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Offline Jim

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Looks like New Orleans is sick of Katrina too
« on: July 12, 2008, 10:48:32 PM »
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080713/D91SN52G0.html

when is enough enough ?

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Between acres of aboveground tombs that are this marshy city's way to inter the dead, there is a strip of land that is an empty tribute to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Unknown to most in town, including the relatives of those who died in the storm, it is the chosen site for a memorial to an estimated 1,600 fatalities, and will serve as the resting place for 85 bodies that remain unclaimed nearly three years after the disaster. During a second-anniversary ceremony, Mayor Ray Nagin shed a tear, gave $1 million in taxpayer money to the project, and delegated management to a city coroner intent on a monument that would double as a warning to be better prepared for the next hurricane.

"This is an example of the dead helping the living," said New Orleans Parish Coroner Frank Minyard. "The underprivileged African-American community suffered worst in this storm and we have to make sure for the next storm that it doesn't happen again. Hopefully, this memorial will be a reminder of that."

But nine months later, what could have been an inspiring focal point for New Orleans has dissolved into a project that is forgotten, frustrated and delayed - much like the Katrina recovery itself. Some say a lack of follow-up by the mayor is the cause, but Minyard places the blame on his own overburdened office, and the fatigue of a scattered city that had its share of problems long before the levees failed.

Few expect the monument to be built by the target date of Aug. 29, Katrina's third anniversary.
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Re: Looks like New Orleans is sick of Katrina too
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2008, 07:45:22 AM »
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Some families are so overwhelmed by the storm, or were so troubled before it, that they have declined to pick up the bodies of relatives. The corner's office says 54 of the 85 unclaimed have been positively identified. But family members have either been lost in the massive relocation Katrina triggered, or decided to leave burial to the coroner because they were estranged from the deceased when the storm hit.

Possum pucky!  No ones location is unknown.  What a crock of attempted heart-wrenching information.

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"Some families have chosen not to claim the bodies; some we cannot find families for. ... It's just sad," said Julia Powers, a forensic anthropologist on loan from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help Minyard.

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"It (the memorial) hasn't been the top priority on my list of outrage, just because there are so many other things on that list," said Tracie Washington, a local attorney who advocates for affordable housing, health care and other needs in the city. "You kind of presume it's going to get done. You just never think in advance who is going to get it done."

That's the liberal mindset at work.  Assume someone else will take care of it for you.

Creating a memorial monument is worthless idea because it won't be honest.  A monument to the truth, one that could actually serve the future, would be too telling. 
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Re: Looks like New Orleans is sick of Katrina too
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2008, 09:47:12 AM »
"The underprivileged African-American community suffered worst in this storm and we have to make sure for the next storm that it doesn't happen again. Hopefully, this memorial will be a reminder of that."

Oh please!
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Re: Looks like New Orleans is sick of Katrina too
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2008, 10:49:58 AM »
Did you see the 'concept' of the memorial?  It's pathetic.

 
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Re: Looks like New Orleans is sick of Katrina too
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2008, 10:56:56 AM »
Quote from: Chris on July 13, 2008, 10:49:58 AM
Did you see the 'concept' of the memorial?  It's pathetic.

 

Looks like one of those mysterious crop circles.
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Re: Looks like New Orleans is sick of Katrina too
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2008, 10:58:34 AM »
Quote from: Chris on July 13, 2008, 10:49:58 AM
Did you see the 'concept' of the memorial?  It's pathetic.


make a statue like this only with Ray Nagin and some poor schmuck would be more like it

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My fellow Americans, there is nothing audacious about hope. Hope is what makes people buy lottery tickets instead of paying the bills. Hope is for the old gals feeding the slots in Atlantic City. It destroys the inner-city kid who quits school because he hopes he'll be a world-famous recording artist.

What's the difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama?

One is a well turned-out, good-looking, and let's be honest, pretty sexy piece of eye-candy.

The other kills her own food.

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Re: Looks like New Orleans is sick of Katrina too
« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2008, 11:23:03 AM »
If they were capable of being honest, the memorial would have to look more like this:

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Re: Looks like New Orleans is sick of Katrina too
« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2008, 11:32:50 AM »
I am so sick and tired of the race card being played continually. After, exactly WHO put them in that position ?? It wasn't "whitey"!! It seems to me that there has been little or NO personal responsibility taken for 1.) the people remaining in poverty; 2.) the failure to evacuate the folks that COULDN'T get out; 3.) people getting out of there of their own accord, even when warned that the storm was going to be bad; 4.) and finally, the failure of the local and state governments in the emergency situation. It's not like the US doesn't have many programs to help people crawl out of the poverty hole, ESPECIALLY those that have black skin. And yet, they continue to perpetuate themselves into that class of human beings. **** them and their whiney assed attitudes !!!!
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Re: Looks like New Orleans is sick of Katrina too
« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2008, 01:01:07 PM »
Hurricane Katrina affected everyone not just Blacks in New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina ravaged Mississippi and areas like Slidell and Plaquemines. Granted they were hit MUCH harder than New Orleans, yet they are making an effort to recover and not bickering in New Orleans. All the media attention on New Orleans is ACTUALLY hampering the recovering effort and contributing to all the bickering they got.
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Re: Looks like New Orleans is sick of Katrina too
« Reply #9 on: July 13, 2008, 01:09:02 PM »
New Orleans "Still Stuck On Stupid"
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Re: Looks like New Orleans is sick of Katrina too
« Reply #10 on: July 13, 2008, 01:25:56 PM »
Quote from: Ptarmigan on July 13, 2008, 01:01:07 PM
Hurricane Katrina affected everyone not just Blacks in New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina ravaged Mississippi and areas like Slidell and Plaquemines. Granted they were hit MUCH harder than New Orleans, yet they are making an effort to recover and not bickering in New Orleans. All the media attention on New Orleans is ACTUALLY hampering the recovering effort and contributing to all the bickering they got.


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Re: Looks like New Orleans is sick of Katrina too
« Reply #11 on: July 13, 2008, 01:54:49 PM »
Liberals want to re-build New Orleans as some sort of testament to the superiority of government over the will of the private citizen.  New Orleans is not being rebuilt, because people don't want to rebuild it.  It's been three years, and NOLA's population is only half of it's pre-Katrina numbers.  No amount of government programs or wasted tax dollars is going to change that.  I certainly would not want to move there -- I'd be crazy to spend my money building a house there.

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This city counts 188,000 occupied dwellings, with about half occupied by renters and half by owners. The housing stock is much older than the national average, with 43 percent built in 1949 or earlier (compared with 22 percent for the United States) and only 11 percent of them built since 1980 (compared with 35 for the United States). As we've observed, many of the flooded homes are modest to Spartan to ramshackle and will have to be demolished if toxic mold or fire don't take them first.

New Orleans puts the "D" into dysfunctional. Only a sadist would insist on resurrecting this concentration of poverty, crime, and deplorable schools. Yet that's what New Orleans' cheerleaders—both natives and beignet-eating tourists—are advocating. They predict that once they drain the water and scrub the city clean, they'll restore New Orleans to its former "glory."

http://www.slate.com/id/2125810/
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Re: Looks like New Orleans is sick of Katrina too
« Reply #12 on: July 13, 2008, 02:17:59 PM »
Rebuilding New Orleans

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Earlier this week, Bring Back New Orleans, the city’s rebuilding commission, unveiled the first of seven reports that are part of a sweeping re-development plan for the city. The committee’s proposal was presented at a meeting on Wednesday with hundreds of residents in attendance. Most of the residents responded to the proposal with anger and frustration when they heard that it would give neighborhoods in low-lying parts of the city four months to a year to prove that they should not be bulldozed. Under the proposal, residents in the hardest-hit neighborhoods would not be permitted to move back for at least four months. During that time, leaders of each neighborhood would have to submit a recovery plan that would have to be approved before residents would be allowed to come back. Neighborhoods that are not able to come up with a plan or that do not attract enough development within a year, would be bull-dozed. The proposal was put together by the commission’s urban planning committee, which is headed by the multi-millionaire real estate developer Joseph Canizaro.
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Re: Looks like New Orleans is sick of Katrina too
« Reply #13 on: July 13, 2008, 02:30:53 PM »
they should prohibit rebuilding anything below sealevel.
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My fellow Americans, there is nothing audacious about hope. Hope is what makes people buy lottery tickets instead of paying the bills. Hope is for the old gals feeding the slots in Atlantic City. It destroys the inner-city kid who quits school because he hopes he'll be a world-famous recording artist.

What's the difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama?

One is a well turned-out, good-looking, and let's be honest, pretty sexy piece of eye-candy.

The other kills her own food.

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Re: Looks like New Orleans is sick of Katrina too
« Reply #14 on: July 13, 2008, 02:32:01 PM »
It is supposed to be a representation of a hurricane as seen from the air. Done in an updated Art Deco style, as say, Raymond Lowey might have done. Like that.

Just like the World Trade Center site, it reflects, by its' failure to build, an utter lack of will that liberalism in Cities produces. Not to mention a rudderless lack of direction, becalmed in their own self pity.
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