CA Republican Issa tries to get 'Tough Love' on Louisiana Hurricane(s) Survivors: wants us to Increase Our Taxes
~Jonathan Tilove
~"Is everyone so poor in Louisiana that the state cannot do more for you?" Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., asked the panel. "Are you going to be permanent ward of the federal government?"
Issa's question, which he said was born out of "tough love," won a wrathful response from Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio.
Kucinich said. "You're trying to keep alive a health infrastructure to assist people and we are getting ready to spend $160 billion next year on a stupid war in Afghanistan," "If we can't see that New Orleans is still suffering, if we can't see that New Orleans has a health-care infrastructure that is not adequate to meet the needs of people who are still recovering from the hurricane, if New Orleans has to come with a tin cup to beg for money for clinics ..." Kucinich said. "Our country is falling apart and what's happening in New Orleans is a signal condition of where America's priorities are totally fouled up."
~Our friend, YatPundit, weighs in well over at Da'JKos.

Questions arise about the appraised value of N.O. properties ~Richard A. Webster

Always know your place. Never let anyone put you in it ~slabbed

So the overall neglect of public education has brought us to this
~Liprap's Lament-The Line
~In a perfect world, the charters wouldn't be relied upon as the only means by which public education could be reformed.
They were never meant to be the cure for all that ails education.

Dopey-looking animal sits on couch to receive reluctantly given pat-on-the-head, also there's a dog in it
~Library Chronicles

Michael Down'Brownie Brown To Teach Class On Patriot Act?
~Zachary Roth

Sarah Palin: Betcha Louisiana ~Jim Brown~Then of course there is Palin’s vivid description on page 302 of praying in the shower with Rev. Rick Warren. I kid you not. OK, maybe I inferred too much. She was in the shower when the California Evangelist called, so she pulled in the phone to join him in prayer.

St. James, St. John bonfire work gets OK~David J. Mitchell

Plaques of Bay St. Louis Bridge
~Thanks Katrina

YatBazaar~YatPundit

Giving Thanks
~Crescent City Hack

11 and 0h my!
~Kosher Computing

To boldly go where hos have gone before~First Draft

Library begins to plan post-Flood construction and repairs ~Hullabaloo

LAGO Conference
~Huck Upchuck~If you are interested in scholarly research on Latin America, please take note of the following conference: Space and Identity: The Politics of Expression in Latin America

Cuba blasts US black leaders for charges of racism~Will Weissert

American Comparative Literature Association annual meeting~Our theme for 2010 is "Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanisms." The ACLA’s 2010 meeting in New Orleans—a city that has long prided itself on its exceptional linguistic, legal and cultural statuses—gives an occasion for reflecting on and extending the concept of the “creole.”

Louisisana's Lovecrafter
~A lifelong resident of Louisiana, Michael Frederick Korn (MF Korn) writes sort-of-surreal dark fantasy, mostly 'quiet' horror and strange science fiction. He is the author of twelve novels, two screenplays and two hundred and forty five short stories.

Aroma Cucina 2010 Calendar
Hot Damn!

Trumpeter Charlie Miller returns in time to celebrate 'Christmas in New Orleans'
~Keith Spera