Horrible note forwarded to me....

[cyn2]

This makes me sick. I used to work here, and I'm sick over the attitude of the elite:

From one Cornell Professor to another:
Louisiana - hmmmmmmmm
>
>>Bill I don't think that I sent you the reply I received from a good
>>friend of mine. He is on the staff of a college close to his home and
>>his son works with the FBI. So here it is:
>>
>>"What most people don't seem to realize it that Louisiana is the most
>>corrupt state in the nation and New Orleans is the most corrupt in the
>>state. Let us not forget that the last governor of Louisiana is
>>currently in prison. The Mafia rules New Orleans, always has. They were
>>there before they were anywhere else. The mayor is an ex-con and is
>>connected to the mob. There is a Levee Board in New Orleans responsible
>>for maintaining the levees. They get most of their money from the
>>federal government. In the last two years the Levee Board bought a
>>casino and a private jet with that money and did nothing about the
>>levees. Twenty-four hours into the disaster both the governor and the
>>mayor told the feds they didn't need help. The last thing they wanted is
>>the feds in the middle of their corrupt business. When things got out of
>>control is when they started blaming the president.
>>I'm really sad about Gulfport, Mississippi. That was one of the most
>>beautiful places in America. Those white sand beaches and emerald water
>>and across the street 150-200 year old southern mansions with huge live
>>oaks. It's all gone. How sad."
>
>--- end forwarded text

[Kurovski]

1. --Sincerely, Karl Rove.

Just kidding, just kidding!

[gkhouston]

2. isn't it a damned shame

that Louisiana is sooooo corrupt that our poor Federal government was unable to do anything for those folks in Mississippi, too? I guess they were just reeling from shock at how corrupt those Louisiana folk are and too incapacitated to get off their asses and do their jobs.

[AntiCoup2K4]

4. Blame their damned liberal governor Haley Barbour!

Oh wait, he ain't one of them? Well never mind then!!

/freep idiot mode :crazy:

And did someone lose their fucking old mansion that was built on the backs of slaves?

Guess it's about goddamned time, huh?

[momisold]

5. Haley B is governor of Mississippi, not LA. n/t

[Kurovski]

10. The note mentions Mississippi. Gulfport.

[Skittles]

3. if this were all true

wouldn't that be MORE reason for the feds to get there asses down there AS SOON AS POSSIBLE? The fact is, conservatives know they have blood on their hands - LOTS OF IT - and they're looking for ANY EXCUSE

[abluelady]

7. Some of it is true

I used to live in LA. The last governor is in prison and there is corruption. And you are right, there was more reason than normal for the Federal government to be there!

[Hello_Kitty]

16. And Blanco and Nagin aren't the GODDAMN POTUS!!!

[jokerman93]

6. touching

O, I wish I was in the land of cotton
Old times there are not forgotten
Look away! Look away!
Look away! Dixie Land.

[Bake]

8. I love(d) Gulfport, but the water there was brown

Not emerald. Because of the barrier island, the water off the coast at Gulfport is more brown than green. And you have to go further east to get to the white sand beaches.

Still, the old homes along the coast highway were beautiful. I haven't seen pictures, but I imagine most were destroyed. Sad.

Bake

[ElsewheresDaughter]

9. "most corrupt state" belongs to Mississippi......

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/16/1522205

Mississippi's #1: Corporate Crime Reporter Ranks Most Corrupt State Governments

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A new report examined the most corrupt state governments. The top 10? Mississippi, North Dakota, Louisiana, Alaska, Illinois, Montana, South Dakota, Kentucky, Florida and New York.
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As Connecticut Republican Gov. John Rowland face possible impeachment, we are going to take a look today at corruption within state governments.
Corporate Crime Reporter is releasing a report today titled "Public Corruption in the United States." The report ranks the 10 most corrupt states and the 10 least corrupt states.

The report is being released at a time when public corruption scandals are breaking out all over the country. The former Governor of Illinois, George Ryan, has been charged with taking money, gifts and loans in exchange for handing out state contracts to his donors. In Connecticut, three mayors and the state treasurer are in jail or heading to jail. And the Governor is under siege in a soap opera of a corruption scandal.

According to the report, the ten most corrupt states in the country are: Mississippi, North Dakota, Louisiana, Alaska, Illinois, Montana, South Dakota, Kentucky, Florida, and New York.

The ten least corrupt states in the country are: Nebraska, Oregon, New Hampshire, Iowa, Colorado, Utah, Minnesota Arizona, Arkansas, and Wisconsin.


Russell Mokhiber, editor of the Corporate Crime Reporter.

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. Gee and I always thought it was Texas

There's just so much competition to be #1.

[chelsea0011]

12. I saw the engineer in NO in charge of the levee system interviewed

last week and he didn't mention the casino and plane he bought.

[liberal43110]

13. I don't think the mayor is an ex-con??????

I don't think Mayor Nagin is an ex-con. He is the ex-CEO of Cox Communications, but I don't think he has a prison record. (I'm from New Orleans, and Nagin and are were working on our MBAs from Tulane at the same time, in different programs.)

[napi21]

14. Well, I don't know about all those individual details, but a very

good friend of mine was born and lived in NO for 40 years. When I would mention anything about corruption anywhere, his first response was always, "Can't even come close to NO!" I never got into details but this guy is the straightest guy I know, and he tells the truth, wether you like it or not! Most of the time, you don't!

Somehow, I don't really think corruption had much to do with the handling of Katrina though!

[Hello_Kitty]

15. And the Preznit is a f-cking incompetent moron

With his finger on the button. Who are these people going to blame when a nuke is headed toward us and dipshit freezes up again?

[Lexingtonian]

17. oh, cool- guilt by association!

These people are academics at an Ivy League school? They've bought into all the mythology, which people like them are usually proud not to do. Pathetic intellectual failure.

How nice to see that their opinions and ideas are stuck somewhere in the past and taken straight off Fox Noose wholesale.

Yeah, Jefferson Davis's mansion and all the other stuff built on slave labor are what is truly valuable about the region. Relative to the people and lives lived there, anyway. Wonderful chauvinism.

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This stuff is basically just part of this current huge last public whelp-over-the-rooftops of Southern-ish white bigotry being harnessed by the GOP. It wants out of its restraints and mental caves and into the sunshine (where it must die).

I guess there's no idiocy of theirs that they'll spare us. Or themselves.