Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information