I refuse to read anything with the name “Palin” in it. I’m just waiting for it to subside. Either Palin or her son-out-law seem to be everywhere. How long does a person’s 15 minutes last now? I wish they would take their hard-earned money and go away.
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Hats off to Cash Money Records founders Ronald “Slim” Williams and Bryan “Birdman” Williams, who along with Lil Wayne and other Cash Money artists will give away more than 1,400 Thanksgiving turkeys and fixings to needy New Orleanians from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m." [...]
Who do you think they're going after now?
Our state’s Rhodes Scholar-in-chief (a.k.a. “Roads Scholar”) has been spending a lot time out of the state raising campaign money for his reelection as governor. Despite The Scholar’s rhetoric about “transparency” when asked for details of the fundraisers, the media has been met with non-transparent “stone-walling.” [...]
Could it be because we don't have any more spare money lying around?
Louisiana's state-licensed casinos, continuing to wade through the economic downturn like their counterparts in other states, recorded a 6.9 percent drop in gambling revenue last month from the previous October, state police reported Tuesday.:
' [...]Gov. Jindal is off to Texas and Michigan to beg for money. Once for himself, and twice for the Michigan GOP. The "Where's Bobby?" map has been updated.
Once again, Jindal mouthpiece Kyle Plotkin refused to answer any questions about the events' sponsors, saying that information would be available [...]
Yesterday, at a hearing by a sub-committee of the State Streamlining Commission, State Treasurer John Kennedy exposed another huge source of state earmarks/patronage that dwarfs the money spent by individual leges’ on their pet NGOs.
In the State Department of Education’s budget for FY 2008-09, alone, over [...]
Hardy blocks funding to local schools | theadvertiser.com | The Advertiser:
A Lafayette Democrat blocked the Lafayette Parish School Board’s receipt of $746,000 in Louisiana Educational Excellence Fund money during a joint House-Senate Education Committee meeting Tuesday.
State Rep. Rickey Hardy is the only Lafayette lawmaker who sits on a [...]
Raw-oyster proposal targeted by federal legislation~Bruce AlpertA lot of money spent, and then they found more gas here in teh US that most folks thought possible…
Wanna buy a brand new LNG plant? I know where there’s one for sale.
Shale Gas Blasts Open World Energy Market
From UK Times
A stretch of coastline on the Texas-Louisiana border provides [...]
Ed Blakely’s interview is depressing. He basically calls us a bunch of racist illiterates. Way to help out, Ed.
The interviewer asked him what he’d accomplished. He said that he brought in money, but the money went back into the federal treasury to pay the coast guard, or something. [...]
Gov. Bobby Jindal spent last night in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida raising money for his re-election campaign. In response to questions about the organization sponsoring the event, Jindal spokesman Kyle Plotkin said:
"That info will be available on the campaign finance reports" when they are filed next year.
Last night Bobby Jindal [...]
I’m going to be a bit preoccupied on the web until November 11th, raising money for Soldiers’ Angels Project Valour-IT. Since I’m on the leadership team for this project, I am trying to stay neutral this year. It is a friendly internet competition between the armed forces on-line. Each [...]
More ghosts paid off with hush money:
The Church admitted that many of the sexual offenses dated back as far as 50 years ago, and most stemmed from incidents occurring at Hope Have and Madonna Manor Orphanage in Marrero.
WGNO interviewed Stacey Brown, a victim since dead, five years ago.
Brown claimed that [...]
