Posted on 08/29/2010 7:40:16 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
What makes New Orleans so special that EVERY year we get these WAA WAA storie? New ways to bash Bush? Collage Journ-O-Lista MSM types re-living their drunken Mardis Gras past in NO? What?
Shoot yer set top box.
Confucius says: “Man who builds city below water line is all wet.”
Years ago my father used to note with bemusement about how the media was absorbed with the evils of the Hitler and the nazi party... and they were, but never ever mentioned the murderous Stalin, Castro, Mao or Kruschev.
Though the people in MS and LA seemed to get on with life fairly quickly while there is still a lot of self-pity in N.O.
Just a guess.
Too true! I love that.
I live in Jefferson parish, born and raised in Orleans and I’M sick of the perpetual victim party!
I evacuated with a bed-ridden father who died 2 months later because of Katrina, so I can speak about loss- but ENOUGH!
New Orleans is declining due to various factors that cannot be reversed. It is sinking, and will continue to sink. The Gulf of Mexico is encroaching and cannot be stopped , and storms will continue to overcome any pitiful defenses built to protect the city from water. It is the natural course of things. Everything south of Lake Pontchatrain SHOULD be and WILL be ‘wetlands’.
Everyone knows it, no one wants to face it.
But the Pity Cow has been milked dry re. Katrina. Are Bay St.Louis and Pass Christian throwing huge pity parties?
What everyone has to understand is that New Orleans throws
‘fests’ for everything. This is just Katrina Fest- second line parades, food and media attention.
Dancing on the Titanic.
Locals like me- who are stuck here for now- are sick of it too.
It is as if n.o. was the only place that was hit.
Biloxi, Mississippi was wiped off the map. They rebuilt (and continue to do so) and media ignore them as well as the others places hit!
It is all about N.O. though since that is a “cooler” place for “reporters” to bitch about Bush!
agree.
it’s the democrat plantation platform for the november elections.
Exactly!
BTW, it will not end soon...even the tragedy of the oil spill has not overshadowed the 5 year old memory. You and I know what it will take for that hurricane memory to be trumped. But no one hopes for that.
I don’t doubt that at all. Those that want to succeed, will.
Speaks volumes about Mississippi. Best I can tell, they got on with their lives.
And yet the liberals keep telling us to “get over” 9/11.
What I want to know is why these “reporters” and “news agencies” are not investigating where the billions of dollars poured into that city have gone?
There has been enough money given to NO to rebuild every single home destroyed by the flood, but still most are not rebuilt, trash and debris are still there and some homes have not been touched since it happened.
I notice too that these reports never show the damage done to the affluent homes and neighborhoods in NO but concentrate on the 9th ward as if only the poor were affected.
It’s all political to them and useful only as long as it can be used to unfairly portray Bush i.e. Republicans as racist.
Blame Bush by any other name.... you should see the black ribbon on google.
How Ray Nagin & Kathlene Blanco personally saved 1000s of poor helpless minorities that George Bush forced to stay in New Orleans.
How Sean Penn saved his crew and then himself from his sinking rescue vessel.
It's been all over the news, you couldn't have missed it.
Okay morons living 9 ft below sea level. Instead of trailers, next time the taxpayers will give you one of these. Last and final offer. Anchors aweigh you helpless morons.
I don’t know, but I’m glad my husband is actually watching golf. I’m tired of the Katrina story, there’s nothing new.
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