A state judge on Tuesday spared the life of Lewis the cat, whose vicious attacks on neighbors landed his owner in court, but the terrorizing tomcat was ordered confined to the house at all times. "There are no exceptions. None," Judge Patrick Carroll told Lewis' owner, Ruth Cisero.
If Lewis gets out, even accidentally, Cisero could face up to 6 months in prison, and Lewis' fate would be in the hands of animal control officers.
Cisero had faced a charge of reckless endangerment because neighbors complained that the gray and white cat's long claws and stealth had allowed it to attack at least a half-dozen people. Some who were bitten and scratched ended up seeking treatment at hospitals. The judge ordered Cisero to complete two years of probation, after which her record will be expunged.
Cisero had fought to keep Lewis, and rejected a previous probation deal because it was contingent on euthanizing the cat. "I never thought it would come to this," she said. "It's been an absolute nightmare. It's ruined my life."
The cat's case has drawn national attention, with Lewis appearing in People magazine and on his own page on MySpace.com. A Utah animal sanctuary offered to take the cat, but Eugene Riccio, Cisero's attorney, said Lewis enjoys life in southern New England and wants to stay.
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Looks like a Maine Coon Cat. Kind of cat that sits on the front porch calling, "Here, doggy, doggy!"
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My grandfather used to eat cats during WWII, meat tastes a lot like rabbit I'm told, and looks a lot like it too once cooked (cats have flat ribs, while rabbits have round ones, or the other way around).
Also, one of my ex-coworkers' father supposedly had his guest unwittingly eat cat at a dinner, showed them the head afterward to startle them.
The slight figure in neon orange moccasins beats a hide drum cradled in his arms. His voice soars in the cavernous auditorium as he spins the tale of Dashkayah, a huge, hairy creature who hunts and devours children in the night. Only when the cannibal's young victims face their fears will they escape her clutches.
"Ana kush iwasha: This is the way it was," says Terry Tafoya, known across the U.S. and Canada as a pre-eminent American Indian psychologist from Seattle.
Monsters don't steal our kids today, he tells the crowd. Addictions do, the streets do. And storytelling helps reclaim them. "A story becomes a script for how to live your life," Tafoya tells the school counselors, nurses and social workers at a state-sponsored event April 20.
The earnest crowd is captivated by the 54-year-old raconteur, introduced as "Dr. Tafoya," a man whose graying temples and reading glasses contrast with his waist-length, crow-black braids.
What no one suspects is that Tafoya has scripted his own life, embellishing his academic credentials and past. The storyteller has worked his magic, turning nuggets of truth into pots of gold... (more at link)
An ebullient Oakland Mayor-elect Ron Dellums promised Monday to seek a broad consensus to fulfill his vision for making the city a model, saying he will soon set up citizen groups to help him deal with the public schools, crime and economic development when he takes office Jan. 1. "It is a responsibility I accept with honor, humility and optimism," the progressive former congressman, 70, said in his first public remarks since the June 6 election. "We can solve the problems of Oakland. We can be a great city."
I guess Oakland has become the Elephants' Graveyard for washed-up Dem politicians...
On Saturday, his chief opponent in the race -- City Council President Ignacio De La Fuente -- congratulated Dellums, who won 50.18 percent of the vote. De La Fuente won the support of 32.99 percent of 83,675 total votes cast, followed by City Councilwoman Nancy Nadel and three other candidates. The race took nearly two weeks to decide because thousands of ballots were not counted on election day and Dellums had remained just below the threshold needed to win without a November runoff. Dellums said he had remained confident he would win outright, despite the nail-biting count of absentee and provisional ballots. "I was the calmest person in Oakland these last 10 days," Dellums said. He will succeed two-term Mayor Jerry Brown, who is running for state attorney general. The two men are scheduled to speak by phone today and meet next week.
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I remember back when Dellums was in Congress; he was such a moonbat that the Republicans basically threatened to shut the House down if Dellums made it onto any committee even remotely associated with defense or intelligence, mostly because they were convinced that he'd tell everything he knew to Mother Jones at the first opportunity.
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jeese - I'd never have thought that California would become more corrupt and screwed up than just about anywhere else besides Massachusetts. Such a pity.
He shouted "I'll kill you all!" before driving into a group of people. All that's missing is the "Allan Akbar!"
GLEN COVE, NY (UPI) -- A Virginia teen has been charged with driving his car into a crowd of people outside a bar that had just evicted him in a wealthy part of Long Island, N.Y. Sayed Khaled El-Waraky, 19, of Vienna, Va., was being held without bond Tuesday after the incident early Sunday morning in Glen Cove.
Witnesses told police El-Waraky created a disturbance in the bar, and then threatened the bouncer, who threw him out, the New York Post reported. While getting into his Jaguar, the teen allegedly yelled 'I`ll kill you all,' before heading for the exit and suddenly making a U-turn. Four men in their early 20`s were struck. Monday, one was on a respirator, a second was in a medically induced coma, and the other two were hospitalized with head injuries and fractures, the report said.
El-Waraky`s attorney, Ryan Brownyard told Newsday his client was reacting to 'a mob' that struck him, followed him outside and pounded on the Jaguar. El-Waraky has pleaded innocent to all charges, including depraved indifference for human life, but If convicted could face 25 years to life in prison.
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He shouted "I'll kill you all!" before driving into a group of people. All that's missing is the "Allan Akbar!"
I wouldn't count it out. He was a victom according to his attorney.
"It was not clear what El-Waraky, an Egyptian national who police said was a student at American University in Washington, D.C., was doing on Long Island. Nassau police said El-Waraky, 24, had a previous DWI conviction in Virginia in 2003."
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The President spoke at the graduation ceremony for the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Afterward, one of the graduates gave the President a big bear hug. There was a nice photo run by one of the wire services.
All this was too much for "playwright and sometime actor" Chris Durang, who writes at the Puffington Hostthe Huffasuffaluffagus Post that group blog that wierd Greek Zsa-Zsa imitator from California founded:
Playwright and sometime actor? Translation -- he's unemployed!
Some people sure can be happy. The young man in the picture above lives in an alternative universe from me, clearly. Upon his graduation from Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, N.Y, he was overcome with an irresistible desire to hug President Bush. . . . this young man is just SO HAPPY to see the President, I felt like I was looking at an alien creature. . . . His view of the President is so different than mine -- is the young man not too smart? does he not read the newspaper? is it exciting to see a President no matter what? does he only listen to Fox News? does he feel the President is protectng us all? But he sure does look happy.
Fortunately, there is hope. If you, or someone you know, suffers from BDS, the Rantburg Chapter of Moonbats Anonymous wants you to know that there is a twelve-step program to restore your sanity. We meet every night at the pistol range, just across the street from the Army of Steve Headquarters in beautiful downtown Rantburg. Won't you join us?
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No wonder this talented "writer" (see his brilliant work on IMDB) is so depressed. The graduate he's busy slamming is going to get a job that pays much better than anything he's done lately.
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and the grad will get the pretty girls too! All that our poor depressed girly boy will get are those angry post-menopausal women who share his love hate for Bush.
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I enjoy the angst and moral/elitist superiority from the unknown "famous" people Arianna sucks off of like a lamprey keeps in her liberal "posse" LOL. All the GOP has to do is publish the Huffinpost's sneering comments to get the votes of the rest of America that's alienated
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That and his starring role in two different episodes of Frasier appear to be the high points of his career.
LONDON (Reuters) - The southern end of the San Andreas fault near Los Angeles, which has been still for more than two centuries, is under immense stress and could produce a massive earthquake at any moment, a scientist said on Wednesday.
Yuri Fialko, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla, California, said that given average annual movement rates in other areas of the fault, there could be enough pent-up energy in the southern end to trigger a cataclysmic jolt of up to 10 meters (32 ft). "The observed strain rates confirm that the southern section of the San Andreas fault may be approaching the end of the interseismic phase of the earthquake cycle," he wrote in the science journal Nature. Translation: "She's getting ready to pop"
A sudden lateral movement of 7 to 10 meters would be among the largest ever recorded. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake that destroyed San Francisco in 1906 was produced by a sudden movement of the northern end of the fault of up to 21 ft.
Fialko said there had been no recorded movement at the southern end of the fault -- the 800-mile long geological meeting point of the Pacific and the North American tectonic plates -- since the dawn of European settlement in the area. He said this lack of movement for 250 years correlated with the predicted gaps between major earthquakes at the southern end of the fault of between 200 and 300 years.
Elsewhere on the fault, there were average slippage rates up to a couple of centimeters a year that prevented the build-up of explosive pressure deep underground. When these became blocked and then suddenly broke free they produced tremors or earthquakes of varying intensity depending on the movement that had taken place before and the duration of the blockage. USGS says the most recent major earthquakes in the northern and central zones of the San Andreas fault were in 1857 and 1906.
Fialko said there were three possible explanations for the lack of observed movement in the southern section -- creepage under the surface that had no external manifestation, that it simply might not move as much as the rest or a major blockage. "Except for the first possibility above, the continued quiescence increases the likelihood of a future event," he wrote. Making calculations based on a wide range of land and satellite observations, he discounted the idea of creepage and warned of impending disaster. "Regardless of fault geometry and mechanical properties of the ambient crust, results presented in this study lend support to intermediate-term forecasts of a high probability of major earthquakes on the southern SAF system," Fialko said.
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results presented in this study lend support to intermediate-term forecasts of a high probability of major earthquakes on the southern SAF system," Fialko said.
Golly! Where do I sign up to make money on this type of keen and blinding insight? Did we actually waste tax dollars on this? A Master of the Obvious graphic seems sooo appropriate here.
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San Diego County is relatively clean, but Inland Empire and LA could take a huge hit. Expect to hear an anecdote from Alaska Paul about Park City if he's reading.... it's a good one
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The Earth's gonna eat us alive!
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Just as the muzzies haven't figured out that Allen is indeed in the game, but is using the Americans to clean up their mess, the Enviros haven't figured out that Mother Gaia is also out there and doesn't think that man is something separate from nature. She is about the send the tree hugging, granola chewing, red/greens a message as well.
Hey whatcha say,
There goes LA.
Hey whatch know,
Tie up the boat in Idaho.
Or, "Tales from the Crossfire Central City Gazette"
In the short, brutal life of Michael Mack, there was no cavalry. People who knew him said no infusion of soldiers or cops could have saved him from a bad end. That end came swiftly Tuesday morning. By the time 100 National Guard soldiers and 50 State Police troopers descended on violence-rattled New Orleans, Mack already was zipped up in a body bag, gunned down in a double shooting just blocks from where five teenagers were killed Saturday. Tuesday's shooting left another man clinging to life.
Mack, 22, was found dead inside a dilapidated second-story apartment at Thalia and Saratoga streets in a shooting reported by neighbors at 7:25 a.m. The second victim, Raymond Frith, 21, was listed in critical condition at a local hospital with several bullet wounds, police said. The shooting took place half a dozen blocks from Saturday's quintuple massacre, a crime that put much of the city on razor's edge, even with Tuesday's deployment of federal and state patrols.
"It's the triangle of death right now," Mack's attorney, Gary Bizal, said of the violence-saturated pocket of Central City where the shootings took place. "I told this guy a long time ago to get out of the area. I was concerned for his safety. There was too much stuff going on around him and too much going on in the neighborhood." Of this year's 54 murders, 14 have taken place in Central City, a triangle-shaped area bounded by Louisiana Avenue, Earhart Boulevard and St. Charles Avenue. The five victims gunned down Saturday were not suspects in any of those slayings, but they were implicated in earlier crimes, including a gun-related offense in Jefferson Parish in 2004.
Capt. Bob Bardy, commander of the 6th District where six of the city's last seven victims were killed, said that despite the ultra-violent four-day stretch in his district, crime is not spiking. In fact, it had been relatively quiet before Saturday's bloodbath, he said. Since the killings, though, Bardy said he has tried to boost the morale of his officers, urging them to fight the good fight alongside community leaders.
"I was really concerned with the emotional balance of the officers," Bardy said. "I like to see my guys do a better job than anyone else, but I understand they are going through a lot of pressure right now. I keep telling them, don't make this into what some of the media is making it out to be. It is not a spike in crime and you guys are doing a good job."
As for arresting the person responsible for Mack's killing, Bardy said homicide detectives are making progress. The Crimestoppers confidential tip-line has been humming, he said, and street informants have been helpful. "I think we are well on our way with that one," Bardy said. "I know for a fact that we know who the (suspect) was today and there probably is a warrant being signed as we speak."
Few people were surprised by Mack's death. Not his family. Not his attorney. Not the police. After racking up six juvenile convictions -- including one for murder at age 13 that kept him locked up until he was 21 -- Mack returned to the streets after Hurricane Katrina and was arrested three times on drug charges, court records show. In January, he was booked with cocaine and marijuana possession in a case in which New Orleans police were assisted by agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration. In March, he was booked with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. In April, he was booked with distribution of prescription pills. "He was a well-known Central City dope peddler," said local DEA Chief William Renton. "He had been on DEA radar since 1997."
After each of Mack's recent arrests, he was released after making bail, court records show. And each time, the bail amount decreased, records show: from $35,000 in January, to $10,000 March, to $5,000 in April. The details of those bail arrangements were not available Tuesday. "The Police Department is feeding cases into the system, but the district attorney and courts aren't functioning," said Rafael Goyeneche, president of the nonprofit Metropolitan Crime Commission. "I think New Orleans is teetering right now. And the decisions that are being made about crime right now are just as important as flood protection."
Ya know, this is beginning to sound a lot like a story from the "Crossfire Gazette". All that's missing is a shutter gun at Mack's feet.
Mack was a familiar -- and feared -- figure on his home turf. In 1997, he was described by prosecutors as a "one-man crime wave" after his string of preteen convictions was capped by the juvenile murder conviction. In that case, Mack was found guilty of following a couple to an apartment on Baronne Street, forcing them to their knees in a robbery, then shooting the man in the head when he didn't cough up enough money. That 1997 murder in the 1400 block of Baronne Street was a stone's throw from where Mack was killed Tuesday. And the scene of Mack's killing is about seven blocks from the corner of Danneel and Josephine streets, where the five teens were cut down Saturday about 4 a.m.
Clarence Joseph, 73, a resident of the area for 50 years, tried to wrap his head around the violence Tuesday as he sat on one of the neighborhood's well-worn stoops. "I'm 73 years old and ain't never known nothing to happen like that," Joseph said, removing a straw hat he had tilted over his brow. "Never known nothing like that except for in a war. Five at one time."
The victims -- brothers Arsenio and Markee Hunter, ages 16 and 19; Warren Simeon, 17; Iraum Taylor, 19; and Reggie Dantzler, 19 -- were friends who frequented their old stomping grounds in Central City, even after they began shuffling between New Orleans and Jefferson Parish in 2004. Taylor was a cousin of the Hunters. Police said the five ran tight, and careened together into trouble. Lt. Mike Alwert of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said the five dead teens were implicated in a gun-related crime in 2004, although he said he could not elaborate because of their ages.
So much for the "innocent teenagers" meme in the MSM
More recently though, detectives said they linked Simeon, the Hunter brothers and two other teens to a drive-by shooting May 1 in Jefferson Parish. The shooting was off the mark and did nothing more than shatter windows. Charges of aggravated assault and gun possession were dropped when the uninjured targets refused to talk, New Orleans police said.
Gee, I wonder why?
Investigators are now trying to determine if those would-be victims were involved in Saturday's ambush. New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley said the massacre clearly was an act of vengeance.
Whatever the case, the Rev. Toris Young, an Uptown pastor who is counseling the families of the Central City victims, said he is bracing for the cycle of violence to continue. "Now we have to watch out for another knucklehead that is going to try and catch up with the people who killed those boys," Young said. "They'll get it in their minds that 'I'm going to get them back, that I'm going to find them and spray the whole house and everyone inside.' They'll get it in their minds that they got to die."
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Remember last year, during the hurricane, how the Superdome was a hell-hole of lawlessness and the gangs were shooting at Coast Guard rescue helicopters? All those lurid tales that turned out not to be true?
This kind of sounds like deja vu all over again.
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Will the senate offer a bill establishing a timetable for us to pull out of New Orleans?
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We should be "out of New Orleans" no later than the Congressional Holiday recess, or funding should be cut off to FEMA !!!!!!
NEW YORK - New Yorkers are a polite bunch. No, really, they are. So says Readers Digest.
The magazine sent reporters undercover to 36 cities, in 35 countries, to measure courtesy. New York was the only American city on the list. In a city with a reputation for being in-your-face, New Yorkers seem to be expressing themselves with a new one-finger salute: a raised pinkie. In fact, they seem to have even better manners than people in London, Toronto and Moscow.
Wonder how Berkeley would fare?
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said hes not surprised. He told reporters Tuesday that whenever he travels abroad, he hears nothing but praise for the Big Apples good manners. We are so jaded, he said. We want to think the worst of ourselves, and people from around this country and around the world think exactly the reverse. This tracks with my experience of living in NYC for 14 years.
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I can believe NYC ranked high among world cities, but would rank near the bottom among US metros. But I quibble with their sampling. I would have guessed Japanese citizens rank the most polite, though not the most helpful.
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OK, how did scrappleface get onto MSNBC's server?
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Having lived in both California and New York, I joke with my family about the difference in drivers on each coast. When you want to merge in NYC, people flip you the finger and swear at you, but they let you in. When you want to merge in CA, people smile at you but won't give an inch to let you merge. So maybe NYers are blunt with language and gestures, but deep down have more common sense and decency than Californians. That's my experience.
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Marylanders are my personal fav. No turn indicater is too convenient to use, no space between vehicles is too small to squeeze into, no vehicle is motoring too fast to overtake, no stop sign is too red to run, no motorist is approaching to rapidly to cut off.
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come on....!!! Just cause it's in print doesn't make it so. When you read pieces like this you can be sure it's filed under the heading "promotion".
I'm not saying that NYers are rude .... I'm just saying a little common sense is in order here.
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Heh, Those of us who have been here forever, and have travelled extensively in other US cities, know this to be true.
One caveat. If you are perceived as a non-NYer you get treated better than if you seem like a native.
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It's just that New York politeness is different from other places' politeness. New York politeness is based on the principle that everyone is busy and needs to get things done. Anything that helps people get things done is good; amything that hurts is bad. All else ic commentary.
For example, spending five minutes chatting at the guy at the newsstand at 8am is bad; it blocks other people. Spending a minute at the same newsstand at 10pm is fine; after all, it gets lonely there.
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Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Monday she's sending National Guard troops to help patrol the streets of New Orleans after a request made by Mayor Ray Nagin following six weekend deaths in the storm-damaged city. Nagin made the request earlier Monday.
Outraged New Orleans city leaders also called for state police help after a special meeting to address the killings in an area near the central business district. Detectives are knocking on doors and looking for anyone with information on the killings. Five teenagers were gunned down in a blaze of semiautomatic fire early Saturday. Police said drugs or revenge are possible motives in the teens' deaths. A was man was stabbed to death in an argument over beer on Sunday. Capt. John Bryson said police have no new leads to the killers, and are "begging citizens" who may have information to call Crimestoppers.
City Council members are promising swift action against violence as the city tries to repair itself after Hurricane Katrina. Councilman Oliver Thomas said rising crime could slow both residents' return home and the return of tourism -- the city's biggest business before the hurricane.
John Gagliano, chief investigator for the Orleans Parish coroner, identified the dead to The Times- Picayune newspaper as Reggie Dantzler, Iruan Taylor and Marquis Hunter, all 19 years old; 16-year-old Arsenio Hunter, and 17-year-old Warren Simoen, all of New Orleans. Bryson said none of the victims had any convictions, and police cannot comment on whether a victim had any other police record.
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So, 5 people killed at once. Is that really a Nation Guard situation?
Not if you had an effective police department. I'll wager what sent Ray into a panic was that this shooting took place in the Central Business District. Had it been out in one of the "depressed neighborhoods" it wouldn't have been as big a story.
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#2 - No, the shooting was not in the central business district.
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The WHOLE STATE is OUT OF CONTROL!!!
Well, I didn't notice any shootings in my apartment complex last night. We have been arguing about aluminum alloy selection at work, though, if you feel like reaching.
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What's the exit strategy?
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Ed, I do hope there is an exit strategy, as well as a timeline for pulling our troops out. I wish that Gen. Honore could be in charge of this "exercise." Also, we do need to think ahead of the outcry when the Guard actually shoots someone down there. It'll be BDS all over, but ignoring the fact that the Mayor (Democrat) asked for it and the Governor (Democrat) answered.
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No, the shooting was not in the central business district.
Matt, you're right. Another story I read said that's where it was. I went to NOLA.com and found the correct location.
Of this year's 54 murders, 14 have taken place in Central City, a triangle-shaped area bounded by Louisiana Avenue, Earhart Boulevard and St. Charles Avenue.
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Steve, that's correct. I was in a rush and should have explained my comment. My understanding is that the NG is going to patrol other areas of the City to free up the NOPD to cover Central City and a couple of other hot spots.
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Me thinks perhaps Nagin will be looking for more [federal or state] funding to 'combat' the problem.
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Ya know, I wasn't going to bring this up, but I think it's related. I was on the gulf coast recently for two weeks. In Bay St. Louis, Gulfport, etc, they are rapidly rebuilding. In many areas that looked like an Atomic Bomb went off just a few months ago, they now show no signs of the hurricane at all. Debris is cleaned up. Infrastructure is being rapidly repaired, etc.
Then I went to New orleans. Huge seething piles of garbage and debris are everywhere. Many residents have returned, but sit amidst the ruins instead of doing anything about them. The main attitude I saw was not one of banding together, putting the gloves on, and trying to clean up the mess. No, it was blame the government time. Many other affected areas got very little government assistance, yet they are doing the work on their own, sometimes for 12 to 16 hours a day.
The mentality of most New Orleans residents is something I cannot understand. What is it? Just sit around, point fingers at the gummint, and on Saturday night, go out and kill a few folks? I don't believe the problem is poverty. Many of the areas that I saw repaired had been predominantly 'poor'. They were poor, but not lazy.
A bit of random news from Boston: a rare case of measles was found in the Back Bay area, and an employee of the Christian Science Church was found to be exposed or infected. The Boston Public Health Commission is now asking every member of the church for proof of immunization, but, you know, Christian Scientists dont really do doctors or vaccines.
Over at the otherwise lovely Christian Science Monitor, the majority of the staff hasnt been vaccinated and if just one staffer becomes infected, the rest of the non-immunized staff would have to be quarantined. This has editors rather concerned, as a quarantine situation would leave the paper to be run by a small handful of non-Scientist staffers and interns.
In order to prevent a journalistic catastrophe, CSM staffers have very grudgingly started to get immunizations, even though they believe that the measles threat is not true. Nevertheless, the Public Health threat still stands, and if one staff member gets sick, the quarantine will go into effect. For properly vaccinated editorial assistants, it could be quite the opportunity.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A state judge on Tuesday spared the life of Lewis the cat, whose vicious attacks on neighbors landed his owner in court, but the terrorizing tomcat was ordered confined to the house at all times. "There are no exceptions. None," Judge Patrick Carroll told Lewis' owner, Ruth Cisero. 
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Monday she's sending National Guard troops to help patrol the streets of New Orleans after a request made by Mayor Ray Nagin following six weekend deaths in the storm-damaged city. Nagin made the request earlier Monday.
A bit of random news from Boston: a rare case of measles was found in the Back Bay area, and an employee of the Christian Science Church was found to be exposed or infected. The Boston Public Health Commission is now asking every member of the church for proof of immunization, but, you know, Christian Scientists dont really do doctors or vaccines. 
