Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Maybe the guy's a turd, but he's been trying to hold together a desperate and politically difficult situation for some time now. Under that kind of prolonged and heavy stress, it's hard not to make a few mistakes and say some things you wish you hadn't. Oh well. I was up around 5:00 AM (IIRC) when he made his famous impassioned plea/angry rant phone call to a host on CNN during the height of the crisis. It was surreal, and maybe a little refreshing given everyday political culture. He was clearly crying on the phone, the host (can't recall who) was crying, and when they switched back to a regular news reporter to read the periodic headlines, she was visibly crying as well. Trippy stuff. If I were Nagin, I'd be very, very happy to be rid of the job. Scott Jeffery Smith wrote: >Yep, he's up for re-election. Inasmuch as 80% of the whites voted for him >last time and he just insulted all of them "en masse", I think he'll be a >long shot at best (although some real losers are throwing their hat in the >ring). > >Jeffery Smith >New Orleans, LA >http://www.400tx.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: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 5:41 PM >To: Leica Users Group >Subject: Re: Re: [Leica] Re: PAW - Week 3 - Jeffery --- Nagin > > >I've worked for a lot of Mayors in Houston over a long time--some were >terrible, some fantastic, and most just OK--but by comparison Nagin takes >the cake as the most incompetant I've ever witnessed. Is that idiot running >for re-election or is he hopefully term-limited? La. could probably use a >new Governor also. just my two cents worth. > > Bill > >Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote: > I was in the first group allowed back in the city (my house is 150 years >old, in the Irish Channel and high and dry). People were let back into the >city in increments, depending on the condition of their neighborhood. The >Lower 9th Ward was the hardest hit, and those people were not allowed back >in for months. When they were finally allowed to come back and salvage what >they could, they were told that the entire Lower 9th Ward would be bulldozed >to the ground (it doesn't have far to go). That set off some legal battles, >and things are still sort of gridlocked. Even if people do plan to scrape >off their land and rebuild, they cannot get insurance nor can they get >water, electricity, gas, phones, etc. It is taking months for reality to set >in. The most that has been done is scraping the mud and debris from the >streets. I don't know how they plan to get that enormous barge back into the >canal. > > > > >>From: Ted Grant >>Date: 2006/01/25 Wed AM 09:40:41 EST >>To: Leica Users Group >>Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: PAW - Week 3 - Jeffery >> >>Hi Jeffery, >> >> >>>To all of you who have commented, thank you much for your moral >>>support. >>>I'll try to get as many scenes on film as I can. I have waited too long >>> >>> >to > > >>>get started on this. It is fortuitous that nothing down there has >>> >>> >changed > > >>>in 5 months.<<< >>> >>> >>As an outsider I maybe stepping on some folks toes asking my question >>regarding your comment: >> >> >>>>>It is fortuitous that nothing down there has changed in 5 >>>>>months.<<< >>>>> >>>>> >>I realize that this was a disaster of great magnitude, however in the >>most >>powerful country in the world, "how come it's still in the same >> >> >condition?" > > >>Certainly after 5 months? I don't doubt there's been a great deal done, >> >> >but > > >>your photographs so far look as though the storm happened a few days ago. >> >>Just curious. >>ted >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> > >Jeffery > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > >--------------------------------- >Bring words and photos together (easily) with > PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail. > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act)