Friday, August 31, 2007

Little Snippets of Sadness and Hope

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The anniversary of the Federal Flood was a just plain odd feeling day. Something felt a bit off all day, nothing I could put my finger on, e...
Wednesday, August 29, 2007

REMEMBER---Two Years

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For further information on where we stand now, please check out Hurricane Katrina News , as well as any of the local bloggers who have dedic...
Saturday, August 18, 2007

Kerouac Still "On the Road" After 50 Years. . . .

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. . . and luckily no one here has to be, at least today. The latest computer models show Hurricane Dean heading for Mexico, he has already b...
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Friday, August 17, 2007

You Can Smell It. . . .

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Over the course of today, I've gotten nearly 20 emails pertaining to Hurricane Dean's presence in the Gulf. If you're anywhere w...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Dashed

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Other local bloggers have already talked at length about the fall of New Orleans Councilman Oliver Thomas. Chris Rose already wrote about it...
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Monday, July 30, 2007

Post Mortem--Pun Intended

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Twenty days ago, I lost a friend. Someone who'd been my friend for years, 15-17, we can't remember, wait, past tense, couldn't r...
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Monday, June 25, 2007

The Picnic Trash

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As you can see from the comments section in my George Bush/Kermit Ruffins post, some people are really upset with me. I said there and I...
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Friday, June 22, 2007

Following in Da Po' Blog's Wake

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I decided to see what my blog was rated: This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words: dead (11x) gun (10x) dea...

George Bush Wants Kermit Ruffins to Pick Up the Trash

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This week, President Bush gave a picnic for Congress on the South Lawn. The theme, no, I'm not kidding, MARDI GRAS. Paul Prudhomme cater...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Tips on Lennon's Piano

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As we all know, John Lennon wrote a song called "Imagine." What we imagine when we think of him and that song is a huge white gran...
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Three Farewells and a Racist

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In the last three weeks, we have gone to three farewell parties, two just this Sunday. One couple is moving to Portland, Oregon hoping to fi...
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007

22 Levees Breached in Missouri and. . . .

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. . . George Bush showed up in Greensburg, Kansas wearing a FEMA jacket. There was a statement on CNN that was very close to what he said on...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Serial Killer in 4E or Huge Corporate Profits for Record Companies

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Interesting look at the problem. It's been a long time coming. This didn't just happen in a week, or a month, or a year. Look at thi...
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Monday, April 23, 2007

FEMA and Fluor et al--Smoke and Mirrors

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I'm just so sick of this crap, that I'm posting the entire article. Copyright Associated Press Updated:2007-04-23 07:23:53 Report Bl...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Predictable

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Anyone who knows me will term what I write now as predictable. So be it. That Second Amendment devotees will not like it and will leave comm...
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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Guest Post: The Gods of Texas

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Given some of the comments by Recovery Czar Ed Blakely, and the subsequent fallout in my email the last two days, I thought that this very m...
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Friday, April 06, 2007

I Want Some of What Cheney's On

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I rarely post anything about national politics as there are others who do so much better than I, but this was too good to pass up. At the ri...
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Interesting Flag

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Last weekend, we were at the Cabildo and my husband noticed this flag. He knew what it was, the Flag of the Independent Nation of Louisiana....
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Friday, March 30, 2007

Louisiana Oil in the Backyard

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No, not the oil rigs in the Gulf. A guy in Lake Charles literally found high grade oil and natural gas in his backyard. Watch this at CNN Op...
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Thursday, March 29, 2007

Ya know, this just doesn't seem fair

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Higher fees for second lines than for krewes? What are we doing? Read this article This is just wrong.