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Comments by MightyFavog
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Posted on June 18 at 10:51 p.m.
Actually, all Jindal has done here is to apply economies of scale and Wal-Mart blandness to Uncle Earl. Well . . . and a healthy dose of disingenuous chicken(expletive deleted), as well:
Posted on June 17 at 3:46 p.m.
Crack open a cold one, sit back and enjoy the show. From a safe distance, that is . . . Nebraska, maybe.
It's Roemertime! The champagne of dead-duck gub'nas.
Posted on May 12 at 2:58 a.m.
The next time Bobby Jindal goes to Capitol Hill to spout his bull about "gold standards" and "Won't you please hep us," I hope some member of Congress socks him in his (expletive deleted) mouth.
Louisiana has a new ethics "gold standard" that's not worth the paper upon which it's written.
Meanwhile, the House wants to cut the budget and, naturally, targets Medicaid, old veterans, biomedical research and higher education. There must be priorities, alas.
For instance, the funding added by the Appropriations Committee for studies, intersections, the McKinley alumni association and Muslim vegetables in the 'hood.
You can't make this stuff up. Which is why so very many of us born-and-raised Louisianians now have put down roots somewhere else.
And there are some truths that need to be told, here:
http://revolution-21.blogspot.com/2008/0...
http://revolution-21.blogspot.com/2008/0...
Posted on February 26 at 8:50 p.m.
One thing about my hometown, it never, EVER tires of cutting off its nose to spite its face.
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Posted on August 2 at 4:12 a.m.
To be from Baton Rouge -- and Louisiana -- is to eventually develop a keen sense of where the tragic meets the absurd.
I've been contentedly gone for 20 years now, and yet you hear the same old thing coming out of the Red Stick . . . over and over and over again. Baton Rouge will progress when it develops a civic culture and stops thinking (and acting) like a high-functioning Third World hellhole.
I live in Omaha now, a place where government generally works and people generally care. In the two decades since my wife (an Omaha native) and I left BR for here, Nebraska's largest city has grown by more than 100,000 people (just the city, making it nearly twice as big as BR) and has utterly remade its downtown.
You can read about that in The Wall Street Journal:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12167644...
Meantime, BR barely has grown at all (if you don't count the outlying white-flight parishes), the school system is a worse mess than ever, and all the places I used to know so well are undergoing a gradual Port-au-Princification.
Perhaps BR's poobahs, instead of traipsing to Portland and the like, might find it profitable to plan a trip to my neck of the woods.
But I'll tell you one problem with Kip's grand schemes (and all the ones that preceded Kip's grand schemes): BR is trying to build cool stuff on a foundation of sand, not bedrock. A bedrock foundation includes things like clearing away or redeveloping the blight that is a huge chunk of BR. It also includes a functioning public-school system and a functioning infrastructure.
And you can add functioning mass transit to the list, too. And an educated, capable workforce.
Without those kinds of things, you got squat.
But Baton Rougeans never have been particularly big on any of that, have they? I know. I grew up there.
And I live elsewhere now, just like (I'd wager) a majority of my high-school classmates.
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