Tuesday's Blogs from the Bog!
Tuesday's Blogs from the Bog!
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Oh Magoo, you've done it again!
APR 29 If you're not old, you might not know who Mr. Magoo is. CB Forgotston knows, and he's comparing the (extremely) nearsighted cartoon character to our exalted solons in this post. They've got to be blind, ignorant or preoccupied, he says.
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APR 29 If you're running for President (and even if you're not, apparently) you can count on Bobby Jindal to be on your six. This post in Politico gives us the latest straw poll for GOP presidential wanna-bes, this one in Maine. Rand Paul won, and our boy Bobby Jindal is bringing up the rear with less than one percent of the votes -- the only person he beat was Kelly Ayotte from New Hampshire.
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APR 29 Blogger Ian McGibboney is telling us about the cancellation of a kindergarten program up in the north (you know, where they all is a whole lot smarter'n us) so that the children involved (the KINDERGARTEN children) can study up for college. This is a symptom of the obsession we have with trying to run schools like businesses and with testing everything and everyone to death, he says.
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APR 29 So far, attempts to put the kibosh on the levee board's lawsuit against Big Oil have met with success in the legislature, but that doesn't mean the kibosh is coming, the AP reports in this analysis. Any law that passes that retroactively strips the board of power, or gives the Governor more power, is going to be challenged, the AP reports. Chances are, Louisiana's judges won't be as malleable as our legislators are.
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Moseley: Landrieu counting on a big 300th
APR 29 NOLA Mayor Mitch Landrieu is getting deep into party planning, Mark Moseley tells us in this post on The Lens. In four years the city will be celebrating her 300th birthday, and Mitch wants that party to last all year long - and show the world that NOLA didn't just recover from Katrina, she reinvented herself as well.
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Beam: Leave the lawsuit alone!
APR 29 The governor, the legislature and anybody else who has been plotting to stop a levee board's lawsuit against Big Oil needs to just cut it out, columnist Jim Beam writes in this editorial. Those guys seem to have a dog in the hunt but John Barry, the guy they're trying to vilify, doesn't -- unless you count Louisiana's best interests, Beam says.
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Will Bobby's boy be back again?
APR 29 Vance McAllister has had about all he can stand of politics (for now, anyway) and won't be running this fall. But who will? Jeremy Alford and John Maginnis take a look in this post on LaPolitics. The first name that comes to mind is the guy who was "supposed" to win this seat in the first place - the hand-picked Neil Riser.
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Lamar: creationism is Bobby's Achilles heel
APR 29 Blogger Lamar White Jr. has assembled every ridiculous video clip and statement that has been advanced in support of the Creationism argument in Louisiana. Despite the spin treatment it has been given by some high-paid marketing firms, none of it has any validity, he argues.