What is it with you liberal whiners - you don't get the law of supply &
demand? The former populations of New Orleans / 42nd St. etc are NOT
VERY MUCH IN DEMAND - so stick that in your pipe & don't you dare smoke
it in a public place. And don't give me this freakin I mean wreaking
destruction garbage, nud'n, bud, if fighting the terr'rists can rake in
the $s & clean up good for America then what's your beef?
Horatio Alger
Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Oh yeah, Ken, I get it. On New York & what happened, Samuel R Delany's
> Times Square Red Times Square Blue has much to say.
>
> In the latest Harper's ex-editor Lapham has a little satiric piece on
> how in fact the war is working just fine for Big Business (ie,
> Halibuirton etc), & in fact is capitalism at its best (following right
> through from Medieval knights & their followers...
>
> But sadly all we can do is laugh at these japes in order not to cry at
> the destruction wreaked by those in power...
>
> Doug
> On 31-Aug-06, at 1:11 PM, Ken Wolman wrote:
>
>> What next? New Orleans will become the city its masters wish. Where
>> do those masters reside? Duh. Hint: it's not New Orleans.
>>
>> New Orleans will follow the fate of New York's Times Square and 42nd
>> Street areas. Both the Square and areas of New Orleans were
>> notorious for their "sinfulness." I never felt unsafe among grifters
>> and hookers in the Square or on 42nd Street. Yes, you watched your
>> wallet but that's the rule in any big city. I'm dismayed by the
>> glitzorama atmosphere of New York since the "renovations" begain in
>> the early '90s. The bordello make-over suggests inflatable people of
>> both sexes.
>>
>> Is it true Halliburton got a no-bid contract to rebuild the city?
>> I'm only half-joking.
>>
>> I have a good friend whose son survived the 9th Ward by being dragged
>> out bodily by a friend. He didn't want to leave his home even though
>> there was rampant mayhem in the streets. Now he has no intention of
>> returning and has reopened his graphic arts business in a town in
>> East Texas. His take on the future of New Orleans sounds remarkably
>> like what New York has become: "Disney and whores."
>>
>> Ken
>>
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> surely when they fell
> it was into grace
>
> bpNichol
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