Beating of young couple in new Orleans confirmed to be politically motivated.

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atlantic city is a complete hole. i've been once and would never ever return. at least new orleans has good food and some history.
 
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my buddy had a bachelor party there. table minimums were astronomical as were the hotel rates. nothing to do but go to sleezy strip clubs. there was a good sub shop though. :)
 
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droski said:
my buddy had a bachelor party there. table minimums were astronomical as were the hotel rates. nothing to do but go to sleezy strip clubs. there was a good sub shop though. :)
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What? You couldnt get a footlong in the strip club:)
 
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:eek:lol:

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orangeblooded2 said:
Well.....if their going to wear Palin buttons.


You can go back and blame it on Bush and FEMA. New Orleans hates the republican party and their buttons.
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If they hadn't been doing that voodoo stuff the hurricane wouldn't have swamped them. :p
 
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orangeblooded2 said:
Well.....if their going to wear Palin buttons.


You can go back and blame it on Bush and FEMA. New Orleans hates the republican party and their buttons.
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yeah, it sure wasn't the local dem politicians or the state dems. way to justify them getting attacked orangeblood.
 
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orangeblooded2 said:
Well.....if their going to wear Palin buttons.


You can go back and blame it on Bush and FEMA. New Orleans hates the republican party and their buttons.
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I was going to post something that touched on this yesterday but decided not to. I wondered how long it would be before someone on the left would partially excuse these actions based on Katrina and the suffering attached to it.

I do realize you are only joking.
 
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KB5252 said:
I was going to post something that touched on this yesterday but decided not to. I wondered how long it would be before someone on the left would partially excuse these actions based on Katrina and the suffering attached to it.

I do realize you are only joking.
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I doubt that he's joking
 
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KB5252 said:
I was going to post something that touched on this yesterday but decided not to. I wondered how long it would be before someone on the left would partially excuse these actions based on Katrina and the suffering attached to it.

I do realize you are only joking.
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Yes.

The people of New Orleans not so much...... in the effect that the perps will only get a smack on the wrist. Unless they plea no contest. This also depended on the Judges political affiliation.
 
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orangeblooded2 said:
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Yes.

The people of New Orleans not so much...... in the effect that the perps will only get a smack on the wrist. Unless they plea no contest. This also depended on the Judges political affiliation.
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Please explain this a little better, I'm not sure I follow the direction you're going here.
 
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KB5252 said:
Please explain this a little better, I'm not sure I follow the direction you're going here.
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I think especially in that City the hatred for the Republican Party will preclude any chance of any conviction not being politically motivated or even possible. At least to the degree the party would like too see.
 
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orangeblooded2 said:
I think especially in that City the hatred for the Republican Party will preclude any chance of any conviction not being politically motivated or even possible. At least to the degree the party would like too see.
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I tend to agree, I also believe the lack of coverage this will get will factor in also.

I find attitude of this city and their disdain for republicans a little ironic considering the president was left to try and clean up a serious mess that was perpetuated by the inaction and neglect of their elected democratic representation.
 
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KB5252 said:
I tend to agree, I also believe the lack of coverage this will get will factor in also.

I find attitude of this city and their disdain for republicans a little ironic considering the president was left to try and clean up a serious mess that was perpetuated by the inaction and neglect of their elected democratic representation.
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Remember the money was there to fix the Locke System. $$$ Hundreds of millions. Clinton had already designated the money. Bush Took the money for the war and\or tax cuts.
 
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Which Levees and locke systems are you talking about? The hundreds of millions allocated would have barely put a dent in the problem that Katrina brought. There are any number of levee and locke systems and I've seen estimates for one particular system where the price tag was estimated at 2.5 to 3 Billion and would take an estimated 20 to 30 years to complete.

At worst what Bush did was delay the repairs/upgrades and they wouldn't have been anywhere near completion when Katrina hit anyway. Because of the direction this weather system took the only thing Bush could have done was evacuate the city which is of course the local governments job and duty.
 
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joevol320 said:
hey Law, i read where they're building a bunch of casinos on an Indian reservation. is that in tallahassee?
they were calling it the future vegas of the south.
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Not, yet.

There's a lot of history to this issue and its complicated, but in sum:

1) The state has been at odds with the Indians, who have I think 7 spots in the state where they have casinos. The dispute has been over what they can offer there because until the last few years state law banned just about everyhting that was not horse or dog racing. So the casinos had these lame slot machines that were linked together in some kind of bingo format.

2) A few years back, the state legalized poker. The games that could be offered were limnit games, or Texas Hold'Em in $1/$2, $2/$5, and $5/$10 blind increments (if you don't play, you wont understand that). The Indian casinos were allowed to offer that 24 hours a day, the dog tracks were allowed to offer it 12 hours a day.

But, for both, the maximum buy in at any one time is $100. That cap, if you know anything about poker, makes the game extremely whacked.

3) For the last few years, the Indians have told the state to go screw themselves, arguing that state law does not govern them. So they surreptitiously added blackjack and some other table games to their offering. No craps, no roulette.

4) The state has been trying to work out a deal for a couple of years with all of these different interests, and all the while being pressured by the Indians. The problem is, there are some serious anti-gambling forces in Florida very worried about all this. Not just moral objections, but heavy financial ones, as well. Like Disney, who worries that gambling will siphon off their revnues and customers.

5) Finally, a deal has been worked out. The Indians will be allowed to keep what they have and they will give the state some major tax money, which the state desperately needs. The tracks can stay open 18 hours during the week, 24 hours on weekends, but that is only to run poker. And the buy in cap will be lifted. A few of the tracks in South Florida will have some crappy slot machines.



Long term, I'd say Harrah's, et al, are taking a serious look at what they might be able to accomplish here in Florida. It will be years before another big change in the status quo, but the state is moving in that direction.
 
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Interesting report. The attackers were all white and it is not known whether they were part of the group of protestors at the dinner from earlier in the evening. They just called out that they were dressed well and called them names and then attacked them.

Nothing in the report says anything about racial names or anything partisan or even that it had anything to do with the protestors. In fact, it appears the comments were about them being dressed well and, presumably, this is some sort of criticism of them because they are upper class folks.

Well, all crime of this sort (attacks and minor robberies) would fall into that category of "political" if that were the test (poorer people robbing wealthier people and taking their stuff).
 
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lawgator1 said:
Interesting report. The attackers were all white and it is not known whether they were part of the group of protestors at the dinner from earlier in the evening. They just called out that they were dressed well and called them names and then attacked them.

Nothing in the report says anything about racial names or anything partisan or even that it had anything to do with the protestors. In fact, it appears the comments were about them being dressed well and, presumably, this is some sort of criticism of them because they are upper class folks.

Well, all crime of this sort (attacks and minor robberies) would fall into that category of "political" if that were the test (poorer people robbing wealthier people and taking their stuff).
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Clearly olberman's rhetoric sparked this violence
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emainvol said:
Funny, the police report says nothing about the attack being politically motivated.

http://media.nola.com/politics/other/police report.pdf
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The couple who were attacked said it was politically motivated and the attackers even said so, the police information officer said so before retracting his statement.

There are a lot of ATM machines with surveilance cameras in the area and we should see the perps indentified and arrested soon, especially if the live locally.

If you think the NO police department is free of politics then you're more gullible than I previously thought.

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