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Ray Nagin's chocolate statement
(I was KEPT from posting this piece yesterday despite the fact that my previous diary was posted at 11:36 p.m. So I posted the original at Booman Tribune.) We've all been media-saturated with what I...
View ArticleThe Katrina cough and S. 852, a tie to asbestos contamination?
In November, I entered a diary that explained the symptoms of the Katrina cough. The malady was characterized as a cough that would not go away, not even after other cold symptoms ceased, and...
View ArticleBush stonewalling Katrina inquiry
From the NYT: The Bush administration, citing the confidentiality of executive branch communications, said Tuesday that it did not plan to turn over certain documents about Hurricane Katrina or make...
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GOP sponsored land grab in New Orleans
Hat tip to AmericaBlog for reminding me, and to Scout Prime for doing the legwork. Oh, yeah. One more thing about the Bring New Orleans Back Commission that I failed to emphasize in previous diaries....
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Coretta is dead
You've probably heard this news as I did this morning. Coretta Scott King, first known as the wife of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., then as his widow, then as an avid proselytizer for his vision...
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Mitch Landrieu taking aim at Ray Nagin
It's becoming more and more obvious that Mitch Landrieu, currently lieutenant governor of Louisiana, is about to run against Mayor Ray Nagin in the municipal election scheduled for April 22. Says Bayou...
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As Coretta lies in state, controversy remains about her death, funeral and...
Original at Booman Tribune As the body of Coretta Scott King lies in state to be viewed by thousands over the next two days in the Georgia State Capitol rotunda in a singular honor denied her husband...
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Martin and Coretta's children speak
The foursome spoke to reporters on condition that they won't be made to comment on the future of the King Center. From left to right, it is Dexter, Bernice, Yolanda and Martin III. Bernice, the...
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Blogging Coretta's Funeral
[Promoted from the diaries by SusanG. Note some problems reported with CSPAN.] This blog is to log in comments and impressions about the funeral now on C-Span and on CNN. If you are at work, you can...
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Katrina evacuees thrown out of temporary housing
That's right. While Governor Blanco was giving the speech of her political life, so said one New Orleans article; while Disney resumed shooting a movie in what was New Orleans; while Mardi Gras...
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BREAKING: Bush knew about N.O. levee breaches
This news is at least a few hours old, from the Associated Press: A timeline pieced together by Senate Democrats shows that the Bush White House knew as early as 8:30 a.m. EST, August 29. The first...
View ArticleFrancis Fukuyama abandons the good ship Neo-Con
Unless I missed the boat on this along with the other meeses (mice), Francis Fukuyama, doyen of the neo-conservative movement, author of "The End of History," has parted ways with the neo-conservative...
View ArticleVerified rape cases during Katrina increase as continued overcrowding insures...
Cross-posted at Booman Tribune The Louisiana Weekly provided this new update to my report last year about rapes during and after the hurricane and flooding. The risk of sexual violence against female...
View ArticleNow he needs black America? Bush meets the NAACP
Original at Booman Tribune. Flanked by enabler Condoleezza Rice and consigliere Karl Rove, George W. Bush finally met with the black roots that he's always dismissed and disrespected at the behest of...
View ArticleBlack Capitol Hill police officers say Cynthia McKinney may have been set up
Original at Booman Tribune This morning, while reading HuffPo, I came upon a very disturbing video. This video is part of a new documentary called American Blackout by Ian Inaba of the Guerrilla News...
View ArticleMel Gibson linked to Aussie anti-Semitic group
Cross-posted at Booman Tribune Jeez... Via RAW STORY from the Sunday Herald Sun: Mel Gibson once had close links to the Australian League of Rights, a Far Right group notorious for its anti-Semitic...
View ArticleBREAKING: NRSC officially supporting Lieberman over Repub candidate
Listening to Al Franken's show this a.m., Central Time, news cut into Franken's interview with David Sirota saying that the Republicans--that is, the NRSC--are supporting Joe Lieberman over its own...
View Article'Requiem' starts tonight: Spike Lee's HBO documentary about Katrina &...
Original at Booman Tribune. When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts begins tonight on Home Box Office. Check listings in the link. As the world watched in horror, Hurricane Katrina hit New...
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This was Our House
Original at Booman Tribune. Click here for larger version This was my childhood home, after Katrina. I have had these photographs for almost a year, thanks to NOdiaspora. I've e-mailed them as an...
View ArticleSeniors 'simply blown away' by Katrina disaster
Original at Booman Tribune. Another thing that Katrina has taught me: When you are old, infirm and sick, you can't absorb the shock of a catastrophic event as easily as when you were much younger....
View ArticleBoots Riley & The Coup Needs Your Help
I found this on one of the listserves to which I belong recently. I am not sure whether this has appeared at the Orange Zone, but if any people need some Xmas cheer (outside of the citizens of New...
View ArticleThinking About New Orleans at Xmas
Original at Booman Tribune. Sometimes it takes Fred Johnson, accompanied by New Orleans' own Hot 8 Brass Band, to encapsulate exactly what one thinks about the snail slow pace of recovery post-Katrina,...
View ArticleMusician Killings, Police Killings, Mysterious Killings in New Orleans
Original at Booman Tribune, with photo. Dinerral Shavers is dead. Hot 8 Brass Band drummer Dinerral Shavers, 25, was gunned down Thursday (December 28) while driving in Mid-City with his wife and two...
View Article'No snitching' does no one any good in New Orleans
Original at Booman Tribune. Yesterday, January 11, between three and five thousand residents converged on New Orleans' City Hall, fed up over what they perceived as Mayor Nagin's, NOPD Superintendent...
View ArticleBob Herbert nails it again regarding New Orleans
Original at Booman Tribune. There's been some hullabaloo since yesterday in HuffPo that Brangelina is coming to live in the French Quarter while Brad is making a film. Of course, they're also coming...
View ArticleLosing Louisiana to the GOP
Well, the yahoos are nursing hangovers from Mardi Gras, wondering who is (or isn't) in bed with them, and packing up to leave. Those citizens who are left are going back to work. Some will attend...
View ArticleThe Shame of America: Over Three Quarters of a Million Homeless, Half of Whom...
Via the New Standard, from the AP: The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) estimated there were 754,000 homeless people in 2005, including those living in shelters, transitional housing...
View Article60,000 American marriages broken by Iraq War
Including Stacy Bannerman’s, the author of this article which was written for the February issue of The Progressive: It is the soldiers, their families, and the people of Iraq that pay the human costs....
View ArticleNo FEMA trailers for Arkansas tornado victims
Cross-posted from Booman Tribune. Bush and FEMA under David Paulison are playing political favorites again. Any state with a Dem governor is going to get shafted when it comes to emergency aid. Said...
View ArticleArmy Corps of Engineers installs defective pumps in NOLA despite warnings...
Original at Booman Tribune. Assbackery 101, second semester, 2007. This story came in last night, but The Guardian picked it up this a.m.: The 2006 hurricane season turned out to be mild, and the new...
View ArticleNon-story: John Edwards and his hair
With thanks to Booman Tribune. It's not just Ann Coulter that we have to counter for the filth that comes out of her mouth. It's the echo chambermaids that take up the slack when she's quit the field:...
View ArticlePoet Nikki Giovanni had Cho Seung Hui in her writing workshop
crossposted from Booman Tribune I had to write about this. When I first read these words by this woman nearly forty years ago, they blew me away. I was about fifteen. Of course, they were meant to blow...
View ArticleBlaming the victims again: From New Orleans to Greenburg (w/poll)
crossposted from Booman Tribune I've kept saying this: If Bush could allow needless deaths and despair in New Orleans, a major American city, and other Americans stepped back and went on about their...
View ArticleSteve Gilliard has suffered a setback
His good friend Jen says tonight: Gilly is NOT doing well. He backslid last week, just as an overzealous (and cost-conscious) hospital was trying to push him out of the ICU and in to rehab well before...
View ArticleRon Paul equals Pat Buchanan
Crossposted from My Left Wing and Booman Tribune Nothing ever surprises me about Republican candidates, but perhaps Ron Paul does. He just may be a stealth candidate Pat Buchanan might like. Why?
View ArticleToo Live: Rummy's going to testify today regarding Tillman
Cross-posted at Booman Tribune and My Left Wing At first, Rummy backed off, claiming that he had a prior commitment. Now, he's on. And not only him. Wanna bet they've been strong-armed? Generals...
View ArticleMore restroom toe-tapping--this time near N.O.--plus bad news for HUD chief...
Cross-posted at Booman Tribune. I was trawling a couple of New Orleans blogs, checking out what's happening down there, hoping to find some new David Vitter information that hasn't yet hit the...
View ArticleWhat Dems say they are going to do about New Orleans
Cross-posted from Booman Tribune Hat tip to Your Right Hand Thief. I've often wondered what the Democratic candidates have in store for my beleaguered birthplace. Ray in New Orleans has compiled a...
View Article40% of Katrina evacuees live below poverty level; plus update on Army...
Forty percent of Katrina evacuees, two years later, are now living below the poverty line, according to a new Census Bureau report. In fact, they may be in worse economic straits than they were before...
View ArticleRon Paul in photo with Stormfront leader, son
You know, this was the first time I had ever followed a link to Little Green Footballs. But there it was, proof-positive that Ron Paul gladly hangs with these haters, like Ron and Derek Black of...
View ArticleVets orgs sue over VA suicide cover-up while Bush goes on "Deal or No Deal"
I should say that it's an 'alleged' coverup. But why should I give the Bush Administration any slack, especially when Pennsylvania's primary is filling up all of the known airwaves. (Go Barack.) I...
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'Michelle Obama Watch' page close to official launch
Hat tip to Jack and Jill Politics: The black women's blog, What About Our Daughters? is about to inaugurate the Michelle Obama Watch page to both list and refute attacks and smears on the character and...
View ArticleDavid Vitter melts down at airport
I thought it was going to be one of those slow days, so I decided to work on my new blog. Good thing, because when I started up the New Orleans links, this came up on Bayou Buzz: There are news...
View ArticleGuns Going Off All Over the Country
Also at ThisBlksistasPage.wordpress.com Lest we forget. On the last day of the weekend of the 41st anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination in Memphis, I was listening to Jesse Jackson was...
View ArticleWhy Can't Monica Lewinsky Have Her Own Life (and Career)?
Okay, I've already sent this post to two other blogs, as well as having it on my own. Some people expressed boredom and snideness; others, particularly women, essentially said Lewinsky deserved...
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Teabagging in Madison, WI
Also at ThisBlksistasPage Photos by guydonges of Madison It may look big, but it wasn't. I was there until just now (12:37 p.m); I am back in my room in Madison, just across the street from the...
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In an Alternate Universe, Spock Kisses My Hand
Published Friday, May 8 at ThisBlksistasPage.wordpress.com This morning I saw Leonard Nimoy on The View. In fact, I've been seeing Nimoy almost all week on shows because of the promotion for the new...
View ArticleTancredo Speechwriter, Marcus Epstein, Found Guilty of a Hate Crime
Also published at This Black Sista's Page. This biracial (yes, Jewish and Korean) schmuck, Marcus Epstein, who consorts with European neo-Nazis, is going to the University of Virginia Law School in the...
View ArticleN.O. Mayoral Election May Have a Bearing on "Watergate by the Mississippi"
I was wondering this morning, shaking my head between sips of coffee and watching James O'Keefe and 'nem get hustled into cop cars outside the Hale Boggs Federal Building on the CBS Early Show. Why in...
View ArticleWI State Senator Luther Olsen: Baby Daddy?
I know that it has been quite a while since I posted on DKos. But I couldn't let this story go by. It's on my blog, ThisBlackSista's Page. I got this from the Recall Scott Walker Planned Recall...
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