Laisse le bon temps rouler!
It was that kind of night in the magical land known as Nawlins. It’s gonna be that kind of day…and night…and the next day…and on through Mardi Gras.
Not that the good people of Nawlins ever needed a reason, really, to party but it IS Mardi Gras season and, well, I understand the city’s beloved professional football team actually won a game last night!
Perhaps, now, the federal government and the good people of the rest of the US of A will get serious about finally repairing the Lower 9th Ward.
Up the road a piece, in another southern state and an alternate reality, 600 chronically angry malcontents and insipidists gathered at Opryland to dance fiddle jigs and complain about the current state of affairs in our great nation.
The highlight of the Teabaggers\’ convention in Nashvile was a 40-minute speech on Saturday night by Sarah Palin, defeated GOP vice-presidential nominee who quit her job as Alaska governor to pursue more fame and riches on the Faux News Channel talking about a book she didn’t write.
Speaking from crib notes on her Palm hand-held device, Palin criticized President Obama for reading speeches from a teleprompter. You betcha…also…too!
“America is ready for another revolution,” Palin told the crowd of insurgents. “How’s that hopey-changey thing workin’ out for you?”
With this kind of incite and intellect she’ll go far.
The only disruption in the weekend came when the ballroom emptied suddenly following an erroneous rumor a blue-light special had just gone off in the same isle as the fried Vienna sausages.
No, just kidding about that last part.
Meanwhile, in the snow- and moribund-bound capital of the nation, Alabama Senator Richard Shelby decided to play Vito Corleone and hold up 70 Obama Administration appointees to federal posts until he gets billions of dollars for his home state in two major defense department projects: a $35 billion tanker project and a new facility at the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville.
Said Sen. Shelby, “some day you may come to me asking a favor…”
Maybe the senator will ease up now that President Obama has asked Republicans – again – to come to the table on health care reform…you know, so they stomp and snort and say, “NO!” Should be fun.
Thank Heaven, the Thomas More Law Center has clarified for us that hate crimes are an affront to the Bible. The center, which specializes in Levitical law, filed a lawsuit claiming the recently-enacted federal hate crimes law, “criminalize(s) the Bible and use(s) the threat of federal prosecutions…to silence Christians from expressing their Biblically-based religious belief that homosexual conduct is a sin.”
Hmmm…heck, I thought the Bible was all about love toward others.
Finally, kudos to Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein for taking a pay cut, this in light of Wall Street’s generous handouts from us taxpayers.
Blankfein will only take a bonus of $9 million this year and that’s nearly half the $17 million bonus paid to J.P. Morgan Chase’s CEO, Jamie Dimon (On the Soles of His Shoes).
Thanks, Lloyd, for setting an example. We know it’ll be tough to live on $9 million.
