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MAR 9 If you've ever gotten up early to watch "This Week in Louisiana Agriculture," then you know who Mike Danna was. Last week, after a battle with cancer, Danna died at the age of 54. He had worked for Farm Bureau as their public relations chief and host of the program for decades. He also had worked for The Advocate and for Gannett. This post was the one he wrote on his own blog when he learned, just a few weeks ago, that his second cancer diagnosis was terminal.
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MORE SHTICK YOU WISH WAS SATIRE
MAR 9 Here we go again - this post on the Red Shtick is ridiculous - but it's about something that actually happened. Last week, the Advocate had to run a "clarification" because a whole bunch of morons on the interwebz got confused by the reference to a drug raid at a house in Walker. Apparently, they assumed that the name "Walker" could only refer to possible GOP presidential candidate Scott Walker, who happens to be governor of Wisconsin. Which, by the way, is nowhere near Livingston Parish.
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WAIT - TEEPELL'S AN EXPERT NOW? IN WHAT, EXACTLY?
MAR 9 Here's one of those inexplicable stories that the Advocate prints sometimes. It's an article interviewing "experts" who say that Bobby Jindal really does have a shot at being president, as opposed to a personality disorder. One of the "experts" is Timmy Teepell. Really?
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CRAWFISH ON WHITE'S LATEST WHOPPER
MAR 9 Blogger Crazy Crawfish takes a look at the hand-wringing John White did last week about Bobby Jindal's proposed budget cuts. He has an alternate suggestion - since the RSD is an epic fail, how about we cut that? Another interesting point - he articulates what a lot of people have suspected for a while: that Will Sentell, the Advocate's state education reporter, is buddy-bud with White. If that's true it certainly would explain a lot about Sentell's "coverage" of state education issues over the past several years.
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ARE THEY JUST SUPPOSED TO DIE? IS THAT THE POINT?
MAR 9 Blogger Tom Aswell writes about the latest shoe to drop in Bobby Jindal's refusal to accept Medicaid expansion, and his dismantling of the state's charity hospital system. Now Our Lady of the Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge has started to refuse indigent patients. Since the emergency room of the only hospital in the poor neighborhood is closed, it's unclear where sick or injured poor people are supposed to go now. The graveyard, maybe?
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WELL, THAT CANCELS OUT HIS BUDGET CUT
MAR 9 Here's an encouraging story from the Picayune - that ridiculous prayer rally that Bobby Jindal hosted in Baton Rouge in January cost us taxpayers $10,000 in extra security. That cancels out that lame $10K cut that Bobby came up with in his budget, don't it? And also, why are we paying for that?
Monday's Blogs from the Bog!
Veteran broadcaster Mike Danna passed away last week after a battle with cancer. Read his last blog here. Also today, more shtick you wish was satire.