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• Muppet pulls a Haydel

  —American Zombie

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  Greg Meffert wants taxpayers to pay civil judgment, legal fees
  
  Yeah...and people in Hell want ice water. (My mom used to tell me that all the time when I was a kid.)
  
  The big loser here is poor Randy Smith....he's just trying to get paid, and probably [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 2:57pm EST
  by Dambala

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• Conservative bloggers question my manhood and (may) want to kick my ass

  —Your Right Hand Thief

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  James Wolcott at Vanity Fair alerted me to the possibility that Jeff Goldstein might want to beat my ass. See, back in the day I got into a roundabout with Jeff G. when he was at Protein Wisdom. Now he's saying that there's about "a half dozen" people [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 6:43pm EST
  by oyster

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• Barefoot Contessa's chicken breasts with goat cheese

  —Nola Mom

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  I've watched countless hours of Barefoot Contessa, a few while J was sneering at her from behind his laptop. He thinks her show is contrived. I love her. She makes cooking look effortless as opposed to Rachel Ray who makes me twice as anxious as I already am. Anyway, I' [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 1:16pm EST
  by NolaMom

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• JACOBS WILL BE MAJOR CONTENDER

  —Ringside Politics

  This week former Orleans Parish School Board member Leslie Jacobs entered the race for Mayor of New Orleans. This was not a rash decision for Jacobs, who is well known to New Orleans voters because of her efforts on behalf of education reform. For years, Jacobs has been at the [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 5:06am EST
  

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• "As good if not better..."

  —Your Right Hand Thief

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  Chad Rogers of the Dead Pelican is a regular guest on Jeff Crouere's entertaining radio show. They were discussing the mayoral race, so I called in and encouraged Rogers to say more about his view of Mitch Landrieu in particular. To my surprise, he said he thought Mitch' [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 10:03am EST
  by oyster

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• Nagin crony to be indicted

  —Your Right Hand Thief

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  The Zombie was hinting about this earlier in the week. He gives us a run-down, for those keeping score at home:
  
  This marks the third set of indictments in the past two months of cronies and companies [associated] with Ray Nagin: Meffert/St. Pierre, HSOA/Frank Fradella, and now [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 11:24am EST
  by oyster

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• Seabrook surge gate's potential flooding effects ...

  —New Orleans News Ladder

  Seabrook surge gate's potential flooding effects discussed as Corps threatens to bust dredging budget~Mark Schleifstein
  
  Cost to maintain outfall canal pumps could fall on city
  ~Maya Rodriguez
  
  ~Fix the Pumps has the most detailed and critical series of Engineering Explanations on these Pumps issues --and' [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 8:00am EST
  

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• Glad They Are On Our Side! Who Dat!

  —The Chicory

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  H/t someone named Bigshot at House of Pants…

  Following is a video of a fella (perhaps from the area) who told his “Eff-Bee” they could shoot his large screen TV if the Saints won. Well, they won. So…

  Also, here is an MP3 of the Rappin Readneck’s (not related to these [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 1:46pm EST
  by Varg

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• Who Dat Say!? 12-0 Babies!!!~Canal ...

  —New Orleans News Ladder

  Who Dat Say!? 12-0 Babies!!!
  ~Canal Street Chronicles
  ~Twitter~ jeffduncantp Mike McKenzie is injured. Don't know what it is but he's on the sideline with a stocking hat on. It's Jenkins, McAlister & Prioleau at CB. lholder_cbs_nba If the Saints aren't a [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 8:00am EST
  

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• The Feds and Coastal Restoration

  —World Class New Orleans

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  The T-P tells us that the feds are taking a "fresh look" at restoration efforts.
  Good, but now is the time for action.
  Now. Now. Now.
  Which is a greater threat to my family and me? Al Qaeda? Or diminishing coastlines?
  Wetlands: the fundamental homeLAND security issue.
  [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 7:10am EST
  by Mr. Clio

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• DMN: The war museum

  —Voices of New Orleans

  We've posted about the National World War II Museum before, but it does sound amazing. The Tom Hanks produced movie shown in the theater sounds a bit like one of those virtual reality games:

  War images are graphic at times, and the horrors of war are made real by special effects.' [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 12:18am EST
  

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• It's a little too easy to dismiss ...

  —Liprap's Lament - The Line

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  It's a little too easy to dismiss this as Oh my God, it's a white boy discovering police prejudice!
  A few months ago I had a run-in with the Jeff. Parish cops. I'll preface this story by saying I'm a white man, college educated, from California, and I generally [...]

  Posted: December 05, 2009, 9:50am EST
  by Leigh C.

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• Personalized Search

  —TechChris.com

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  This makes shady SEO practices even less effective and I'm all for it. It has never been more important to produce good quality content for your target audience.

  ' [...]

  Posted: December 05, 2009, 7:52am EST
  by Christopher Johnston

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• SuperDumb Gender Gap

  —Tin Can Trailer Trash

  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' [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 11:48am EST
  by mominem

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• Commentary by David C. Bellinger

  —Your Right Hand Thief

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  “Parish President Aaron Broussard is no Donald Trump; Can’t Say, ‘Tim Whitmer ‘You’re Fired!'”
  
  Dear Blogger:
  
  Re: “Whitmer pressed to reveal ties, Jeff official: Give details or resign” by Richard Rainey, New Orleans Times-Picayune, November 25, 2009
  
  With federal subpoenas in Jefferson Parish flying as fast as' [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:03pm EST
  by oyster

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• NYT: Brad Pitt's gift

  —Voices of New Orleans

  Now that some of the Make It Right Foundation houses in the Ninth Ward are being lived in, what does the community think of them? This piece chronicles how everyone gives actor Brad Pitt props for his efforts, but some find the disparate architectural styles unsettling. For example:

  James Dart, a [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 3:54pm EST
  

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• "Be special, Finish ...

  —New Orleans News Ladder

  "Be special, Finish strong
  Smell greatness!"~Jeff Duncan
  
  I Love My New Orleans Saints ~NOLAFemmes
  
  Black & Gold Mania in Bars
  ~Alejondro De Los Rios
  
  Leslie Jacobs, School Reformer For New Orleans Mayor
  ~Christopher Tidmore
  ~"I don’t only support" [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:00am EST
  

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• Iran Going for the Gold

  —NOLA-dishu

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  Iran seizes Nobel Prize. You know, there's one other time when someone tried to steal a Nobel prize. The Nazi's desperately needed gold for the war effort and went hunting around the Neils Bohr Institute, but all they could find were jars of chemicals. An enterprising young physicist [...]

  Posted: November 29, 2009, 9:14pm EST
  by Clay

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• "Green Corps" for the coast

  —Your Right Hand Thief

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  Mark LaFlaur at Levees not War wrote an exceptional piece advocating a new "Green Corps" effort to save Louisiana's vanishing coast. It's not too long and the topic is important, so go read it.
  
  
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  Speaking of green, last week I was wondering if Jay [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:57pm EST
  by oyster

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• Ibis eating -- Lafreniere Park, Kenner

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

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  (I know I said I would show you that other shot today but I haven't got it ready yet)
  This is a shot at Lafreniere Park out in Kenner in Jefferson Parish.  The park was created on an old horse racing track.  It now features a beautiful' [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:09pm EST
  by Steve Buser

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• Big people article alert

  —We Could Be Famous

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  Last Friday I wrote sumthin for the Lens about James Perry's effing campaign. [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 1:58pm EST
  by E

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• Our House! Perfect 10'eaux fo'da Baby's Saints!

  —New Orleans News Ladder

  Every game a home game for Our New Orleans Saints~Jeff Duncan
  
  New Orleans Saints 38 @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers 7: Who Dat Say!?
  ~Canal Street Cronicles
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  usama_young28 Who dat! Thanks for the support yall. U kno me. Gotta ice up and [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:30am EST
  

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• Fur-wearers, dealers say Louisiana’s nutria can ...

  —New Orleans News Ladder

  Fur-wearers, dealers say Louisiana’s nutria can make ‘beautiful’ coats, help wetlands
  ~Laura McKnight
  ~Editilla Scrotellas~ We added that last part about helping wetlands due to the erosive effects of Nutria on restoration efforts and flood control structures. A friend actually suggested it, make Nutria Fur Coats to raise tons [...]

  Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:00am EST
  

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• Banality of "prudent" mission creep

  —Your Right Hand Thief

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  Jeffrey has a great post on Vietnam, Afghanistan, LBJ, Obama. Go read it. I want to preserve this quote, I think so much of it:
  
  Listening to these conversations [between LBJ and McNamara], one sees how a slow-building disastrous tragedy like the U.S. war in Vietnam is [...]

  Posted: November 21, 2009, 1:55pm EST
  by oyster

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• Mayor, criminals must work harder to keep N.O. brand out there

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  Jeffrey finds an article showing significant "trendbucking" in the greater New Orleans area. Trendbucking is a rather dubious economic phenomenon that the local business media seems to treat as an article of faith. Jeffrey has diligently documented the ballyhoo around trendbucking for quite some time, but this recent [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:45pm EST
  by oyster

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• The Filter at Humid Beings

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  I'm introducing a new weekly blog at Humid Beings called "The Filter". It's going to be more or less like my longer YRHT posts-- witty, link happy, semi-cogent-- but I'll be publishing them each Wednesday (more or less) under "oyster".
  
  The initial effort is about [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:17pm EST
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• Tri-colored Heron -- patience practice

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

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  A tri-colored heron, doing the patience thing at Lafrenniere Park in Jefferson Parish, which lies next to New Orleans.  This park was made from an old race-track, Jefferson Downs.  I went to a few Scout events there as a youngster.   I like the park a lot better. [...]

  Posted: November 14, 2009, 4:00pm EST
  by Steve Buser

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• 13

  —Your Right Hand Thief

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  We Saw That links to a digest about the superstitions surrounding the number thirteen.
  
  LEGEND HAS IT: ...If you have 13 letters in your name, you will have the devil's luck (Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Theodore Bundy and Albert De Salvo all have 13' [...]

  Posted: November 14, 2009, 12:30am EST
  by oyster

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• The elusive pimpernel photographed at last...

  —American Zombie

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  Mark St. Pierre pleads innocent in federal corruption caseMrs. St. Pierre is smiling because she's not Mrs. Meffert.' [...]

  Posted: November 12, 2009, 4:36pm EST
  by Dambala

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• Jefferson Parish Carnival Krewes do not think very creatively

  —Library Chronicles

  I don't see what the problem is here.
  
  Not wanting to compete with the biggest game in football, and potentially the biggest game in New Orleans Saints history, Metairie’s Krewe of Rhea has canceled its 2010 Carnival parade on Feb. 7, Super Bowl Sunday.
  
  Nobody knows how' [...]

  Posted: November 12, 2009, 9:31am EST
  by jeffrey

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