Scuzzbucket of the Week

Hat tip to Oyster


Dollar Bill Jefferson
I cannot believe the cojones of this man!!! According to the article at the new 995FM, Last week, House Democrats were shocked to receive a letter from Congressman Bill Jefferson on his official Congressional stationery asking colleagues to donate money to help him retire his campaign debt.

Hope all you morons to re-elected this crook are proud of yourselves.

Change MUST take place

While young kids run wildly around the city, shooting up anything in their way for money or whatever it is that is special to them, New Orleans natives are questioning their choice to stay in the city.

Read what natives are saying

Loki wonders about staying in light of this crime spree. While our "Mayor" and "Police Chief" remain conspicuously absent from view, popping up only occasionally to mouth platitudes before sinking from sight, the death toll rises. It now includes people we know personally. Local filmmaker Helen Hill was murdered in her own home at 5:30am, her husband, Doctor Paul Gailiunas was wounded but survived as did their 2 year old son.

Adrastos
rethinks the hope that many, many people had in the immediate aftermath of the storm. As long as there are people with guns who think that life, including their own, is cheap, blood will stain the streets of New Orleans.

Editor B, friend of Helen & Paul mourns his loss. But I believe that Helen would have wanted us to keep fighting for justice and a better city. If you are reading this in New Orleans, and you’re not actively involved in working for the future of this city, I challenge you to get involved, now. We are, quite literally, fighting for our lives.

Stuck_on_stupid Ray Nagin penned an editorial in yesterday's paper. Talk about Pollyana!
Even though we continue to face challenges, the city is getting its house in order, so that our citizens can come home to a safer, smarter, stronger city.

Warren Riley....what can I say? He is too busy dealing with Endymion logistics instead of crime NOPD Superintendent Warren Riley would be wise to strike a similarly cautious note when it comes to 2006 crime statistics. Superintendent Riley called the murder tally of 161 the lowest in 30 years, setting the figure against the backdrop of a rebounding population and officer shortage.

The there's Eddie Jordan. What's he been doing, hanging out with Ray?

Tragic Crime Wave

Too many good people are getting taken away in New Orleans horrific crime problem.


Blues notes '07 tells about the cause of the murder of
the founder of the "Hot 8 Brass Band", Dinerral Shavers.


b.rox discusses what he pens "a horrible tragedy" in the murder of Helen Hill in her own home on Rampart Street

NOLANik has created a site where Helen Hill's friends are collecting memories of Helen here.
She must've been a very special lady. Prayers for her loved ones' strength are going out.
Here is another moving tribute to Helen.


The Chicory calls for Warren Riley's resignation. I'd say it's a good start.

PaulP posts at Metroblogging about seven days, twelve murders He shares my
feelings about how bad things are in NOLA, crime-wise.
Yep, it's pretty bad when third world countries are laughing at you.

The WaPo reports on - as of yesterday - 5 shooting deaths in 14 hours Since New Year's Day, when the police chief declared New Orleans' murder rate under control, the city has logged six homicides, including five shooting deaths in a 14-hour span.

Another reason to love SE LA

King Cake!!!!

just had my first piece of kingcake of the season.

KBB & God

dambala discusses Kathleen Blanco's morning conversations with the Supreme Being.......

The Thieving Scum Sugar Bowl

one of my favorite bloggers discusses how Louisianians should
react to the presence of Allstate as sponsor of the Sugar Bowl...

snip...
should we be ready to treat thtem to some of the triple decibel noise we know 70,000 plus angry fans can generate, showering the field with our true feelings and perhaps the odd loose projectile?

I like that idea!

Thanks, Mark.

Postivity

Heather Buck penned a positive look back at
good things that happened in 2006 in NOLA.

Thanks Heather!

Is this nerve or pure idiocy?

PUL-EEZ
New York Times
3-Jan-07
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By John F. Burns and James
Glanz
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Iraq’s Shiite-led government said Tuesday that it had ordered an investigation into
the abusive behavior at the execution of Saddam Hussein, who was subjected to a battery of taunts by official Shiite witnesses and guards as he awaited his hanging.


here's a list of Mr. H's crimes

The Danzinger Incident

from NPR

excerpt
The Danziger Bridge incident needs to be understood in the context of a major American city that had disintegrated.

"The New Orleans Police Department was overwhelmed," says Anthony Radosti, vice president of the Metropolitan Crime Commission and a former 23-year veteran investigator with the New Orleans police.

"Radio communication was at a minimum. [The police] felt isolated, abandoned. They had no place to live or sleep. Rumors were just wild. Sniper fire, armed individuals on the street. And in some cases, that information was true," Radosti says.

An Arkansas paramedic who rode to the Danziger Bridge with police that morning told NPR that officers were involved in a five-minute gunbattle. He heard people shooting back, but he says he was hiding and he couldn't see who they were.

Radosti sympathizes with embattled officers who were trying to take back their city -- up to a point.


Varg discusses this and the CCC bridge incident

WWL program changes

I want to thank WWL for removing that pompous bag of hot air from
105.3 FM and relegating him to A.M. from 11-2 on weekdays.

They will now be broadcasting live with a call-in format in this time slot.

I know it won't make Schroeder happy, but you can't please everyone.

I'm just glad I don't have to turn my radio off here at work from 11-2 any more.

Gulfport-Biloxi

Pictures taken in November '06 in Gulfport/Biloxi show the
progress being made.