White House halts royal visit to New Orleans to 'save face'

royalarchive.com ^ | Saturday, 29 October 2005 | Nicholas Wapshott

[caryatid]

Royal compassion visit to New Orleans has been cancelled.

[caryatid]

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[basil]

This has got to be one of the more stupid A##ed articles I have read! Someone needs to point out--yet again--that New Orleans was not a federal problem, at least not until LA asked for federal assistance.

[river rat]

"would have been the perfect way of showing the warm side of Camilla which so few have so far seen,.."

I think we've already heard more than we needed to hear about Camilla's "warm side"....

Semper Fi

[elli1]

BS article.

[caryatid]

This has got to be one of the more stupid A##ed articles I have read!

Sorry, y'all! It has been such a slow news day ... I just wondered if anyone was awake. LOL

[Alice au Wonderland]

Prince Charles will face further embarrassment on Tuesday when he visits a garden in the Financial District of New York dedicated to the 67 British workers who died when the Twin Towers were toppled by al-Qaeda. Among the British expatriates invited to the ceremony is Tina Brown, who is writing a biography of Diana, Princess of Wales. The biography, to be published in 2007, will revisit how the Prince's marriage collapsed.

Embarrassment due to a biographer and not his own gall at rebuking our President for America's intolerance towards "the True Religion of Peace"?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1511764/posts

[ConorMacNessa]

If we're goining to show them anything in Loisiana, IMHO, we should show them the spot where Andy Jackson kicked their sorry asses out of the U.S. for all time in 1814.

[Just A Nobody]

BS article

Second only to this one.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051030/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_what_next_5

[caryatid]

Wonderful idea!

Battle of New Orleans ... Pakenham Oaks ... Chalmette National Battlefield ... Andrew Jackson [and one of my forebears, she says proudly] ...

Anyone know the condition of that area after the Hurricane?

[elli1]

Prince Charles and his wife will arrive in New York on Tuesday before visiting Washington and San Fransisco, with the likelihood of a brief headline-grabbing stop-over in New Orleans to visit the Hurricane Katrina mopping-up operations....In the first two days the couple will visit Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade Centre in New York, inaugurate a memorial garden to the British victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and take tea with Kofi Annan at the United Nations. On Wednesday he heads to Washington for a private lunch with George Bush and his wife, and later a formal dinner at the White House.

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That leaves Thursday for SF and, maybe, a NOLA touch & go.

If NOLA has been scrubbed, I'd say the reason for it is because the Pakistan earthquake makes NOLA look insignificant by comparison.

[A Citizen Reporter]

I nominate two articles written by Wall street Journal reporter Anne Marie Squeo, who's sole purpose in life seems to be to prop up Patrick Fitzgerald, and put in print, for the WSJ, what Fitzgerald couldn't get an indictment for.

She will be the reason that I cancel my subscription.

[Just A Nobody]

She will be the reason that I cancel my subscription.

Then I applaud her! Anything to stop revenues to the lame has been media is okay, in my book.

Welcome to the bright side. ;*)

[elli1]

You're right.

[Just A Nobody]

Did you read that crap? Unbelievable!

[elli1]

Yes, I read it. You, me and prolly about 4 other people read it. When I run across 'quotes' attributed to anonymous sources, my brain has a habit of taking a vacation.

[Just A Nobody]

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[Irish Eyes]

How did you guys find two such awful stories...YIKES

[Just A Nobody]

It wasn't difficult...they are everywhere!

LOL - sorry to muck up your night!

[caryatid]

How did you guys find two such awful stories...YIKES

Just lucky .... ? LOL