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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin would have you believe the city's crime-camera failures are a new thing. As the mayor would say, "It ain't."
After abandoning her presidential aspirations and backing Barack Obama for president, sources said Hillary Clinton ran to a nearby bar and went on a bender the likes of which haven’t been seen since she was living in the governor’s trailer in Arkansas.
Anthony Jones, New Orleans' $160,000-a-year interim director of the Mayor’s Office of Technology, sought to quell the controversy of his falsified educational background by providing The New Orleans Levee a Tulane University diploma and the Cracker Jack box he got it from.
The latest indictments involving already-federally indicted New Orleans U.S. Congressman William "Dollar Bill" Jefferson follow a pattern that seems an awful lot like the theme song to the 70s sitcom "The Jeffersons." Hmmm.
With everyone related to Congressman William Jefferson of New Orleans either under indictment or likely soon to be, The Levee has tapped its federal sources to uncover other investigations facing the congressman and others in his innocent-until-proven-guilty family.
Attorneys for Hurricane Katrina this morning filed a $450 million class-action defamation suit on her behalf. The 93-page petition alleges a “systematic attempt by local, state and federal officials to shift blame for their failings by vilifying her.”
The following is 125-year-old correspondence recently uncovered regarding the city of New Orleans’ monument to Gen. Robert E. Lee in what, today, is known as Lee Circle.
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Standing in a growing puddle of water near the 17th Street levee, Army Corps Col. Jeffrey Bedey assured reporters that the levee system is substantially similar to if not marginally better than the exact same flood protection system that failed, inundating the city and destroying thousands of homes and killing 1,836 people. He also believes German/Jewish relations in Berlin have been restored to pre-Third Reich levels and that New York’s ground zero is safer today than in the seconds before terrorists crashed planes into the buildings.
In just six months as Louisiana governor, Bobby Jindal has built a new resume that appears to make him even better qualified to follow in the footsteps of Dick Cheney.
MCCAIN/JINDAL 2008!
The governor would rather see the state lose Mary Landrieu’s tenure and instead see a freshman senator with no clout coupled with a sex-scandal-plagued Sen. David who has less clout than a freshman senator. For Louisiana’s sake, David Vitter must resign.
Right, Gov. Jindal?
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The state legislature is debating whether to name the Sazerac as the official state drink of Louisiana. Instead of meaningful tax relief immediately, the legislature and Gov. Bobby Jindal prefer to ponder the Sazerac measure and may provide each resident a free drink coupon, but only if the legislation passes with a repeal of the state's motorcycle helmet law. Along with the Sazerac and anti-helmet bills, the legislature is also considering naming cocaine as the official state drug, David Vitter the official state mascot for prostitution, and this week will consider re-instating cockfighting, which, technically, is not outlawed until August. Legislators say such work is further evidence of why their pay should be increased as much as 300 percent.
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