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Dear New Orleans: I'm Leaving You (Liberal gets mugged and cuts and run)
NPR ^ | 8/28/07 | Eve Troeh

Posted on 08/28/2007 9:51:44 PM PDT by LdSentinal

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1 posted on 08/28/2007 9:51:45 PM PDT by LdSentinal
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Poor kid.

She sounds like she suffers from Battered Wife Syndrome.

Except it was an abusive city that was doing the betaing.

I’m glad she is getting out of that situation.


2 posted on 08/28/2007 9:55:44 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: LdSentinal

She might consider buying a gun to defend herself.

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3 posted on 08/28/2007 9:56:40 PM PDT by jas3
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To: LdSentinal; JRios1968

Guilty.

4 posted on 08/28/2007 9:59:25 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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Maybe we'll both heal, and the relationship will rekindle.

Stupid woman. Stupid, stupid, stupid woman.

Face it, Eve, baby. The love of your life, New Orleans, always has been and always will be a cesspool.

You've just been lucky that what happened to you hadn't happened sooner. Get out with your life while you still can.

5 posted on 08/28/2007 9:59:45 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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Why can't it change? Stop being self-destructive and violent? It has so much potential.

N.O. has no potential to be anything other than what she is. N.O. is filled with people who are convinced that they are perfectly entitled to be ignorant, unproductive and hateful. I say this as someone who has loved N.O. in spite of her copious faults for thirty years.

6 posted on 08/28/2007 10:00:17 PM PDT by rogue yam
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As long as what Eve imagines about Nawlins clouds the reality she has no business there. It'll kill her. If she wants her town back she's going to have to take it back and she can't or won't do that.

Bush didn't do this. These people were always there and now they're in charge. The cure would be an honest city and state government and a professional and incorrupt police force. In Nawlins. I jest.

7 posted on 08/28/2007 10:07:40 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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New headline:

Gov’t Tries to Build City Below Sea Level; Residents Abandon


8 posted on 08/28/2007 10:13:43 PM PDT by crazyshrink
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Guilty.

I disagree...

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9 posted on 08/28/2007 10:17:49 PM PDT by JRios1968 (Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. - Ben Stein)
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from Hunter speech:

Today, $116 billion has been appropriated to remedy the effects of Katrina. The rebuilding effort includes: $17 billion for housing and community development; $8.4 billion for levees and flood control; $10 billion for Small Business Administration loans; and, $3.5 billion for highways and bridges.


10 posted on 08/28/2007 10:20:07 PM PDT by crazyshrink
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Would be cheaper to raze Nawlins and let the bayou claim it back...


11 posted on 08/28/2007 10:25:00 PM PDT by JRios1968 (Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. - Ben Stein)
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To: Billthedrill
Yep, a crime ridden city. Now the criminals are back, fewer law abiding citizens are back so the few that came back appear to be prime targets.

The fact it's now 2 yrs since the levees broke...and most of the city is still in shambles. Is this Bush's fault? No Way...

12 posted on 08/28/2007 10:26:40 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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Yes, it’s a shame, there were few muggings and murders before Katrina...


13 posted on 08/28/2007 10:27:39 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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Today, $116 billion has been appropriated to remedy the effects of Katrina. The rebuilding effort includes: $17 billion for housing and community development; $8.4 billion for levees and flood control; $10 billion for Small Business Administration loans; and, $3.5 billion for highways and bridges.

Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. I was in Nawlins shortly before Katrina. It was about the same as this girl described before the hurricane, and I never care to go back.

14 posted on 08/28/2007 10:29:31 PM PDT by JesusBmyGod (1 Corinthians 2:5, Jeremiah 29:11-13)
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These people were always there and now they're in charge. The cure would be an honest city and state government and a professional and incorrupt police force. In Nawlins. I jest.

Welcome to a democrat utopia city.

15 posted on 08/28/2007 10:35:29 PM PDT by chit*chat
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Wife and myself were there just before Christmas of 1995. We couldn’t wait to get back home. It seemed to us that basically was a town where they all got drunk, stayed drunk, and it smelled like a Septic with the lid off. No such fond memories of N.O. as the young lady wrote of.


16 posted on 08/28/2007 10:44:14 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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Welcome to a democrat utopia city.

Can't we all just get along? Mother Blanco and school bus Nagin know what's best for you. Drink the Kool-Aid and stop complaining!

17 posted on 08/28/2007 10:46:13 PM PDT by JesusBmyGod (1 Corinthians 2:5, Jeremiah 29:11-13)
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I was in New Orleans last summer for the ALA conference and it was great—but I’ve heard that since then the vermin have been returning home and the place is returning to its depravity.


18 posted on 08/28/2007 10:49:18 PM PDT by Burkean
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It seemed to us that basically was a town where they all got drunk, stayed drunk, and it smelled like a Septic with the lid off. No such fond memories of N.O. as the young lady wrote of.

I remember taking my parents on a tour of the French Quarter. It's sort of like driving through the worst slum of any big city in America, only worse. There were winos passed out in the street, hookers, drug dealers, and garbage was strewn about everywhere. The smell was overwhelming, and it was 10:00 in the morning. Why anybody would choose to live there is beyond me. There are other swamps in America that at least give you a fighting chance for survival.

19 posted on 08/28/2007 10:52:46 PM PDT by JesusBmyGod (1 Corinthians 2:5, Jeremiah 29:11-13)
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Now I'm a jilted lover of the city. I'm angry and confused. Which is the real New Orleans? The one that's violent and desperate? Or the one that coos softly, and caresses me? The answer, of course, is both.

Wrong answer. The gentle one is a figment of her imagination. It's the one she wants to be true.

Reality has smacked another liberal upside the head.

20 posted on 08/28/2007 10:52:49 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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