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September 10, 2005
Disney Opportunity in New Orleans
From American Dinosaur:
Originally I was going to suggest they pump New Orleans out and fix the levees. Then pump the water back in, sell the whole place to Disney and put in some boats. Keep the local villains, buccaneers, looters, and recalcitrants on the payroll to add that Spanish Main feel. It would cost a hell of a lot less the 200 G's per person err........evacuee, refugee, displaced citizen. And if it floods again it just adds to the ride excitement. To rebuild New Orleans again without significant changes to the physical landscape typifies the idiocy of government spending.
Compliments of Billy Budd and Smug Monkey.
Posted by Van Helsing at September 10, 2005 10:04 AM
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As an important National Seaport, NO received millions from Homeland Security for training & equipment. Now it appears the training never occurred & the equipment isn't there. The pirates have already looted the money. Arggghhh!
Posted by: cube at September 10, 2005 1:14 PM
Hmm...this could work. NOLA already has a real pirate history to work with.
I had a discussion with someone from Baton Rouge last week on the idea of turning New Orleans into a Disney-like park. Divide it into sections, each with a New Orleans-related theme. The Vieux Carre could be restored as "French Quarter World", complete with android strippers, and animatronic college girls on every balcony, flashing their breasts for beads. The projects like Desire could be turned into "Welfare-Enforced Poverty World" with little additional work...just lay tracks for the monorail (with bulletproof windows) and it's ready to go, storm damage and all. The area around City Hall could be devoted to "Corruption World", a thrilling ride through the ups and downs of cronyism, patronage, bureaucratic incompetence, and race-baiting demagoguery. The blighted downriver areas could be turned into "Sea Ward" -- filter the water, then fill it with cute and entertaining cetaceans visitors can watch frolic from the rooves of flooded tenements. Adjoining "Sea Ward" could be "Flood-Waterworld" a water park sporting unique features like a breaking-levee wave pool, storm-surge waterslide, whitewater river-rafting tour through the drainage canal system, and of course a slow boatride through the romantic Harvey Tunnel of Love. Upriver, near the convention center, the lofts and condos could be converted to the brothels of the "Whorehouse District", recalling New Orleans' redlight past, and up Canal Street from "French Quarter World" you'd find the perfect spot for the goth-themed "Necropolis" thrill ride through the famed cemeteries.
Posted by: prince of leaves at September 10, 2005 1:49 PM
Heh, glad you liked...
You're blogrolled.
Posted by: SmugMonkey at September 10, 2005 3:00 PM
