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Weeks after Hurricane Ike destroyed vast swaths of Houston and displaced thousands in a humanitarian crisis not seen since Hurricane Katrina, Houstonians are beginning to see Ike’s one silver lining: that Hurricane Ike destroyed vast swaths of Houston.
We working people have had to give government so many of our hard-earned dollars in the form of taxes that we are no longer financially capable of taking care of ourselves. Our plight is not accidental. It is a result of the gradual move toward Socialism that has been perpetrated upon us by our elected officials. In order to make themselves indispensable and to protect their individual power bases, the politicians have made us more and more dependent upon government.
The Levee's own Michael DiBari strikes again with two more original political cartoons.
At the time of the Napoleon Bonaparte’s death, his personal physician, Dr. Francesco Antommarchi, made a plaster mold of the Emperor’s face, creating what is commonly known as a death mask. That it today is housed in the Cabildo in New Orleans is among The Levee's "Great Moments in New Orleans History."
Seeking to atone for an embarrassing incident in which he promised Houston evacuees a non-existent discount rate on New Orleans hotels, Mayor Ray Nagin has again reached out to Hurricane Ike evacuees from the Houston area with a promise of New Orleanian hospitality.
Most years, Count Dumitru "Buddy" Dracula looks forward to October as a time for gathering with friends at parties in the Marigny and drinking the lifeblood of innocent victims in the French Quarter until dawn. Now, with fuel costs rising and the dollar sagging, the Count, like many area vampires, is focused less on draining blood this Halloween season and more on the equity draining from his 401(k).
Since New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson's $40 million purchase of Fox-affiliate WVUE-TV, news anchor John Snell, left, has dutifully delivered the news while wearing the costume of Saints mascot Gumbo. Station employees publicly deny Benson's ownership has affected their unbiased coverage of the team.
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WASHINGTON – After three years of telling New Orleanians that it does not have the few billion dollars the city and region would need to build a flood-protection system capable of withstanding a Category 5 hurricane, many in Congress prefer to build a $700 billion levee around the two city blocks that comprise Wall Street.
In an unorthodox move designed to promote good government by reducing the legislative birth rate, state Rep. John LaBruzzo (R-Metairie) has introduced legislation that would require all state and federal elected officials to receive vasectomies in exchange for a second term.
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From the Breach
Drawing from the obvious super-saturation of politicians and their rhetoric over the past several months, years and decades, a group of energy-savvy entrepreneurs recently began to follow the various political campaigns in order to harvest the alternative fuel methane.
Reportedly, large deposits were recently discovered in Denver and St. Paul, Minn. Washington D.C. , of course, has always been known as the "mother load" of methane.
Louisiana, however, is not far behind, with its legislators themselves providing a whopping 30 percent of the politically produced methane that is contributing to the overall stinking up of the entire country.
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