Mardi Gras? Katrina? I Can’t Tell The Damn Difference!
February 27th, 2006 at 10:01 am by Preston Taylor HolmesWhile I was busting my humps yesterday at the Y, I got to see some of Fox News’ inane coverage of ongoing Mardi Gras celebrations.
I had flashbacks of watching Katrina coverage 6 months ago – people wandering the streets in a disoriented and distraught fashion; streets littered with urine, fecal matter and other sewage; a complete breakdown of law and order – I couldn’t tell if they were running stock footage from the storm or party footage from today.
Then there was a tsunami of happy talk about New Orleans’ rebuilding and how it’s going to be bigger and better than ever, blah, blah, blah. No one bothered to mention that the city still lies below sea level. And even worse – last week, Chocolate City officials said that they don’t want the deadbeats to come back to town – even if Mayor Nagin holds out a block of government cheese as some type of bait.
That was the message from three New Orleans City Council members who said government programs have “pampered” the city’s residents for too long.
The news that some New Orleans City Council members weren’t keen on the city’s poorest returning home added another layer of discomfort in Houston, where local residents and elected officials alike have stretched to meet the needs of thousands of Louisiana residents in the months after Hurricane Katrina.
The Katrina disaster has turned into a golden opportunity for New Orleans to both literally and figuratively sweep out the human debris and push its layabouts off on the rest of the country. Houston, in particular, is a little ticked-off.
“A city is a combination of all kinds of people,” said Councilman M.J. Khan, whose district has absorbed most of the city’s evacuees. “We definitely want everybody to be productive, wealthy and educated. But in any society it’s not always possible. We cannot pick and choose who will live in a city.”
Translation: Pleeeeaaasee take these people back!!!
You know that comment didn’t sit well. Let’s face it, as Katrina approached, most of New Orleans had the good sense to get out of town. Those that didn’t sat around blaming government for their ills. They’re still blaming government to this day. If you’re going to rely on government to take care of every facet of your life, you’re at their mercy when they don’t bother to put their evacuation plans into action.
But you can forget about all that crap this week, because it’s party time in the Big Easy. Time to drink until you have to run into the street to vomit on the sidewalk. Drink up, Nawlins! Show us your tits!
February 27th, 2006 at 10:58 am
I worked in NOLA for a few years and it is a shithole. The only thing keeping the area up are tourists. For the few hundred tourists who, every year, wander off Bourbon Street and get mugged, that is the price you pay for allowing the surrounding ‘community’ to get fat and lazy on government cheese.
I say boycott NawLins. Let Nagin have his ‘chocolate’ city – all to himself.
February 27th, 2006 at 1:34 pm
I think they ought to destroy all the levees and let the water go where it goes. Then rebuild on higher ground.
February 27th, 2006 at 1:42 pm
“The filth of Sauruman is washing away!”
-Treebeard
February 27th, 2006 at 6:57 pm
Screw New Orleans. Show us your tits!
February 27th, 2006 at 9:15 pm
You whippersnappers don’t remember the Mardi Gras of 1964. I was there, when I should have been in class 600 miles away, which explains a lot about what happened afterwards.
But, Michel has it about right. It was/is a shithole, the most degraded, degrading and casually dangerous place I’ve ever been. It will not please me to spend more money on the place without having any of the fun.