Put on your "what if" hat and think about where we would be if this

[HysteryDiagnosis]

happened a few months before *'s second selection.

A: we would have competency in D.C.

B: we probably would not have burned 200 billion in Iraq

C: thousands of military lives would not be ripped apart

D: thousands of limbs would still be attached to their owners

E: many in the ruling class might be in the pokey by now

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1. I was thinking that yesterday

If Katrina had only visited 365 days earlier.

Oh the fantasy!

It would have been horrible horrible, just the same, but then at least we would have kept hope alive!

[Catchawave]

2. There was a thread about how effective FEMA was

in Florida last year during the 4 hurricanes....also noting it's Jebbyland and an election year.