KBB thought she would be wonderwoman by calling the special legislative session two weeks before Christmas and play Santa Claus, giving money to everybody so people would remember come election day what a bright, generous leader she was. WRONG!
from today's TP
The House of Representatives struck a crippling blow Wednesday to Gov. Kathleen Blanco's bid for public employee pay raises, road construction dollars and other new spending, refusing for the third straight day to raise a constitutional cap on state spending.
I'd like to thank all of those people who refused to allow the raising of the state spending cap. This lady STILL has no idea how to be an effective leader.
more from the TP
While Blanco had proposed a multitude of tax credits for individuals and companies, only one major change appears destined to become law: House Bill 59 by Rep. Yvonne Dorsey, D-Baton Rouge, which provides the child tax credits at an annual cost to the state treasury of $73 million.
So far in this special session the house okayed tax credits meant to give relief to all homeowners who are paying a 15 percent to 18 percent assessment to keep the Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. solvent for claims received after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. "This is a refund tax credit" instead of a cash rebate, Rep. Taylor Townsend, D-Natchitoches(author of the bill) told the House. "The individual has to make the payment first" before a tax credit can be taken. "This says everyone assessed will be able to get the credit," Townsend said.
Like a woman caught at a clearance sale, Mizz Blanco's eyes are ablaze with all of that lovely state revenue, which is actually a result of insurance payments as a result of Katrina and Rita. KBB wanted to give teachers a measly $1500/year raise (that comes out to $28 a week). Wow.
House unanimously approved HB52 for a $300 million incentive to help bring durable goods manufacturer to Louisiana
Today's session's schedule is as follows:
LEGISLATION TO BE CONSIDERED
HB35 TOWNSEND TAX/SALES USE - Provides relative to the sales and use tax exemption for utilities purchased by steelworks, blast furnaces, coke ovens, and rolling mills (Item #21)
HB59 DORSEY TAX/INCOME-CREDIT Provides for a child tax credit (Item #12)
HB120 TOWNSEND TAX/INCOME-CREDIT Authorizes a state tax credit to "offset" assessments levied by La. Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (Item #1)
One more thing, Kathleen. Ditch that gigantic fleur de lis you're wearing on your shoulder, put some of your money into local jeweler Mignon and get something more tasteful.
JMHO
Celcus has more here
and - as usual - adrastos puts his humorous spin here
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Allstate Insurance
Homeowners in 3 more states will find it harder to be in "Good Hands". Or, Legalized gambling
Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware. Allstate will no longer write new policies for homeowners in these 3 states.
Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware. Allstate will no longer write new policies for homeowners in these 3 states.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Jefferson's re-election
Skepticalbrotha puts it better than I ever could
and in breaking news....
Democrats keep Jefferson off Ways and Means Committee
12/12/2006, 1:34 p.m. CT
By JIM ABRAMS
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats, insistent that they will hold lawmakers to higher standards, decided Tuesday that Rep. William Jefferson will not return to an influential committee until a federal corruption investigation involving him is completed.
Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi said the Democratic Steering Committee had resolved that Jefferson, who last Saturday won a runoff election in his New Orleans district, will not be given back his spot on the Ways and Means Committee, the panel that determines tax and trade policies.
At Pelosi's urging, the House last June stripped Jefferson of his committee assignment because of the corruption investigation that included an FBI document asserting that agents had found $90,000 in bribe money in the Louisiana Democrat's freezer.
and in breaking news....
Democrats keep Jefferson off Ways and Means Committee
12/12/2006, 1:34 p.m. CT
By JIM ABRAMS
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats, insistent that they will hold lawmakers to higher standards, decided Tuesday that Rep. William Jefferson will not return to an influential committee until a federal corruption investigation involving him is completed.
Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi said the Democratic Steering Committee had resolved that Jefferson, who last Saturday won a runoff election in his New Orleans district, will not be given back his spot on the Ways and Means Committee, the panel that determines tax and trade policies.
At Pelosi's urging, the House last June stripped Jefferson of his committee assignment because of the corruption investigation that included an FBI document asserting that agents had found $90,000 in bribe money in the Louisiana Democrat's freezer.
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.
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
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
Monday, December 11, 2006
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.
...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.
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.
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.
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
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
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