Don’t Have to Live like a Refugee
Man I love New Orleans - too many Mardis Gras, sleeping in the back of a van, wake up first thing and pound a bottle of wine and take three steps and start hallucinating
Christians dragging giant crosses through the street re-enacting the stations of the cross, drunken revellers dressed as devils, Vaughn’s, beignees, drinking cough syrup shots at the Shim Sham, birthday party with the Mambo at the New Orleans spiritual voodoo temple on congo square, gutter punk parades gettin chased by the cops
Now the whole city is underwater like atlantis - imagine that. Thousands of people drowned in their homes. And the city is so haunted already… imagine.
Funny month for this stuff. Just last week Israel evacuated - what - 10,000 settlers from the Gaza strip? Took about three days, but just like in New Orleans the Israeli settlers didn’t go quietly.
The nice part was that each household got between 250,000 & 400,000 dollars - courtesy the American taxpayers (yes we are that generous, at least with foreign countries )
Looting there too: Gaza evacuees: Lax IDF security allows looting
Also see tim’s blog for an innaressin’ race-based contrast of photo captioning in N.O.
So how much will we compensate our own refugees now? Don’t hold your breath… Maybe China will lend us the money, cause we’re broke..
It all seems so Biblical really, like the flood. Great pic in the SF Chronicle of a family wading in chest deep water down canal street, father with a hiking staff looking like moses leading his people out of egypt
its all too weird
Lets see how the media spins the looting. Maybe Rumsfeld wil come on TV and say “well, its just the excitement of democracy”
Too sad - i can’t believe its come to this.
Like ancient Rome the empire is overextended - too much nation-building abroad and too little infrastructure maintenance at home - 1st worldizing Iraq, 3rd worldizing the Southeast
Enjoy it while it lasts folks. For me, the US just lost one of the last good cities it had going for it
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