Category: government

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Well what do you think of our new President so far?

I have heard a lot of what local people are saying about the changes President Obama has made so far and most of them think he’s headed in the right direction.  Most of the country must think so too with his approval rating I just heard about this morning on the news.  He has a lot to deal with and seems to be on the ball.  That’s good because that’s what we need is someone that’s aware of what’s going on.

I remember seeing President Bush’s face when someone asked him what he thinks about the price of gas being nearly $4 a gallon when it was that high.  President Bush looked at the reporter and said “Is gas really $4 a gallon?”  That’s pretty bad when the President doesn’t even know how much gas costs when the gas companies are gouging us like they have been for the past several years.  Oh well, hopefully President Obama will even do something about that too.

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Man lost his house

You have to watch the city government sometimes and this seems even more true in Detroit, Michigan.  There are lots of houses that are on the list to be demolished because they are in such bad shape.  Well it seems a man bought one of them for $7,000 and got it taken off of the demolition list.  He had put about $30,000 into repairs in the house, went by one day and couldn’t find his house.  It seems the city put it back on the demolition list and didn’t tell him.

“I drove up and down the street three times – where is my house?” Roslonski said. His lawyer, Jeffrey Dworin, said the house was taken off a demolition list, then apparently reinstated without Roslonski’s knowledge. “It happens,” Dworin said.

A message seeking comment was left with the city’s law department, which was closed for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday.

Roslonski is suing Detroit for his losses under a federal civil rights law. He fixed another house on the same street and sold it for $85,000. “I see all these boarded-up and burned-out houses. I’m trying to make the city a better place,” he said.

Can you imagine that happening to you?  It happened a lot down here but most of the houses were not being repaired so they should have been torn down.  This man was fixing the house.  I hope he wins his case.

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No one worked yesterday

I told everyone working on the apartments to take the day off yesterday because they needed to witness history.  That was more important than working for me.  I know there are some people that think this is the worst thing that could have ever happened but they’re wrong!!  This is a great day that will go down in history as just that, a GREAT DAY!!!  One thing is for sure, I didn’t think I would live to see it but thank God I was wrong.

New Orleans has always been known for welcoming PEOPLE to our fair city.  We don’t look at a person and say they aren’t welcome because of their heritage, skin color, accent, or anything else.  Everyone is welcome in New Orleans just as everyone is welcome in America, or used to be.  They should be because the only true ‘American’ are the Indians.  Everyone of us that does not have American Indian in our background, are from another country in all reality.  We are all immigrants but we all became Americans and that’s what is the most important thing.

I sure  hope each and every one of you took the time to watch history in the making unfold before your eyes.  I sure did and loved every moment of it.

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Getting the plans all drawn up

I have a friend that’s an architect and he knows how to design what I want.  After all, that is what an architect does, you know.  Of course you know that.  That was sort of a dumb thing to say but anyway.  I told him what I want and he checked out the upstairs of my business and said it wouldn’t be a problem at all.  He asked what I had in mind and when I told him, he said that he would have the complete plans to me by Wednesday or Thursday at the latest.

He did tell me to check and make sure I could get the permits to do what I wanted.  Well I made some phone calls, went down to the tax office and paid for all the permits I’m going to need.  It was relatively painless too.  They have to come inspect everything once I get all of the blueprints and they have to check them out too.  If everything is as they think it should be, we could be building as early as this weekend.

My architect said that he would call around and find the best deal for me on the materials because he can probably get them cheaper than I ever could with his ‘clout’ around here.  Hey, saving money is my middle name.  He’ll call me tomorrow with the estimate on the materials too.  So now that I have the ball rolling, it’s just about time to start shopping for lighting, ceiling fans, appliances……….no I think he even said he could get those at a discount too.  Sounds good to me.  I’m getting excited about my new project.

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Won’t be long now

Well it won’t be long before the new President is sworn in.  I sure hope he has some good plans to get things back up and running.  There are so many people without jobs and a lot more that are worrying that they’re about to lose their job.

The stock market took it’s toll on every one’s 401K so there are probably a lot of people that were thinking about retiring this year that are having to rethink that.  With all of the bail outs that everyone is asking the government for, I don’t know if we will ever get the National Debt down again or not.  All we can do is hope and pray that this man will do what he said he’ll do.  I think he’ll try awfully hard anyway.

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Happy New Year one and all

Well we all made it through another year.  Now I can hardly wait to see what this new year brings.  Last year was hard on a lot of people.  The new president has a tough job ahead of him but so far, he’s choosing some really good people to help him lead the country out of the mess we’re in.  I sure hope he can anyway.

I feel that it’s time to bring our soldiers and Marines home from Iraq.  We’re not doing much of anything but losing our people now.  They don’t want us there and a lot of us don’t want them there anymore either.  So hopefully the new president will bring them home.

Any time there is an election, there are promises made that they just may intend to follow through on but for one reason or another, they can’t fulfil each campaign promise no matter how hard they try.  Well as long as they at least fulfil most of them, I’m happy I guess.  I have enough to worry about in my own little corner of this world to try and fix the world.  It ain’t gonna happen.  Well I just wanted to wish each and everyone of you a very HAPPY AND PEACEFUL NEW YEAR!!!!!!!

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I thought I was seeing things

SNOW…………..in New Orleans!!!  You got it. The rare snowfall has triggered crashes on major highways and left thousands of people without power.  Schools, government offices and bridges have been closed.  Snow just isnt’ something that we usually deal with so basically we don’t know how to do anything in it except maybe make a snow ball and hit someone with it.

The heavy band of snow coated windshields and grassy areas in New Orleans, where about an inch accumulated.  A peak of eight inches was reported in the town of Amite, about 75 miles northwest of New Orleans. Boy am I glad we didn’t get that much.  There would have been accidents everywhere because we have nothing to remove snow.  It was pretty though!!  See!!

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Proud to honor Veterans

I am so very proud to honor Veterans today.  They deserve far more than just one day though.  They deserve a whole week.  They have done so much for our country that they should get a bonus check from the government on Veterans Day.  What do you think?  Should we try and get something like that for them?  I think it’s the least our country owes them.  So here’s to all of you that have ever served and to those of you that are serving now.

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World recession

I can see every day how things are getting harder and harder for the average families to survive.  With the cost of just about everything going higher, the stock markets around the world going lower and lower, and jobs going away, it’s getting tough to simply survive financially.

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown, announced that the world is going into a recession.  It didn’t take someone like him to tell me that but maybe it did others.  “Having taken action on the banking system, we must now take action on the global financial recession,” he said, speaking to Members of Parliament. “There will be a recession in America, France, Italy, Germany, Japan and – because no country can insulate itself from it – Britain too,” he continued.

I just hope that whoever is elected to be our next President has a good plan to help us here in our country.  We are well known for helping others when they are in need, well WE are in need this time and once we get our country back on solid ground, the rest of the world will follow.  Well, that’s my opinion and you can take for what it is, just my opinion.

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Senator Chambers of Omaha

I don’t know if you have heard about this Senator from Omaha Nebraska ‘suing’ God or not but it is the most bizarre thing I have ever heard of and I’ve heard of some pretty bizarre things in my lifetime living in New Orleans.  The case was thrown out siting not being able to ‘properly serve’ the defendant in the case since there was no address to be able to serve Him, meaning God.

Well that’s not good enough for Senator Chambers.  He said that God is supposed to know everything and therefore is very aware of the suit against Him so with that in mind, he has been properly served.  He wants a ‘cease and desist order’ more or less against God for ‘terrorist type attacks against the Senator’.  That sounds to me like he has had some pretty bad nightmares and is blaming God for them or something about that substantial.

What this sounds to me like is a case of trying to get your name in the papers, online and out there to be seen.  He must really be a lonely person to want so desperately to receive that much attention.  Maybe God will comfort him and forgive him for his……….breakdown for lack of a better word to explain his actions.

It’s crazy lawsuits like this that take up money in the courts for nothing.  He should be made to pay for every bit of the court costs for filing a law suit that has no merritt and maybe then it might stop some of this abuse of the court system and allow them to handle matters that are far more important like murder trials or am I looking at this wrong?  I don’t think so.