Gentilly Girl- a part of the 99%

October 27, 2007

Is The “Hat” Going Away?

Oh my!

*spoowieesh…*

“The Honorable Eddie “Hat” Jordan, District Attorney for Orleans Parish departing.”

Color me surprised… looks like some ties are being cut.

October 24, 2007

Eddie the “Hat” Wants Me To Pay?

So, you become the first Afro-American D.A. in the city’s history, so’s ya’s goes in, fire all the white folks and hire Blacks to replace them and think everything is tres kewl with this shit?

You lose the case against the wrongfully fired, and every damned appeal you can muster, and now you state that the city must pay the fine? That we are somewhat responsible for your paranoia and Racist insanity? Have you lost your bat-shit lunatic Racist mind?
You who can’t get a big indictment to save your soul?

Fuck you Bro! You played the race card and then couldn’t perform your job and we have to pay for your criminal actions. Fuck you twice Bro. Savvy? I’m not paying the damages from the Racial purging by one of any fucking Race in government. Damned cocksucker…
You should pay the $3.2 Mil for your crime, and if you can’t pull it off, then your children are liable for the damages, not those of us who are innocent of your sick mind and it’s neurosis. You are the criminal, and YOU must pay the price Mr. Jordan. (They are going to love you being a cell-mate in Angola.)

The other path Mr.Jordan is that you resign your office as D.A. and the city will cover your debt. You will be barred for life from seeking elective office. (Don’t like that one, ‘eh?)

Ta, Ta, and thanks for all the fish, NOT.

Update- Fieikow responds to Eddie the “Hat”.

An interesting idea from Max over at The Levee.

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 22, 2007

The Real Truth…

Filed under: Aside,New Orleans,Politicians — Tags: , — Morwen Madrigal @ 3:02 am

From the 2 Millionth Weblog comes this factoid:

Save the kitties and DON’T VOTE Republican.

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.

GLBT Minus “T” = “Barney the Dinosaur’s” ENDA

“You see here tonight a man named John Aravosis, a Gay man, totally divorced from Reality and History, vainly trying to understand why his world is not what it is. He is confused and afraid. Past the STOP sign, next turn to the left and ahead… there stands the Trans-woman. AIYEEEE!” Welcome to the AAA Gay Zone. (Also called the Balls of Confusion.)

(No… I’m not going to play nice. Being PC to thine enemies is the worst form of hypocrisy and lunacy.)

My desire at this point in time is to go “postal” and not stop for days and days. The fight for Gender Identity has gone on for over a century and a half, and just as this recognition under law comes almost to our finger tips (yes, the Bushite’s gonna veto either version of the bill), it is being yanked away by men who do not want us around.

Here’s the opener for an opinion piece by Susan Stryker in Salon a few days ago:

“Pity poor John Aravosis, the gay rights crusader from AmericaBlog whose “How Did the T Get in LGBT?” essay, in reference to the controversy over gender identity protections in the pending Employment Non-Discrimination Act, was published on Salon a few days ago. To hear Aravosis tell it, he and multitudes of like-minded gay souls have been sitting at the civil rights table for more than 30 years, waiting to be served. Now, after many years of blood, sweat, toil and tears, a feast in the form of federal protection against sexual orientation discrimination in the workplace has finally been prepared. Lips are being licked, chops smacked, saliva salivated, when — WTF!?! — a gaunt figure lurches through the door.

It is a transgender person, cupped hands extended, begging for food. Seems somebody on the guest list — maybe a lot of somebodies — let this stranger in off the streets without consulting everyone else beforehand, claiming he-she-it-or-whatever was a relative of some sort. Suddenly, what was supposed to be a fabulous dinner party starts surreally morphing into one of those OxFam fundraisers dramatizing third-world hunger whose sole function is to make the “haves” feel guilty for the plight of the “have-nots.”

And this:

“Aravosis isn’t questioning the place of the T in the GLBT batting order; he’s just concerned with properly marking the distinction between “enough like me” and “too different from me” to merit inclusion in the categories with which he identifies. His position is a bit like those kerfuffled astronomers not too long ago, scratching their noggins over how to define Pluto’s place in the conceptual scheme of the solar system. Sure, we’ve been calling it a planet for a good number of years because it’s round and orbits the sun just like our Earth, but now it appears that if we keep doing so we’ll have to let a bunch of the bigger asteroids into the planet category, as well as some other weird faraway stuff we only recently learned about, which stretches the definition of “planet” into a name for things we don’t really think of as being much like good ol’ Earth, so let’s just demote Pluto instead. In Aravosis’ homocentric cosmology, men may not be from Mars, nor women from Venus, but transgender people are definitely from Pluto.”

And this:

“Transgender people have their own history of civil rights activism in the United States, one that is in fact older, though smaller and less consequential, than the gay civil rights movement. In 1895, a group of self-described “androgynes” in New York organized a “little club” called the Cercle Hermaphroditos, based on their self-perceived need “to unite for defense against the world’s bitter persecution.” Half a century later, at the same time some gay and lesbian people were forming the Mattachine Society and the Daughters of Bilitis, transgender people were forming the Society for Equality in Dress. When gay and lesbian people were fighting for social justice in the militant heyday of the 1960s, transgender people were conducting sit-in protests at Dewey’s lunch counter in Philadelphia, fighting in the streets with cops from hell outside Compton’s Cafeteria in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, and mixing it up at Stonewall along with lots of other folks.”

In summary:

“Aravosis and those who agree with him think that the “trans revolution” has come from outside, or from above, the rank-and-file gay movement. No — it comes from below, and from within. The outrage that many people in the queer, trans, LGBT or whatever-you-want-to-call-it community feel over how a gender-inclusive ENDA has been torpedoed from within is directed at so-called leaders who are out of touch with social reality. It has to do with a generation of effort directed toward building an inclusive movement being pissed away by the clueless and the phobic. That’s why every single GLBT organization of any size at the national and state levels — with the sole exception of the spineless Human Rights Campaign — has unequivocally come out in support of gender protections within ENDA, and has opposed the effort to pass legislation protecting only sexual orientation.”

Me and mine may be from Pluto or the Oort Cloud, but with people like the AAA Gays on this planet, I think the Oorts are wonderful, especially this time of year, but I’d rather spend my time in New Orleans.

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.

September 26, 2007

More On the “Shock Doctrine”

A few weeks ago I wrote a post on an excerpt from Guardian concerning Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine”. Didn’t seem like much was happening  very much on this topic, but now it’s picking up steam as Klein is doing her promotion gigs  for her book.

Try this out: John Cusack’s interview with Klein.

Curtsey to Suspect Device. and the Zombie.

I’m happy that this book is getting notice down here in Da Swamp.

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