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A lot of people living in that state should move. It's not the best place to live. It really isn't. I've been there.Not impressed in the least. New Orleans is really overrated. The cemeteries are pretty neat but the rest of it is overblown and way over priced. Was not impressed with the Garden District and how difficult it is to get a cab, either. The French Quarter was alright although the hotels were all tremendously overpriced.
The daquiris from those little slurpee shops are good, that's true.
It's humid and super swampy but at night I was cold in late October. I went to an Ann Rice thing there once.
If people left and went someplace else, there'd be more room for Pelicans.


One thing really got under my skin while I was in the Garden District. I wanted to head back into the city where my hotel was and there weren't any cabs because they mostly hang out around the Quarter. The function I attended wasn't completely over yet so the cabs were not heading toward it and I was freezing it was really cold. It went from being fairly warm to what seemed like windy and cold as soon as it got dark. So I waited in the dark, shivering. A doorman at a posh restaurant nearby told me to just wait the cabs would be there soon so I did, was tired, overloaded, cold, bored and stressed out. Finally a couple of them showed up and few others were waiting, too. One of them was scooped up quick so I couldn't get it. The other one I grabbed the handle, opened the door, was about to jump in, even said, "thank God you are here because I'm freezing my ass off," and this group of about five people jumped in as soon as I opened the door. You would not believe it. It was the absolute rudest thing I have ever seen in my life because they HAD to have known I was about to get in. If you could have seen it. It would have been comical if it were not happening to me. It was as if I opened the door to the cab just so they could all pile in. They acted like I wasn't even there and I was soooo angry. Oh boy I was pissed off. They acted like I was some sort of valet. Rudest People I have ever EVER seen and I will remember that until the day I die.

So, every time I remember New Orleans or Louisiana I cannot help recalling that horrible night with those awful people who could not wait their turn and pretty much stole my cab right out from under me which I wouldn't have been so upset about if I wasn't literally freezing to death out there.

Maybe,but please describe what weird and southern means.Do we look weird or what exactly?
Maybe the rude people who stole your cab were tourists.

I dunno if they were tourists all I know is it happened in New Orleans, not NYC or anyplace in California. New Orleans.

I just get a weird vibe from Louisiana in particular. Driving through it, I just felt uneasy. I've been through your state, didn't have the same uneasy feeling. Of course southerners don't look weird unless you count me. Technically, I am a southerner if you consider the original copy of my birth certificate is buried deep in the south.

Louisiana has a pretty rough history, that's probably why I get such a strange vibe. Driving through the middle of it was very spooky, for real.

I've gotten strange vibes from certain places,so I get that.The rudest encounter I ever had was in Greely Colorado,I needed to use the restroom bad and the lady in the Subway restaurant told me they had no public restroom,what a load of BS.I went next door to a Western wear store and a very nice man who could hardly speak English was kind enough to let me use theirs.For some reason she looked at me like I was scum and I have never figured out why.

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When I was in Arizona, I encountered all sorts of troubled rest rooms and virtually anyplace out there has hot water. The entire state has a serious issue with it. Maybe because their summers are so boiling? People either didn't want tourists stopping just to use the restroom without buying or the stores had obnoxious signs all over the restroom reminding everyone to "be ladies" and keep the restroom clean. Kind of demeaning imo. The best restrooms I found were in those Pilot travel shops and no bad vibes when stopping to use them.

This trend is starting to reverse itself. California has a similar law to Louisiana's in that they have a "three strikes" law (three felonies and you get life, I think). This has led to severe capacity problems for their prisons. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe they are under court order to reduce their prison populations. These prisons are just too overcrowded, and more importantly, there just isn't the funds to operate them anymore. Especially since so many people arrested in the 1970s and 1980s are starting to require medical care.

His favorite video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0pueq3DIe4

Yeah I find it to be pretty damn ridiculous.

People who publicly talk about real issues like the non-violent prisoners are labeled by the media has being on the fringe: Ralph Nader, Ron Paul, Mike Gravel, Justin Amash, Cindy Sheehan.

I got a weird vibe from West Virginia. Like if my car broke down up in the mountains, the folks in the shanties might have me for dinner. And not in the guest sense.

Don't forget Moth Man is up there in West Virginia. So watch out for Moth Man!

For our own sake we should put a halt to that. It is not good for us to do that sort of thing.

ruveyn

Life without possibility of parole was invented and promoted initially as a humane alternative to the death penalty, a sort of compromise as before they'd say they had to execute people to prevent liberals from springing the killers loose at the first opportunity. Naturally, what was set up originally to deal with those otherwise executed for murder is now being used against pickpockets.

Its crazy but what can we do *shrug* Its only a matter of time till the citizens get sick of it and cause another civil war and attempt to overthrow the fedral government and re establish it.

If true, that its that many, its outrageous.

Combine this with untreated mental illness due to no insurance coverage and you have one crappy country:

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