Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information