Guest Post :The Hancock County Alliance for Good Government January 2013 Newsletter
Hope everyone had a wonderful and blessed Christmas and will enjoy all the best in the New Year. And speaking of the New Year, it is going to be a busy one politically in Hancock County. Two of our cities, Bay St. Louis and Diamondhead will be holding municipal elections. The Hancock County Alliance for Good Govenment plans to be involved in both sponsoring forums, etc.
It is going to be interesting to see how the fiscal situation in our nation and state affects us locally from municipal governments to school districts.
Both of our school districts are implementing the new Common Core Curriculum, which is being done nation wide. Everyone has to follow the same rules, so we would encourage our educators to dig in their heels, and give it their best shot for the kids.
Our state leaders seem to be dedicated to supporting Charter Schools. We’ll never know how they would work in our state until we try them. One advantage is that if the Charter School does not produce, it gets shut down. Pity we can’t operate under that format with some of our public schools in our state.
We are still of the opinion that consolidation of school districts would also be beneficial primarily for the students. It has been suggested to our legislature since a study was done in 1993 to consolidate districts and take the money saved in eliminating duplication of administrative costs and put it in the classrooms. It just seems to fall on deaf ears, and our state leaders contilnue to wonder why we lag behind nationally in education year after year. Read the rest of this entry »
The American Zombie Unmasks Randall Cajun of Real Malice: “U AN OVIOUS”
Some would call Randall Cajun at the new Real Malice Blog an anonymous coward and be well within their rights to do so. I certainly could because I post using my real name here on Slabbed and it was no secret my early handle Sop81_1 was me. I won’t though because people sometimes need to be anonymous on the internet. However jackassery is not a good reason to be anonymous. Jason Berry at American Zombie explains:
So this comment just came in on my last post:
Randall Cajun has left a new comment on your post “A pet peeve“:
I’m not sure about your pet peeve being valid. Writing on “comments” sections might truly be properly labelled as blogging. Don’t want Maselli Mann and Perricone to give you a bad name? You can’t really blame the MSM or others for calling them bloggers. Think Blogger, GoDaddy, and Google are somehow different from Advance?
And what’s up with the people you would call bloggers? Is blogging supposed to be about personal agendas and vendettas vented online and hidden behind “blogging” as though it was some MSM journalistic enterprise? Take Vandenweghe, for example. It seems like she may have had longstanding personal agendas she vented as a “blogger,” like I suggest at real-malice.blogspot.com. Also, what about Maselli-Mann and Vandenweghe? What’s up with that? What about Vandenweghe’s recent lunch with Broussard? Kinda hypocritical, no?
Soooooo…..here is his IP and location from my stats:
OK folks, after you go see Randall Cajun posts from Yarmouth Nova Scotia (especially read Jason’s comment) come back and finish reading this post because we gotta do some speculating. Read the rest of this entry »
Thespian: Part 1
Kill the head ~ Former New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator Greg Williams.
Jim Brown’s Weekly Column: We still went over the fiscal cliff.
Thursday, January 10th, 2013
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
WE STILL WENT OVER THE FISCAL CLIFF!
After all that talk about falling off the fiscal cliff, you just knew that members of congress would do the right thing, and work out a compromise on the federal budget that would curtail any additional new spending, close generous tax loopholes, reign in entitlements, and take a dramatic whack out of current spending. Isn’t that what congressional leadership is all about, particularly at times of major financial crisis?
But did the congressional leadership (perhaps an oxymoron that could join the ranks of “virtual reality” and “call me, maybe”) of both parties really put the national interest ahead of their party loyalties? The public doesn’t think so. A national poll, taken right after the ”fiscal cliff” vote in Washington, found that the approval rating of Congress had fallen to an all time low of 9 percent. To put this number in perspective, a recent Gallup poll found that polygamy was morally acceptable to 11 percent of the population, with a similar 11 percent approving of the U.S. becoming a communist country. The BP oil spill was OK with 16 percent of the population. Having our life immersed in oil sludge is now more acceptable than the current conduct of congress.
One of the non-negotiable issues with the Republican leadership in congress had been to curtail expenditures. We kept hearing that “there is a spending problem.” The GOP mantra repeated over and over was the George H. W. Bush proclamation of, “Read my lips — no new taxes.” As negotiations wound down to the final drop dead date of December 31, there immerged support from both parties to stick a tax increase to the rich — those making more than $450,000 a year. Continue reading……….
Slabbed Investigates: Continued bad times at the Legal Department at the Super 8 Motel on Clearview
Vaughn Perret, Daniel G. “Danny” Abel and Charles Leary posing for the business media in Nova Scotia at Trout Point Lodge
Are we noticing a trend with the Legal Department at the Super 8 Motel on Clearview Parkway and the media yet folks? It is all here on these pages:
- Luncheons with Ashton Phelps after which the Times Picayune stopped covering major aspects of the corruption scandal in Jefferson Parish.
- Public records requests from Val Bracy at Fox 8 that never resulted in any news stories despite the fact one of the returns revealed Aaron Broussard was conducting business for First Bank and Trust on Parish of Jefferson letterhead. Lee Zurik was Bracy’s boss during that time frame.
- Travel media in Canada taking payola for promoting Aaron Broussard and Danny Abel’s business interests at the resort at Trout Point in Nova Scotia.
- Glowing reviews from the Times Picayune circa 2001 openly touting Aaron Broussard’s connection to the Resort at Trout Point. Later repeating these same facts in the news resulted in multiple lible suits against NOLA area media outlets including Slabbed New Media by Broussard’s business agents in Nova Scotia, Charles leary and Vaughn Perret.
- Letters to the daughters of connected local political types like Amy Sneed, formerly of WDSU, which illustrate the much deeper social relationships that compromise most of the NOLA main stream media.
- Promotion of lawsuits filed by The Goatherders where they serve as plaintiffs or provide representation such as this Travel scam lawsuit by Carl Finley promoted by Uptown Jewish Women on Fox 8 that crashed and burned or the infamous Gates v Strain where Slabbed exposed the disingenious reporting by Channel 4 on the various lawsuits against St Tammany Parish officialdom filed by Abel’s “son” Shane Gates aka Shane D’Antoni.
The last bullet point brings me back to 2010 and a family on the Northshore that found themselves in a legal pickle involving the ownership of the lot upon which their house sat as Channel 4′s Dennis Woltering explains:
Butch and Nicole Martin say their home here in Abita Springs is in many ways everything they have always wanted.
“The house is beautiful,” Butch Martin said. “We absolutely love it.”
Trouble is, when they had some financial troubles and were forced to try to sell it, they discovered they probably don’t own the lot where the house sits.
“We own the house, but not the yard,” Nicole Martin said.
A buyer was ready to purchase their home more than a year ago, but then two days before closing the buyer’s title, the insurance company notified the Martins that the sale could not go through.
“We got a phone call to notify us that we had a bad title, and we actually didn’t even own the property,” Butch Martin said.
The Martins say they now believe that the property under their house was taken from the heirs of the original landowner, William Nill.
“The property was basically stolen,” Butch Martin said.
But this short snippet from Woltering’s story does not do the story justice so I feel compelled to embed the link to Woltering’s report on the fleecing of the Martins and their title insurance carrier Fidelity National because the Martin’s were hosed as it is clear Northshore lawyer Bill Magee engaged in specious land transactions around a decade ago. Read the rest of this entry »
Must read: “U AN OVIOUS”
This is exactly what one of the legendary Davichy brothers told me way back in the day on Yahoo Finance when I tried my hand at the dark arts of Sockpupperty. I’ve since become accomplished at said Dark Art but it is magic I do not use on Slabbed and rarely use anymore anyplace on the internet.
Why do I mention this? Mark Moseley over at the Lens has a new column out on Sal Perricone, new blogger “Randall Cajun”, Slabbed, American Zombie and NOLA that is very good. It appears a secret regarding Slabbed is now out.
Sal, drop me a line.
Let’s join Lawrence Chehardy, the Krewe of Argus and party hardy! Part 5 of 5
I have about 2,000 pages just like the ones I have shown in this series. Part 5 of 5:
