Daily Archives: 4/7/2006

Blogging, General

Blogkids…

John writes a post rehashing tasteless pickup lines. Heaven help me if I ever had to resort to the likes of “That outfit would look great in a crumpled heap on my bedroom floor tomorrow morning.” Read the list. Shake your head. Then read his little story at the end and shake your head some more….

The irrepressible and unique Chrissy writes of her constant battle with weight. I know what she’s facing. I face the same problem, except I also have high blood pressure that goes back to normal as my weight goes down. And I’m NOT one of the guys who was trying to get her to visit an all-you-can-eat Cajun seafood buffet for lunch…

Current events - national, General, Local politics

We gwine he’p dose peoples ta vote!

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Via Chad Rogers’ Dead Pelican comes this story.

Katrina evacuees can take bus to go vote

Web Posted: 04/07/2006 12:00 AM CDT

San Antonio Express-News

Katrina evacuees living in San Antonio and Austin will travel by bus to Lake Charles, La., Monday to cast their ballots in Louisiana’s first day of early voting in the first election after the hurricane.

This is entirely in keeping with the method these poor Katrina victims used before the horrible Bush-directed hurricane chased them from their idyllic existence in the poor areas of New Orleans. When the election for a US Senate seat was happening, exit polls showed that “Katrina Mary” Landrieu was lagging badly behind. The calls went out to the wards of New Orleans to get the vote out. School buses (yep, those same buses that Mayor Nagin couldn’t get to EVACUATE his citizens) fanned out into the poor quarters and then headed to the polling places bringing in the dimmocratic votes. Almost miraculously, Mary Landrieu’s numbers went high enough to put her in the Senate.

So it’s no wonder that buses will bring those poor New Orleans voters to satellite polling places in Louisiana cities. You see, it takes a tiny bit of initiative to get off your ass and mail in a request for a ballot, then you have to fill out the ballot, then you have to get off your ass again and mail it in. That’s WAAAAY more initiative then most of those folks will EVER have.

No, I figure that a majority of the mail-in ballots will be carefully filled out by “community activists” like ACORN, using official voter registration rolls. Seeing as how you don’t need to validate your identification for this remote polling business, it’s ripe for manipulation.

Members of the ACORN Katrina Survivors Association are carrying out a massive voter outreach, education and mobilization campaign.

After casting their ballots, New Orleans residents who traveled by bus to Lake Charles will hold a rally at 1:30 p.m. on the courthouse steps to send the message that they demand to have a voice in how their city will be rebuilt.

And here’s a bet: The rally will be heavily attended by the news media, a few local politicians who need to whore for votes, and our own local “community activists”.

Don’t expect a counter-demonstration. The people who might be opposed to this collection of the perpetually peeved, well, those folks actually have JOBS and they’ll be at work.

Oh. “send the message that they demand to have a voice in how their city will be rebuilt.” I got a radical solution: Get your ass back to New Orleans and rebuild it yourself. The key to your future is hidden under your work shoes…