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Permalink Reply by J.Shaler on August 31, 2010 at 4:22

Now be nice to ShaleGeo, poor guy graduated from Byrd High School!

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Permalink Reply by Joe Creel on August 31, 2010 at 4:39

ShaleGeo, if he is as old as I, had a better education than I did. Especially dollar wise. Byrd was one of the best schools in the nation back in the day. Going to Newman sure beat Forshee at that time.

Permalink Reply by Joe Creel on August 31, 2010 at 5:33

Well, I know before 1968 Byrd and Istrouma were the best public schools in the state. As far as National Merit Scholars both were recognized nationally. If you graduated six years after I did, it was still a decent education. I am familiar with the Cub, as my maternal side were from Shreveport. Several generations of cousins and uncles graduated from that august academy. Where I grew up, I could have attended twenty of such institutions. I am not reporting how many I did attend and my grades.

Permalink Reply by Endwise on August 29, 2010 at 13:33

The towns south of New Orleans have been flooding just about every other year for the last thirty without a peep in the news. It isn't Louisiana looking for a handout it's the politicians and the ones who depended on the government, who still look for sympathy. The majority of New Orleans population was from the projects. A person wrote in another threat, "We all should know that when government cares for people from the cradle to the grave for generations, those people don't just turn into self sufficient go getters that no longer need government."

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Permalink Reply by Joe Creel on August 29, 2010 at 13:54

Plenty of the people who depend on the government are "go-getters" in the sense of gaming the system, stacking checks, hustling any number of goods and special services. There were multitudes of "go-getters" who were quite resourceful in procuring goods from any number of retail outlets. All of us will sooner or later learn to be go-getters. The teats are drying up quickly.

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Permalink Reply by young land owner on September 1, 2010 at 14:14

From Buras to newman, boy, boy, boy, u can get killed for that down the road...
YLO

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Permalink Reply by BirdDawg, plain ole' idiot on August 30, 2010 at 15:20

Endwise,

"A person wrote in another threat,"

I hope you meant " A person wrote in another "thread".

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Permalink Reply by Endwise on August 31, 2010 at 5:40

I did, and that will teach me to proofread my posts!

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Permalink Reply by BirdDawg, plain ole' idiot on August 31, 2010 at 14:23

Endwise,
Hey, I ain't nitpickn brother. I have been guilty of the same many times!
I knew you didn't want the "threat" word in there.

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Permalink Reply by sesport on September 5, 2010 at 23:35

Here, if you want to spout off about the people of NOLA and whether or not they're "go getters," at least have some basis in fact. I think Table 7 on page 48 will shed some light on this.

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/03/art3full.pdf

The numbers for those receiving benefits from unemployment insurance & welfare are hardly worth mention. What jumped the most was those receiving food stamps, however interestingly returnees received less from this than non-returnees.

Seems the numbers don't support what you're implying. Now if I could find the numbers to show that those "multitudes" you describe probably aren't even 10% of your total population.

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Permalink Reply by Etola on September 1, 2010 at 4:01

I agree, and I believe many folks are tired of hearing about it. I live in East Texas but I get Shreveport channels as local channels so I have grown up knowing more about Louisiana news than Texas. However, I experienced IKE in 2008 because 2 of my children were attending school in Galveston and I owned a house near UTMB for them to live in. I was on the island 6 days after the storm and words cannot express the devastation I saw. Crystal Beach and the town of Gilchrist were practically wiped off the map. Only a dozen houses remained and hundreds of people not accounted for, but you never hear about that on the news. It's only about Katrina, Katrina, Katrina. The people of Galveston and Crystal Beach got busy and in 2 years have made so much progress to rebuild. In Gilchrist there is hardly enough beach left to rebuild. The ocean is almost over the highway. While I was repairing my house, a young man who worked for the glass company in Galveston told me that they found his mother in a ditch under rubble and dirt in Gilchrist and she had been missing for 5 months. No one reported that on the news. There are people still missing and never will be found. Natural disasters are just that and no one can predict what will happen, but if you have ever been affected by a natural disaster, if seems like you would walk away with a little more knowledge, more respect for the weather, more survival instincts, and see the importance of being prepared for such events. It was the second big storm that Galveston got, maybe the next one NO gets, the people will be ready. I pray that Earl doesn't demolish the east coast. It's looking like they are going to see some weather!

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Permalink Reply by Endwise on September 2, 2010 at 7:10

You touched a couple of good points. The people banded together to rebuild in Galveston, something that other communities South of New Orleans deal with year after year when the winds blow south. They help one another and have learned how to survive by being prepared for the violent weather or they simply leave. But, and this is the big one, they were never stopped from coming back home to rebuild their communities, that is, till Katrina. Katrina was a test run on how our government can force people from going back to their homes. Not all New Orleanians are bad and plenty just wanted to help rebuild not only their homes but others. If you ever been flooded before you learn to sweep the water out your door as the water recedes. But even after the water was gone (150 square miles were under water for weeks) still two months later people were told they weren’t allowed back in. Their houses sat there and festered in that southern heat allowing mold and mildew to creep into every nook of their homes and businesses, till their only recourse was to demolish the places(block after block street after street, whole communities never to return), others still sit there till this day.
The politicians want more money to build levees to stop the salt water from the Gulf (the old timers want what they had before and that’s to be flooded with fresh water from the Mississippi River once again) and the only way to get this funding for levees is to keep it in the news.

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