Has anyone seen any corroborating articles about this article ? In it, the UK Mirror reports that 40,000 NATO rations sent to feed Katrina victims by the UK gov't are scheduled to be incinerated by US officials. Apparently, worries about BSE ("mad cow") are the reason. Yikes! If there's more to this story, I'd like to hear it because this is pretty disheartening and certainly a slap in the face of our friends in the UK.

DEAR SWEET LIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is too asinine to be made up, only governmental stupidity could dream this up.

Oh yeah, I'm proud to be an American, yep yep yep. The rebellion is coming, mark my words.

Couldn't find any reference in mainstream news by searching Google News. But, found a couple of hits through Google's blog search.

That's on a par with this, which I saw frequently reported in the days following Katrina:

"Americans don't sleep in tents." --Unnamed FEMA official, responding to the head of the Hurricane Center of Louisiana State University who was trying to urge FEMA to set up tent cities.

There must be some unidentified law of nature that causes bureaucrats to lose half their IQ points upon assuming office.

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There must be some as yet identified law of nature that causes bureaucrats to lose half their IQ points upon assuming office
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Gee you must have the high quality bureaucrats.
I was sure they lost heaps more than half.

I'm not sure if it's that they lose more than half, or it's that they didn't start with as much as we give them credit for <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Having worked for the gummint briefly, I'm pretty sure it wasn't there to start with. I met a few (very few) incredibly talented civil servants, but the rest were just managing to radiate at 98.6F and failing that on occasion. It's an environment that selects for many of the least desirable traits in an effort to be "fair".

(Don't look at me that way. It was a student job. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> )

I work for our government for a few years as well.
It seems that those that did have the extra few IQ points wher smart enough to get out.

Sad isnt it.

Lets see, there is the jewish vote, black vote, union vote, veteran's vote, gun lobby etc. Anyone hazard how many brits take out US citizenship each year?

I couldn't find any other hard news references to this story. Still boggles my mind, it really does, if it's true.

I sent an email to CNN asking them to investigate this Mirror article. If you see the story covered on CNN tomorrow, you'll know where you heard about the story first! <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Whle generally speaking I share the disdain for bureaucrats that others have expressed, something about this article has sent my BS detector into overdrive. Look at the hysterical tone. The article is dated 09-19 yet they mention "starving Americans" in the very first sentence. How many people are still starving in New Orleans? They also never mention any source by name-- not one. How is that possible for any news source that values credibility?

It won't surprise me if the story turns out to have some kernal of truth. Maybe the food couldn't be distributed because of one bureaucratic foulup or another. But this article reads like something out of the National Enquirer --and that's putting it politely.

Regards, Vince