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To: i-node who wrote (478212)	5/6/2009 1:32:09 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573908

Where do you think the people who service the New Orleans port and the oil center live ......Birmingham? You know what, sht for brains........you don't know squat about much of anything. New Orleans has been and continues to be an important city. It is important to me. I spend several weeks there every year, and just spent about five days there a couple weeks ago. There is not much you can tell be about New Orleans. The port is a substantial operation -- but handles a fraction of the cargo of the larger ports like LA. So what? LA is one of the largest ports in the world.....how is that a fair comparison? NOLA services the entire Midwest....it may not be as big as LA but it plays a key role in this country. Before the storm there were fewer than 500K people living in NOLA and that figure had DECLINED since the 2000 census.* No one looks exclusively at just the city. People say MSFT is in Seattle but in reality, its based in a suburb. Seattle has only 600k people but its metro area is over 3 million. Metro New Orleans continues to be well over a million people even with Katrina. And with over a million people there is considerable non tourist business done in NOLA. And it will be an important city to the wingers of the future because it will be remembered as the city that destroyed/almost destroyed the Republican party. Don't be an idiot. History will judge Bush's performance during Katrina as reasonably adequate. Not great, but nowhere nearly so bad as the media made it out to be. We'll see how Obama does during his first real crisis. Rs will never understand the impact that the Katrina/New Orleans disaster had on the American psyche. In that moment, people saw clearly for the first time who Bush and the Rs were. For someone like me who had known much earlier, it shocked me that it took a Katrina to wake up the American population. Fortunately, it did and that's when everything began to change. Until you all understand its impact, you will continue to wander in the desert. Well Dallas must have a lot of tourism because tourism is an important industry in Seattle. Yeah. Can't wait to get back to Seattle. LOL. Hey, they just opened up a second cruise terminal......200k sq ft. Seattle went from no cruise business in the mid 90s to over 800k passengers and 210 ships docking in Seattle last year. The cruise business alone brings $300 million tourist dollars to Seattle. You might consider taking a cruise up to Alaska and pay your idol up there a visit.