New Orleans is so cool because it's so laid back

If New Orleans is so cool, because it's residents are so laid back, how can the residents of New Orleans justify being paid like other cities?

Furthermore, who would use that type of description on their resume or college application?

Lastly, since life is so short, why *lay back* and watch life past you by?

Do Casinos and the Lottery really help Louisiana, or for that matter Las Vegas?

Just recently, it was reported that Louisiana casinos win $203 million in May.

So this blogger,  xman20002000, at nola.com, makes a comment in a rebuttal to a previous commenter on this topic,

Suckers... and I guess Las Vegas is a home to suckers... Oh, the Mississippi Gulf is a suckers coast... Be advised gaming is an industry providing a destination for tourist, vacationers, travelers and of course gamblers... So the question is why did Louisiana turn away the gaming industry with the land based casino legislation...

Perhaps the TP could do a report on the health of the industry in Mississippi... Look at the capital improvements and revenue to the state... How much money comes to he City under the arrangement...

Some of you don't get it..

OK, who really doesn't get it?

The Mississippi Gulf Coast is LAST PLACE in almost every category just like Louisiana is. Education, average income, health...all last place. Mississippi is one of the poorest states next to Louisiana.

And did we mention CRIME yet? Look at Louisiana, highest in the nation and New Orleans top ten worst in the world.

After 10-20 or more years of gambling and the MILLIONS of DOLLARS of revenue, what do Louisiana and Mississippi have to show for it as a whole?

And let's take a look at Las Vegas. Why the same thing, CRIME, the highest in the nation. And what do real businesses do when they are surrounded by crime, they LEAVE. Hence, no tax revenue from those businesses that leave, of course.

So while you see Louisiana got 200 million in revenue from gambling, they LOST all the other businesses that used to be in Louisiana, in my opinion, at least 10 or 100 times the amount as in the past as Louisiana is essentially dead last in everything and New Orleans has zero Fortune 500 companies and Louisiana has less than a half dozen small Fortune 1000 companies.

And lets look at all the "capital" infrastructure improvements that all the gambling revenue brings in. Well, all those nice buildings, sidewalks, centers are all offset by a bigger police force, more policing hours.

Oh, let's not forget REHAB.

That's rehabilitation. And if you think buildings and highways cost a lot. What about the gambling addict who turns into an alcoholic and drug addict? Then what about this addict's children? They have be supported by the state with lots of social programs. You think a building or highway costs, wait till you see decades of social services for the children of gambling addicts and substance abuse parents that need to be cared for 24hours, 7days, 365 a year for like 1, 3, 5, 10 or more years.

But what about the JOBS in Las Vegas? Same things like you see in New Orleans. All low income jobs for the tourist and gambling industry. Maids and low paid service industry jobs just like New Orleans.

POKER and BLACK JACK DEALERS
Oh and what about the poker and black jack dealers?

Do you really think they all make as much as you hear? Ask youself, how many people go to a casinos that are not on the Strip? And if they do, how much to they really plan on losing?

If this gambling industry made as much as you hear about, WHY is Las Vegas housing industry virtually all under water, e.g. 80-90% underwater or foreclosure?

THE QUESTION
If the Black Jack and Poker dealers and casino jobs PAID so much in Las Vegas, why can't they make their housing and mortgage payments? It's not like the housing was as bad as say California?

GAMBLING...RECESSION PROOF?
And didn't someone say that gambling is one of those industries that is "recession proof" as in hard time, people spend their time in casinos to increase their chances of winning?  If so, what proof do they have? If gambling was really "recession proof", shouldn't all these dealers be able to make their monthly housing or mortgage payment?  Apparently, someone should call the gambling industries bluff as it's not this recession.

Do Obese People really have the same Health Care costs like Regular People?

Websites like http://www.bigfatfacts.com/ imply that fat people have the same health care costs as regular fit people. Well, here are some reasons to consider.

The reason why fat people can have the same health costs like regular fit people is because fat people set the A/C in office buildings to like 65F. Thus, everyone else is freezing in the office and eventually gets a runny nose that leads to a cough and then a cold.

Then, in the Winter, the FAT people set the heater to again 65F cause they have built in fat "insulation" And again, the regular fit people catch a cold again cause it too cold.

So both the summer and the winter the regular people are sick from the office being too cold. But the fat people are fine in regards to office temps, but have other problems like diabetes, heart, back and knee problems cause they weigh too much.

Fix the Pumps......More like get the good "Wood" pumps or New Orleans doesn't have a chance...

Just recently, the Westbank Closure Complex, the world's largest pumping station was recently activated. ( reference T-P) However, the pumps used there and at the 17th Street Canal have numerous problems just to get them to work in the first place, or for that matter, keeping them running at all. (reference Fix-The-Pumps Blog)

So how do these pumps on the Westbank Closure Complex and the 17th Street Canal compare to like "Wood" pumps that New Orleans was originally famous for?

Well, I am just seeing lots and lots of pump and engine overheating, blockage, high vibration, bearings failure, short design life, low water, etc. One excuse after another with these recently installed hydraulic pumps...(And for every single day since they were installed after Hurricane Katrina.)

Yet, has anyone EVER heard of those problems with the "Wood" pumps or for that matter ANY problems with the "Wood" pumps? NO! In fact, do a Google search, or better Lexis Nexus search on "new orleans pump problems" over the last 100 years and see what comes up regarding Wood pumps and the recently installed hydraulic pumps in the New Orleans Metro Area.

From the numerous "not-really-all-our-fault" decisions made since Hurricane Katrina, the US Army Corp of Engineers is just putting on a dog and pony show as they, themselves, don't believe that New Orleans can be saved in the future from coastal erosion or from hurricane storm surge. Hence, the Corp chose the cheapest, sorry "economical", solution that meets the specifications. But in the end, these new hydraulic pumps can't handle the real thing and certainly not the real thing, year after year, as everyone can see for themselves that the pumps are in a constant state of maintenance.

I guess they, the Corp, are thinking,

"Why use Wood pumps when in any given year New Orleans could be hit by a major hurricane anyway. And any pumps, even the best like the famous Wood pumps invented in New Orleans like 100 years ago and STILL used all over the world, wouldn't matter anyway in the overall survivability of New Orleans in the long term."

Even the top guy at the US Army Corp of Engineers, Lt. General Robert Van Antwerp, Chief of the US Army Corps of Engineers, said that publicly,

"Protect the city no, reduce the risk yes. We can develop better early warning systems, better evacuation plans, better levees to hold back most of the water but we cannot stop levees being overtopped and the city flooded.". 

And it's not just the top guy at the Corp, it's also Congress and anyone outside of Louisiana. reference US Army Corps can't stop floods in New Orleans

Have renaming New Orleans street names to civil rights leaders really helped?

A recent news article on renaming a street name to honor another civil rights leader was mentioned in the Times Picayune. "New Orleans City Council considers name change for St. Claude Street"

"St. Claude Street to Henriette Delille Street, honoring the New Orleans-born "free woman of color" who in 1847 founded what became known as the Sisters of the Holy Family."

"The proposal is backed by the Historic Faubourg Treme Association, and Councilwoman Kristin Gisleson Palmer, who represents the area, appears to be in support."

In the last 40 or so years, how many street names, that were renamed in New Orleans, have resulted in a better life for the area's residents and businesses?

Did changing Melpomene Avenue to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard help in any way? Well let's see. Crime still up. In fact way up and breaking records every day.

Did renaming the street Dryades Street to Oretha Castle-Haley Boulevard help in anyway? (see Bio of Oretha Castle-Haley)

Let's see, this street is where the homeless hang out, crime is still rampant and getting worse. It was only because of Katrina there are now some non-profit businesses. But the few that are located there are to help the poor if that. She fought for rights just like MLK Jr did, but look at the results? If she knew what it was today, would she have fought for those rights as hard? Just look now in the prisons. A highly disproportionate percentage of the prisoners are black. And there are some that say that's unfair and the blacks are imprisoned unjustly and should be let go.

Let go??

Do you know what will happen if they black prisoners are let out? They, the black prisoners would go out and do what got them in prison in the first place. And that's rob, steal, attempt to kill and kill ANOTHER BLACK MAN. That's right, most crime is BLACK on BLACK. Pure and simple. And from her bio,

"she was the deputy administrator at Charity Hospital in the 1980's to "institute better reforms for blacks".

Well, everyone can see what became of that. The intentions might have been good, but the results, years later, were quite the opposite. While the hospital care was good, blacks abused this free health care and caused many blacks to use it like welfare, public housing and food stamps. And this is not to mention
it attracted (and kept) more poor and especially lazy "know-it-all, don't-tell-me-what-to" blacks (and whites) into the city. This forced the hard working blacks out of the city. And that's what you saw before, and after, Hurricane Katrina, "The Big Easy" type of attitude. (Very similar to socialism and communism with a racial / rights twist, but basically the same.)

So do you think Oretha Castle-Haley would have fought for the outcome as we see today? If she did, she was very effective in making several generations of black men the type of people who don't know who their fathers are and could care less what Oretha Castle-Haley or MLK Jr. did. Nevertheless, they, the poor, do know that there are lots of homeless on Oretha Castle-Haley Boulevard and there are lots of drugs, guns and murders in or around MLK Jr Boulevard. Except for major public events like Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest when the homeless are forced to move, you can see the homeless for yourself once you drive down the highway off ramp camped out below the overpass on each side. Some will ask solicit you for money even on the highway's off ramp. Very dangerous.

But, what about renaming some of the New Orleans Public Schools to black leaders? Well a lot of that renaming was done 10, 20 or more years ago. And as you can see, that certainly had zero effect.

WHERE ARE THE PRESERVATIONISTS WHEN YOU NEED THEM
So where are the preservationists to preserve the history of New Orleans when street names around a hundred years old are renamed on a whim to people the public really knows nothing about to begin with. And even when told, a day or so later, the public forget and still have no clue or could care less about them. And when they did change the name, nothing got better on that street even decades later.

Imagine the city of New Orleans with totally different street names every 10, 20, 30 years. Where would be the famous New Orleans history be if the history was only a day old? Street names would be like yesterday's news. There would be modern street names and there is nothing really unique about a civil right leader now as all they do is march, protest, file lawsuits, apply for welfare, section 8, and government grant on housing and everything but set a good example on how live a happy and successful life, create a real business, work a trade, skill or profession out of their own work.  Businesses like low income housing, race relations and all that civil rights stuff have nothing to show for themselves for the last 30 or so years except plenty of lawsuits suing for racial discrimination. Some rightfully so, but many are not. But when you look at it all the street renaming in New Orleans, it definitely got worse for the area, at least crime wise. And as you can see on these streets there were renamed, crime is still through the roof, and that is mostly black on black crime.

How can New Orleans and Louisiana pay the tens of millions of dollars in annual maintenance on it's new 100-year storm reduction system?

In the NOLA.com article,

Hurricane surge-reduction system maintenance will be costly, for someone. Mark Schleifstein - The Times-Picayune - Monday, May 30, 2011

it is estimated that

Soon, they'll also have to figure out whether taxpayers are willing to foot the additional costs, which could be as much as $38 million a year -- more than half the combined budgets of the eight local levee agencies.

Plus,

"And that doesn't include some of the things that aren't on the perimeter," said Bob Turner, executive director of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East. "It doesn't include internal levees. It doesn't include the pump stations and drainage canals in St. Bernard. And it doesn't include Mississippi River levee operation and maintenance increases, either."

THE COST
Thirty-Eight MILLION dollars per YEAR!!! (and counting...)

FESTIVALS
Well, NO PROBLEM. With festivals like the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, these events bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in economic impact. Right?

Landrieu said the festival puts 800 businesses to work, in addition to the 500 musicians on tap to entertain the crowds. “That’s a $300- to $350 million economic impact on the city of New Orleans,” he said. - Jazz Fest officials gear up for 2011 celebration - Daily Comet - Thursday, March 31, 2011 - By CHEVEL JOHNSON - Associated Press

Then you add in all the other events like Mardi Gras, French Quarter Fest, etc., New Orleans and Louisiana can easily foot the bill for 40 million a year. Right???

ECONOMIC IMPACT
Just search for like "new orleans jazz fest economic impact" or "new orleans mardi gras economic impact", etc.

GAMBLING
Plus, why not look at all the monthly winnings from the riverboat casinos and the land based casino in New Orleans. Just Google for something like, "Louisiana monthly casino gambling revenues". And don't forget the lottery! Make sure you get the revenues for that. In 2009, it was 300 million! LINK: Louisiana Lotto Yearly Revenues

ALCOHOL TAX REVENUES
And, of course, all that tax revenue generating alcohol on Bourbon Street, 24 hours / 7 days / 365 days a year. Definitely, don't forget all that alcohol tax revenue!

VIDEO POKER
And also video poker!!! -- And let me tell you, New Orleans has lots and lots of low income service workers who play those video poker machines. In fact, most of New Orleans is hovering around or below the poverty line. And it is one of the (if not, the most) poorest cities in America. The New Orleans poor really take advantage of those video poker machines and make it a routine weekly habit of buying lottery tickets to the Louisiana Lotto!! The revenues from those video pokers machines plus those minimum wage service industry workers can easily pay for the annual hurricane storm reduction system of 40 million plus.

TALK BIG NUMBERS
You know how all these cities with gambling and lotteries are. The always talk big numbers. Millions of dollars for education, of course! (Got to put a positive spin on a state with some of the lowest graduation numbers 8% SUNO and 15% UNO in the nation, the worst public school system in America (New Orleans Public Schools) and probably the highest illiteracy rate in the nation next to Mississippi. And if you think this education system produces a great number of addicted gamblers to pay for this levee system, you would be right!)

THE HIGHER the ADDICTION, THE MORE CONSISTENT THE REVENUE STREAM
And did I mention that Louisiana has the highest gambling addiction in North America

"(the low was 22.6 percent, the high was 41.2 percent in Louisiana)."

What does this mean? Addicted gamblers mean a "consistent" revenue stream, year in, and year out, to pay for levee and storm reduction maintenance. Woo Hoo!!!
LINK: Profits from Gambling Addicts

TREMENDOUS FORESIGHT BY LOUISIANA POLITICIANS
Now, you ought to give a hand (and don't forget, in the other hand a stuffed envelope full of cash) to all those legislators in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the state capital. They really knew what they were doing decades ago when they spent every single day (for years) to pass gambling, starting with the lottery. And thank goodness, a significant percentage of these legislators have a personal financial interest in gambling as their vested financial interest in these gambling businesses has been proven very effective. It makes a difference when the owner are there.

Plus, while it took decades to accomplish, they got rid of virtually all of the other productive, and higher paying legitimate and non-gambling businesses to leave only the poor paying service and tourism businesses. In fact, New Orleans has essentially zero Fortune 500 companies, and Louisiana has only like maybe 3 or 4 Fortune 1000 companies left to get rid of. They will, for the foreseeable future, have a constant and reliable revenue stream of addicted gamblers from the low paying service industry, which by the way, attracts even more poor low paid workers from neighboring states. (Gambling, the gift that keeps on giving!)

Finally, as you can see, Louisiana can easily pay for this yearly maintenance fee for the levees and 100-year storm reduction system the Army Corp of Engineers as built for Orleans and Jefferson parish.

Homosexuality and "A Few Good Men"

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): The medical associations has stated that homosexuality is OK and is NOT a disorder, is that correct?
WITNESS (W): Yes, that is correct.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): Homosexuality not a disorder just like being "left-handed" is not a disorder, is that correct?
WITNESS (W): Yes, that is correct.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): Also, homosexuality not a disorder just like being "black" or "white" is not a disorder, is that correct?
WITNESS (W): Yes, that is correct.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): Could someone live there entire life doing things "left-handed" like writing
with their left hand, playing sports left handed, and even eating their food left handed, would that possible?
WITNESS (W): Yes, that would be possible?

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): Would living their entire life left-handed, be a "disorder"?
WITNESS (W): No, it would not be a disorder.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): So are you saying living left handed would be OK?
WITNESS (W): Yes, it would be OK.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): How about being "black" versus "white"? Would being "black" be a disorder?
WITNESS (W): No, it would not be a disorder.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): So it's OK to be black?
WITNESS (W): Yes, it would be OK to be black and you can live a normal life being black or white.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): Let's talk about the color in someone's hair. Would it be OK to have black hair and bleach it blond?
WITNESS (W): Yes, it would be OK to bleach one hair's blond.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): How about dyeing one's hair, that's currently blond, black? Would that be OK?
WITNESS (W): Yes, it would be OK to dye one hair's black.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): Could someone dye his/her hair black for their entire life and be OK?
WITNESS (W): Yes, one could dye one's hair, black, for their entire life and be OK.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): Say if EVERYONE dyed their hair black for their entire life, would that by OK?
WITNESS (W): Yes, if everyone in the world would dye their hair black and the world still keep turning and life would go on.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): Say if EVERYONE decided to do everything with their left-hand, would that be OK
WITNESS (W): Yes, if everyone in the world decided to be LEFT-HANDED the world still keep turning and life would go on.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): Say if EVERYONE decided to do be HOMOSEXUAL, would that be OK?
WITNESS (W): If everyone in the world decided to be HOMOSEXUAL the world still keep turning.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): Would life go on?
WITNESS (W): [silence]

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): I ask again, Would life go on?
WITNESS (W): [silence]

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): Would if be OK if life did NOT go on?
WITNESS (W): No, it would not be OK.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): Would if be a DISORDER if life did NOT go on?
WITNESS (W): [silence]

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): Would if be a DISORDER if life did NOT go on?
WITNESS (W): Yes, it would be a DISORDER if life did not go on.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): So how can homosexuality be OK, just like being left-handed or being "black" or "white" is OK?
WITNESS (W): [silence]

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): Did you not just answer that if life didn't go on, it would NOT be OK?
WITNESS (W): I know what I said!

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): Did you NOT just answer that if life did NOT go on, it would be a DISORDER?
WITNESS (W): [silence]

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): If the end result of everyone deciding to be homosexual is the self-extinction of the human race, how can homosexuality be OK?
WITNESS (W): [silence]

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): If the end result of everyone deciding to be homosexual is the self-extinction of the human race, how can homosexuality not be DISORDER?
WITNESS (W): But not everyone in the world is going to be homosexual.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): But you just said it is OK for everyone to be left-handed? Did you not?
WITNESS (W): [silence]

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): And did you not say that it would be OK for everyone to dye their hair black? Did you not?
WITNESS (W): [silence]

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): So how can you say that homosexuality is OK, just like being left-handed is OK and like being "black" or "white" is OK,
when you just said that everyone being homosexual would be a disorder and NOT OK and it would lead to be self extinction of the human race?
WITNESS (W): [silence]

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): [silence]
WITNESS (W): It's different this time.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): What's different this time?
WITNESS (W): Not everyone is going to be homosexual.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): But I thought you said it's OK for everyone to be left-handed or for everyone to dye their hair "black"?
What would be so "different" this time if everyone decided to be homosexual?
WITNESS (W): [silence]

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): [silence]
WITNESS (W): The difference would be extinction.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): And would extinction be OK?
WITNESS (W): NO, it would NOT be OK!

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): Would self-extinction be the result of some DISORDER?
WITNESS (W): Yes, self-extinction would be the result of some disorder.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): And could that disorder be everyone deciding to be homosexual?
WITNESS (W): Yes, if everyone decided to be homosexual, that would be a disorder.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): So how can the medical association say that homosexuality is not a disorder if it's not OK for everyone to be homosexual?
WITNESS (W): [silence]

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): You did say it's not OK for everyone to be homosexual?
WITNESS (W): Yes, I know what I said.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): Have there be any other "DISORDERS" in any of the medical associations that involved suicide and depression that have been reclassified as NOT a medical disorder like "homosexuality" has been?
WITNESS (W): I don't know and I can't think of any that have been.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): What about any "DISORDERS", regardless of suicide and depression, that that have been reclassified later as NOT a medical disorder?
WITNESS (W): I can't think of any right now.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): So how can homosexuality be like being left-handed or dyeing one's hair black, where if everyone were
to be left-handed, the world be OK. But if everyone decided to be homosexual, the human race would be extinct in a few generations?
WITNESS (W): Because homosexuality is a really disorder and being left-handed it just being different.
Homosexuality is different than being left handed.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): Are you changing you testimony? Did you not say that homosexuality is just like being left-handed or being "black" or "white"?
I can read the court transcript back to you.
WITNESS (W): I know what I said. You don't have to read the transcript.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): [silence]
WITNESS (W): What I mean to say is that the medical associations know better than the public on how to handle homosexuality.
We have dealt with homosexuality and have personally interviewed, met with distressed gays and lesbians.
When they come to us, they are distressed, despondent, depressed, and many suicidal. And that was back then. Now, with drugs, AIDS
and STD's, they are just as depressed. Plus, we have to deal with drugs, prescription drugs, alcohol, and addiction.
And then there are the transsexuals, bisexuals, and those homosexuals that really are bisexual. Or they are, or they feel are homosexual at some points in their life and then feel heterosexual in others.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): So it's OK to for someone to get married and have kids thinking and perhaps siding towards more heterosexual and then, for some reason, they feel more homosexual later in life?
WITNESS (W): Well, that's what happens to some people.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): I asked you, is it OK?
WITNESS (W): Certainly not for the kids and the spouse.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): To change from one to the other at some point in their life means there is no sense of ORDER. So it must be a DISORDER?
WITNESS (W): Yes, that is a disorder!

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): So why prescribe all of the prescription depression drugs to homosexuals when you say homosexuality is OK?
WITNESS (W): Because they come to us depressed, suicidal.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): So with all the depression, drugs and additions, back then and even now, how can homosexuality be OK? It definitely looks like a DISORDER.
WITNESS (W): Getting rid of homosexuality on the list of disorders is all we could think of as we tried all sorts of things to cure homosexuality.
And by making homosexuality OK in society, patients, homosexuals would feel comfortable about their sexuality.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): Well, if gays and lesbians are to be accepted in society, wouldn't it be OK for everyone in the world to become homosexual?
You want gays and lesbians to be "accepted", what better way for gays and lesbians to feel "accepted" by having everyone in the world to become homosexual?
WITNESS (W): Well, yes.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): So the cure would be having everyone become homosexual so that homosexuals will feel secure and "normal". But what about self-extinction of the human race by homosexuality?
WITNESS (W): Well, we were only concerned with our patients.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): So the ends, justify the means?
WITNESS (W): When you have dealt personally with homosexuality on a day to basis, you'll know.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): Would lying to your patients on "what is a disorder" and "what is not a disorder", be OK?
WITNESS (W): [silence]

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): What is the percentage of homosexuals in the general population?
WITNESS (W): It can range anywhere from 10 percent to 1 percent depending upon who you ask.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): So from the lowest estimate to the highest estimate, the accuracy rate could be like one thousand percent off?
WITNESS (W): Yes, it's very difficult to get an accurate estimate on the percentage of homosexuals in the general population.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): So if being homosexual is OK, how much more difficult, percentage wise, would it be to find a mate than being heterosexual?
Just from a pure statistical standpoint?
WITNESS (W): It would be far more difficult. Let's choose a middle number, say 5% homosexual. That's 1 in 20 homosexual. That leaves 19 out of 20 hetersexual.
Then there is the difficulty on how does a homosexual distinguish between say a homosexual male and a hetersexual male based upon visual appearance?
Sure, there are certain things, say gays, look for, but the amount of time, actually extra time, spent can be dramatic when compared to hetersexuals. Lots of mistakes, miscues
misreads are made. And because the population is so small to begin with, they are desparate, so they pair off with far less than their ideals or what's even realistic.
The first one they meet, they try harder right away knowing their chance with another will be again, very slim. Why is this? Cause they, themselves, homosexuals have problems determing who they are in the first place. Plus, it can easily change from time
to time, year to year, whether they want to, or not.

And then there is homosexual act to begin with. No one really want talks about that to much. For gays, who's plays the male part and who plays the female part during sex?
And what about fecal matter? Sh*t, that's what it's called. Don't they have signs in the restrooms of restaurants ordering all employees to "Wash their hands"? When someone goes to the bathroom to relieve themselves
do they not have toilet paper? And how messy does it really get? Does one rub their hands in their own fecal matter as if it was applying moisturizing lotion? But this is not even the case.
It's someone rubbing and massaging their own body parts with open orifices in someone else's fecal matter. That's just asking for infection from fecal matter and quite simply,
biologically hazardous. Let's face it. Viewing, smelling, and/or contacting fecal matter isn't something someone one wants to enjoy while having sex. There are reasons toilets and the saintation system were invented and developed. And that't to reduce the risk of disease. Even now, in the food supply,
strange diseases like E. coli scares, Avian flu (bird flu) and Mad Cow disease are from, in one form or another, from animal fecal matter introduced somewhere in the food chain. Either by having
live stock crammed to together so they have no room but step and walk in their own fecal matter or feeding them the processed parts of their own species that contain fecal matter all in the name of increasing financial profit.
It wouldn't surprise me that interacting with fecal matter could be one of the reasons for bizarre, never before heard of, diseases like AIDS.

And so, because of things like that, many try to forget their sexual identity problems by alcohol and taking drugs.
Many get addicted to alcohol and drugs. But many couldn't care less about the drugs and alchohol and are so upset about their future prospects,
as they can't live a full and normal life like their friends and parents, they commit suicide. So when the medical associations said one can live a normal life
being homosexual, it certainly didn't come true, as now, some have sexual relations just to try things out and that increased the STD's and spread AIDS.
Those types of diseases now causes even more mental problems that patients have to deal with. Hence, the stress on homosexuals now goes up even higher leading
to more depression and other mental problems.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): So saying homosexual was 'normal' actually increased the number of medical and mental problems?
WITNESS (W): Well I don't know that. But I do know that AIDS came out of nowhere after the medical associations said that one can live a normal life while being homosexual.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): So let's see. Not being able to have your own biological children is normal.
WITNESS (W): No it's not. While unhappy, people have successfully lived with it, but there is a medical condition for whatever reason a patient can't have children.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): Could these medical conditions on not being able to have children be called a 'disorder'?
WITNESS (W): Yes, it would be a disorder of some sort.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): So why can't homosexuality be condition or disorder for not having children?
WITNESS (W): Cause the medical associations said it wasn't a disorder?

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): But you just said not being able to have children is a medical disorder of some sort, did you not?
WITNESS (W): Yes, I did.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): How can something that becomes (or cause something to become) 10, 20 to 100 times more difficult from a statistical standpoint be considered normal?
WITNESS (W): Anything that causes anything to be 10 times more difficult should definately be looked at more closely.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): So how can some of the medical associations say that one can live a 'normal' life as a homosexual when it's statistically far more difficult to find a mate
and where homosexual mates can also switch their sexual preferences over time?
WITNESS (W): [silence]

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): Would direct contact with a biologically hazardous material such a fecal matter, be safe for a person?
WITNESS (W): No.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): What about direct contact with a biologically hazardous material such a fecal matter on a regular basis, be safe for a person?
WITNESS (W): No.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): What about introducing a biologically hazardous material such a fecal matter into the blood steam on a regular basis, be safe for a person?
WITNESS (W): No.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): What about direct contact with a biologically hazardous material such a fecal matter on a regular basis, would that be consided 'normal'?
WITNESS (W): No. It's not normal. It's dangerous.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): How can the medical associations say homosexuals can live a 'normal' life when direct contact with a biologically hazardous material such a fecal matter on a regular basis is 'dangerous'?
WITNESS (W): I don't know.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): Do heterosexual have direct contact with fecal matter on a regular basis and would it normal or safe?
WITNESS (W): Some do, but again, it's biologically dangerous. I mean you are taught to wash your hands after going to the restroom in restaurants, or for that matter, anywhere.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): Why would a person do something biologically unsafe on a regular basis?
WITNESS (W): Probally something wrong with the person's mental decision making.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): If something is wrong with the person's mental decision making, would that be a mental disorder?
WITNESS (W): It's someone is doing something that is biolgically risky and hazardous, something is definally not right.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): And if something that is not right, would that something not be "in order"? Hence, out of order, or a 'disorder'?
WITNESS (W): [silence]

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): Would lying to your patients on "what is a disorder" and "what is not a disorder", be OK?
WITNESS (W): It's definately different and far more difficult to find a mate. Or for that matter, even a sexually stable mate in terms
of being either homosexual or hetersexual.

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL (DC): So, again, would lying to your patients on "what is a disorder" and "what is not a disorder", be OK?
WITNESS (W): [silence]

Comment on "What Really Keeps Poor People Poor" - jonbischke.com

This blogger says,

"That’s of course very important but the critical factor is that people from lower-income families aren’t able to gain access to the same networks that higher-income families have access to."

and

"Poverty is not deprivation. It is isolation."

He quotes from a several sources and looks at a lot of explanations.
However, let's get back to one thing he states,

"Poverty is not deprivation. It is isolation."

The question is

"Why are poor people isolated in the first place?"

How about let's take a look at the African American group?

Could it be "drama"? Has this author ever been around the POOR INNER CITY? e.g. New Orleans? What about Section 8 and MIXED HOUSING? Isn't that an attempt to remove "ISOLATION"?

But more so, at the mixed public school, particularly middle school and up, during sporting events, the players of the same team of the same high school all SIT and TALK with their respective race, the "white" teammates all sit together and all the "black" teammates sit together. This can be especially noticeable with the females as this group are greatly self-segregating.

So, at the middle and high school level, at integrated public schools, even when forced in the same classes, 8 hours a day and at sporting events, the same teammates all sit apart from each other in the stands from a racial standpoint.

But how about the other races, Hispanics, Asian, and Indians? Do they sit in their own racial groups as much as Africans/Blacks? And yes, please comment.

What does that mean? Well it means, forced busing, integrated high schools, mixed housing, seciton 8, etc. can only go so far.

You would think that after spending all this time together, they, Whites and Blacks, on the same team that even "practice" together, could at least sit together at school functions at sports events.

Perhaps, they both just "put up" with each other as they know each others' differences even more so since they interacted with each other on a daily basis.

AND yes, the differences mentioned above in New Orleans and Louisiana (and other Southern states) can be much different than say, California and New York.

Could it be FAMILY? In the African-American (BLACK) family, there is tremendous "drama". No father, don't know who the father is, mothers, who by the way, try to PROVE, that they are as good as the white women and can get a man like the white woman. Black women who say, "I can just as good as the white women, see, look at how many kids I have!"

And by the way, it would be good to know who came up with the expression,

"Black is beautiful"

and for what reason (or reasons) why?

If I remember correctly, isn't there another saying,

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

If (generally) black women have to say, promote, advertise, teach and preach, that

"Black is beautiful"

are black women trying to tell everyone what to think. Then perhaps, the saying should be,

"Beauty is NOT in the eye of the beholder.
Beauty is whatever the black woman says it is."

Reference: What Really Keeps Poor People Poor - jonbischke.com

If being Gay is like being Left-Handed or Right Handed, then why can't a homosexual cure be just a "different" medical procedure or drug?

There are those who say being "gay" is like being Left Handed or Right Handed.
And being gay is like being "black" or "white", it's just "different".

Then if the above is true, then the last time I checked, left handed people can LEARN how to do things and everyday tasks with their "RIGHT" hand, correct?

Cannot Left-handed people can learn how to "write" with their right hand?
Cannot Left-handed people can learn how to eat with their right hand?
Cannot Left-handed people can learn how to use fork or knife with their right hand?
Cannot Left-handed people can learn how to throw a ball with their right hand?
Cannot Left-handed people can learn how to kick or punt with their right foot?

And what about those with a different color hair? Can't they dye their hair a different color?
Or what about their skin? Some can tan, right? But can some get lighter? Maybe with medical breakthrough, they can? And by the WAY, what's wrong with getting lighter in skin color as other people get darker sitting in the sun anyway without being judged as an evil person? I thought black and white are just "DIFFERENT", and people can get lighter or darker.

SO what's wrong with being "gay" and then seeking to be "straight", by researching a cure?

So if gay is being different, then a "homosexual" 2 "heterosexual" medical drug, procedure, research or breakthrough would be just "different" as well? Correct?

Or more to the point,

"if gay is just 'different', then shouldn't a homosexual cure be 'just different' as well?"


Just wanted to point that out, that's all.

Morganza Spillway or Floodway Opening Trigger at 1.5 million cubic feet per second to high?

The Morganza Spillway gateway opening trigger is when the Mississippi River’s flow rate reaches 1.5 million cubic feet per second and rising at Red River Landing.

This trigger number is set so that the Morganza Spillway is opened only when necessary in regards to flood control for the Mississippi River.

HOWEVER, one must also take into account the people who, somehow, want to live in the Morganza Spillway Plain.

The number of people and structures, at one time, used to be relatively small, but now, has grown to 25,000 people and 11,000 structures.

The Morganza Spillway has only been opened once, in 1973. And since then until now, May 2011, the calm of NOT needing to open the Morganza Spillway has made it's inhabitants and people OVER-confident, that they can live their permantly.

THIS is WRONG. The Federal Government, perhaps, by making that area cheap, only emboldens the poor and uneducated to live in such areas, even if unintended or inadvertently.

The currentl trigger and policies, will only make it more harder, from a people perspective, to open the Morganza Spillway in the future as one needs to take into account the people who decided to live in the Morganza Floodway.

This situation is very similar to before spillways were created on the Mississippi River, the West Bank and East Bank of the river had guards to protect each side from the other side trying to destroy or "blow up" the other side's levee to relieve pressure from the high waters of the Mississippi River.

So instead of the West Bank and East Bank against each other, it will be like Baton Rouge and New Orleans against the people living in the Morganza spillway Floodway plain.

The powers that be, Congress, the Army Corp of Engineers, etc, should reevaluate the trigger of 1.5 million cubic feet and rising to a more lower level to

(1) lessen and reduce the chance of pressure in highly populated areas like Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

and

(2) to REMIND the inhabitants of those living the Morgana Floodway that this is a FLOODWAY and it should NOT be though of as a permanent place to live, raise a family, or build structures like houses that can't handle high waters during a flood gate opening like that from the Morganza Spillway.


It would wise to have "inspectors" to somehow enforce building codes in the Morganza Floodway, BUT one knows how the "inspectors" of New Orleans and Louisiana are.
Very similar to the NOPD, pay for protections, i.e. "Paid Details".

Is Homosexuality just another form of Attention Deficit Disorder (A.D.D)?

Just recently, a major church denomination, the Presbyterians, voted for homosexuality via some so called "higher calling" logical reasoning.

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) approves change in ordination standard
‘Submission to the Lordship of Jesus Christ’ replaces ‘fidelity and chastity’

POINT:
In order to LOVE someone, you have to have two (2) separate persons. One person doing the Loving, and the Other Person, "being the one, loved, by the first person".

Ultimately, (even with the all the medical breakthroughs) it still basically takes a Man and a Woman to create "Persons" in the first place, BEFORE they can "love" each other.

SECOND POINT:
You have to have LIFE, before you can actually LOVE, correct?
And if you really want to promote "LOVE", you have got to promote "LIFE". And "LIFE" comes from heterosexuality, a man and a woman. Not homosexuality.

Nevertheless, one might then ask, can Homo-sexuality can be thought of as like, Attention Deficit Disorder? Except in this case, the "attention" is focused on the wrong sex?

And, if you can have drugs for Attention Deficit Disorder (A.D.D.), why can't you have drugs to treat Homo-sexuality?

If gays and lesbians really wanted to follow their dreams, they would ask God for a cure, which in fact, gays and lesbians already do pray to God about. And pray when they are very young and throughout life. They are other reasons they are in the "closet" that are not spoken by the anyone. They are also in the closet "praying" to God for a cure. (Should we then not be surprised, that a future cure for homosexuality and bi-sexuality can be associated with various forms of Attention Deficit Disorder?)

Many homosexuals say,

"Homosexuality cannot be changed. I know, I have tried for decades and even the American Psychiatric Association voted in 1973 to declare it not a disease."

However, AIDS has never been cured (and also a variety of other STD's), but somehow the public must keep trying to find a cure for AIDS as well a long list of never been solved disorders, diseases and the like. Oh and by the way, just because the American Psychiatric Association voted to say it's not a disorder doesn't make it not a disorder. Or just the same, not in the minds of homosexuals, who, by the way, STILL, even since 1973 until today in 2011, have the highest suicides rates, drug addictions, substance abuses and so on and that includes gay friendly San Francisco, as well as self declared gays and lesbians in the Hollywood scene.

In other words, it's also contradictory, that the Gay and Lesbian community can promote and fund medical research for a CURE for AIDS thinking that there will be a cure for AIDS one day. Yet, they turn right around and say it will never be possible to find a "cure" for homosexuality, or even a medical procedure or drug for homosexuality. In fact, some say there is nothing wrong with homosexuality.

But what about "depression"? Why doesn't the American Psychiatric Association vote that "depression" is NOT a disorder because people get depressed anyway? I mean depression is a fact of life and people can live perfectly NORMAL lives even if they are "depressed" or "homosexual", correct? See how the American Psychiatric Association contradict themselves? People live perfectly normal lives whether "depressed" or "homosexual", but American Psychiatric Association contradict voted in 1973 to say homosexuality is not a disorder, yet prescribe drugs and conduct millions of dollars in medical research for "depression"?

Yet again, they contradict themselves, AGAIN, and say male and female sexual "impotence" is a medical disorder and it's great they have medical breakthroughs like "Viagra" and the like. (Ever wonder why Viagra sales are through the roof? It's not just men who have impotence. In other words, don't be surprised it's also men who don't want to be homosexual, who want to have a normal life, fathering and raising up their own children.)


I just wanted to point that out by using the same "higher order" reasoning they used to eliminate the "Man and Woman" rules and replace that with, I am paraphrasing, "submit joyfully to Jesus Christ".

And please, have a nice day ;-)

Abandoned Cars on I-10, An Accident waiting to happen because of the Short Sightedness of Louisiana?

Does anyone ever notice that right before (or after) some big event, like Mardi Gras or Jazz Fest, there are a lot of abandoned or parked cars on I-10 emergency lanes?

In fact, there are so many cars abandoned on the I-10 in the New Orleans Metro area, the highways remind me like the highways in Baghdad, Iraq after the wars with bombed out cars.

If also seems like these abandoned cars are left there for at least a week or more in the emergency lanes of I-10. That's right, a week or more!!!

These abandoned cars are just an accident waiting to happen as anyone drifting (or swerving having to avoid another car) could easily crash into these parked / abandoned cars in the emergency lanes. In other states, these abandoned, or stranded card, regardless of reason, (e.g. no gas, maintenance problem, no money for a tow truck), are removed within a *couple of hours* by the police or the local officials due to a safety hazard of traffic moving at 65+ miles an hour.

They are not left there just to give the owner a chance to tow it some later date. In these states, safety is far more important than giving the driver a chance to remove the car in a less costly manner.

Maybe some legislator can change the laws, whether, city, state or federal, to get these parked cars, (abandoned or otherwise), towed to a safer area than just leaving them in the emergency lanes of I-10 for week or more.

NOPD Paid Details....Sounds like the MOB's Pay for Protection Scheme

Why does every other business in New Orleans need so many paid details in the first place?

Should not the NOPD doing their JOB in the first place where businesses should not be so afraid to do business without a paid detail?

Do you see paid details at every other restaurant in other SAFE cities? How about Jefferson Parish? Do you see a paid detail for all the restaurants on Veterans, Airline, Williams, etc. like you do in New Orleans?

Why does the DDD, the Downtown Development District, need a paid detail in the first place?
Do they not patrol there anyway? (By the way, Where is all that casino, video poker and lottery money going?)


Did New Orleans and Jefferson Parish need as many paid details 60 or 70 years ago?

If these so called NOPD, "Who risk their lives every day.", actually, do risk their lives dodging bullets, why have they not shot and killed the criminals by now? Are these NOPD such poor shots? I mean, they are "risking" their lives every day, right? Like the NOPD are getting shot at 24/7/365 days a year right? If the current active NOPD and all their retired officers and commanders on pensions, RISKED their LIVES every day, has New Orleans, as a whole been better for it? Do you, the NOPD, have something to show for all your so called "bravery, courage, and public service" for the last 20 to 30 years?

As far as the public is concerned, is seem like the PUBLIC is PAYING TWICE for the same service.
Reminds me of like the MOB's 'pay for protection' scheme.


The NOPD drive around in their squad cars.
Say they are 'covering more ground'.
Then they say, "They can't be everywhere all the time", when a business is robbed.
THEN THEY, the NOPD, SUGGEST a PAID DETAIL.

How convenient!



Update:
And what about the hundreds of millions of dollars that these events like
Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest and French Quarter Fest bring in? Why can't
the NOPD be paid from the HUNDREDS of MILLION of DOLLARS in economic
impact that each of these events 'supposedly' bring in, each and every year?

Should not the extra revenue from the sales taxes, hotel taxes, alcohol taxes, casino taxes, be far more than enough to easily cover overtime and even state police?

It is Hundreds of MILLIONS of DOLLARS according to all the Tourism official and Media?
Is that correct?

Response to NOLA Opinion on Substitue Teaching by School Board Members

The NOLA Editorial Staff states:

There's absolutely no guarantee that a school board member will be a good teacher. If they're not, it's the students who will be deprived.

Is there a guarantee that the current set experienced public teachers can teach?
No. And there is no absolute guarantee of that either.

Furthermore, the current set of NOLA public school teachers have the WORST track record for all of America.

So, if a school board member can't teach just 3 days out of a year, will that be as bad as the current situation?

But, should not a school board member not be able to teach just three days out of the year? Will that be so hard to prepare for? Is that so impossible?


Is the NOLA Editorial Staff so clueless? Say if the BOARD members of a Newspaper be required to read and edit three articles of their own newspaper per year? Or perhaps assist in an investigative report per year?

Would the NOLA Editorial Staff object?

AH, yes, maybe so.

We wouldn't want someone outside looking over their shoulder like the Inspector General is currently doing..... would we?


Don't mandate substitute teaching by school board members: An editorial

School Board: Talk versus Walk

NOLA.com Article - Make school board members teach school: What do you think?

To nscrazi:
If it really takes 'YEARS for a teacher to acquire the skills and behaviors that ultimately make him/her effective.', then why was TEACH for AMERICA created?

The public school system (at least the one in New Orleans) is the WORST in the nation with public school teachers that have YEARS of experience. Louisiana has the worst school system in the nation with supposedly TEACHERS who have had years to acquire the skills you talk about, YET have NOTHING to show for all their skills.

Do COPS really risk their lives every day?

PUNISHER May 06, 2011 at 1:40PM
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Cops do not risk their lives every day. That sounds stupid. Nobody would make it to retirement age if cops were getting shot at all day every day. Most cops are NEVER involved in a shooting in their entire careers. She volunteered, receives a check, so that "risk her life' crap ain't gonna fly. She's a citizen who broke the law. Period.

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Dan Halen May 06, 2011 at 2:06PM
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Remember that next time you getting the cr@p beat out of you and you're waiting for the police to come save your @ss.

RESPONSE
Dan Halen:
We did remember the last time we, the citizens, got robbed, shot at by thugs, lied to by a cop and so on.

And guess what?
The New Orleans citizens VOTED for private police a few elections ago.

Nevertheless, The citizens, also got dead bolt locks, iron bars for their windows, alarms for their cars, alarms for their house, and video cameras for their business, bullet proof windows at the banks, bullet proof windows at the gas stations, mace, pepper spray, bullet proof windows at the Kentucky Fried Chickens and crime cameras for the city....WHY all this stuff?

Cause the NOPD is busy at their donut shops, hiding behind their limo tinted undercover squad cars to LOOK BAD for the ladies and a host of other "private details".

By the way, when you call 911, the dispatcher are sleeping and the NOPD takes FOREVER to get there anyway.

If COPS were actually doing their jobs, the citizens would not be beaten up in the first place, robbed, or live in a city consistently rated to have the highest crime rates not only America, but the world.

So the citizens were always on their own to begin with and never got help when the citizen needed it the most.

NOPD = Not Our Problem, Darling.

..."Can Die for your country" is not the same as actually "SERVING your county"

IF YOU CAN DIE FOR YOUR COUNTRY, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO DRINK:
The saying goes, "If you can die for your country, you should be able to drink."

OK, dying for one country is one thing, but turning 21 does not mean you actually
put your own life are risk. Or for that matter turning 21 does not mean you actually enlisted or even went to war or fought in a combat zone.

By saying, "If you can die for your country, you should be able to drink", you are also saying by the time a preson turns 21, they are EQUAL to soldiers who actually faced death or fought in a combat zone.

Even soldiers who have never faced combat are not thought of as EQUALS to veterans who have been in a combat zone and ACTUALLY put their lives are risk. So why should those who simply turn 21 be EQUAL to soldier who ACTUALLY was on the battlefield?

There is a BIG DIFFERENCE between "CAN DIE for your county" and actual "combat experience". Signing the Selective Service form you get in the mail at around 21 year of age IS NOT "combat experience", "enlistment", "service" whatsoever and DEFINATELY not putting one's life on the line.
If so, should anyone who turns 21 and signs the Selective Service form and mails it in, get Veterans Benefits since they are EQUAL to those Veterans who have served in actually combat?

Fat City Bar Last Call Hours and this whole New Orleans alcohol thing

In order to "educate" the clueless bar owner and employees, below are some points to consider.

Alcohol, Family Member, Absenteeism, TEAMWORK and Productivity:
A big reason why alcohol and New Orleans don't mix is because alcohol causes all sorts of society problems. Hence, it takes only one (1) family member to cause problems for other family members as other family member have to take time off from WORK to care for the other family member's mistakes in life.
Not just once, but for a LIFETIME. And because that one family member can
cause another familiy member to miss work, that in turn causes PROBLEMS with TEAM WORK at work cause that missing worker, even for family reason, puts a tremendous strain on the TEAM at work.

So what are these "time off's" from work?
Health problems like mom takes off from work to care for sick kid cause 'daddy' left them.Or maybe a constant rehab which means someone from the familiy needs to drive them to the rehab center. Or the mom has to stay home or take the kidto the doctor cause there is no daddy. Or take the kid to a parent teacher meeting cause the daddy is not being a father. If it's not one thing, it's another.  Always another "EXCUSE", usually health related.


In fact, long ago in Great Britain there were laws to limit alcohol so that factory ammo workers would show up for work instead of hang out drinking all night long.
http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/no-more-last-calls-in-england

But does New Orleans have any real manufacturing jobs? NO.
24-hours bars, YES! Manufacturing Jobs. NO.

Then you got these bartenders who think that just because they have
a busy Friday and Saturday at 1am, they think that it should be 24 hours!!!
HELLO bartenders, customers to need to WORK in the morning, don't you know.

By the way, if 24-hours bars and alcohol made all that so-called money and tax dollars, what do you, New Orleans, have to show for it?

New Orleans is the POOREST city in the USA. New Orleans can barely even find enough money to pay for the garbage in the French Quarter and has probably the lowest paid city police and employees in the nation. (note: the city employees probably don't deserve a higher pay anyway since they are just too stupid and illiterate do do anything anyway. e.g. secretaries who can't type, no staff meeting for 2 years...seriously)
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/03/new_orleans_city_hall_dysfunct.html


An earlier last call time reduces crime reduction
http://www.marininstitute.org/alcohol_policy/last_call.htm

Last Call Hours in the US and other countries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_call_(bar_term)

The place that have 24 hour drinking, like Las Vegas, New Orleans, Miami, and Memphis all have the highest crime rates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cities_by_crime_rate

To Mitch Landrieu: Is Public Housing / Mixed Housing really "OPPORTUNITY"?

Does allowing Mixed Income / Public Housing create a better life for those who  "really need" it?

Well, do the RICH, who spoil their kids, with cars, private schools, totally paid tuition for college and everything else, create responsible kids?  Obviously not.  And what about the GOVERNMENT who taxes the rich only to give to "poor"?  Do they really make life better for the "poor"? Obviously not. If government really did so, why did government abandon public housing for mixed housing?  And why did government change welfare dramatically to have limits and 'some' accountability?

And what is this "OPPORTUNITY" that Moon and Mitch Landrieu talk about? Are these mixed housing development really a REWARD for very BAD decisions these people made in life?

Moon and Mitch Landrieu seem to think "opportunity" is the key. Well, this "opportunity" has really been at least two (2) things.

ONE:
a disincentive for working and proper behavior. By essentially having really nice housing like you see in the new mixed development, the poor, just like the rich spoiled children, have no idea what it takes to make it in life or why the world goes round.

So what do you see in Mixed Housing? The same as you did in Public Housing. The poor sit on their door steps all day (and way way late at night) to save money by turning off the A/C. They let their kids run around OUTSIDE all day and so they can't possibly be a learning a thing. And when the drug dealer's flashy car comes around to TALK, the poor learn nothing but the bad.

TWO:
Political payoff to contractors, architectural firms, and free/public housing groups.

Look at the Hollywood celebrities like Kato Kaelin and Paris Hilton. They have been given more than enough to get started in the right direction and one can see what happened to them.

And let's get real and call government "out of control spending" what it really is. It's bleeding heart compassion from people who know very little about raising children the correct way. If they really did know something, they, the housing advocates, would have far more to show for all the billions of dollars spent and then completely WASTED.

If RICH parents can't simply throw money to raise their children in the proper way to become responsible, how can the government throw money, mixed housing, food stamps and the like, to raise the children of the poor?

(note to self: make illustration of carrot on a stick VERSUS a carrot 'without' a stick being already eaten by the donkey. 1st picture should show distance traveled and the 2nd picture should be no distance traveled.)

See No Evil Residents of Mandeville, LA versus the "It Is, what It Is" Saints Coach Payton

When has anyone ever wanted to raise their children in Louisiana?

Well, let's look at how GOOD Mandeville is when it came to the RECALL of Mayor Eddie Price. Well, this guy is clearly video taped driving drunk crashing into the Lake Pontchartrain Toll Booth and host of other things like stealing Christmas gifts from children, using campaign funds to pay gambling debts and so on. And guess what? After all that, the CITIZENS of Mandeville could NOT recall the guy/crook/drunk driver!!!

That failed recall showed the nation and the world, including the Paytons, what type of people live in Mandeville, LA.

See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil.

This is very similar to those in the Inner City New Orleans. That is the Mandeville White Flight residents who left New Orleans have something very in common with the Inner City Blacks and Public and Mixed Income Housing who never can find any witnesses and the 95 or more Jefferson Parish Managers and Supervisors who annually wrote ~$4500 Christmas gift checks to Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard with their new Christmas gift from Broussard, a shiny ink pen!

And did anyone remember the Movie Studio / Film Tax Credit / fraud / fiasco with Saints players and coaches? You try to invest in the community and guess what? All there are in NOLA are crooks and spineless residents.

Everywhere you look, there's one stupid thing after another. There is no ethics or morals in Louisiana, New Orleans, Jefferson or even Mandeville as you can see by the failed recall.

All they have is political "know it all's" and lawyers who twist and spin. Liberal types who convinced themselves there is no right or wrong. And conservatives who mind their own business and see and hear no evil. Big Talkers and Big Easy....great for raising kids, right?

And just what kind of careers can the Payton children look to besides sports? Low income tourism? Maybe a polically appointed position? Or maybe low income work at a casino or riverboat casino? Or perhaps get into a relationship with the low income service type who spends all their time and tips on video poker and still can't figure out why they are so poor? Wow, those low income type of jobs will make any mother excited to live in Louisiana!!!!

And did anyone mention that the only thing teenagers want to do in Louisiana is DRINK alcohol or get into a BAR? Would any "real" mother want their kids growing up with other kids in Louisiana who's only ambition and challenge in life is to get into a BAR in New Olreans or the party nature of LSU or Tulane? Or maybe the 5% graduation rate of SUNO? Or maybe the number of Fortune 500 Companies they could possibly work at, which is ZERO.

So while we are on this, let's look at the 2010 Census on the high percentage of children leaving the area. Around 50%!!!

So the Saints are one thing, but Paytons future of their children is far greater.

So if you are going to get mad at the Paytons for buying a house in Dallas, you should also get mad at your own relatives, Louisiana college graduates, who also left Louisiana for a far better life. Why not get mad at the 130,000 who left after Katrina and STILL NEVER came back after 5 years!

Actually, you should be mad at yourself for being a part of the anti-family Louisiana and New Orleans culture.

If the residents of Louisiana and New Orleans wanted to MIND their OWN business when it came to the crooked politians and so on. SHOULD NOT these same residents MIND their OWN business and keep their opinions to their self when a coach of a sports team buys a 2nd house in a different city?

If Saints FANS want get into someone else's PRIVATE business like a 2nd house in Dallas, why don't they voice their opinion on Louisiana's anti-family culture? It's because they are either another crook, SPINE-LESS, None of my business type, or two-faced.

Buying House in Dallas a Slap in face to NOLA......NOLA needs a slap in the face

Some commenters on NOLA and Saints fans think that Sean Payton buying a house in Dallas is a slap in the face of New Orleans and Louisana resident.

Well, New Orleans and Louisiana needs a SLAP in the FACE.
If you live in Mandeville, LA, it's somewhat boring. AND if you want avoid New Orleans because it's has the HIGHEST crime rate, anti-family French Quarter, and T-Shirt /  Daiquiri / Liquor Dump. And if you want to just stay alive and not get shot, life is even more BORING in Mandeville, Louisiana.  Ask former Saints coach Jim Mora (and Jim Finks) when there were HELD UP at GUN POINT in the coaches home!!!!

But people say New Orleans is exciting. Well, yes, it's different, but SHALLOW.
It's all about alcohol, alcohol, and more alcohol with drugs.

So what mom wants to raise their kids in an area where other kids only ambition in life is to get in to a bar and drink. Seriously!

Guess what NOLA residents? life does not revolve around alcohol and gambling.

But let's briefly delve into the  kind of conversations that take place in the Mandeville, LA community. It goes something like, "let's get a drink, goto a bar, where is the cheapest keg?"

Or, "We have a party this weekend, and guess what? We have BEER!!!!"

The topic of conversation is same old thing all over NOLA.
"Who got shot, who got killed driving drunk, what politician got indicted, or what short-sided mixed level housing thing had it's funds embezzled, or the token delay, excuse, delay, excuse in levee protection."


And if you add in gambling, it goes something like, "I was up 200 dollars on the video poker machine..." Or I had "so-and-so hand playing black jack..."

Basically, the same old alcohol or gambling conversation week in and week out in Mandeville when you hook up with the residents in Mandeville, LA.....regardless of the school you send you kids to.

List of Louisiana Coaches who have LEFT, "ADIOS", Louisiana

Mack Brown - Tulane Football Coach, 5th Bowl Appearance in 40 years....Left Louisiana

Tommy Bowden - Tulane Football Coach, 12-0 season....left Louisiana

Nick Saban - LSU Football Coach, National Championship.....Left Louisiana

Les Miles - LSU Footbal Coach, National Championship.....Interview with Michigan

Thousands and thousands of LSU and Tulane Graduates.......Left Louisiana to find a decent job

Fortune 500 companies.......All left Louisiana

If residents of Louisiana cannot get their own children to stay in Louisiana, why should they expect anything different from anyone else?

Do you really need a college education to work at a casino or a riverboat casino?

Hey JINDAL, instead of challenging the college graduates to stay in Louisiana, how about challenging all those politically connected, appointed, and elected about "TRANSPARENCY" via publishing their tax returns and requiring any of their private business that get's tax payer dollars, profit and NON-profit, to be PUBLIC "internet accessible" RECORD.

By the way, Mandeville is more of a "rural town". And in Louisiana and Mississippi, that means alcohol, more alcohol and even more alcohol with drugs.  Lots of family values there...