Now A Message From the Greater New Orleans Chamber of Commerce
January 16th, 2006 at 10:43 am by Preston Taylor HolmesCome back to New Orleans. Really. Come back to New Orleans… it’s just like it was before the floods.
Not long after the parade wrapped up, police officers patrolling the route heard gunfire. They then found a 34-year-old man with multiple wounds, police spokesman Gary Flot said.
Minutes later, after more shots rang out, officers discovered an 18- year-old woman wounded in the leg. A man, 20, also was shot in the leg, in the same area.
Everything’s back to normal. Jazz, strippers, parades, gunshots, mayhem – it’s all back! Come back to New Orleans. Pretty please?
UPDATE:
Um…. Come back to New Orleans, that is, if you’re chocolate-colored, says Mayor Ray “Asleep-at-the-bus-wheel” Nagin. He didn’t specify milk, dark or white chocolate. Though I’m pretty sure white chocolate is out.
New Orleans proper was more than 60 percent black before Hurricane Katrina displaced about three-quarters of its population, but sparing predominantly white neighborhoods.
But Nagin promises that all of the city’s residents will be encouraged to return and rebuild the neighborhoods they loved.
Nagin said New Orleans will be a majority African American city.
This is not to be confused with Parliament/Funkadelic’s Chocolate City album, nor will New Orleans be allowed to refer to itself as “Chocolate City,” as that trademark is owned by Washington D.C.
Video here.
January 16th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
Happy Equality Day!
Today’s dose of NIF – News, Interesting & Funny … Happy Equality Day!
January 16th, 2006 at 6:14 pm
On MLK day, no less.
January 16th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
Not everything is the same. I understand that your graft dollar goes farther than ever.
In fact, one bribe gets you two building permits for the price of one.
January 17th, 2006 at 9:11 am
The honorable mayor is as crazy as a shithouse rat…
Dan Patterson
January 17th, 2006 at 4:26 pm
The Humor of It All: The Whiplash Nagin Files
Would Willy Wonka approve? Methinks Wonka might have a problem with levee failures as the way to properly mix the chocolate. Waterfalls are not only more appropriate, but can be standardized for your purposes. Of course, if Nagin thinks he’s Slugwort…