Reading the headlines Tuesday, Apr 29 2008 

Barrack Obama and Ed Blakely and Hillary Clinton and Hurricane Katrina and John McCain and Marc Morial and Media and New Orleans Morial Convention Center and Politics and Presidential Politics and new orleans and presidential debates , , , , danfraz 1:23 pm

Some good stuff came our way today. I bitched about this awhile back and I am one thrilled New Orleanian that we have gotten a Presidential Debate to come to NOLA!! Leave it to the “new media” to get it done. Thank goodness. Again, I cannot wait for John McCain to bumble around here telling everyone how committed the Republicans are to “rebuilding”. Nor can I wait for the winner of the other two losers to come down here and lie to our faces about how much “they” have done for the recovery. Now I guess we just have to wait to see if both party’s candidates will actually show up.

On other local stuff, two things really have stuck out lately. First, and this news has not been covered yet because the radio station is the first one to go with the story. The New Orleans recovery department is going through a “re-organization”. The 17 targeted recovery zones are now….wait for it…..DONE. No more targeted recovery zones. Now the recovery department will focus on blight in Districts A, B, C & D. Please note that District E is not mentioned. District E is New Orleans East. Yeah the area that suffered more destruction than any other area. No focus on blight there? And another thing, it’s been 3 freaking years and the office of recovery is just now figuring out that blight might need to be focused on? Katrina was a real disaster but the government of New Orleans post Katrina is starting to look worse than anything a hurricane did to us.

The other thing that got my blood boiling was to hear that former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial and his family are up in arms because of a name change to a city owned building. Marc’s dad Ernest Morial or Dutch, basically got the convention center built during his time in office. The convention center is named Ernest Morial Convention Center. Nothing wrong with that but times change. Needs change. The group running the convention center decided that New Orleans needed to be spotlighted in trying to sell the center to group looking for convention space. That’s just smart business frankly.

Well Marc Morial and his clan don’t see it that way. The newly named New Orleans Morial Convention Center has received a letter from Marc and the clan dealing with the name change. He has accused the convention center of trying to ruin his father’s good name by changing the name and trying to get more business to the city.

I find it interesting how a man who is under investigation for years of corruption while being Mayor can say that a name change is ruining his father’s good name. You know what Marc? You RUINED his good name years ago with your corrupt ways. YOU ruined the good things your father did for this city because you were a freaking disaster as Mayor. How everyone in this city looks at you and knows you were lining your pockets off the hard working people of New Orleans. What a FRAUD you are Marc Morial.

Last but not least, if you care about this city as much as you say you do, then you should KNOW that we must do whatever we can to bring business back to New Orleans. Even if it meant naming the convention center the FREE DRINKS FOR EVERYONE CENTER.

 

Checking the headlines Monday, Apr 7 2008 

Barrack Obama and Ed Blakely and Hurricane Katrina and My Life and Presidential Politics and The Mayor and new orleans and ray nagin , , , danfraz 2:25 pm

Hello David Vitter, I hear you may take the fifth today. That’s probably not a bad idea. Anytime you get elected on the “family values” platform and end up with your hand in a whore’s panties then it might be best to say nothing. Hopefully, since you have no backbone to resign, that’s the amount of votes you will get in 2010….Nothing.

Ray Nagin is in China. Hopefully, he will run his big fat supid mouth and they will arrest him. Put his lame ass in a Chinese Jail for about, oh two years I think would work for the citizens back on the ground in New Orleans. Could we be that lucky?

The Hoarding house is gone. If you were not paying attention, a local family (or loco) has been living in a house on Magazine St. that should have been demolished years ago. The entire family of three has mental issues. The brother hoards among other things. That basically means that he collects crap and piles it to the roof. Well after much hand wringing and bawling, the city finally tore that sucker down. It was frankly disgusting and should have been ripped down years ago. Now the peeps who think they know all the answers and can save anyone from their problems, are moaning and groaning about the retards house being crumbled. I guarantee you these are the same nut cases screaming about the projects needed to stay as they were. This family has been saved from themselves, everyone should be happy for them.

Speaking of the projects, one of the most beautiful areas in the city right now is where the St. Bernard projects once stood. That’s right, once stood. The reason it’s so beautiful over there now is that there is nothing left of the projects but rubble. Nothing but broken up concrete. I don’t think I’ve seen a better looking lot in many many years.

I’m not a “conservative” other than the fiscal type. Even though I run a talk radio station, I think the gubberment should keep it’s nose out of peeps biz usually. With Charlton Heston dying over the weekend, I think he gets a bullshit rap because of his NRA wackiness. Which I understand but I don’t think it’s fair to only focus on his “from my cold dead hand” comment. I’m 40 now, a little over 6 months I guess. As a kid, Charlton Heston was the freaking bomb!!! If he was in a movie, it had to be seen. I still remember every Easter weekend watching him as Moses. The range of characters just blows my mind with this guy. And yeah, Soylent Green is still people.

Attention, attention. There has been a Ed Blakely sighting!!! The area’s recovery czar is running his mouth again too. Although I’ve generally agreed with everything he has said in the past, it drives me freakin up the wall when he backtracks after some group gets wind of what he’s got the say. Now he’s upset the black folks. Blakely basically said that blacks in power in New Orleans don’t want to listen or are unwilling to listen to their white counterparts. No shit. It’s been that way for 30 years Ed. Now if you’ll just stand by your statements instead of running from them.

I’ve not written much about the presidential election other than the debate issue. To wrap up this short, not too funny post, I’ll just say one thing. I’m pulling for Obama. He’s a great speaker, too liberal for me yes but I feel he’s what all of us as a country need. The reason? Along the same lines as what Ed Blakely said above. Obama will inspire Black America. Hopefully.

 

The Debate about the Debates Tuesday, Mar 11 2008 

Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton and John McCain and Politics and presidential debates , , , , , , danfraz 2:08 pm

The citizens of New Orleans have been dealt some really bad hands in the last two and a half years. I am not going to go on and on about who or what has been dealing the cards. If your even remotely paying attention to this country and New Orleans, you already know the players.

One of the most disappointing “hands” that the city has received was from the Commission for Presidential Debates. The city of New Orleans attempted to secure one of three debates for the 2008 Presidental Election. The thinking was, what other city in this country was a better example of the issues and problems confronting this country in the years to come. Seriously, the ten to twenty year rebuilding this city is facing is a perfect backdrop for the issues confronting America. Or so we down in this part of the country thought. The Commission thought otherwise. They thought lil ole Oxford MS was a better place to hold the debate. The reason they gave was that New Orleans was “not ready” to handle a presidential debate. And Oxford, with it’s one stop light and 300 hotel rooms was? What fraud. Clearly the Commission didn’t want New Orleans as a host because of one Dubya. The Commission is/was suppose to be neutral when it came to political parties but clearly the agenda was ” let’s not make either party look bad”.

If you have ever read some of my past post on New Orleans Metroblogging, you know that I frankly dislike both the Republicans and the Democrats. They do nothing but divide the American people. They play games with peoples lives and with their heads. They are power hungry frauds who are not looking out for you or for me, they look out for their own power only. I do not care what party would “look bad” with a debate being held in this city, I care about the truth, something we never get from the so-called leaders.

I’m glad to report that Governor Jindal and Lt. Governor Landrieu must agree with me. They are attempting to get around the Debate Commission, going straight after McCain, Obama and Clinton to commit to a debate in New Orleans no matter what the Commission has set up to this point. I say finally and more power to them. We have seen these candidates come down here and talk some game already. McCain came thru recently to try and suck some money out of people’s pockets. Obama was here during the Louisiana Primary, lying to everyone about how he will rebuild New Orleans all by his lonesome. And I think both Bill and Hill have passed thru, sharing with us that if not for them, our recovery would never have started because they secured all the funds we need down here. What a crock of do-do.

Let’s hope that Bobby and Mitch are successful. I can’t wait to see McCain stumble and bumble his way through any discussion about New Orleans. I’d love to hear either Hill or Barrack tell the rest of the country about how much money their administrations would throw down New Orleans way.

And for the Commission on Presidential Debates, I’m not sure you noticed but in the first two months of 08, this city has hosted a Sugar Bowl that brought in 80,000 fans, a National Championship College Football game that drew around 125,000 people to the city, maybe the greatest NBA All-Star game weekend in the history of the NBA and oh yeah, I almost forgot, yet another Mardi Gras. But the city of New Orleans isn’t ready for a event like a Presidential Debate. A event that may draw 5000 people. Hmmmm, what was going on in Oxford MS for the first two months of the year?