If you watched or listened to Michael Brown's pathetic and indignant defense of his management of the federal response to Katrina and were looking for more evidence that that performance probably wasn't all that hot, then let me interest you in a Carnival Cruise vacation in New Orleans. Now, you're saying to yourself, "Doesn't Carnival Cruise lines go to places like Alaska, the Caribbean or other more exotic locations?" Well, you're right but for now there are three huge nearly empty Carnival Cruise ships docked in New Orleans and other large gulf coast ports at a cost of $236 million all courtesy of FEMA disaster preparedness.