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Barring an eleventh-hour pardon, convicted murderer Antoinette Frank tonight will become the first death row inmate to be executed by Cajun injection, a lethal dose of butter, cayenne, garlic, and rosemary, in addition to a host of other “deadly Cajun spices.”
In e-mail correspondence with residents, Mayor Ray Nagin cites a poll that shows nearly 70 percent of residents are optimistic about the city’s future. He does not mention poll findings that show he has only a 31 percent approval rating for the job he has done in our recovery. The following are actual, recent e-mail exchanges between residents and the mayor regarding the ongoing NOAH crisis and the sentiment of what one resident believes is a recovery job not well done by the mayor.
In a town of silly things, the July 12 Running of the Bulls in New Orleans or, as organizers have named their baby, “San Fermin in Nuevo Orleans,” in just two years is charging to the front of the pack. The New Orleans Levee was a proud, in fact, giddy sponsor of the 2008 San Fermin in Nuevo Orleans!
The Army Corps of Engineers may have overlooked 1,800 feet of Industrial Canal floodwall in Gentilly Woods that is in danger of failing because it was too busy stopping people who make fun of them, The Levee has learned.
Given the recent oil spill in the Mississippi River, the dumping of dirty river water into the lake with the recent opening of the Bonnet Carré Spillway, and even the massive environmental “Dead Zone” that sits in the Gulf of Mexico, The Levee thought it a good idea to look back to not all that long ago when Lake Pontchartrain was a mighty mess.
Amid recent super-villain attacks in Gotham City and the accompanying trend of justice by a vigilante “caped crusader,” New Orleans Mayor Nagin has signed off on an initiative to stop “superheroism” in the Crescent City. “I think it is clear that this city already has the only superhero it needs,” Nagin said, striking a pose on his desk, his chin thrust in the air with top members of his administration furiously fanning a billowing pillowcase-cape tied around his neck. “Are you talking about inspector general Robert Cerasoli?” one reporter asked.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of Mae’s! Third degree burns and first-degree fun. How droll.
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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has decided that WWL-TV reporter Lee Zurik has skyrocketed from the person responsible for “hurting this (city’s) recovery” to actually being to blame for – as the mayor told The Levee – “everything.”
Officials are investigating reports that the lap dance Jefferson Parish police say state Sen. Derrick Shepherd was receiving in his home when they went to arrest him on a domestic battery charge was nothing more than a "welcome to the neighborhood" gift from Louisiana’s sex-scandal plagued U.S. Sen. David Vitter.
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