Thursday, September 26, 2013

Windows Wednesday


The stairs along the riverfront are reflected in the windows of the tug J.K. McLean a "Z-class" tugboat.

The workers on the boat were lucky to be able to attend the 2013 New Orleans Oyster Festival along the Mississippi earlier this year.

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Scuzzbuckets of the Week

I am really at a loss as to how the GOP thinks. They continuously try to kill the Affordable Care Act (AKA Obamacare). I heard somewhere that they have fought the plan - which is now the law - over 45 different times. And the cost of their temper tantrums is unimaginable.

Their latest move is to slash Food Stamp funding in order to effort to effort to "pare the cost and size of government by reducing federal spending." As if there aren't any other alternatives to cut federal spending.

The map below shows Food Stamp averages by state for 2012. Not all Food Stamp recipients are living on the government dole, as some like to think of them. The average Food Stamp monthly benefit in 2012 is $133 per month. Yeah, that's sure dragging down government spending


Food stamp monthly averages 2012 participation in SNAP, as a percent of total state population

Here - by state - are the names of those people who voted to cut $39 million dollars over the next decade for Food Stamps.


Alabama

Robert Aderholt

Spencer Bachus

Mo Brooks

Martha Roby
Mike Rogers

Arizona

Trent Franks

Paul A. Gosar

Matt Salmon

David Schweikert

Arkansas

Tom Cotton

Rick Crawford

Tim Griffin

Steve Womack

Robert Woodall

California

Ken Calvert

John Campbell

Paul Cook

Jeff Denham

Duncan D. Hunter

Darrell Issa

Doug LaMalfa

Kevin McCarthy

Tom McClintock

Buck McKeon

Devin Nunes

Dana Rohrabacher

Ed Roycei

Colorado

Mike Coffman

Cory Gardner

Doug Lamborn

Scott Tipton

Florida

Gus Bilirakis

Vern Buchanan

Ander Crenshaw

Ron DeSantis

Mario Diaz-Balart

John Mica

Jeff Miller

Richard Nugent

Bill Posey

Trey Radel

Tom Rooney

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Dennis Ross

Steve Southerland

Daniel Webster

Ted Yoho

C.W. Bill Young

Georgie

Paul Broun

Doug Collins

Phil Gingrey

Tom Graves

Jack Kingston

Tom Price (R-Ga.)

Austin Scott

Lynn A. Westmoreland

Idaho

Raul R. Labrador

Mike Simpson

Illinois

Rodney Davis

Randy Hultgren

Adam Kinzinger

Peter J. Roskam

Aaron Schock

John Shimkus

Indiana

Susan W. Brooks

Larry Bucshon

Luke Messer

Todd Rokita

Marlin Stutzman

Jackie Walorski

Todd Young

Iowa

Steve King

Tom Latham

Kansas

Tim Huelskamp

Lynn Jenkins

Mike Pompeo

Kevin Yoder

Kentucky

Andy Barr

Brett S. Guthrie

Thomas Massie

Harold Rogers

Ed Whitfield

Louisiana

Rodney Alexander

Charles Boustany

William Cassidy

John Fleming

Steve Scalise

Maryland

Andy Harris

Michigan

Justin Amash

Dan Benishek

Kerry Bentivolio

Dave Camp

Bill Huizenga

Candice Miller

Mike Rogers

Fred Upton

Tim Walberg

Minnesota

Michele Bachmann

John Kline

Erik Paulsen

Mississippi

Gregg Harper (R-Miss.)

Alan Nunnelee

Steven Palazzo

Missouri

Sam Graves

Vicky Hartzler

Billy Long

Blaine Luetkemeyer

Jason Smith

Ann Wagner

Montana

Steve Daines

Nebraska

Lee Terry

Adrian Smith

Nevada

Mark Amodei

Joe Heck

New Jersey

Rodney Frelinghuysen

Scott Garrett

Leonard Lance

Jon Runyan

New Mexico

Steve Pearce

New York

Chris Collins

Tom Reed

North Carolina

Howard Coble

Renee Ellmers

Virginia Foxx

George Holding

Richard Hudson

Patrick T. McHenry

Mark Meadows (R-N.C.)

Robert Pittenger

North Dakota

Kevin Cramer

Ohio

John Boehner

Steve Chabot

Bob Gibbs

Bill Johnson

Jim Jordan

David Joyce

Robert E. Latta

Jim Renacci

Steve Stivers

Pat Tiberi

Michael Turner

Brad Wenstrup

Oklahoma

Jim Bridenstine

Tom Cole

James Lankford

Frank Lucas

Markwayne Mullin

Oregon

Greg Walden (R-Ore.)

Pennsylvania

Lou Barletta

Charles W. Dent

Jim Gerlach

Mike Kelly

Tom Marino

Tim Murphy

Scott Perry

Joseph R. Pitts

Keith Rothfus

Bill Shuster

Glenn W. Thompson

South Carolina

Jeff Duncan

Trey Gowdy

Mick Mulvaney

Tom Rice

Mark Sanford

Joe Wilson (R-S.C.)

South Dakota

Kristi Noem

Tennessee

Diane Black

Marsha Blackburn

Scott DesJarlais

John J. Duncan, Jr.

Stephen Fincher

Chuck Fleischmann

Phil Roe

Texas

Joe Barton

Kevin Brady

Michael C. Burgess

John Carter

Michael K. Conaway

John Culberson

Blake Farenthold

Bill Flores

Louie Gohmert

Kay Granger

Ralph M. Hall

Jeb Hensarling

Sam Johnson

Kenny Marchant

Michael T. McCaul

Randy Neugebauer

Pete Olson

Ted Poe

Pete Sessions

Lamar Smith

Steve Stockman

Mac Thornberry

Randy Weber

Roger Williams

Utah

Rob Bishop

Jason Chaffetz

Chris Stewart

Virginia

Eric Cantor

Randy J. Forbes

Bob Goodlatte

Morgan Griffith

Robert Hurt

Scott Rigell

Robert J. Wittman

Washington

Doc Hastings

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

David G. Reichert

West Virginia

David McKinley

Wisconsin

Sean P. Duffy

Thomas Petri

Reid Ribble

Paul Ryan

James F. Sensenbrenner

Wyoming

Cynthia M. Lummis

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

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Sunday, September 15, 2013

Scuzzbuckets of the Week


The frat boys at LSU chapter of the Delta Kappa Epsilon hung a banner for Saturday's LSU-Kent State game that said, "Getting massacred is nothing new to Kent State," referencing the 1970 Kent State shootings. Their actions are true to Randy Newman's lyrics And college men from LSU
Went in dumb. Come out dumb too


WTF were you drunken morons thinking? Perhaps you didn't learn it in school, or your parents didn't tell you about it, but DAMN, kids!!! What an horrific thing to do!

In a weak apology, the poor little hungover idiots posted this banner today. At least nothing was misspelled.



Thursday, September 12, 2013

Windows Wednesday

I had a hard time accessing Blogger on my laptop yesterday. So today I got on my desktop and no problems!

I wanted to post a 9/11 picture, but decided not to today. Today I've traveled back over 7 years to New Orleans East.
Heavily decimated by Katrina, the East was slow to come back- and still looks sad in some areas. Here's an apartment complex being built. Today all of those windows hopefully have tentants that use these windows to bring sunshine into their homes. God Bless the East.


Thursday, September 05, 2013

Scuzzbucket of the Week

To begin with I'd like to state that this is my blog. Whomever I choose as SOTW is based on my knee-jerk reaction to idiots on parade....lately the idiots are of GOP persuasion.

My nomination for Scuzzbucket of the Week is the rich guy with the rich guy's name:



Saxby Chambliss from the great state of Jo-Ja.

Today old Sax decided to be interviewed by Faux News about President Obama and Syria.

Here is his quote:

"President Obama may have drawn a so-called red line last year on the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons because he didn't have the assistance of a teleprompter.
“Well, what it says to me is that the president gets lost when he doesn’t have a teleprompter in front of him, which he obviously didn’t last year,” Chambliss said.


I realize this is is just another "let's make Obama look bad" put on my the GOP and Faux news, but sometimes you just have to say "FUCK YOU". Really, it helps. That was my knee-jerk reaction to this elitists' opinion.

So FUCK YOU, SAXBY and your name is weird. I didn't even google you. I just wanted to vent.

That's all I have to say.

Happy Friday.

Wednesday, September 04, 2013

Windows Wednesday

This slightly wacky window was spotted in New Orleans during the Creole Tomato Festival.

I miss creole tomatoes, only available for a month every year, their meaty texture and that trademark flavor make us want to venture out on a sizzling June weekend to attend a festival that showcases these luscious jewels.

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