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Is that his reason? He said that if he accepted the funds that it would cause a permanent tax increase?

I just heard from a very reliable source (okay maybe not really, it was actually the Daily Show with Jon Stewart) that of the 3.8 billion that the state is being offered, he has agreed to take "a little over 3.7 billion." So maybe this is just political posturing?

Now, in all honesty and fairness to Gov. Jindal, I only heard bits and pieces, I was making King Cakes for our krewe and I really wasn't paying too much attention, afterall, we're at the height of the Mardi Gras season and I was trying to get my King Cakes done so we could get to the parades!

30 Rock rocks!

sue

Hi Michelle,

Send me a PM and let me know just what you're thinking about here. I worked as a senior editor at a reference book publishing company for 21 years, so I know my way around the book biz. I'd be happy to help you out any way I can--being retired means I've got lots of time on my hands right now.

Brad

Hi Brad:

Hope this won't affect you finishing your Top ten album list!

(We're still waiting for it!)

OMG!!! I can't say it enough, I had no idea that we have so many talented people in our community, I've been aware of the intelligence though and I know we have some very talented artists here.....an editor, wow....that does explain your posts though....so long & eloquently written...I most certainly will PM you as soon as I can see straight...last night was Lundi Gras and of course today is Mardi Gras....so not much sleeping going on.... As for the hurricane project, I think the thing that really made me pause was the day the media began to refer to us as "refugees", I thought to myself, "I went from fellow American citizen to refugee overnight?!" But of course when tax season rolled around six months later, the government decided I was a citizen again....

Michelle - Facinating. Well, just managed to catch most of an excellent documentary on *exactly the issues you are intent on adddressng! Trouble the Water - "Oscar nominated documentary that combines archived reports and home movie footage shot by a New Orleans rapper and her husband to portray the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina."

"It was the Grand Jury Prize Winner at the Sundance Festival (and up for a Oscar two nights ago). This harrowing doc uses camcorder footage shot by New Orleans couple Kimberley and Scott Roberts to show Hurricane Katrina and the floods ripping through their community."

Great rapping music by 'Amazing': Black Kold Madina, Hustler Records.

The docu dwelt on the hardship and the *undisbursed* funds. Showed some very sad stories including the facts of the National Guard shooting dead a fellas dog...nice dog that had recently pupped, and the sale of the pups helped the guy get back to his devastated property. Most of the tales were from the black communities. Also showed up central New Orleans, how it was 'relatively' undamaged, and how it is well back in business. And this was only 'Katrina' so goodness knows how everything is now after three such devastations... They also commented strongly on the levees NOT being properly repaired, a very poor job by all accounts.

Hope the documentary is repeated. IF you get a chance (anyone) do get to see it. Bound to be repeated.

Best of luck in getting your book written Michelle. Terrif idea. But gal, go careful...it's a wild world out there, with some mighty odd and greedy people...(nuff said.)

Molly C

Wow Molly....I've never even heard of this documentary, it sounds great though and I'm betting I will love the music! As for the National Guard shooting that poor man's dog, that's awful, there was a lot of that sort of thing going on....I found myself in a protest against them...there were over 30,000(thirty-thousand) dead cows piled at the foot of the Gibbstown Bridge where the storm-surge had left them and a man from Creole found 2 dozen or so of his cows still alive, they somehow wound up across a bayou and up on a high spot(that's a tough concept here, Louisiana is flat) well, the man was overjoyed to see his cows and was trying to figure out how to get them back across the water when a helicopter carrying a now famous Col. of the Nat. Guard in it landed, the Col. stepped out, looked at the situation and shouted this order to his troops, "Kill them, shoot them and move on!", and the man just went ballistic, he said, "This is all I have left in the whole world and you say kill them?!"....so the protest began, we wre infuriated.... needless to say, the cows were not destroyed... ...I'm very interested in seeing this documentary Molly, I will seek this one out and hopefully add it to my DVD library, thanks for telling me about it....I saw your post on the fly yesterday but....yesterday was Fat Tuesday and I must say, it was quite a challenge to get to the parade route...I went downstairs and fought the crowd so that I could get up close enough to take pictures of the people on the floats so that yall can see the costumes...I got a few, I'll post them later.. Oh, the levees...not only are the levees not what they should be...they NEVER were...we discussed this openly in high school back in the late seventies....a project was slated to upgrade the levee system....Greenpeace was there protesting the disturbance that such work would create for the eco-system in the waters that the levees are built in....but there was a summit in New Orleans 2 years before Katrina at which Homeland Security, FEMA, the Army Corps of Engineers and of course local government were told that if a Cat 3 or above hit the city, the levees would not hold and their predictions were that when the levees breached, the city would flood, there would be massive loss of life and there would be billions of dollars in damage....they did nothing. Now they've been rebuilt to the same standard that they were....a Cat 3 or above and the levees will breach....