Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Army Corps of Engineers decided that they would prevent a storm surge flooding by closing gates on all of the canals. Now, these are the canals that were built to drain water out of the city during hurricanes. Hello? If you are going to gate the canals, how about pumping water out *OVER THE LEVEES*? Hello? Maybe next year. I hate to trash them, but I don't know that I've every heard of anything they did that really worked. 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 Ric Carter Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 6:06 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Katrina relief pin-up calendar--Bro Nagin 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 _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information