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Shootings tarnishing New Orleans' image
AP- Yahoo.com ^

Posted on 07/30/2006 6:37:13 PM PDT by cjmae

Shootings tarnishing New Orleans' image By MARY FOSTER, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 18 minutes ago

NEW ORLEANS - Breakfasting on beignets in the French Quarter on a Sunday morning, Dorothy Washington was a tourism official's dream — she saw none of the scars that still mark most of New Orleans 11 months after Hurricane Katrina and she had heard nothing about six weekend shooting deaths. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060730/ap_on_re_us/new_orleans_shootings

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: bigeasy; cutandrun; hahahahaha; katrina; nicelink
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To: dfwgator

ROTFL!


21 posted on 07/30/2006 6:57:28 PM PDT by bwteim (bwteim = Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: cjmae
I stopped in New Orleans with the family a fews years ago. It was part of a cruise package and we were looking forward to the music and cuisine. It was the first tourist trap in America where I had to rush my kids off the street by 4 PM to avoid the half clad transsexuals and overtly demonstrative homosexuals. We tried to duck into the beautiful church, but the kids got caught up in watching all the palm and tarot card readers camped outside the front steps. New Orleans has been lost for a long time.
22 posted on 07/30/2006 6:57:41 PM PDT by keats5
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To: dfwgator
I agree.....pull out and and have the tailing six watch, blow all the levees as they exit.

Semper Fi
23 posted on 07/30/2006 6:59:00 PM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: cjmae
Worse than this??


24 posted on 07/30/2006 7:01:55 PM PDT by Eddie01 (please let me know if I missed anything)
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To: cjmae

I can't imagine anyone wanting to go there ever again now that all of their "sterling" citizens seem to have moved back.


25 posted on 07/30/2006 7:04:44 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: jocon307
I grew up in NYC!

Maybe they need Guiliani!

26 posted on 07/30/2006 7:11:39 PM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: cjmae
The SEG convention is in NO the first week of October.

I have to go!
27 posted on 07/30/2006 7:15:40 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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To: freeangel

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?


28 posted on 07/30/2006 7:16:29 PM PDT by mcg2000 (New Orleans: The city that declared Jihad against The Red Cross.)
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To: cjmae

Dang... more tarnishing the New Orleans Image, isn't there some kind of some kind of finite limit on that?


29 posted on 07/30/2006 7:25:30 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: cjmae

I would argue that NO is simply returning to its former self...


30 posted on 07/30/2006 7:27:53 PM PDT by DesScorp
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To: cjmae

"Reality" tarnishing New Orleans' image.


31 posted on 07/30/2006 7:35:39 PM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: dfwgator

Why would any tourist want to vacation in New Orleans?


32 posted on 07/30/2006 7:44:59 PM PDT by 04-Bravo
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To: cjmae
I guess it is Bush's fault. Half the population; twice the 'protection' which includes National Guard. . .and the crime rate is higher.

There should be warning signs that Democrats are in 'control' here.

33 posted on 07/30/2006 7:52:11 PM PDT by cricket (Live Liberal free. . .or suffer their consequences. . .)
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To: Lancey Howard; dfwgator
Har! I didn't think it was possible to "tarnish" New Orleans' image.

It's not tarnish. It's patina.

34 posted on 07/30/2006 7:58:23 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Paleo Conservative

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.


35 posted on 07/30/2006 8:05:19 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Eddie01

Looterguy.com! LOL!


36 posted on 07/30/2006 8:20:29 PM PDT by uncitizen
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To: cjmae
That is kind of what I was thinking.... how do you tarnish a stinking cesspool?
37 posted on 07/30/2006 8:44:38 PM PDT by TheBattman (Islam (and liberalism)- the cult of a Cancer on Society)
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To: cjmae

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.


38 posted on 07/30/2006 8:50:13 PM PDT by Defender2 (Defending Our Bill of Rights, Our Constitution, Our Country and Our Freedom!!!!)
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To: cjmae

"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.


39 posted on 07/30/2006 8:54:44 PM PDT by no dems (www.4condi.com)
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To: DesScorp

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.


40 posted on 07/30/2006 8:55:18 PM PDT by cajun scpo ([facts matter])
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