"Gulf Opportunity Zone" = eminent domain takings
My 1st diary, so the usual caveats apply, please. I am a commercial real estate attorney (although not licensed in LA, MS or AL). So, I cringed when I heard the words "Gulf Opportunity Zone" (GO Zone)...
View ArticleUnited Radio of New Orleans audio stream (LINK)
If you're interested in local coverage of SE Louisiana (e.g., interviews with local officials, affected residents calling in), here's the audio stream for United Radio of New Orleans (playing on...
View ArticleSouth La -- 5 levee breaches in south Terrebonne Parish (small Cajun towns...
Here I sit at home in Houston, where we have zero damage to our house, sunny skies since Saturday afternoon. We never lost electricity, Internet access, cable TV, running water, etc., etc., etc....
View ArticleJames Baker as new VP?
James Baker will be the new VP, whether or not Cheney gets indicted. That's where all my reading, pondering, and musing have lead me. Other predictions as to when and how Georgie exits the scene are...
View ArticlePart of 9th Ward flooding AGAIN
The Army COE says 8 to 12 inches in "selected parts" of the 9th ward, due to a weakened pumping system. They expect the water to be gone in 4 to 6 hours. Here's a short article posted at WWL-TV's...
View ArticleMiers & Executive Privilege: The REAL stealth issue (w/ Poll)
[Edited to modify title] I wrote a similar version of this as a comment, then decided I may as well put it out there as my diary of the day: It seems to me that the withdrawal PRE-HEARINGS is evidence...
View ArticleJudge Scalito = "Father Knows Best" (legalese interpreted)
We've now all seen this quote from Judge Alito's dissent in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, when that case was at the Third Circuit before it went up to the SCOTUS:As Judge Alito reasoned, "[t]he...
View ArticleAlito Loves Patriarchy & Hates Precedent: William Saletan (Slate) GETS it
William Saletan's article today at Slate is the best explanation I've seen yet as to the real insidiousness of Judge Alito's legal reasoning in his Planned Parenthood v. Casey dissent. Here's the...
View ArticleLIVE WEBCAST: ACORN - Rebuilding New Orleans
Going on right now is Day 2 of ACORN's Forum on Rebuilding New Orleans, being held at LSU in Baton Rouge. Here's the link for the live webcast:http://www.acorn.org/UPDATE: The conference is on a break...
View ArticlePhase I & Phase II: Keep it simple, stupid (w/ POLL).
When are Democratic leaders and pundits EVER going to speak plainly? That's the way you cut to the heart of the ridiculous Bush spin. Ya gotta have your own spin, and ya gotta talk in monosyllables,...
View ArticleCALL TO ACTION -- Katrina 3-month anniv is TUESDAY (w/Poll)
Louisiana -- it's time to do what many of our ancestors did. It's time to storm OUR Bastille, DAMMIT!!! And July 14 is too damn far away. And other Kossacks -- WE NEED YOUR HELP. And the help of...
View ArticleACTION ALERT: call WH & Congress every Tuesday to save Louisiana
Louisiana will die. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow. But in the next year or two, if the White House and Congress refuses to commit (and soon!) to a comprehensive Category 5 levee system and...
View Article60 Minutes NOLA report debunked by 5 scientists so far
As a follow-up to blksista's diary yesterday, here's a story in today's New Orleans Times Picayune that further debunks the pseudo-science in 60 Minutes vile, irresponsible "report" on the "Sinking of...
View Article"Giving up on New Orleans"...White liberal guilt is a myth
I haven't been around here in a few weeks. Too disheartening. I expect to hear from Republicans or conservatives that New Orleans and south Louisiana should just be abandoned. I didn't expect to...
View ArticleDec. 14 - March on Washington (Katrina) w/ POLL
Here's your chance to show Bush and Congress that it's way past time for them to start to "do what it takes" (as Bush vowed) to help Gulf Coast residents. The March on Washington is being organized by...
View ArticleNOLA.com: Has Katrina emails from Blanco's office
Now available on NOLA.com are (in pdf form) emails, notes, etc. from Gov. Blanco's recent 100,000 document dump to Congress. http://www.nola.com/... Gov. Blanco made the entire set available to the...
View ArticleNOLA rebuilding & a Louisiana "to-do" list
I'm back from a 2 week trip to Puerto Rico, visiting my in-laws for the holidays. After 20 years of visiting the folks, I still cannot make up my mind as to which group throws a better, louder,...
View ArticleNOLA's Lower 9th Ward: Bulldozer chased away
"Nobody's going to touch my family's property unless you're going to bulldoze me. And you better be a bad dude if you're going to try to bulldoze me." Spoken recently by a resident of NOLA. But not...
View ArticleSW La: Hurricane Rita pictures & slideshow
A visitor's comment about Holly Beach, Louisiana, 11-05-2005, almost 6 weeks after Hurricane Rita destroyed the town (link to pictures is below):You can look at all the pictures they had on TV or the...
View Articlesouth Louisiana: Gay priest comes OUT into OPEN ARMS!!
My crazy Cajuns are at it again, showing the rest of America that we are all tolerant and stuff. Given the ScAlito hearings that started today, here's a little civil rights story from my neck of the...
View ArticleNOLA issues its Rebirth Plan; La. to hold Recovery Planning Day (Jan. 21)
PLEASE RECOMMEND - CONTAINS INFO IMPORTANT FOR LOUISIANIANS TO SEE New Orleans' (in)famous Storyville district, shut down in 1917, will rise again! But instead of being the red-light district of old,...
View ArticleNOLA: Residents ANGRY at City's new Rebuilding Plan
This diary is about NOLA residents' (angry) reactions to the "rebirth" Plan formally released today in NOLA by the Bring New Orleans Back Commission appointed by Mayor Ray Nagin in October. Yesterday...
View ArticleMedicare Part D: Andy Card's speech yesterday boggles the mind (and reality)
The White House continues to deny reality, but we all know that already. Everything is just peachy with Medicare Part D implementation, according to the WH (quotes below), despite the reality we have...
View ArticleNOLA: "State of our union"
Yes, today sucks. Big time. Coretta Scott King has died. Alito is confirmed. MonkeyDick will gloat and lie to America and the world tonight (again). And, in the background, the people of Louisiana...
View Articlelocal NOLA radio reaction to Brown testimony: FREEP THIS POLL & OPEN THREAD
Please help us in Louisiana put a stop to the Republicans' efforts to continue to "blame Blanco"! It continues to dog her valiant recovery efforts post-Katrina. We are breaking through with even the...
View ArticlePalin's video has "incited" me...
Okay, I've posted this summary in an open thread, but dammit, I'm "incited" by her enough to take this "action" of repeating my "rhetoric" in my own diary.As I and others have pointed out in different...
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