any other week, it would be this, from Mike Leavitt of Health and Human Services, speaking of New Orleans and the refugees therefrom

``We have the ingredients for a bad situation there'

but that's before we got this, on the curiously qualified Mr. Brown, from Knight Ridder by way of firedoglake

He's done a hell of a job, because I'm not aware of any Arabian horses being killed in this storm," said Kate Hale, former Miami-Dade emergency management chief.

Thank you, Ms. Hale.