c.b. forgotston: district 55 independent rep. jerome "dee" richard (reee-shard) from thibodaux will not attend the secret lege cmte reapportionment meeting at alexandria from 01 - 02 october 2009.
in an appeal to [y]our conscience, alex cenla reminds us that the louisiana history museum is a very valuable archive of knowledge about what our forebears went through settling the city of alexandria, la. and taming its environs.
indeed, why is it that a museum is on the list of last places to visit? go by the museum, take a tour -- its all free.
afterwards, give the director your ideas to help popularize the museum and you could win a prize.
the museum is located downtown at 503 washington streeton sunday 20 september 2009 we seeded an approximately 20'x20' test plot with the whitetail institute's imperial whitetail clover. part of the seed included an annual brassica seed blend they named 'double-cross.' roughly 4 parts imperial whitetail clover seed to about 1 part brassica seed.
imperial whitetail clover w/annual brassica seedlings
this morning we discovered this fawn track. we know that there is a doe with twin fawns lurking around. the fawns are about as big as a medium sized dog and as near as we can tell, were born around 01 august. they are still wearing their baby clothes.
cutting edge - optimize nutritional supplement lick
the 30.06 lick is in the woods on the other side of the test plot. to get there you have to cross a creek containing alligators. thanks to gustav though, there is now a handy log to cross over.
especially just after our dog killed this rather large cotton mouth water moccasin, so we'll check it later.this year we've noticed that the grounds beneath the live oak trees around, are saturated with acorns. this is perhaps, thanks, due in part to hurricane gustav a year ago and the deep watering its floods gave.
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the trees are still full of maturing acorns
wild pecans are nearly ready tooUPDATE: 05 february 2011 ball mayor roy hebron plead guilty and resigned today
town of ball, la. mayor roy hebron
town of ball, la. police chief jay barber
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google street view shows some cops and what could be a fire truckc.b. forgotston sent this out a few minutes ago:According to a story in today's Baton Rouge paper ( story here) some of our leges are planning to hold a two-day, secret meeting (where all expenses paid by us taxpayers) to discuss how to reapportion the districts by which they represent us.
two committees planning to meet together in secret at alexandria at the "old england air force base" 01 and 02 october 2009, include:
The Clerk of the House says the clandestine meeting is legal. If so, it is only due to a "loophole" written by the leges in the Open Meetings Law.
The meeting was called by Rep. Rick Gallot, D-Ruston, who only recently escaped prosecution for violating the ethics law via a loophole he help insert into the law.
The meeting may be legal, but it is not right way to do the people's business.
Why isn’t it open?
This meeting is a part of the decision-making, process for reapportionment. What part of reapportionment is not the people's business?
[Speaker of the House Jim] Tucker said it is necessary to have the meeting behind closed doors so they (legislators) can have open discussions which could be otherwise inhibited.
In other words, the leges cannot be honest with the people they represent.
Do the right thing
The right thing to do is for all the leges invited to attend this meeting (which includes my representative) to refuse to attend unless the meeting is opened to the public and the media.
C.B.
UPDATE: forgotston has now posted this to his blog here
house and governmental affairs committee chaired by rob "heh heh heh ethics law" gallot; members: mert smiley, taylor barras, patrick connick, george cromer, michael danahay, noble ellington, brett geymann, cameron henry, girod jackson, rosalind jones, anthony ligi, karen carter peterson, erich ponti, stephen pugh, jerome richard, jane smith, charmaine marchand stiaes and wayne waddell.
and the senate & governmental affairs committee chaired by bob "the guy who helped destroy ethics laws" kostelka; consisting of senators, john smith, jody amedee, jack donahue, lydia. jackson, edwin murry and mike walsworth.
as you can see some very shady characters will be participating. the last thing we need is this crew meeting in secret to decide something as important as reapportionment.
so please contact your state representative and say no secret meetings! meet in a committee room or in the house chamber before the cameras and the internet live stream.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered the replacement of the US dollar by the euro in the country's foreign exchange accounts.
The September 12 edict was issued following a decision by the trustees of the country's foreign reserves, Mehr News Agency reported.
Earlier, the Islamic Republic of Iran had announced that the euro would replace the greenback in the country's oil transactions. Iran has called on other OPEC members to ditch the sinking dollar in favor of the more credible euro.
Following the switch, the interest rate for the facilities provided from the Foreign Exchange Reserves will be reduced from12 to 5 percent.
Since being introduced by the European Union, the euro has gained popularity internationally and there are now more euros in circulation than the dollar.
The move will also help decouple Iran from the US banking system.
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we supported and voted for buddy caldwell for attorney general. we thought he was different but he's no different at all - he's just another political hack. what a disappointment this clown has turned out to be.
the baton rouge morning advocate reports that "general" caldwell is angry with his fellow bullshit artist -- the governor over funding for his office to investigate acorn. 2theadvocat.com: jindal blocks resources, ag says or click here to download two page .pdf [23 kb]
acorn is in the news a lot right now and so like a good political opportunist "general" caldwell is angry that he cant afford to take advantage of the situation to gain some free personal publicity.
imagine the unmitigated gall on the part of "general" caldwell marching up to the governor's office and demanding more funding for his office, then -- then complaining that his "investigation into acorn was slowed by gov. bobby jindal’s opposition to a fee that would have raised money to hire more investigators."
the tax which the advocate writer mark ballard disingenuously calls a "fee" is referring to House Bill No. 569.
in the HB 569 internet access tax scam -- that was the one wherein "general" caldwell conned a simple-minded denham springs rino, named mack "bodi" white, into sponsoring what started out being a .50 cents per month tax on everyone in louisiana's internet access account bill to investigate internet predators a/k/a "the monsters."
the bill would have created the "internet crimes investigation fund," a fund, the legislators said for a special unit in the attorney general's office to investigate mysterious internet predators a/k/a "the monsters", that seem to hang-out in never named chatrooms which apparently attracts mostly other cops and not too many kids. HB 569 had nothing whatsoever to do with conducting investigations into entities such as acorn. read the original bill yourself.
now the "general" is going to the governor and the media and telling a totally different story than what he told to the legislature and from what his useful idiots told to their fellow legislators and to the citizens of louisiana about the bills purpose: investigating internet pervs a/k/a "the monsters" -- like no one can remember what happened in this years legislative session.
the "general" knew all along that he was going to use the new tax money for whatever purpose he wanted -- like hiring lots of new people. the bit about funding a special unit to investigate internet predators a/k/a "the monsters" was just a lie. a trick to play on peoples emotions to rush the bill through.
heres a telling part in mr. ballard's story:Federal investigators would have put a team of FBI agents, accountants, lawyers and support staff to analyze the 35 or so boxes of documents produced by the subpoenas, [caldwell] said.
"general" caldwell wants his own fbi type strike-force. yo homes you aint the fbi. louisiana is chock full of dummies. theres no hi-tech criminals that cant be caught the old fashioned way around here. whats more, you cant even do anything about louisiana political and governmental corruption thats all around you. so how you gonna successfully investigate a group as large and well funded and protected by powerful political benefactors such as acorn?
we dont need the louisiana attorney general to be monitoring the internet and chasing rainbows. what we want for you to do, is the job that you were elected to do and that is for you to be out on the streets arresting all these political and governmental criminals and sending them to angola.
clean up your own back yard first. in fact just today, times-picayune columnist, james gill catches buddy caldwell in another good ol boy coverup scam: attorney general buddy caldwell endorses splitting hairs or click here to download two page .pdf [17].
excerpt:Federal authorities are investigating St. John the Baptist Parish President Bill Hubbard in connection with a scheme in which parish contractors helped buy a new Toyota Camry for his girlfriend last spring, several sources have confirmed. ~ read more
if you cant afford to buy your whore stuff with your own money, maybe you should stick with your wife and not have a whore.
in a letter to the editor of the baton rouge morning advocate, mr. tassin claims that he wont be pushin' pi no mo:Letter: Jindal loses Republican supporter
* Published: Sep 23, 2009 - Page: 8B
I was 100 percent for Bobby Jindal for governor during the 2007 campaign. I volunteered during the campaign, putting up yard signs, attending meetings, working in the phone bank etc.
My front yard was used as the Jindal tent was put up for the annual Kenilworth July Fourth parade. I had a huge Jindal-for-governor yard sign that was seen by thousands of people over the six months it was up.
I even sent a letter to The Advocate that was published on Sept. 8, 2007, defending Jindal when the Democratic Party brought religion into the governor's race.
I was even responsible for having two signs put up at the entrances to Kenilworth subdivision which stated, "Boyhood home of Governor Bobby Jindal."
After doing all these things, I never received a thank-you letter from Jindal or anyone in his administration.
I had confidence in him that he would be the best governor that Louisiana ever had.
I have lost my faith in him as have tens of thousands of other individuals statewide who voted for him. He has made mistake after mistake after mistake. The latest one is what prompted me to write this letter.
The Advocate headline on Sept. 4 stated, "Jindal calls church visits appropriate." Well, I totally disagree. He can attend Protestant church services every Sunday, but he should pay the cost, not the citizens of Louisiana. He can have town-hall meetings, but they should be at town halls, not churches of worship.
What makes America strong and different from most other countries is the fact that we have separation of church and state. Giving talks at churches on Sundays using taxpayers' money is a violation of the doctrine. Mr. Jindal is politicizing houses of worship.
As a lifetime Republican, having served 16 years on the Republican State Central Committee and two years as treasurer of the Louisiana Republican Party, I am willing to lead a group entitled "Republicans against Jindal."
He has no idea how much support he has lost. Every candidate that he has endorsed for the state Legislature has been defeated, including the Senate race in his home district.
I’m looking forward to the 2011 governor’s race to support anyone but Jindal. Let's geaux and work and find us a new candidate to support.
L. Paul Tassin Jr.
retired state worker
Baton Rouge
~ source link
click here to download one page .pdf [14 kb]
this five object to the city of alexandria, la. video taping their meetings.via david icke
'Obama yesterday expressed concern at the sorry state of the news industry and said that he will look at a news paper bailout, because otherwise, blogs will take over the world, and that would be a threat to democracy, the Hill reports.' Read more...
we've long been interested in the whitetail institute and their imperial whitetail clover deer food plot seed. so, this year we ordered one of their test plot paks to see how well their seeds do here.
we're not planting this to harvest deer over. we just want to see if it will come up here and if it will attract any deer. if we were harvesting deer though, we would be practicing quality deer management.
we chose the institutes "double-up" sampler pak, because it contains seed paks of imperial whitetail clover, double-cross, chicory plus, winter greens, no-plow, alfa-rack plus, extreme and chic magnet as well as 10 lbs each of 30.06 a mineral lick and cutting edge a spring and summer nutritional lick.
math isnt our forte at all, but we figured that since you get two paks of each product (the website says one package of double-cross but they sent two) and each package contains enough seeds to plant 100 square feet - 10'x10' that by combining the two paks of a brand, you should be able to have enough to plant a 14'x14'.
we read that double-cross is imperial whitetail clover but with an annual brassica seed mixed in; so by combining the two imperial whitetail clover and the two double-cross paks we should have enough to plant a 20'x20 plot.
so we picked a spot out. we took a hand-saw and cut down that tallow tree growing in the center and then took a hammer and a nail and made some holes in the stems as well as sawed down into them then poured about a tablespoon of herbicide into them. we mowed it out a couple of times to make it a little bit better.
after about three hours of dragging around and being drug around by the 'ol mantis we had enough. it took a tankful of gas.
we took the scissors and cut the tops off the four paks and dumped them into a mixing bowl to blend them together.
this is how all the seed looked in the spreader.
then we rolled the barrel over the seed bed again.
on monday we'll put out the 30.06 mineral lick somewhere in the woods nearby.
this is fantastic! kalb tells us that the tip which lead to their original story was actually fed to them by the rapides parish sheriff, chuck wagner and district attorney "jam" downs.
also jimmy faircloth suppresses kalb's campaign interview!
we hope they catch whoever did this and beat their ass from broadway to university then on down to the funeral home.
CRIME TIPSwebsite of peabody magnet high school
ALEXANDRIA POLICE DEPARTMENT
1000 BOLTON AVE
ALEXANDRIA LA 71301
congressman burton complains about acorn and the millions of taxpayer dollars that the congress has given them and that in light of the recent allegations of wrong doing and corruption lodged against acorn that "we need a thorough investigation of acorn and why they have been authorized to get up to eight and a half billion dollars in taxpayer money for the services that they perform."
but did you know that congressman burton (along with many others including former louisiana congressman bob livingston) has been named by fbi whistle blower sibel edmons as being an actor in an organized crime ring thats passing classified information to foreign governments? where is that investigation?
Raising a question of the privileges of the House.
Whereas on September 9, 2009, during the joint session of Congress convened pursuant to House Concurrent Resolution 179, the President of the United States, speaking at the invitation of the House and Senate, had his remarks interrupted by the Representative from South Carolina, Mr. Wilson; andUPDATE: the official text of H.RES 744 has
Whereas the conduct of the Representative from South Carolina was a breach of decorum and degraded the proceedings of the joint session, to the discredit of the House: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives disapproves of the behavior of the Representative from South Carolina, Mr. Wilson, during the joint session of Congress held on September 9, 2009.
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anchor: "so what about the vice president...when this happened..."
repeater: "uh we really are not at liberty to talk too much about that...[the vice president] was not in the building, uh but where he was and what he's doing is not something we really want to to disclose."
