Oh snap

Molavian

Ah, brings me back to my days living in Cocoa Shavings Harbor. I left my heart there

This is going to be hilarious when cities 30 times the size of New Orleans get the same idea and return the favor.

Trap-neuter-release programs work pretty well with feral cats....

By the way, most of New Orleans's homeless are either full-time workers or day laborers. Few are unemployed "bums," but at least 3/4 of them are illegal -- hence the reason no politician wants to touch this one with a ten-foot pole.

The problem here isn't that the homeless are bums; the problem is that there isn't enough affordable housing for these folks. These are the guys who are working for the contractors repairing rooves roofs houses. So, while these guys may be illegal, they are also doing the lion's share of rebuilding New Orleans. God bless 'em, is all I can say.

NeauxFear: repairing roofs

As awkward as it might sound, roofs is correct

Or, maybe THIS bus?

Why was he re-elected? What a sad waste of a city.

Sounds strangely similar to Atlanta's homeless "solution" before the Olympics came to town.

Rumour had it that welfare staff in Calgary (sorry, 'Merkin farkers, it's a Canuckia story) were giving applicants one-way bus tickets to Vancouver a few years back. The only hard evidence I've seen of it was the legislation that BC passed, requiring 3 months' residence before welfare could be claimed.

/if true, Ralph Klein was a bigger dick than I thought

trangeguitar

California... is nice to the homeless.
California nyah nyah... pretty cool to the homless.

Nagin = Republican

Trixie212: Or, maybe THIS bus?

Bush didn't screw up in not evacuating - he screwed up in not being prepared to provide disaster relief. Disaster preparedness is mainly a state and local issue - disaster response permeates every level of government.

The Bush administration proved itself completely incompetent during the Katrina aftermath regardless of how you and your ilk wish to reinterpret and reframe the facts.

They must not be registered voters.

n/m, double checked, and Nagin said published reports of him being republican, then switching to Dem to win in NOLA were false.

And just think, NO farkers! YOU reelected this clown!

Why? Id love a serious reply to this

Mister Awesome: NeauxFear: repairing roofs

As awkward as it might sound, roofs is correct

You're in some fine literary company; even J.R.R. Tolkien complained about the word being "roofs". (Interestingly, you can credit Tolkien with a lot of the f->ves spellings in fantasy, including "elves" and "dwarves"; before then they were spelled "elfs" and "dwarfs".)

TheCid: Mister Awesome: NeauxFear: repairing roofs

As awkward as it might sound, roofs is correct

You're in some fine literary company; even J.R.R. Tolkien complained about the word being "roofs". (Interestingly, you can credit Tolkien with a lot of the f->ves spellings in fantasy, including "elves" and "dwarves"; before then they were spelled "elfs" and "dwarfs".)

I read somewhere about the rate of change of language. I wish I could remember it now, it was by some mathematician who analyzed dictionary entries through history. Certain words, like (I think) roofs/rooves, are on the fast track to switching acceptance. It was quite interesting, although I'm not sure how accurate as a theory since it was solely statistically based.

Cog: Sounds strangely similar to Atlanta's homeless "solution" before the Olympics came to town.

It worked, didn't it? That was the only time in MARTA's history that you didn't have to worry about getting peed on by a homeless guy or yelled at by some crazy woman.

There are thousands of homes that are left rotting away in the New Orleans region. There are tons of homeless people. If only there was a way we could help them back into society and lead productive lives.

Instead of helping the homeless and using his position and power to adress homelessness, Ray Nagin wants to shift the problem to someone else, someplace else. Nagin and his administration are running up charges on city credit cards for hundreds of thousands of dollars at restaurants while the homeless are joked about. This problem will not cure itself and ignoring it and joking about it...no good will come of this. This is a time in America's history where leadership is in very short supply.

lexslamman: Trixie212: Or, maybe THIS bus?

Bush didn't screw up in not evacuating - he screwed up in not being prepared to provide disaster relief. Disaster preparedness is mainly a state and local issue - disaster response permeates every level of government.

The Bush administration proved itself completely incompetent during the Katrina aftermath regardless of how you and your ilk wish to reinterpret and reframe the facts.

LA came damn close to actively working against safety and evacuation efforts, and they had the home-field avantage. FEMA dropped the ball, but then the State and parish governments stabbed the ball repeatedly to deflate it, tied it to a two-ton steel weight, and dropped it into the deepest trench in the Pacific.

Give them a one way ticket to anywhere but Texas. Please for the love of God.

Well if they are out of town they will not be able to protest their building being town down that is condemned so that maybe they would have a freaking place to live if they would quit trying to save moldy rotted wood. That sentence could have run on and on.

Bush; our modern day Nero.




You're doing a heckuva job, chimpy.

most major cities (at least in the south) do this/have done this.

ZangTT: n/m, double checked, and Nagin said published reports of him being republican, then switching to Dem to win in NOLA were false.

And he'd never be lying, right?

Nagin is a corrupt, twat. He was doing interviews with CNN letting an entire field of buses that could have evacuated people flood.

The people of NO are about three generations deep in socialist, racist government handouts. They came to other cities as guests and instantly crime went up. Their collective sense of entitlement, addiction to government bribes and out-right laziness is a sickening reminder of what the socialists would have us become.

Nemo's Brother: The people of NO are about three generations deep in socialist, racist government handouts.

Well, you didn't make any sense either gramatically or content-wise. But you sure took it to that strawman.

3/10 trolling score. (Don't quit your day job)

Nemo's Brother: Nagin is a corrupt, twat. He was doing interviews with CNN letting an entire field of buses that could have evacuated people flood.

The people of NO are about three generations deep in socialist, racist government handouts. They came to other cities as guests and instantly crime went up. Their collective sense of entitlement, addiction to government bribes and out-right laziness is a sickening reminder of what the socialists would have us become.

Those are some powerfully convincing anecdotes.

Oh, and you're a farkin douchenozzle.

The leftist/totalitarian goons who were in charge of "safety" there thought it was more important to go around confiscating LEGALLY-OWNED firearms than actually doing any rescue or recovery.

ZangTT: n/m, double checked, and Nagin said published reports of him being republican, then switching to Dem to win in NOLA were false.

Gee, were they?

Mister Awesome: Molavian

Ah, brings me back to my days living in Cocoa Shavings Harbor. I left my heart there


I thought Molavian's rebus was "Candy River". I think I saw that in a movie with Gene Wilder once.

yagottabefarkinkiddinme: There are thousands of homes that are left rotting away in the New Orleans region. There are tons of homeless people. If only there was a way we could help them back into society and lead productive lives.

Instead of helping the homeless and using his position and power to adress homelessness, Ray Nagin wants to shift the problem to someone else, someplace else. Nagin and his administration are running up charges on city credit cards for hundreds of thousands of dollars at restaurants while the homeless are joked about. This problem will not cure itself and ignoring it and joking about it...no good will come of this. This is a time in America's history where leadership is in very short supply.

news flash: about half the freakin city was homeless about two years ago so whats a couple thousand more? not like anyone gives a shiat about us anyway. why dont you come down and lend a hand or donate money to some of the non-profits working on the problem instead of throwing rocks from your high horse in whateverville? we can barely get enough beds for mental patients, hardly any doctors around, people are getting 50 thousand dollar tax bills on relief grants.

shiat isn't all better, fine, and dandy so im sorry if your illegal mexican ass hitch hiked from texas to gut houses without making prior housing arrangements and now are stuck being homeless because the federal and state money for rebuilding isn't really flowing in like people said it would. its not my problem you moved halfway across the country without farking thinking about where you were going to live.

move to a city with the resources to spare - we have contractors stuffing paper in levees for farks sake.

AND QUIT STEALING MY GOD DAMN COPPER OUT MY HALF-COMPLETED HOUSE

corley989:
news flash: about half the freakin city was homeless about two years ago so whats a couple thousand more? not like anyone gives a shiat about us anyway.

Good luck to you, but, maybe if your city's building code hadn't allowed construction in flood zones, there might not have been as much of a problem in the first place.

Of course, common sense and property development are two passing ships.

Has the flood changed construction standards? Are they doing anything to build up the land, for example?

/Idiots across from my parents' house here in TN bribed to get their house built without raising the land (they would have had to do so by over ten feet). Several years of regular flooding convinced them their multi-million dollar house was unlivable.
//Local schadenfreude is fun!

How can we help this poor woman? She is fighting mad and will not take it no more.

Sharon Jasper has been victimized. Sharon Jasper has been rabidly wronged. She has become a Section 8 carcass-the victim of ever changing public housing policies.

Sharon Jasper has spent 57 or her 58 years dedicated to one cause and one cause only, and has nothing to show for her dedicated servitude. She has lived in Section 8 housing all but 1 of her 58 years. It was a legacy passed down from her parents who moved into Section 8 housing in 1949 when she was six months old. She has passed the legacy down to her children, but fears they may have to get jobs to pay for the utilities and deposits. She laments about her one year hiatus from the comfort of her Section 8 nirvana, ' I tried it for a year..you know.working and all. It's not anything I would want to go through again, or wish on anyone in my family, but I am damn proud of that year.'

Sharon was moved out of her St. Bernard housing project after hurricane Katrina and into a new, yet albeit, substandard quarterage. As can be noted from the above photo Link (new window)of her new Section 8 home, it is repugnant and not suitable for someone of Sharon Jasper's seniority status in the system. 'Don't be fooled by them hardwood floors,' says Sharon. 'They told me they were putting in scraped wood floors cause it was more expensive and elegant, but I am not a fool-that was just a way to make me take scratched up wood. The 60-inch HD TV? It may look nice but it is not a plasma. It's not a plasma because I'm black. Now they want me to pay a deposit and utilities on this dump.'She has held her tongue in silence through the years of abuse by the system, but it came to a head at the New Orlean's city council meeting where discussions were under way about the tearing down of the St. Bernard projects. When a near riotous exchange between groups opposing the tearing down of St. Bernard and groups wanting the dilapidated buildings torn down and newer ones built, Sharon unleashed verbal hell with her once silenced tongue. The object of her oratory prowess was an acquiescent poor boy in attendance. The context of her scathing rebuke was, 'Just bec ause you pay for my house, my car, my big screen and my food, I wil l not be treated like a slave!'
Recapping from the mental log of the city council minutes in her head, Sharon repines, 'Our families have been displaced all over the United States. They are being forced to commit crimes in cities they are unfamiliar with. It is a very uncomfortable situation for them. Bring them back, then let's talk about redevelopment.'

Sharon directs the reporter's attention across the street to Duncan Plaza where homeless people are living in tents and states that, 'I might do better out there with one of these tents.' She further lame nted her sentiments about her situation,' I might be poor, but I don't have to live poor..

ZangTT ,

That's some mighty fine researching there, ZangTT. Obviously anyone with a (R) next to their name is a douche and anyone with a (D) is A-OK with you. Because you went right to the "Nagin is a Republican" with your post.

You may want to try what the rest of us adults do, judge someone by the merit of their actions, or inactions, and nevermind what letter is next to their name.

thesilence: And just think, NO farkers! YOU reelected this clown!

Why? Id love a serious reply to this

Because 1) he was an all right mayor before the storm by nola standards, 2) it would be his second and last term, which meant he wouldn't be worried about reelection, which meant he'd be able to make hard decisions, and 3) because the other guy is from an old Louisiana political family and raised four times the amount of money Nagin did, which a lot of us took to mean he'd been bought.

hasty ambush: How can we help this poor woman? ... ' I might be poor, but I don't have to live poor..

I'd forgotten about her, I think there were several fark threads that dissected the photos from her apartment. I really, really wish the whole article had been a fake.

Chariset: Trap-neuter-release programs work pretty well with feral cats....

You're doing it wrong. It's return. Trap-neuter-and return. Release implies that you just toss the kitty anywhere when you're done. Put it back in the same place you found it so another (intact) feral doesn't move into it's territory and crank out more.

/pet peeve

"During his visit, Mangano toured the tent city where Rouzan lives. Nagin has said his administration plans to replace the colony with a military-style barracks where people would be provided with bunk beds, meals and other care."

There was another guy, really alot of guys, who wanted to provide some of their people with military style barracks, bunk beds and meals but I don't remember it ever ending very well.

Putting all the city's homeless in a tent city under a freeway isn't going to solve a damn thing, except give cops a one stop spot for harassing the mentally and financially illl.

Who's he think he is? Mayor of Atlanta trying to get the Olympics? That is what ATL did prior to the 96 gaymes.

i used to work in a food bank where we were supposed to pack each of the boxes with a specific amount of donated food. my friend and i would feel badly about limiting the amount of food these hungry people were going to get, so we'd hide a little more food in the boxes we could when no one was looking.

it wasn't until we met one of the counselors who worked in the food bank and around the city that we realized our compassion was misplaced- the people who showed up every week and argued over every scrap of food or clothing we were going to give them for free were going to drive from this food bank to another food bank or charity and make a day of getting free stuff. according to the counselor, most of these poor people had more food in their refrigerators and clothes in their closets than we did, but they kept trying to cheat the system to get more stuff out of us.

and now i live in a city where most of the homeless have family systems or BMW's parked in a lot close by to where they stand on the corner. they are highly organized and being homeless is as much their profession as working in a restaurant is for me.

hasty ambush:

Nothing like a story like that to wake you up in the morning. They are tearing down the St. Bernard Projects as we speak.

Did she really say that she tried work once and would not wish that on anyone?

The louder she complains the more she is rewarded, it seems...because the people she rants against either want to just shut her the hell up or they are afraid they will be fired because she plays the race card. She went all the way to city hall, she will go to someone's boss.

I had a young attorney in New Orleans like this 2 weeks ago. I could not figure him out, why he was acting so strange. I called him on it, right there, right then. The guy went farkin' ballistic when I called him on his behavior screaming he wanted to talk to the owner of the company. I dialed it and gave him the cell phone...handed it to him...he refused to speak to my boss. Reverse racism, when you encounter it...is the strangest thing. I have it happen a few times...but then those occasions are so few compared to the number of people I meet...

Personally I would like to know who bussed in all these homeless we we have in Austin now, its gotten WAY out of hand.

The chronically homeless in my town seem to have disappeared. A dozen white guys and a few snaggletooth females that use to hang out where my ofice is are hanging out no more.

/loves not hearing how "they're stranded"

Silly_Sot: The leftist/totalitarian goons who were in charge of "safety" there thought it was more important to go around confiscating LEGALLY-OWNED firearms than actually doing any rescue or recovery.

2/10

You played the stereotypical NRA redneck to the hilt, but the threadjack attempt counts strongly against you.

According to the link a guy took what she said during a public meeting and inserted them into his satire. From what I can gather her living conditions (wish I had the TV she has to suffer with)and what she said are not made up. It is not hard to believe that she has lived in public housing that long. The dependency class created by the Federal Welfare State has become multi-generational. They view welfare not only as an entitlement but a career choice. They also are probably going to vote for Obama.