05 september 2007 3:45 am cdt TROPICAL STORM FELIX has been changed to TROPICAL DEPRESSION FELIX
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02 september 2007 7:05 pm cdt ...FELIX NOW A CATEGORY FIVE HURRICANE...
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31 august 2007 3:56 pm cdt: The NHC has begun issuing advisories for TROPICAL DEPRESSION SIX====
tropical depression six [now hurricane felix] national hurricane center r.s.s. feed:====
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and now...back to 'baggy pants'
"Alexandria's City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to ban the baring. Its ordinance allows some sag, but 3 inches or more can bring a fine of $25 to $200 and a requirement for community service."when news finally broke on 23 august 2007 about how cities like delcambre, louisiana had passed and cities like atlanta and alexandria, louisiana were considering passing the same or similar ordinances -- the executive director, ms. debbie seagraves, of the american civil liberties union immediately went on record to remind everyone that "this is a racial profiling bill that promotes and establishes a framework for an additional type of racial profiling," seagraves said.
32) To consider final adoption of an ordinance adding Section 15-128 to the Alexandria City Code relative to appropriate dress for persons in certain public places; to prohibit public exposure in certain attire; to provide for fines and civil penalties. (LEGAL 8/28) Charles Frederick Smithfortunately, mayor roy went on record and said that the 'baggy pants' ordinance is "overly broad in scope" and "vague"
yesterday was the two year anniversary of hurricane katrina. president bush and the first lady toured the gulf coast including the area around bay st. louis and pass christian, mississippi. we were able to record the presidents remarks from the dr. martin luther king charter school for science and technology.
president bush proclaimed "new orleans better days are ahead."
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at 6:40 pm cdt ninth judicial district court judge harry randow signs a temporary restraining order stopping what mayor roy and others have convinced the judge to be the illegal behavior on the part of the alexandria, louisiana city council. earlier in the evening at 5:23 pm [video] the alexandria city council voted 5 - 2 to override the mayor roy's veto of ordinance 231.click --->here<--- for .jpg version====
kalb-tv's joel massey explains.mp3 here
local realtor and developer rod noles on his weekly 'cenla economic update' report responding to a caller this morning said that ninth judicial district judge harry randow will hear mayor roy's suit against the alexandria city council and that the provosty firm is the mayor's lawyer(s).
highest quality streaming full interview .mp3 here from cenla broadcasting.
more later...
steve clemons makes the case against mississippi governor haley barbour.
excerpt:
Many Mississippians have benefited from Governor Haley Barbour's efforts to rebuild the state's devastated Gulf Coast in the two years since Hurricane Katrina. The $15 billion or more in federal aid the former Republican national chairman attracted has reopened casinos and helped residents move to new or repaired homes.click link to read more EXTERNAL LINK
Among the beneficiaries are Barbour's own family and friends, who have earned hundreds of thousands of dollars from hurricane-related business. A nephew, one of two who are lobbyists, saw his fees more than double in the year after his uncle appointed him to a special reconstruction panel. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in June raided a company owned by the wife of a third nephew, which maintained federal emergency-management trailers.
Meanwhile, the governor's own former lobbying firm, which he says is still making payments to him, has represented at least four clients with business linked to the recovery.
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local attorney greg upton addresses the alexandria city council [link to video time 5m50s] and says that he represents the "consensus opinion of a group of about thirty-five or forty individuals that have been meeting for approximately the last six weeks."
reverend david blunt "makes a plea" to the alexandria city council [link to video time 9m25s] and sternly rebukes the city council telling of a premonition he had in which a new leader of a city was being pulled down by a board or a council "they were pulling him down." thus warning the city council the fate of those who do not follow and reject leadership“I suspect there to be litigation of some form, I don’t know at this time who the filing party or necessarily who the opposing party would be,” City Attorney Charles “Chuck” Johnson said in a phone interview.
There is a variety of ways the case could go on. A “declaratory judgment,” for instance, he explained, could be the next step if is filed by the mayor or a member of the public.
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The Alexandria City Council members revived a controversial ordinance to allow the council to hire its own attorneys, but the ordinance has been stalled by a court order issued today.
Mayor Jacques Roy filed a lawsuit as soon as the ordinance was readopted by the council by overriding the mayor's veto, prompting the 9th Judicial District Court to issue a temporary restraining order.
That means “it is enjoined from being in effect until further hearing and decision of the court,” Roy said in a phone interview after the meeting.
During today's council meeting, Councilmen Roosevelt Johnson, Myron Lawson, Louis Marshall, Everett Hobbs and Charles F. Smith Jr. voted to bring back the ordinance in an ongoing dispute some believe is hurting the city’s image.
The council overrode the mayor's veto of an ordinance authorizing the council to hire its own legal counsel.
Councilmen Harry Silver and Charles L. "Chuck" Fowler voted against overriding the veto.
Alexandria Mayor Jacques Roy reacted swiftly Tuesday to a decision by five City Council members to override his veto of an ordinance allowing the council to hire its own attorneys by immediately suing to block its implementation.
Roy said he filed the suit as soon as the ordinance, which he had vetoed about a week ago, was readopted during Tuesday's council meeting.
The suit prompted the 9th Judicial District Court to issue a temporary retraining order, meaning the ordinance "is enjoined from being in effect until further hearing and decision of the court," Roy said after the meeting.
The ordinance, which seeks to allow the council to contract its own legal team independent of the city's legal department, has been the focus of disagreement about whether the hiring of such attorneys violates the City Charter.
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the town talk reports (see link) "Traffic offense court costs may be increasing by $50."
lets see...the legislature can give away $50,000 and $300,000 to the purple circle social club and the colomb foundation who's head it was reported is the boyfriend of the legislator (yvonne dorsey) who inserted the expenditures but to fund something as important as the state crime lab they want to fund that off the backs of people receiving a traffic ticket. what a sad, pathetic, woefully corrupt state we live in.
and who were the legislators who voted for this garbage? naturally the entire house and senate.
====no surprises there. our opinion pretty closely mirrors that of daily kingfish writer "senate 2008 guru" who writes:
Six weeks after Louisiana's highest ranking elected Republican, Senator David Vitter, made it clear that he cheated on his wife with prostitutes, the state's Treasurer, John N. Kennedy, declared that "I have concluded that the Republican Party is the party that best reflects my values today." Some great values, huh?it's disappointing that sec'y kennedy wouldnt stick around and fight for traditional democratic party ideals and values. however, the blame lies squarely on the democratic party leadership for not embracing him. governor blanco's bungling of the road home program awarding the management contract to an out of state company when a perfectly qualified state treasury department of, for and by louisianaians was (according to kennedy) ready, willing and able to manage the road home program didnt help.
are there any straight people in the republican party? wocka wocka wocka
senator larry craig and ronnie raygun in happier times
.mp3 here
on thursday 23 august 2007, alexandria, louisiana mayor jacques roy was on the ksyl 'talk back live' radio program. a caller who by the way sounds a lot like alexandria city attorney trey gist phoned in to ask the mayor, ostensibly about traffic control. conveniently this caller allowed the mayor an opportunity to segue into redlight spy camera shill mode.
all this talk about the mayor standing up to the city council is a fantasy because the mayor only stands up to the council when its his or his administrations authority thats on the line.
this mayor has shown over and over again that he doesnt have any problem whatsoever going along with the council when its us commoners rights and civil liberties that is being usurped.
more later...
UPDATE: kay 'bucket of bolts' katz pushes corrupt lake charles democrat willie landry mounts' sb312 mandatory water fluoridation - mass medication of louisianaians without informed consent and against our will scheme through the state house!
via the dead pelican
the monroe news star reported on 24 august 2007 "katz runs to third win in house seat." [dist. 16 map .pdf].
this old crone first came on our radar in the 2006 regular legislative session with her hb59 a bill in which representative katz sought to reduce the number of voting hours "in the primary and general elections" by chopping off a whole two hours...making the polls open an hour later and close an hour earlier. anytime politicians want to tamper with voting laws, reduce the number of hours in which to vote in etc... you can bet they arent trying to benefit the voters but themselves and their respective machines. which is exactly what we saw happen right after katrina when the legislature foolishly changed around the states voting laws coupled with governor blanco's delaying the orleans mayoral election killed the momentum of voter outrage and allowed the reelection of mayor nagin. although we like mayor nagin we didnt feel that he was the best choice to head nola's recovery. we were pulling for peggy wilson.
representative katz's hb59 was 'involuntarily deferred' in the house and governmental affairs committee. not to be outdone the kay kellogg katz scam in the 2007 regular legislative session introduces hb6 -- a carbon copy of hb59 and it was once again promptly deferred by the house and governmental affairs committee.
on 23 may 2007 the house municipal and parochial affairs committee heard representative billy chandler's hb195. a bill designed to make the town of pollock, louisiana's police chief an appointive rather than its current elective position. we looked on incredulously at representative katz a republican dunderheaded remarks in total support of this bill. only a damn fool would give up the right to vote for the person charged with enforcing the law and we emailed representative katz asking her to justify her remarks with the republican party platform of more freedom, less taxes and less governmental regulation -- as of this date representative katz hasnt replied.
in the news star article the writer stacy temple reported that representative "katz told supporters at the atrium the three c's are required to be a good representative: concern, common sense and character." we cant see where representative has any one of the three so by her own words she isnt qualified to serve again.
a direct quote of representative katz goes: "we started on a journey eight years ago when i came to you and asked to let me be your representative," katz said. emphasis added
started on a journey? wtf is that? that is pure hillary clinton speak.
it doesnt make any difference if you vote for a democrat or a republican you get the same thing. they are the same crime gang. one side of the crime gang calls themselves republicans to trick the conservatives and the other side calls themselves democrats to trick the liberals. there hasnt been a true democratic or republican party since before the civil war. what they really are, are scalawags and carpetbaggers and our only hope is to throw both parties out on their collective asses and vote in independents.
====wst... note: congressman and current 2007 louisiana gubernatorial candidate piyush "bobby" jindal voted for each of the laws cited in the below essay. not only did piyush vote for these but so did turn coat rodney alexander, richard hugh baker, jim mccrery, charles boustany, charlie melancon, congressman william jefferson voted against the usa patriot act then inexplicably turned around and voted for the john warner defense act. louisiana's senior senator the crypto-republican and bush ass licker katrina mary landrieu snellings (notice how this 'ho, just like piyush, refuses to use her real name) as well as our junior senator the self admitted whore mongoring diaper david vitter voted for all this garbage as well.
When Bush Shmoozes,
Run For Cover
By James T. Moore
8-25-7
Permit me to begin by saying, if you don't believe that America is becoming an empire headed by a powerful, but mindless, "Caesar", sign this off and go watch TV. But if you believe that this possibility may be true, please stick around a bit longer and have your doubts confirmed.
The information I'm going to give you is something I didn't dream up. It is based on facts gathered by "Joe American." Joe American is the nom de plume of a current elected official in a fairly high position who writes heavily-researched articles exposing our present government for what it really is. His name and address must remain anonymous for fear of retribution, but this we do know: he was honorably discharged from the U.S. armed forces, serving as a law enforcement officer, and he knows the secret of population distraction, hence control.
Joe American's case for America disintegrating into an empire---and then disappearing altogether---produces some remarkable similes to the demise of past empires. And the evidence is indisputable. Now what, you may ask, can we look for as a sign of an emerging empire-one that in time will collapse?
Watch for schmoozing. Schmoozing is when the powers in charge begin to subtly "con" the people with distracting visions of either Fun or Fear, depending on which method best serves their evil agenda.
Roman emperors, Joe American tells us, went the "fun" route. "They understood the importance of 'bread and circus.' They knew that keeping the nation in a perpetual state of war, supplying cheap bread, and giving them spectator games in the Coliseum, would keep them happily distracted This enabled the emperors to rule with an iron hand and no one would complain. It worked for nearly 500 years, while all that time the Roman people thought they were "free." So much for "fun."
As for fear, heads of government schmooze the population in a different way: they use cooked-up excuses, declarations of emergencies or pending disasters, anticipated attacks or invasions. Once people become anxious or frightened, a story of "needed protection" is concocted, and they begin passing legislation giving the "leader" authority to rule by decree. The fear technique is used by tyrants, not to entertain, but to mesmerize the citizens and keep them off balance to conceal the government's real motives or intentions
One classic con-job of induced fear was perpetrated by Adolph Hitler, head of the Nazi Party who became Chancellor of the German Weimar Republic on January 30,1933. A few weeks later, the Reichstag (Germany's congressional building and Congress) was destroyed by what was determined to be a deliberately set and fast-moving fire. Next day, the newspapers said: "This act of incendiarism is the most monstrous act of terrorism carried out by Communists in Germany. The government is of the opinion that the situation is such that a danger to the state and nation exists." So, Reichstag passed the "Enabling Act" which gave Hitler the authority to rule by decree, and a dictator was born.
Today, the same schmoozing is going on, and the American public is mostly unaware of it. It began with the World Trade Center tragedy in 2001 that killed 3,000 people. Joe American puts it this way: "Like the Reichstag fire in Germany which enabled Hitler to become a dictator, the destruction of the World Trade Center occurred soon after George Bush was sworn into office as President, and provided a pretext for changing the nature of our government, in much the same manner as Hitler changed Germany."
Right after the WTC tragedy, this administration's schmoozing of the American public began. The USA Patriot Act became law, with virtually no discussion by Congress. This was followed by the Homeland Security Act---created by President Bush's executive order. Bush, of course, declaring that these new laws are necessary in fighting the "war on terrorism." Recipe for dictatorship.
Follow that with "The John Warner Defense Authorization Act", and "The Real ID Act" (to go into effect January1,2008) and you have everything in place for a Presidential declaration of Martial Law. But President Bush schmoozes us by saying: "This landmark legislation (Homeland Security), the most extensive reorganization of the Federal Government since the 1940's, will help our nation meet the emerging threats of terrorism in the 21st Century." Dictatorship coming alive.
Never mind that these "landmark" laws also negate our privacy, infringe on our freedoms, create a totalitarian state, and make a mockery of our Constitution and Bill of Rights, thereby threatening the very foundation of our nation. Dictatorship on fast forward.
But don't take it from Joe American. Or me. Thomas Jefferson said: "Experience hath shown than even the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny,"
Are you ready to bow down to a dictator, or stand up for your rights and your freedom?
