Sanke Pliskeen + Helter Skelter = New Orleans 2005

America loves its myths. I wonder if someone will pull a GTA-type of game out of it.

Meanwhile I enjoy some news:

HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) — Cuba’s parliament, led by President Fidel Castro, set aside politics momentarily on Thursday and stood for one minute in silent homage to the victims of Hurricane Katrina — before quickly returning to normal business and condemning the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

“The whole world should feel that this tragedy is its own,” National Assembly speaker Ricardo Alarcon said.

Heavy rainfall lashed western Cuba and downed power lines when Katrina swung across Florida and into the Gulf of Mexico, but the island escaped the devastation seen in the United States.

“The news pained and saddened Cubans. In their name, we wish to express our profound solidarity with the people of the United States, state and local authorities and the victims of this catastrophe,” Alarcon added.

Castro, dressed in his trademark green military fatigues, stood with his head down for the minute of silence.

Alarcon said devastation in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama was the most costly natural disaster in the history of the United States, Communist Cuba’s ideological enemy for four decades.

Poor, mainly black Americans were the hardest hit by Katrina in the number of deaths and homes lost, he said.

The 600-member rubber-stamp parliament then got back to business and unanimously passed a resolution attacking President Bush for massacring Iraqis and harboring extremist Cuban exiles.

HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) — Cuban President Fidel Castro has offered to send help to the United States in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

At a nightly roundtable program on state-run television Friday, the Cuban leader said his nation was ready to send 1,100 doctors and 26 tons of medicine and equipment.