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  • SuperDumb Gender Gap

    In an effort to keep up the negativity after the Saints mind blowing destruction of the Pats I'll return to a thing I wrote a little while ago.Quoting myself;At gate D where we entered only two sets of screening lines were open and the female lines were virtually empty. The' [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 11:48am EST
    by mominem

  • Some People Just Don't Get It!

    We went to a funeral this weekend. It was perhaps the largest funeral I've ever attended filling the parish church full almost to capacity, but that is a different post.After the Mass there was a procession from the church to the cemetery. A police motor cycle escort stopped traffic for' [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 3:08pm EST
    by mominem

  • Rationing Government Services

    File this under theater of the absurd.We have 3 cars. Their registrations all expire at the same time, due to the hiatus following the federal flood. I also lost my titles when my house flooded and I have never gotten them replaced. This year I decided to get them replaced. [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:14am EST
    by mominem

  • You Can Bullshit a Bullshitter.

    A lot of local attention has been focused on the incoherent self serving ramblings of the former Recovery Czar.One of the myths I often heard coming up was that "You can't bullshit a bullshitter". Over the years I've learned that it is the most wildly inaccurate conventional wisdom imaginable. In [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 10:53pm EST
    by mominem

  • Beer and Blogging

    Click on the image to email an RSVP [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:29am EST
    by mominem

  • Creating Prosperity

    New Orleans has been in relative economic decline for more than a century it has actually lost population since about 1970 and economic power since the the 1980's. Katrina and the Federal Flood merely moved us along the same trajectory at hyper speed.Politicians talk of "jobs" but all too often' [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 1:53pm EDT
    by mominem

  • Our new Cocktail

    She gets confused sometimes about tonic, club soda and seltzer. On a recent trip to Canada she stayed at Falkridge, a house built by Mogens Smed and acquired by Haworth when they bought his company out. They used it as a conference center and guest house for people visiting the [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 10:58am EDT
    by mominem

  • Doomsday BCS Implosion Scenario

    We have the possibility of a BCS implosion this year.The Number 1 and 2 teams are in the same conference but don't play each other this year in the regular season. They could meet in the SEC Championship game, if they both get there.That would upstage the BCS game.But suppose' [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 4:35pm EDT
    by mominem

  • Predictable Negativity

    Sunday was a beautiful day in New Olresns, She started out in Washington D. C. and flew home for the Saints game Sunday. Her flight was early so I picked her up at the airport and we went directly to the dome for the game.The game was great, I can't' [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 1:53pm EDT
    by mominem

  • Geektober Fest

    Last Saturday night we had another Geek Dinner. Because its Oktober, in honor of German my heritage, and the Irish Channel, (where we almost were) I decided to create Bratwurst and Red Cabbage.Since I still had one of the throw away aluminum chafing dishes left over from last time it [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 1:20pm EDT
    by mominem

  • Is this Privacy?

    We seem to have privacy laws run amok. This morning I decided to stop by the Office of Motor Vehicles and renew my license plates, all three of them are about to expire. I gathered up copies of the registrations, insurance certificates and blank checks, cash and credit cards.When I [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 3:06pm EDT
    by mominem

  • Wayward Inspector General Report

    I have been a strong supporter of the concept of the IG form the beginning. Unlike others who saw it as a tool for rooting out corruption, I thought there was an opportunity for making systemic change to what is obviously a broken government filled with people who have never [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 3:35pm EDT
    by mominem

  • Rebuilding is Hard

    Recently we observed the fourth anniversary of the Flood of New Orleans and Katrina's devastation of South Louisiana and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. A lot is still left to be done.Freedom TowerToday is the eighth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.The Freedom Tower [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2009, 3:11pm EDT
    by mominem

  • ΣΣΣΣΣΣ The Bell Curve

    I always thought that 6σ was derived from the math for 6 Standard Deviations on a Normal Distribution. That works out to 1 in 506,800,000. zσ percentage within CI percentage outside CI ratio outside CI 1σ 68.2689492% 31.7310508% 1 / 3.1514871 1.645σ 90% 10% 1 / 10 1.960σ 95% 5% [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2009, 1:28pm EDT
    by mominem

  • In Defense of Snake Gods

    Here is the text of only my second post on Nola.comDrambala had the goods on Meffert long before the local news media. They waited for confirmation, which might not have come without Drambala's lead.Ellis and Naef showed up at Rising Tide with aa posse and were looking for Drambala, yet [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2009, 9:16am EDT
    by mominem

  • Remember

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    Graphic by Mark FolseOn the Fourth Anniversary of the Federal Flood New Orleans is still suffering from the unfulfilled commitments by our nation's leaders to put right the damage the government caused by defectively designed levees.Congress authorized levees 16 feet high. The Federal Government built levees 14 feet high that' [...]
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    Posted: August 29, 2009, 1:44pm EDT
    by mominem

  • Hallucination of Independance

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    I'd been thinking of getting away for a few days. One day I got an email from a condominium in Delray Beach offering discounted rentals for a beach front condo in Delray Beach. The email said I had contacted them before about renting and they were emailing me to let' [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2009, 3:29pm EDT
    by mominem

  • Hallucination of Independance

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    This weekend I was at Rising Tide. A great time was had by all. During our Friday Night reception I was talking to Dr. A about our recent trip to Delray Beach. I told her all about the trip and the post I had done on it. Unfortunately I hallucinated [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2009, 10:35am EDT
    by mominem

  • Avenue Pubbing

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    Rising Tide 4 kicks off this evening at 7:00 with a party at Avenue Pub on St. Charles Avenue.If you can't register on line come on by and register in person, we'll be upstairs. They have 31 beers on tap, unfortunately I don't know if they have Schlitz.The beer that' [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2009, 4:22pm EDT
    by mominem

  • Shrimp and Grits Schlitz

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    I recently discovered that the Rouse's store on Carrollton carries Schlitz, the beer that made Milwakee famous. That's the only place I've seen it in years, so obviously I had to buy some. That Rouse's is the only local store I know of with a "beer room", a walk-in cooler [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2009, 9:35am EDT
    by mominem

  • A Buick? A Buick? You Gotta be Kidding Me!

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    All I could think of when GM announced its first new model since leaving bankruptcy was Jim Mora, former Saints Head Coach's beer commercial. Just imagine Jim saying the title.The New Government Motors just released it first new car and it a Buick LaCrosse?.I'm puzzled by that. Buick was positioned [...]
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    Posted: August 14, 2009, 10:28am EDT
    by mominem

  • Going Green For Green

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    I attended an Architect's convention last week and one of the sessions was on Solar Energy. Unlike most sessions of this type it actually provided practical, usable information. Like all similar information this should be taken with a grain of salt and tested against actual information on your particular situation.The' [...]
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    Posted: August 13, 2009, 1:11pm EDT
    by mominem

  • Clunker Craziness

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    The government at it again, rewarding past irresponsible behavior. The Cash for Clunkers program is only available to people who irresponsibly purchased gas guzzling, imported oil drinking land yachts. We're paying up to $4,500 each to bail out several hundred thousand of these idiots.I think the government should pay every' [...]
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    Posted: August 08, 2009, 5:18pm EDT
    by mominem

  • Hispanics?

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    Hispanics, at least in my experience don't see themselves as a single group.I think you'll find that Hispanics as a group were largely invented by pollsters and politicians. That unlike blacks(aka African Americans), there isn't a single predominate Hispanic voter profile.A New York Puerto Rican is not that much like' [...]
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    Posted: August 08, 2009, 4:38am EDT
    by mominem

  • Ain't that Sumthin' - A Little Late and a Dollar Bill Short

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    Anthony JonesAnthony Jones was fired for among other things, taking a trip paid for by a city vendor.In addition to findings that he took a trip on the dime of a city vendor, hid the spiraling cost of the city's much maligned crime-camera program and lied about his academic credentials,' [...]
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    Posted: August 08, 2009, 11:32pm EDT
    by mominem

  • Rising Tide SWAG

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    It's Rising Tide Time Again and we going have a great one there are lots of other posts about the panels and the Keynote Harry Shearer.But I know the most important part is the Great T Shirt designed by Greg Peters. Hurry on over to the Rising Tide Web Site' [...]
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    Posted: July 31, 2009, 7:04pm EDT
    by mominem

  • Presumed Prejudiced

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    I've been watching the circus surrounding the incident between Professor "Skip" Gates and a policeman. It has been a circus. So far as I can tell the only winner has been Blue Moon Beer.They've gotten a ton of free publicity out of it and probably only donated a few cases [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2009, 4:36pm EDT
    by mominem

  • Rockets

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    Thanks to my friend Mark for making me remember this.When I was a kid my grandparents lived in Melbourne Florida, just south of "The Cape".Apollo 11 LaunchWe would often watch the rocket launches from the beach. Once we watched a Saturn V take off from their back yard. You could [...]
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    Posted: July 17, 2009, 9:58am EDT
    by mominem

  • Movie Trailers

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    One thing living in a FEMA trailer did was make me aware of travel trailers. Before I hardly ever noticed them anywhere. Now I seem them everywhere and all of the time. I even found one Saturday morning on TV.Around my place Saturday morning is usually spent making breakfast, cleaning [...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2009, 1:11pm EDT
    by mominem

  • What is a Public Option?

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    I've been watching the Health Care debate with interest, but little understanding. Everyone seems to speak in a code only they understand.As a small business we have provided our employees with 100% paid health insurance almost since the beginning of our firm. It isn't cheap and most employees don't appreciate' [...]
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    Posted: July 01, 2009, 11:25am EDT
    by mominem

  • A Curious Kind of Coup.

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    Coat of Arms of HondourasI don't know much about what happened in Honduras but anytime an elected President is removed by force it isn't a good day for Democracy. On the other hand many people from Honduras seem to support the move.The more I learn the less I know. I [...]
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    Posted: June 29, 2009, 4:26pm EDT
    by mominem

  • Yahoo I Used to Knew You

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    I fear the Yahoo service is rapidly declining, I don't know why but possibly due to the ascendancy of Goooogle!.For several years I've used myYahoo for my home page. I was able to track local news, national and international news along with weather my favorite sports teams, even a series [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2009, 9:32pm EDT
    by mominem

  • My Neighbors are Crooks

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    Not my house nor in New Orleans.In Atlanta our office is located next to "Financial Services". Through the wall I can clearly hear them calling people all day every day, saying that their targets they have an exemplary payment history and they can lower the interest rates on all of [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2009, 3:17pm EDT
    by mominem

  • Countdown!

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    We're going to the Beach!



    The view from our bedroom.' [...]
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    Posted: June 19, 2009, 8:44am EDT
    by mominem

  • Government Motors

    Number of comments: 2

    Does this make sense?

    The Government gave $19.4 billion, would get 72.5% (up from 50%) of the new Government Motors plus $8 billion will still be owed by the new company. Pretty sweet, they get 72.5% for a net of $11.4 billion.

    United [...]
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    Posted: May 29, 2009, 10:19am EDT
    by mominem

  • Has anyone seen one of these?

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    For the recent Geek Dinner, I decided to make a shrimp dish. I always like to buy whole shrimp and make shrimp stock but since I was talking about a lot of shrimp ( 5 pounds cleaned) decided I need to replace my Katrina Kasualty Shrimp Deveiner.

    I thought [...]
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    Posted: May 12, 2009, 7:39pm EDT
    by mominem

  • Nayor Magin

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    I'm not a big fan of Ray but recently we're seeing a lot of piling on. I'm not defending his unconscionable secrecy which only fueled the fire. But, the Sharks smell blood in the water. They are feeding on the public's apparent distaste for his antics. When he was popular [...]
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    Posted: May 06, 2009, 10:39pm EDT
    by mominem

  • In all Fairness

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    Clesus makes some good points about the Recent Six Flags Dust up. It's more complicated that it appears at first glance.

    It's a little disappointing to have a local AP staffer fail to make any mention of the City's position in such an article. For once' [...]
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    Posted: April 24, 2009, 10:32am EDT
    by mominem

  • BOLO* - Festista** Alert

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    You can tell what's happening in New Orleans by who you meet on airplanes. Yesterday I came back earlier in the week than usual to miss the craziness of the Festistas**. I wasn't entirely successful, but it wasn't unpleasant either.

    I was happy to meet Terry and to talk' [...]
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    Posted: April 23, 2009, 3:36pm EDT
    by mominem

  • The Hits just Keep Comming

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    The Whole Crime Camera Saga just keeps getting better and better.

    The there was a story on Nola.com that said;
    Randy Smith (Meffert's Lawyer), also said Meffert was paid "hundreds of thousands of dollars" in consulting fees by the firm, NetMethods, in the months following his departure' [...]
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    Posted: April 23, 2009, 11:26am EDT
    by mominem

  • Did he really say that?

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    Does this make any sense?

    According to WWL
    Randall Smith

    "Attorney Randy Smith said Meffert had use of the card while technology director and was authorized to use it to help NetMethods get business outside the city. Smith said the Hawaii trip" [...]
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    Posted: April 22, 2009, 8:56am EDT
    by mominem

  • Formaldehyde revisited

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    Much has been written about the 'Toxic Trailers" and other stuff. I've written about the issue before and although that post is one of my top hit getters (whatever that means) there have been no comments. FEMA has never suggested to us that our trailer should be tested.
    [...]
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    Posted: April 15, 2009, 4:50pm EDT
    by mominem

  • Wiz Kid unveiled.

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    The 900 plus pages of Greg Meffert's deposition have now been released and I have more or less read every word. It was generally a waste of time.

    I wonder if one of those tapes has the Mayor's missing emails?

    The Whiz Kid [...]
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    Posted: April 13, 2009, 10:48am EDT
    by mominem

  • Hey man, what's with you?

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    As the circus surrounding the current city administration continues, our Mayor has displayed an serious lack of logic in dealing with his ethical responsibility as Mayor.



    I suppose any father wants to help out his sons start a new business, even to the [...]
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    Posted: April 06, 2009, 10:50am EDT
    by mominem

  • Fixing the Mortgage Mess

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    I'm not very optimistic about fixing the mortgage mess. It looks like no one has any really good ideas and the politicians are not willing to accept the reality than the pre-bust housing market was artificially created by easy credit, speculation and a whole transaction fee industry willing to pass' [...]
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    Posted: February 23, 2009, 1:09pm EST
    by mominem

  • Cellophane Mayor

    Number of comments: 1
    Recently our mayor declared;

    “I’m done. I have implemented transparency.”

    -- New Orleans Mayor Ray NaginHe's so transparent everybody sees right through him.

    We citizens of New Orleans have been treated to a long running soap opera involving, the Garbage Guru, The Head Witch, Trashanova and' [...]
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    Posted: February 10, 2009, 2:13pm EST
    by mominem

  • Farewell Bob.

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    New Orleans first Inspector General resigned today and we are the worse for it.

    Robert Cerasoli, Former Inspector General

    I wish him well, and hope he overcomes his health problems.

    Mr. Cerasoli was dedicated to establishing the Inspector General's office on an solid' [...]
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    Posted: January 30, 2009, 11:11pm EST
    by mominem

  • Honor among theives?

    Number of comments: 1
    Not long ago Oliver Thomas upped on the "Don't Snitch" pledge and refused to even talk to DoJ officials after making very pubic admissions of guilt and pledging to make it right. He isn't even a good "Stand Up Guy". A "Stand Up Guy" would have "taken the fifth " [...]
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    Posted: January 25, 2009, 8:42am EST
    by mominem

  • Boyz and their Toyz

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    Recently there has been a sort of mini brouhaha over Inspector General Robert Cerasoli's requisition of some fire arms.

    Robert Cerasoli, Inspector General

    The initial report did raise my eyebrows, but the TP story quoting Odom and reminding people that the Police Monitor' [...]
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    Posted: January 17, 2009, 4:30pm EST
    by mominem

  • I Feel Much Safer Now

    Number of comments: 1

    Departing FLL for home yesterday I had the following exchange with a TSA Employee;

    TSA DUDE: I bet I can tell where you're from.
    ME: Where?
    TSA DUDE: Scotland.
    ME: ???
    TSA DUDE: Yeah we had a guy in a kilt come through' [...]
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    Posted: January 12, 2009, 8:04am EST
    by mominem
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