Posted on 07/30/2006 6:37:13 PM PDT by cjmae
ROTFL!
I can't imagine anyone wanting to go there ever again now that all of their "sterling" citizens seem to have moved back.
Maybe they need Guiliani!
Bad thing is....the citizens haven't moved back on a per capita basis. Bad is bad is bad.
It's interesting to see the spin by the MSM on New Orleans proper's population numbers. The statistics mentioned ~ 455,000 ~ were largely comprised of lower income residents. The remaining 1.1 million were and are still living in the burbs, contributing to the economy as they did before...but who wants to focus on the people who earn their keep?
Dang... more tarnishing the New Orleans Image, isn't there some kind of some kind of finite limit on that?
I would argue that NO is simply returning to its former self...
"Reality" tarnishing New Orleans' image.
Why would any tourist want to vacation in New Orleans?
There should be warning signs that Democrats are in 'control' here.
It's not tarnish. It's patina.
Yep the patina was always there. Just that Katrina has now put New Orleans in the spotlight and the cockroaches errr dimocRATS have no cover.
Looterguy.com! LOL!
New Orleans image has been permanently stained for years now. post Katrina and post Katrina violence has only brought this image across the world only recently. New Orleans....failed socialists experiment by continually re-elected demoCommiecRATs there. Sad part is it will never change, it will remain the demoCommiecRATS failed socialists experiment.
"The headine captured my attention. I didn't think the New Orleans image could get any more tarnished."
Exactly! How can an image that is already in the crapper be "tarnished"? It is the cesspool of the southland.
http://www.statestats.com/cit04r.pdf
Look at crime stats before Katrina [2004]. Only place with higher murder rate in the USA was Camden NJ. New Orleans beat out Detroit, Baltimore and Wash DC.
Katrina put the stats and New Orlenas on the front page. And every murder since. But ........... there are very few murders in most areas of the city. Local paper did a 5 part special a few years ago on murder in the city and showed 95% of murders occured in areas that covered 10% of the city. Can't find article, put New Orleans in any search and you get post Katrina articles.
I lived in the suburbs [Gretna - three cheers for Chief Lawson - blocked the bridge and Sherif Harry Lee] after I retired from the Navy. Even there is not a good place for kids. One of the reasons BRAC was moving most of the headqaurters out of 4400 Dauphine Street [NSA East Bank] was you had to force people to do tours there. You lived in Slidell or even Mississippi. No way you sent your kids to public school any where near Orleans Parish. Get out in Kenner, not tot bad.
To keats 5 - they had tried to clean up Jackson Square around St Louis Cathederal. Not sure how good they had done. Could not tell you the last time I was in the French Quarter at night. In the day time, did not mind walking thru Jax Brewery or the Riverwalk [small shops] or eating at Cafe Masperos or using the senior discount for the buffet at Harrah's. And then, never over the two blocks to Bourbon ST or down the few blocks to St Louis [the trannies]. But I'd be leary at night just along Decator around Jackson Square and no way with kids. I did go to Harrah's once at night [had free tickets to the Earl Turner show [parking garage to show and back to parking garage.
this cajun scpo is now a south carolina myrtle beach-bum scpo. Took my retirement money and left.
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