Shootings tarnishing New Orleans' image

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[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

[EDINVA]

"Maybe they need Guiliani!"

That's EXACTLY what they need ... after decades of Landrieux/Morial leadership, NO needs a real cleaning up and strict enforcement of laws on the books.

[King Prout]

hahahahahahahahaha!

I lived in NOLA from 88 to 95
six weekend shootings was about par for the course during the last five years of my sojourn there.

[Rembrandt]

"The SEG convention is in NO the first week of October.

I have to go!"

The Acme Oyster House is on Iberville, two streets off Canal - best oyster house I've ever visited. Just belly up to the oyster bar and they'll keep coming til you say "nuff." Mix your own sauce, order your own beer.

[jdb331]

"Shootings tarnishing New Orleans' image"

Perhaps they meant TO REALLY SAY "polishing" it's image. A Simple typo.

[rogue yam]

New Orleans has been lost for a long time.

If you're talking heathens and sexual deviants then history says yes.

[kittycatonline.com]

Shootings tarnishing New Orleans' image

"Back in the day, we'd have three, four a night. Now we're barely managing two in a week."

[Mac1]

I'm British; is it quite bad in NO then?

[Lancey Howard]

It's okay to visit if you have plenty of guns and LSD.

[Allegra]

I didn't think the New Orleans image could get any more tarnished.

I thought the same thing. I thuogh shootings were part of New Orleans' image.

Well before Katrina.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The tarnish IS the image, I thought. This is like talking about corrosion of rust or burning of ashes.

[Allegra]

I just love Looter Guy.

[rodeocowboy]

Safest and Most Dangerous Cities in U.S.
Nov 21 12:06 AM US/Eastern
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By The Associated Press
Following are the safest and most dangerous cities with populations


over 75,000, according to Morgan Quitno Press.



Safest Cities:

1. Newton, Mass.

2. Clarkstown, N.Y.

3. Amherst, N.Y.

4. Mission Viejo, Calif.

5. Brick Township, N.J.

6. Troy, Mich.

7. Thousand Oaks, Calif.

8. Round Rock, Texas

9. Lake Forest, Calif.

10. Cary, N.C.

Most Dangerous Cities:

1. Camden, N.J.

2. Detroit

3. St. Louis

4. Flint, Mich.

5. Richmond, Va.

6. Baltimore

7. Atlanta

8. New Orleans

9. Gary, Ind.

10. Birmingham, Ala.

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Source: Morgan Quitno Press

[rodeocowboy]

Flint, Michigan: Ahhhh, the city where Micheal Moore claims to be from (although he is really from Davison, a suburb outside of Flint). Grew up the latter part of my childhood in Flint and can attest to it being the filthiest, most corrupt, dirtiest place I have been outside of Detroit.

Back in the '90s, Flint and Gary, Indiana used to trade places, year after year, as being the most violent cities in America. Gary must have cleaned house because they are nearly off of the top ten list, although for a city the size of Flint, neither Gary or Flint should be anywhere near the top.

[HiTech RedNeck]

per capita?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Lose the stupid tagline. Bush is nothing like Jimmy Carter.

[HiTech RedNeck]

GASP! SHOCK! A BUSH BASHER! SWOON!

[rodeocowboy]

Yes.

[rodeocowboy]

Hey, I'm not on the Bush photo-op thread. I agreed with Jim that I would not post on the "Bush-lovers only" threads and he's been cool enough to allow my dissenting views. I was a long-time Bush fan until the last year or so (my record of being a Bush-bot is well documented in the archives), but Bush is turning out to be, in my opinion, a sell-out. You love him, I don't. You post on the Bush-lovers-only page, and I won't.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I disagree with the President on some issues, but to compare him to Carter is absurd. To say that he's a sell-out is laughable. And no, I don't post on the Day in the Life or Pray for Bush threads.

[rodeocowboy]

Believe what you want, and you'll never hear me tell you to not voice it. Period!

IN MY OPINION, Bush is our Carter. Carter was an embarrassment to his party, thus his being limited to one term. Bush, I believe, and the poll numbers support, is an embarrassment to our party, but the alternative was John Kerry, thus Bush's very narrow win (and my vote for Bush while holding my nose).