Thanks. Sent this to my niece who is in college in NOLA On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Cold Water <[email protected]> wrote:
> * New Orleans Gotham City Has Its Own Batman Superhero > <http://www.digitaljournal.com/image/46262> Carol Forsloff > Can a Superhero help this devastated city and bring peace to crime-ridden > neighborhoods? > Vote it up! > > Here comes Batman, a real, live World Superhero into New Orleans, swooping > into neighborhoods in his dark costume and ready to take on the bad guys > anytime. > > The guy in New Orleans is an actual, registered superhero, a member of a > World Superhero Registry. It takes lot for a fellow to be one, and New > Orleans has only a single registered superhero in the entire metropolitan > area. But that should be enough. What's more our guy is the only superhero > registered in the entire State of Louisiana, so he's responsible not just > for New Orleans, but for Lafayette, the State Capitol, Baton Rouge, > Shreveport and even my town of Natchitoches, Louisiana in the north central > part of the State as well as all the towns and cities in between. > > "Nostrum," as the World Superhero calls himself, lives in New Orleans and > has his own MySpace profile. Well, how else could the citizens of Gotham > contact him, after all? His profile on MySpace says it all, "there is right, > and there is wrong, nothing more." Talk about strong and silent, well almost > silent, but certainly a fellow of few words. > > The New Orleans online paper > <http://blog.nola.com/checkitout/2009/01/new_orleans_has_its_own_world.html>asked > to interview "Nostrum," but he didn't respond to the request. It's likely he > wants to keep his identity disguised. He may be Mayor Ray Nagin, after all, > taking care of the city by day and arrayed in a hero's costume by night. > Nah, most folks would rather have Aaron Neville because the lad can sing and > has the body to intimidate as well. But who knows for sure? > > For those who want to join "Nostrum" the sign up page is here. > <http://www.worldsuperheroregistry.com/>Understand there are terms and > conditions for joining because these folks live in the shadow of the law, on > the fringes where identities are kept secret and where activities do not > always correspond to the usual and customary ways of crime fighting. Since > New Orleans hardly has any crime fighting, according to its > statistics<http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1799739/posts>as the city > with the highest crime rate of the nation, who would mind a > couple of fellows who cross the line just a bit in apprehending the bad > guys. > > In the meantime the modern Gotham, alias the Crescent City, also known as > Chocolate City, needs to know that somewhere there is a great hero waiting > to rescue the people from harm. No one knows for sure when he will show up, > but hopefully next time there's a crime wave---like tomorrow. > http://www.digitaljournal.com/print/article/264971 > * > > > > -- *~@):~{> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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