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Weblinks: New Orleans, BushCo
Apr. 10th, 2008 07:46 pmMs. Hollie went to Algiers RiverFest last weekend, and took some good pix of The Indians
Speaking of New Orleans pix, "W Magazine" apparently has a spread about New Orleans. I havn't seen the magazine, but some pix are on line. (I could do without the fashionista stuff, but enough local stuff to be worth a look.)
Harry Shearer's suggested headline summarizing the Federal involvement with the Katrina disaster from the ACOE levees to FEMA trailers: "Government Floods City, Then Poisons Survivors"
Speaking of Federal incompetence, Dear Leader Bush is the poster boy: Historians agree: Worst President Ever
"Glib, contemptuous, ignorant, incurious, a dupe of anyone who humors his deluded belief in his heroic self, he has bankrupted the country with his disastrous war and his tax breaks for the rich, trampled on the Bill of Rights, appointed foxes in every henhouse, compounded the terrorist threat, turned a blind eye to torture and corruption and a looming ecological disaster, and squandered the rest of the world's goodwill. In short, no other president's faults have had so deleterious an effect on not only the country but the world at large."
Speaking of New Orleans pix, "W Magazine" apparently has a spread about New Orleans. I havn't seen the magazine, but some pix are on line. (I could do without the fashionista stuff, but enough local stuff to be worth a look.)
Harry Shearer's suggested headline summarizing the Federal involvement with the Katrina disaster from the ACOE levees to FEMA trailers: "Government Floods City, Then Poisons Survivors"
Speaking of Federal incompetence, Dear Leader Bush is the poster boy: Historians agree: Worst President Ever
"Glib, contemptuous, ignorant, incurious, a dupe of anyone who humors his deluded belief in his heroic self, he has bankrupted the country with his disastrous war and his tax breaks for the rich, trampled on the Bill of Rights, appointed foxes in every henhouse, compounded the terrorist threat, turned a blind eye to torture and corruption and a looming ecological disaster, and squandered the rest of the world's goodwill. In short, no other president's faults have had so deleterious an effect on not only the country but the world at large."
Bubble bubble
Aug. 27th, 2007 09:53 pmHollie never wanted to come with me on any post-Katrina photographing expedition downriver from the Industrial Canal. Today she was lured below the Canal for the first time since the storm-- by yummy bubble tea.
Sunday she planned a meeting at the bubble tea place in my neighborhood, only to find it closed down. (She moved the meeting to PJ's Coffee.) Jay's Bubble Tea was Rosie Lea's pre-K. Excellent bubble teas; I think they were the first to create a New Orleans hybrid type using a sno-wizard machine in making them. We were glad when they reopened under new ownership as Jay's. However it seems to have been going down hill since the new owner turned things over to his son, with service and quality slipping. Now its gone.
Well, Hollie had an unfullfilled bubble tea jones, so after my radio show she consented to my suggestion of a drive to a good bubble tea place in St. Bernard. "Bubble T" is on Judge Perez just below the Murphy Refinery. Fresh fruit in excellent bubble tea. H had piña colada and I had a papaya.
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In other news, Preznit Bush is marking the second anniversary of Katrina not by going back on an extended vacation, but rather by coming here. It's been announced that per White House request, the streetcar lines will be shut down during his visit. WTF? Is Shrubya afeard of trolleys?
Sunday she planned a meeting at the bubble tea place in my neighborhood, only to find it closed down. (She moved the meeting to PJ's Coffee.) Jay's Bubble Tea was Rosie Lea's pre-K. Excellent bubble teas; I think they were the first to create a New Orleans hybrid type using a sno-wizard machine in making them. We were glad when they reopened under new ownership as Jay's. However it seems to have been going down hill since the new owner turned things over to his son, with service and quality slipping. Now its gone.
Well, Hollie had an unfullfilled bubble tea jones, so after my radio show she consented to my suggestion of a drive to a good bubble tea place in St. Bernard. "Bubble T" is on Judge Perez just below the Murphy Refinery. Fresh fruit in excellent bubble tea. H had piña colada and I had a papaya.
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In other news, Preznit Bush is marking the second anniversary of Katrina not by going back on an extended vacation, but rather by coming here. It's been announced that per White House request, the streetcar lines will be shut down during his visit. WTF? Is Shrubya afeard of trolleys?
Local stuff:
Times-Picayune front page editorial Sunday
Cheap foreign workers brought into New Orleans by Hallburton being left homeless in the city Actually, the one or two meals a day I see lots of those temp workers lined up to get are provided by the Red Cross, not their employers, but if you're a recent immigrant from rural Oaxaca, that distinction may not be clear to you.
And on the world front:
Scientists in India say they have discovered two fossils fused together in sexual union for 65 million years. Insert witticisms about staying power and time to change positions here.
China: Door foils President Bush's cut-&-run exit strategy. If he wants to leave, I'd be happy to hold the door open for him.
Times-Picayune front page editorial Sunday
Cheap foreign workers brought into New Orleans by Hallburton being left homeless in the city Actually, the one or two meals a day I see lots of those temp workers lined up to get are provided by the Red Cross, not their employers, but if you're a recent immigrant from rural Oaxaca, that distinction may not be clear to you.
And on the world front:
Scientists in India say they have discovered two fossils fused together in sexual union for 65 million years. Insert witticisms about staying power and time to change positions here.
China: Door foils President Bush's cut-&-run exit strategy. If he wants to leave, I'd be happy to hold the door open for him.
