Thursday's Blogs from the Bog!
Thursday's Blogs from the Bog!
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OCT 23 Blogger Tom Aswell posts the photo that started making the rounds of the Facebook this week; it shows our governor and his lovely bride, all bright and smiley and holding big guns. The Jindals look a little posed, down to their carefully and properly placed index fingers. They're both grinning wide, displaying how comfortable they are with weaponry. Whee!
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STATE FUNDING "COMMUNITY" CENTER FOR A CHURCH
OCT 23 The state is funding a 'community center' that is being built by a church, this post on Gambit tells us. The center, located on Carrollton in New Orleans, will be the headquarters of a Hollygrove-based church called Trinity Christian Community. State officials say that partnering with non-profits - including churches - is turning out to be the only way to get community centers built and operating, the story says.
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BUZZ: EBOLA BAN JUST A POLITICAL STUNT
OCT 23 Bayou Buzz is taking Gov. Bobby Jindal and the GOP to task here for the Ebola shrieking. The so-called "travel ban" makes no sense, and these politicians should have done their homework before coming up with this stunt, Stephen Sabludowsky writes.
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IS ANTI-HIP THE LATEST IN HIP?
OCT 23 This fascinating post on The Lens opens the discussion of New Orleans as subject. C. W. Cannon talks about the concept of dual consciousness and how New Orleanians, especially, have experienced this condition post-Katrina. Cannon attended a recent conference about the issue at Tulane, where the discussion focused on how the romanticization of the city by outsiders masks real social problems.
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OCT 23 WalletHub posts another of those amusing and yet barely relevant maps here, plotting the nation's best and worst cities for budgeting. The methodology is clearly laid out, but basically the study looked at how much people spend, how much they pay on their credit cards, their average credit score, etc., in order to come up with the rankings. Lafayette, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Monroe, Shreveport and Alexandria all made the bottom 50. Yay!
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NODEF: JINDAL PENS A COUPLA ORDERS
OCT 23 Sure, Bobby Jindal spends a lot of time campaigning (for nothing, really, he has the job he wants) in other states, but he's still paying attention to Louisiana, this post on the NOLA Defender blog assures us. Bobby's recent executive orders regarding Guaranteed News Coverage Ebola and sexual assault prove he's all over that Lousiana stuff, the post says.
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OCT 23 The Advocate's Amy Wold writes about one alarming reality of coastal loss - the relocation and/or loss of entire communities. Moving them en masse rarely works, she writes. Sure, the best course is to try to save the coast. But even if the coastal restoration plans in place all work, this will still be an issue, she adds, because no matter what Louisiana will end up smaller than it is now.
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OCT 23 Hayride blogger Scott McKay, who already has attacked our own Lamar White Jr. over his endorsement of Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis, attacks him again in this post. In addition to attempts to belittle Lamar and Wendy, he talks about the "morons" at Davis' campaign. That moniker applies to anyone who disagrees with McKay, apparently.