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Posted on 09/04/2005 6:14:35 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Well then! As long as the juice stays on, looks like YOU'RE all set!
:)
Need a new pair of contact lenses. The enormity of this disaster is stunning!
Oh my, again! Oh my, Dear Lord help us all.
Ooohh......are we trashing Joe?
Have we brought up Gary Condit yet?
I posted to Madivan earlier. He said that the press in GB said that politically, no one was going to come out unscathed. He also relayed that they are seeing some terrible images and that they are seeing a lot of what happened to MS.
LOL. So my Dad said. :)
Things will get better here, it's just been a rough week.
In fact, I think it's better all over the region. I just don't understand the people who blame President Bush. It's totally disgusting.
She's sporting suitcases under her eyes. I had no idea that she, Bill, and Chelsea were vacationing in Hawaii. She looked like she's been sleepless for about a week.
We'll know for sure if she's involved. There will be Arkancides.
N.O. Levee Board overhaul complete -
Blanco delayed shift by nearly a year
Times-Picayune, The (New Orleans, LA)
November 1, 2004
Author: Frank Donze
Staff writer
Estimated printed pages: 3
Excerpts:
http://www.nola.com
...Jim Huey, an Algiers businessman named to the board in 1992 by former Gov. Edwin Edwards and retained by Foster in 1996, is the lone gubernatorial appointee asked to stay on by Blanco. While six of the board's eight members serve at the governor's pleasure, Blanco has no control over City Hall's two representatives.
Huey, an ally of state Sen. Francis Heitmeier of Algiers, a strong Blanco supporter, has been the board's president since June 1996. He will retain the post on the reconfigured board, Blanco advisers say.
Blanco's new choices, all Democrats, include some familiar political names.
The first Blanco appointee to be sworn in was former Orleans Parish Recorder of Mortgages Mike McCrossen, who took his oath last week before the board's October meeting.
McCrossen replaces businessman and retired Marine Corps Maj. Gen. James Livingston, a Republican Party activist who resigned recently to retire to South Carolina.
Four others who received Oct. 21 letters of appointment from Blanco are former Orleans Parish Civil Court Clerk Dan Foley; business consultant Darrel Saizan Jr., who served on the Levee Board from 1992-94 while an aide to former Mayor Sidney Barthelemy; Eugene Green, president of the New Orleans Business & Industrial District; and lawyer Allen Borne.
All of the new board members have influential sponsors.
Foley is a political mentor to his successor as civil court clerk, Dale Atkins, who is a close adviser to Blanco. McCrossen is a Heitmeier supporter. Saizan is an ally of state Sen. Lambert Boissiere Jr. And Green was a top campaign adviser to state Sen. Ann Duplessis, who ousted longtime incumbent Jon Johnson last fall.
Borne, a supporter of Blanco, is the former elected representative of the yacht club membership at South Shore Marina, which is owned and operated by the board.
Plans call for Borne, Foley, Green and Saizan to be sworn in at the board's November meeting.
City Hall's current representatives on the board are City Councilwoman Cynthia Willard-Lewis and Charles Rice, the chief administrative officer in Mayor Ray Nagin's administration.
Responsible for building and maintaining the flood walls and embankments that make up local flood control networks, the state's levee boards historically have provided governors with an easy way to reward financial supporters.
In New Orleans, there is the added benefit of overseeing a police department and an expansive inventory of real estate that includes an airport, two marinas, a riverboat casino complex, dozens of parcels of commercial property and hundreds of acres of park land along Lake Pontchartrain.
Typically, legislators who represent areas near the lakefront lobby the governor on behalf of favored candidates in an effort to better monitor what goes on in their districts and to gain input into the awarding of contracts.
WHAT???????
Wouldn't it be wonderful if this horrific disaster became, for those displaced, a new lease on life? A positive, wondrous new lease where each was treated as if he or she was worthy of high expectations and, well, the world suddenly opens up for them.
Nothing could cause the chains of liberal oppression to fall away faster.
The Dome is, well, a dome, but in principle, the physics works the same as an arch. The keystone of an arch transfers the load to the adjacent stones, and these carry the load to the footings.
The steel roof plates in the dome act like individual stones in an arch.
The "stones" in the Dome were flopping up and down when the eyewall passed.
Not a good sign for long term stability.
:) I sure hope so. It's very discouraging.
The best I can hope for out of all this is perhaps we'll get a few good New Orleans style restaurants out of the deal. :)
Then too, the NEW New Orleans might be a very good place to live. Lord knows they've transported the bulk of their problems to other places. :)
Or as we like to say here in Texas, "You've been messin' with the bull, now here come the horns."
The dome and roof dwellers probably did have to live through some ugly things, but the key words there are "live through".
If they want to complain, well I expect that, but the bottom line is that they are alive. If any complain to me, I intend to point out the sole alternative.
Now wouldn't THAT be nice?
I am familiar with hospitals in this context where we had emergency power (generator)which was able to power our equipment but no AC and if that failed we had very large wall mounted battery powered lamps, which gave enough light to be able see so you d/n trip over stuff.
Gary Condit brought me to Free Republic. I found a thread about him on FR when that story was big and have been here since.
I like your way better.
Lots of locals I know are giving money to David Toms' Foundation.
http://www.davidtomsfoundation.com/
LOL. It would indeed. In fact, I might consider it myself. I know I'm thinking of going somewhere, long term. :)
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