A repeat from a year ago. http://thanks-katrina.blogspot.com/2009/11/happy-bday-saints.html
The Saints are celebrating their 44th Birthday AND a win last night against the Steelers.
WHO DAT
Monday, November 01, 2010
Saints' 44th Birthday
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
A use for some of that BP Oil
found at Gizmodo.com
From something so horrible comes something pretty eye-catching—and beneficial for the charity the profits support.
From scooping up the oil, to the gunk being used as paint in the screen-printer, the photos paint a story of the BP oil disaster six months later. Burrill said of his posters "here is a perception among many people that the oil in the Gulf of Mexico is just going to somehow disappear…For people in the Gulf, including Louisiana, the effects of this disaster will be around for a long time."
Profits for the sale of the 200 posters will be donated to the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, a voluntary organization that protects and restores the coastline. They cost $210 each (after converting from 150 Euros), which isn't cheap, but considering they're limited edition screen-prints signed by the artist and for a worthy cause, I'm sure they'll be snapped up in no time.
New Hurricane Museum
From nola dot com
The Louisiana State Museum in New Orleans remembers the devastation and showcase the renewal with a new exhibit years in the making. Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond is a $7.5 million exhibit opening on the ground floor of the historic Presbytere in the French Quarter’s Jackson Square. The 6,700 square-foot installation tells the stories of real people caught in the hurricane’s wrath. It tells of their rescue, recovery, rebuilding and renewal in a way certain to move both those who survived the storms of 2005 and those who watched the events unfold on TV.
The show is billed by the museum as the largest hurricane exhibition in the world, and it covers a lot of ground: the nature of hurricanes, Hurricane Betsy and other storms that hit New Orleans in the past, levee engineering, coastal marshes, Hurricane Rita and of course the full story of Katrina’s impact, from evacuation to flooding to the city’s gradual repopulation, rebuilding and recovery.
The first object that will meet visitors’ eyes is one of the most striking: a ruined Steinway baby grand piano recovered from Fats Domino’s flooded Lower 9th Ward home.
A pair of blue jeans shows the identification and medical information their owner wrote on them in case he was injured or killed as he sought help.
One of the most memorable items is the “Mabry wall,” the daily diary that B.W. Cooper housing complex resident Tommie Elton Mabry wrote on the walls of his apartment with a black felt tip marker, starting the day before the storm hit and continuing for weeks afterward. The museum staff painstakingly peeled off the paint bearing his journal before the building was demolished.
Besides actual artifacts, exhibits incorporate some of the hundreds of oral histories the museum has assembled. Some of them play while a simulated helicopter hovers overhead, recalling the aerial rescues of stranded residents.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
wake up BP, Feds....it's still there!
MATTHEW HINTON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE A boat travels through oil that was spotted in West Bay just west of the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River Friday October 22, 2010.
Just three days after the U.S. Coast Guard admiral in charge of the BP oil spill cleanup declared little recoverable surface oil remained in the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana fishers Friday found miles-long strings of weathered oil floating toward fragile marshes on the Mississippi River delta.
The discovery, which comes as millions of birds begin moving toward the region in the fall migration, gave ammunition to groups that have insisted the government has overstated clean-up progress, and could force reclosure of key fishing areas only recently reopened.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Criminals Is Stupid
Here's what Slidell cops have to deal with:
Sale of oregano in place of marijuana leaves three with records in St. Tammany
Courtesy of nola dot com, the following story
(must be a slow news day)
A Slidell area man this week pleaded guilty to drug charges stemming from his sale of oregano, which he passed off as marijuana, and is scheduled to receive a sentence of seven years behind bars.
Another Slidell man got five years of probation for his role in the oregano sale, and the man who bought the oregano received two years of probation.
In June, Joshua Harris, 22, passed off a large bag of oregano as marijuana and was successful in making a $210 sale. But, Joshua Davis, who'd made arrangements to purchase marijuana from Harris and Anthony Batiste that day, was angry after he realized he'd been duped and immediately called authorities.
Davis, 18, of Slidell, told St. Tammany Parish sheriff's deputies on June 4 that Harris had stolen $210 from him, but he failed to mention the true contention: that Harris simply had failed to provide him with the proper herb. Yet Davis got in hot water when deputies learned the true story, especially after they searched Davis and found a marijuana joint on him.
Harris pleaded guilty on Tuesday to possession with intent to distribute marijuana, and two counts of possession of legend drugs without a prescription. Deputies found pills on him at the time of his arrest, along with a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
State Judge Martin Coady announced he would sentence Harris to seven years in prison, but the official sentencing hearing is scheduled for next month. Harris was charged in part through a section of the law that states selling "a counterfeit controlled dangerous substance" carries the same penalties as selling the actual substance.
Harris admitted to the charges against him mid-trial on Tuesday after noticing that both Davis and Batiste were prepared to testify against him, according to the St. Tammany district attorney's office.
Assistant District Attorney Harold Bartholomew prosecuted the case.
Batiste, 21, of Slidell, pleaded guilty on Monday to attempted possession with intent to distribute the counterfeit drug, and Coady gave him five years of probation under the condition that he would testify against Harris, according to the district attorney's office.
And while Davis initially was also charged with a felony marijuana charge, that charge was reduced for both helping the deputies and agreeing to testify against Harris, authorities said.
On Monday, Davis pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors, possession of marijuana first offense - for the joint in his pocket - and criminal mischief, for not telling the whole truth to police when he stated his $210 had simply been stolen. Davis was sentenced to two years of probation.
Sale of oregano in place of marijuana leaves three with records in St. Tammany
Courtesy of nola dot com, the following story
(must be a slow news day)
A Slidell area man this week pleaded guilty to drug charges stemming from his sale of oregano, which he passed off as marijuana, and is scheduled to receive a sentence of seven years behind bars.
Another Slidell man got five years of probation for his role in the oregano sale, and the man who bought the oregano received two years of probation.
In June, Joshua Harris, 22, passed off a large bag of oregano as marijuana and was successful in making a $210 sale. But, Joshua Davis, who'd made arrangements to purchase marijuana from Harris and Anthony Batiste that day, was angry after he realized he'd been duped and immediately called authorities.
Davis, 18, of Slidell, told St. Tammany Parish sheriff's deputies on June 4 that Harris had stolen $210 from him, but he failed to mention the true contention: that Harris simply had failed to provide him with the proper herb. Yet Davis got in hot water when deputies learned the true story, especially after they searched Davis and found a marijuana joint on him.
Harris pleaded guilty on Tuesday to possession with intent to distribute marijuana, and two counts of possession of legend drugs without a prescription. Deputies found pills on him at the time of his arrest, along with a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
State Judge Martin Coady announced he would sentence Harris to seven years in prison, but the official sentencing hearing is scheduled for next month. Harris was charged in part through a section of the law that states selling "a counterfeit controlled dangerous substance" carries the same penalties as selling the actual substance.
Harris admitted to the charges against him mid-trial on Tuesday after noticing that both Davis and Batiste were prepared to testify against him, according to the St. Tammany district attorney's office.
Assistant District Attorney Harold Bartholomew prosecuted the case.
Batiste, 21, of Slidell, pleaded guilty on Monday to attempted possession with intent to distribute the counterfeit drug, and Coady gave him five years of probation under the condition that he would testify against Harris, according to the district attorney's office.
And while Davis initially was also charged with a felony marijuana charge, that charge was reduced for both helping the deputies and agreeing to testify against Harris, authorities said.
On Monday, Davis pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors, possession of marijuana first offense - for the joint in his pocket - and criminal mischief, for not telling the whole truth to police when he stated his $210 had simply been stolen. Davis was sentenced to two years of probation.
Louisiana bashing returns
You didn't think it would go away did you? The bashing of people who live and work in Louisiana. It's all the rage, as evidenced by the boneheaded ignorant comments following an article in the Washington Post found here.
Entitled "Six months after the spill, BP's money is changing the gulf as much as its oil", the article tells the story of BP paying "huge" sums of money to Gulf Coast shrimpers and makes it sound as if the shrimpers would rather sit around and collect the money than shrimp. Geesh.
Here's a sampling of the "love" from our fellow "United States" citizens:
Geria wrote:
This is another fraud being perpetrated on the people of the Gulf. The whole purpose of the toxic dispersant was to hide the oil and make the water appear normal. That doesn't make it normal as any scientist will tell you!
jrussell1 wrote:
So Acy Cooper, shrimper and vice president of the state's shrimpers association, seems to have found the luxury of BP welfare. The shrimpers begged to be able to go shrimping in that oily water so they could make a living by selling us contaminated seafood, but now that they're getting a nice fat paycheck from BP they elect to stay home. He is probably a life long conservative and has railed against Federal Welfare all his life. How ironic.
FLvet wrote:
We are a nation of deadbeats looking for a handout.
Don't get me wrong, there ARE commenters who defend the Gulf Coast people. But the ignorance of the others makes me see red.
May they live through a few disasters themselves.
Entitled "Six months after the spill, BP's money is changing the gulf as much as its oil", the article tells the story of BP paying "huge" sums of money to Gulf Coast shrimpers and makes it sound as if the shrimpers would rather sit around and collect the money than shrimp. Geesh.
Here's a sampling of the "love" from our fellow "United States" citizens:
Geria wrote:
This is another fraud being perpetrated on the people of the Gulf. The whole purpose of the toxic dispersant was to hide the oil and make the water appear normal. That doesn't make it normal as any scientist will tell you!
jrussell1 wrote:
So Acy Cooper, shrimper and vice president of the state's shrimpers association, seems to have found the luxury of BP welfare. The shrimpers begged to be able to go shrimping in that oily water so they could make a living by selling us contaminated seafood, but now that they're getting a nice fat paycheck from BP they elect to stay home. He is probably a life long conservative and has railed against Federal Welfare all his life. How ironic.
FLvet wrote:
We are a nation of deadbeats looking for a handout.
Don't get me wrong, there ARE commenters who defend the Gulf Coast people. But the ignorance of the others makes me see red.
May they live through a few disasters themselves.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Pics from our vacation
I know....the old "pictures from our vacation" entry. But wait! Mine are different. We went to Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida during the second week in October. I'll be adding photos to this post as I can find time. For now, here's what I have that's ready to go
The typical Disney picture
Mickeys pumpkins
Epcot - Mexican Pavillion
The typical Disney picture
Mickeys pumpkins
Epcot - Mexican Pavillion
Friday, October 15, 2010
Raglan Road - Pagtrick Kavanagh
We found a fantastic Irish Restaurant/Pub in Downtown Disney this week inspired by this poem (pictures to be added later)
On Raglan Road
On Raglan Road on an autumn day I met her first and knew
That her dark hair would weave a snare that I might one day rue;
I saw the danger, yet I walked along the enchanted way,
And I said, let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day.
On Grafton Street in November we tripped lightly along the ledge
Of the deep ravine where can be seen the worth of passion's pledge,
The Queen of Hearts still making tarts and I not making hay -
O I loved too much and by such and such is happiness thrown away.
I gave her gifts of the mind I gave her the secret sign that's known
To the artists who have known the true gods of sound and stone
And word and tint. I did not stint for I gave her poems to say.
With her own name there and her own dark hair like clouds over fields of May
On a quiet street where old ghosts meet I see her walking now
Away from me so hurriedly my reason must allow
That I had wooed not as I should a creature made of clay -
When the angel woos the clay he'd lose his wings at the dawn of day.
Patrick Kavanagh
On Raglan Road
On Raglan Road on an autumn day I met her first and knew
That her dark hair would weave a snare that I might one day rue;
I saw the danger, yet I walked along the enchanted way,
And I said, let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day.
On Grafton Street in November we tripped lightly along the ledge
Of the deep ravine where can be seen the worth of passion's pledge,
The Queen of Hearts still making tarts and I not making hay -
O I loved too much and by such and such is happiness thrown away.
I gave her gifts of the mind I gave her the secret sign that's known
To the artists who have known the true gods of sound and stone
And word and tint. I did not stint for I gave her poems to say.
With her own name there and her own dark hair like clouds over fields of May
On a quiet street where old ghosts meet I see her walking now
Away from me so hurriedly my reason must allow
That I had wooed not as I should a creature made of clay -
When the angel woos the clay he'd lose his wings at the dawn of day.
Patrick Kavanagh
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