Recent Quotes
March 23, 2011: "I recently watched a filmed launching of an MX missile. It rose slowly out of the ground, surrounded by smoke and flames and elongated into the air — it was indeed a very sexual sight, and when armed with the ten warheads it will explode with the most almighty orgasm."
(by Helen Caldicott in her book "Missle Envy" from an article by Maureen Dowd in The New York Times)
March 20, 2011: "A country that invests more in its elderly than its youth, more in nursing homes than schools, will neither invent the future nor own it.
( Thomas L. Friedman in an article in The New York Times)
January 29, 2011: "There is real puzzlement here about America today because we learned all about what it takes to build a well-functioning society from you. Many of our top officials are graduates of the Kennedy School at Harvard. They just came back home and applied its lessons vigorously."
(Quote by Kishore Mahbubani, dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, to
Thomas L. Friedman in an article in The New York Times)
Yo-Yo Awards
Piyush Amrit "Bobby" Jindal
With Another Louisiana Embarrassment
UPDATE - March 30, 2011: This is an update on Bobby Jindals Yo-Yo Awards piece posted in February. Just this past week it was announced that some corporate donors have given large unreported sums of money to the wife of Bobby Jindal. The foundation, Supriya Jindal Foundation for Louisiana’s Children, mainly donates electronic boards to replace the original black boards most of us are familiar with. The corporation which manufactures these boards is Promethean, a British company that has donated $250,000 to the Jindal foundation. Lists of other corporate donations to her foundation by companies which wanted to do business in Louisiana can be found in the following articles:
Than $113 Million In State Payments
New York Times Wife’s Charity Offers Corporate Tie to a Governor, by ERIC LIPTON
Slate.com Corporate Cash Fuels Jindal's Wife's Charity
Nola.com Corporations seeking state business donated large sums to Supriya Jindal's foundation, provides more links.
Click here to read our earlier posting about Jindal.
Yo-Yo Awards
"Buddy" Roemer
Another Louisiana Embarrassment
If anyone deserves the maximum number of YO-YO's it is Buddy Roemer, a former Democrat, and our governor from 1988 to 1992. In 1991, just before the end of his term as governor, he switched to the Republican Party in order to run against our popular and former governor Edwin Edwards. In that open primary election, he ran against Edwards and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke, among others and finishing third. Now, the man who lost an election to David Duke wants to run for President of the United States. Something is wrong with that picture and it is another embarassment to Louisiana, only two years after Bobby Jindal's embarassing rebuttal to Obama's first speech to Congress in 2009. Read More....
Good Without God
This past December, an advertisement on the side of a public bus in Ft. Worth, Texas stated, "Millions of Americans are Good Without God." The ad caused a furor and was later countered by Christian groups paying for ads on box trucks to shadow the four buses carrying the atheist ads. The Christian ads countered with, "God loves us, and God loves the atheists." Both sides of this controversy were practicing their right to free speech as well as freedom of religion. In this country, we are all free to believe in whatever we wish, as well as believing in nothing. We can choose any religion we want to follow, or we can follow none. Political and religios leaders in the past used religion as a form of mind control and as a way to control the masses. In all of history, most wars and genocides were caused by religions. Read More....
Articles
Arts & Literature
Elizabeth Burk Poetry
Several Louisiana Poems.
Elemore Morgan, Jr.
Acadiana's Painter.
Restaurants
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