"New Orleans is not going to be as black as it was for a long time, if ever again," Alphonso Jackson, the secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development said describing the state of affairs for post-Katrina New Orleans. Everything looks different, feels different. New Orleans has a different flavor. Being a transplant from San Antonio I can only fathom what has happened by asking myself what would San Antonio look like with an 80% reduction in Hispanics? It is mind-boggling and sad. The poor of New Orleans have left and may not come back, but they are …
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Joseph Duran
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IM sorry if I offend anyone with these coments. I marched in the Zulu Parade as a security detail for the Marine Corps Band. I am a Marine and it was somethign Ivolunteered for. New orleans is as segregated as ever. It is just the newest version. I will let sociologist and you good folks figure it out. "Thank you Marine!" I must have heard it ahundred times, but we talked about it tonight. We bet each other that those folks thanking us probably never served by the looks of them (I know I'm stereotyping, but c'mon, when was the last …
Posted to Masking New Orleans
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Forget about Newton and physics for a moment and ask yourselves one simple question before you criticize Ms. Colgan: How many times do you crank the car before you check under the hood? Something is wrong with the system folks and it shouldn't take a physicist, or a mechanic, to tell you this, so lets check the dipstick and see the PAC numbers that are lubricating our "system" for the 2005-2006 cycle: Defense Industry - $3,546,735 Energy/Natural Resources - $7,731,020 Finance & Insurance - $20,204,519 Healthcare - $14,047,942 as compared to - Public Employees (Fed Govt Employees, Military active/retired, police, firefighters, …
Posted to Dems on Ethics: A Day Late and a Dollar Short
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After the torrent of words from the Senate there are two images that stick: the ball-cap and the crying spouse. When will dems learn to package themselves and their causes into tidy made-for-TV soundbites and images? The quicker they can accept this reality of warfare, the quicker progress can be made for their causes. Let us see if they can capitalize on domestic spying, the Port Sale Scandal, and the Iraq Civil War by cutting out the excess chatter, get a backbone, and focus on the easy targets the republicans have laid out before them.
Posted to Alito Hearings Drowning in Words
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I was fortunate to have read this article a month ago, and remembering that patience is a virtue, decided to wait, read, and think, before directly jumping in. I wanted to bring as much as I could to the table. I joined the Marine Corps later in life (29 yrs) with the same consideration. I wanted to bring more to the table. One thing I brought to your article was my belief that there are two types of people in this world, those who charge through it with little thought of the big picture, and those who know they are a …
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