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hb1129 vote proves who the crooks are

the senate passed la state representative francis c thompson's hb1129 which "Creates the Poverty Point Reservoir Development Fund as a special fund in the state treasury."

some years ago representative thompson his brother mike and their cronies which include senator ben nevers and c d jones hatched a plan to build reservoirs all over the state under the guise of "economic development" and now even katrina recovery (in some parishes) the whole thing is a scam with thompson's role together with nevers and others are to draft and guide through the legislature the legislation to take people's old homesteads, ancient family cemeteries, churches to build the reservoirs on. actually the reservoirs themselves are a front in that thompson et al builds high end gated communities around the reservoirs too.

if you are a casual reader you might be thinking wow this is wild. this is just the tip of the iceberg. so how could all these senators and representatives go along and vote in support of this you ask? wishful thinking would have our hopes up that the politicians know that we the people are fed up with them and will probably vote most if not (hopefully) all of them out of office next fall. maybe rep thompson and senator nevers and their cronies have promised them all a piece of the reservoir action if they go ahead and support it. you might be thinking so what? let them have their reservoir if it will get them out of state government isnt that afterall a small price to pay? the fund created by hb1129 will be self generating you say - oh no no no once they have a fund set up inside the state treasury they can expropriate/appropriate as much funds to it in the future as they wish by simple legislation. for example the capital outlay bill (currently this year called hb2). they will come back later and say well the fund is lower this year than expected we need about a couple million bucks to tide us over next year.

so no hell no with that theory and besides what about the people that would lose their homesteads, cemeteries and churches? remember most of these people live on land thats been passed down for generations.

we have posted alot about this and we will continue to do so. (god willing.) we know that there is interest out there about the reservoirs and reservoir thugs and this is mainly for those interested in and following this david v goliath saga.

yesterday when hb1129 was introduced into the state senate for final passage vote state senator c.d. jones addressed the senate he said "mr president and members they've done a great job with the poverty point reservoir community in richland parish and what this bill does is to create the development fund in the state treasury so when we appropriate the money to it then it will go in this fund..."

senator nevers had an amendment [set no 3447 set of 4 amendments] to "add the audubon golf trail development to that fund it simply allows any fees collected by that group to be deposited into the state treasury" without objection that amendment was adopted. this is how smooth they are the whole thing took a minute and thirty seconds. our .mp3 audio is posted here listen for yourself.





look at all the (pardon our french) chicken-shit state representatives who suddenly learned they had something else to do that day. an absent vote should be considered a "yea" because by their absence they are giving this tacit approval.

the tony snow job

we just finished watching the white house press briefing it concluded at 12:05 pm cdt. the white house press corp was hammering away at snow lol and his standard replies are: "...because we are at war..." "i dont know" "i dont know" diss helen thomas....and oh yeah because we are at war.

bobby jindal.mp3

.mp3 here.
audio file seems to sound better if played in something other than windows media player like vlc media player.

congressman piyush "bobby" jindal was just on moon griffon delivering his brand of pep-talk b.s., upbeatedly delivered rapid fire. in other words jindal delivers his schtick in such a way that he says so much in such a small time, that by the time he has thrown out one thing for you to consider and debunk hes done moved on to three or four more. what he does is hit you with so much bull-shit at one time that before you can think one thing through hes done moved on to three or four things so that naturally we are prone to go along and agree with him cos after all thinking is hard and jindal - hes so damn upbeat!

we have to be honest, we didnt vote for jindal for governor in 2003 we voted for gov blanco. it wasnt anything personal just a feeling we had that it would be a mistake for our state to elect a republican to that position and by extension give more power to george w bush, dick cheney and karl rove. as it turns out we were right. can you imagine what it would have been like had jindal been governor when katrina & rita came through? especially with katrina he would have signed over the city to the federal government posthaste. governor blanco didnt and that will be to her eternal credit.

this isnt to say that the state handled everything as good as it should have been during those days because hey they didnt. but the fault lies in what has transpired since then and that has been no one else's fault but the state of louisiana, its legislature and ultimately we the people of the state of louisiana. this is how it should be. the federal government is to blame for having louisiana's national guard deployed overseas in an illegal and immoral war. (but again thats ultimately we the peoples fault) perhaps if our states full complement of guardsmen and equipment would have been here at home where they should be the reconstruction would be going a lot quicker.

anyway, we really wanted to like jindal we really did but he lost us back at 07 march when he showed us what he really is by voting "yay" to usa patriot act. needless to say we would never ever vote for piyush "bobby" jindal for anything whatsoever and you shouldnt either.

hb685 foisting higher gas prices on the people

added saturday 03 june 2006 1:29 pm cdt
now chad is reporting that gov blanco is rethinking signing hb 685 into law. like we have mentioned on here before we never have thought that the governor is an evil person we just think that she has bad advisors. maybe she is listening to someone new? or... heres a thought listening to the people. click here to read the story by marsha shuler at the baton rouge paper...HB685 text ... or legis.state.la.us > scroll down to bill search > view a specific instrument drop down box > choose HB > type in 685 > click view.

chad is currently running this story from his website www.thedeadpelican.com and we must say we arent surprised at this. we admit that before hurricanes katrina & rita we didnt pay that much attention to the state legislature. at the first extra special session at 06 november 2005 we were as excited as everyone else thinking that this would give us a great opportunity to start over and do things right. boy were we wrong. our observations from intently watching the legislature these past six months is that 99.9% of the bills introduced are unwanted and unneeded. that our louisiana legislature are nothing more than a bunch of self-serving rackeeters, an organized crime ring thats only purpose is to help out their (crime)families and pals.

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Council says 'no' to SB 639

wow we are shocked. looks like lesley in senator ben nevers office lied to us (imagine that) yesterday when she told us over the telephone that senator nevers had "withdrawn" sb639. click here for chads' take on this story.

or maybe not heres chads' update.
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La. State Sen. Ben Nevers (D) Bogalusa

hb259 jackass joe salter's spidery windshield scheme advances

salters unwanted and unasked for bill hb259 - Provides for licensing automotive glass repair technicians is scheduled to be heard by the senate committee on commerce, consumer protection and international affairs wednesday 31 may 2006. click here to read our previous posts on hb 259.

former saints running back craig ironhead heyward dies

Craig 'Ironhead' Heyward dies at age 39

ATLANTA (AP) - Former NFL fullback Craig "Ironhead" Heyward died Saturday, May 27 2006, after a 7 1/2-year fight with a recurring brain tumor, his son's high school football coach said. He was 39.

Heyward spent 11 seasons in the NFL with New Orleans, Chicago, Atlanta, St. Louis and Indianapolis. The former University of Pittsburgh All-American rushed for a career-high 1,083 yards for the Falcons in 1995.

"I got a call at 4:30 or 5 that he had passed away," said Blair Armstrong, who coached Heyward's son, Cameron, at Peachtree Ridge High School. "He was in a hospice when he died, but I don't know which one."

Armstrong said he often talked to Heyward when he came to see his son play.

"He wasn't real mobile, but he'd been rehabbing. He thought he might walk again. But once he lost his hearing and his sight, his organs started shutting down. Other problems were just developing."

Born in Passaic, N.J., in 1966, the 5-foot-11 fullback ran for 4,301 yards in his NFL career and had 1,559 yards receiving.

Heyward was one of the biggest running backs in NCAA Division I-A history, with a weight estimated at 260 to 285 pounds, but finished third in Pitt career rushing with 3,086 yards. He trailed only Tony Dorsett (6,526 yards) and Curvin Richards' 3,192 yards. Heyward's 1,791 yards in 1987, counting a bowl game, rank second only to Dorsett's 2,150 yards in 1976 for a Pitt single season.

Heyward was a first-team AP All-America pick that season, but chose to pass up his senior season and was a first-round draft pick by New Orleans.

"Craig Heyward truly ranks among the all-time greats in Pitt football history," Pittsburgh coach Dave Wannstedt said in a statement released with the school.

"I will always remember him as a tremendous player who had an irrepressible attitude on and off the field. The thoughts and prayers of the entire Pitt family are with Craig's loved ones during this time of sorrow."

Heyward's son, the 6-7, 280-pound Cameron, visited Pitt on a recruiting trip last month and is considered one of the nation's top defensive line recruits.

shots fired at us capitol

www.drudgereportarchives.com

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congressman jim saxton

heres your sign!
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u s senate approves immigration bill S.2611

related post: S.1639 george bush's illegal alien amnesty bill cloture vote

S.2611 text &cover page

What's wrong with the Senate?

It's bad enough that they are attempting to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.

It's bad enough that they effectively REJECTED an amendment last week that would have prohibited illegal aliens from collecting Social Security benefits that they accrued while in the country ILLEGALLY using FRAUDULENT Social Security numbers! (Or as radio commentator Rush Limbaugh said: "You steal it! You've earned it!")

But now, they're actually trying to grant HIGHER wages and virtually guaranteed employment to ILLEGAL aliens!

Here's what columnist Robert Novak wrote on Monday; commenting on a newly updated study of the Senate amnesty legislation offered by The Heritage Foundation:

"The bill extends the Davis-Bacon Act's requirement for the payment of 'prevailing wage' levels to all temporary guest workers. That puts them ahead of American workers, who have this protection only on federal job sites."

"Foreign guest farm workers, admitted under the bill, cannot be 'terminated from employment by any employer . . . except for just cause.' In contrast, American ag workers can be fired for any reason."

Effectively, the Senate is sending a message to ILLEGAL ALIENS: "Come on in. We'll guarantee you wages and employment rights that aren't even guaranteed to most Americans!"

It's outrageous! It's sheer madness!

"President Bush and Congress would do better to start with securing the border and strengthening enforcement of existing immigration laws. We might also try improving on Ronald Reagan’s idea of a pilot program for genuinely temporary workers.

The fair and sound policy is to give those who are here illegally the opportunity to correct their status by returning to their country of origin and getting in line with everyone else. This, along with serious enforcement and control of the illegal inflow at the border—a combination of incentives and disincentives—will significantly reduce over time our population of illegal immigrants."

paul hurds plan to salvage SB1 louisiana eminent domain abuse

moon griffon had paul hurd on his radio program again this morning. hurd is really stressing a provision in SB1.
hurd says: "this provision puts in an exception by which the legislature from now on can define our property rights..." in other words the legislature can come back year after year or as often as they want and change what they say our property rights are even though this bill is a constitutional amendment.

hurds plan is for everyone to contact their state senator and ask them to strip SB1 of all its amendments and return it to original form.

moon griffon said that he has consulted with other attorneys about SB1 and hurd's theory and they agree with hurd.. griffon promises to get them "on the air" soon.

.mp3 interview is posted here.

kenny boy is guilty boy

enron verdict:

the reconstruction of new orleans

rocks pray optical illusion

another cool email forward from our friend goldie in trinidad:

todays committee meetings at the state capitol

the above committee's are scheduled to convene today. you may view them or listen to the audio online by going to www.legis.state.la.us

human events online publishes inaccurate wm jefferson story

human events online and chris field published erroneous information on their website about the fbi search of us congressman william jefferson's congressional office. their article implies that the often mentioned $90,000 [eur 70,535.71] found at congressman jefferson's home in a freezer back in august 2005 was discovered in this weekends search. an email from wst to mr. field has not been returned.

In a 95-page affidavit used to obtain a warrant for the office search, investigators stated that an August 2005 search of Democratic Rep. William Jefferson's home turned up the cash sum in a freezer.

la senate loves raising taxes

the louisiana state legislature just loves raising taxes in fact the state senate just passed hb 470 by representative jean m. doerge (d) minden.

hb 470 Increases the maximum rate of hotel occupancy tax authorized to be levied by the webster parish convention and visitors commission upon the occupancy of hotel rooms, motel rooms, and overnight camping facilities within the jurisdiction of the commission.

this bill calls for a whopping 100% tax increase from 2% to 4%.

welcome to louisiana!

here is the state senate vote and of course its unamious did you expect anything less from our "esteemed" louisiana state senators?

SB1 creates the soviet socialist parishes of louisiana

paul hurd, esq.

list of representatives voting for and against sb1.

blogger asks: is the dead pelican dying?

we too noticed this post (with siren.gif) of chad's on the dead pelican. chris williams on his blog insists that dp isnt entertaining anymore and that dp is "...more concerned about finding a reason to bash jay dardenne." than anything else. hmm we dont know if thats true or not but we have noticed that dardenne himself makes it pretty easy to find material to "bash" him with. williams admonishes "rodgers" to "...give them something new or someone else will step up to the plate."

click here to read more.

rodney alexander interview on moon griffon

on 17 may 2006 congressman rodney alexander appeared on the moon griffon show.

judicial activist sherman skolnick dies at chicago

sherman skolnick 1930 - 2006