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« Reply #25 on: Jan 18th, 2006, 3:58pm » |
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two words to remember..............Mayor Barry................
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« Reply #26 on: Jan 18th, 2006, 4:03pm » |
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on Jan 18th, 2006, 3:58pm, maffumatt wrote:| two words to remember..............Mayor Barry................ |
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Two more....Ted Kennedy
How the fuck does he keep getting elected?
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« Reply #27 on: Jan 18th, 2006, 7:31pm » |
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Hey Jonny..send that wind bag down here and have him do something useful...like pushing the storms back out to sea.
Thanks for the responses to this thread. Last night I wrote something about this city and I wished I would have posted it. I had a few, and the harder I tried to explain what it's like to grow up in this place the more I realized I was unable to explain it. It was beyond my poor skills.
This place is a gem. And I know someday, in the future, it will be gone. It's going to happen. We are losing land here real bad folks. Too bad it's not looked upon like the Everglades. It's sad.
I'm certain that what she provided to this country will be talked about with a degree of sadness when it's no longer here.
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« Reply #28 on: Jan 18th, 2006, 8:47pm » |
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on Jan 16th, 2006, 4:57pm, Ghost wrote:Otay so since I am only part black how much do I get?  
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What part?
Shit...I put that in writing.
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« Reply #29 on: Jan 18th, 2006, 10:17pm » |
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With the current marsh loss New Orleans will be a "coastal city" within 40 years or much less. The state has asked for assistance countless times on this issue. They have worked hard to prevent it. However we are a poor state overall. Costal erosion is one of the few things they did do some good at, although we haven't put enuff of our own money into it, the Feds never did much. Knowing they could lose one of the largest sea ports that also feeds the Mississippi river traffic. Which in turn brings back coal, most of the midwestern grain and produce for foriegn trade. The economic disaster will not be for Louisiana. It will be for America. I don't really like this place, but each time I come here I see the normal ugly, then you look and you "see" the myth, legend, history, and yes in many cases kindness and caring from greater New Orleans residents. There are no good answers, many good questions. I ain't the one to ask or answer any of them, hell they wouldn't listen to me anyway. Think I will wander down to the lounge and see if Fats is still there, he was there earlier.
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« Reply #30 on: Jan 19th, 2006, 2:44pm » |
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http://www.imnotchocolate.com/index.html
From The Times Picayune
The impact of New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's controversial comments on Martin Luther King Day landed squarely on the shoulders of local tourism officials Wednesday, one day after the mayor and his staff launched a major damage control effort to temper the firestorm.
As pundits and talk-show hosts parodied Nagin coast to coast, tourism officials tried to soothe angry, disillusioned clients while political observers weighed the potential impact in Washington.
Whether the damage caused to the city and mayor was a temporary setback or a critical blow remains to be seen, business, civic and political leaders said. Nagin repeatedly apologized Tuesday to anyone offended by his remarks, which critics say offended just about everyone.
Stephen Perry, president of the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Tourism Bureau, said his office received a handful of cancellations from clients who had booked or were considering events in the city. Others, he said, deluged his staff with irate e-mails and phone calls. Perry said he and his staff are working to reverse the cancellations.
"In tourism, perception is the driver," Perry said. Nagin's remarks "have caused a considerable amount of unrest and concern among our national business customers and ripples of anxiety among our leisure community."
Since Nagin's prediction that post-Katrina New Orleans would be a "chocolate city at the end of the day" -- meaning once again majority African-American -- and his claim that last summer's devastating hurricanes were the result of God's will, late-night talk-show hosts and political pundits have lampooned him on TV and in newspaper columns. Cartoons and images of Nagin in a Willy Wonka outfit have circulated on political Web sites and Internet Weblogs. "Willy Nagin" and "Mr. Goodbar" T-shirts and bumper stickers have sprouted online.
"This was damaging locally and nationally, and at a time when New Orleans is desperately in need of assistance and partnership," Perry said. "It was embarrassing to a lot of people here to be the subject of national jokes."
'We can turn this around'
Calling it an "all-hands-on-deck" crisis, Perry said his staff has conducted meetings around the clock since Nagin's comments Monday. To minimize the fallout, staffers have launched a proactive strike using Nagin's apology in e-mails, letters and phone conversations. Perry said officials from the mayor's office have offered to help the effort.
"We honestly believe we can turn this around with a couple of weeks of very intense marketing," Perry said. "The main worry is that this could have a ripple effect through our customer base. It's left people bewildered about the city and its direction.
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« Reply #31 on: Jan 19th, 2006, 2:46pm » |
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"The irony is that the tourism industry and all of those that love to come to our city love the multiracial culture and character of New Orleans. That literally is the core of our business."
Opinions among the Washington political class were mixed on how the fallout might affect the view of New Orleans. While no one thought Nagin helped the city's cause, most thought the mayor's comment wouldn't be something lawmakers would hold against a community in desperate need of help.
Former Sen. John Breaux, D-La., said he didn't think Nagin's comments would cause lasting damage to the state's effort to get federal hurricane-relief money. He said politicians in Washington aren't likely to hold the incident against Nagin because they sometimes find themselves in hot water for verbal gaffes. Breaux said he viewed the comments in the context they occurred: Nagin trying to reassure displaced black New Orleanians that they are welcome and wanted back in the city.
"You are talking to an all-black group on Martin Luther King Day," Breaux said. "I can see how you could say something like that to bring up the spirits of people who were down."
Breaux compared it with Republican Sen. Trent Lott's rhetorical misstep in 2002 when he praised then-Sen. Strom Thurmond's long career, which included a 1948 run for president as a member of the segregationist Dixiecrat Party. Lott, of Mississippi, apologized but was forced to give up his position as Senate majority leader.
As far as lasting damage to Lott's reputation, Breaux noted that with ethical questions hanging over the current Republican leadership in Washington, Lott is mounting a political comeback.
'Everyone is welcome here'
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., agreed that Nagin's comments would not have a lasting effect. He brushed it off with a quip: "There is dark chocolate and there is white chocolate."
But Sen. David Vitter, R-La., said the nationally broadcast comments hurt Louisiana's reputation at a time when lawmakers in Washington already are skeptical of the state's leadership. Part of that view stems from a $250 billion wish-list bill submitted to Congress in September by Vitter and his Democratic counterpart, Sen. Mary Landrieu.
"We heard questions even before this," Vitter said. "People want assurances that there is leadership here so that federal resources don't get squandered."
Washington political analyst Charlie Cook, a Shreveport native, said the negative perception of Louisiana politicians inside the Beltway is real.
"A lot of people in Washington see Louisiana as a banana republic and New Orleans as a kind of zoo," Cook said. "The mayor's not helping the city when he says things like that. It just reinforces that negative stereotype and really does hurt your cause."
Tulane University President Scott Cowen, whom Nagin handpicked to oversee the Bring New Orleans Back Commission's education subcommittee, said he hoped the mayor's apology on Tuesday would soften the blow in Washington.
"Unfortunately, the damage has already been done," said Cowen, when asked whether Nagin's remarks would hurt the city's ability to bring in financing. "And it needed to be repaired. The only thing that will repair that is action.
"The community needs to come together and bridge this racial divide, and the mayor needs to lead that charge to show the nation that everyone is welcome here regardless of race, class or gender."
'A lot to make up for'
Cowen has worked closely with Nagin for the past three months and said he doesn't think the mayor's remarks were racially motivated.
"But," Cowen added, "he has a lot to make up for. All of us in leadership positions are under terrible pressure and stress right now, and my suspicion is the mayor got caught up in the moment and the setting on Martin Luther King Day. That said, it's no excuse."
Others think the controversy will dissipate and have little long-term effect.
"I don't hear a lot of people crying foul in my business," said Jay Cicero, president of the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation. "I'm not expecting it to be something that will have a long-lasting effect on our ability to market the city for major sports events. I don't think it's going to have an impact."
Ben Johnson, the president of the Greater New Orleans Foundation, agreed.
"I think he had a Katrina moment," Johnson said. "If you look at his whole speech, it was clear he was trying to encourage the community to work together. It's one blip on the radar screen."
Damn, makes me proud to be a former Mississipian.
And now for a bit of comic relief, read this
http://www.nola.com/rose/t-p/index.ssf?/base/living-0/1137567686272460.x ml
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