If only.

"I don't know if crime will go up after these guys leave. But I know a lot more of us will be packing our own pieces now to make sure we're protected," said Calvin Stewart, owner of a restaurant and store.

The Mardi Gras Day shootings has me filling out my CCP paperwork right now.

We won!

Shiat, I'm going there in about a month, should I be worried? I'm going anyway

Argghh Droppin Loads!

basemetal: Shiat, I'm going there in about a month, should I be worried? I'm going anyway

Just keep your head. Find a trustworthy local who can tell you which block(s) to stay away from.

As long as they helped Jefferson get ALL of the money out of the freezer, I feel their work is complete.

basemetal: Shiat, I'm going there in about a month, should I be worried? I'm going anyway

I just went there and it was fine. It's not any worse than any other major city, provided you keep your eyes open and be careful.

It's about time we withdrew from an unwinnable quagmire.

basemetal: Shiat, I'm going there in about a month, should I be worried? I'm going anyway

If you're gonna be a tourist - stay in the tourist areas. Don't go exploring.

Can anyone speak to the current situation in NO versus Detroit. I manage to navigate the Motor City safely on a daily basis, should I worry about going to the Crescent City?

subby: National Guard is pulling out of New Orleans, ceding it to insolvency the insurgency.

FTFY

We can't leave. If we do, there might be a civil war.

Oh, sorry...wrong quagmire. Carry on.

Gyrfalcon: We can't leave. If we do, there might be a civil war.

Oh, sorry...wrong quagmire. Carry on.

no you got it right

I was there in '00, and it was a complete shiathole then. Can't imagine now.

Saturn5: basemetal: Shiat, I'm going there in about a month, should I be worried? I'm going anyway

If you're gonna be a tourist - stay in the tourist areas. Don't go exploring.

Yep. If you stay in the vicinity of Bourbon Street, you're fine. We went a few blocks too fark, and you could literally practically rollerskate on the crack vials covering the sidewalk.

"Hey! Hey man, I bet ya $20 dollars I can tell you where you got them shoes!"

Gyrfalcon: We can't leave. If we do, there might be a civil war.

Oh, sorry...wrong quagmire. Carry on.

NO is more well-known for the War of 1812. Andrew Jackson stomped the British after the war was officially over. The British must have been hired by FEMA.

NARWHALS!

GLASS PARKING LOT

Nabb1: "I don't know if crime will go up after these guys leave. But I know a lot more of us will be packing our own pieces now to make sure we're protected," said Calvin Stewart, owner of a restaurant and store.

The Mardi Gras Day shootings has me filling out my CCP paperwork right now.

You're going to work on EVE for CCP? cool.

Now if we could just get the rest of the Army out of the rest of the world: Germany, Korea, England, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, etc.

I thought Jindal said Louisiana didn't need any Federal assistance......

Sgt Otter: Yep. If you stay in the vicinity of Bourbon Street, you're fine. We went a few blocks too fark, and you could literally practically rollerskate on the crack vials covering the sidewalk.

"Hey! Hey man, I bet ya $20 dollars I can tell you where you got them shoes!"

He didn't say he'd tell you where you purchased them....

I love New Orleans (well, really the entire gulf coast region). Considered going down to start a business after Katrina. Might still end up down there.

But inside the city itself really sucks. That said, I can think of some other places I've been that are just as bad, if not worse.

And the food isn't nearly as good.

But if I do move down there, I'll probably be on the other side of the lake. :-)

/Am going there for honeymoon, will stay in the tourist area
//Fiancee has no idea what she's in for, but she's very excited

I pulled out of a girl of the same name and never heard from her again.
/hello Arlo

AlwaysRightBoy: I pulled out of a girl of the same name and never heard from her again.
/hello Arlo

Last time I saw Katrina she was walking on sunshine.

SCUBA_Archer: I thought Jindal said Louisiana didn't need any Federal assistance......

Does anyone actually think that the Republican base would actually elect and Indian dude to be a presidential nominee. Who would the large racist faction vote for? 2012 is gonna be hella funny to watch.

Danger Avoid Death: AlwaysRightBoy: I pulled out of a girl of the same name and never heard from her again.
/hello Arlo

Last time I saw Katrina she was walking on sunshine.

*clap clap*

GoSurfing: Argghh Droppin Loads!

i get you

/...all over your face

It was Eden until Bush blew up the levies. Damn him, again!!!

Six months and they will be pining away for the good old days under Bush.

When we could fight a war for 150 Billion a year and it was a good war, where we freed a bunch of people and really kicked ass.

Dont you remember the good old days before Obama tried to Spend a Trillion Dollars a month forcing Socialism down our throats?

I mean wow, it would have taken bush like 6 years to waste that much on the war....thats like 72 times as efficient as Obama. And just think if we spent that on a war we could decide to be punks and just keep what we fought for.

Obamas going to spend that much just trying to make welfare queens happy. Someone should tell him that the USA has already spent nearly 6 trillion dollars trying to make the Welfare queens happy.

I wonder what else we couldhave bought for the 3.7 Trillion dollars that the Porkulus bill will cost us by the time its paid off....(never?) My favorite example is that we could have built the worlds premier high tech manufacturing facility in hardened bunkers on the Gulf Coast of Texas.....it could have had everything, a huge modern port, Nuke plant, facilities to build solar, fission and fusion power plants....portable ones even, and a Dirigible plant to build massive dirigibles to transport them across the globe. We could have been the leading edge of high tech production for the next hundred years. Probably would have employed 50,000 people in high paying jobs, and another 2-3 million in the service sectors to provide basic needs.

But no, instead we will get free condoms and lectures on why our toilet paper is bad for the environment.

Another thing we could have done.....go look at google earth and check out the coast of Dubai.....see those man made Islands? We dont have the right conditions for those, but what we could do instead is start at the lowest point on the tip of Florida and start building an elevated coastal residential zone.....fifty foot high levee with housing and commercial on top.....protected roadway inside.....3 level basements under each home....a hurricane proof community.....and we could just keep building it right up the coast till the terrain got high enough not to matter. If a big one did hit....no problem getting aid tot he region, just drive the Semi's right into the interior roadway and straight to the eye of the storm.

That would also protect us from rising sea levels in the event of global warming...Double bonus, safe from hurricane flooding and warmer weather year round.



Thats Change you can Believe in.

Is the 60 day law still on the books down there?

basemetal: Shiat, I'm going there in about a month, should I be worried? I'm going anyway

Just say in the CBD area, don't go near residential areas unless you are touring with a group. The people you'll see around bourbon street are sketchy looking, but you should be fine as long as you don't bother them. You'll know you've wandered into the wrong part of town VERY quickly. It's like you stumbled into a slum the second you hit the street.

If you are driving, plan it ahead of time. New Orleans has rotating one-way streets, and a few streets merge and disappear on you. It's designed around the mississippi, so the outer streets and a few main veins follow the river's curves. Several times I have gotten caught off guard on new streets and suddenly found myself going 1 way, but the wrong way.

/Born and raised near New Orleans
//Left in 06
///Misses the food

mitchcumstein1: Is the 60 day law still on the books down there?

Last I heard it was.

SCUBA_Archer: I thought Jindal said Louisiana didn't need any Federal assistance......

Katrina helped relocate alot of the parasites of humanity to Houston, Atlanta and other shiatholes. The good govenor doesn't want to encourage any to move back, probably. He probably only wants citizens who want to work and be productive members of society, instead of parasites that destroy neighborhoods and fester with crime.

archichris: Six months and they will be pining away for the good old days under Bush.

When we could fight a war for 150 Billion a year and it was a good war, where we freed a bunch of people and really kicked ass.

Dont you remember the good old days before Obama tried to Spend a Trillion Dollars a month forcing Socialism down our throats?

I mean wow, it would have taken bush like 6 years to waste that much on the war....thats like 72 times as efficient as Obama. And just think if we spent that on a war we could decide to be punks and just keep what we fought for.

Obamas going to spend that much just trying to make welfare queens happy. Someone should tell him that the USA has already spent nearly 6 trillion dollars trying to make the Welfare queens happy.

I wonder what else we couldhave bought for the 3.7 Trillion dollars that the Porkulus bill will cost us by the time its paid off....(never?) My favorite example is that we could have built the worlds premier high tech manufacturing facility in hardened bunkers on the Gulf Coast of Texas.....it could have had everything, a huge modern port, Nuke plant, facilities to build solar, fission and fusion power plants....portable ones even, and a Dirigible plant to build massive dirigibles to transport them across the globe. We could have been the leading edge of high tech production for the next hundred years. Probably would have employed 50,000 people in high paying jobs, and another 2-3 million in the service sectors to provide basic needs.

But no, instead we will get free condoms and lectures on why our toilet paper is bad for the environment.

Another thing we could have done.....go look at google earth and check out the coast of Dubai.....see those man made Islands? We dont have the right conditions for those, but what we could do instead is start at the lowest point on the tip of Florida and start building an elevated coastal residential zone.....fifty foot high levee with housing and commercial on top.....protected roadway inside.....3 level basements under each home....a hurricane proof community.....and we could just keep building it right up the coast till the terrain got high enough not to matter. If a big one did hit....no problem getting aid tot he region, just drive the Semi's right into the interior roadway and straight to the eye of the storm.

That would also protect us from rising sea levels in the event of global warming...Double bonus, safe from hurricane flooding and warmer weather year round.



Thats Change you can Believe in.

I KNEW there was a reason you're on my favorites list. Now I remember: A rare beacon of common sense in the crap storm that is our reality.

/That's all, soshies. Move along and snark yourself.
//Bathe in the juices that drip off your elitism etc etc ad nauseum.

Nos_Felix: basemetal: Shiat, I'm going there in about a month, should I be worried? I'm going anyway

Just say in the CBD area, don't go near residential areas unless you are touring with a group. The people you'll see around bourbon street are sketchy looking, but you should be fine as long as you don't bother them. You'll know you've wandered into the wrong part of town VERY quickly. It's like you stumbled into a slum the second you hit the street.

If you are driving, plan it ahead of time. New Orleans has rotating one-way streets, and a few streets merge and disappear on you. It's designed around the mississippi, so the outer streets and a few main veins follow the river's curves. Several times I have gotten caught off guard on new streets and suddenly found myself going 1 way, but the wrong way.

/Born and raised near New Orleans
//Left in 06
///Misses the food

This is America. You should be able to walk down any street you want without fear of rape, murder, or being robbed. Anyone can on my street. Too bad the police are too busy with petty crime, to make all streets like this.

Uncorrect: subby: National Guard is pulling out of New Orleans, ceding it to intoxication insolvency the insurgency.

FTFY

TheMiddleFinger: Nos_Felix: basemetal: Shiat, I'm going there in about a month, should I be worried? I'm going anyway

Just say in the CBD area, don't go near residential areas unless you are touring with a group. The people you'll see around bourbon street are sketchy looking, but you should be fine as long as you don't bother them. You'll know you've wandered into the wrong part of town VERY quickly. It's like you stumbled into a slum the second you hit the street.

If you are driving, plan it ahead of time. New Orleans has rotating one-way streets, and a few streets merge and disappear on you. It's designed around the mississippi, so the outer streets and a few main veins follow the river's curves. Several times I have gotten caught off guard on new streets and suddenly found myself going 1 way, but the wrong way.

/Born and raised near New Orleans
//Left in 06
///Misses the food

This is America. You should be able to walk down any street you want without fear of rape, murder, or being robbed. Anyone can on my street. Too bad the police are too busy with petty crime, to make all streets like this.

That is New Orleans, where the law enables you to effectively scare off witnesses with the threat of death and walk away from a murder charge because said witnesses do not step forward regardless of ballistic results.

They made their bed, they can sleep in it until they change their stupid laws.

DeathByGeekSquad: They made their bed, they can sleep in it until they change their stupid laws.

Or change their sheets.

TheMiddleFinger: This is America. You should be able to walk down any street you want without fear of rape, murder, or being robbed.

You can. America's widespread gun ownership helps keeps everyone safe and free of fear. I read it on Fark.

DeathByGeekSquad: They made their bed, they can sleep in it until they change their stupid laws elect a competent mayor.

All you have to do is compare the crime rates and police corruption under Mark Morial and his police chief Richard Pennington, against those under Nagin. Morial reformed the police department and cut crime while at the same time repairing race relations in the city's worst neighborhoods. Nagin came in and undid all of that in just a few months, leading to the mess the city was already in before Katrina hit.

Until people there quit having fantasies about a "chocolate city" and elect someone who wants New Orleans to be a safe place to live and do commerce, it will remain a shiathole.

archichris: Six months and they will be pining away for the good old days under Bush.

When we could fight a war for 150 Billion a year and it was a good war, where we freed a bunch of people and really kicked ass.

Dont you remember the good old days before Obama tried to Spend a Trillion Dollars a month forcing Socialism down our throats?

I mean wow, it would have taken bush like 6 years to waste that much on the war....thats like 72 times as efficient as Obama. And just think if we spent that on a war we could decide to be punks and just keep what we fought for.

Obamas going to spend that much just trying to make welfare queens happy. Someone should tell him that the USA has already spent nearly 6 trillion dollars trying to make the Welfare queens happy.

I wonder what else we couldhave bought for the 3.7 Trillion dollars that the Porkulus bill will cost us by the time its paid off....(never?) My favorite example is that we could have built the worlds premier high tech manufacturing facility in hardened bunkers on the Gulf Coast of Texas.....it could have had everything, a huge modern port, Nuke plant, facilities to build solar, fission and fusion power plants....portable ones even, and a Dirigible plant to build massive dirigibles to transport them across the globe. We could have been the leading edge of high tech production for the next hundred years. Probably would have employed 50,000 people in high paying jobs, and another 2-3 million in the service sectors to provide basic needs.

But no, instead we will get free condoms and lectures on why our toilet paper is bad for the environment.

Another thing we could have done.....go look at google earth and check out the coast of Dubai.....see those man made Islands? We dont have the right conditions for those, but what we could do instead is start at the lowest point on the tip of Florida and start building an elevated coastal residential zone.....fifty foot high levee with housing and commercial on top.....protected roadway inside.....3 level basements under each home....a hurricane proof community.....and we could just keep building it right up the coast till the terrain got high enough not to matter. If a big one did hit....no problem getting aid tot he region, just drive the Semi's right into the interior roadway and straight to the eye of the storm.

That would also protect us from rising sea levels in the event of global warming...Double bonus, safe from hurricane flooding and warmer weather year round.



Thats Change you can Believe in.


Well played sir...Well played

archichris: Six months and they will be pining away for the good old days under Bush.

When we could fight a war for 150 Billion a year and it was a good war, where we freed a bunch of people and really kicked ass.

Dont you remember the good old days before Obama tried to Spend a Trillion Dollars a month forcing Socialism down our throats?

I mean wow, it would have taken bush like 6 years to waste that much on the war....thats like 72 times as efficient as Obama. And just think if we spent that on a war we could decide to be punks and just keep what we fought for.

Obamas going to spend that much just trying to make welfare queens happy. Someone should tell him that the USA has already spent nearly 6 trillion dollars trying to make the Welfare queens happy.

I wonder what else we couldhave bought for the 3.7 Trillion dollars that the Porkulus bill will cost us by the time its paid off....(never?) My favorite example is that we could have built the worlds premier high tech manufacturing facility in hardened bunkers on the Gulf Coast of Texas.....it could have had everything, a huge modern port, Nuke plant, facilities to build solar, fission and fusion power plants....portable ones even, and a Dirigible plant to build massive dirigibles to transport them across the globe. We could have been the leading edge of high tech production for the next hundred years. Probably would have employed 50,000 people in high paying jobs, and another 2-3 million in the service sectors to provide basic needs.

But no, instead we will get free condoms and lectures on why our toilet paper is bad for the environment.

Another thing we could have done.....go look at google earth and check out the coast of Dubai.....see those man made Islands? We dont have the right conditions for those, but what we could do instead is start at the lowest point on the tip of Florida and start building an elevated coastal residential zone.....fifty foot high levee with housing and commercial on top.....protected roadway inside.....3 level basements under each home....a hurricane proof community.....and we could just keep building it right up the coast till the terrain got high enough not to matter. If a big one did hit....no problem getting aid tot he region, just drive the Semi's right into the interior roadway and straight to the eye of the storm.

That would also protect us from rising sea levels in the event of global warming...Double bonus, safe from hurricane flooding and warmer weather year round.



Thats Change you can Believe in.

Two things:

1. All Hail archichris
2. I'm personally sorry for the absolute ignorant Leftist crap that you're going to receive on this thread. Please don't let it get to you. They're just retards who know absolutely nothing except pure hatred, ignorance, conformity-to-groups, and are a complete waste of space. There.

The stimulus package is theft. I can't believe everyone is giving Obama a free pass on this.

Shwirv: The stimulus package is theft. I can't believe everyone is giving Obama a free pass on this.

It's not really theft. It's more like going to a steakhouse with your friends and ordering a few billion of everything on the menu and then doing a dine and dash without including your buddies in the dash part.

Shwirv: The stimulus package is theft. I can't believe everyone is giving Obama a free pass on this.

We all love the magic negro so it's cool.

MIguy: Shwirv: The stimulus package is theft. I can't believe everyone is giving Obama a free pass on this.

We all love the magic negro so it's cool.

Sounds like The Legend of Barack O'Vance.

Obama doesn't care about black people.

Basemetal

Shiat, I'm going there in about a month, should I be worried? I'm going anyway

Good:



Stay between Rampart, Decatur, Canal and Esplanade, don't carry a purse.

Magazine street is also good



Frenchman street is a lot of fun in the Marigny district:




Pay no attention to the farkers whose idea of a fun trip is going to Disney World and having breakfast at IHOP. Pancakes?