Dear 52%:
I have a proposition:
Three years from now, if my life and my surroundings are better off as a direct result of Barack Obama being president and his policies becoming law, I will vote for him in 2012. If not, I will vote for the Republican candidate.
Now please quit chanting "Hope & Change" and "Yes We Can." so loudly into my ear. I need to get busy at work.
-KIE
Office Hijinks will also double for office fantasy football entries that would otherwise fall into the Life in general category.
These are the 4 teams in my division.
From left to right (west to east):
Moss Bluff Cruisers (myself)
Laplace Gators
Waveland Wusses
Perdido Pelicans
Pay attention, as I will reference these later this year.
This would historically be the 2006 NFC West of fantasy football divisions. The Gators are a perennial hard luck team, the Cruisers are a bad luc
Behold, the end of C. Ray Nagin's trial on counts of bribery during his term as mayor of New Orleans. ...courtesy WDSU, NBC affiliate in New Orleans, LA (and whose offices are catercorner from my office (parking lots both open to Carondelet St)). I've wanted to post about my computer for a few weeks now, but I haven't gotten around to it. This, this is something I couldn't delay in posting, not when I borrow one of his most famous lines to entitle my blog. It would behoove me to learn more
*takes a page from countless international observers who appeared to have assumed a McCain-Palin victory would have meant 4 more years of backwards podunk politics in Washington, D.C.*
Welcome back to the rest of America, New Orleans.
Louisiana elects the first Indian-American to the Governor's Mansion, and the first Vietnamese-American to Congress. Heh, maybe we are on the cutting edge after all.
I am locking this before discussion begins, but I do welcome the discussion off the pu
For a while this past winter (What? Winter's over, right?), the IAFF and the JP council were up in arms about issues like firefighter pay and leave. At least, that's what I think it was. I'm pretty sure that, when approached with a petition in January, the petition, what the off-duty firefighter who explained the situation said, and the resolutions that signaled the end of threats of firefighter strikes at the council meeting a month ago, said three different things.
For a while, things got awf
2009 shall be known as the Year of the Cruiser.
Before this year, no fantasy team by the name "Moss Bluff Cruisers" ever managed by yours truly had ever won any league of any sort. 0-11 in baseball, 0-5 in football. I was fine with this: someone has to lose these games, and apparently, this was my niche.
2009 met the Moss Bluff Cruisers in much the same way as 2006 and 2007: an 0-3 start behind ineffective play by their star 2nd round and 3rd round running backs: Brandon Jacobs and Clinton
<image to be added at a later date> This time I'm walking to New Orleans I'm walking to New Orleans I'm gonna need two pair o' shoes when I get through walkin' these blues When I get back to New Orleans I got my suitcase in my hand now ain't that a shame I'm leavin' here today yes, I'm going back home to stay yes, I'm walkin' to New Orleans you used to be my honey 'til you spent all my money no use for you to cry I'll see you by and by 'cause I'm walking to New Orleans I've got
End of an era....
All of the comments in the NOLA.com blog I copied are well-wishing.
Except one: one guy made the comment that Jefferson Parish will become the new New Orleans: all the thugs that he kept out for 20 years will be moving in.
-KIE
Tracy Porter, you are a hero.
With 3:22 to play, you delivered the backbreaker, the legend-slayer, the forever-curse-breaker.
Nine times the Lombardi trophy has left New Orleans. For the first time ever, it comes to New Orleans. To stay.
I don't know what the next CBA will hold, but 43 years are a distant memory now.
WHO DAT! WHO DAT! WHO DAT SAY DEY GONNA BEAT DEM SAINTS!
-KIE, collapsing in a heap
I'm so proud of my girlfriend today.
Today is the first day, the first step on this next leg of her trip back from the edge. I am humbled to be party to this journey, and am sure I will be in awe of the future transformation.
I love you, Amanda, and I will be here for you all the way back.
-KIE
Not just reeling anymore: Writhing. In pain.
I take solace in that there was nothing I could have done to win this past fantasy game against Dahveed's Dominion.
This week, the Cruisers host the comissioner's team, the Touchdown Titans, in a battle of 2-4 teams desperate to get off 2 and 4 game schneids, respectively. Odds are, I'm taking the loss here. Still only 3 games back, though, as Frank's team didn't show up last weekend, making him 5-1 on the season.
In the spirit of the autumnal
This entry is not directly about the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, the Brady bill, the National Rifle Association, the events of April 16, 2007 in Blacksburg, VA, or any gun control movement.
This entry is, however, directly related to the intent of some people to make money hand-over-fist with no regard to the consequences of their actions.
Would've posted this yesterday had I seen it before the server got all ouruboros.
From yesterday's Times-Picayune:
Somet
Oh my. Looks like I have some catching up to do.
Once more, in the style of the quick hit:
66 anything-larger-than-a-funsize-candy-bar is a lot to eat in 12 minutes. You couldn't pay me to be on Coney Island last Wednesday. Had Jimmy Rollins hit that home run a section closer to the foul pole, I would've caught it. Seriously, it landed on the same row & seat as my ticket, just the wrong section. Seems like many people don't know how to drive large vehicles in rainy weather. (Here's a hi
