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Sputnik_Sweetheart
05/12/09

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You did a heckuva job, Brownie.
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oh.geez.
05/12/09

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If there is a list of anything in the U.States, Louisiana is usually at the bottom (if the bottom means we're the worst). It has been this way for decades (a tradition), and frankly, I don't know if it can really get better, because people down here have never seen better....It's been said for more than one generation that Louisiana educates kids for other states. Why? It's pretty much understood that even if you go to college here, you have to leave the state to find employment. Also, the biggest employer here is state government. Big businesses, by and large, will not come here (politics and such).
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SouthernSatine
05/12/09

@oh.geez.: I'm from Mississippi, and I now live in Atlanta for exactly this reason. There just aren't employment opportunities there for people who really want to move up in the world. Well, that and by Mississippi standards I was considered a crazy feminist hippy liberal.
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Flackette Goes Retro
05/12/09

@oh.geez.: We Kentucky folks often joke that Louisiana and Mississippi are our saving graces, occasionally keeping us from being #50 out of 50. I say that not to mock, but to empathize with the plight of another state with poverty, education and health issues. Brain drain is a big problem here. I'm a little odd in that I got educated, lived in two other states, but came back to start my adult worklife here.
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Flackette Goes Retro
05/12/09

@Flackette Goes Retro: (When I came back I went to the city though, not back to the rural areas).
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leesie
05/12/09

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Meanwhile, Nagin is being investigated for supposedly using public funds for taking his family on a trip to Jamaica.
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VirginiaDentata
05/13/09

@leesie: No one, ever, has disappointed me so much as he. I loved him so much during the storm, when he was bitching at Bush and (allegedly) got in his face on Air Force 1 so aggressively that he was held off by the Secret Service. And then...nothing. Just crap like this. Ugh.
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VirginiaDentata
05/12/09

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On the way from New Orleans to Hattiesburg, there is a field full of FEMA trailers. Literally, thousands. They are just sitting there, rows upon rows upon rows of them, up and along the hills. It is a strange, sad, surreal sight. I don't know what they're doing there, or why. And I also do not understand why these people are being forced out of them. Maybe my tinfoil hat is on a little too tight, but I suspect it has something to do with the long term risks o being housed in a formaldehyde saturated box. And the probable resulting lawsuits.

So the question is, what can we do to help? Does anyone know any resources? I'm tired of this impotent rage, y'all.
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mommymash
05/12/09

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POINT SULPHUR?! i can't even comment on the actual picture because i can't get past the name of the town. it sounds like it would most definitely be the worst-smelling place to live in the world!
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Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
05/12/09

@mommymash: All I can say to that is that you have obviously never visited Rotorua...
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wry_bred
05/12/09

@Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: Ahahaha I have! The fact that the town is really beautiful kind of helps, though. One of my happiest days was horseback riding through these huge hills around there.
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Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
05/12/09

@wry_bred: Ha, Rotorua, or Pt. Sulphur? I'm grew up in Taupo, and even regular trips to Rotorua for soccer tournaments, school trips, and what not did nothing to acclimatise me to that stench!
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wry_bred
05/12/09

@Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: I'm pretty sure it was Rotorua... we spent two days and went to the sulphur springs and all that. Then we stayed on farms (this was during a college study abroad btw) in I think... Te Kuiti? Which was GORGEOUSSSSSS. I am jealous of your country's scenic-ness.
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dreamweave
05/12/09

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Goddammit. And there are banks BULLDOZING brand new homes in foreclosure because it's more cost-effective for them. FUCK.
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Kivrin
05/12/09

@dreamweave: Really? I hadn't heard about that (although I have no trouble believing it). How awful.
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FarleyDrexel is crossing the Rubicon
05/12/09

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What does it say on Herschel's little quilt there? Can anybody read that?
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Anna
05/12/09

@FarleyDrexel is crossing the Rubicon: I blew it up. It says:

"For comfort and piece from Rumpled Quilts Kin

Traverse City, MI"
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Anna
05/12/09

@Anna: "peace"
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midwesternmom
05/12/09

@FarleyDrexel is crossing the Rubicon: I'm giving a shout-out to all the ladies that make and donate quilts for children in crisis. My son was given a quilt when he had surgery, and the amount of love and detail that a total stranger poured into her craft made me cry.
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MizJenkins
05/12/09

@FarleyDrexel is crossing the Rubicon: I SURVIVED HURRICANE KATRINA AND ALL I GOT FROM FEMA WAS THIS STUPID BLANKET.
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AtomiClash: humanitarian misanthrope
05/12/09

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American Refugees.
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Fridge Hussy : Is finally heading back to uni!
05/12/09

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Where are they supposed to go?
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Fridge Hussy : Is finally heading back to uni!
05/12/09

@Fridge Hussy :STOP ACTING LIKE YOU HAVEN'T SEEN A TITTY BEF...: I mean, after the deadline.
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sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
05/12/09

@Fridge Hussy :STOP ACTING LIKE YOU HAVEN'T SEEN A TITTY BEF...: And where are they automatically supposed to get the money for a new house/apartment?
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sympathyforthebasementcat
05/12/09

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Mission Accomplished?
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tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler-Spock
05/12/09

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Sweetheart, would you like to bring your friends and come home with me? I will cook for you all and make sure you sleep well, promise. Then, tomorrow, we can go to the Air and Space Center and pretend to be pilots.
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rd2uk
05/12/09

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THIS. THIS is what we should be having nationally covered press conferences about instead of donald trump, shana moakler, and carrie prejean all pushing their own ridiculous agendas. ARHGHRUHG
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CurtCole
05/12/09

@rd2uk: I agree, I can't believe they are just being kicked out, like we have any other use for those trailers...wasn't there an article a couple of years ago about how the trailers were all sinking in some storage facility the government had them at?
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sympathyforthebasementcat
05/12/09

@rd2uk: When I saw that as the top story on CNN, it made me so sad. I realize I enjoy my shallow stories on Jez or Dlisted, but the news should be following the real stories, not this bullshit.
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shorty63136
05/12/09

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Herschel, you and the other little ones can take turns hanging at my house. We'll make noodles and watch Sesame Street and Nemo.
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sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
05/12/09

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On an aesthetic level, this is a beautiful picture with a great angle of the trailer. But on a human level, this is so heartbreaking.
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