an emailer wonders:Rhode Island is under water from heavy rains.
before we received this email we hadnt heard much about whats turning out to be rhode island's record flooding.
In all the pictures I saw of Flooding I didn’t see any troops in there, or any military vehicles.
Is the Federal Government Slow in responding to this disaster too?
according to this report its the worst flooding there in century or more.
this report says that rains "isolated communities as it washed out bridges and rippled across thoroughfares from maine to connecticut."
angelo padula jr runs an auto restoration shop in west warwick, rhode island, he said:"I think we're all done," he said. "If the federal government doesn't give us disaster money, I don't think we can ever come back from this. You're talking millions and millions of dollars in these businesses. Now I know how the people in New Orleans felt."
there's been lots of fear mongering lately over the red river levees and as a result curiosity into the red river, atchafalaya, and bayou bouef levee district's activities has increased.
while everyone's attention has been focused on the condition of the levees, state representative robert johnson has been working HB 1107 a bill that allows a land swap between the rrabb and landowners.
in the first swap rrabb is exchanging a tract of land containing 9.99 acres and another tract containing 4.7 acres for 2.4 acres belonging to landowner brent scallan. so the state is swapping 14.69 acres for 2.4 acres? what kinda deal is that?
according to rep. johnson's testimony before the house transportation committee, its not actually a land swap but an easement. it has something to do with a boat ramp, part of which was built on mr. scallan's private property and he is "subject to some liability in that regard." hmmmm
rep. herbert dixon in the form of an amendment to the bill, is handling the the next swap. in it, the rrabb is exchanging 240 acres with the adjacent landowner donald bishop for 231.63 acres. well, thats a little better we guess.
yesterday afternoon around ten minutes till six we had just finished eating supper and was headed outside when we opened the back door and shay nay-nay was sitting on the stoop like she does when she wants in, so we held the door open for her but looking down at her as she passed by we noticed that her head looked kinda funny and she was lumbering towards her pallet -- instead of her usual trot.
so we turned around and followed her in. after she sat down and got to where we could see her, we was like oh lawd!
at first we thought that someone had busted her in the head with a baseball bat or pipe or something -- but that seemed pretty unlikely.
then we got to looking at that dark spot on her snout and thought maybe someone had shot her with a .22. but upon closer examination we noticed that her "wound" wasnt bleeding nor was there broken teeth or tissue nor could we see anything like an exit wound.
then it dawned on us that it must be a snake bite. we've had dogs on and off all our life and never had one to get bitten by a snake.
so, by this time it was about ten minutes after six, so we phoned up her vet, got the answering service and he called back right away.
the vet said that dogs "very rarely ever die from a snake bite," (how comforting) and if we wanted to bring her in it would cost $75.00 for an emergency after hours visit (the amount goes up as the night wears on becoming $90.00 after 9 pm) plus maybe up to a couple hundred dollars for all the shots, etc as well as their keeping her overnight.
the vet said that if we wanted to treat her ourselves, that if we had some benadryl we could give her that. luckily we had some. we cut open a caplet and mixed it in with a little water drew it up in a syringe (without the needle) and squirted it into the opposite side of her mouth from where the bite is.
UPDATE: when we took her to the vet a few days later the vet told us that we due to her weight and size we could have given her 3 benadryls. she weighed 68 pounds [31 kg].
she was able to take that and swallow it all down. we repeated that after several hours. thankfully, all the drooling stopped right after we took the first set of photos.
that seemed to help and after awhile the swelling seemed to be going down some. by 11:30 pm she was able to drink a good bit of water from her inside bowl then we let her outside where she urinated and came right back in the house. where she promptly went to sleep.
by 7:30 am she was ready to go outside so we let her out and she promptly left to make her usual rounds.
at 8:30 am she was back and ate what looks like a usual amount of her food.
she seems to be pretty much back to normal -- character wise, except of coz for the big block head.
we're scheduled to take her in a day or two to the vet to get her heartworm pills and toenails trimmed; hopefully he will advise us if we did anything right or wrong..
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sha nay-nay 8:30 am cdt wednesday 31 march 2010
sha nay-nay from summer of 2009this clown's idea of creating a better louisiana is to make maw maw scared to go to the bank!
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HB 607 at legis.state.la.us
it's that time of year again when that outrageous collection of freaks, perverts, criminals and so-forth and so-on, gather together in baton rouge to do the bidding of their real owners -- the lobbyists, special interests and corporations and to consolidate even more power to their masters to control the people with, stealing even more of their "freedom" through the power of the state by creating out of thin air unwanted and unneeded "crimes" and "rules" and "regulations" and to top it all off by stealing the people's labor in the form of money for taxes and "fees" in order to give it to their criminal friends.
via: what really happened
No money to fix the Levees, but billions to Israel to build homes for Israelis in the occupied territories.and to help make his point includes this video:
Repeat after me:
America needs leaders who put America first, second, and third!
America needs leaders who put America first, second, and third!
America needs leaders who put America first, second, and third!
going north. alexandria bank in foreground in 1 and 2..
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according to the 22 march 2010 department of health and hospitals memorandum obtained by wst...
the memorandum states that effective 05 april 2010, "the new nursing facility pre-admission process will be implemented. no one will be able to enter a medicaid certified nursing facility in louisiana without being approved prior to admission, regardless of payment source."
the memorandum then goes on to give a url to the office of aging and adult services: www.oaas.dhh.louisiana.gov where more information along with a power point presentation may be found.
click here to download one page .pdf [136 kb]
this morning frequent ksyl talk back live caller "becky" phoned in to "challenge all our (local) legislators to come on the air and tell us what kind of bills they're proposing and supporting. i hear some of the most baloney kinds of things going on and i want to know in a time of crisis like this and it is a time of crisis, what are they proposing?"
perhaps some of the "baloney" kinds of bills ms. becky is referring to are ones like state rep. rickey hardy's HB 103 a state law banning "baggy pants."
or his HB 43 which expands "drug free zones" from 1,000 - 2,000 feet. c.b. forgotston says:Why not increase the area to, say, 25 miles. That way, the use and sale of illegal drugs would prohibited almost everywhere in the state. Oops! It already is.
or his HB 470 which is a constitutional amendment barring anyone over 70 years of age from qualifying for elective office. a better constitutional amendment would be one barring all black people from lafayette named rickey hardy from holding any elective office or office of public trust. now thats an amendment we could all get behind!
maybe becky has heard of state senator robert adley's SB 128 which will prohibit the sale of "energy drinks" to consumers under the age of sixteen.
or maybe rep. "bodi" white's HB 91 which creates the crime of the unlawful production, manufacturing, distribution, or possession of prohibited plants including:Artemisia vulgaris (Mugwort).
once again we have a rethuglican shaking his fist in the face of god to proclaim that whole third day of creation thing of his ... was pretty much a great big fuck up. we on the other hand believe that god in his own time and way will show that bodi white and others like him are the fuck up.
Canavalia rosea (Bay bean).
Leonotis leonurus (Lion's tail).
Leonotis nepetifolia (Lion's ear).
Leonurus sibiricus (Honeyweed).
Nelumbo nucifera (Sacred Lotus).
Nymphaea caerulea (Blue Lotus, Egyptian Lotus).
Pedicularis densiflora (Indian warrior).
Scutellaria nana (Dwarf skullcap).
Turnera diffusa (Damiana).
Zornia latifolia
anyone who thinks that this collection of freaks, perverts and criminals we have in the legislative as well as executive branches of government has the intellect, integrity or wherewithal to provide the leadership to get louisiana out of this mess it finds itself in, is in for a big disappointment.
link to audio page
replying to becky's original challenge for local legislators to come on and explain themselves dave graichen says that chris hazel "will not even return our phone calls" and becky responds that "we cant get through to chris hazel, we've never gotten an answer."
Fess Parker, best known for playing Daniel Boone in a 1960s television series, died Thursday at his home near Santa Barbara, California, his publicist said. He was 85.
A native of Texas, Parker served in the U.S. Navy during World War II before graduating from the University of Texas-Austin in 1950.
He moved to Los Angeles in the early 1950s to pursue acting.
Walt Disney cast Parker in the lead role of "Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier," co-starring Buddy Ebsen.
He followed that with several more Disney films, including "Davy Crockett and the River Boat Pirates," "The Great Locomotive Chase" and "Old Yeller."
His TV career took off in 1964 with the title role in NBC's "Daniel Boone," which aired for for six seasons. ~ read more
UPDATE
audio of rense - sinclair interview
larry sinclair is the florida man (formerly minnesota) who alleges several november 1999 drug and sexual encounters with then illinois state senator barack obama.
the jeff rense radio program starts at 9:00 pm cdt and for now mr. sinclair is scheduled to appear in the third hour (11:00 - midnight cdt). see world time server to calculate the time in your location.
to listen free click here.
cenla news has posted that red river bank has seized the bill lewis lure facility.
bill lewis lures are the creators and manufacturers of the rat--l-trap line of fishing lures >>> read more
in louisiana (the most corrupt state in the nation) it's not unusual but actually quite typical to see rethuglicans not hesitating to whip out thousand and two thousand dollar checks to give a democrat. even a democrat as liberal and as big a barky fan and boot smoocher as alexandria mayor jacques roy.
doesnt it make sense that authentic republicans would find their own conservative candidate to finance and run instead of supporting the candidate that stands for everything they supposedly hate?
but in louisiana you have to understand -- there are no democrats. there are no republicans. what you have running everything (and we use these terms interchangeably) are crime families and crime gangs.
some crime families call themselves democrats while other crime families call themselves republicans but thats all just a show put on for the benefit and entertainment of the great unwashed masses.
a lot of these crime families have been working together pulling off scams since the plantation days, so they are quite good at what they do.
now the black crime families in alexandria are in ascendancy and they want a bigger slice of the pie, or maybe the entire pie and who can blame them? this is the real cause of all the turbulence in alexandria of late.
one reason so many so called conservative republicans are so happy with the status quo might hinge on mayor roy's sparc wealth transfer scam.
mayor roy's sparc wealth transfer scam is that marvelous contrivance whereby the elite get to steal $96 million dollars (70 million eur) and alexandria's great unwashed masses get to pay for it all (with interest) based on that in perpetuity slave tax they voted on themselves and their prosperity.
in 2007 one of the first things that mayor roy and his administration did was conspire together with the city council (see they can work together sometimes) to place on the ballot a 1% sales and use tax that never expires! hence the term in perpetuity.
the present generation of alexandrians will have been in a box out in the bone yard and forgotten while their grandchildren's grandchildren will still be paying this slave tax never having an opportunity to cast it off all so that the descendants of these same old crime families will have the guaranteed means to continue to rob them blind.
of the alexandrians who bothered to go to the polls that hot july day back in '07 an astounding 78% voted this slave tax on their heads and on their childrens heads. what good can be said for a foolish and wicked people who would do that to their own offspring?
some try to shift the focus away from the true beneficiaries of the sparc wealth transfer scam i.e. the crime gangs and onto the blacks. calling it just another black give-a-way program and even going so far as to imply that mayor roy is a "nigger lover." this is just a stupid trick, designed to cause racial problems and fights -- so dont fall for it.
the evidence -- for example the 30 june 2009 alexandria city council meeting, indicates that the majority of blacks saw through and were not for the sparc scam.
anyway, click here to see the list that jacques barack has compiled. oh and by the way, did t.w. thompson buy his comfy police commissioner job for the amazingly low price of $1,475?
they put this in our waterwe have family buried at forest lawn behind and to the side of the last supper memorial right close to frank joseph "nunu" and his brother sonny giordano.
seems like "nunu" was shot and killed by the alexandria police department while attempting to rob the rapides bank branch on bolton avenue. supposedly, as the story goes, when sonny found out about it, he pulled up a tree in his yard and swore vengeance against the officers involved, so they had to leave town in a hurry.
when sonny died back in the late '90's the town talk ran the headline "one man crime wave dies."
anyway, back in the '80's our grandpa used to complain a lot about how the flowers he was placing on his mother and sons graves were being stolen.
we used to wonder if grandpa wasnt getting senile because we couldnt imagine anyone stealing flowers much less stealing flowers from off a headstone. but looks like he was right and apparently these freaks have moved up from stealing just flowers to lots of other things.
this afternoon we noticed our friend "mister bonestripper" trolling around probably looking for an easy meal. we attempted to get a photograph but he was unusually shy ducking under the water each time we got within range.
so below is a photo of him from a couple of years ago from when the backwater was up:
====apparently, right now there is a harvest going on.
check out that crazy obituary here or .pdf [34 kb]. why is mr. tudor's family trying to hard to convince us that he was such a fantastic person?
the likely truth is that mr. tudor was the scion of, then patriarch to, one of the old time cenla crime families who made enormous profits off of the misery of others. oh and fat government contracts. is that what former governor edwin edwards was alluding to when he referred to central louisiana as "tudorville?" article link or .pdf [16 kb]
mr. tudor was also a supporter of piyush "bobby" jindal so how great of a person could he possibly have been?
via rense.com
excerpt:Hours After Our Story Berating the Horrid Actions of Utah Pedophile and Republican House Leader Broke, Kevin Garn has resigned.
No thanks to the Deseret News, who had this story back in 2001 and refused to publish it (sound familiar?).
No thanks to the Utah politicians that gave Garn a hearty round of applause AND a standing ovation when he admitted being naked in a hot-tub with an equally naked 15 year old girl. read more
brace godfreyUPDATED 7:31 pm cst thursday 11 march 2010
lamar white, jr., assistant to city of alexandria, la. mayor jacques roy, responded to our 6:07 pm wednesday update (below) with the following "tweet:"
in the future, please do not contact me with these types of inquiries.?
instead, please contact ken juneau at (318) 715-0802.
thanks.
UPDATE: 6:07 pm cst well we never heard back from the mayoral assistant. this is more evidence of the roy regime's arrogance and contempt towards regular folks attempting to ask it reasonable questions.wow. you gotta admire whoever is behind this blog. no, we have no clue. we've never contacted or been contacted by whomever it is -- we dont know and we dont want to know -- so dont ask.
excerpt:And what's this all about? We thought the Roy administration had nothing to do with the levee certification. My, my, how long with (sic) the TT ignore this and all we did was google?
ORDINANCE NO. 269-2007...read more
click here to download one page .pdf [156 kb]
irregular times excerpt:
An extension of the Patriot Act with no reforms of its abusive powers of unreasonable search and seizure against American citizens has passed the House of Representatives.
The vote was 315 in favor of extending the Patriot Act without reform, 97 against, and 20 not voting.
Search for information about the roll call of this vote online tonight, and you’ll just find this nameless tally of numbers. You won’t find the names. Why?
The reason is that the House Democratic leadership voted on the renewal of the Patriot Act in such a way as to hide the vote from the American people.
Go to the web site of the Clerk of the House, and you’ll see no vote from today about the Patriot Act at all.
What you will see is Roll Call 67, “On Motion to Concur in Senate Amendments” for H.R. 3961, the Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act.
That’s the vote on whether to extend the Patriot Act without any reforms of its abusive spying programs.
It doesn’t look like it, of course, but the Patriot Act extension is what’s referred to by “Senate Amendments”.
The Senate Democrats sneaked the Patriot Act extension into a Medicare reform bill, and then voted by voice vote to approve the amendment so that no politician would have to have their name attached to this shameless abandonment of liberty.
The House Democrats benefited from the maneuver as well, being able to vote on unnamed amendments related to Medicare reform, rather than having it on the record for everyone to see that they voted to renew the worst abuses of the Patriot Act without any effort to protect Americans from their spying powers at all. ~ read more
