Counting Corpses

Gotta love those Bush-people. Once the body count got too high for comfort, they did the only logical thing; they stopped counting

So, with the death toll of Katrina at 964, our government decides to stop counting. I guess the corpses of more than 1,000 people (some sort of "acceptable" threshhold) is just to much to lay at the feet of our fearless leaders.

I've found the friend I refer to in posts below, evacuated to Baton Rouge after the storm. When the death toll was around 400, she told me, "Shoot, that many people were probably killed by the cops alone."

And how does this jive with the huge numbers of people still missing? How many of these missing people are actually dead? Will we ever know? Just like the ban on journalists photographing bodies (out of "respect" - yeah, just like in Iraq)...this whole thing stinks as bad as the toxic sludge covering New Orleans.

Edited to add: It's no coincidence that FEMA hired Kenyon International to count the bodies. Kenyon, it seems, is a subsidiary of Service Corporation International (SCI), a scandal-ridden Texas-based company operated by a friend of the Bush family. Recently, SCI subsidiaries have been implicated in illegally discarding and desecrating corpses. One of many stories about this can be read here. Another one is here.