Metaphysic Storm

Comments from The Tome of Communism
“It’s their world” Video of post K, posted by Lord Omar

Blogger Woozie said…
This is a classist, perhaps geopolitical, problem. Not a racial one. Broke white people elsewhere on the gulf coast, especially in Mississippi, got a whole bunch of nothing too. That’s a story you don’t hear.

I know and appreciate greatly they didn’t do this in the video, but way too many people make the post Katrina situation a racial problem when it simply is not. Great video.

Blogger Lord Omar said…
Certainly explains taking pot shots at rescue helicopters.

Blogger Woozie said…
Who took pot shots at rescue helicopters?

Blogger leslie said…
Everything in the United States is racial.

Rest assured, it will never happen again. The meditation gardens will keep the water at bay (LOL!!!!) better than any damn levees.

Blogger Lord Omar said…
Who took pot shots at helicopters? I thought you watched the video. Christ, your retention is worse than mine.

Blogger Woozie said…
In my short time here I haven’t seen it.

I remember the guy talking about helicopters and boats shooting over to St. Bernard’s Parish and I think he said “shooting” once before but I didn’t think at the time he was talking about firearms shooting.

Blogger Imperadør Hasemörder said…
Propaganda.

Mixing the issues of our Federal disaster response, the war in Iraq, illegal workers, the current reality of the regular job market and rebuilding before levee #5 is in place panders to the emotions.

The response was reprehensible for the world’s SuperNation. Not because not enough people were being picked up off of roofs, but because it would have been so easy to drop water, heat shelter and food to the huge clusters of people.

The war in Iraq is, was and will be retarded.

The government has no business in the job market. They do have a responsibility to make sure employers are legitimate and insured. But I know them Mexicans are paying rent (even if they live like coocoroachas) which contributes to property tax and they pay sales tax both of which go strait to the city. I wonder why our chocolate mayor wasn’t mentioned?

I just watched a Nation Geographic movie about keeping people safe at the bottom of active volcanoes… Ahhh ahh… whatever.

New Orleans will never be the same and that’s a good thing. We had concentrated poverty which bread a generation of welfare state dependent, ignorance and crime ridden neighborhoods which the police couldn’t step foot in without being shot. Now our economy is primarily based around tourism and service. I lived in Key West 10 years ago and couldn’t find an apartment under $850. That’s the reality. I lived in paradise and didn’t get paid shit. I moved to were the work paid better. If enough talent rejects the level of pay/work, pay will increase.

The true tragedy of the day is not the thousands of families that are now living in better situations spread over the country adding to the Jambalaya melting pot. The tragedy is the jump in property tax of the homes that were built above lake level which is squeezing out the middle class.

“Certainly explains taking pot shots at rescue helicopters.”

Nothing explains taking shots at rescue helicopters. - IMHO

Blogger Woozie said…
*cucarachas

And yeah shooting rescuers seems quite counterproductive, especially since “their lives weren’t worth any more or less than ours”. Just makes it more likely the shooter won’t get picked up.

Blogger leslie said…
It’s called “rage” and believing you’ve suddenly been given an opportunity to get away with something you’ve always wanted to do, which is strike out. At anything.

These are people that were prohibited from crossing a bridge to dry land, and people who had guns pointed at them by people supposedly there to help them.

Fear is a strange bird.

If you think of New Orleans as a small-scale United States, it all starts to make sense.

Blogger Lord Omar said…
I am not condoning taking pot shoots at rescue helicopters, however I am recognizing that if certain folks are being passed over for assistance so that the more affluent can be served first, then I can understand where desperate frustration may lead to violence. If a tsunami ravaged the area where I live (a very real possibility given the proper weather conditions) and search and rescue personnel were by-passing rural Overton in attempt to pick up people in the more to-do neighbourhoods of town, there’d be more than a few shots fired in response.

Blogger Imperadør Hasemörder said…
A bridge is dry land. All of I10 is a bridge. The question is why didn’t the Feds, with their gazillion choppers, drop vast quantities of water, food and heat-tarps on the bridges.

How the hell would a victim of a storm know if they were being passed over for others? I’m pretty sure there was some attempted system to the rescues and it didn’t have anything to do with how much money the neighborhoods were worth.

Blogger Woozie said…
Les: Yeah I understand that. My response was the level headed one to O’s comment that was apparently taken out of context by moi and Nero. After living with the woman my mother is I understand emotion trumps rationality in many a situation.

O: Ditto

Nero: They probably didn’t think of it. Or they would have dropped it for more affluent folks first.

Well when the helicopters fly over their neighborhood with no one in them towards another one, and then fly back from the horizon with people in them, the remaining stranded put together two and two.

Blogger leslie said…
The question is why didn’t the Feds, with their gazillion choppers, drop vast quantities of water, food and tarps on the bridges.

And the Mississippi is a toilet and a bed and it magically barfs up diapers and medicine and cooler air?

Blogger Lord Omar said…
@ Robert. Your question would be better asked of the people who say they waited 3 days on roof tops for help. You don’t think the more affluent would have been helped first? That is naive. Sweet, but naive.

Blogger Imperadør Hasemörder said…
There are two Roberts here. Perhaps the naive woozie and his guess that choppers pass people with guns pointed at them having something to do with it is correct.
The point is, it was a massive disaster. Most of the people with means evacuated, therefor it’s safe to assume that everyone in New Orleans after the storm either was a little nutty and didn’t heed the warnings or were poor without transportation.

But to think the Feds have enough helicopters to pick everyone off of their roofs simultaneously is naive. They had to be following some sort of system and I’m sure that meant flying over people. Why that system included dropping people on bridges to dehydrate and roast, just like they were doing on their roofs, is what boggles me.

The Mississippi is a toilet to almost half the country, it’s also New Orleans source of drinking water. Enjoy your next glass of water.
Blogger Raspootin said…
Actually I don’t think the guy in the video was talking about affluent.

St Bernard Parish (Chalmette) is 99% lower income white.

Lower 9th - as you know 99% lower income black.

Do I think the decision on who was rescued first was based on skin tone? I dunno but there sure were a lot of black people stuck at the Superdome and Convention Center.

And at the two above locations there definitely was NO reason whatsoever that medicine, diapers, water and MREs could not have been dropped.

I think the people were held at those locations under false pretense. The areas surrounding both were not flooded and easily accessable to someone leaving or the military getting in.

I still do not understand why the military did not bring these people supplies and let them suffer while the whole world watched.

That IMHO is a disgrace.

Blogger Woozie said…
Even if the pilots saw the guns, I don’t think they would have been too worried about some guy with a .45 bringing down a Blackhawk. On top of that, I sincerely doubt these shootings were widespread.

Truth be told I don’t know what fucked up down there. All I have are suppositions, theories, and talking points. Only the people who fucked up know what fucked up.

Blogger Imperadør Hasemörder said…
The majority of New Orleaniers were black. The overwhelming majority of people living here without means to evacuate were black. No matter how the response happened it would appear to be racists.

St Bernard Parish has a prison and an oil refinery. It also was more in line for storm surge damage. It smelled disgusting after the storm. I wouldn’t be surprised if the rescuers prioritized that area because of elevated risks.

Woozie’s right. Non of us here have enough information to make clear judgments on why things went so wrong. All we know for sure is that for being the most powerful Nation on earth we did aheckofa shitty job keeping our citizens from senseless suffering.

Blogger Woozie said…
But it doesn’t make sense for the response to be racially motivated in New Orleans, but universally terrible elsewhere. By the same token if St. Bernard and the Lower Ninth are of comparable economic status the classist argument doesn’t make much sense either.

Fuck, I want to see the coast guard’s rescue plans.

Blogger leslie said…
Helloooooooooo they new a levee failure was imminent. They did nothing to prevent this from happening. They “flushed the toilet” so to speak and gave a lot of poor black people a one way bus ride out. Homeowners. Taxpayers. People of color. What further information do you need?

When you walk around and see what’s being rebuilt and what isn’t…what neighborhoods are ghost towns and which are thriving…the way things were handled sure feels intentional.

What fucked up was 1) the Army Corp of Engineers 2) George Bush 3) America.

Blogger Raspootin said…
I would like to think that nothing was racially motivated, but I do remember during Hurricane Georges Marc Morial locked a bunch of people in the Superdome and would not let them out until the majority or the white home owners got back in town.

The Hurricane did not hit, and he kept them in there for 3 days…

On a national response level I do not think there was anything racial about it. I jut think that our resources (National Guard) were in Iraq and Homeland Security had no idea how to handle a national disaster. Top that with FEMA being under Home Land Security and you have an unavoidable disaster become a catastrophic event.

Like Leslie says, the whole issue could have been circumvented if The Army Corps of Engineers had done their job properly and also if promised monies from the Federal Government had been used and delivered for the purpose of Coastal Restoration and Levy repair. I am sure that more Highway funds are delegated to Houston each year than what was promised and never delegated to Louisiana over the past 10 years.

All about politics and priorities gone amuck? Yes I think that about sums it up for me.

Blogger Imperadør Hasemörder said...
Did the Corps choose to build half a city under sea level? Are they to blame because I can’t live on the moon? Are people going to blame them when California falls into the Pacific?

The city should have had enough buses to shuttle everyone out of the bowl that couldn’t afford to do so by their own means. And we all know damn well that most of us poor suckers wouldn’t step foot on a bus full of stinky strangers for a 4 day ride of hell, every time we’re ordered to evacuate. But at least that way the blame would be squarely on the people who chose to risk it.

The disaster was our response to the conditions as it presented itself. There was no way to predict the future. Every city should feel a little uneasy about what happened even if they don’t have a mother nature bulls eye painted on their self.

The conspiracy theories about racial cleansing and convenient gentrification are just bullshit. New Orleans is a gem of history, a living museum. It was only a matter of time before it became an expensive place to live. I payed $850 a month 10 years ago to live in a shack in Key West. It was difficult but I never wondered why.

Again what sucks is the middle class in the “thriving” parts of the city who have had their property tax go out of control to make up for the lost taxes of lake bed homes.

Blogger Woozie said…
Did the Corps choose to build half a city under sea level?

It’s always the French who fuck things up

Blogger leslie said…

Blogger Woozie said…
I smell flamewar.

Blogger leslie said…
I just bought a house 2 blocks out of the Quarter, two blocks from the river (that would be a “thriving” area, yes?) and the property taxes are 1/8 of what I pay in New York state.

Really. What the fuck ARE you talking about?

There absolutely was a way to predict toppled levees. They are knee-high for fucksake. And the reality of the aftermath is not a “theory”.

Blogger Imperadør Hasemörder said…
I’ve seen that photo. Why blame Bush? Shouldn’t the blame be on Nagan or Blanko? Why aren’t the people on the busses?

Because Wiggah, Us poor ass folk living in the cracks ain’t gonnah hop on no bus with crack heads.

That’s not true though. I would have got on the bus for Ivan and Katrina. But it seems as though the city failed in some organizational way.

I’ve been watching small business’s drop like flies. I don’t consider that thriving, the neighborhoods are surviving…

I left the city a month before the storm. The Marigney was already turning into Key West, if you get my drift. It was definitely getting out of my price range. Where did you live in NY? The upper east side?

Blogger leslie said…
Because Wiggah, Us poor ass folk living in the cracks ain’t gonnah hop on no bus with crack heads.

That is so offensive on so many levels. Are you the guy on Royal Street who told me I should quickly cross to the other side when I see black men walking towards me?

Yes, that’s it. The city failed in an “organizational” way. Much like your school teachers.

Blogger Woozie said…
I’m fairly sure Robert’s not a racist…

Blogger Imperadør Hasemörder said…
How dare you say that! O_o

Blogger leslie said…
You used the term “thriving”.

I live (not lived) in the Village. I own property upstate.

And no, I don’t get your drift. Is that a gay slur now? You don’t like the house colors? You’re offended that people pick up after their dogs? Corner coffeehouses? What?

I know…you only feel like a REAL artist if you’re pondering your imagined insanity squatting in a dumpy apartment in mid-city and resent people with jobs who choose to (and can afford to) keep their living spaces up?

You are a loathsome fucking creature. Still.

Blogger Woozie said…
Your experience with him is mostly, if not entirely, contained in this thread. Can you really call him a loathsome fucking creature off of that, keeping in mind all of this is an internet argument over something neither of you know the whole truth about?

Blogger leslie said…
I don’t think he’s a racist. I think he’s a moron.

But implying that all poor black people are crackheads is pretty fucking racist.

Blogger Woozie said…
He’s weird, not racist. Trust me.

Blogger leslie said…
My experience with him goes way back to before I knew this blog existed.

And there is no such thing as “truth”. If there was, people wouldn’t argue.

Blogger Imperadør Hasemörder said…
I love people who think I’m a moron. And people thinking I’m a racist makes me chuckle all they way back to mitochondria eve.

Blogger Woozie said…
How is there no such thing as truth?

Blogger Imperadør Hasemörder said…
How do I know you Leslie? I’m dieing to know.

Blogger Lord Omar said…
Heh heh heh

Blogger Raspootin said…
Leslie, I am sorry because I do hate to agree with his lordship, which is lording over all these comments.

But WTF? How long have you lived here? Are you just stupid or naive?

Go to New Orleans metroblog and sign up, you would be perfect! They are death ridden with poor writers.

You are a good writer so just DO it! Why not? You know so much and have opinions that share a common base with these folks. Perhaps you are even one of them, sounds a lot to me like it.

PS I have lived here a Long time and you need to get out of your poor this poor that attitude. What you think, want you want is not is not what it is here, not going to happen. If you can not accept this city for what it is, you have no place in it.

When I moved here in the late 80’s to go to college at Tulane, I was kind of shocked at the Black and White racisms: I came from London and thought I knew so much better. Well reality check from even my black friends said I was wrong: It is here, it is even more prevalent with black on black, but black to white/ white to black also. Sorry to burst your bubble; came down to help out us poor folk did ya? Makes you feel like your life is meaningful? Lovely – but get reality or you will not last past your fifth mortgage payment.

PS Nancy Marshall chose to raise my property taxes 100% guess she is not your assessor. Well, as I walk every day I can tell you by gentrification (oohh is that mean, its racist or just god damn class associative)? I have no idea except she raised the property tax so high without basing said assessment on a failing housing market that is driving people out. There are more homes in my uptown neighborhood than I have ever seen in my life here on sale. Black and White home owners.

Maybe you can get some of your buddies from up North to move down here and make New Orleans a better place with people who really understand property taxes and have a high standard of living. Perhaps you should warn them that they can not send their children to public schools, the roads are shit oh yes and that no corporation not even a fortune 50 let alone 500 wants to invest here, so they may have to take a 50% pay cut, but what is that when compared to just giving one for the team?
Blogger unokhan said…
enough buses

Blogger Woozie said...
They’re commies, they don’t know anything. Don’t you know how things work here in America?

Blogger unokhan said…
the cubans realize the wheel has already been invented, they put it to good use, and don’t spend years wondering acrimoniously why it hasn’t been invented yet. it’s that simple.

Blogger Imperadør Hasemörder said…
I’m willing to bet, that even after all that’s happened, if the city started practicing evacuation on buses for people without cars during hurricane threats, hardly anyone would get on them. I’d be fascinated to see the results.

This is America. Each family deserves a helicopter, with cold drinks, of their own!

Maybe I am “a loathsome fucking creature”

Blogger leslie said…
PS I have lived here a Long time and you need to get out of your poor this poor that attitude. What you think, want you want is not is not what it is here, not going to happen.

Well said. I cannot even begin to conjure a response to that gem.

1) I have no mortgage. I paid cash. What would my not buying the particular load of crap you’re selling have to do with me not making a mortgage payment anyway? And how does one “get reality” exactly?

2)I have no idea what metroblog is and just based on the name, I’m not interested. Thanks, though.

3) Fuck your territorial bullshit. You don’t know me or what motivates my choices. You don’t know where I’m from, where I’ve lived, or what my life experience is.

4)The urban crime statistics you’re spewing are no different there than here. And whatever point you’re attempting to make has absolutely nothing to do with anything I said.
And maybe research the NYC public schools situation (or hell, maybe that of the whole USA) while you’re Googling “NYC potholes”. At least you have a hurricane to blame for your crumbled infrastructure.

Accept the city for what it is? What might that be? What you’re going to tell me it is? What it’s been for you? You who doesn’t even understand our system of government or how the electoral college works is going to tell me something I’m too naive and stupid to comprehend?
Thank you.

Your carpetbagger scenario is also off base. My mother was from the south and half of my family lives down there.

My “buddies from up North”? Is the civil war still going on? Do you know how idiotic you sound?

Can you point out my “poor this poor that” attitude? Is it where I said I won’t cross a street based on the skin color of an approaching person? You’re right. That was pretty awful of me. I’ve never had a single problem down there and I’m REALLY fucking white, so go figure. Maybe people who walk around in fear with nervous body language give off something that invites trouble. How’s that? I tend to believe that. But you can have the last laugh if I wind up with a bullet in my head. Fair enough?

PS, your words are incapable of bursting my bubble and my life already has meaning. Furthermore, I’ve no interest in helping you. You are too far gone. TFW, ONE DEAD IN ATTIC, so to speak.

…still looking for the part where you agreed with Omar, btw.

ONE DEAD IN ATTIC

LOL!!!!!

I really hope that didn’t go over your head, but just in case…I’m calling you braindead, see…

funny, right?

Blogger Imperadør Hasemörder said…
Leslie, I’m King, God, Lord and Emperor. Where do I know you from? Is that 1/3 slice of face on your blog yours? I don’t recognize it.

Cash for a house in the Marigney? Nice. Let’s hook up. I’ve been looking for a sugar mamma. You were wrong about me “only feel[ing] like a REAL artist if [I’m] pondering [my] imagined insanity squatting in a dumpy apartment in mid-city” I’m perfectly happy making paintings in a mansion or on the street.

I would also love if you could tell me if I am insane or not. I could be imagining it, but I’m certainty not pretending.

Two more questions: How white is “REALLY fucking white”? and do I also classify at the same level of whiteness?

I’ve always wanted to be a purebred but I’ve always feared my mom’s Jew blood would ruin it for me.

Blogger Raspootin said…
Heh heh heh

Is where I agree with Omar.

BLAH BLAH BLAH
or should I say

Bark Bark Bark

Blogger Raspootin said…
Oh yeah and Leslie, because I have a last word on the subject problem, I was under the influence of wine when I wrote my comment or I could have been just as rude and mean as you. Not a bitchy as you, but definitely as rude and mean.

I note where some of my thoughts were not a cohesive as I would have liked, and for that I do apologize at that makes me a less than worthy opponent.

Blogger leslie said…
I love it! I swear I’m smart, I just can’t handle my pinot grigio!.

Are you sober now -because that last comment’s not much better.

PS
I suggest you be certain you know what Omar is laughing about before you high-five him.

Trust me on that one.

Blogger Lord Omar said…
oh stop

Blogger Imperadør Hasemörder said…
Damn it leslie, why don’t you play fairly. Answer my question. Where do I/you know you/me from?

Blogger leslie said…
Taking into account that I’m mean, rude, and bitchy, do you still want me to answer?

I didn’t say you know me, I said my experience with you goes back a bit.

btw, I’m still considering your offer to let me support you while you lay around splattering paint and annoying me. I’ll get back to you on that.

Blogger Imperadør Hasemörder said…
Yes.

OK, were have you experienced me? I assumed it was from real life, not the web, since you have a house in my old neighborhood.

Awesome! But unfortunately I’m a neat painter.

Blogger leslie said…
Let’s see, you dismantled my friend’s computer and went through his personal files shortly before going on a block-long artwork-smashing tour all because, in the name of free rent and bad judgment, you moved across the country and into the home of someone you’d never met who was clearly hoping for a cute young houseboy/pet (based on the 15-year old photos you sent him), but got you instead. A ranting, smelly, pretentious gasbag who palmed his smokes and invaded his privacy. He threw you out (though he took an extra day to toss you just so he wouldn’t lose the “I’ll give it a week” bet I made with him) and you retaliated by posting pictures of his house, his face, his dust bunnies and your busted paintings in an epic entitled Filthy Paranoid Man.

In an attempt to drag me into the drama, he directed me to your Rabbitslayer blog but instead of defending him I think I just LOLed in a big way, and that’s how I found you all. I’ve been within spitting distance of you on several occasions, most recently in New Orleans, but I quickly cross the street when I see you coming, fearing imminent danger or strange odors.

And please let’s not have a “Steve is the crazy one argument”. That is not news to me. But grown men should know better than to move in with strangers/internet weirdos, innit?

~Hey, can you help me move some furniture next week?

And that’s like the third time I’ve told that story so if you all would stop smoking so much weed, I’d appreciate it.

Oh, and Raspootin, you’re the one that provided a personal reference for Bunny when Steve called you! LOL! OMFG!

As I recall you described him as “not dangerous but less than organized”.

Blogger Imperadør Hasemörder said…
Filthy Paranoid Man friend. Well I’ll be.

I’m a risk taker, I know it. His sister in California was very persuasive as a character reference. She didn’t mention that he wanted some Hershey highway. I guess she was puzzled when we went out to eat and I treated her like a gentleman. Not being prejudice does instill a certain level of naivety I think things might have worked out at FPM house if I didn’t step in his dogs shit everyday and made the mistake of trying to save his computer from emanate failure on my own initiative.

Invade his privacy. Please. If I wanted to invade, he would never have known.

My writing has improved. Has it not?

Sorry for asking who you are again. You just aren’t that memorable.

Blogger leslie said…
My writing has improved. Has it not?

Yes!

Sorry for asking who you are again. You just aren’t that memorable.

You’ll have to work on your manners if you’re hoping to be kept.

Blogger Imperadør Hasemörder said…
BTW. The “Thriving” parts of the city are built on the Mississippi’s natural levee. A mile long stretch from the river. Your property is going to worth buckets of money when the new riverfront is built: on the video you linked to. Add to that, I’m sure the art leaching gentrifiers will have the city put the power and phone lines under ground. You’ll be living in Disney land! The Village, The Marigeny… Don’t tell me you’re going to buy a place in Haight-Ashbury.

I’ve gottah know, are you a lesbian? I would say the odds are fairly high. If so, I might help you move your furniture in. Other wise you might take advantage of me with my irresistible pheromones.

Blogger Raspootin said…
How very “fascinating” Leslie. It still does not give you an excuse to name call. Just because you are a “know it all” does not make your observations fact. It simply makes your bark bark barks uninformed opinions. You obviously have only recently relocated here.

Why did you make the recommendation that he go stay with your friend in the first place?

Why did your friend, who was more interested in getting his pack of dogs out of the flooding basement while avoiding stepping in their dog doo, than listening to my recommendation, trust someone’s recommendation who he had never met? I could have been anyone on the other end of the line.

who was clearly hoping for a cute young houseboy/pet

So, Steve is a great guy; he kind of sounds desperate with a touch of pervert to me. Perhaps Robert should have checked his references better?

I always thought the whole situation was weird. After interacting with you for this short period of time, I can see the situation was even weirder than I first thought.

Off to get drunk now, that way I can use my addiction to wine as an excuse for being stupid.

Blogger leslie said…
How very “fascinating” Leslie. It still does not give you an excuse to name call. Just because you are a “know it all” does not make your observations fact. It simply makes your bark bark barks uninformed opinions. You obviously have only recently relocated here.

Ok, what are we talking about here? You absolutely suck at debate. I struggle with all these concepts…”fact”, “truth”, “reality”…totally subjective.

What does how long I’ve had a house in New Orleans have to do with anything? You keep throwing that out there and I keep telling you I live in New York. You know, “the north”?

You really can’t read, can you? I am not Steve’s sister. His sister lives in California.

I made no recommendation whatsoever about Robert’s living situation. His grand journey east had already begun before I was even told about it. Had he called me for a referral about Steve, I would have laughed my ass off, which is my standard response to all things Steve.

Steve rescues dogs. Abandoned dogs, abused dogs, dogs on death row. He spends roughly $20,000 a month on vet care and dog food, his house is a complete fucking mess, as is his life, but at least he’s doing something to aid a few helpless creatures.

Ponder that while you’re sitting in a bar getting your stupid on.

BTW. The “Thriving” parts of the city are built on the Mississippi’s natural levee. A mile long stretch from the river. Your property is going to worth buckets of money when the new riverfront is built: on the video you linked to.

Hey! I know! Location location location! I’ll either be rich or submerged. Either is fine.

Blogger Woozie said…
You all are still doing this?

Blogger Lord Omar said…
shhh…you’ll break their concentration.

Blogger Imperadør Hasemörder said…
Steve rescues dogs. Abandoned dogs, abused dogs, dogs on death row. He spends roughly $20,000 a month on vet care and dog food, his house is a complete fucking mess, as is his life, but at least he’s doing something to aid a few helpless creatures

Yeah, his sister said that his life was a mess and that his house was a disaster, but that he had a good heart, you know helping puppies and all. I thought that the situation would be mutually beneficial. I worked hard, sweating my ass off, making his house livable. Then was kicked to the curb with $40. I shouldn’t have saved his computer. By grand error.

I wasn’t informed from his sister that he was a butt pirate that lifted pictures off of my website and sent them to all his friends.

Little did I know that the dogs he rescues probably had a better life on the street or the the potential mercy of euthanasia. And 20K a month on the mutts (non white/black) sounds a little boastful, on his part of course. I assumed, because of my naivety, that a man who’s purpose in life is to save yesterdays Chinese dinner, would treat a human being with at least a modicum of respect. And that he would trust a person he was able to research online and gave his house keys to. Opps.

Hey! I know! Location location location! I’ll either be rich or submerged. Either is fine.

That’s my point baby. Yo bitchin’ about all the trouble the “black” folk have down here and you take your NY dollars and push out the Real Nawlin’™. God bless the constitution and our ban on internal tariffs.

Blogger unokhan said…
leslie is channeling addie hall.

Blogger Imperadør Hasemörder said…
I smell something yummy!

Blogger leslie said…
What’s your point…
I bought my house from a 61-year old white woman who lives in Dallas.

Nice try.

Aren’t you from Pennsylvania? Don’t act like you have gumbo pulsing through your veins. What do you know about the Real Nawlin’?!

Hawking fleur de lys paintings to tourists on the weekend makes you down with the people?

Are you fucking kidding me?

Do you even know the history of the neighborhood? Wikipedia it (Faubourg Marigny for the spelling impaired…i.e…YOU) and then come back at me with something besides your baseless rhetoric.

Blogger unokhan said…
As Zack said, “That’s enough out of you”

Blogger Woozie said…
word, this is retarded.

Blogger Imperadør Hasemörder said…
I never claimed to be the RealNawlin’™. I only paint her. But I do suck heads. Do you?

Blogger leslie said…
Really? I only see quaint French Quarter/Garden District facades and river scenes in your portfolio.

If that’s the Real Nawlin’ I guess we’ve arrived at the same place.

Finally.

Blogger Imperadør Hasemörder said…
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I can’t tell if Lord O was making fun of himself with this blazzin’ post.

Blogger Raspootin said…
Miss Leslie,

I am so confused about your anger that I would like to request a meeting at Napoleon House - one of my very favorite places. I will be there sharp: 12:00 on Sunday noon time.

I want to tell you about “our city” I love New Orleans. I love her a lot.

I will even buy you a pimms cup.

Oh and Leslie, thanks this is the most fun I have had on Woozie’s site since well: 2006 when Omar attacked me thinking I was Robert?

If you don’t show: I’m going to ask Omar to go to your site and be mean - he is probably the best that I have encountered with f-=in with people hiding behind a persona.(not that he would do that for me, but maybe for the meaness and intrigue.)

At any rate, I do look forward to meeting you on Sunday. If nothing else, I will just drink your drink and wander my favorite art galleries.

Blogger Woozie said…
you gonna get raped

Blogger thimscool said…
Yeeeeesh. I’ll take a pimms.

I’m pretty sure that there were a lot of racist people affecting the scene in NO before and after Katrina, Slayer. Whether this amounts to institutional, or planned racism, I don’t know.

I just think that people are a bit stupid, especially in group think mode. And what better channel for group think than governments?

I don’t know why this thread is so acrimonious, but I for one am very pleased to hear from Leslie again. She’s got top-shelf moxie.

Blogger Imperadør Hasemörder said…
I never said that racism doesn’t exist in New Orleans. Do you think I’m blind? What I said was that the heroes rescuing people off of roof tops were not skipping dark folk to save whitey.

I’m sure a large percentage of the rescuers had an African lineage. Don’t you think they would have spoke to the press if they were given orders to skip the niggahs?

I’m sure there were isolated incidents were a prejudiced mercenary or a brother on a roof when koo-koo and acted irrationally. But the whole rescue plan based on race. Please… Let me guess, Bush blew up the WTC.

I also wonder why the Top Shelf Moxie is so disgruntled.

Blogger Lord Omar said…
Well, the old queen gonna have to tell her tale-o-woe some other place!

posted by Lord Omar at 12:37 PM on May 20, 2008
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