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According to Adam Causey at The Times, Monday's Shreveport City Council meeting was a little confusing, while yesterday's meeting got downright nasty. The subject was a vote to put up 740 acres of city land, mostly right of ways, for lease with the state mineral board. At Monday's meeting the council was trying to ascertain if contact had been made with the mineral board. A city attorney stated that Chesapeake was taking care of it. On the face of it, it seems strange to me that an energy company would be doing this. The purpose of placing it with the Mineral Board is so it will be up for public bids, not so a deal between the city and Cheseapeake can be consummated. Councilman Long got frustrated and left the meeting to call the Mineral Board himself. On Tuesday the mayor questioned the council's judgment in putting the land up. A lot of Shreveport residents are unhappy because Twin Cities Development (Chesapeake's leasing partner) refuses to deal with inner city neighborhood associations. When the mayor stated that the arrangment "undermines" local government and residents' best interests, feathers got ruffled. Councilman Joe Shyne booed the mayor and Chairman Ron Webb immediately gaveled an end to the meeting. I think the mayor has a point and there is no need to rush into it. If he vetoes it, a vote of 5-2 will be needed to override.
Funeral services will be held Friday in Dallas for Sgt. Gregory Owens, Jr., who died July 20, 2009 in Wardak Province, Afghanistan of wounds from an improvised explosive device.
Burial will be in Mooringsport, La. north of Shreveport on Saturday at 2 PM. He was assigned to the 4th Battalion, 25th Field Artillery (STRIKE), 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, N.Y. The burial will be conducted with full military honors by soldiers from Fort Polk and an escort by the Patriot Guard Riders. The cemetery is at 1240 Republican Church Road, south of Blanchard Furrh Road.
Haynesville, the documentary movie about the Haynesville Shale has been completed. The film focuses on the lives of three people and the impact the shale action has had on them. Check out the Haynesville Movie website, watch the trailer and read about the people who made the film. You can also stay in touch with Haynesville on: Facebook and Twitter.
The Bossier Press-Tribune reports that a 64 year old woman was arrested in Old Bossier for selling $58 worth of Vicodin and Lortab to an undercover officer. Honey Mae White was booked into Bossier Maximum and her bond is set at $150,000. Meanwhile, Pablo Ahbert-Mata, 21, was arrested Saturday night after throwing a beer bottle at someone in Tootie’s bar because the man was wearing a sombrero. He then pulled a knife and acted in a threatening manner. Pablo’s bond was set at $3,650. Ahbert-Mata admitted to deputies that he is in the country illegally. The purpose of paying bond is to ensure that the person charged will not flee the jurisdiction. Apparently the system reasons that the 64 year old resident will take her ill-gotten $58 and flee the country, whereas a person who is in the country illegally will not attempt to escape justice. After all, a (very) few pills in the hands of an undercover officer is much more dangerous than a 21 year bottle throwing, knife bearing “undocumented” person. If someone comes up with that bond, I’ll bet he’ll be wading the Rio Grande within a day.
I haven’t been called a socialist or a liberal Democrat in about a week, and I must be missing it, because I cannot let this one go any longer.
What is the deal with the birth certificate controversy?It has actually become a sort of movement, and people seem happy to carry the label ‘birther’.
Examine the facts.
World Net Daily is generating a lot of money in product sales and in donations, so it is easy to understand their continued demand that a ‘long form’ birth certificate be produced.
World Net Daily originally ran stories that the birth certificate posted on the website was a forgery, but later withdrew that claim.
“A separate WND investigation into Obama's certification of live birth utilizing forgery experts also found the document to be authentic. The investigation also revealed methods used by some of the bloggers to determine the document was fake involved forgeries, in that a few bloggers added text and images to the certificate scan that weren't originally there.”
DOH spokeswoman Janice Okubo said about the birth certificate posted by the Obama campaign last fall “is considered a birth certificate from the state of Hawaii."
The governor of Hawaii has been accused of ‘sealing’ Obama’s birth records.The governor, who by the way is a Republican who campaigned for John McCain, did not interfere in the matter at all.State law in Hawaii requires that the records are confidential.Louisiana has the same requirement.
“State law (Hawai‘i Revised Statutes §338-18) prohibits the release of a certified birth certificate to persons who do not have a tangible interest in the vital record," DOH Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said.
Fukino said that no state official, including Gov. Linda Lingle, ever instructed that Obama's certificate be handled differently from any other.
Fukino said she and the registrar of vital statistics, Alvin Onaka, have personally verified that the health department holds Obama's original birth certificate.
"Therefore, I as Director of Health for the State of Hawai‘i, along with the Registrar of Vital Statistics who has statutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, have personally seen and verified that the Hawai‘i State Department of Health has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures,"
Think about it.The Director of Health and the Registrar of Vital Statistics, the people who are in charge of maintaining these records, certified that they have seen the original and are certifying that Obama was born in Honolulu.
I had a conversation with someone last week who ‘had his doubts.’I outlined the above facts and his reply was “there are still too many unanswered questions . . “.When I asked what questions he was referring to, he simply trailed off into some comments about ‘he may have traveled on a British Passport and he won’t release his college records because they might show that he was registered as a foreign student . . “.
Some people just won’t give up.
Perhaps they would be better served if they turned their attention to the healthcare debate, the stimulus, and a national debt that is out of control.
The Old River Road has a video that shows a Baton Rouge police lieutenant removing an anti-'Obamacare' protester who was having an amicable conversation with a supporter of the legislation. Read the blog post and watch the video, it is disturbing. Also posted at And So it Goes in Shreveport.
Alexandria author and talk show hostReuben Armstronghas created quite a stir with his latest book Crooks and Homos in the Pulpit.
Armstrong isn’t shy about taking on some mega churches and their leaders.
Do church leaders such as Bishop T.D. Jakes, Bishop Eddie Long, Dr. Creflo Dollar, Joel Osteen, or reported homosexual Pastor Ted Haggard truly understand God's Word? If so, why have they become corporate CEO's, allowing money, greed, and materialism to take over their souls? These leaders are whoring God's people from the pulpit, while teaching legions of pimps, crooks, liars, and homosexuals, who pose as pastors, to follow in their footsteps.
In an interview with Channel 5 in Alexandria provided bywesawthat, Armstrong discusses churches in Central Louisiana.
In Central Louisiana there are good churches, so I don’t want people to think that all pastors are out there fleecing the flock, I don’t want people to believe there aren’t good churches out here.I do believe there are good churches here . . . but we, as people in the body of Christ, we have to be careful of what’s going on in our churches today.
Armstrong’s books are available at Books A Million and on Amazon.
From lots of great pictures from the Global Wildlife Center at Thanks, Katrina to talk about blue dogs and puppy dogs at And So it Goes in Shreveport, the Louisiana blogosphere has been active this week.
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
That’s from Alex at Alex Cenla’s Rants & Ravings. He also has some great pictures of Alexandria back in the day. Joshua Delano at Bayou Perspective is blogging about Bobby Jindal’s latest effort to establish his niche as a frontrunner. FYI, Jindal will be on CBS Face the Nation tomorrow. Darrell at My God’s Been Good is helping all of us to keep our feet on the ground and realize what is really important in life. Todd is trying to insinuate, in a very meek manner, that his wife should have removed the wallet from his pants before washing. Todd may be doing some washing himself if he isn’t careful.
Louisiana has some great blogs. Take time to read them, you'll find them worthwhile.
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I was checking Maggie Lee’s Caring Bridge page this morning and read the update from her father, John Henson.He wrote of coming back into the room at 5:00 this morning after a cup of coffee in the hospital cafeteria.
For just that moment, I had forgotten that she is hooked up to what must be miles of wiring, tubes and drugs. It wasn’t registering in my sleepy head that she is in the hospital, in a Critical Care Unit where someone must tend to her minute by minute. It somehow escaped me that her body is at dis-ease and has been that way for almost two weeks now. I walked up to her and started to wake her like I’ve done so many times before, but that moment ended and I remembered where we were.
He goes on to express his hope and his prayer.
The gospels show Jesus with such power to look at those who sleep and awaken them with his love and those very words. “Rise up.”
I want the same for Maggie Lee as I look at her. And I know Jesus still says them.
Lord Jesus, speak your words of reveille to her. Call her out of this deep sleep.
Please follow the link and keep up with this wonderful family in their struggle for their loved one.The webpage has had more than 100,000 visitors over the last two weeks. Sign the guestbook and let the family know that you are with them.
(Maggie Lee Henson is one of the students from First Baptist Church in Shreveport who was injured in the terrible accident that took the life of fourteen year old Brandon Ugarte.Maggie is suffering from severe brain injury and is being treated at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.)
My bad. I should have said his 'stupid' statement. I'm referring, of course, to his primetime remark about the 'stupid' arrest of Harvard Professor Gates at his home. The president took the podium at the daily press briefing to say that he had spoken to Sgt. Crowley, the officer who arrested Professor Gates. He went on to say that Crowley and Gates are both decent men, but that blacks are sensitive about such things, and maybe they could all sit down for a beer, blah blah blah. Bet he wishes he had kept his mouth shut about this one.
According to Adam Causey at The Times, Monday's Shreveport City Council meeting was a little confusing, while yesterday's meeting got downright nasty. The subject was a vote to put up 740 acres of city land, mostly right of ways, for lease with the state mineral board.
