We are getting screwed over and over. Hundreds of millions of dollars over 40 years and our floodwalls collapse flooding 80% of the city. Four years down the line, and many hundreds of millions more, the Corpse of Engineers says that they will have to close the gates on the [...]
I am a Kennedy child. My parents were adamant supporters of the family and the Civil Rights movement. My early life was steeped in the words and sentiments that the various members of the Kennedy clan espoused. The mold was made and my soul was poured into it. The rest [...]
Over the last few months my Blogging has almost become non-existant. It’s not that I don’t have enough to rant about… I’m just tired. Four years of slogging and smacking down mooks for being stooopid on top of the cares of rebuilding our home and lives, care for friends and [...]
Be there or our Orisha will get you. (Or maybe I’ll ride the dark winds to express my displeasure.)
Here’s the link for registration, info and donations. We like donations, but we’d rather see you there.
[...]Well Darlin’s this day makes Year 233 A.R. (After Revolution). We all should be proud of the fact that somehow the strange collection of folks that have lived through those years managed to keep it all together (The War Between the States was a major blip on the screen…), and [...]
This is going to be building here at OWL Central. This guy pisses me off. (trouble city) This fuckmook deserves all that will be coming.
[...]Nossiter is going elsewhere.
Don’t let my screen door hit you in the ass.
[...]From our dear friend Matt McBride (Fix the Pumps) concerning Donald Rumsfeld’s decisions in the nightmare we call poast-Katrina/Federal Flood here in New Orleans-
http://men.style. com/gq/features/ full?id=content_ 9217&pageNum=6Two days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans—and the
same [...]
Democratic Underground ran across this report.
This answers many questions most of us have had concerning mental health probs in our country.
[...]My Betty is one who loves to write letters to lawmakers who step on our liberties. The other day State Rep Gary Smith introduced House Bill 844 to ban smoking in bars. This is her response to a wingnut Rep. who represents a very polluted place. I like it.
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LSU claims that Charity Hospital suffered greater than 50% damage due to the Federal Flood of New Orleans, 8/29/05, as a justification for their abandoning the hospital in order to build a new medical complex in Lower Mid-City and thus displacing 20+ blocks of homes and businesses (not counting what [...]
Looks as if Mark St.Pierre has been called before a Grand Jury. I’m groovin’ on this.
For more background info here’s a post that has some good links.
[...]Here’s a new website for renovating Charity Hospital and saving 16 blocks of Lower Mid-City from destruction.
And while you are at it, watch this video on the topic.
Both are creations of E at We Could Be Famous…
James Gill on Greg Meffert and his “friends in the Nagin IT world.
Curtsey to Adrastos for this heads up. (background can be found at American Zombie)
Could we be seeing a “Recovery Bunny meltdown? “Don’t touch the Recovery Eggs children!”
[...]I helped put together the Medical Maryjane Movement in California years ago. I built to the pot farms for the shops.
Here’s a recent article about a woman trying to help her aunt.
My goal now is to get pot legal for people who need it in this state.
[...]Okay, Obama signals that he wishes that embryonic stem cell research can go forward and the religious freaks come out of the woodwork screaming about the “dignity of all Life”.
Where were the “defenders of Human Dignity” back in 1957 when MY person was violated for Societal norms? Did the [...]
This is from SoCalDem over at the Democratic Underground and I couldn’t resist-
[...]Shootings abound in the city. Most of us fret and think it is all the problems of our police force.
THIS is the reason why law enforcment, especially as it relates to violent crimes is almost impossible to do.
[...]Yes it’s Lundi Gras and I have missed all of Carnival. As long as it goes down, I’m a happy girl.
Here’s Grand Funk Railroad doing one of my favs.
Yes Darlin’s, my pirate ship still sails and Her flags fly. The owl and crossbones will always fly.
[...]I didn’t notice what the folks in Massachusetts voted on last November, but it pleases me greatly. As one of the mommies of the Medical Maryjane Movement any form of decriminalization for pot possession is high on my list.
I do find it interesting that local police forces are trying [...]
Note- (I’ve been very concerned about certain issues in the City that could prove to only deepen the divide between Black New Orleanians and the rest of us. There seems to be a form of “mentality” (termed loosely) that that expresses an air of “entitlement” which excludes all of those [...]
Back in ‘04 I was trying to find a derelict property with which to create a Trans shelter/counseling center since many of my brothers and sisters have no place to go safely in the Metro area. I kept running across property after property that was idle, but most of them [...]
By Wednesday I will have the recall petition papers in order to rid New Orleans of the greatest hinderence to our recovery- Mayor C. Ray Nagin.
Right now I’m compiling data from others that show how Nagin is trying to kill our city. If you have data that shows the machinations [...]
This Tuseday night, 2/2 at 8PM- We will be holding a memorial for our friend Wendy Byrne at Starlight By The Prark.
There will be an altar to Wendy’s memory and a show to express our appreciation for her wonderful soul (Betts and I will dao a piece). All of us [...]
(My arm is finally on the mend, but I’m still taking it easy with the typing… here’s a request)
Hi, I wanted to draw your attention to this important petition that I recently signed: "Expand the Civil Rights Act to Protect LGBT Rights" [www.ipetitions.com] I really think this is an important cause, and I’d like to [...]I am blown away-
REMARKS OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
Inaugural Address
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Washington, D.C.
My fellow citizens:
I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to [...]
Gentle Readers, I just watched the Inauguration of the 44th President of our Nation- Barack Obama. His speech moved me to tears in that his words signaled the beginning to a new Progressive shift for our society as well as a validation of the Social Contract.
Today I witnessed the most [...]
The following comes from the FreePress Action Fund-
President-elect Barack Obama has committed billions of dollars to rebuilding America’s crumbling information infrastructure. It’s a bold part of his economic stimulus plan that will revitalize our economy and our democracy.1
But as Obama’s plan moves through Congress, it’s come under siege by [...]
