New Orleans Holiday Card to the Dutch: All This Could Be Yours

New Orleans would be 50 times safer from flooding with bigger, better dikes. Here are 12 photos from the last 24 hours to let the Dutch know what they would get in exchange for their protection.
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New Orleans Author Goat Carson suggests turning the city into New Amsterdam and inviting the Dutch to build a 10,000 year flood protection system in exchange for tourism revenue.

Goat's got a point, They already know how to entertain tourists the Netherlands, and New Orleans would be 50 times safer from flooding with bigger, better dikes. Here are 12 photos from the last 24 hours to let the Dutch know what they would get in exchange for their protection.

(The less blurry photos are by Mr. Beninato.)

Evenings at Snake & Jake's Christmas Club Lounge, voted Sexiest Bar in America by Details Magazine, it's lit only by flattering Christmas lights all year long. This is your bartender, Miss Elaine. Snake's is the bar of choice for Anthony Bourdain, and Bourdain knows bars.

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