Sunday, January 10, 2010

Dimanche

Man of the Year Vs. Apeshit Rich Guy~American Zombie

Experts on sleaze are all over the place~James Gill

Police Superintendent Warren Riley joins the Race Card Game ~Brendan McCarthy
~Without offering evidence, Riley alleged Wednesday on an interview on WBOK-AM that the message from Head referred to him as a "nigger." The allegations are the latest in a long- simmering feud between the police chief and the councilwoman.
Head called Riley's assertion, for which he has yet to offer any proof, "absolutely, wholeheartedly, unequivocally not true. It's against my grain; it's against my core."

Jindal fielding inquiries on
Lt Gov job~Central La Politics


We wonder if new EPA Chief is as Clueless, Inaccurate and Fragrantly Bigoted as the AP?
~More than four years after Hurricane Katrina, the single-story brick rancher in Pontchartrain Park where Lisa Perez Jackson grew up stands empty.
Katrina was the closest that an environmental disaster had hit home for someone who has spent her career solving environmental problems. The storm's toll on Jackson's childhood house and on New Orleans, particularly the Ninth Ward where she was raised, has intensified her quest for what's known as environmental justice.

~From the comments: "What is Lisa Jackson's mother doing with no home insurance while her daughter is one of New Jersey's highest ranking and paid state officials? And, how come after the storm that a volunteer group had to clean out her mother's home? I'm in shock anyone would even begin to think this was a good article outlining this woman's agenda. She sounds nauseating and frightening. I don' t care what her race is."
~Editilla Roiltellas~ Despite her boss, His'O'ner the President, finally dropping by New Orleans like Elmer Gantry on tour with a faux-southern accent to pee down our leg and tell us it was Katrina, we sincerely wonder if Ms Jackson knows that her momma's home was flooded by the Corps of Engineers and not Katrina? Yes, lets talk about "Environmental Justice"! It is a good question because the Corps might easily Do It Again.

What is Levees.org?
~Sandy Rosenthal


Never forget, never forgive ~Louisiana 1976

Download America Betrayed
~“America Betrayed” (First Run Features) looks at the response (or lack of response) to Katrina and it is even more shocking now. The nation is still in denial about what really caused the post-storm disaster which in many cases was worse than the bumbled immediate emergency disaster.

FEMA and Corps have explaining to do~Sen. Dick Durbin last week added his voice to the chorus calling for FEMA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to explain themselves on the metro-east levees.
"Understanding the structural integrity of the levees in the metro-east area and the risk to those living behind them is fundamentally important to my constituents: hundreds of thousands of lives and billions in economic activity are at stake,"
Durbin wrote to the two agencies. Local leaders asked for this information months ago, but have yet to get a detailed response.

On Sunday even God gat slabbed

Insurance companies do well from flood program; critics question whether industry alliance is good for taxpayers
~Sean Reilly


Climbing insurance premiums raise concern locally

Proposed Cape Cod wind farm halted by Native Americans
~Katherine Butler

~In a move that will further delay the already controversial Cape Wind project, the National Park Service announced Monday that Nantucket Sound was eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. This decision came as a reaction to a request from the Mashpee Wampanoag of Cape Cod and the Aquinnah Wampanoag of Martha’s Vineyard, who claim the 130 proposed wind turbines would thwart their spiritual ritual of greeting the sunrise and disturb ancestral burial grounds.

Biofuels Research Center to focus efforts at LSU AgCenter
~Molly Reid


Nice Little History of Louisiana

The Americanization of Mental Illness~Ethan Watters

PTSD Spirituality:
The Causes of PTSD


1st Librarian chosen as National Archivist ~NPR
~Some 10 billion things are housed in the National Archives, from the monumental to the miniscule, and David Ferriero is now in charge of them all. He'll be sworn in Wednesday as the new Archivist of the United States, the 10th person to hold the position, and the first librarian.

Because there seems to be some interest in comfort food today
~Library Chronicles


Sitting On My Porch Part Thirty Eight~Cliff's Crib

Down In The Hole with David Simon
~Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans


Midori is not a liqueur
~Kosher Computing


Sunday Funnies~Citizen K

Lady Jetsetter Secondline Parade Sunday 12noon - 4pm
~Red Cotton


Ways to Give this Season and Have a Blast While Doing It! Part One: The Pussyfooter’s Blush Ball ~NOLAFemmes

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