Nagin vacations in Montego Bay

[Catherine Vincent]

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20051119T200000-0500_92886_OBS_NEW_ORLEANS_LOOKING_TO_STRENGTHEN_RELATIONS_WITH_JAMAICA_.asp

I don't see a problem with this. It's not like he vacations every other month like someone we know. And it's been several months now since the hurricane, he and his family need the break. But read some comments from freepers:

"He should have vacationed in Aruba" - Why?

"Bullet proof bastard" - What does that mean?

"Did he take his bong or pipe?" - Why? Is he rumored to smoke pot like Bush?

More comments here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1526319/posts

[funflower]

1. Guess Freepers don't go to the Caribbean....

:eyes:

[shanti]

15. good

i know their type, the tourists who seldom step foot out of their resort compound, except to make snide remarks about jamaican people and culture.

i love jamaica and hope they stay FAR FAR away.

[Qibing Zero]

2. After that debacle, I would be too.

That, or at the throat of quite a few many people.

[mzmolly]

3. How quickly they forget Bush was on vacation when Katrina struck.

Further, he was reluctant to end it.

[malaise]

4. Actually

he was offered a few days of rest by people in Mobay who felt the pain of NOLA people so fugg the Freepers. We get loads of support from NOLA people for our Jazz festivals.

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[malaise]

6. The JA tourist board and hotels have also offered holidays

to other victims of Katrina.

Seems silly to attack Nagin for taking up an R&R when your president remains in the White House after his disastrous handling of Katrina and post-Katrina recovery and while NOLA people still find their dead in their homes. Of course the well praised Brownie earned enough money for doing nothing so he can afford a holiday wherever - hopefully in hell with the other masters of the culture of corruption.
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[ncrainbowgrrl]

7. Welcome to DU, lobotomyvoter!!

:hi:

[Mass]

8. Two posts - already on my ignore list.

Thank you so much for the fun.

[malaise]

13. hehehehheheheh

disappeared real quick too - bye bye creeper:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[funflower]

9. You can buy a house in Texas for $250K?

Nagin wouldn't want to live in what you could buy for that much out here by the Blue Pacific.

[TheDebbieDee]

11. He RENTED a big house in Texas for his family

to stay in while New Orleans is being rebuilt.

and Buh-bye!

[KamaAina]

10. And unlike "someone we know", he's actually getting things done

while he's down there.

According to Nagin, the planned festival was to be used as a springboard to further economic linkages between New Orleans and Jamaica.

"The festival was supposed to kick off something big," he said. "We were planning to rotate this festival between Jamaica and New Orleans where we could bring the best music, the best food and the best people together and then, for example, take advantage of the tourism of both places."...

President of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) Horace Peterkin said at Friday's welcome ceremony for Nagins, that the trade delegation was to examine ways in which Montego Bay and New Orleans could establish long-term relations.

"The invitation was for us to go there (New Orleans), get the businessmen to look at some investment opportunities in Jamaica and for discussion on the twinning of the cities," said Peterkin, who is also manager of one of Stewart's Sandals properties.

This isn't as farfetched at it might sound; New Orleans is often called "The Northern Capital of the Caribbean". Reggae music is popular, particularly at Jazz Fest. It might be time to put out the call to Jamaican immigrants in NYC, Boston, Miami etc. to come over and help rebuild and resettle NOLA.

[malaise]

14. It's not far-fetched at all

The article is accurate. We have great relations with NOLA.

[Lisa]

18. he might as well strengthen ties with the Caribbean!

Because at this rate, it's going to be more helpful than the city's ties with FEMA. Or with the White House, which sent more than a third of the Louisiana National Guard to Iraq, along with their equipment.

[RepublicanElephant]

12. typical repubs, never bothering themselves with facts.

:yoiks:

[KingFlorez]

16. Excuse my language

They didn't cry wolf when President Moran vacations for weeks at a time that broke down ranch in Texas. But the mayor of a wrecked city goes on vacation and tries to do a little business while there and you make thinly veiled death threats from your raggedy Idaho cabin piled to the roof with guns and bullets, with the wall decorated with David Duke and Nazi propoganda. Get your minds straight, freepers because the real world is anywhere near you.

[Tony_Illinois]

17. I should not have followed your link to freeperville, because

I have never been there before, and within a couple of minutes I found myself appalled at the ignorance and arrogance I detected in the postings. Frightening--when you actually get too close to that stuff.

[Catherine Vincent]

19. Oh I'm sorry. Yes, they are pretty fucked up over there.

But it's a good thing I posted this, it looks like I snatched a freeper who got his post deleted. :)