Psycho Woman

New York's Betsy McCaughey, the former lieutenant governor most remembered here for oddly standing throughout Gov. George Pataki's 1996 State of the State speech - then running against him after he dumped her from his ticket.

McCaughey, 60, is back as a self-styled expert whose writings on Obama's health care plans are increasingly being cited by agitated conservatives at town hall meetings as proof - falsely, other experts and the President himself say - that he wants to "pull the plug on Grandma."

McCaughey got the ball rolling on ex-Sen. Fred Thompson's radio show on July 16, when she called the bill "a vicious assault on elderly people" that will "cut your life short."

She then wrote a column July 24 that claimed Obama advisers don't want to "give much care to a grandmother with Parkinson's or a child with cerebral palsy."



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Roadkill

H/T to HumidCity via Twitter , this
find in the TP:



According to the paper,

Some artistic fiend has created a stencil of a black tire tread superimposed on a squashed version of a rather familiar blue dog. This poor puppy was found on St. Claude Avenue.

Crazy times in Boutte

I love this story from the T.P.:


Alligators are a common sight in St. Charles Parish waterways, but they rarely travel by bicycle.

So when sheriff's deputies saw Terron D. Ingram riding his bike down Goodchildren Street in Boutte with a 3-foot-long gator draped over his neck late Friday, they had a few questions.

Ingram dropped the reptile and his bike and ran off, but was apprehended a few blocks away.

"We don't know what his intentions were," said Sheriff's Office spokesman Capt. Pat Yoes. He said it wasn't clear where Ingram had captured the gator.

Ingram, 38, of 158 Boutte Estates Drive, was booked with a variety of charges, including cruelty to animals by abandonment, resisting arrest and possession of drug paraphernalia.

He was being held on $15,000 bond.

All ended well for the gator, however. Alligator Control Officer Kenny Schmill said he released it into the marsh near Bayou Gauche.

Debunking Lies

So many lies. It seems as if some of the NOLA blogosphere is out there with opinions on these lies, wishing to provide info to prove them as lies. Here are some links:


Greg Peters provides a link to Reasic dot org where the healthcare lies are debunked.

First Draft discusses how all the sensationalism is creating a "blind panic" among the uninformed.

Talking Points Memo article on what Sarah Palin started. She's such white trash.

Here's one about a "protester" that was actually a GOP official

Knowledge is power.

It's unbelievable the rabid pitch that the "Death Panelers" (one of them is Sarah Palin, which is certainly no surprise to me) have stooped to regarding the current health care reform activity taking place across the country. I find it extremely distasteful that this Tea Party group would stoop so low as to scare the elderly. But of course this was done during Kathleen Blanco's run for governor, wasn't it?. So it is a bipartisan dirty politic kind of thing.


I truely wish that all of the people who believe everything that's told to them about the health care reform would do their homework. With access to the internet, it's not too difficult to find the bill itself and read through it. Here's the link to all 1,015 pages:

It's in "pdf" format, so if you don't have it you'll have to download adobe.

There is a very bright young woman named Adriana Maxwell out of Atlanta who is in the process of reading the bill. She's sharing her interpretation of the bill at a neat website I just found today called ireport dot com. Here she is seen discussing the first 150 pages. Of course it is her interpretation, but I would believe her before ever listening to some of these wackos that show up at the town hall meetings taking place this month.

Actually I find it quite amusing to see some of thes pompous asses in the congress and senate having to put up with the stresses of a hostile audience. They need a little taste of life in the trenches.

For more myth debunking, go to this link.

Weirdo of the Week

This is a loser extraordinaire




Slidell Police arrested a Picayune, Miss., man who allegedly used a cell phone to take pictures up women's dresses as they shopped at Wal-Mart on Monday, authorities said.


A 39-year-old woman who was shopping at a Slidell Walmart on Natchez Drive told police the man, 36-year-old Shannon House, walked up behind her and tried to take a picture up her dress as she bent over, Slidell Police Capt. Kevin Foltz said. The woman moved as he took a picture and then followed him as he walked away, Foltz said.

House then repeated his actions with another woman in the store, Foltz said.

After House had moved on, the witness approached the woman and asked if she knew him, Folltz said. The other woman told her she didn't, he said.

The 39-year-old woman went to the store's loss prevention officer, and the two of them followed House while waiting for the police to arrive, Foltz said. The two saw House taking a picture up a third woman's dress, he said.

All three women later told police they noticed House following them around the store and found it suspicious, but didn't initially do anything about it, Foltz said.

Slidell Police Officers Clint McCall and Chris Culotta began questioning House, who told them that what he did "was stupid and I should not have done it."

House was booked into St. Tammany Parish Jail in Covington with three counts of video voyeurism. If convicted, House could be forced to register as a sex offender upon release.

Louisiana's Coastline is important to America

Restoring and protecting the Louisiana wetlands and barrier islands is not just about Louisiana.



From the Voice of the Wetlands website:


The Henry Hub is a natural gas pipeline in Erath, Louisiana and is the largest centralized point for natural gas spot and futures in the United States.

The Henry Hub interconnects nine interstate and four intrastate pipe lines, including: Acadian, Columbia Gulf, Dow, Equitable (Jefferson Island), Koch Gateway, LRC, Natural Gas Pipe Line, Sea Robin, Southern Natural, Texas Gas, Transco, Trunkline, and Sabine's mainline.




Collectively, these pipelines provide access to markets in the Midwest, Northeast, Southeast, and Gulf Coast regions of the United States. Sabine currently has the ability to transport 1.8 billion cubic feet per day across the Henry Hub. Relative to the U.S. lower 48 states average daily gas consumption of 60.6 billion cubic feet per day in 2000, the Henry Hub can handle up to 3% of average daily gas consumption - the largest percentage by one facility in the U.S.

The Henry Hub is owned by Sabine Pipe Line LLC (a wholly owned subsidiary of ChevronTexaco) and is the pricing point for natural gas
futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
The NYMEX contract for deliveries at Henry Hub began trading in 1990 and are deliverable 72 months in the future.

The settlement prices at the Henry Hub are used as benchmarks for the entire North America natural gas market. In addition, North America unregulated wellhead (natural gas springs)and burner tip natural gas prices are closely correlated to those set at Henry Hub.

Approximately 49% of U.S. wellhead production either occurs near the Henry Hub or
passes close to the Henry Hub as it moves to downstream consumption markets.

Restoring and protecting the Louisiana wetlands and barrier islands is not just
about Louisiana. Do you get it now..?

C Murder guilty

Cory "C Murder" has been convicted of murder, living up to his name
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However, the judge thinks the verdict is invalid and has told the jury to go back and deliberate some more. Say What???

From the TP:

The jury went out with instructions from Judge Hans Liljeberg on Monday at 11:20 a.m. and returned almost 24 hours later with the verdict after spending Monday night sequestered in a motel.

Miller, 38, was accused of killing Steve Thomas, 16, inside the now-closed Platinum Club early on the morning of Jan. 12, 2002.

The jury returned to the courtroom just before 11 a.m. Tuesday with its verdict. Judge Hans Liljeberg said the vote was 10-2 in favor of conviction. But he said he believed one juror may have changed his or her vote only for the purposes of ending the deliberations.

Liljeberg said that made the verdict invalid and sent the jurors back for more deliberations.

The jury had four choices: acquittal: second-degree murder, which carries a life sentence; manslaughter, which carries up to 40 years in prison; and negligent homicide, which has a sentence of up to five years in prison.



We shall see.

They went back, deliberated and came back with the same verdict.

Update 8/14/09: Life sentence. Good Riddance, "C".

The First Step to Recovery

EJ has a must read where he discusses how we should learn from history.

JUSTICE

William Jefferson verdict: Guilty on 11 of 16 counts

Bobby Sucks

No links, no tirades. I just want to register my disappointment in the governor of Louisiana. Sorry I voted for him and I hope he loses everything he goes after.