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...those republicans are: New GOP "Racist" Headache Oh yeah..."you tell 'em Eric, LOL !". You and Shay get your racist snarks in and make your party and Louisiana proud....keep it up...I beg you...show your true colors. At 10:31 p.m., a friend named Dale Lawson raised the P.C. defense, writing “the over reaction to it was a little amusing.” Then her friend Piker came roaring ba...
American Zombie - 10:23 a.m.
Bobby Jindal has asked a BESE appointee to step down after she questioned budget expenditures. At a news conference following a bill-signing ceremony Thursday, Jindal refused to discuss the reason for his request, saying he doesn’t comment on private conversations. However, he says appointed members to any commission or board are expected to support the administration’s [...]...
Liberty and Justice for All - Sat 11:11 p.m. - 6 clicks 
Let's assume for one second that Sarah Palin's decision to "Go Galt" yesterday really was, as she put it, a move to spare her constituents the apparently inevitable "waste" of her lame-duck status. Does that mean we should have asked Nagin to quit the day after he was reelected? Alternatively, let's assume that Palin's decision to quit really was, as conservative pundits are putting it today...
Library Chronicles - Sat 11:29 a.m.
I made contact with Christopher Reade to get some technical information on what was actually done to retrieve Nagin's emails....my email and his reponse: In regards to the backup tapes that were supposed to be created for all of city Hall emails: 1. Were the tapes actually created. 2. If so, I am assuming that Nagin's email account was deleted before the backups were generat...
American Zombie - Thu 5:14 p.m. - 5 clicks
Who can blame the T-P, really? When a story drops into your lap that ties together the Saints, the motion picture industry, financial scandal, and Rob Couhig can you really do anything but blow it up all over the front page? BATON ROUGE -- Archie Manning, Drew Brees and coach Sean Payton are among more than two dozen people with ties to the Saints who together put nearly $2 million into an Elm...
Library Chronicles - Thu 11:22 a.m.
Computer experts: Mayor Nagin e-mail removal was a professional job This is real simple. Destroying public record is a criminal offense. I think its actually a federal offense which carries a maximum 3 year sentence. Find out who had access to the servers by putting Anthony Jones' nuts in a very, very, very tight vice. Then put the "professional's" nuts in an even tighter vice ...
American Zombie - Wed 2:26 p.m. - 14 clicks
Over the past few years , headline writers at City Business and The Times-Picayune have promoted a pet myth of a recession-proof New Orleans "recovery" economy "bucking the trend" of national hard times. The loosely implied thesis is based on two ideas. The first part of the theory holds that since the local job market is heavy on T-shirt & booze pedaling and light on manufacturing or te...
Library Chronicles - Wed 1:36 p.m.
Nobody should be shocked that Jindal has cut healthcare services…. again. But really, is sending the money to Mandeville going to help those who need help in New Orleans? Of course not! But sending money to conservative Mandeville and taking it out of liberal New Orleans… perhaps now we can understand why Jindal made the cut. I [...]...
Liberty and Justice for All - Tue 10:21 p.m. - 8 clicks
Today Michael Jackson is still dead and people everywhere are still freaking out. As I am typing this, CNN just tweeted the date and location of the public viewing. OH and look they found his will . Michael Jackson "news" and photos were given front-page treatment by the local paper IN NEW ORLEANS for four consecutive days. At the moment, he's been displaced at the top of the NOLA.com feed b...
Library Chronicles - Tue 3:29 p.m.
But I saw this story about a junkyard fire in East New Orleans and couldn't resist linking it since it gives me an opportunity to use the "flaming garbage" tag for only the second time ever. ...
Library Chronicles - Tue 9:47 a.m.
Again, Michael Jackson wasn't a big influence for me but I do like that New Orleans celebrates him thusly Credit: Note from the Book ...
Right Hand Thief - Mon 11:54 p.m. - 5 clicks
The debate on healthcare reform is intensifying in Washington and across the country. This is not a debate taking place in the abstract. Louisiana stands to benefit greatly from reform — if the final package includes the so-called "Public Option." The public option is a proposal by President Obama to offer working-age Americans the opportunity to buy health insurance coverage similar to ...
Daily Kingfish - Mon 3:40 p.m. - 4 clicks
While I've been whipping attention to the fact that Senator Landrieu doesn't want to listen to her constituents on the issue, Rep. Bill Cassidy has been busy currying favor with the banking and health care industries with his plan for health care reform : He envisions a modified form of the current Health Savings Accounts that would "wrap around" to cover catastrophic treatment as well as pr...
Daily Kingfish - Mon 3:40 p.m. - 3 clicks
Shrimp season closing in eastern Louisiana I was really getting on a roll with the large head-on shrimp the past few weeks. Last week I made barbecue shrimp with an Abita Turbodog sauce. A few days ago, I boiled a few pounds and made a remoulade salad. If the price is still good by this weekend, I'll try and do another shrimp creole . ...
Library Chronicles - Mon 11:01 a.m.
On Friday June 26th, Dan and Dave on the Air had on as a guest Louisiana Representative Sam Jones to discuss the Louisiana Legislative Session. One of the topics that came up was the issue of why the legislature was not able to pass legislation that would have forced Bobby Jindal to veto a bill [...]...
Liberty and Justice for All - Jun 29 - 6 clicks
I enjoyed watching Marcus Thornton at LSU. Let's hope Byron Scott doesn't lose patience and run him off like he does all his other young prospects. ...
Library Chronicles - Jun 26
Time for everyone to shake hands, congratulate themselves, and wait for Jindal to veto everything... including the hard fought NOAH rescue. The health care restorations include 67 positions at the New Orleans Adolescent Hospital, the Uptown mental hospital that Jindal had proposed to close in a cost-saving measure. But Health and Hospitals Secretary Alan Levine said he will ask Jindal to veto t...
Library Chronicles - Jun 26
Charlie Melancon hasn't announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate, yet the Sinning Senator David Vitter is ALREADY peeing in his diapers on the news that Charlie's considering a campaign for the Senate. After all, Sinning Senator, why send out this email if you're confident of victory: Can the Sinning Senator get any more desperate than he already is? He's conducting opposition ...
Daily Kingfish - Jun 26 - 4 clicks
Don't fuck with Judge Ledet , fellas. Here's the unfolding lesson for Michael Dell and Fortune 500 CEO's nationwide....stay the fuck out of New Orleans. Once again...thanks Ray. Thanks for bringing your stellar business prowess to the aid of our city for the past 8 years. You've definitely done your part to "keep the brand out there". I think you may be due for another Bernardo "Exc...
American Zombie - Jun 25 - 6 clicks
If you happen to have a public disagreement with Stacy Head over her enthusiasm for destroying affordable housing in New Orleans, she will take steps to fuck up your life. A March 2007 exchange between Head and lawyer and confidante Nyka Scott makes reference to protests being staged by public housing advocates outside Head's Uptown home at a time when the City Council was beginning to mull th...
Library Chronicles - Jun 24
Strange things are happening in the current legislative session. Usually when a bill fails to pass in either the House or the Senate, that bill is dead for the session. Apparently, that's not the case this year. HB 780 ( pdf alert ), the bill that would have prohibited the state from buying up the land necessary to build the Charity Hospital that LSU wants that was killed in the Senate Educ...
Daily Kingfish - Jun 24 - 3 clicks
There's a vigil tonight in front of the LSU Student Union at 8 PM for the Iranian protestors. If you haven't been attention, I highly suggest you do so ... click here , here and here for the latest. The picture at right is of Neda Agha Soltan , a 26 year old woman who was a woman who loved life ... Travel was her passion, and with her friends she saved up enough money for...
Daily Kingfish - Jun 24 - 3 clicks
I discussed HB 340 two weeks ago, speculating that HB 340 was designed to be on the November 2, 2010 ballot, which would help drive turnout of religious voters for the Sinning Senator David Vitter. HB 340 would amend the Louisiana Constitution to add language to our freedom of religion clause, which, as currently constituted, copies word for word the federal freedom of religion clause, writt...
Daily Kingfish - Jun 24 - 3 clicks
NYT: Nixon worried that greater access to abortions would foster “permissiveness,” and said that “it breaks the family.” But he also saw a need for abortion in some cases—- like interracial pregnancies, he said. “There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white,” he told an aide, before adding, “Or a rape.” "S" stands for skull. ...
Right Hand Thief - Jun 24 - 3 clicks
Anyone remember this story? State Police to investigate missing evidence cash Well a state legislative audit was conducted and the results are forthcoming. Turns out there is much, much more missing than just a measly 9k....and the audit only covered a single year. The kicker is that there were multiple incidents. Chief Warren Riley was aware of this issue and never reported it t...
American Zombie - Jun 23 - 2 clicks
As you know, there have been many calls to action over the past two weeks directed at getting folks to call , email and sign a petition that will be delivered to Senator Landrieu with respect to the public health care option in any health care reform bill. So it struck me as curious that Senator Landrieu's new spokesman, Aaron Saunders, would email the Bayou Buzz this statement: In...
Daily Kingfish - Jun 23 - 2 clicks
The T-P does a story on New Orleans' famous street tiles: For well over a century, the blue-and-white tiles that identify hundreds of New Orleans streets have been emblematic of this city. Yes. The tiles are uniquely adorable. Such charming, historic details make living in New Orleans delightful. Who wouldn't treasure them? But, in neighborhoods across the city, street and sidewalk repai...
Right Hand Thief - Jun 23 - 3 clicks
Local political reporter Clancy DuBos appeared on WWL-TV to talk about Rep. Charlie Melancon chances against the Sinning Senator in next year's Senate race. WWL-TV needs to make their videos embeddable, but since they don't, here's the transcript of what Mr. DuBos had to say: Clancy Dubos : Vitter of course, is the incumbent. He's not necessarily a favorite against a guy like Melancon, be...
Daily Kingfish - Jun 22 - 3 clicks
Lovely tells me she spotted a "Brad Pitt for Mayor HQ" sign on Magazine St. (I think). I'd vote for him, or consult for his campaign. It'd draw a lot of attention. While we're at it: Tyler Durden for Recovery Czar. === Update: Noladishu helpfully points us to a photo of the sign . Has a "Quentin Brown" sort of charm to it. === Updater: How embarrassing. Obviously I hadn't checked Chri...
Right Hand Thief - Jun 21 - 4 clicks
Huck's "true originator of Rock'n Roll" post inspired me to give some props to one of my favorite originators, Little Richard. Little Richard - Rip It Up From Keith Spera's review of the recent Fats Domino tribute concert in New Orleans: Fats Domino attended "The Domino Effect" Saturday night. Very few others did. If the concert's Austin-based promoter hoped to fill the 16,00...
Right Hand Thief - Jun 21 - 6 clicks
T-P: Jefferson Parish has spent $340,000 on paving and drainage work at an Avondale car wash being built by sons of former longtime Kenner City Councilman Nick Baroni. Parish officials said the recently completed work was in response to residents' concerns about traffic flow and had nothing to do with the developer's political connections. ... The parish's involvement with the car wash surfa...
Right Hand Thief - Jun 20 - 2 clicks
Have you emailed your Senators today, asking them to go on the record with respect to the public option ? Since Senator Landrieu has not yet made a statement announcing her support for a public option, television and radio ads are starting to appear: And that radio ad: If you support a public option ... you're not alone, as a poll bankrolled by OPPONENTS of heal...
Daily Kingfish - Jun 19 - 2 clicks
Against all odds, it appears that a fourth Rising Tide bloggers conference will take place in New Orleans on August 22, 2009. Some organizers got together last night over Schlitz and cookies to talk about the event, and I was pleased to be part of the effort. I believe a Rising Tide theme or slogan will be unveiled soon. Last year, Rising Tide 3's slogan was something like "Attack of the cr...
Right Hand Thief - Jun 19 - 6 clicks
Email Senators Landrieu and Vitter TODAY . One of the biggest issues currently being negotiated in secret right now in Congress is health care reform. Arguably, every other issue pales in comparison with health care reform because health care costs are a major expenditure for most Americans. While we know that Senator Landrieu has broken a pledge she made two months ago , and that S...
Daily Kingfish - Jun 19
The Times-Picayune is reporting that Congressman Melancon has decided to plan a run for the Senate against the Sinning Senator David Vitter. I'll believe this when I see the following occur: An announcement from Shaw Chairman (and former Democratic State Party Chairman) Jim Bernhard that he will NOT be a candidate for the Senate in 2010. An announcement of a committee being set up...
Daily Kingfish - Jun 19 - 3 clicks
http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl061609tpyoungpros Katie Moore / Eyewitness News kmoore@wwltv.com NEW ORLEANS - Less than a year from now, New Orleans will choose a new mayor. And even though there are still no leading candidates, grass-roots groups are mobilizing to have a louder......
Humid Haney Rant - Jun 17 - 3 clicks
After Anon commented on George Chin's connections with Dennis Churchwell and his $20,000 donation to Nagin's 06 campaign, Karen brought up some interesting issues which have occured regarding blighted properties which Chin owns in the Carrollton/Claiborne area. The house on 8117 Apple street was apparently declared blighted by the city. However, Winston Reid, the Director of Code Enforc...
American Zombie - Jun 16 - 3 clicks
Over two years ago I wrote a post titled "Does the good outweigh the bad at We Saw That?", and it generated a fair amount of lively discussion amongst a handful of commenters. (WST responded here .) Recently, We Saw That spewed his anti-zionist crapola , and a lot of louisiana bloggers are suddenly getting all huffy puffy. One of the huffy puffers is my esteemed compatriot Greg Peters, who...
Right Hand Thief - Jun 16 - 2 clicks
Free Entrance / Free Hot Dogs / Freedom Fourth of July 9P - til The Rusty Nail (old Mermaid Lounge) 1100 Constance Street, New Orleans 70130 In celebration of all things American, we cordially invite you to join us in......
Humid Haney Rant - Jun 15 - 3 clicks
The more I read about Jimmy Goodson, Meffert's bodyguard, the more I think Meffert is delusional. I think he was starting to think of himself as some kind of Mafia Don: Associate of City Hall vendor paid bill for Nagin lawn care Records show Goodson formed Custom Transportation Management in May 2005, about three months before Katrina. The next month, he quit his job as a welding in...
American Zombie - Jun 14 - 2 clicks
People, including a relative to Bobby Jindal’s wife, have started a PAC to “draft” Bobby Jindal to run for president. I mean seriously, is anyone left that is still buying this crap that Bobby Jindal is not running for Preisdent and that Jindal “has the job he wants”? Give me a freaking break. ...
Liberty and Justice for All - Jun 13 - 3 clicks
"Now I'm kind of poor." -- Former U.S. Congressman William Jefferson (who grew up dirt poor), explaining to FBI informant Lori Mody that his network of political graft can't cover his daughter's tuition bills. "I feel like I'm in one of Dante's new circles of hell." -- New Orleans resident Rachel M., who was shocked-- shocked!-- to discover that just because you pay a private psycholog...
Right Hand Thief - Jun 12 - 3 clicks
Belated holiday thanks to the self storage facility in Metairie which posted the following statement during December on its large digital beside I-10: "Courage is a kind of salvation. --Plato" I'll overlook the fact that this statement is actually found in a dramatic dialogue (The Republic), and is uttered by a character (Socrates), not Plato as such. But it does take considerable moxy for ...
Right Hand Thief - Jun 11 - 2 clicks
But somewhere along the line, I decided to stop being quite so freewheeling with the insults. So, I'll assume that Mark Singletary puts more time, energy and effort into editing the content of his paper than into writing his commentaries. I thought that last week's was pointless (see comment 4), but this week's commentary isn't much better: Louisiana spends more than $6,500 per resident each ...
Moldy City - Jun 9 - 3 clicks
Nola.com: An already icy relationship between two competing snowball suppliers has produced a legal fight over who has the right to sell the flavored syrup concentrate under names like King Cake, Hurricane and Buttered Popcorn. That's unfortunate. As far as snowball flavors go, for me the "Robin" syrup at Sal's can't be beat. ...
Right Hand Thief - Jun 9 - 5 clicks
Nola.com reported an unfortunate "sunrise/sunset": Miguel Hidalgo, a goat that was a popular resident of the Audubon Zoo's petting zoo, died Friday. Godspeed, Hidalgo. Spokeswoman Sarah Burnette said the goat, known simply as Miguel to thousands of zoo visitors, apparently died of old age. He was 15. ... A registered Nigerian dwarf goat, the animal was born in September 1993 at the Gladys...
Right Hand Thief - Jun 8 - 3 clicks
Nagin, wife, staffer quarantined in China Please...Please...Please don't let him comment. We need to send the CIA in now to pick him up before he shoots his fucking mouth off and we end up in an international crisis. You think I'm joking? I'm not. ...
American Zombie - Jun 8
