Scuzzbucket of the Week

This week's entry is a Miss Danae Columbus.

A class act with an apparently limited vocabulary, she used a racist term when,.....irked by what she saw as faulty installation of lights in the council chambers, Danae Columbus, who is white, apparently complained the fixtures were "n***r-rigged," a once-common racialized variation of the expression "jury-rigged," meaning shoddily constructed.

Columbus, a fixture in New Orleans' political and public relations worlds who has worked for many black clients through the years, did not deny making the remark and apologized.
taken from this Times Pic article

Update December 14, 2006: A racial slur has cost a New Orleans City Council spokeswoman her job.

Vote Saints for a Cause

The Campbell Soup contest is up and running again this year. The NFL team with the most votes gets Campbells soup donated to their local community food banks. The Packers have won the last three years - let's NOT make it 4 years in a row. You can vote once per day from the same computer. Be sure to share with all your "Saints" friends.
Follow link below and vote for the New Orleans Saints. We are in 8 th place and need to beat the Packers who are in 1st place and are 3 time champs.

Click here to vote

Fire Alan Richman

This assclown just won't shut up


...Mr. Richman, who never liked New Orleans, although he came here on his honeymoon several years ago. (He is recently divorced, but insists he doesn’t blame the city.)

click here to sign the petition to ask GQ to fire this foolish old man.

He says he was simply trying to write the first unsentimental piece about New Orleans food in a world in which having a contrarian opinion is no longer valued. “You have to be behind everything these days,” he said. “You have to be behind the president, you have to be behind New Orleans.”

He reminds me of a little kid that will do anything for attention.

His credentials? Turns out he made the switch from sports writing to food, primarily restaurant reviews, a mere 14 years ago. So he starts out writing about sweaty athletes and now he writes about food. (found that at a book review at amazon dot com)

You know, I don't give a rat's ass if he's "dean of food journalism" at the FCI
His association with the FCI doesn't do a thing for me. He just WRITES about food. He probably couldn't boil water.

Anyway, here's a repost of links:

The NY Times article on Richman's
GQ article.

Wet Bank Guide: Thank You Dallas

Wet Bank Guide: Thank You Dallas

Angela Davis

Remember Angela Davis?
From today's paper

Davis was in town as a guest of Critical Resistance, a national anti-prison organization that views the American way of incarceration as a misguided attack on the poor and working class. Davis was the keynote speaker for a conference that called for amnesty for "prisoners of Katrina," including the 6,000 or so inmates evacuated days after New Orleans fell into horror.

Okay, Mizz Davis, we'll send them all to your hometown.

Anti prison organization indeed.

Info on Critical Resistance from wikipedia:
Critical Resistance is a national, member-based grassroots organization that works to build a mass movement to dismantle the '"prison-industrial complex"'. Critical Resistance has three offices (Oakland, New Orleans, and New York City), and nine chapters across the United States.
Critical Resistance was founded by Angela Davis, Rose Braz, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and many others. The organization is primarily volunteer member-based, with only five staff members: Rose Braz, Kai Lumumba Barrow, Robert "Kool Black" Horton, Ari Wohlfeiler, and Pilar Maschi, with three part-time staff members for the LA, Oakland and New Orleans chapters.
Critical Resistance popularized the idea of the prison industrial complex after their first conference in 1998, which drew thousands of former prisoners, family members, activists, academics and community members, and by many accounts re-invigorated anti-prison activism in the United States.
Excerpt from the Critical Resistance website [1]:
"Critical Resistance works to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe."

I'm having a difficult time in accepting anything LESS than the "prison industrial complex" for people who rob, rape and kill.
If I were in charge Joe Arpaio would be the Prisoner Tsar of the country

Call me whatever you will, but I'm on the side of the VICITIMS. But that's just me.

Election Post Mortem

I haven't posted my opinion on what went down in the elections
on Saturday where Dollar Bill Jeffersone defeated . . . . .what's her name?



Anyway, Adrastos
covers my feelings, so I'll just defer to his eloquent words.

Coming home ,Stronger than before

a forum defining a coast.
Date: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2006
6PM - 7PM:RECEPTION 7PM TIL 9PM:FORUM
LOCATION: ST. DOMINIC GYM 6326 MEMPHIS St, LAKEVIEW
The reception will be simple and a chance to meet the speakers.
The intro will be by the moderator , Garland Robinette.
Each speaker will present their topic ,followed by an inter panel discussion,and final
questions by the audience.

THE SPEAKERS:

Eugene Schreiber of the World Trade Center N.O.
 The reason New Orleans is a port and its importance to the world as an economic engine.

Ivor Van Heerden of LSU Hurricane center
 The need and design of a coastal protection system.

Bob Bea UC Berkley Engineering
The establishment of a system to implement and maintain a protection system.

Bruce Feingerts Attorney and Washington Insider
The U.S.Congress is the source of funding and rebuilding for our community.

Anne Konigsmark USA Today
A view of the press as it relates to the attention of the American people.

Michael Grunwald Washington Post
The Washington story of the Corps and Congress.

This forum is meant to tell a clear story of this region and its needs. There will be a hand out
with a section from each speaker and other contributors.


For more information , please call or e mail
Jimmy Delery
504-861-0333 or 504-231-1682 (cell)

 The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, Lake Pontchartrain Foundation,
Levees.org, Beacon of Hope and St. Dominic have been so gracious in their support of
this project             

The Saints are Coming

Bless you Boys!!!



09/10 at Cleveland W 19-14
09/17 at Green Bay W 34-27
09/25 Atlanta W 23-3
10/01 at Carolina L 18-21
10/08 Tampa Bay W 24-21
10/15 Philadelphia W 27-24
BYE
10/29 Baltimore L 22-35
11/05 at Tampa Bay W 31-14
11/12 at Pittsburgh L 31-38
11/19 Cincinnati L 16-31
11/26 at Atlanta W 31-13
12/03 San Francisco W 34-10
12/10 at Dallas W 42-17

Winter in the deep south

Listening to the radio reporting on a 15 car pile up this morning on the I10 from Metairie.

There was water on an elevated portion of the road and the temperatures dropped to below freezing causing the massive traffic mishap.

Southeast Louisiana doesn't freeze very often, so they don't normally have any road salt or any way to spread sand, so you can imagine what it's like out there.

I come from northern Massachusettes and find this somewhat humorous. Not the accidents, but the fact that they cannot make the highways and biways safe in the event of ice.

helping is easy

If you live outside Louisiana, you CAN help, just by contacting your elected
representatives


The Women of the Storm has compiled a list which shows which states' congresspeople
and senators have not toured Katrina & Rita's devastated areas. How can these people vote
for/against something they do not have first hand experience about?
Please contact your politicians and urge them to become involved.
Thanks.

Ya think?

-- President Bush's policy in Iraq "is not working," the Iraq Study Group said in releasing its long-awaited report.