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Old 04-13-2006, 03:30 PM
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Why We Couldn't Save Louisiana...


In the late 1990s, the state's school systems ranked
dead last in the nation in the number of computers
per student (1 per 88), and Louisiana has the nation's
second-highest percentage of adults who never finished
high school. By the state's own measure, 47% of the
public schools in New Orleans rank as "academically
unacceptable."

These government failures are not merely a matter
of incompetence. Louisiana and New Orleans have
a long, well-known reputation for corruption:
as former congressman Billy Tauzin once put it,
"half of Louisiana is under water and the other half
is under indictment."

That's putting it mildly. Adjusted for population size,
the state ranks third in the number of elected officials
convicted of crimes (Mississippi is No. 1). Recent
scandals include the conviction of 14 state judges and
an FBI raid on the business and personal files of
a Louisiana congressman.

In 1991, a notoriously corrupt Democrat named Edwin
Edwards ran for governor aga inst Republican David Duke,
a former head of the Ku Klux Klan. Edwards, whose winning
campaign included bumper stickers saying "Elect the Crook,"
is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence for taking
bribes from casino owners. Duke recently completed his
own prison term for tax fraud.

The rot included the New Orleans Police Department,
which in the 1990s had the dubious distinction of being
the nation's most corrupt police force and the least
effective: the city had the highest murder rate in America.
More than 50 officers were eventually convicted of crimes
including murder, rape and robbery; two are currently
on Death Row.

Ten billion dollars are about to pass into the sticky hands
of politicians in the No. 1 and No. 3 most corrupt states
in America.

Worried about looting? You ain't seen nothing yet!

"New Orleans has a Democrat Mayor, a Democrat City
Council, and a Democrat Chief of Police. Louisiana has
a Democrat Governor, a Democrat Lt. Governor,
a Democrat Attorney General; 24 of 39 Louisiana State
Senators are Democrat, 67 of 105 Louisiana State House
Representatives are Democrat, there's a Democrat
Representative in the House from New Orleans, and one
of two U. S. Senators is a Democrat."

SO YOU CAN SEE WHY IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT

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Old 04-13-2006, 03:52 PM
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Is Edwin still incarcerated. If so, Candy must be getting a bit lonely by now.
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Old 04-13-2006, 04:10 PM
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Yeah, he's incarcerated in Texas, last I heard. Candy filed for divorce but it sure smelled like a way to protect assets, though I have no evidence of any sort. Rumor is that she is still loyal to Edwin.

Lots of folks in LA have said, with a bitter irony, that had Edwin been governor last year that the state and local governments would not have collapsed into a useless heap and LA would have gotten a lot of money that Edwin would have spread like peanut butter--a bit sticking to everybody.

I just returned from a brief visit to NOLA. The areas where I did S&R are undergoing an awful lot of home renovation and not a small number of cleared lots among them. Most of the laborers in those neighborhoods were the residents, I'd guess. I stopped and said hello to a couple of guys working on a small shotgun (type of house). they were cheerful and upbeat. I suspect that all of the folks with optimism and a work ethic returned and the thugs stayed in Houston.

New Orlenaians have a magical ability to maintain the same impossible traffic snarl on the interstate with only 1/5th of the population. How do they do that?
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Old 04-13-2006, 04:18 PM
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Good move on her part. About 4 years ago, I had one of my many lunches at the French Market Bistro, on Highland Road in BR, at the table next to Edwin and Candy. What a babe!!! I've long said that BR has far more than its share of beautiful women - and not just the co-eds around campus.
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I'll bet Rhode Island is #2 on the list. They're all Dems there, too, but only because something like 75% of the voters are Dems. If it took being a Republican to get elected, the same politicians would simply become Republicans, for the most part.
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Good move on her part. About 4 years ago, I had one of my many lunches at the French Market Bistro, on Highland Road in BR, at the table next to Edwin and Candy. What a babe!!! I've long said that BR has far more than its share of beautiful women - and not just the co-eds around campus.
BR is a great place to find pretty women but for its' population size, Mississippi wbeats everywhere I've ever been.

One year I got asked to judge a beauty contest (don't ask) at a rural high school and I thought the mom's were very nice looking women, too. We had a dinner with the contestants and their families--a big deal for all of them. Heck, grandmom's in rural Mississippi can be in their mid-30's and some of them were hot, too.

I never got invited to participate again.

Alabama has more than their share of pretty women, too.

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Old 04-13-2006, 05:47 PM
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It's thanks, in no small part, to the humidity that the "older" women look so good. An attractive woman will stay looking that way far longer in The South. Although, I'd never tell her, my wife's skin has aged more in the 2+ years we've lived in Colorado than it ever did in Baton Rouge.
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New Orlenaians have a magical ability to maintain the same impossible traffic snarl on the interstate with only 1/5th of the population. How do they do that?
Stupidity. ("It's not the heat, it's the stupidity" -- seen on T-shirts everywhere)

Actually, it's because the entire remaining 20% (and oh, how I wish it were that small a number!) are crammed into 10% of the pre-Katrina area. I drove through Gentilly, the devastated area on the east side of City Park, on Sunday morning. Yes, it was Easter, but on a normal Easter morning there'd have been loads of cars around all the churches. Instead I saw acres of debris and only half the trees that used to line the better boulevards, and heard crickets chirping. No traffic jam there . . . because there were very very few people.

On the West Bank, where I live, and in the unincorporated parts of Jeff Parish, traffic has only gotten worse.
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Old 04-17-2006, 02:45 PM
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Stupidity. ("It's not the heat, it's the stupidity" -- seen on T-shirts everywhere)

Actually, it's because the entire remaining 20% (and oh, how I wish it were that small a number!) are crammed into 10% of the pre-Katrina area. I drove through Gentilly, the devastated area on the east side of City Park, on Sunday morning. Yes, it was Easter, but on a normal Easter morning there'd have been loads of cars around all the churches. Instead I saw acres of debris and only half the trees that used to line the better boulevards, and heard crickets chirping. No traffic jam there . . . because there were very very few people.

On the West Bank, where I live, and in the unincorporated parts of Jeff Parish, traffic has only gotten worse.

I drove through the Midcity area on Thursday. That's where I spent about 3 days doing S&R. Talked to a couple of guys, brothers, who were doing the carpentry work on their family home, a typical shotgun down near Florida Ave off Elysian Fields. They were upbeat and friendly on a hot, dusty little nothing street. They said it was real quiet at night, they stayed at night to guard their materials and tools. Said the few folks who were around there were all busy working on returning and were like them, working on family homes. They said they thought most of the thugs had stayed in Houston. Then they laughed like the thugs had been tricked!

All-in-all, I left with a belief that there are some pretty good people returning and a lot of riff-raff are not.

How do you see it?

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Old 04-17-2006, 03:44 PM
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Yeah, he's incarcerated in Texas, last I heard. Candy filed for divorce but it sure smelled like a way to protect assets, though I have no evidence of any sort. Rumor is that she is still loyal to Edwin.
Hehe. Funny this thread came up, as I spent a good bit of time with some of his family and a lot of his friends in Maurice and Crowley this wkd. One of the girls left Easter Sunday throwdown early to go visit Edwin, Jr., who is in a re-education center in Texarkana. Edwin was in Ft. Worth at a prison hospital from approx. 2001-2004. Last year, Candy deevorced him and moved away. My understanding is that she is living in sin with another man. Also last year, Fast Eddie's health improved and he is now residing at the Fed. Pen at Oakdale (sp?) LA.

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