Some people have too much time on their hands

Louisiana State Senator Robert Adley is probably one of them.

As he's now wasting state resources having the AG and Louisiana Legislative Auditor investigate a blog, published by the Governor's Division of Administration, I'd say that the excess time he has on his hands, is costing us money.

The only question I have is what pork did you NOT get this session, Senator Adley?

This is fine example of the fact that, in Louisiana, it doesn't matter if you have the same letter behind your name as the next elected official--there's always something to fight about.

The only thing criminal I see here is the fact that the clown who writes the blog is paid $103,000 a year...but that's nothing new. We've always had a penchant for overpaying in this place.

The LAE hates Paul Pastorek because...

Paul Pastorek:

A) isn't an "educator,"

B) thinks the way we "educate" children in the state of La is screwed up and wants it changed,

C) was appointed by a governor with an "R" behind his name.

I think both A and B are positives and C shouldn't matter at all--but, the LAE doesn't see it that way.

The LAE is a union, which means that they're all about supporting lazy, status-quo minded, useless types who show up to collect a paycheck. Think "autoworker," if you will. There's a sense of entitlement because, you know, they're teachers and they've been trod upon for years and now it's time for them to get what they deserve.

Well, here's what they deserve:

1) Work all year long, like the rest of us.

2) Get paid and, ultimately, keep your job, based upon how well you do your job.

3) Turn out a product that, if you can't be proud of it, it's at least acceptable to the people paying for it (the taxpayer).

The LAE's sole function is the making of excuses. Pastorek doesn't want to hear excuses. It's not a surprise that they'd like to see him gone.

For Immediate Release

(Baton Rouge, LA) -- Staff

Millionaire Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ - HOODRAT) of Brookstown, a neighborhood in Baton Rouge, LA, would like to announce their first musical venture: Professors With Attitude (PWA). The effort will be fronted by Harvard's own Henry Louis Gates and feature the single "Fuck The Police -- I'm Straight Outta Cambridge."

Fresh off their successful video, Thuggin' It and Lovin' It, Millionaire Entertainment seeks to be the leading distributor of ghetto-inspired and produced media that perpetrates a negative stereotype of African-Americans.

Affirmative Action has failed us all...

And to prove my point, I present Item A, "Thuggin' It and Lovin' It," as excerpted by WBRZ:

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/50844642.html

Now, I had to have a really good, hard laugh at this. Knowing a thing or two about guns, physics and why you shouldn't let your pants hang around your ankles, I'm fairly certain that the only damage that's going to get done by the "Thuggin' It and Lovin' It" crowd are to innocent bystanders and perhaps themselves. Probably, the best thing that could happen to the Brookstown area of Baton Rouge would be the thug crowd manages to kill off themselves.

It'll never happen--you can't exterminate roaches.

I have a few ideas about how to clean up the place--but that damn Constitution and some silly notion of civil rights always rears its ugly head. And, if that were not bad enough, some hippies from some human rights organization would certainly complain. I'd imagine that the good, honest, hardworking residents of Brookstown (of which there are many, and they most certainly outnumber the wannabe "thugs,") probably wouldn't have anything bad to say about a little "housecleaning" in their neighborhood.

The entire problem lies in the attitude of certain elements of the black community. I'm not sure how looking like a complete fool, speaking something only resembling English and shooting a gun sideways became something to aspire to, but it is--to prove my point, Item B, "www.wordofsouth.com," from Da Dirty Round Table>Thuggin' It and Lovin' It dvd topic:

What really needs to happen here? Leaders of the black community in Baton Rouge (of which there are some VERY strong leaders--Kip Holden, Jeff Leduff--to name two) need to say "this stops now," and back it up with some heavy-handed enforcement. Brookstown gets turned in to a "zero tolerance" zone where dropping a piece of gum on the sidewalk will get you splayed out across a cop car and searched. Little kids need to be shown what a "hoodrat" is and then shown how a hoodrat lives out the rest of his days--then shown what someone with a good job looks like and where they live. Bet working A/C beats the hell out of a frame shack with no glass in the windows.

And, the people of Brookstown need to stand up. No one polices a neighborhood like the people who live there--especially when those people have had enough.

The Stupid Douche Award goes to.....

The highly overrated, ridiculously unattractive Gwyneth Paltrow, for this gem:

It is so different from the United States. It seemed to have a history, and the buildings are years and years and years old. Here in the United States an old building is about 17 (years old), and over there it's from 500 B.C., it's incredible

Wow....what a dumbass. 500 B.C., huh, Gwyneth...

Please, stay your ugly ass in Europe...we have enough anti-American clowns to deal with here.

Fatherhood does things to you....

And I used to be a serious hardass. Really hard...cold, even. Or, so I was told by more than one person, on more than one occasion.

Well, becoming "Daddy" has a way of taking the edge off, at least for me...and softening things. Tragic events were just things reported on the evening news and not things that provided bother, much less consideration. If it didn't impact my little schedule, it was hardly worth me giving any thought to, much less sympathy for people "I didn't even know."

Now, bad things happening to kids has become a serious bother for me. I mean, troubling and upsetting. A couple of months ago, I had a few things to say about a small boy, killed by a pair of dogs in Morganza, Louisiana. As that story went, it was an accident and probably very much a fluke of nature--still, completely and totally tragic for an entire community. Thinking of it hurt my soul, as I know how much my little man means to me. In a situation like that, you have to believe that God does such things for a reason, lest you go nuts being troubled by it.

The latest happening, in addition to being troubling and vexing, makes me fucking mad.

From The Advocate on Thursday, 1 July:

A 3-year-old girl died Wednesday after being left inside a day-care
center van parked in an uncovered driveway for almost six hours.

I first heard the story on the radio and was troubled immediately just by the scant information given in the initial reports. Adding to the somewhat nauseating feeling it gave me, knowing that I passed by that place, as this was happening, gave me that feeling you get right before your skin gets a little clammy. Troubling. Very, very troubling.

The more information revealed, the more troubling I found the whole episode and the angrier I found myself becoming. I'm not even going to get into the details...you can read it for yourself. So, now I'm sad AND angry...and then someone calls into WJBO yesterday morning, suggesting that perhaps there should be some sympathy for the daycare workers because of this accident as they're going to have to live with this for the rest of their lives.

How about you have some sympathy for them--I actually would like to see them burnt at the stake. All three of them that were in that van, that lost track of that little girl. I don't know what's going to come of the police investigation or what action District Attorney Hillar Moore may take. I do know that jail would certainly be too easy for anyone involved here.

Hard and cold may still have their applications.