Every once in a while, one is reminded of the choices we make in life, of how we sometimes get mired in the vacuum’s we create, and how my vacuum ain’t your vacuum and vice versa…and I guess we all have our own qualifications for what constitutes a good vacuum/life and what don’t, what is necessary for happiness and what isn’t. Unfortunately, we also will oftentimes … Continue reading Checkpoint Charlie’s, The Music Box and DIY Choices…
Something I mentioned a few days ago, the arguments beginning about the allocation of the fine BP will pay for its oil spill…economy versus environment… and yeah, I get that some people would love to get renovations done for the Port of Mobile, but Louisiana is losing a large section of its, well, of its geographical state. Yes, we all knew that, but a recently released map … Continue reading About that oil spill fine…25% of La wetlands gone…
Hello… Yes, I still kill people for a living. But today, let’s talk about life, and family…you might think that since I spend time ending lives I have no respect for life, but you’d be wrong…I do, I respect the hell out of a lot of people though when I don’t, well…you can guess the rest but I’m here today to echo a convo I … Continue reading For the New Orleans Assassin, it’s all about family…
It would appear a pattern is developing in this great land of ours. Simply put, we begin with a tragedy, then we have an investigation which discovers the governmental agencies designed to prevent such tragedies either fell down on the job or didn’t care, and even worse, the fail-safe for the agency that didn’t do their job is woefully unprepared to handle the mess created. … Continue reading So, they’ll get it right this time? Oil spills, mine disasters, levees and forgetfulness…
The Attorney General of Alabama, Luther Strange wrote a letter to Ken Feinberg about his concerns with the GCCF and the payment of claims, highlighting many of the problems with the process that have been highlighted here and on several other websites. Among his concerns: 1. Of all the claims reportedly paid, 98.9 % are the quick pay claims, claims that require no processing and … Continue reading Here come the Attorneys General…but where’s Obama?
Hey all, hang in there a little longer…I’m in process of switching my sleep to a third shift schedule and it’s causing major routine disruptions… Ya know tho’…not too sure how many of you work a third shift gig, (I have before and its preferred, including 3rd shift bartending in New Orleans at one time) but once things shake out, am I the only one … Continue reading Hang in there…major sleep disruptions
When US District Court Judge Carl Barbier issued his ruling which declared Feinberg and the GCCF were not independent of British Petroleum, but more of a related hybrid entity, he requested all parties involved file briefs for his consideration in making a future ruling on whether the oil claims process follows the law. And the briefs came. And when they came, the sides were revealed. … Continue reading BP, Feinberg and the Federal Government against the Gulf Coast…
Hello everybody. No politics today, no Feinberg, no GCCF, no BP, no New Orleans. This is just from me to you, saying thanks. When I started this blog last July, I had no idea what I was doing. I was just pissed about the whole Gulf of Mexico oil spill and from my current home up north didn’t feel there was a whole lot I could … Continue reading On a more personal note…
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Barack Obama gave his State of the Union speech last night and did his best George W Bush impression by not mentioning Louisiana and coastal restoration. He also did his best to avoid such a foreign concept as global warming, and when it came to Ken Feinberg’s GCCF and that oil spill, that whole British Petroleum thing that happened down there in the Gulf, well… … Continue reading Spill? What spill? Barack Obama already forgets…
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