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Thursday 20 September

Where did you go to school? (21:55) - That question is up there with the three made famous by Marcelle Bienvenu: Who's Your Mama? Are You Catholic? Can You Make a Roux? Those three are what a New Orleans mother will ask a girl who wants to date... | 0 Trackbacks | 4 Comments

Tuesday 18 September

San Franciscans have a lot of nerve... (14:19) - ...criticizing anyone in the country who gets federal assistance to rebuild their town: KSFO's Rodgers accused Katrina victims of "sniveling," "whining," riding "gravy train" Summary: On his radio program, Lee Rodgers said of Hurricane Katrina refugees, "[T]he people who have... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 11 September

Changes in health care in New Orleans (09:30) - The story of the storm is not without tales of heroism, but it's not the stuff of Grand Drama, like the stories of heroic firefighters and policemen on 9-11. Rather than a few city blocks of disaster surrounded by an... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 7 September

Isle d'Orleans 2 - The Metairie Story (11:38) - It can't be stressed any stronger that the devastation of metro New Orleans from the storm was not a natural disaster. We certainly expect a certain amount of damage when natural phenomonon like a hurricane strikes a city, but we've... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 6 September

The Isle d'Orleans (09:44) - The early French explorers referred to New Orleans as the "Isle d'Orleans," because the area is indeed essentially an Island. There's Lake Pontchartrain in the north, Lake Borgne in the East, The Mississippi River in the south, and swamp and... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 31 August

Sometimes the Village Idiot says what everyone else is thinking. (18:05) - If there ever was a Village Idiot in the current crop of Republican presidential candidates, Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Neptune) is it. Still, is he saying what the others are thinking? Tancredo, a Colorado congressman, said "enough is enough," aiming to... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments
The Third Day of the New World (09:58) - The focus shifted from water back to people on Wednesday the 31st. The crews working the levees managed to close the 17th Street Canal breach, so at least the water was no longer coming into the city. Now the problem... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 30 August

The contrast was profound. (11:10) - At the memorial attended by the disrespectful piece of shit who lives in the White House, he asked for a moment of silence. At the memorial attended by His Honor the Mayor, they rang a bell. Bush wants the storm,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
The Day After The World Changed (09:50) - Tuesday was worse than Monday in many ways, because we were forced to watch the horror of the levee breaches. The winds were gone, and there was still no real word on the condition of our house in Metairie. We'd... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 29 August

Dear Larry Sabato (12:45) - fuck you: SABATO: Let's say it's Michael Chertoff. Undoubtedly, the Democrats are going to revisit Katrina. They're going to use the nomination hearings for attorney general to talk about something that happened two years ago in a completely different realm,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Spread this around! (10:44) - and if someone is in the LJ community, conservative, please post it there. I'm banned from posting there. :-)... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
The Day The World Changed (09:06) - It was an odd feeling to wake up in somoene else's house on the morning that a storm was to hit at home. Maybe it's because I've ridden out so many of the things in my life, but the things... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 28 August

Disconnected! (12:59) - asshole.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Congressional efforts 2 years after the storm (12:49) - I sat in on a conference call this morning with Reps. Waters and Clyburn that was sponsored by the Campaign for America's Future. It was an interesting take on our situation here from a sympathetic, albeit Washington perspective. The summary... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
The day before the world changed (09:01) - Two years ago yesterday, I was sitting in front of the boobtoob with the laptop on the coffee table, considering whether or not we were going to leave our home in the face of Hurricane Katrina. The storm tracks weren't... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 24 August

"The hardest decision is staying here" (09:05) - I've heard some post-storm stories that rip me up, but this morning's "StoryCorps" segment on NPR's Morning Edition really got to me: More than two years after Katrina, moving past the tragedy is still understandably difficult for some New Orleans... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 7 August

is it legit or just politics? (09:26) - Foti continues to press for the release of records in the Memorial Hospital investigation. The big question is, why? Is it that he's convinced of Dr. Pou's guilt, or is this an attack on Eddie Jordan: Though Foti has criticized... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Saturday 23 June

In case anyone's forgotten... (12:25) - The day before landfall, out in San Diego: The infamous speech a week later: Since he did such a "heckuvajob," it begs the question: and his usual response is:... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 18 June

Some debate locations are truly too relevant: (12:42) - There's a push to have New Orleans host one of the presidential campaign debates next year. Mitch is right that bringing the candidates to New Orleans makes sense: Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu said the committee tries to locate debates... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 28 March

This is why people hate insurance companies. (13:32) - This sounds more like a tactic the tobacco industry would use to avoid litigation: If State Farm and Travelers insurance companies have their way, taking out Small Business Administration disaster assistance loans would prevent policyholders from pursuing insurance claims in... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 22 March

Before-and-After: Louisiana Politics in the wake of the storm - Part 2 (07:51) - In Part 1 of this diary, we looked at the state in terms of four regions: North, Central, Southwest, and Southeast. That leaves Metro New Orleans for today. Metro New Orleans consists of three sections. There's the original "tri-parish" area,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 21 March

Before-and-After: Louisiana Politics in the wake of the storm (11:13) - Yesterday's announcement that Governor Kathleen Blanco has announced she won't seek a second term, everyone is re-analyzing and re-handicapping the race for La-Gov. The conventional wisdom is that the big winner today is former US Senator John Breaux, and the... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 19 March

This is what being a New Orleanian means... (10:35) - If I was slated to be one of St. Aug's drum majors, I'd live in a FEMA trailer, too: Montrell is one of an unknown number of children who have returned to attend school in New Orleans and now live... | 0 Trackbacks | 12 Comments

Friday 12 January

FEMA gets a brick... (12:22) - ...from Gambit Weekly: FEMA has once again given Louisiana the short end of the stick. The agency's Alternative Housing Pilot Program, which could give displaced homeowners "Katrina Cottages" in lieu of the dreaded FEMA trailers, is weighted heavily in favor... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 25 September

"it's all they have..." (21:03) - "These four hours [the saints-falcons game] are all they have. Then it's back to their FEMA trailers. And that ain't nice." --Spike Lee, on ESPN during tonight's game.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 17 September

morons and the rebuilding of New Orleans (12:22) - via First Draft, I encountered an interesting post about New Orleans from a blog called "American Zombie" The author is describing dinner conversation in Los Angeles with a young-republican type: I was having dinner in L.A. with some folks I... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 29 August

The preceeding message... (13:08) - is all I have to say about the one-year anniversery of the storm. There's so much mis-information out there this week that I'm just not going to even bother.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
We are NOT OK (13:07) - WE ARE NOT OK 8.29.05 In a sign of unity, bloggers of New Orleans are posting this simple message.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 28 August

"Katrina Survivor" responses (11:40) - LJ user nolagrl pointed me to a neat article in Da Paper entitled "Six Things Not To Say To A Katrina Survivor." While I like Mr. Crosby's polite and intelligent responses, I'm compelled to offer up my own: "Hey, why... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Saturday 26 August

katrina lego (20:02) - as usual, the rocket surgeons at Da Paper didn't put the photos on-line, but the description is neat. Legos help young artist piece together the Katrina experience... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 11 July

Holy Cross Update... (08:20) - in the midst of La Copa Mundial, I failed to mention this update on Holy Cross' quest to find a new home. We left off with the saga taking the HC board to the site of John F. Kennedy High... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
what about rinky-dink cars? (08:13) - Sheriff Jack Strain of St. Tammany is sounding more and more like Harry Lee of late. Of course, when a white law enforcement official starts talking about people with "chee wee haircuts," it didn't take long for the ACLU and... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 8 May

Terrence Blanchard... (11:14) - at Da Fest: "Yeah, we comin' back because we hate your damn food and your music." yeahyourite... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 20 January

Rally tomorrow... (23:02) - CITIZENS URGED TO TAKE MESSAGE DIRECTLY TO CORPS OF ENGINEERS ON SATURDAY, JAN. 21 A rally will be held on Saturday, Jan. 21, at 11 a.m. at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Building on Leake Avenue (River Road) in... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments
Turning the Lights on in Lakeview (10:22) - A lot of Lakeview folks are upset that, five months after the storm, they're still having trouble getting power to their streets. The problem, of course, is very simple: Entergy doesn't want to spend the money to fix their neighborhoods.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 19 January

Gating the 17th Street Canal (08:08) - The first thing that pops into my mind when I read that the Jefferson Parish Council has voted $400K for a consulting study is who is connected to whom that they got that much cash. Given that it's a study... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 30 December

Good news for St. Bernard (09:51) - Battle re-creation's return to Chalmette is victory for parish As re-enactments go, this one is usually pretty good. It's a pretty simple script. There's no cavalry, and all the Brits do is drop dead by the thousands from long-range rifle... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Homeowner's Insurance post-K (09:38) - It's good to see that the state Department of Insurance is on top of the situation: The Louisiana Department of Insurance moved Thursday to avert a crisis by enacting an emergency rule that prevents insurers from dropping policyholders waiting on... | 2 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 27 December

Copeland and Diversified foods (16:56) - well, it's hard to fault Al for pulling the plant, hurricane or no hurricane. With the price of gas what it is, being more centralized in the country makes sense. Hopefully he sticks with this plan, though: Copeland to keep... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 26 December

Shorter Jay Batt and Jackie Clarkson (10:17) - The Coloreds are gone and we don't want them back.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Saturday 24 December

car ribbons... (20:32) - I ordered the Abita Beer ribbon, but they were selling ribbons last night at Celebration in the Oaks for $5, so I got one:... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 22 December

The Senate does the right thing... (10:02) - Despite that jackass Vitter's lamentations and blatant whoring, the Senate did right by both the Gulf Coast and Alaska by dropping the ANWR drilling amendments from the hurricane relief package. The Senate unanimously approved $29 billion in relief funds. Vitter... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Shorter David Vitter (07:46) - I'll even exploit New Orleans in my efforts to whore for Bush.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 20 December

the coolest ribbon-thingy so far (22:49) - It's from Abita Beer. I like it when help comes from beer money, there's something all-American about that. :-)... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Saturday 10 December

Holy Cross leaving Da Ninth... (09:56) - Holy Cross High School is leaving the Ninth Ward campus they've called home since 1879. The school took about 7' of water, and will re-open at their current campus in January. The boys will use modular classroom buildings to finish... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 8 December

This is why Da Paper Sucks (14:05) - Headline today: E-mail suggests Blanco asleep at switch Implies that it's Blanco's fault that FEMA totally screwed up: An e-mail exchange on the afternoon of Aug. 28, the day before Katrina slammed into the state, indicated that Homeland Security Secretary... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Katrina is NOT 9/11... (13:49) - The notion that you can "cancel" Carnival is nuts. For openers, you can't stop Carnival. The only thing that stopped Carnival in the 20th Century was world war. Even the police strike in 1979 didn't stop the celebration. For ChiQuita... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 6 December

The Vulgar Pigboy is too lazy to come to New Orleans (10:42) - WWL-AM's Diane Newman can try all she wants to get that lying bastard to come to New Orleans, but it's just not going to happen. The Vulgar Pigboy lives in his own reality, and it's really sad that it takes... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Katrina wasn't about Blanco vs. Rove (09:49) - As much as WaPo wants to make this into a political struggle, the real story is the failure of Homeland security. It's not about politics: White House senior adviser Karl Rove wanted it conveyed that he understood that Blanco was... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 5 December

My Mattix Dilemma... (10:13) - Three years ago, my wife decided to re-model the kitchen. Fortunately for me, I was able to set up a three-week teaching gig in Tokyo, avoiding the trials and tribulations of ripping out the kitchen and getting all the new... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 1 December

Merging the Levee Boards - Part 3 (11:19) - Da Paper wants you to believe that anyone who is against forming a "super levee board" to take over the responsibilities of the boards managing the levee districts in the metro area is a bad politician. In particular, they're singling... | 0 Comments
Merging the Levee Boards - Part 2 (10:22) - In spite of all the evidence pointing the finger at the US Army Corps of Engineers as the culprit in the flooding of metro New Orleans during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Da Paper still comes swinging against the various independent... | 0 Comments
Merging the Levee Boards - Part 1 (08:46) - There's a lot more to this than simply greed and graft. Da Paper takes a strong stance and insists that we voters hold the feet of lawmakers to the fire on this issue, because the state house of representatives saw... | 0 Comments

Wednesday 30 November

Frankly, I don't think she's got the guts to follow-through on this... (16:44) - Mary Landrieu ain't Harry Reid. She barely got re-elected in a wishy-washy campaign, and has voted with the majority to the point where a lot of progressives in Louisiana don't see a lot of difference between her and a Republican.... | 0 Comments

Friday 25 November

Insurance Fundamentals... (08:27) - I'm no fan of the insurance industry. They manipulate the system worse than just about any industry in corporate America. Healthcare companies are often the worst. Property/casualty companies aren't a lot better, but they are our main line of defense... | 0 Comments

Monday 21 November

West Wing Quote... (21:35) - "The most costly disruptions come when something we take for granted stops working." Like levees.... | 0 Comments

Saturday 19 November

And if you want to see the sun rise, build your window facing east... (19:07) - Leave it to Da Paper to make what appears to be a valuable conference/panel discussion look like a bunch of goofs because of a stupid headline: Rebuilding should begin on high ground, group says If that's all this group did,... | 0 Comments

Thursday 17 November

Evacuation and Protection of the Streetcars (10:30) - (crossposted on CanalStreetcar and YatPundit) Since yesterday's article in the NYT, I've been asked two questions numerous times, enough to merit replying here rather than individually. The first question is, why didn't RTA use more buses to evacuate people from... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 13 November

Activist Moonbats... (20:33) - The notion that anyone from metro New Orleans has a "right of return" is an interesting one, and is worthy of extensive debate. I'm in agreement with the basic notion that folks who lived in New Orleans should be afforded... | 2 Comments
City Park Botanical Garden Wishlist (19:37) - The Botanical Garden at City Park took a pretty bad hit in the storm. They've compiled a Wish List of plants they lost and need to replace. If you're in a position to help out, please consider doing so. At... | 0 Comments

Friday 11 November

The Permit Police (15:23) - I have no idea whether or not the general contractor we hired to put walls back in the house has the proper permits, nor do I care. Some Jefferson repairs jumping the gun Jefferson Parish and Kenner are cracking down... | 0 Comments
But which Letten will be investigating? (15:11) - Letten probing levee breaches Add U.S. Attorney Jim Letten and the FBI to the growing list of authorities investigating the levee breaches that led to widespread flooding in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. ... "Our interest is primarily to determine... | 0 Comments

Tuesday 8 November

from the it-could-have-been-worse department (12:27) - This article from Da Paper on the museum at Jackson Barracks is significant, mainly because so few museums and historic collections suffered major damage at the hands of the storm. It's no surprise that Jackson Barracks, which is in the... | 0 Comments

Monday 7 November

Plantation Mentality (19:10) - This attitude among some of the city's residents was oftimes a hinderance to progress on a number of fronts, particularly public education. With all the legitimate concerns that wealthy conservatives will take actions post-Katrina that will exclude blacks from the... | 1 Comments

Sunday 6 November

This is why our crime rate is down so much right now... (00:02) - ...the criminals are elsewhere: Three New Orleans evacuees jailed on drug charges NORCROSS, GA -- Gwinnett County police have jailed three Hurricane Katrina evacuees from New Orleans, charging that they were selling crack cocaine from a hotel room paid for... | 0 Comments

Friday 21 October

Blame Joe-mentum for this fiasco, too... (09:43) - more from the his morning's FEMA article in Da Paper: But Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., said that although Brown makes a perfect scapegoat, it's important that Congress focus on doing a better job deciding whether nominees for positions such as... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
So, why does Secretary Chertoff still have a job? (09:39) - And why hasn't a grand jury been impaneled to investigate FEMA overall and Michael Brown in particular? FEMA was warned, official says WASHINGTON -- Immediately before and after Hurricane Katrina hit the New Orleans area, the Federal Emergency Management Agency's... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 20 October

yet another reason to dump the GOP... (17:53) - I wonder how those Lakeview Republicans will respond to this sort of thing? (from the Yahoo FEMA article): Meanwhile, at a separate hearing, lawmakers considering Louisiana's request for $32 billion for Gulf Coast rebuilding were told that Mississippi would need... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
More White House Criminal Behavior... (17:49) - Via Salon's War Room blog... FEMA Official Says Boss Ignored Warnings Federal Emergency Management Agency officials did not respond to repeated warnings about deteriorating conditions in New Orleans and the dire need for help as Hurricane Katrina struck, the first... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Tattoos and Katrina... (10:09) - Well, they were big before the storm here, and all these military guys around, I suppose this makes sense...maybe daysinger needs to open up a new location... :-) In Katrina's wake, a tattoo boom in New Orleans NEW ORLEANS (Reuters)... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 19 October

OPSB - What is it with these people? (14:13) - OK, I'm having a bit of trouble seeing OPSB President Sanders' logic here: Board at war over school plans A bitter split on the Orleans Parish School Board widened into a chasm Tuesday, as warring factions battled over how to... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 16 October

Re-building and moving forward. (21:08) - It's been a busy and rough couple of weeks for everyone in the area, to be sure. We got off to a slow start on re-building our house, because Mrs. YatPundit was in Chicago for her job. Her company's fallback... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments