Police in Houston find misuse of FEMA's $2,000 debit cards

[Martin Le Acadien]

Re: Police in Houston find misuse of FEMA's $2,000 debit car

He? Isn't that a little before your time too? Quiz: I remember talk about this guy although he died long before I was born. Mama used to talk about how the Kingfish saw to it that the children of Louisiana had textbooks. Name?

Did you ever consider that I might have Acadien ties too? Or that I know as much as you do about Louisiana? Not all Acadiens agree, Martin.

Been There [/img]

Answer: Huey P. Long
Query 1. Who shot Huey P. Long?
2. What saint did he thank for his Election in the Times-Picayune?
3. where is the bridge that bears his name? Parish Please.
4. Where did Evangeline end up and who inspired the story?
5. Name Louisiana's most southern Post Office?
6. Who is my sunshine?
7. Can a French Language Document be filed in the Courthouse?
8. What is a Police Jury?
9. Who is Dudley LeBlanc and what did he sell?
10. Where is the Shrimp and Petroleum Festival Held at?

No fair looking it up in GOOGLE, these are honest to god Louisiana boy-girl questions any Acadien knows.

Good Luck.

Talk to the heel. Not the toe. Shrimp and Petroleum? Good Lord.
Anyone with any sense knows that the Rice Festival is the one that matters. Maine has a shrimp festival in Rockport in August.
The Petroleum Club is in Houston. There is one in Tulsa. Any good coon ass knows the difference between the heel and the toe. Moderator - do not censor coon ass - it has a special meaning in Louisiana.

Been There

Speaking to heels seems to be your style but I digress. Rice Festival is in Crowley! Frog Festival is in Rayne and Shrimp and Petroleum festival is in Morgan City.

1. Who shot Heuy Long-Carl Weiss is credited with the deed but he was not the Gov any more, just elected US Senator!
2. What saint did he thank for his election success-Why ST. BERNARD for favors rendered! (St. Bernard Parish Political Machine delivered the Parish, hard to get the poor folks to vote against ole huey, he was loved.)
3.Jefferson Parish, The Huey Long Bridge was built in 1935 as a railroad bridge and car lanes attached to the side, they are just getting a widening job this year, STRONG OLD BRIDGE!
4. Evangeline was inspirted by the story of Emma LeBouef who came from the Bay de Minas (Modern Truro, NS) and searched for her fiance, Gerald LeBlanc whom she met under the Evangeline Oak in St. Martinville, LA after her and Gerald had met and married others! A memorial park surrounds the Oak called Vermillionville and pays tribute to the Acadiens.
5. Pilottown, LA at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
6. Why Gov. Jimmie Davis, a country singer who sang, You are my Sunshine, My Only Sunshine. 1959 to 1963. Died in 2003 at 103 yrs.
7. French is a legal language in Louisiana, we are more like New Brunswick!
8. People elected from districts to head up Parish Government, each being in charge of the local government in their area, that is, they literally fill the potholes! Replace in most Parishes by councimatice type government with Public works under one person.
9. Why Dudley's HADOCOL SYRUP (ERABLE DE HADOCOL) was touted all over Louisiana by Caravan's of trucks who claimed it could cure anything. 70% percent alcohol made it popular! US Govt put an end to it, but it was c'est bon!
10. Probably couldn't find a festival much less a dance partner!


So you think you know as much about Louisiana as I do, well, Couyon, I live in an area where politics is a sport, English is only spoken to appease l'americains and Canadian TV is played on the Cable System to give us French Programming. My kids learned French at home (PA-PA et MAW-MAW, qui immersion en francais!)

Are we ready to hoist the Maple Leaf, well one daughter is dating a boy from Dieppe, NB and the other wants to live in Quebec! Why, to preserve what is left of our culture!

Don't diss the Canadians or Louisiana, both will probably survive.

I am giving tours of the local Aligator Farm, care to join me!

The word Coon Ass comes from the word conase which means a dull or simple person. Came back to Louisiana during the Second WW, in some quarters not to be used unless you are on FRIENDLY terms. I prefer Acadian, Acadien or Cajun, not the rude Cou Rouge "Coon ASS" which usually used by the Anglais.

 

[Twila]

Re: Police in Houston find misuse of FEMA's $2,000 debit car

I had this in my email today.

Thought provoking for sure. It'll require a bit of research on some points... but I thought I'd share it with all of you and see what you thought, if points can be disproven, etc

• Beyond the historic architecture, the spice-laden cuisine and the beguiling voodoo underground, live close to 500,000 people, mostly poor (more than a quarter live in poverty), mostly black (more than 66 percent), clustered into 73 distinct neighborhoods.
  
  Crime, even before the hurricane, was high. The murder rate has come down in recent years, but remains 10 times the national average.
  
  Last year, researchers had police fire 700 blank rounds in a city
  neighborhood one afternoon. No one called to report the gunfire.
  
  Maybe New Orleans should be nicknamed The Big Un-Easy, due to a high violent crime rate and a high unemployment rate. There's also a significant number of suicides and divorces.
  
  The city's school system is a shambles. The district almost went
  broke this past year, teachers nearly missed a paycheck, and 55 of
  the state's 78 worst schools are in New Orleans.
  
  Dozens of school employees are under indictment for corruption. But then, corruption in New Orleans is nothing new, politicians, judges, the police have all been caught.
  
  These government failures are not merely a matter of incompetence. Louisiana and New Orleans have a long, well-known reputation for corruption: as former congressman Billy Tauzin once put it, "half of Louisiana is under water and the other half is under indictment. That's putting it mildly. Adjusted for population size, the state ranks third in the number of elected officials convicted of crimes (Mississippi is No. 1). Recent scandals include the conviction of 14 state judges and an FBI raid on the business and personal files of a Louisiana congressman.
  
  In 1991, a notoriously corrupt Democrat named Edwin Edwards ran for governor against Republican David Duke, a former head of the Ku Klux Klan. Edwards, whose winning campaign included bumper stickers saying "Elect the Crook," is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence for taking bribes from casino owners. Duke recently completed his own prison term for tax fraud.
  
  The rot included the New Orleans Police Department, which in the
  1990s had the dubious distinction of being the nation's most corrupt police force and the least effective: the city had the highest murder rate in America. More than 50 officers were eventually convicted of crimes including murder, rape and robbery; two are currently on Death Row.
  
  Ten billion dollars are about to pass into the sticky hands of
  politicians in the No. 1 and No. 3 most corrupt states in America.
  Worried about looting? You ain't seen nothing yet.
  
  Why has no one suggested that we write the city off? Pull the plug, let it become part of the river and Lake Pontchartrain, pay all land-owners according to their last tax evaluations, give all resident families maybe a quarter of a million dollars, and a road map to high ground. Cheaper than what we will go through, less threat to public health, but , not as much opportunity for the politicians to steal.

 

[beentheredonethat]

Re: Police in Houston find misuse of FEMA's $2,000 debit car

He? Isn't that a little before your time too? Quiz: I remember talk about this guy although he died long before I was born. Mama used to talk about how the Kingfish saw to it that the children of Louisiana had textbooks. Name?

Did you ever consider that I might have Acadien ties too? Or that I know as much as you do about Louisiana? Not all Acadiens agree, Martin.

Been There [/img]

Answer: Huey P. Long
Query 1. Who shot Huey P. Long?
2. What saint did he thank for his Election in the Times-Picayune?
3. where is the bridge that bears his name? Parish Please.
4. Where did Evangeline end up and who inspired the story?
5. Name Louisiana's most southern Post Office?
6. Who is my sunshine?
7. Can a French Language Document be filed in the Courthouse?
8. What is a Police Jury?
9. Who is Dudley LeBlanc and what did he sell?
10. Where is the Shrimp and Petroleum Festival Held at?

No fair looking it up in GOOGLE, these are honest to god Louisiana boy-girl questions any Acadien knows.

Good Luck.

Talk to the heel. Not the toe. Shrimp and Petroleum? Good Lord.
Anyone with any sense knows that the Rice Festival is the one that matters. Maine has a shrimp festival in Rockport in August.
The Petroleum Club is in Houston. There is one in Tulsa. Any good coon ass knows the difference between the heel and the toe. Moderator - do not censor coon ass - it has a special meaning in Louisiana.

Been There

Speaking to heels seems to be your style but I digress. Rice Festival is in Crowley! Frog Festival is in Rayne and Shrimp and Petroleum festival is in Morgan City.

1. Who shot Heuy Long-Carl Weiss is credited with the deed but he was not the Gov any more, just elected US Senator!
2. What saint did he thank for his election success-Why ST. BERNARD for favors rendered! (St. Bernard Parish Political Machine delivered the Parish, hard to get the poor folks to vote against ole huey, he was loved.)
3.Jefferson Parish, The Huey Long Bridge was built in 1935 as a railroad bridge and car lanes attached to the side, they are just getting a widening job this year, STRONG OLD BRIDGE!
4. Evangeline was inspirted by the story of Emma LeBouef who came from the Bay de Minas (Modern Truro, NS) and searched for her fiance, Gerald LeBlanc whom she met under the Evangeline Oak in St. Martinville, LA after her and Gerald had met and married others! A memorial park surrounds the Oak called Vermillionville and pays tribute to the Acadiens.
5. Pilottown, LA at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
6. Why Gov. Jimmie Davis, a country singer who sang, You are my Sunshine, My Only Sunshine. 1959 to 1963. Died in 2003 at 103 yrs.
7. French is a legal language in Louisiana, we are more like New Brunswick!
8. People elected from districts to head up Parish Government, each being in charge of the local government in their area, that is, they literally fill the potholes! Replace in most Parishes by councimatice type government with Public works under one person.
9. Why Dudley's HADOCOL SYRUP (ERABLE DE HADOCOL) was touted all over Louisiana by Caravan's of trucks who claimed it could cure anything. 70% percent alcohol made it popular! US Govt put an end to it, but it was c'est bon!
10. Probably couldn't find a festival much less a dance partner!


So you think you know as much about Louisiana as I do, well, Couyon, I live in an area where politics is a sport, English is only spoken to appease l'americains and Canadian TV is played on the Cable System to give us French Programming. My kids learned French at home (PA-PA et MAW-MAW, qui immersion en francais!)

Are we ready to hoist the Maple Leaf, well one daughter is dating a boy from Dieppe, NB and the other wants to live in Quebec! Why, to preserve what is left of our culture!

Don't diss the Canadians or Louisiana, both will probably survive.

I am giving tours of the local Aligator Farm, care to join me!

The word Coon Ass comes from the word conase which means a dull or simple person. Came back to Louisiana during the Second WW, in some quarters not to be used unless you are on FRIENDLY terms. I prefer Acadian, Acadien or Cajun, not the rude Cou Rouge "Coon ASS" which usually used by the Anglais.

Dear Toe,

Kneel, prétendant. Pay homage to the royalty of Louisiana. (PS: Peapod, you can be from one place and live in another). My mother's ancestry precedes anything you can possibly imagine. Her ancestors founded New York City. They migrated to New Orleans before the Louisiana Purchase/and I have the plates from Paris to prove it.

Her nieces are biphone/one translated for the Pope. I am not. My 1/2 brother is. Remember, I said I had "acadian ties?" My step-mother is Acadian/from Quebec. My son-in-law is Parisian. My real mother was French. All I have ever known is French, but not
the language. My maiden name was Jewish. My married name is
English. Know your opponent, Martin, before you give out free
invitations to the Alligator Farm.


I have inherited enough silver, crystal, jewelry, photos, etc. to prove that I am from a royal Louisiana family . And, BTW, coon ass does not mean what you said in today's vernacular. It is a term of friendship. Look again at where I am originally from. Carefully.

You have no clue what I am talking about - the heel vs. the toe.
Being able to google does not make one the real thing. You are just spouting off google-factoids to impress these people in Canada. You need some Gator-aid. Louisiana is not like New Brunswick. Quick, he's turning green!

Been There

 

[GL Schmitt]

Re: Police in Houston find misuse of FEMA's $2,000 debit car

Somewhere along this thread I have become irretrievably lost, and must now beg for assistance to be guided back upon solid ground. :?

Of what value does the possession of beenthere’s pedigree of ancestors founding New York City (presumably Dutch?), accumulated Papal biphone nieces, and Parisienne sons-in-laws, or being born with Paris plate up the whazoo have to do with the suggested misuse of FEMA debit cards?

Should I, perhaps, go back to Poe for more ratiocination instruction?

 

[beentheredonethat]

Re: Police in Houston find misuse of FEMA's $2,000 debit car

Somewhere along this thread I have become irretrievably lost, and must now beg for assistance to be guided back upon solid ground. :?

Of what value does the possession of beenthere’s pedigree of ancestors founding New York City (presumably Dutch?), accumulated Papal biphone nieces, and Parisienne sons-in-laws, or being born with Paris plate up the whazoo have to do with the suggested misuse of FEMA debit cards?

Should I, perhaps, go back to Poe for more ratiocination instruction?

What does it have to do with FEMA? Well, Peapod said outright that I was not from Louisiana. Martin doesn't seem to think I know anything about being from Louisiana/therefore not qualified to make any comments. He is talking incessantly about being French/Quebec, etc. So, I threw in my ancestry to try and show that I do come from a French (and Dutch) family. That's all, Mr. Schmitt.

Been There

 

[peapod]

Re: Police in Houston find misuse of FEMA's $2,000 debit car

"He is talking incessantly about being French/Quebec"

So what? He has been here alot longer than you, we enjoy what he brings to the board, last time! lay off martin.

 

[GL Schmitt]

Re: Police in Houston find misuse of FEMA's $2,000 debit car

. . . Well, Peapod said outright that I was not from Louisiana. . .

Despite your roundaboutation, it seems that Peapod was correct.

In spite of your gasconade regarding your French heredity, assuming those claims are authentic and not virtual, (I’m not French, but I can play one on the Internet.) none of it in any way qualifies you as an authority on Louisiana of the present.

Martin Le Acadien can report with some authority, not so much because he is an Acadien (although a familiarity with the locals of today, would undoubtedly give him greater access to current public opinion than your Papal biphone niece) but because he presently resides in Louisiana.

If you also live in Louisiana, or Martin does not, please correct my misapprehension. Otherwise, quit trying to muddy up the waters.

There is enough mud in this thread already.

 

[beentheredonethat]

Re: Police in Houston find misuse of FEMA's $2,000 debit car

. . . Well, Peapod said outright that I was not from Louisiana. . .

Despite your roundaboutation, it seems that Peapod was correct.

In spite of your gasconade regarding your French heredity, assuming those claims are authentic and not virtual, (I’m not French, but I can play one on the Internet.) none of it in any way qualifies you as an authority on Louisiana of the present.

Martin Le Acadien can report with some authority, not so much because he is an Acadien (although a familiarity with the locals of today, would undoubtedly give him greater access to current public opinion than your Papal biphone niece) but because he presently resides in Louisiana.

If you also live in Louisiana, or Martin does not, please correct my misapprehension. Otherwise, quit trying to muddy up the waters.

There is enough mud in this thread already.

More mud - lots more mud!!!!!. I am sitting through a hurricane at this very moment. So - I am entitled to report with considerable authority.

Been There

 

[Martin Le Acadien]

Re: Police in Houston find misuse of FEMA's $2,000 debit car

I had this in my email today.

Thought provoking for sure. It'll require a bit of research on some points... but I thought I'd share it with all of you and see what you thought, if points can be disproven, etc

• Beyond the historic architecture, the spice-laden cuisine and the beguiling voodoo underground, live close to 500,000 people, mostly poor (more than a quarter live in poverty), mostly black (more than 66 percent), clustered into 73 distinct neighborhoods.
  
  Crime, even before the hurricane, was high. The murder rate has come down in recent years, but remains 10 times the national average.
  
  Last year, researchers had police fire 700 blank rounds in a city
  neighborhood one afternoon. No one called to report the gunfire.
  
  Maybe New Orleans should be nicknamed The Big Un-Easy, due to a high violent crime rate and a high unemployment rate. There's also a significant number of suicides and divorces.
  
  The city's school system is a shambles. The district almost went
  broke this past year, teachers nearly missed a paycheck, and 55 of
  the state's 78 worst schools are in New Orleans.
  
  Dozens of school employees are under indictment for corruption. But then, corruption in New Orleans is nothing new, politicians, judges, the police have all been caught.
  
  These government failures are not merely a matter of incompetence. Louisiana and New Orleans have a long, well-known reputation for corruption: as former congressman Billy Tauzin once put it, "half of Louisiana is under water and the other half is under indictment. That's putting it mildly. Adjusted for population size, the state ranks third in the number of elected officials convicted of crimes (Mississippi is No. 1). Recent scandals include the conviction of 14 state judges and an FBI raid on the business and personal files of a Louisiana congressman.
  
  In 1991, a notoriously corrupt Democrat named Edwin Edwards ran for governor against Republican David Duke, a former head of the Ku Klux Klan. Edwards, whose winning campaign included bumper stickers saying "Elect the Crook," is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence for taking bribes from casino owners. Duke recently completed his own prison term for tax fraud.
  
  The rot included the New Orleans Police Department, which in the
  1990s had the dubious distinction of being the nation's most corrupt police force and the least effective: the city had the highest murder rate in America. More than 50 officers were eventually convicted of crimes including murder, rape and robbery; two are currently on Death Row.
  
  Ten billion dollars are about to pass into the sticky hands of
  politicians in the No. 1 and No. 3 most corrupt states in America.
  Worried about looting? You ain't seen nothing yet.
  
  Why has no one suggested that we write the city off? Pull the plug, let it become part of the river and Lake Pontchartrain, pay all land-owners according to their last tax evaluations, give all resident families maybe a quarter of a million dollars, and a road map to high ground. Cheaper than what we will go through, less threat to public health, but , not as much opportunity for the politicians to steal.

Sadly, most of this post Twila is true, New Orleans has had its own set of problems for years, Louisiana's franco-iberian culture inspires us not to be like the "American Puritan work ethic" but more like European type style "laissez le bon temp roulez."

Corruption is ingrained in Louisiana, no doubt about it, living in Louisiana is nothing if not interesting.

To destroy New Orleans is to destroy what makes life interesting!

 

[madrauder]

Re: Police in Houston find misuse of FEMA's $2,000 debit car

I see that you were talking about Huey Long, and I was curious as to know if anyone could tell me more about him, I have recently found that he is a distant relative, my father told me that when the Longs came over from England,their were 8 brothers, 7 of which settled in Canada, and 1, no one seems to know what happened to, other than he went out west.[?] Thank you much.

 

[TenPenny]

RE: Police in Houston find misuse of FEMA's $2,000 debit car

Typical of the FEMA types to take offense. Let's see: they people are homeless, and instead of being useful, you give them a credit card. So what now gives you the right to decide what they use it for?

A bum asked me for change, but at first I wouldn't give him any, because I knew he would just buy booze with it. Then I realized that's all I was going to do with it, anyway.

 

[missile]

Re: Police in Houston find misuse of FEMA's $2,000 debit car

Do you know that the immortal Hank Williams used to do the radio commercials for Hadacol?