Gentilly Girl- a part of the 99%

November 13, 2007

I Made My Decision Months Ago…

John Edwards for President in 2008! (Been his girl since he announced from the Lower Ninth.)

I do not trust Hillary, and Obama doesn’t add up for me. This time around, as it should be every election, it should be about vision, possibilities and not just founded in fear tactics and divisiveness. Edwards talks about New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. He wants to pull out from Iraq. He wants Universal Healthcare, and… John comes from a background similar to mine. His Dad worked in a mill… mine was a milkman who drove 60+ miles everyday through the swamps along the Coast rendering a service. (He was the first White man many Black children had ever met. Yes, I do remember those days of isolation for those folks.) This is the kind of person I can trust.
I vote for a candidate that shares a similar reality to mine. I cannot cast a vote for someone who shares nothing with my life as far as challenges go when we are talking the Presidency. I may disagree with the person later on, but I know that his feet were in the same mud as mine. That the worries of the family echoed the same concerns in my early home.

This is the kind of person I can trust when it comes to major National issues or the need for war.

Mr. Edwards, I AM your girl. I can’t wait to see you at the Inauguaration in 2009.

October 23, 2007

Is My Newly Re-elected State Senator… A Criminal?

From the T-P comes an article concerning money laundering in which Derrick Shepherd with aiding a convicted felon by writing the checks out as if it was for work he performed for the defendant.

“Special Agent Peter Smith testified that Shepherd, a lawyer who often handles personal-injury cases, attempted to make his dealings with bond broker Gwendolyn Joseph Moyo appear legitimate by writing the words “settlement proceeds” on the memo lines of the checks.

However, investigators have found no evidence that Shepherd did any legal work for Moyo, Smith said, although he said that Shepherd had delivered a “vague invoice” to a federal grand jury to explain the payments. The document was basically illegible, Smith said.

“To me, it looks like he was trying to disguise it, to make it look like this was for a personal-injury case,” Smith said of the notations in the checks’ memo lines.

“I suppose the government takes the position that it’s money laundering?” Moyo’s attorney, Pat Fanning, asked Smith.

“Yes,” Smith testified.”

“It was that order that led Moyo to Shepherd, according to Smith. The agent testified that Moyo spoke with a number of lawyers about her problem, which had left her unable to cash checks made out to her firm.

Smith said that Moyo told investigators that it was Shepherd who, a month after the crackdown, hit on the solution: Moyo would sign over her uncashed checks and he would deposit them in an account he controlled.

According to Smith, Moyo signed over five checks totaling $140,686 to Shepherd’s account. Two of the checks indicated they were for bond fees.

During the same week, Shepherd moved $55,000 from one of his accounts to another, and then wrote three checks to Moyo, also totaling $55,000, from the second account. Those were the checks labeled “settlement proceeds.”

I’m glad I voted for Shawn Barney. Shepherd is a fuckmook.

Big Update- The Mighty Bivalve Oyster over at YRHT has a lot more info in this criminally-minded, favorite son of Jeff Parish douchebag. I guess Shepherd is truly the Pariah of the Parish today.

October 21, 2007

Piyush is Now the Appointed Leader of Looziana and Is Sanctified By the Dark Lord of the Chimps

Well we are fucked for another four years. The last four found us with a woman guv’nor with no damn ovaries, and now we are saddled with an unproven syncophant of the Bushite crowd. (Hey Bobby! What’s it taste like? *wink, wink*)
Life sux, but that’s what you get in a polyglot culture that is less than half educated. Their GameBoys and IPODS take up all their time, and they cannot grasp Reality. (I thought Civics was still a required class along with U.S. History, but I could be wrong. Everything since Reagan is screwed by my measures.)

He can do as he wishes, but it will not affect us as long as we follow one of the Founders’ dictum: “We must hang together, or we will definitely hang separately”. I don’t care about the rest of the Gret Stet that hates us down here… I’m only interested in the Isle d’ Orleans and it’s environs. We will be facing an interesting next four years.

So I guess many of us down here in the swamps will have to redouble our efforts to free our lands from the rest of the state. At least we would keep the oil revenues and rebuild our levees and wetlands by contracting with the Dutch. It will be the Quebec of the South and the official language is Yat-speak. Doubloons and beads will become the official currency.

We will extend our LGBT protections to all of our little province since Jindal will be abolishing them on the state level. The rest of the state will sink into barbarity, but our culture and kindly ways here in the Isle will continue. We will do what we do best: live life to it’s fullest and be welcoming to all (as long as they go home after their sojourn here).

The Succession starts NOW!

Sinn Fein…

October 19, 2007

Foster Campbell, Not Bobby Jindal For Guv’nor of the Gret Stet

Fist off, I’m voting for Foster Campbell for governor this Saturday. I like his style, and he ain’t stale toast like the other candidates.

Here’s 37 reasons not to vote for that Bushite Jindal.

Curtsey to Cenlamar for the latter.

October 18, 2007

Jindal Gets Worse

Bobby (The Exorcist) Jindal found a way to honor the wishes of his Lord and Master on the attempted overturning of the veto on the SCHIPS bill by just NOT showing up for the vote. (Seems the weather was bad and he didn’t want to risk missing the debate tonight. (Like he’s made many others)

Vote for Foster Campbell this Saturday. Hell vote for anyone but Jindal this election. This is about the kids and Healthcare. Don’t let the Dark Lord install one of his minions as Looziana’s next Guvner.

Another Reason Jindal Is BAD…

and a rabid cross-wearing and faith-based fruit bat:

“The candidates also differ on gay rights, where Jindal is the only candidate who said he would not renew a 2004 executive order by Blanco barring state agencies and outside contractors from discriminating in their hiring practices on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, political affiliation or disabilities.”

“Jindal said that although he does not believe in discrimination, he fears the executive order’s potential effect on nonprofit groups that contract with the government. Jindal said such groups should be allowed to discriminate in their hiring practices while still receiving tax dollars.

“I’d want to make sure we weren’t driving out faith-based providers from state government, from providing state services,” Jindal said.”

“Jindal, meanwhile, is the only candidate to call for the repeal of hate-crimes laws, which provide added penalties for crimes motivated by animosity toward a particular person or group based on race, age, gender, religion or sexual orientation.”

And of course a statement by a spokesperson from one of Bobby’s loyal supporters showing that excessive religious self-indulgence severely lessens the mind’s capability toward rational thought:

“Gene Mills, director of the Family Forum, said the term “sexual orientation” could be broadly construed to include pedophiles as a protected class of worker in state government.

“If one describes his propensity for minors as a sexual orientation and it says there should not be grounds for firing, then you arguably have a legal dilemma there,” Mills said.”

Sexual orientation is defined as to which sex one is attracted to. Pedophilia refers to one who has sex with children. Almost 98% of reported cases of this sickness is attributed to adults, and most of them are bat-shit crazy religionists. The rest are just sickos.

Homosexuals aren’t into this type of thing… many of them have suffered during their childhoods at the hands of the creatures mentioned above. The last thing on their minds is to commit the same atrocities inflicted upon their bodies.

As for the Trans folk, never would that kind of desire cross our minds, but we are about gender identity and not orientation. Yet all of us are painted with a “heterosexual crime” brush wielded by the hands of morons who ARE NOT in touch with themselves, their identities or their sexualities.

Next thing these nut-jobs will want is to be allowed to burn witches. Oh shit! That’ll be strike three for me! Just bugger me with a telephone pole.

October 12, 2007

Malcolm Suber For City Council-At-Large

Well the elections take place in NOLA in eight days, and I hadn’t made a decision for the City Council At-Large position. That’s fairly odd for one such as myself: I start with my candidate and hang in there for the long haul, but this cycle saw me scratching my head when looking out over a field of contenders vying for the seat. I am totally unimpressed by the same old faces who are running, and then my soul was saved by the Nation and this article.

Editor’s Note: It is not The Nation‘s usual practice to run endorsements of individual candidates by our writers. But longtime contributor Adolph Reed, Jr., an expatriate New Orleanian, made a special case for the importance of Malcolm Suber’s campaign for city council in that beleaguered city, where the most vulnerable of Katrina’s victims have far too few political representatives fighting for their interests. Here is his letter to progressives concerned about New Orleans’ future.

I have been a faithful reader of the Nation for the last 37 years. It is Progressive and has never steered me wrong. The very fact that they published this piece speaks volumes to me. I’m voting for Malcolm Suber.
Malcolm’s site.

September 18, 2007

More on Foster Campbell…

Today’s T-P covers another candidate for Governor: Foster Campbell.

This guy reminds me of several of my older relatives. Down to Earth and freakin’ real. Here’s the part concerning Campbell’s proposed Tax on the oil and gas industries:

“There’s nothing hidden about Campbell’s belief in his oil processing fee, and that’s disturbing to the refinery industry.

Larry Wall, spokesman for the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association, said no industry could survive a $5.5 billion tax. And a tax on energy would place a burden on all businesses, he said.

The tax would impede interstate commerce and probably violate the U.S. Constitution, Wall said. The industry, which employs 20,000 workers in Louisiana, would over time move assets out of state, eroding Campbell’s proposed tax base.

Campbell said other states do not want refineries, so the plants in Louisiana will have to stay. To those that pare down, good riddance, he said.

“It’s not like they’re the best thing that’s ever been invented,” Campbell said. “It’s a polluting deal. They use our air, they use our water, they’ve torn our coast up. And what are we supposed to say? ‘Well, thank you for the refineries?’ “

So Mr. Wall, a “spokesperson” for the oil and gasbags says his industry will be hurt? That they will pick up their toys and run to another state? My dying tush they will. They have destroyed so much of our wetlands in order to make huge profits that they can’t leave, and it’s time for the people of the Gret Stet to get back something for almost 40,000 miles of pipelines, over 20,000 miles of canals carved into our wetlands (thus destroying them), the damned air pollution and the general poisoning of the area in which all of us must live.

These industrialists environmental rapists should count themselves lucky that Mr. Campbell only wants $5.5 Billion a year… I would demand their firstborns, especially the ones of their major shareholders and $20 billion per year. They will probably move away? Fat freakin’ chance: they aren’t going to pay for new facilities AND ship “our” oil and gas to a new location. Besides, we are the only ones crazy enough to not force them from our back yards. (They’ve already screwed the neighborhood up.)

(Yes, that was a redundant paragraph, but it’s 10 in the morning and I should be asleep.)

Read about Foster Campbell, ponder his plans for the Gret Stet, and VOTE for him come late October.

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