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Subject: [Leica] Katrina relief pin-up calendar--Bro Nagin
From: ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Tue Aug 29 16:05:56 2006
References: <008001c6cbbe$5c6e11e0$5e510b44@newukolbqveo9i>

I'm favoring getting the Dutch engineers.

Ric Carter
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies

On Aug 29, 2006, at 6:56 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote:

> Nagin wants despirately to appeal to African Americans, so he  
> repeatedly
> puts his foot in his mouth with racially-divisive comments meant to  
> appeal
> to the people in his immediate audience. He really doesn't have to  
> worry
> about getting white votes in the future (we are a two-term city).  
> But the
> fellow who really frosts my ass is the LSU black studies professor who
> claims that things things are ducky for whites down here (they  
> aren't) and
> there there are no jobs for blacks down here (there are, and at  
> much higher
> wages than most places in the south), and that the blacks live in  
> trailers
> while the whites live in houses. I would hazard a guess that there  
> are far
> more whites than blacks in FEMA trailers down here.
>
> I think that a rebuilt New Orleans will have to be smaller than it  
> is now.
> Nagin thinks that it should be much larger. What would be the  
> incentive be
> to move down here if there is a mandatory evaculation for everyone  
> for every
> category 3 hurricane that approaches us?
>
> There are a lot of armchair theorists in the US deciding whose  
> fault this
> and that was. Nagin tried repeatedly to get everyone to leave two days
> before the storm, so I cannot fault him too much there. But now he  
> is out to
> make a name for himself in the black community by getting into all  
> of the
> racial crap coming in from all over the US. I think the real  
> problem with
> Katrina was that (1) we hadn't been hit with anything so powerful in
> Louisiana history, (2) we hadn?t had a really bad hurricane since  
> Betsy, (3)
> we considered ourselves to be in better shape than we were with  
> Betsy, and
> (last but not least) (4) Katrina was worse than Camille. I don't think
> anyone believed that we could be hit with something worse than  
> Camille.
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
> http://400tx.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of  
> Bill
> Smith
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 10:30 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Katrina relief pin-up calendar--Bro Nagin
>
>
> A vacuum of leadership and management competence. Look at the  
> condition of
> the businesses, schools, debris cleanup, hospitals 12 months after.
>
> SonC@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 8/28/2006 9:00:20 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> wrs111445@yahoo.com writes:
>
> The biggest problem in NO is the gigantic vacuum created by the re- 
> election
> of Nagin. Amen.
>
>
> -----------
>
> Huh? What does gigantic vacuum mean? Nagin's re-election is a symptom.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Sonny
> http://www.sonc.com
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
> Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane
> ?galit?, libert?, crawfish
>
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