Life here in New Orleans is nowhere near normal. Schools are not open, services are spotty at best and this is even in the non-flooded areas! Leave it to Limbaugh to make general assumptions when he clearly justs wants to promote his anti-liberal, anti-reality agenda. Yes, Limbaugh, leave your assumptions at home and come visit my fair city.

I always figured that Happy Holidays was a short way to say "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year" - a truly American thing to do, to abbreviate. And since it happens to be all inclusive of every holiday celebrated during this time, why not?

and it's called patriotism. Why not just take the word back instead of having to overexplain a new one?

a draft coming...that or recruiting grandmothers.

The water actually went through the levees, not over them. The city still flooded, but the distinction is important because it means the levees failed. The levees that the Army Corps of Engineers - part of the federal government - built incorrectly. Did us wrong.

Sure, she's slimmer, but I think it added a good five years to her

And I thought this movie was great because it showed New Orleans well. There were no fake Southern accents, the scenes of New Orleans were for the most part truthfully represented (only a discerning New Orleanian would catch the oddities anyway)and since it was filmed in post-Katrina New Orleans, I loved the scene of the police breaking into the Ninth Ward home - the house in the middle of the street, because that is how we are living. The plot required much suspension of belief, but Denzel and Paula are both beautiful to watch, and the opening sequence was filmed beautifully.

and had a breast reduction. So, I really never understand women who want bigger, big, huge boobs that I could not wait to get rid of. Granted, mine would never have stood up the way fake ones do. But, the surgery did indeed increase my self esteem. My clothes fit better, pain is gone, I'm more confident, etc. blah blah.

Thank you for remembering us here in New Orleans. The rest of y'all in other places in the country might think the time has passed when we can forget that Bush forgot us here, but we're still living through it, just like those in Iraq are dealing with things every day that we don't here in the US, etc. I honestly think he should attend, but stay in the background because the convocation is not about him, but him being there is the support we all need as a nation. I commend him for attending.

It's Captain Barbossa, not Barbarossa

Between being a plus-sized model and being a model who is plus sized. The latter does not exist, particularly in the high fashion world. I don't understand how Whitney would ever be perceived as a "Super" model, whereas Anya could fit right into that category. That being said, ANTM is really more focused on commercial than high fashion or couture. I still don't understand how they will market Whitney. High fashion is about being able to wear clothes like a hanger, so you can see how the material hangs and flows (without getting caught on bumps and hips)

I know you know the saying, "Rome wasn't built in a day." 80% of the city flooded. 80%. That has to be rebuilt. By individuals who have to fight with insurance and contractors and some having done this while in exile in a different city. And not to mention all of the other infrastructure that needs some honest review. Give us a break, please. Sarah, I hope that you don't honestly (or anymore) compare the rebuilding of New York after 9/11 to the rebuilding of New Orleans after Katrina. One because 9/11 didn't destroy 80% of the city and two because the rest of the country did not even consider abandoning New York, the way New Orleans was often abandoned after Katrina. I enjoyed reading your perspective. I think you truly did get an honest view of my city. When you venture out of the confines of tourist tunnel vision, New Orleans really does become real. I too loved Chris Rose's columns after Katrina. He was a total dork before Katrina and he was transformed for all of us, and like all of us, and in many ways was speaking for all of us afterwards. I can't bring myself to watch Trouble the Water. Not just yet. I still get tight chested and overwhelmed by it all and I don't always want to trigger my memories. But anyone who has gone through a tragedy has to understand that.

Ready to toast an Obama win! But, like many others, we'll be watching alone on the sofa flipping channels hoping for the best, nervous for a victory. Me, I just know, I'll be pacing the floor. But, I do like the idea of watching the grimaces occuring at Fox.

that someone from the pro-life movement stated, "The unpleasant aspect of this is the idea that how many children you have should be down to the state," a spokesperson for the Pro-Life Alliance told the Daily Mail."

Isn't making abortion illegal the same concept?

That no one has mentioned that creepy smile at the beginning. Then, it appeared again at the end, just as you were forgetting that first one! Believe it or not, Jindal's speech pattern has greatly improved over the years from when he first ran for governor against Blanco. But, he still has a long way to go.