while...

On another note concerning St. Bernard Henry Rodriguez Jr. is the Parish President in St. Bernard and was complaining that repairs were made to the 17th Street Canal (rish white area of New Orleans) and not the Industrial Canal (poor black area of New Orleans).

In other words, and I will quote him directly: "They went ahead and protected the rich people and not the poor people."

While I normally don't agree with class warfare, there might be some truth to this.

However, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said they didn't have enough time to make the proper repairs to the Inustrial Canal and thought it was more important to protect the 17th Street Canal, as flooding there would have affected downtown New Orleans.

Play out the politics all you wish...but the bottom line is this - St. Bernard Parish needs to be bulldozed and sent into the Gulf Of Mexico. I know this sounds extraordinarily cruel, but look at a map!

Mark my word - there will be considerable discussion as to whether St. Bernard Parish needs to be rebuilt, as it's Mother Nature's inclination for that area to be WATER and not LAND.

That debate will be intense - and well it should be....

However - the larger and more dramatic debate will be whether the Mississippi River needs to be reverted back to her natural course...that's been debated for years and it might be debated again.