Category: Haps

This page has a time lapsed video of the first piece of truss going up on the Huey P. Long Bridge widening project. I’m a little sad. I think during the next thunderstorm, I’m going to get in my car and drive to the Huey P., sit at the bottom, wait for a freight train…

Former president of Shell Oil, John Hofmeister was on Meet The Press this morning and said… With respect to the cleanup, I think it’s been ham-handed. It’s been just awful. To use booms and, and mops and dispersants and burning and so forth, skimming with shrimp boats, where’s the imagination and the scale? One of…

Saw this in everyone’s favorite magazine next to National Geographic, Popular Mechanics… How Unleashing the Mississippi Could Protect the Louisiana Coast Last week, G. Paul Kemp, a former professor of marine science at Louisiana State University and current vice president of the National Audubon Society’s Louisiana Coastal Initiative, sent a memo to the Environmental Protection…

So let’s see, the list now is … – Red light cameras – DUI checkpoints – Placard reentry and now… Street musician curfew enforcement

Alaska Permanent Fund Coastal Parish residents need one of these little permanent fund thingys…

Attention elected officials, we the people do not want and will not get politically behind things like DUI roadblocks, red light cameras and most especially placard reentry… Car placards to be used for re-entry in case of mandatory evacuation this hurricane season These are the types of government that voters hate. People want better roads,…

I get conservatives. I do. Less government. I understand that. Don’t agree with it. But I grasp it as an ethos. Probably more than many Republicans. I’ve been following John Labruzzo since the tube tying for poor folks debacle in 2008. Lately, he is all about HB 617, his push for the state to drug…

Oil protest scheduled for Sunday at Washington Artillery Park… Murdered Gulf: Stop the BP OIl Flood Now! I am not sure why but, there are a lot of people that just hate protests. Even if they are for the cause, they just have this aversion to the gathering. I’ve been to three protests since I…

Snapped a few photos of what the new Fischer development coming up over here in Algiers looks like. These houses went up pretty fast. I am sure they are better than the previous buildings that were there but can’t speak for how they will stand up to a hurricane. The first phase of the development…

…driving a white Benz near the Shreveport area. Let him know peaps are looking for him. And ask him where the Deduct Box is. Shreveport police say the son of former Louisiana Gov. Huey P. Long is missing. Police say 88-year-old Palmer R. Long Sr. was last seen about 9 a.m. Wednesday leaving his residence…