Mayor Ray “The Bus” Nagin is internationally exploiting his victim status and looking for his chocolate milk money elsewhere citing Washington not infusing the tens of billions of dollars in federal aid as fast as he got those cheese wagons rolling at Thunderdome. Not that I mind. It’s about time the deadbeats of the rest of the world chipped in after all we’ve been giving them:
“France can take Treme. The king of Jordan can take the Lower Ninth Ward,” he said, referring to two of the city’s neighborhoods.
I hope no Hashemite rules on alcohol and transvestite strip clubs come attached with that filthy lucre, but as the nice ladyboy says, “I’ve always depended on the kindness of Jordanian businessmen.”
Even perennial do-gooder France is getting in on the action in an effort to make us look bad:
French Transport Minister Dominique Perben, leading the French delegation to a city that was founded by France in 1718, said, “This catastrophe has deeply upset the French people and the French government.”
France, Perben said through a translator, “wants to be a long-term partner for Louisiana and New Orleans.”
Good luck with that. Instead of the Somalia of the South, we can have the Ivory Coast.
Considering France’s record with protecting it’s own citizens from the weather, expect Nagin to be looking for a more sizeable handout from the people whose faces he just spit in come this summer.
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