Obama and the Louisiana Flood
Barack Obama, Disasters, Louisiana
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Category Archive 'Louisiana'
26 Mar 2015
Elephants Save 18-Wheeler TruckAmerican Ingenuity, Elephants, LouisianaBusiness Insider describes an emergency situation in which it turned out that the trucker had exactly the right equipment in the back of his cargo bed.
23 Aug 2013
Louisiana Sinkhole Devours TreesBizarre, Disasters, Louisiana, SinkholeShot two days ago by members of the Assumption Parish Office of Emergency Preparedness in Louisiana, an entire stand of trees is suddenly swallowed by an underwater sinkhole above a collapsing salt mine. The sinkhole is part of an ongoing environmental disaster in Bayou Corne, and efforts are underway to prevent it from spreading, however it has already forced the evacuation of an entire town. 11 Nov 2012
The Natural Response to Last Tuesday2012 Election, Louisiana, Secession, TexasPetitions are underway on the White House web-site requesting that Louisiana and Texas each be allowed peacefully to secede. If they succeed, I’ll certainly move there. Deo vindice. ——————— Update: I clearly won’t need to move. As of 12:46 am, Sunday, signatures obtained by Louisiana, 7,358; Texas, 3,771; Florida, 636; Georgia, 475; Alabama, 834; North Carolina, 792; Kentucky, 467; Mississippi, 475; Indiana, 449; North Dakota, 162; Montana, 440; Colorado, 324; Oregon, 328; New Jersey, 301 and New York, 169. Many more States are expected to follow. It was only eleven last time. Hurry up, Virginia! 17 May 2011
Yale’s First African American GraduateCivil War, Genealogy, History, Louisiana, Racial Politics, Randall Lee Gibson, YaleRandall Lee Gibson (above) was valedictorian of the Yale Class of 1853. He had been born a member of the planter aristocracy of Kentucky and Louisiana. He was a keen secessionist and fought for the Confederacy, serving first as an artillery captain then as colonel of the 13th Louisiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Nonetheless, Randall Gibson, Class of 1853, deserves to be counted as Yale’s first African-American graduate rather than Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed, MD 1857, or Edward Alexander Bouchet, Class of 1874. Randall Gibson was the descendant of one Gideon Gibson, who arrived in the Colony of South Carolina in 1730 and who was “a skilled tradesman, had a white wife and … owned land and slaves in Virginia and North Carolina.” Gideon Gibson obtained land grants from the governor of South Carolina and he and his descendants married into the white planter class on the Western frontier. By the 1790s, the Gibson family had forgotten its African origin and ascribed a family tendency toward a dark complexion to Gypsy or Portuguese descent. New York Times article. Randall Gibson fought at Shiloh. His regiment saw action with the Army of Tennessee at Chicamauga. Gibson ultimately made it all the way to the rank of Brigadier General in the Confederate Army. He fought in the Atlanta Campaign and ended the war defending the city of Mobile. After the war and Reconstruction, Gibson was elected to Congress as a democrat from 1875 to 1883 and served as senator from 1883 to until his death in 1892. He was a trustee of Tulane and a hall at Tulane University is named for him. Reading all this moved the Atlantic’s race blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates to observe: Race is such bullshit. 14 Apr 2010
Real Political Violence (Or Perhaps Not, After All)Alee Bautsch, Corrections, Corrections and Retractions, Crime, Louisiana, New Orleans, Political Violence, The Left
We heard a great deal from democrats, the dinosaur media, and the punditocracy of the left recently about conservative rhetoric and all sorts of supposititious threats of violence to democrats who voted for the health care bill. No actual violence, of course, ever actually occurred. It turns out, on the other hand, that leftwing violence these days is quite real. Last weekend, Allee Bautsch, an aide to Republican governor Bobby Jindal and her boyfriend were savagely beaten in New Orleans and both were seriously injured.
The attackers were probably persons involved in a radical protest against a Louisiana State Republican Party fund raising dinner taking place at a local restaurant. The Hayride, a local political blog, describes the protesters. —————————————————– Several prominent conservative blogs are reporting today that the victims were uncertain about whether their attackers had any connection to the demonstration and did not identify any specifically political insults from their attackers, including both Michelle Malkin and Ed Morrissey.
On the other hand, the local blog Hayride (which covered this story in a lot of depth) is still arguing today that the attack was definitely politically motivated. I wonder exactly how much of the full story is yet to emerge at this point. 10 May 2008
Unpaid Guard at Louisiana’s Angola PrisonAngola Prison, Black Bear, Louisiana, Natural HistoryAP:
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