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Okay, so FEMA is basically a giant fuckup. I was on the internets today and I saw this shit. Don't worry, there is some actual hip-hop in here today. Sort of. For those of you too lazy to check the site, here's the basic rundown: As New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin pleaded on national television for firefighters - his own are exhausted after working around the clock for a week - a battalion of highly trained men and women sat idle Sunday in a muggy Sheraton Hotel conference room in Atlanta. Many of the firefighters, assembled from Utah and throughout the United States by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, thought they were going to be deployed as emergency workers. Instead, they have learned they are going to be community-relations officers for FEMA, shuffled throughout the Gulf Coast region to disseminate fliers and a phone number: 1-800-621-FEMA. So, yeah. We've got a bunch of firefighters that are ready for action, but instead we're holding a fucking tea party and training them on how to hand out fliers. Shit is so fucked nowadays that it's surreal.

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Oh, shit. First, let me make a joke, because I don't think I can do that after I make the rest of this post. Kanye did it. Okay, now that that's out of the way, let's go. So I was on fucking metafilter today, and saw this link. I was actually working on the latest edition of this site's hip-hop podcast at the time, so I didn't really pay attention to it, because the video was kind of sloppy. Basically, it's a taping of Mike Myers and Kanye West on NBC. At first, I was a little disappointed in the fact that they needed celebrities to get on there to convince people that this is serious business. Then I laughed a little at how they had Kanye and Myers there - I mean, they're both really funny to me, but the latter is the only one that I think is trying to be funny on purpose.

So a lot of times, I hear about events and I wonder whether or not I should post about them. Not because I'm afraid of the repercussions or because I lack the talent to put together an amazingly well-written post, but because I worry about the relevance. See, I realize that this is a hip-hop blog / podcast joint here, and I'm trying to keep it relevant. Still though, there's some things that your boy just gotta weigh in on. For example, there's the whole Utah rave thing, which I may still cover, but not today. Today, we're going to talk about Katrina and the whole Finder vs. Looter debate. Let's go. Okay, so in case you all have been in your mom's basement playing Mario Golf for the last two weeks, you'll know that some sort of big-ass hurricane happened down souf. This caused a massive-ass flood in New Orleans. Ooh, Flood street. That is sooo clever.