Some stories that don’t fit the Legacy Media’s perceptions of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

• While some people have been losing their humanity, other people have been finding theirs.
  

  “Some people became animals,” Vasilioas Tryphonas said Sunday morning … “We became more civilized.”

  Read about it HERE. (by way of Drudge Report)

• But why is it such a small percentage of those affected that have exhibited resourcefulness, courage or even decency? Via Fr. John Whiteford, an obvious answer that the Mainstream Media dare not say: What we’re seeing in New Orleans is the result of decades as a welfare state.
  

  What Hurricane Katrina exposed was the psychological consequences of the welfare state. What we consider “normal” behavior in an emergency is behavior that is normal for people who have values and take the responsibility to pursue and protect them. People with values respond to a disaster by fighting against it and doing whatever it takes to overcome the difficulties they face. They don’t sit around and complain that the government hasn’t taken care of them. They don’t use the chaos of a disaster as an opportunity to prey on their fellow men.

• But there might be a ray of hope for those that are forced to see something besides depressed, shelled-out neighborhoods of a once-great city. Evacuees have been seeing God’s hand and feeling God’s grace in what has happened.
  

  “God made all this happen for a reason. This city has been going to hell in a handbasket spiritually.”

  Read about it HERE. (by way of Drudge Report)

• And while I’m at the Drudge Report, HERE’S why I don’t tend to give money to the Red Cross.
  

  The Red Cross volunteer “came barging in here and said that we’re destructing the hotel,” said Christina Rosa of Metairie, who didn’t remember the volunteer’s name. “They said the hotel does not want you.”