Comment by juandos

Well Brian Ross and ABC’s almost news is the source,eh?

You mean this, “Brian Ross“?…:lol:

According to American Renaissance Eddie Jordan has problems: Jordan’s Race Bias Trial Set To Begin

Eddie Jordan, the first African-American to serve as Orleans Parish district attorney, arrived in federal court Monday to defend himself against accusations that he fired white employees in favor of black staff members who were less qualified.

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Judith DeCorte, who worked as a legal assistant in the child support office for 14 years, sued Jordan after he cleaned house days into his first term in January 2003, as Jordan succeeded Harry Connick, the city’s top prosecutor for nearly 30 years.

Forty-three of her colleagues, all Caucasians except for one Hispanic, joined her in a suit that received a preliminary nod from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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In court papers, Jordan has said neither race nor job performance were considered during the purge, which cost 56 people from the Connick era their jobs.

Of the 56 fired, 53 were white, according to the lawsuit. On the day Jordan took office, 57 percent of the administrative and staff employees were Caucasian, as is Connick, and 40 percent were African-American.

Anyway you cut it, New Orleans is just a waste of tax dollars, a waste of time, and a waste of effort…

Comment by Deathknyte

Next time it sinks we need to just rebuild the docks and let the rest stay under.

Comment by crusader coyote

*opens mouth to speak. . . and closes it, biting her tongue*

After living there for 4.5 years . . . *thinks again*. . .

You know, I’m reminded again why I stopped writing posts about NO and Katrina. I really don’t like who I am when talking about this. I listen to myself, and a small part of me is horrified at my “lack of comapssion.”

Whatever, I ran out of compassion for that city and it’s people back in the last century.

*closes mouth tightly, and walks a little ways off, grumbling under her breath about “professional victims” . . .*

Comment by AyUaxe

I’m in New Orleans. The bottom line here is PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY! You’re right that Nagin and the gummint ain’t accepting any. The problem is that you and most of the rest of the country are blaming N.O. and its residents, generally. The fact is we’re just the canary in the coal mine. We’ve been steeped in federal entitlement programs and social engineering, here in the deep south, longer and more thoroughly than any other part of this country. Not because we wanted or needed it, but because certain socio- political interests in the 50’s and 60’s figured they could use the “po backward south” as a skinner’s box for social engineering, including forced desegregation and affirmative action. An immense, entrenched, incompetent and dependent underclass and the bureaucracy and political machinery that lives off it, including Nagin, Eddie Jordan (who’s also a Bill Clinton product–appointed Jordan as U.S. Attorney for New Orleans–that’s from wence he and his racist BS came), $Bill Jefferson, and the Landrieu clan, is the result. Guess what, it happened here and it’s happening to greater and lesser extents every where else–it’s f’in’ viral. Many in N.O. are taking responsibility for ourselves and our community. Unfortunately, we didn’t have any real alternatives in the elections, so we went mostly with free market canditates. Certain race-based political machinery was much in evidence, but the justice department only plays one side of that field. No one’s really listening to Nagin’s message, which is probably OK, since he’s an idiot, but there is a plan. The PLAN is that people are gonna rebuild on their private property if they can and want to. FU if you don’t like it–it’s my property. You get to tell me the same thing about your castle or dungeon or mote as the case may be. The nanny gummint people don’t think that’s a plan, but it’s the only real american plan. My neighborhood has been one of the most active in recovery, yet the top notch pro urban planners had us designated as green-space. Now I’m OK with living in the middle of a park, but I’m definitely not OK with gummint demanding my property from me at some sharply discounted f-u rate, as everyone knows they will do, if allowed. One of the best things about N.O. has always been that the local gov’t was always too lazy and incompetent to really cause the individual citizen much trouble. I like that. I like police that sit on their asses and don’t stop me when I speed or make an illegal but safe left turn. I don’t want them getting into drug turf wars–those need to run their course with as much blood shed amongst the participants as possible. I only want to see a cop when I call one or when there’s some big event that needs crowd control–and for that, ours are still the best–just the right balance of laissez faire and kick ass just for kicks to keep a really volatile situation on a nice slow, pleasant simmer. Compare/contrast our crowd control with Pittsburgh after a superbowl or Toledo for no particular reason, or LA, when Lil’ Rodney wanted to get along–not so bad now are we. I don’t want the mayor or city council telling me shit. If I need protection from crime, I know I’m gonna have to pack heat and put in my own security system (I even have a mini version of punji sticks around my house–scum are stealing copper downspouts and pipe off houses–it’s fun to hear em holler). If I want something, I and most of my neighbors don’t go crying to gov’t for it, I either pay for it or go out and get it by whatever legal or at least non-harmful means are necessary. That’s how it is here and I like it. Any real American with some grit would like it, too. It’s about PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY, not race or anything else. We’ll be fine in N.O. and all across this country, if we can get the feds out of local gov’t and social engineering at every level and focus all levels of gov’t on building and maintaining infra-structure for defense and commerce (which will require decent levees, port, and channel maintenance here). For everything else, natural selection should work just fine.

Comment by Emperor Darth Misha I

So what happened to those projects or what happened to that money?

Well, if I remember correctly, some of it was spent on public parks, fountains and playgrounds. Most likely somebody in the Commission had a cousin who needed the work and the kickbacks.

I’m sure they looked great as underwater attractions.

Comment by Xystus

I even have a mini version of punji sticks around my house–scum are stealing copper downspouts and pipe off houses–it’s fun to hear em holler

Now there’s something we could stand with more of!

Comment by LC Wil

Lemme see here. This little unpleasantness in New Orleans was caused by a Hurricane, which was conjured out of thin air by the Eeevill BusHitler regime. The hurricane was steered toward NO by the new Tricky Dicky. Karl PERSONALLY went to the city, and blew up the levys. This being the plan all along, the explosives were buried in the levys when they were built.

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Twenty years before Karl was born, and the ninth ward was majority white.

I understand perfectly.

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Then following the levy break, flooding, evacuation that for some damn fool reason wasn’t ordered by the local Governments, no doubt because of pressure brought by the Eeevill BusHitler regime, the flooding of the school busses, and Ray hightailing it out of town, relocating his family and everything he ownes to Houston, the remaining residents (no doubt imported from Kansas to increase the violence in the Peaceful city of New Orleans) begin shooting at the rescue workers. Yeah, I can see how that would motivate them!

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Then, the Governor of Louisiana, the Mayor of New Orleans and the two senators from the State (one each R/D) demand $250 BILLION to rebuild the city. Just some back of the envelope figures, but that is about twice what the city was WORTH prior to the hurricane. For a quarter of a trillion bucks, you could fill in the hole that the water flowed into, pave everything, add a big honkin’ concrete slab, THEN rebuild the city on top of the slab. And have money left for the biggest Mardi Gras ever.

Right.

Tell me, Ray, what IS the standard “skim” for Federal Money coming into your fair city?

Comment by LC Wil

And just to reiterate MY big problem with all the pissing and moaning, and it goes back to the beginning:

Between 24 and 48 hours out, EVERYBODY knew this was gonna hit NO. Katrina was a cat 5 hurricane at that point. Every Stage of Govenment, and the residents who were paying attention SHOULD have known that the levy’s weren’t gonna make it, since they were only certified for a cat 3 storm surge.

Me, personally, if I know there is a cat 5 hurricane heading for ME, and I get two days warning, I am not going to get my shoes wet. I’m so outahere it will make a sound as the air rushes into where I was standing.