Posted on 01/26/2006 4:30:28 PM PST by caryatid
NOLA beginning to sound more "mocha" than "chocolate." No wonder Nagin wanted to delay election indeffinitely.
I'm just waiting for someone to suggest that all the evacuees from New Orleans be allowed to vote absentee ballots at least through the next presidential election.
Yup, even attacking the living giant Live Oak trees.
I read one report about the researchers who were ther studying the Formosa Termite problem. Seems they came to work one morning and the floor to their headquarters had collapsed due to the termites. It was so severe, they had to move, lol.
If they are not presently registered, they will have to go back to NO to register....too much work!
Is there anyway that a similar result can be arranged for Detroit?
That is, you rebuild the house from the foundation up.
Remember, these guys move in, move up, and munch on. They are not like ordinary termites that return to their nests after a hard day eating wood.
When you find yourself living below sealevel protected only by a levee system built by the lowest bidder on a government contract, administered by America's most corrupt local government, you are, in fact, doomed.
Cool, thanks.
I'm anxious to see a whole lot more of things far away from this area.
I was always under the impression that Chicago was more corrupt than us. That or San Diego.
Of course, if you're going to be eating it there, get it fresh. And get some cracklins with it. An average human being can probably consume 1/4 to 1/2 of a pound of cracklin in a single sitting (assuming that this is all you're eating; if you've got boudin and beer with it, decrease the amount you get accordingly). If the cracklins get cold, microwave them for about a minute and they'll be good again. They'll keep decently for about two days.
And, of course, drink beer with it. I recommend light beer, because you simply won't be able to handle anything else while you're eating all that.
Beer + boudin + cracklin + football game = most enjoyable few hours of your life.
Several years ago I was able to inventory 135 restaurants within 2 miles of Springfield Mall. There are many more now. I am encountering New Orleans and other Gulf Coast cooks, waiters, etc. at the places we regularly go (and since I'm retired we are able to go out to dine whenever we wish). LA and MS plates are all over the place too.
Who in the world ever thought NO folks would be unemployed in a new home. They are quite welcome.
The crooks get caught in San Diego ~ in NO they get re-elected!
A great many of the poor in New Orleans have found out they don't have to be poor. They've moved to other cities, got good paying jobs, have found nice houses or apartments, put their kids into good schools, and have found out that life can be good.
Please add me to your Louisiana ping list.
No kidding. I'm just glad that Morial's attempt at changing the term limits law to give him a third term failed. As much as Nagin sucks, Morial was infinitely worse.
but it appears most of the estimated 135,000 residents who have been able to return are white.
---Must be the ones that got jobs and are taking care of their families themselves. The rest you will never get off their dead a**es and get jobs unless hell freezes over first.
Ping!
My dad owns a drycleaning shop, and a lot of police officers bring their clothes there. He was talking with one about a week before Katrina hit about how bad New Orleans was and what could possibly happen to pull it out of the pit it was in.
Crimewaves in New Orleans used to operate on a 15-to-20 year cycle. Every decade and a half or so, crime would rise like crazy and then subside again. The reason, it seems, is that the gang bangers would have kids at about 15 years old and then get themselves killed or thrown in jail for the rest of their lives. Fifteen or twenty years later, the kids would get older and do the exact same thing.
Race politics used to be all there was in New Orleans. Even when Nagin was running, the words "Uncle Tom" and "House Slave" were getting thrown around because he "wasn't black enough" and "didn't care about New Orleans." This was kept afloat by the voting base.
Katrina, in spite of all its horrors, was a massive reset button. We have a chance to get it right this time.
Here y'go, Dope:
Statistics Suggest Race Not a Factor in Katrina Deaths -- CNSNews.com -- December 14, 2005The statistics would be even more supportive of my post if they had used figures for Orleans Parish alone instead of for the State as a whole.and
Update: Statistics Confirm Earlier Report on Katrina Deaths -- CNSNews.com -- January 13, 2006
Posted by Dope: Regardless, I think it important that we not resort to knee-jerk conservatism on issues such as this; it really makes us no better than many on the left.
Welcome to FRee Republic, newby. Those who attack a poster, in a sanctimonious manner, with accusations of knee-jerk conservatism ... without having arrows in their quiver ... should apologize ... else it really makes us no better than many on the left.LOL
Still waiting for an apology from the newby ...
I did. LOL
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