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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Perhaps there are other ways that Sean Penn could have helped, and I suspect that you are right. But we don't really know how effective he was, do we, since all that story told us is that his boat had some water in it.

I take back everytihng I said about him. It looks like its good he's there, as he seems to have found an area where the hundreds of boats and helicopters have yet to find.

http://www.thisislondon.com/til/jsp/...temId=20274160

• Oscar-winning Hollywood actor Sean Penn, who has been assisting rescue efforts in New Orleans, said the US government did not "seem to be inclined to help".
  
  "We were pulling drowning people out of the water, it's the ultimate distress and human suffering ... dead bodies," he told GMTV.
  
  Penn said he had spent nine hours on Monday searching the water for people and during all that time he saw just three boats carrying US officials.
  
  "There are people that are dying right now and I mean babies and old people and everybody in between - they're dying. There are people dying and (the US government are) not putting the boats in the water, I think that's criminal negligence. I don't think anybody ever anticipated the criminal negligence of the Bush administration in this situation."