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Three anti-ObamaCARE floats spotted at Mardi Gras in liberal New Orleans
Fire Andrea Mitchell blog | March 1, 2014

Posted on 03/01/2014 10:23:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

I love Neo Orleans. I’ve been there twice, and I know it’s a leftist cesspool, but I still love it there. As we approach ‘Fat Tuesday’ on March 4th, this weekend is full of celebration. So far, there have been at least two anti-ObamaCARE floats spotted at the Mardi Gras in liberal New Orleans (which also happens to be porker Mary Landrieu’s hometown.) The first one was discovered by Gateway Pundit on Twitter.

I’m sure there will be plenty of leftist cries of racism since this Mardi Gras anti-ObamaCARE float shows Obama in a less than flattering manner.

Another anti-ObamaCARE float with ‘death panels’ also appeared mocking Obama and ObamaCARE.

Very impressive and creative by those who created these floats.

Update: found another one, this makes at least three anti-ObamaCARE floats:

Have fun trying to win re-election porker Mary Landrieu!


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Health/Medicine; Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; democratcare; louisiana; mardigras; neworleans; obamacare; zerocare
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The humidity is incredible. I don’t know how the people who settled the area - much less the Victorians in their hot clothes - stood it.


41 posted on 03/02/2014 10:33:31 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: miss marmelstein

I lived in Biloxi several times, for a total of about eight or nine years. Same thing.


42 posted on 03/02/2014 10:36:23 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: miss marmelstein

Slavery and dirt cheap servants (including Irish immigrants before the civil war). Let others do the work, move as little as possible, and hope the yellow fever doesn’t get you. But from 1810 till 1860 if you could do that you could become very rich very quickly.


43 posted on 03/02/2014 3:34:43 PM PST by Romulus
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To: OldPossum

*The crowds shown in these TV accounts show a very drunken, rowdy bunch of people that I wouldn’t get near.*

The crowds shown on tv? You don’t say. You mean tv doesn’t show boring ordinary people just minding their own business? I must get you to explain some time how what the media show is totally representative and reliable.


44 posted on 03/02/2014 3:40:50 PM PST by Romulus
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To: Romulus

I’m not sure Irish immigrants were prominent in pre-Civil War south. The south had black slaves, the north had Irish slaves, lol. But the Irish slaves did get a pittance. They were my people and not always the most gracious or law abiding people.


45 posted on 03/02/2014 3:56:58 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Romulus

You see, it doesn’t matter whether the crowd scenes that I saw of rowdy, aggressive people is representative of all, it’s the fact that there are SOME people like that at Mardi Gras festivities and that’s enough to dissuade me from being around any of them. I prefer my health and well-being, thank you very much.


46 posted on 03/02/2014 3:59:36 PM PST by OldPossum ("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about ITS implications.)
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To: miss marmelstein

Ante bellum New Orleans was a boom town and as such attracted a healthy share of Irish. They did much of the most difficult and dangerous work, such as digging the New Basin Canal, because slaves were too valuable. Ten thousand Irishmen died on that project.

My parish, St. Patrick’s, was founded for Irish in New Orleans in 1833, because they didn’t mix well with the native creoles. Google Margaret of New Orleans.


47 posted on 03/02/2014 4:17:48 PM PST by Romulus
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To: Romulus

Thank you for the education! My family helped to build the Brooklyn Bridge, so let’s shake hands across the North-South divide!


48 posted on 03/02/2014 4:28:00 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Romulus

They did much of the most difficult and dangerous work, such as digging the New Basin Canal, because slaves were too valuable.
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Well that explains a lot...

..BELOW For those that ‘always’ rag on the Irish...

“Anybody that would build a city 5 feet below sea level in a hurricane zone and fill it with Democrats that can’t swim is a damn genius”


49 posted on 03/02/2014 4:32:11 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98 --In CNNs (feeble) mind, EVERYONE that doesnt ask for more Kool-Aid is bullying BO)
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To: OldPossum

Read the free e-book.

Mob Rule in New Orleans by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14976

That place has been the scene of some really bad stuff for 300 years.

The residents today are overwhelmingly insane alcoholics who are depressed and bitchy when not loaded to the gills

Its haunted and evil, and will snuff out a life in a flash when one least suspects it.

Avoid it like the plague.


50 posted on 03/02/2014 9:34:16 PM PST by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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To: Rome2000

Thanks for the reference. I don’t have a Kindle or anything like it, though.

I was stationed there for a year and a half. The guy I talked about being killed at the Mardi Gras, that happened just a month or so after I got there. That convinced me. I went to downtown IN THE DAYTIME just a couple times thereafter. I sensed the danger that must have been there at night and wouldn’t go the French Quarter on a dare.


51 posted on 03/03/2014 5:32:31 AM PST by OldPossum ("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about ITS implications.)
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To: xrmusn
“Anybody that would build a city 5 feet below sea level in a hurricane zone and fill it with Democrats that can’t swim is a damn genius”

Dammit Sir, I have cracked ribs and that LOL I just had hurt like H E Double L!!!

52 posted on 03/03/2014 11:03:09 AM PST by houeto (We intend to liberate Democrats from the dreaded Job-Lock this November!)
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To: houeto

I will have to cede credit to Larry the Cable Guy (at least for now)


53 posted on 03/03/2014 11:51:50 AM PST by xrmusn (6/98 --In CNNs (feeble) mind, EVERYONE that doesnt ask for more Kool-Aid is bullying BO)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

bump


54 posted on 03/03/2014 12:27:41 PM PST by gibsosa
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To: 2ndDivisionVet



55 posted on 03/03/2014 12:30:16 PM PST by MeshugeMikey (Jesus came to Save not Entertain / Ground John Kerry Now!)
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To: GeronL

Apparently our 9th Ward friends are a little touchy, no?


56 posted on 03/03/2014 12:34:01 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: OldPossum

Your dead friend probably tried to rip off a pimp.


57 posted on 03/08/2014 12:32:17 AM PST by Plummz (pro-constitution, anti-corruption)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Speaking of that, have you ever read his novel set in the middle ages called The Walking Drum? My favorite of his.

I read most everything I could find on him - I remember reading The Walking Drum, but it was probably 25 years or more ago.

58 posted on 03/08/2014 2:05:16 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: trebb

I read it at least once a year, as well as one of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time novels or the newest WEB Griffin (but not the police themed ones).


59 posted on 03/08/2014 2:09:56 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: OldPossum

My friend and I were at a conference there just a block from the French Quarter and never had a problem. Of course, the fact that we’ve both worked as bodyguards and bouncers may have had something to do with it.


60 posted on 03/08/2014 2:13:30 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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