Reply #24: Of course, KamaAina's been on this for months now... [View All]

[KamaAina]

I have long championed the formation of a non-governmental organization (NGO) to represnt the interests of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region at the UN, in effect giving the Crescent City the same kind of observer status the PLO long enjoyed. Since it's obvious that the U.S. "government" has no interest whatever in rebuilding the region, it is incumbent upon the city to find one or more who will.

The king of Jordan can take the Lower Ninth Ward

Okay, boys and girls, pull up your favorite map server and enter "Arabi, LA". The section of New Orleans just across the parish line from there is the Lower Ninth Ward! This, by the way, not the Middle East, is where we get the jazz tune "Sheik of Arabi".

While we're at it, the entire section of New Orleans on the West Bank of the Mississippi is known as "Algiers"; Algeria, you know what to do. The section Uptown between the Garden District and the river is the Irish Channel, boding well for trade ties between N.O. and fast-growing EU member the Irish Republic. Back between there and downtown is the Coliseum Square area, where the river-lake cross streets are named for the nine Muses of Greek mythology -- we just bracketed the EU at its (for now) eastern end as well.

But seriously, folks, a more interrnational New Orleans is the only way to go. By August '05, the presence of a building called the "World Trade Center" (also "International Trade Mart") had become a quaint anachronism.

Gotta wonder if Ray Ray came up with this idea on his own, or if he's been reading my posts on the NOLA rebuilding boards...