New Orleans Welcomes Visitors Once More

Not long after Mardi Gras, New Orleans gets another much-needed opportunity for tourist dollars...

AP: New Orleans hopes Jazz Fest can cure Katrina blues

Raucous jazz, rhythm and blues and zydeco are synonymous with New Orleans and now the struggling city is looking to its famed annual celebration of all things musical to kick-start post-Katrina healing...

Harry Shearer was back in New Orleans to tell his tales:
-A Jazzfest Diary, pt. One
-A Jazzfest Diary, Part 2

Another visitor to the Big Easy this week was President Bush who toured the city, reaffirming his still empty promises to see the city rebuilt. Said the President, "There’s still a lot to be done." Captain Obvious to the rescue. He also had a friendly chat with Mayor Nagin about pounding some nails (and hopefully just the nails, boys).

Finally, Bay Buchanan says on CNN, "I think Katrina has worn its welcome... I think the American people are getting a little tired of it myself." Yea, don't you just hate it when people keeping harping on and on about the near-destruction of a major American city? Stupid destroyed Gulf Coast, why do you keep bothering us?

Now 9/11, there's a tragedy worth remembering...

[PS- A new Senate report rips the White House a new one once again:
Katrina Report Rips the Bush Admin. Again]