No, Claire, because it's what they've always done. Have you ever BEEN to the projects in New Orleans? I have. They have been systematically destroyed by their residents. It's easy to predict they will do the same to anything they've been given. I grew up in south Louisiana, so my frame of reference is just a tiny bit more accurate than yours in the pristine Northwest.
Jabario, now "Big Jim"?
Based on your whiney, contentious posts, I've always visualized you as a rather diminutive in stature---with a large case of small man syndrome.
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Hey, don't get us wrong...we don't like Jabario either, ok!
Usually people that call themselves "big something-or-another" are lacking elsewhere. In his case, his heart is small. His head, on the other side, is _HUGE_. It is probably so big, he'll need a lot larger rock to crawl back under.
Sign of the times, people being totally heartless. Don't let their bad attitude affect you.
Remco
What a krock of bullshit. Is that the best your liberal mind can come up with.
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No, because they are criminals. Take a look at the crime stastistics for New Orleans. Leads the nation in murders, the police force is corrupt, the city and county goverment is corrupt, the school system is corrupt, ............
You are nothing but a sick liberal. Why don't you go live in New Orleans for awhile, then we will hear a differnet story.
Sick ........... your mind is sick.
According to American Heritage Dictionary:
Refugee - One who flees to find refuge from oppression or persecution.
But judging from many of the comments about them here - they are being persecuted.
Curtis wrote:
On thing you're forgetting, NO is a valuable port city. You need low cost labor to work in the ports. Also, whenever you have a high tourism area you need labor for the jobs - maids, bellmen, etc. You can't have a thriving port & tourism city without having a lower class element.
Everyone of those poor suffering people are better human beings than you. Your lack of compassion, your bigotry, and hatred shows you to be a completely worthless piece of human garbage.
Tragedy and hardship often bring out the best in people. In others it shows their true colors. If your mother is a decent human being, then you miust be breaking her heart. She has to be so ashamed of you. Even the right wing conservatives, you seem to embrace have no use for you.
Those like you, are truly an embarrassment to the United States.
Why thank you Barbara, what an astute mind.
One thing that astute mind of yours forgot, the employers want honest, educated, hard working employees.
Not a bunch of rabble such as at the Convention Center in New Orleans.
Since when did being a "Bellman" in an expensive hotel become a "low cost labor" job. Or, working at the ports. Do you think the companies that are shipping goods in and out of New Orleans want stupid, welfare recipiants as employees?
The CNN, FOX, and NBC stars of last week will be back in line for welfare as soon as they find a free place to live.
God, how stupid are you.
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Give him a laxative, then he'll fit in a shoe box
Yo, Jeff ............. how many of the unemployed from New Orleans are living in your house? Have you ever been to any of the housing projects in New Orleans? Do you know about the school system in New Orleans.
The embarrassment is that stupid people like you will pretend that you care when what you want is the government to take my tax money and support people who don't want to work, go to school, or in any way take care of themselves.
Do you know what the out of wedlock birth rate is among the Black citizens of New Orleans?
70%
So you DO know how to not top-post. Why not make a habit of it now?
Jeff's point is that, instead of merely offering your opinions, you become personally abusive to anyone who challenges or disagrees with you. Instead of bolstering your arguments, it paints you as a mean-spirited jerk not worthy of engagement -- even among people who might otherwise agree with SOME of what you have to say.
Food for thought; take it or leave it.
BS
You have a problem don't you? Never been to NOLA have you? You cannont find work on the docks of NOLA unless you are a member of the Porter and Stevedor Union.....So your theory has just drydocked.
And your dictionary experience I guess is only limited to what YOU want people to read or see:
American Heritage Main Entry: ref·u·gee Pronunciation: "re-fyu-'jE Function: noun : an individual seeking refuge or asylum, n : an exile who flees for safety
The sample sentence refered to fleeing a war torn country.
Dave
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Mr. Tracinski was recently appointed Grand Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
It looks as though this was originally posted on The Intellectual Activist web page hosted by Robert Tracinski. I don't keep up with far right wing groups, so I wouldn't know what his status with the KKK is.
Karen
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SPRAWL?!? Have you looked at the aerial photos of New Orleans? A quick back-of-the-envelope calculation puts the single-family housing densities between 7 and 8 units per acre. There are 561,000 housing units (apartments, duplexes, single-family houses, etc.) in New Orleans (census.gov). There is hardly any open space in the area. It is hardly what I would call a sprawled city.
However, I do agree with your assessment of what New Orleans will become. I think there is a lot of interest in preserving the history, but not much in rebuilding the projects.
-Buck
Is that true? Google doesn't show that. I merely offered the article in the context of /this particular thread/, as it touched on what Gooserider said. (Granted, I hadn't yet "considered the source" -- never heard of the guy.)
Exactly what is the crock of s*it? That my mother was once a refugee? (They were actually refugees several times, until finally coming to the sanctuary of Canada in 1941.) That other people might not have wanted to share space with them because of their ethnicity, native language, etc.?
Hey Claire ,,,,,,,,,,,, do you think my family came to the USA because the country they were living in was a paradise? One thing though. When they got here they went to work. Work,,,,, that seems to be a word that the majority of citizens of New Orleans have never used, or heard.
Oh, and my dad, uncles, etc didn't have babies all over the place and not support the kids they were fathering.
Screw you and your liberal crap.
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