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Maitri on VatulNET asks if someone can explain the convoluted recovery process for her. Here is my first shot. Let me know if this helps.
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Finally someone got it right!! Can you say PAWNS
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Can someone say pWned?
This is so funny and correct – I can’t stop shaking my head and laughing.
It may not be a whole batch of brownies but I will whip you up a dessert concoction that is out of this world.
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Bwaa ha ha ha! That is the greatest thing I’ve seen in years! I’m going to print, frame, and hang it on my living room wall!!
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Aw damn! I just pissed my pants you bastard!
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(Dang, snorted Diet Coke over the keyboard!) A MASTERPIECE!!
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I have actually been studying this thing, I think there are a few more revisions..how about flooded residents somewhere in there, you know the people who actually suffered a loss so others could spend millions “planning” Maybe a stuck between meemaw and ray
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The scary thing is that the chart is realistic. How did i miss bumbling into this site before?
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I LOVE IT. This is genius.
This captures exactly how we feel.
How about some battered and beaten residents swirling around the toilet?
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Your wish is my command.
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Ok I have limited graphics skills on the computer but I am working on Movie Metaphors
Right now it is
“They Shoot Horses ,Don’t They “
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What about The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight?
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[…] Mark Folse’s visual explanation of the recovery plan… […]
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Ok Mark, I’m supposed to doing serious work here, and you are killing me! *giggles*
I think you have caught the true spirit of their Plan, but the Locals have a different Plan.
Cue masses with pitchforks, axes and torches-
Lighting on guillitine and jail carts-
Activate tears on the faces of Guv’mit & Corporate evildoers…
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Thanks for the add of the battered citizens. It is PERFECT!. They look how I feel.
I think that Concordia should be added back to the swirl and you should definately add NPN!
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When this gets published as a poster…..
and it will honey…. it will….
I would like to be in line for one of the first 10 prints
and YOUR signature on the copy.
This is going to be a collectors edition Katrina memento.
And based on what I have seen so far… this investment is one of the few ways any of us, regular folks, are going to get a dime of recovery money!
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Mark,
You’ve got to add City Council in there. Remember, my rules said you couldn’t leave any key members out!
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NEIGHBORHOOD Planning
While a bunch of us ironed out more of the upcoming Rising Tide Conference last night, it seems there was a showdown at the City Council meeting. As predicted, NOCSF/UNOP’s pitiful lack of PR and advertising for such an important…
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Your Chart is being used in Washington
http://urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com/
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And how would you place Bingler/Concordia/LRA
then Nathan Shroyer/Concordia/NPN
I would say the gatekeepers of money and acsess
You want money bingo to bingler
you want a “face” of the Neighborhood, he will find you one, NPN..The Recovery Dog and Pony Show
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[…] still like mine […]
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Okay, this is just me being a geek, but water swirls down the loo in the counterclockwise direction, same as a tropical cyclone.
Funny stuff.
Peace,
Tim
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[…] the Unified New Orleans Planning process. The local blogosphere is abuzz, to the point I’m not sure where to start linking. Me, I’m getting plenty déjà vu — so I’m sitting […]
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