[...]Probably not what you were expecting: Fukushima has taught me to stop worrying and embrace nuclear power.[...]…

The Democratic governor told The Associated Press that the media and New York politics have hit new lows, but that the situation won't stop him from serving in office or seeking election to a full term in the fall.

NY's Paterson lashes back at rumors

But I like you believe that the New New Orleans is on the horizon. We have to accept the fact that NO will not be predominantly AA ever again. I think the win will encourage more non-AAs to invest and plant their stakes there. Of course, like many major US cities and for some friends of mine, AAs will continue to prosper and live well in NO. We cannot expect for it to be the Old New Orleans. The money is not there to bring it back. AAs don't have the wherewithall to sustain their stake and with the election of Landrieu by such an overwhelming majority, it doesn't appear that AA mind who brings the city back, the attitude is SOMEBODY bring it back. So, we can't begin to expect for the New New Orleans to ever be the same. Time to lower the expectations.

It's has been hard time for the city, and what you see as a tourist, or what you read in the papers are not the same as living the life of a resident.

All of my family lives back in NOLA except a few who decided not to come back, that includes me and just a few others, the questions and concerns you guys brought up are one that they deal and talk about and think about everyday. It's things that they will have to think about even after this.

Your concern is great, but let the city have this, for once, un-tainted victory. Can't it wait until after the ticker parade or damn at least after mardi gras, before tainting this victory.

Besides, I've talked to my family, and I talk to my people all the time, don't worry, the people of NOLA want this time to forget just for a week about what they will have to deal with head-on after long after everyone else is done celebrating the Superbowl.

Like I said on the Superbowl thread yesterday, for now this victory is bittersweet, not because of the concerns ya'll mentioned, but because it makes me wonder about the people my family personally lost to the storm and how happy they woulda been.

The other stuff can come later, we are still basking in the glow.

P.S. If ya'll want to have this disscussion after Mardi Gras, I'll be glad to join in.

:)

In a city consumed by the Superbowl and Mardi Gras celebrations, New Orleans elected a new mayor last weekend. Mitch Landrieu, the state’s current Lieutenant Governor, won 65% of the vote

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For now, the city is united in an ecstatic euphoria over its first-ever Superbowl championship. It’s an open question whether the city’s new political leadership can keep this often divided city together, and oversee a much-needed revitalization. Even within the celebration, there are worrying signs.

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The problems in New Orleans began long before Nagin was elected, and were multiplied by Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans needed tens of millions of dollars to rebuild its infrastructure even before the Hurricane. Schools were falling apart, public transportation was unreliable, and the city’s tourist-based economy offered few opportunities. Today, more than 60,000 residential addresses – about a third of the city’s homes – remain empty or abandoned. The city has one of the nations highest murder rates, a homeless population estimated at above 12,000, and a police department facing federal investigation for a wide range of crimes, including post-Katrina killings of unarmed civilians. Even if we had a great mayor, it would not be enough. The city needs federal support and visionary leadership. Only time will tell if those needs will be met.

We can't move forward on the agenda because the health care plan that's on the table is a terrible sell out to the insurance industry that has no support among the left, right or center. The Senate has been dysfunctional indeed, but how can the President expect members of Congress and the Senate to pass a plan that America doesn't like. The state of MA already has the exact same plan that has already been passed in the Senate and look what happened in that state's most recent elections. And Obama is largely responsible for the weak health care bill that no one likes:

Obama and the White House pissed off many progressives when he made side deals with the Pharmaceutical companies – throwing drug reimportation under the bus.

Obama and the White house pissed of many Americans when he refused to stand up for the Public Option by caving in to the corporate/war wing of the Democratic Party (when some progressive Dems refused to vote for a war supplemental bill that included a giveway to European banks through IMF earlier this year, the White House started twisting arms and threatening freshman Congressman about withdrawing support for future elections. Why aren't they doing that with health care reform?) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar…

Obama flipped flopped and decided to support a mandate to buy private health insurance with no Public Option even though he campaigned hard against this very idea.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/stateme…

The truth is Obama has been just as inconsistent and incompetent as Congress and the Senate and he's in no position to throw stones.

Peace.

So why so much concern about neo-natal abortion rates, and practically none regarding post-natal death rates.

Are they right?
Are Black children really becoming an endangered species?

Here the youtube ad check it out and speak on this shit!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG94YKnzSdI&feat…

Which is it?