Scuzzbucket of the Week...not

Since originally posting this, I have had a change of heart. The guy is pretty rough on the puppy but he DID drop it off at a shelter. I can't really call him a scuzzbucket when there are plenty of REAL scuzzbuckets running around out there.

Don't know this bastard's name, but maybe someone will come forward to I.D. him.

From WWL via Facebook:


WWL Radio shared Capital Area Animal Welfare Society (CAAWS)'s photo.
Please share this around - Not a hoax. This man threw a puppy over a fence at an animal shelter in Baton Rouge. They have not caught him yet.

Here is the original post shared by WWL:
Capital Area Animal Welfare Society (CAAWS)


Can anyone identify this man who viciously threw a young puppy over our fence while there was a gate right next to him! We will post the video as soon as it is available and will be contacting the news stations. We will also post the photos of his truck too. This occured on Saturday at our shelter here in Baton Rouge, LA. We are a no kill shelter and are limited on space dependant on room at our shelter, we only house 13 dogs and 12 cats there, and the amount of foster homes we have. We usually have 30 dogs and 60 cats in our programs at any given time. Only one puppy was dumped. The leash is in his other hand

RIP Marvin Hamlisch

His name isn't familiar to anyone under 50, but whenever I hear Marvin Hamlisch, I hear songs from the movie "The Sting", starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford.



Hamlish was a prolific composer and won virtually every major award that exists: three Oscars, four Grammys, four Emmys, a Tony and three Golden Globe awards.

He was 68 years old. If you're curious about other movies Mr. Hamlisch contributed to, here are a few in no particular order:

A Chorus Line

The Goodbye Girl

The Sweet Smell of Success

The Way We Were

Sophie's Choice

Ordinary People

For more credits, here is his "official" website.

Thanks for the memories, Mr. Hamlisch.

Deliberate Mistakes or Ineptitude?

I am continually amazed at the lack of compassion - or is it outright stupidity - of the "news networks" on television lately. I don't watch TV that much, except for the Saints games and the Olympics. But I get emails that cover things that I missed from eschewing television. (is that good grammar?). Here's what went down lately:

CNN mistakenly aired a map of India's Punjab province today after mentioning that South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley had been confirmed to speak at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla.

Governor Haley's parents are both from Punjab and raised Haley as a Sikh.

"It was a mistake," a CNN spokesperson told POLITICO.


CNN played an excerpt from Billy Joel's "Only the Good Die Young" after a segment Monday on the shooting at the Sikh temple in Wisconson, prompting a familiar apology from the network.

Last week CNN played Pink's "Stupid Girls" ahead of a segment about Sarah Palin.

"We aired a song from a guest’s playlist on the morning show following a three-minute commercial break and before a segment on presidential politics, unrelated to the Wisconsin shooting," the network said in a statement today. "Given the news of the day, this was regrettable and we apologize to our viewers.”

And here is what the FAUX News Network - Lord please get rid of these assclowns - Fox News host Gregg Jarrett asked a nephew of one of the victims, "Have there been any prior acts of violence against members of the temple? Any anti-Semitic acts?"

Anti-Semitism is discrimination directed toward Jewish people, not Sikhs. Representatives of Fox News did not respond to a request for comment regarding the error.

Heidi Wys Toro = Hater

I am all for freedom of speech, everyone has their opinions. But the racist hatred directed toward our president should not be tolerated. ESPECIALLY when the person using their pent up hatred is employed by the United States

Heidi Wys Toro - the main advisor to House of Representatives President Jenniffer Gonzalez - has earned $630,000 since 2008 for her services as an administrative consultant, according to records with the Comptroller’s Office.

Several legislators are demanding that Wys step down or that Gonzalez ask for her resignation.

Gonzalez said it is impossible for her to monitor the social media accounts of all those who work for the House of Representatives.

“The expressions disseminated are not acceptable, do not represent my sentiments and are the exclusive responsibility of those who wrote them,” Gonzalez said. She also urged all employees to be more cognizant of what they write and to respect the rights of others.

It is not the first time that Wys has sent tweets about Obama.

In response to a July 30 tweet by a Puerto Rico online newspaper, Wys urged reporters to follow an investigation to probe the authenticity of Obama’s birth certificate.

Wys, who is white, also said in another tweet that she is not racist and that her favorite nieces are black,(is that like "some of my best friends are black" kind of comment?) but added that she does not support Obama.

“I fight Obama with all the strength in my heart and passion as a descendant of germans!!” she wrote on July 30.

On June 18, she sent another tweet to Obama in response to a general invitation to have dinner with the President.

“Wah! Wah! I feel like vomiting! Dinner with a guy borned in Kenya and claims he was borned in Hawaii!” she wrote, with some misspellings.

Heidi is just a wee bit in need of psychological help, don't you think?

To the Saints Fans who go to the Dome

From NOLA blog Humid City



OK Saints Fans, it’s YOUR turn to play head coach. Roger Goodell has banned Sean Payton for the year, but he can’t ban his image, nor can he ban 77,000 fans! Print out this handy Sean Payton Head and bring it to every game you attend!
Glue it to a sturdy cardboard sheet and cut it out! Add some eye-holes and string and you can wear it like a mask! Not good at crafts? Just glue it to a stick and wave it around. Got some spare cash? Make a huge poster! Make extras for folks who don’t internet! Pass them out to those fans down front who are most likely to be on camera or in line of sight with players! Have a blog or website of your own? Link or cross-post this to maximize our Paytonality on opening day! Go NUTS with ‘em!! It’s time to Sean Up (And Get Crunk) and show Roger Goodell who we are and where we stand!!
This photo was taken from Bloguin and was undredited on their site. It is most probably copyrighted by someone, so don’t be a jerk and try selling these!

Windows Wednesday

Taken in Covington, Louisiana at the annual Three Rivers Art Festival

Scuzzbucket of the Week

Representative Steve King from the great state of Iowa.

During a tele-townhall event last week, King complained about an amendment to the farm bill that would criminalize attending organized animal fights and would impose additional penalties on people who bring children to the events.



Here's his quote: “When the legislation that passed in the farm bill that says that it’s a federal crime to watch animals fight or to induce someone else to watch an animal fight, but it’s not a federal crime to induce somebody to watch people fighting, there’s something wrong with the priorities of people that think like that."

Um, Steve? People fight of their own will and usually make a hunk of money to fight.

GOLD!!!

Graceful Gabby Douglas courtesy of Huffington Post

Congratulations to the U.S. Womens Gymnastic Team for winning their first Gold Medal in 16 years!

Another Post-K Milestone

Almost seven years post Katrina, St. Bernard Parish is celebrating a brand new hospital.



The three-story, 40-bed hospital includes an Emergency Department and an Intensive Care Unit, along with a full range of healthcare services: general medicine, general surgery, orthopedics, urology, endoscopy, radiation therapy, physical therapy and skilled nursing. The hospital could be expanded to 60 beds without additional construction because its design calls for private rooms that would be large enough to be converted to semi-private rooms. The overall size of the hospital could be further increased to 100 beds through additional construction in the form of vertical and horizontal expansions.

Chalmette Medical Center, the parish’s lone hospital, flooded in Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and never reopened.



Virtually every structure in Chalmette was damaged/flooded after Katrina. Take a ride through St. Bernard Parish and you can still find empty slabs next to rebuilt homes.



Kudo's to the Parish!

A Tour of New Orleans' Hubig's Pie Factory

A Tour of New Orleans' Hubig's Pie Factory | WWOZ New Orleans 90.7 FM  from WW0Z.

A Sad Day for NOLA

picture courtesty of Will T from Flickr

As I was driving into work this morning I heard about the 5 alarm fire at the Hubig Pie Company in New Orleans.



While walking from my car into work, I could both see and smell the smoke. It's a sad day. Not sure about the outcome of this tragedy. But you can be sure I'm going to the store after work and stock up on some Hubigs.



A Hubig employee on the radio said the building is completely gone. Sigh

But they'll be back. Here's a little history of the other tragedies they have come back from .

Here's an article from the New York Times about the fire.