[sammyg2]

Mule, so you're from new orleans. Why doesn't that surprise me?
For the record, you are wrong in so many ways. I'll go down the list:

I live in Orange country, not LA. I don't like LA. I don't like the people in LA. I don't go past the orange curtain unless I have to. Different place. LA has nothing to do with me. Oh and your reference to the pornography trade? Not LA. Burbank. The San Fernando valley. Get your facts straight.

I don't sit on the San Andreas fault. LA doesn't sit on the san andreas fault. It's 50 miles away.

I have never paid $6 a gallon for gas. I've never paid over $3.60 a gallon for gas. Let's try to stick to reality here. I never complained about the price of gas after the hurricane. In fact I quite enjoyed it as i made well over $100k on my oil stocks right after. I've posted many times on this board that I like it when the price of gas goes up and that I think a fair price should be $5 a gallon.

I fully support oil rigs off the coast and always have.

You say that California has received more federal aid that any three states put together. That might be true.
BUT.... take a good look at the population of California compared to other states. WOW, we have more people living here. Big surprise! Maybe more federal money ends up here because this is where the people live!
California has the 8th largest economy in the world. Twice as much as any other state in the union. California pays many times as much in federal taxes as any other state. Look it up, it's true. We pay more and get back more, but we get back less per capita that Lazyana by far. California carries the rest of the country when it comes to economy, and California feeds most of the country. Did you know that california's largest industry is agriculture? Of course you didn't.

California was ranked 13th in per capita income (according to the 2000 census) . Louisiana was ranked 47th just above Arkansas, West virginia, and mississippi.

My water comes from wells. The city I live in pumps it out of the ground. We have what's called an aquifir and it isn't sea water.

You see on the news a house in California that slides down a hill and that makes you think all of california is sliding down a hill? asinine. There are millions of homes in California. Nice homes, not single wides or shacks. If 5 or 10 slide down a hill that is not a statewide or city wide emergency. It is a drop in the bucket. Same with fires.
Yes there is a threat of earthquakes here, about every 150 years or so a big one will hit somewhere up or down the coast on the SA fault. When that happens some houses will be damaged in that particular area but not all of them and they will certainly not all be under water.

How often does NO get hit by a hurricane? Sometimes it seems like every few years but it can't be that often. How many times has NO been hit by a category 4 or 5? Lets see, there was that one in 1947, then betsy in 1965, then camille in 1969, then georges in 1998, and Katrinna. wow. No one in his right mind would live in a place that is on the coast and below sea level when they know they have hurricanes that often. No one.

BTW California isn't going to slide off into the ocean (your education reference, or the lack of). About half the state is moving upwards, not out. About 1" a year. In a couple of hundred thousand years LA will be close to san Francisco. How many hurricanes will hit NO during that time?

The definition of a desert is a place that receives less than 10" of rainfall annually. Orange county gets almost 13" of annual rainfall annually, so your claim that it's a desert is wrong. Again, check some facts before you knee-jerk into another post.

So, you are a member of the LSU football team? Good for you. I personally don't play football anymore, and I never played for USC.
Oh, you mean you are a fan, and that makes you part of the team? Lame, really lame. USC is not my team. I don't root for USC, I don't care about that team. I also don't have to live vicariously through a sports organization to feel important. Obviously you do.

You really think that California relies on Gasoline from Louisiana?
WRONG! We have refineries. There are 5 refineries within 3 miles of me right now. We make gasoline. I make gasoline. Where I work we make over 4 million gallons of gas a day. I had an opportunity to go to work for a refinery in krotz springs, louisiana a while back but I said no thank you and that they didn't have enough money.
If all the refineries in Louisiana shut down the price here would go up (and i would make a fortune) but we would not run out. we would not be walking. You obviously don't know squat about the oil business.

I don't know rodney king and my name isn't holmes.

New orleans sits on average 6 feet below sea level and is protected by earthen levees. That is true, right? sure it is. They have huge pumps that constantly pump the water out of the city and if these pumps all failed the city would flood even if they didn't have a hurricane. Even in fair weather the city would flood without these pumps. And that makes sense to you?
New Orleans will flood again, and again, and again. Building a city on the coast that is below the water is a stupid idea. Rebuilding it is even more stupid. Living there and then begging for someone else to support your butt when you get flooded out is worse than stupid.
The fact that much of NO has so much crime, so much welfare, so many people who will not list a finger to support themsleves reinforces my opinion that is isn't worth rebuilding except as a favor to Louisiana's surrounding states. It's not fair to them to have to support the low lifes and it's not fair for them to have to deal with the crime. I guess if we put all the low lifes and the criminals back in NO at least they would be easier to keep track of.

Now about Ray. I don't know the man personally. I have seen him open his stupid yap many times, saying things that only a moron would say. so based on that I would say he is a moron. He may be a very nice moron but he's still a moron. How's his vision of building a chocolate city coming?