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Skriven 2015-04-03 19:39:53 av Lee Lofaso (2:203/2)
  Kommentar till text 22123 av John Guillory (115.fidonews)
Ärende: Wonders of New Orleans
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Hello John,

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 >> City of New Orleans is the City that Care Forgot,
 >> America's Atlantis, or whatever other godforsaken
 >> name that people want to call it.

 JG> Actually, it's the city that they forgot to care about their own self.
 JG> Hence, during Katrina, they tried to shoot down the helicopters that tried
 JG> to save them.  Then, everyone had to steal shoes and TV sets.  No
 JG> electricity, mind you, but they had to steal the TV sets!

New Orleans is no different than any other major metropolitan city
in the USA.  Every city has its poor and underclass.  Repeated footage
of a handful of looters plundering the contents of a store does not
mean the vast majority of poor people are hell-bent on the rape and
plunder of everything in sight.

How many bullet-holes were found in any of the helicopters that
flew over the city of New Orleans during the aftermath of Katrina?
NONE!  Why is that?  Because nobody was shooting at helicopters.
Unless one considers shooting the bird being such a dastardly act.

I can understand people wanting to steal TV sets.  After all,
they do make good boat anchars.  No electricity required.  But
it would have been smarter for those folks to at least stolen
some rope to tie down their new anchors.

 >> because New Orleans is Party Town USA.  People can fly into
 >> the city, check into their hotel, walk down the block, and
 >> drink to their heart's content in the French Quarter, walk
 >> back to their hotel, and never have to worry about getting
 >> a DUI.

 JG> Exactly, and why would I dare wish to be around a bunch of drunks,
hookers,
 JG> and druggies?

Oh, come now!  Everybody knows the French Quarter is much safer
than Canal Street!  And as for hookers?  David Vitter knew where
to go, and felt right at home!  That's right!  Mr. Family Values
himself!  Of course, he had a little explaining to do later to
his wife, and to the Senate, and to the country ...

 >> There are two things people in Louisiana take seriously
 >> in life - crawfish and football.  Not necessarily in that
 >> order.  Diss either of those two things and it is off with

 JG> Yes, that childish sport that the boys never grew out of when they
graduated
 JG> high school... A pitty folks think they should get paid to re-live their
 JG> high school days over and over again till they're just too down right out
 JG> of shape to play their childish game.

Well, there is always bourré.  :)

--Lee

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