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I am staying extremely busy lately, there are so many great stories in the news to blog about, maybe I can carve out a few minutes tonight and put my two cents worth out there.

I am really looking forward to football season this year. The Saints are bound to create a buzz around town whether they have a good season or not. I’m thinking they are going to do ok this year.

Work has been very busy this morning this is the first chance I have had to come up for air. Below is a pic of a train on the Huey P.

Like kissing babies, the congressional delegation’s visit to New Orleans makes for good photo op’s. Almost three years after the big one Pelosi is trying to convince us that the folks in Washington really give a shit. The stories of Pelosi personally helping a couple of individuals get their recovery funds, loses site of the bigger picture of the recovery and the trickle of federal funds getting into the hands of the people. I guess in an election year we should expect to get this kind of attention, after all it’s like kissing babies.

When it comes to paying our fair share for levee protection I think Jindal’s approach is reasonable.

From T.P.

But they continue to deal with other state requests. Gov. Bobby Jindal said Monday that his top priority is to persuade his former congressional colleagues to give the state 30 years to pay its $1.8 billion share of levee construction costs, rather than the three years signed into law last month.

Of course Mayor do nothing thinks we should pay nothing. The pay nothing approach doesn’t help our hand out, welfare reputation that many people around the country have of us. We do need to share in the cost of our levee protection.

From T.P.

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin hoped for a more generous arrangement, arguing that the state and local governments shouldn’t have to pay anything for the levee work.

“While I support the governor’s compromise position on federal funding for this protection and appreciate his advocacy, I believe that this city and this region deserve 100 percent federal funding for this flood protection system,” Nagin said.

If you watched any of the television news coverage of the delegation’s visit you will notice that Dollar Bill Jefferson seemed to be in every shot. If he were really interested in the state getting more recovery funds he would not show his face. Seeing that crook asking for more money for the state can only hurt our cause.

From my cynical and jaded perspective I would say, don’t expect great things to come out of this visit. It is a facade by the democratic party who are trying to convince the american people that they are they party that cares.

But it is more attention than we get from the reds who could care less. If you can’t blow it up or kill it those guys could care less.

I wasn’t surprised when I read the T.P. article about a private security firm, hired by the road home was finding squatters in abandoned homes owned by the road home. I would think that this problem will get worse since the crackdown of the Hooverville under the interstate.
reading the usual vulgar comments that follow such stories I have to award my ungly american trophy to this guy.

Posted by mcmurphyrp on 07/20/08 at 10:58PM
The Road Home program is socialism at its best. People who do not have insurnace and when a catastrophe hits, the Federal Gov’t bails them out with taxpayer money. Many other people pay homeowners insurance and did not get a handout. Is this not penalizing the people who sacrifice to carry insurance. Why should anyone pay for insurance if the Fed Gov’t is going to provide “Road Home” money for those that don’t have it. Especially idiots who live below MSL that do not have flood insurance. Only idiots live next to a large body of water where their house is below the surface of the water, and then blame the U.S.A.C.E. because the levees broke. Similar to those that build on side of a cliff and rebuild on the same cliff after it collapses.

The real reason that the U.S. is having problems is because we have become selfish, and self centered. Compassion and a sense of doing the right thing do not seem to be a concern of Ugly America.

It would be nice to be able to lump everyone into the ugly American category but I know too many fellow Americans who do not think that way. Those who take the selfish route just make it harder on those who don’t to convince the world that we do not all feel that way.

As far as blaming the U.S.A.C.E. for levee failure, the failed levees were not what they said they were. The construction was flawed and the corps should have recognized this and fixed the problem before they were put to the test. Yes the corps a government agency should be blamed for much of what happened here. I only wish I had the confidence to say that they have learned their lesson.

I must be losing it, I can’t believe I am posting photos of cats.

It’s that time of year, Dolly looks like it will be the first storm to get into the gulf this year. Dolly being the fourth named storm of the year means, at least according to the storm odds makers that we have thirteen or fourteen to go this year. Of course who really knows. I don’t have the same anxieties that I have had over the last couple of years, we have been lucky lately. New Orleans is not ready for another big one, to think that the city is protected from a major storm is wishful thinking. As the tropics heat up all we can do in New Orleans is to keep our fingers crossed and hope that nothing big comes our way.

I was out til 1am woke up at 6am rode to the huey p and back, I love the morning heat and humidity. Now I anm ready to start all over again. I love this town. But oh shit I have a lot of crap to take care of today. Now I’ procrastinating.

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