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Aren't you proud?

Texan

Well-known member
Aren't you proud of the world-wide attention that our 'investment' in New Orleans is getting? :mad:


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New Orleans may be U.S. murder capital again
www.chinaview.cn 2008-01-03 10:52:47

BEIJING, Jan. 3 (Xinhuanet) -- The bloodiest city in the United States in 2007 may be New Orleans again, since the city recorded a total of 209 murders in the year.

The murder capital in the country in 2006, reeling from crime in its struggle to recover from Hurricane Katrina, got even worse in 2007 -- 48 more than in 2006 or a nearly 30 percent increase.

The FBI's rankings for 2007 will not be out until much later in the year, but according to media reports a real homicide rate may be 63.5 per 100,000 residents in New Orleans.

The other notoriously bloody cities include Gary, Ind., 48.3 and Detroit, 47.1.

"You'd hear the pow-pow-pow. You know, 'Okay, that's fireworks.' Then you hear, pop-pop-pop-pop. That's gunfire. To show you how sick it's gotten, my wife and I laid down in bed with our window open last night, saying, 'Okay, that's fireworks. Okay, that's gunfire,'" said Rev. Bill Terry of St. Anna's Episcopal Church.

Terry spent the year logging the names of New Orleans murder victims outside St. Anna's Episcopal Church.

He noticed a pattern among the 200-plus murder victims from 2007; one after another was shot.

New Orleans police acknowledge the high numbers and pledge to aggressively pursue killers. The killings are drug-related or retaliatory for the most part, the police add.


http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/03/content_7358589.htm
 
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Anonymous

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No, I'm pretty disgusted at the millions or even billions of dollars that have been spent down there with very little to show for it. It's like Iraq, corrupt contractors and politicial hacks have stuffed their pockets, yet people are still living in unsafe FEMA trailers. :roll:
 

Mike

Well-known member
ff said:
No, I'm pretty disgusted at the millions or even billions of dollars that have been spent down there with very little to show for it. It's like Iraq, corrupt contractors and politicial hacks have stuffed their pockets, yet people are still living in unsafe FEMA trailers. :roll:

Unsafe Fema trailers? Have you ever seen the ratholes those people lived in until Katrina?

Those trailers are much nicer for about the first two weeks after they move in. :lol:

Most of them are animals and need to be in a cage. :roll:
 

Mike

Well-known member
No, I'm pretty disgusted at the millions or even billions of dollars that have been spent down there with very little to show for it.

The very first project completed after Katrina was the Casino in Nawlins. :roll: :roll:

Yep the same Casino that was built with money funneled away from the Army Corps of Engineers to work on levees.

Where are their priorities?
 

Red Robin

Well-known member
ff said:
No, I'm pretty disgusted at the millions or even billions of dollars that have been spent down there with very little to show for it. It's like Iraq, corrupt contractors and politicial hacks have stuffed their pockets, yet people are still living in unsafe FEMA trailers. :roll:
I'd bet a dollar most of those political hacks are like Jefferson, members of YOUR party.
 

hopalong

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ff did you perchance look at the trailers that were for sale on the internet after being inhabited by some of the people of N.O. for only a few days? These people trashed NEW trailers just for the sake of trashing them, tearing out microwaves, stoves, refedgerators, and anything else that they could find a buyer for!!
$20000 trailers we selling for less than $250.00 because they had been trashed!

Darn someone forgot to give then any cash!!!
time to quit supporting the free loading LIBERALS , asend the bill to dd as she seems to think the USA nees to support the low life jerks
 

Tex

Well-known member
hopalong said:
ff did you perchance look at the trailers that were for sale on the internet after being inhabited by some of the people of N.O. for only a few days? These people trashed NEW trailers just for the sake of trashing them, tearing out microwaves, stoves, refedgerators, and anything else that they could find a buyer for!!
$20000 trailers we selling for less than $250.00 because they had been trashed!

Darn someone forgot to give then any cash!!!
time to quit supporting the free loading LIBERALS , asend the bill to dd as she seems to think the USA nees to support the low life jerks

Look at you, hopalong. You go after a measly trailer and let royalties in the millions and billions go without a whimper of a protest.

I guess in your world going after a natural disaster victim is easier than going after greed.
 

Faster horses

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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:37 pm Post subject:

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Just one more reason why a good part of the rest of the world views America as they do and has less and less respect for our nation.



I have heard this so much...but I recently rode on a plane with a woman for 3 hours that has lived in many, many foreign countries. She is a dual citizen of the US and another country. She says, America is not hated and is still respected. She and her husband never feared being a citizen of the US and was always treated well.

It's her thought that this is just some more propoganda put forth by the news media...

and many in America has bought it...lock, stock and barrel.

FWIW
 
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Anonymous

Guest
Faster horses said:
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:37 pm Post subject:

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Just one more reason why a good part of the rest of the world views America as they do and has less and less respect for our nation.



I have heard this so much...but I recently rode on a plane with a woman for 3 hours that has lived in many, many foreign countries. She is a dual citizen of the US and another country. She says, America is not hated and is still respected. She and her husband never feared being a citizen of the US and was always treated well.

It's her thought that this is just some more propoganda put forth by the news media...

and many in America has bought it...lock, stock and barrel.

FWIW

"Dual citizenship?" Possible, but not likely.

Nonetheless, official U.S. policy has been to discourage the incidence of dual nationality. The Government accepts but does not recognize or approve of dual nationality. The Government accepts it: "only as the result of separate conflicting laws of other countries."

http://www.us-immigration.com/information/dual_citizenship.html
 

Mahoney-Pursley Ranch

Well-known member
Faster horses said:
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:37 pm Post subject:

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Just one more reason why a good part of the rest of the world views America as they do and has less and less respect for our nation.



I have heard this so much...but I recently rode on a plane with a woman for 3 hours that has lived in many, many foreign countries. She is a dual citizen of the US and another country. She says, America is not hated and is still respected. She and her husband never feared being a citizen of the US and was always treated well.

It's her thought that this is just some more propoganda put forth by the news media...

and many in America has bought it...lock, stock and barrel.

FWIW
The media? I don't think so. Take a look around you,there are a whole lot of Americans that are not too thrilled with the good ole USA these days as well.
 

Yanuck

Well-known member
ff said:
Faster horses said:
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:37 pm Post subject:

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Just one more reason why a good part of the rest of the world views America as they do and has less and less respect for our nation.



I have heard this so much...but I recently rode on a plane with a woman for 3 hours that has lived in many, many foreign countries. She is a dual citizen of the US and another country. She says, America is not hated and is still respected. She and her husband never feared being a citizen of the US and was always treated well.

It's her thought that this is just some more propoganda put forth by the news media...

and many in America has bought it...lock, stock and barrel.

FWIW

"Dual citizenship?" Possible, but not likely.

Nonetheless, official U.S. policy has been to discourage the incidence of dual nationality. The Government accepts but does not recognize or approve of dual nationality. The Government accepts it: "only as the result of separate conflicting laws of other countries."

http://www.us-immigration.com/information/dual_citizenship.html

Dual citizenship is very real, and you only pay taxes in both countries if you work in both countries
 
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