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Recall organizers prepare suit in effort to remove Cao
~Dave Cohen, WWL

Joseph Cao: "I Might Be In the Closet"~Ryan Grim
~Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao, a Republican in a deeply Democratic Louisiana district, was welcomed on Tuesday night into the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus.
Addressing the group at a ceremony in the Capitol Visitors Center, Cao did a little bipartisan outreach. "Don't tell the Republicans, but I might be a closet Democrat," said Cao to a round of laughter.
~Editilla Swings a Happy Snap~
Weeeeeell, as a Conservative Christian Republican, Cao is Statistically more likely to be a Closeted pedophile, pederast, bathroom stalker, French Quarter John, exorcist, exterminator or meth’head cheese fucker. Jus’sayin…
Indeed, Joseph Cao’s party kinda leans to the Closet Lobby.
I think this is really his subconscious desires talking beneath a well suppressed “closeted” sexuality. And he wants it to come out… it needs help coming out, the way other fundamentalist Christians blithely toss that word “closet” around. Semantic sin… he has to be committing Semantic Sin in order for his Joke to work, right? In his mind Cao knows what the reference means because it exists there every minute of the day for Joseph Cao,
to wit: “I am Closeted”...and a DISGRASIAN™

New Orleans Releases Katrina
Recovery Worksheet~BBuzz

Brad Pitt to meet with Nancy Pelosi about New Orleans housing ~Citizen Sugar

Senate refuses McCain proposal
to strip billions in earmarks from bill
~Bruce Alpert
~Among the earmarks McCain (the bastad) cited as being "without justification" is $6.6 million for continued work by the Formosan Subterranean Termites Research Center in New Orleans. Photo curtsy~Wonkette.

DEQ responds to report that students in St. Charles, St. John and St. Bernard breathe some of the country's most polluted air
~Matt Scallan, Sandra Barbier

Did Governor PBJ LIE About
The 50 Ford Trucks Too?
What is the Governor's Job?
~Daily Kingfish

~After all, he's been a busy fundraising for his 2011 campaign ... $3.5 million in his first year as Governor. Lately however, he's been all over the nation raising cash:
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Fundraiser - Palo Alto, CA (1,834 mi.)
Fundraiser - Fairfield, CA (1,834 mi.)
Fundraiser - San Diego, CA (1,537 mi.)
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Fundraiser - Malibu, CA (1,626 mi.)
Wednesday, February 25 - Sunday, March 1, 2009
Vacation at Disney World - Orlando, FL (623 mi.) Fundraiser - (February 26)

Letter to Editor From Alaska:
Dear Governor Bobby Jindal,
I would like to point out that the money for volcano-monitoring is for the Eskimos in Alaska so that they will have early warning of an exploding volcano. With this early warning information, the Alaskan Eskimos will be able to evacuate the area in time to be able to save their lives. The politicians, the rich, the powerful and the white people have early warning systems to tell them when the volcano in their area is going to blow up on them. So, they will be able to get out of the area in time and save their selves.
The Republicans do not want money being wasted on the minority Eskimos to have early warning of an exploding volcano in their area. The Eskimos are not important politicians, not rich, not powerful and they are not white. Thus, they are expendable as far as the Republican Party is concerned. If the volcano in their area blows up and takes out the minority Eskimos, well, that is of no concern to the Republican Party.
Tell me this is not so for you and the Republican Party? Do you still say that the minority Eskimos of Alaska should not have early warning of a volcano that is going to explode in their area?
Sincerely, John Suter, Chugiak, AK
Bayoubuzz will be pleased to post a response.

Corps returns to bridge plan for
Causeway in Metairie
~Richard Rainey

Corps: Freshwater diversion complex~Amy Wold
~A ship navigates down the Mississippi River toward the gulf near Jesuit Bend as the surrounding marshland slowly collapses around it.
Photo: Ted Jackson

~New Orleans Council President Clarkson Wants Diversion For Coast~BBuzz

The Fallacy of Composition~Rick Brenner

Help Rush Limbaugh Pick A State For His 2010 Run!
(note: it's hard)~Daily Koz

Anglers drag half-ton shark into Port Fourchon ~Jeff Dute
~ Related~
Fishermen cited for having 85 sharks on their boat

Humane Society Undercover Lab Investigation Reveals 'Wretched Existence of Chimpanzees'
~The Humane Society of the United States says an undercover lab assistant videotaped "the wretched existence of chimpanzees and other primates" at the nation's largest primate lab in New Iberia, and found gross failures of federal oversight.

Ordinance allows cottages to stay~J.R. Welsh

OMG another “f” - Fugate to head FEMA~slabbed

Mississippi congressman Taylor renews wind insurance efforts
~Sean Reily~For Mississippi Rep. Gene Taylor, the condition of the private homeowners' insurance market along the Gulf Coast is reason enough for a government-backed windstorm program, and he's trying again to create it.

Alleged KKK imperial whizard pleads innocent in Lynch(ing)
~Benjamin Alexander-Bloch

A VIP Kids Second Line
~Big Red Cotton

Brenau Students Spend Sprink Break Helping Katrina Survivors

Area man grows, moves big trees ~Ed Cullen

Doors now open to flood museum~The 1927 Flood Museum in Greenville, MS, which houses the largest collection of 1927 flood memorabilia anywhere, officially opened Monday in the carriage house behind the Wetherbee House on Hinds Street.

Gigantic gem is subject of LA
court case~Linda Deutsch


~The emerald was dug up in Brazil in 2001 and became known as the Bahia Emerald.
Its first owner was a Brazilian gem trader who made the first sale of it. But after that, its route became muddled. At one point, it wound up in a warehouse in New Orleans that was flooded during Hurricane Katrina. This undated image provided by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's office shows an 840-pound emerald which will remain in the custody of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department while a judge decides which of a half-dozen claimants owns the boulder-sized rock, appraised at $370 million.

The planes in Spain fall mainly on the trains~Jerome Socolovsky
~AVE High-Speed Rail Network

Building good schools in tough
times~Architectural Record

"Images of New Orleans: Musicians, French Quarter, Mississippi River Wharfs" Opens March 6th and continues through March 31 in the Sharon Weiss Gallery, 20 E. Lincoln St. Columbus, OH .
~Editilla Con'tellas~Where is This??? Let us know!

Carry Me Home published
~Wet Bank Guide

Author Louis Maistros conjures
the ghosts of New Orleans past in
'The Sound of Building Coffins'
~Susan Larson

Baked Oysters with Fresh Thyme
and Sweet Garlic Butter
~Serious Eats

Fats Domino's 81st Birthday
Celebration, Tipitina's Saturday

Irvin Mayfield's Jazz Playhouse
to open in Royal Sonesta
~Keith Spera

St. Louis Jazz Cafe to open
~St Louis Jazz Notes