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5 teens killed in New Orleans shootout
AP ^ | 6/17/06 | CAIN BURDEAU

Posted on 06/17/2006 11:17:49 AM PDT by LdSentinal

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To: LdSentinal

More debit cards needed.


61 posted on 06/17/2006 1:30:48 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (PENCE IMMIGRATION PLAN BASHERS WILL BE OBLITERATED)
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To: Always A Marine

And will the media tell us the races here? Look, the black deaths on other blacks is appalling. When will NO deal with that and will the Black Caucus ever , ever take Cosby's advice??


62 posted on 06/17/2006 1:31:14 PM PDT by phillyfanatic
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To: AzaleaCity5691
What I have a problem with is when the whole city of New Orleans is judged by the actions of some trash out in the projects who do not serve as a representation of the whole city.

I think the reason that happens more with New Orleans than other cities, is because New Orleans often shows as the single most violent large city in the country, when it comes to crime rankings. Its murder rate beats out Detroit and Baltimore and DC by a wide margin. New Orleans racked up more murders every month than some other large cities had all year.

Unfortunately, New Orleans is making a strong comeback when it comes to homicide, after a lull in the violence. So, while some parts of New Orleans are quite nice, the worst parts are the worst in the whole country.

And that's frustrating, since the city would be so much improved, if it could just get the third-world homicide rate under control.

63 posted on 06/17/2006 1:52:20 PM PDT by seacapn
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To: AzaleaCity5691

I used to teach in the Ninth Ward back in the early Seventies and if you got away from Desire and Florida projects,most of the folks in the Ninth were hard working people working the usual array of menial jobs available to blacks at the time who had very little education.
Even Desire had a lot of great kids coming out of it back then.They had it hard but were determined to break the cycle of"Mr. Welfare and Mr. Food Stamp",as they labeled the meager government checks they lived on.Then the crack monster hit and "it was on from dusk till dawn".I came back to The Bay by the late Seventies but I still keep in touch with a few of my old students.Some are doing way better than the expectations both white society and other blacks had of their future.


64 posted on 06/17/2006 1:54:13 PM PDT by Riverman94610
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To: AzaleaCity5691
And I've found it odd that it's perfectly o.k to stereotype Southerners, but apparently, no where else in the country really fits into a stereotypical behavior.

Really?

Ever seen the movie "Fargo" ? ( even though Fargo is in ND, not MN, where the story takes place..)
Even Minnesotans laugh at the "yah, yah shure" conversations, the "Olie Olafson" scandinavian accents, etc...

Having grown up in ND, I'm familiar with people thinking we still deal with Indian ( Native American ) uprisings, and herd sheep and cattle for a living, drive tractors instead of cars, you name it..
Further west, ( Montana, Wyoming ) the cowboy mythos comes out even more.. Gritty, Randolph Scott characters, that punctuate sentences with "Ma'am" or "Pardner"...

Stereotypes are much the matter of perspective..
Try being from California, and saying "Dude" even once..
Note the raised eyebrows, the exchange of knowing glances...
Yo, surfer guy..

65 posted on 06/17/2006 2:51:36 PM PDT by Drammach (Freedom... Not just a job, it's an adventure..)
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To: LdSentinal
Them FEMA trailers and tents don't stop bullets like those projects do. That may be why the riffraff want the projects opened up again.

Katrina evacuees want city to reopen housing

66 posted on 06/17/2006 3:42:17 PM PDT by chemicalman (Many have skeletons in their closets. In New Orleans, we have skeletons in our attics.)
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To: LdSentinal
Capt. John Bryson said police think the shootings were either drug-related or some type of retaliation attack.

And..., that is breaking news???

67 posted on 06/17/2006 3:47:33 PM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: bad company

A lot of Mara Salvatrucha, MS-13 are ex military.


68 posted on 06/17/2006 4:27:27 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Illegal immigration Control and Border Security -The jobs George W. Bush doesn't want to do.)
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To: Riverman94610

I was working at a black man's house over in New Orleans East. I had to watch what I said because he was going on about how integration ended up ruining the black community. Those that worked hard...worked harder to get out of their to get away from the trash. Without the industrious hard working maddle class man the neighborhoods became filled with deadbeats and soon entire neighborhoods became nothing but trash.

I just stood there listening because I'm conditioned that as a white guy anything I say concerning race is most likely racist.


69 posted on 06/17/2006 5:00:08 PM PDT by Bogey78O (<thinking of new tagline>)
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70 posted on 06/17/2006 5:01:26 PM PDT by Ellesu (www.thedeadpelican.com)
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To: LdSentinal

Hopefully, this is the first sign of a drop in the Houston crime rate. Once again, thank you Louisiana for abusing the warm heartedness of Texas and pillaging The Lone Star State. I think we need a fence along the Texas-Louisiana border in case of another hurricane.


71 posted on 06/17/2006 6:57:16 PM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: ClearBlueSky
The only hope for N.O. is to make it a timeshare only, tourist destination/resort.

I have a friend who just came back from NO. He said he couldn't wait to leave the place. He said it still smelled bad and seemed dangerous. Many of the stores were locked, you had to ring and make an appointment. He'd never go back.

72 posted on 06/17/2006 7:09:18 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Bringbackthedraft

Sounds like 500 vehicles in Oxnard, Ca., or 150,000 vehicles in Los Angeles : )


73 posted on 06/18/2006 9:55:38 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (If you got Sowell, you got Soul !)
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To: LdSentinal

---"I think the motivation we're looking at is pretty obvious," he said. "Somebody wanted them dead."---

Nothing gets past these guys.


74 posted on 06/18/2006 9:32:22 PM PDT by claudiustg (¡En español, por favor!)
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