Maybe Ray Nagin's comment wasn't that bad ...

By now, the entire world (most of America anyway) has heard or seen the videotape of mayor Ray Nagin (left) answering a question given him on 60 Minutes relating to the seeming lack of improvement in New Orleans over the past year since Katrina.

He said, "You guys in New York can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later. So let's be fair."

Admittedly, this might seem a little politically incorrect, considering that many persons in New York regard the site of the Trade Center as "sacred ground."

But my brother, Richard from Connecticut, suggested that I look at Nagin's response in its most down-to-earth sense. It has been five years since 9/11 and the damage to New York City was certainly less (overall) than the massive damage to New Orleans only a year ago, so why shouldn't the mayor of New Orleans have been a little ticked off by such an insensitive question?

Also, Mediawingnuts still wonders why the steel and other critical debris was so quickly shipped off to India and China for recycling (rather than stored for possible criminal analysis), yet the site is still pretty much a flattened area of South Manhattan. But of course, that's only one of many, many questions left unanswered by our Government -- and even ignored in the 9/11 Commission Report.