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As the East Coast Struggles in Sandy's Wake, the Wisconsin Weasels in...
This reality has been stewing in my brain for the past several days but I could no longer internalize my outrage and frustration: Out of the 5-man Wisconsin Tea Party Congressional delegation in...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy Helped Obama, So Why Didn’t Hurricane Katrina Help George W....
By: inoljt, http://mypolitikal.com/A number of political analysts have labeled Hurricane Sandy as one of the factors that helped Barack Obama win re-election. Here, for instance, is a typical news...
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LA-Sen: Vice President Biden to Campaign For Mary Landrieu (D) in New Orleans...
To all the Kossacks from the Bayou State, just giving you the heads up that Vice President Joe Biden will be making a visit to New Orleans this week: http://www.nola.com/... On Saturday, January 26,...
View ArticleBreathe in, breathe out, move on.
Good morning. I got here early and brought a little music. Jimmy Buffett wrote this after Hurricane Katrina. I teach mindfulness meditation to people with little or no previous meditation experience...
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LA-Sen: Amy Klobuchar (D. MN) Campaigns For Mary Landrieu (D)
Received this e-mail from Senator Amy Klobuchar (D. MN) who is fundraising for Senator Mary Landrieu's (D. LA) 2014 re-election campaign: My friend Mary Landrieu, a Democrat from Louisiana, took a...
View ArticleMHP to GWB: Try Going in a Library
But as a resident of post-Katrina New Orleans, the one decision point that really has me fired up is how your library represents the choices you faced in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. According...
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Maybe if we called it 'Found Money' instead of 'Infrastructure Jobs'...
Having you ever been walking down the street or a parking lot, when a green-glint caught your eye -- and upon closer inspection: you are $20 richer!Found Money! Kind of makes your whole day, hey?...
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NN2013 - for the want of a gasket - The Veterans Green Bus
From Gordon Soderberg, project manager of the Veteran Green Bus:Kent's Custom Diesel is still waiting on a couple of parts o-rings and gaskets for the oil cooler to get the bus back on the road. This...
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NN2013 - On the Road Again
(click on the little clipboard to see Large Marg all dressed up )Gordon Soderberg, project manager of The Veterans Green Bus is showing Kossacks at NN2013 just how Large Marg [i.e. the bus] works....
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Bobby Jindal Slaps Immigrants In The Face After They Helped Rebuild Hurricane...
Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana is a state governor — not a federal lawmaker. Immigration law is protected under the Supremacy Clause of our United States Constitution, and God forbid 50 different...
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Chicago, It's Your Chance to Roll with Large Marg
Right now to 5 PM Large Marg is welcoming 10,000 Veterans to Soldiers Field. At the request of ISAVE Foundation The Veterans Green Bus - affectionately known as Large Marg - is...
View ArticleThe Dane--An Appreciation
The Dane left us yesterday. Craftsman, hacker, good neighbor, gonzo cowboy and proud American, he was one of a kind.
View ArticleThe Basics
Every year around this time, I snarl out again the story of how the tragic and avoidable Federal Flood of 2005 came to be.Not this year, though. I figure y'all have heard it too many times, and...
View ArticleNot The Onion: 29% of LA GOP thinks Obama was responsible for the Katrina...
Once again, this is NOT from The Onion. 29% of Louisiana Republicans think that Barack Obama--a freshman Senator from Illinois who wouldn't be President for 3 1/2 years--was somehow responsible for the...
View Articlemy Hurricane Katrina story
Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on Monday, August 29, 2005.Within a few days it became obvious that the people of Louisiana needed more help than they were getting.My church in the suburbs of Atlanta...
View ArticleHurricane Katrina: It’s Obama’s Fault, by George
By Rosemary and Walter BraschAlmost one-third of Louisiana Republicans blame President Obama for the slow and largely ineffective response to Hurricane Katrina, which hit the Gulf Coast, Aug. 31, 2005....
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Mississippi sitting on $872 million of Katrina funds
Eight years later, Mississippi is sitting on nearly $1 billion in federal funds designated from Hurricane Katrina:The remaining $872 million is part of $5.5 billion Congress gave the state to rebound...
View ArticleNOLA Danziger Bridge Katrina verdict overturned: Horrendous prosecutorial...
I'm shocked and angry that the federal conviction of the police officers who shot at least five innocent people on the Danziger Bridge during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have been overturned,...
View ArticleDanziger Bridge verdict thrown out due to online posts by prosecutors
Last year, five former New Orleans police officers were convicted and sent to prison for their role in the 2005 Danziger Bridge shootings. For those who don't remember, on September 4, 2005 four...
View ArticleMore details on online posting scandal that torpedoed Danziger Bridge...
On Tuesday, five officers convicted for the role in the 2005 Danziger Bridge shootings in New Orleans were granted a new trial due to numerous disparaging anonymous online posts by federal prosecutors....
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