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Hot 8, live in Paris, on Valentine's day

Doing Marvin Gaye's Sexual Healing. Can it get any better?

THE HOT 8 BRASS BAND- Sexual Healing - Live Paris 02.08
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Maybe it can: Rock with the Hot 8

THE HOT 8 BRASS BAND - What's my name (Rock with the Hot 8)
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Never underestimate the power of blogging

...or for that matter, intellectual honesty.

Tim Goeglein has loyally served President Bush for over seven years and worked tirelessly on his behalf to promote the President's policies. Among his contributions, Tim helped establish the President's Faith-Based and Community Initiative, and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. He also played an important role in the confirmation of Supreme Court Justices Roberts and Alito.

Today, Tim accepted responsibility for the columns published under his name in his local newspaper, and has apologized for not upholding the standards expected by the President. The President was disappointed to learn of the matter, and he was saddened for Tim and his family. He has long appreciated Tim's service, and he knows him to be a good person who is committed to his country. President Bush accepted Tim's resignation today.

Nancy probably doesn't feel fantastic about revealing something that cost a man his career, but he's the one who plagiarized over half of the editorials he submitted. At least 20 of 38. Damn.

Let Nancy know she did the right thing.

“You think the first time he gets caught is the first time he does it?”

Gettin' bit.

Plagiarism will almost always come back to bite you. Ask Tim Goeglein, a white house public liaison officer, who decided that cutting and pasting = original thought. Goddess Nancy Nall, also a NuPac'er, broke the story, and it is all over the internets.

Wonder if the bitch will get fired from la casa blanca? Nyaaahhh...it's all a plot of the liberal blogosphere.

Go tell Nance she done good.

Speaking of liberal blogosphere, I'm honored to now be on the blogroll of David Mills, aka Undercover Black Man. He posted a link on his blog to a post by "white racialist" Ian Jobling. This stuff just pisses me off so much, I go all Gregor Mendel on Jobling's lily white ass.

Tell me you didn't see this coming.

"The Saints are raising ticket prices for the first time in two years, ranging from $3 to $65 per game, depending on the seat location."

Surprise surprise...well, it could have been worse. Thank goodness I don't sit ringside.

Looks like they're jacking up Miss Ellie's tickets $25 a game.

"The Saints will offer one fewer game in their ticket package this year because their Oct. 26 home game against the San Diego Chargers has been moved to London. Fans won't be charged for that game. But they will be able to buy tickets or travel packages for the London game through the National Football League before they go on sale to the public."

Mighty, mighty Christian of you boys to think of us plebeian season ticket holders. Mighty.

In other news, we may have a new linebacker, and Copper, Nesbit, and Goodwin have re-signed. The bad news about Goodwin re-signing is that it pretty much means that Jeff Faine is leaving. Faine gave me some beads, and he's been a rock solid center. At least, with Jonathan Goodwin, we're keeping the J5 name intact.

Speaking of rock solid, Olindo Mare was cut.

Bad memories

"Antoinette Frank returned to an Orleans Parish courtroom this morning, almost 13 years after a jury condemned her to die by lethal injection for a 1995 rampage that left three people dead at a local Vietnamese restaurant."

Unfortunately, Judge Frank Marullo, who drops the ball more than Devery Henderson, dropped the ball.

"Judge Frank Marullo, who presided over her trial and set today's hearing, postponed the matter after meeting with Frank's appellate lawyers. At issue is Frank's recent appeal to the United States Supreme Court, which on Feb. 19 refused to review her death sentence.

Frank's attorneys have 25 days from that ruling to ask for a rehearing. Marullo said he had called today's hearing prematurely and rescheduled it for April 14."

Antoinette Frank is a bad person, and the sooner she's gone, the better.  This, from a guy who's not really in favor of the death penalty.  The other one of her ilk that needs to be dispatched is our old buddy Robocop.

HRC in the Bridgemen

OK, this is probably of interest only to me, but the outfit Hillary is wearing here reminds me of the uniform of the Bridgemen drum and bugle corps. The Bridgemen's uniforms were, of course, modeled after pimp suits.

Alan Richman: the golden clog

Tony Bourdain and Ruhlman created the Golden Clog awards, in order to provide a lighter Beard awards, and slam the Food Network simultaneously.

Selected winners:

They gave the coveted Douchebag award to Alan Richman, for crapping all over New Orleans.

Chef Donald Link of Cochon received the "THE CRAZY BASTARD SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD For the chef/operator who did the most insanely wonderful or heroic fucking thing in recent memory". If you don't know why he got it, watch the New Orleans episode of No Reservations. Available for download for $1.99 on iTunes.

Unfortunately, Ruhlman himself did not win the "Jack Barry and Dan Enright" award for rigging iron chef America so that his buddy Symon got it instead of John Besh.

H/t to Mark C. and appetites.

LA Supreme court to hear Newcomb College suit

Sophie Newcomb finally gets her day in court, to the chagrin of Scott “everything or nothing” Cowen.

Donors are not stupid. They can clearly see a pattern here. If the Louisiana Supreme Court lets the appeals court decision stand, it will have a chilling effect on charitable giving in this very needy state. The courts will be telling donors: Give at your own risk. The charitable organizations you support are under no obligation to use your gifts for the purpose you have designated. If this happens, many people may, understandably, stop giving.

Way to go, Scotty boy. You're gonna lose this one, and the cost to the University -- not just the cost in goodwill you've already levied against Tulane, but the financial cost to reinstate Newcomb after you tried so damned hard to obliterate it, will be the final straw for the board, and they'll boot your misguided profiteering ass to the curb.

Especially interesting, since university presidents no longer need qualifications, just connections.

BTW, that's Sophie Newcomb, not Sophie Nuke'em.

Clarence Ray Nagin: a tenuous grope of reality

Man, he's lost it. 

Serious, man.  He's absolutely lost it.

He's got a home in Texas, why doesn't he just move there?  They won't try to "stalk his family" there.

At this point, he honestly needs help.

Yeah, sure he's evil, he's corrupt, and he's a jerk, but today he proved he's also mentally ill.

Paulsen: I hear from a lot of reporters, press people, they say that the mayor is just not accessible to the media.

Nagin: How much more accessible can I be? You ask me to come on every other week on this show, I’ve done that.

Paulsen: You’ve been very good about that.

Nagin: I’m out in the community.

So now, Nagin is using the Clay Davis defense.  Brilliant, Clarence, just brilliant.  You don't have receipts because you were handing the cash to the poor!  You don't have time to be accessible because you're busy being accessible!

The Aryan Nation is after you?  Sheeeeee-it.  It's the white and black folks that live here that you lied to that want to see your head on a stick.  Put it at the city line as a warning to others.

Nagin: I have busting my butt bringing this city back.

Anything to keep the brand out there, bitch.  I guess what we would call "campaigning" and "fund raising" you would call "busting your butt".

Paulsen: You’ve gotten a lot of heat over the past couple of years. I’ve never seen you this emotional.

Nagin: Well because, your newscast, the local newspapers, are feeding these awful, ugly talk shows that are feeding these blogs. If you go look at some of these blogs out there and some of the stories that come from the paper and you read the comments, it’s some of the most vile, angry, people that I’ve ever seen in this community.

Paulsen: Are you concerned about your safety.

Nagin: I’ve got coverage. If somebody approach me wrong, I’m going to cold cock them. That’s the bottom line. You can come with that foolishness if you want, but you’ll see a side of Ray Nagin that you haven’t seen.

I want to see that side, See-Ray.  The side I haven't seen. 

The honest, competent side.

Evidently, nobody else has seen it either.

OK, first, if it's the NOLA.com forums, yeah, they're racist idiots.  If it's the NOLA blogosphere you're talking about, then you are once again as delusional as Eddie the Eagle.

Pretty much every single thing we write is backed up with references.  The only thing making you look like an idiot is that guy that looks back at you in the mirror.  You've had chances to avoid the appearance of impropriety, but you'd rather make sure your buds got their kickbacks.

And if you try to cold cock me, See-Ray, I'm gonna knock your wormy egotistical ass back to Texas.

Oh, and Clancy, who, BTW, endorsed Nagin and endorsed PBJ, thinks that we're the wahoos.  Clancy, more people read my blog in a day than read yours in a week.  You are such a supreme egotistical self-righteous schmuck. But thanks for writing!

Finally, Clarence, if this picture puts you and your family at risk, then you deserve every little bit of it, you twit.

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Update: The yellow blog and Liprap have textual and visual listings of others to be "cold-cocked".

Shattered

Sha doo bee, shattered, shattered.