“I have a love/ hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship,” he said. “It’s where I live and I feel both cursed and blessed in New Orleans so I was quite terrified to go back and make a movie there.
“I wasn’t born in New Orleans but in some ways you could say that I was reborn there and that I had this very awakening kind of experience in that city, that never happened to me anywhere else.”
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says New Orleans has become the “testbed of government failure,” singling out the Bush administration’s failures during Hurricane Katrina and President Barack Obama’s handling of the Gulf oil spill.
On May 8, 2010, In Defend the Coast, Quote, By dno
A mammoth white containment dome placed over a leaking oil well 5,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico had to be moved away from the well Saturday after ice-like crystals clogged the massive steel-and-concrete box.
The buildup of crystals also made the box too buoyant, BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles said.
“I wouldn’t say it failed yet,” he said. “What I would say is what we attempted to do last night didn’t work.”
He was a fool when he stepped off the plane in Louisiana 4½ years ago, and unfortunately for him, he apparently still is.
Mary Landrieu describing Michael “heck of a job” Brown (from TPM)
On May 7, 2010, In Defend the Coast, Quote, By dno
The U.S. government has stopped issuing new offshore drilling permits while it examines issues related to the deadly explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and the resulting oil spill that continues to threaten the Gulf Coast, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday.
On April 30, 2010, In Quote, By dno
On April 27, 2010, In Quote, By dno
Six final New Orleans police chief candidates named
On April 22, 2010, In Quote, By dno
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on Wednesday convened his final “legislative luncheon” with the city’s Capitol delegation.
On April 5, 2010, In Quote, By dno
Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.
William Golding
On March 21, 2010, In Quote, By dno
Due to problems electrical problems in Taylor Park The Mardi Gras Indian Council’s Indian Sunday has been rescheduled to Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 1pm.