It was over a year ago that New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin announced his plan to install CCTV cameras in high crime areas of the city. He claimed that 50 cameras would be operable within a week, and a total of 200 online by the end of the year.
Well the scheme has not worked […]

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New Jersey art dealer, George Wieschenberg of Lambertville, was sentenced to six years of prison for being a marijuana “farmer.”
According to MSNBC, Wieschenberg, pleaded guilty to “operating a marijuana production facility,” in which he grew marijuana plants, said State Attorney General Anne Milgrim.
Back in October of 2007, New Jersey State Police officers saw large marijuana […]

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Two New Orleans area cops (Jefferson Parish) are looking for new careers. In what has to be the silliest story I have read this week, the Times Picayune is reporting that 45 year old Clyde Clarke and 24 year old Desmond Ferguson are no longer on the payroll. In fact I doubt even the dubious […]

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Talk about bad timing. On Friday, Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) - who has endorsed Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) - called Fmr. Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) to make the case that dropping out of the race was in the best interests of the party. The next day, Huckabee decisively won the KS caucus (60 percent to […]

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(London, UK) The Autism Awareness Campaign UK is urging the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rt.Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of York, Rt.Rev.Dr.John Sentamu, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormack Murphy O’Connor and other senior church leaders to speak out on the suffering of some parents, carers and people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome on Autism Sunday […]

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Complete UNOFFICIAL RESULTS from Louisiana GOP Caucuses
All Seven Congressional Districts
Vote Counts for Delegates and Alternates 
hese are the results released on the Louisiana GOP website for 7 Congressional Districts.
It should be emphasized that these are the unofficial results.
But for what it’s worth, here they are.
Unofficial Results - Louisiana GOP Caucuses
Delegates
Congressional District 1 - Delegate Results
St. TammanyNew […]

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The Ron Paul Campaign Update for Sunday evening, January 27, 2008
Efforts to Ensure Accurate Delegate Count in Louisiana Continues
Re-count in New Hampshire
Paul will Campaign in Maine on Monday, January 28.
Super Tuesday Schedule with Delegate Counts
With the primary season getting ready to kick into high gear, the Ron Paul campaign is moving behind the country […]

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–Update #2 - 7:50 pm January 23, 2008 Wednesday
–Updated: 10:30 am January 23, 2008 Wednesday
Results are Promised by Party Leaders Later Today
Rumors are Circulating in Louisiana That Ron Paul Did Well
The Rumors, The Process and What is Known For Sure
complicated
adj.
1. Containing intricately combined or involved parts.
2. Not easy to understand or analyze.
3. […]

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More Cash, More Endorsements, More Delegates for Ron Paul
“Jane Roe” of Roe v. Wade Endorses Paul
More Delegates Likely in Louisiana’s Caucuses
State of the Ron Paul Campaign for Tuesday January 22, 2008
The Ron Paul campaign continues to pick up three things: money, endorsements and the scorn of pundits.
It may also looks like the Texan […]

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Thirty-five years ago today:
Thirty years before a pair of serial snipers terrorized Washington, D.C., Mark Essex prowled the streets of New Orleans with a .44-caliber Magnum rifle. During a weeklong reign of terror, he launched a series of surprise attacks against the city’s police department, its citizens, and its visitors.
Essex’s background was not unusual or […]

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What’s Going to Happen?
Nobody Knows, Everybody’s Guessing
A state of confusion and shock in the college football world?
What could be better!
After #1 Missouri and #2 West Virginia both lost last night, who’s going to be in the title game is a guess–and there are plenty of those being made right now.
Here are some of the best […]

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Counter March to Al Sharpton Planned
The Nationalist Movement will march at Jena to protest both the Jena Six and Martin Luther King. The planned march has already sparked reaction and is sure to spark even more as news of it spreads.
Al Sharpton plans to lead another march the same day to draw attention to hate […]

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Rob serves up fresh corn for today’s Lunch, filing this report from Oregon to discuss John McCain and ethanol subsidies.
Watch Now!

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There has been much written about the happenings in Jena, Louisiana, a town that few people outside of the direct area had ever heard of. However it made the national, and international news with the brutal beating of Justin Barker, in early December 2006. Six of Jena’s finest with Mychal Bell as their leader knocked […]

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Today we have another case in our long, long list of indicted Democrats who are mysteriously not identified as Democrats by the media. This time it is in the great state of Louisiana where two Democrat judges are caught up in Federal racketeering charges for taking bribes.
State District Judge Michael Walker, Democrat of Shreveport, […]

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It’s a damn shame that there are places like Jena, LA where racial prejudice not only lives but thrives! Places where a black kid can get beat up by white kids because he choose to sit under the wrong tree, places where children have been brought up to hate based on the color of a […]

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The Carnival of Hurricane Relief has posted its 103rd edition this week, noting the two-year anniversary of the first of three big hurricanes to pound the Gulf Coast.
Beyond its usual collection of links to blog posts and news stories related to Gulf Coast hurricane recovery, there are two items of special note included with this […]

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In Jena, Louisiana, a black student challenged the de facto segregation of his high school by asking permission to sit under the “white tree.” School officials told him to sit where he liked. The next day three nooses hung from the tree, which triggered an impromptu protest by the black students of Jena High. LaSalle […]

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Do you know how to tie a noose? Get a piece of string and try it. It’s not a simple slip knot. You have to practice it to get it right. If you live in the south, you probably have a special aversion to nooses. We know what they mean, as surely as Cubans know […]

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 Photo courtesy of Ruffit at Flickr
It never ceases to amaze me that we keep seeing additional allegations of abuse, fraud and waste come to light as a result of the Katrina hurricane, and it’s aftermath.
Brian Beutler of the Media Consortium (courtesy of AlterNet) wrote a pretty telling article of the abuses dealt to laborers, who […]

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The second most important issue facing Americans is Health Care. It falls slightly behind an immoral war based on lies and neither issue will resolve itself. As a concerned and wide awake American, I want to know more and I want to know how I can help to make it better. 
It really, REALLY bugs me that I am […]

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After Hurricane Katrina hit, relief came pouring in from donors and charity organizations to help rebuild the city as quickly and efficiently as possible. However, nearly two years later, the process of rebuilding is still underway and just now beginning to pick up the pace. Also, the billions of dollars raised has been needed for […]

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There she goes! The Siegen Village 10 cinema, the only cinema in town to play any independent and/or foreign films, is closing it’s doors to the public after the 7:45pm showing of Delta Farce tonight. This is but a symptom of the ugly disease that has permeated the area in the past 10 years. Before […]

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Republicans have ejected legislators in the recent past who have done wrong (Foley, Ney). Now the Democrats, who ran on the issue of getting rid of “the culture of corruption” in Washington — a culture they attributed to Republicans — have a chance to finally stand up for that conviction of theirs.
An indictment charging […]

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Oprah brought Lalita Tademy’s Cane River to my attention. Lalita Tademy brought Red River to my attention. It has been several years since I read Cane River, the story of Lalita’s mother’s family. It was Ms Tademy’s talent of story telling as much as it was the history of her people that captured my interest […]

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New England Patriots defensive end Marquise Hill was found dead in New Orleans’ Lake Pontchatrain on Monday afternoon after he and a friend fell off a jet ski Sunday night. He was 24-years-old. The two were not wearing life vests when the jet ski toppled over. The unidentified woman who was with Hill survived by […]

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After a deluge of rain with water drainage problems all over town on Friday, Saturday turned out to be a perfect day for an outdoor arts festival. The festival weather couldn’t have come at a better time since this was the 30th Anniversary of the Baton Rouge Fest-For-All. The artists were superb this year. There […]

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Richard Ryan Wargo of Shreveport, LA has allegedly threatened to kill Sen. Hillary Clinton. Senator Clinton is scheduled to be in Baton Rouge this weekend for the National Conference of Black Mayors. A classmate of the 19-year-old Wargo reported a conversation he had to LSU Police. Wargo is alleged to have asked the classmate if […]

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The hurricane disasters, and their commentary on social issues, continue to amaze me. To me, the rest of the world can learn a lot by studying the ongoing problems related to the disaster.
The amount of money wasted, or lost to fraud (over a billion and growing) is a sad commentary, when a lot of the […]

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Bruce Alpert, of the Time Picayune did an excellent article concerning all the recent prosecutions for fraud in the Katrina and Rita hurricanes.
One woman, LaWanda Williams collected $267,377.15 in an identity theft scheme using several other people’s information.
I wonder if any of the people (who had their information stolen) were denied benefits, as a result […]

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