Blanco to decide Superdome's fate later

The Advocate ^ | 9/8/05 | MICHELLE MILLHOLLON

[Drammach]

It will be destroyed..

It has become a symbol of everything that went wrong in New Orleans..
It is now nothing but a big, bad, memory that nobody wants to be reminded of..

[Paleo Conservative]

She sure has a problem with making a decsion and sticking to it.

[drlevy88]

And if there was a bloody riot on Main Street would you
(1) Clean up the gore and open it back up to the public?
(2) Tear up the street and lay new asphalt?

This was the Main Street of football in New Orleans. Until those levees have been built up to withstand cat 5 storm surges, not an unnecessary penny should be spent in New Orleans.

[msnimje]

As soon as she sees how many BILLIONS in pork she will have to build a new one.

[Steve_Stifler]

I think we need a commission to study the alternatives. I imagine she'll get back to us in about 24 hours about whether she'll form such a commission.

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

Blanco couldn't decide her way out of a paper bag.

[Paleo Conservative]

But she might cry though.

[Bush gal in LA]

Well. she did make one decision and stick to it. Don't let in the Red Cross,or FEMA,! We don't want these people to be fed or have water !CAUSE IF THEY'RE TOO COMFORTABLE THEY MIGHT STAY.Better to starve and dehydrate them to death and have them move on.That's one decision she has stuck to, to this day!

[Uncle Joe Cannon]

Abu Gharib syndrome.

[carumba]

Assets for a politician, liabilities for a leader.

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

Perhaps...

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... providing someone in a position of higher 'authority' suggests it, of course.

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[america-rules]

After all the Fed Money 100 Mil will be like a quarter rolling under the living room chair !

You know it's there but you ain't bending down to find it !

[prisoner6]

...BILLIONS in pork...

BINGO! We have a winnah!

FWIW...here are a couple of what I thought were interesting facts about the dome I foulnd while doing research for news stories.

Construction started on the Louisiana Superdome on August 11, 1971 and was finished in November 1975. An old cemetery was demolished to make space for it; some superstitious locals attribute the poor record of the New Orleans Saints to bad luck produced by disturbing the tombs.

The Superdome is built to withstand catastrophes; the roof is built to stand up to 200 MPH wind and even deep flood water wouldn't reach the second level 35 feet from the ground. It has thus been used as an emergency shelter but is not designed for the task; in 1998 during Hurricane Georges problems included looting and supplying 14,000 people with necessities.

More here

prisoner6

[msnimje]

An old cemetery was demolished to make space for it...

All things considered, maybe they should call it the SuperTomb

[drlevy88]

That's idiocy

[drlevy88]

Maybe Tombstone Pizza could be signed on as a sponsor.

[kingu]

Until those levees have been built up to withstand cat 5 storm surges, not an unnecessary penny should be spent in New Orleans.

So abandon the city for 20 years is what you're saying, right? Oh, and I'll guarantee that those levees will fail in a Cat5 storm.

[Anti-Bubba182]

I wish there was a photoshopped picture of Blanco's head on a Scarlett O'Hara body with a caption, "I'll think about that tomorrow".

Her indecisiveness was deadly.

[guitarnick40]

"I wish there was a photoshopped picture of Blanco's head on a Scarlett O'Hara body with a caption, "I'll think about that tomorrow".