Swamp Musings

It was just too nice this morning! 59 degrees at sunup and one fine time to tend some of those outside jobs I've been avoiding. Of course it went back to 92 with full sun this PM, all courtesy of Ohfeelya. She's sucked all the wet outa the Florida air and I actually had to WATER a bunch of plants outside today. Supposed to be this way the rest of the week.


I rather suspect this l'il white gal might have some trouble getting votes next time if the bruthas and sistahs watched Fox!

Senator Mary Landrieu (D- LA) Spins on FOX News Sunday

7.7 MB wmv interview link is also here Sheesh! Talk about catching a massive case of foot-in-mouth disease! I could almost feel sorry for her if she wasn't such a moonbat.

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This is a bit spooky.

Sex offenders slip radar

La. loses track of predators in stream of evacuations

The evacuation and relocation of people from Louisiana parishes that Hurricane Katrina hit the hardest have potentially put as many as 3,000 registered sex offenders and sexual predators in new places.

In addition, an unknown number of the state's 62,606 adult probationers and parolees are now unsupervised as a result of the hurricane.

The actual number of individuals under community supervision in parishes affected by the storm was unavailable, and there was some confusion about who kept track of those numbers with the Orleans and Jefferson Parish Probation and Parole offices.

The Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement Web site states the commission is charged with maintaining statistical data on probationers and parolees, but in repeated calls The News-Star was told they do not have that information.

The seven parishes with the most damage and displaced people from the hurricane and flooding have 3,080 registered sex offenders and sexual predators, including 1,405 in Orleans Parish, according to the Louisiana State Police sex offender registry.

Florida has a hurricane policy that requires certain registered sex offenders to ride out a storm in jail, but Louisiana has no policy in regard to sex offenders during hurricanes or evacuations. That means those registered in the system could end up in shelters or communities across Louisiana and in other states.

"There's no statute in Louisiana to require them to be reincarcerated," said Capt. Jerry Patrick of the Louisiana State Police.

Since I have a rather harsh opinion of sexual predators, I'd kinda think "well Mr. Bundy, looks like we got a big blow coming and since we've got no place to keep you, guess you need some shootin'".


I wonder if the article below has any relation to the one above?
Carjacker, Victim Killed in Cobb

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DERELICTION OF DUTY [Cliff May]

As a retired structural engineer who has done exhaustive work on bulk liquids retention structures, including dams, dykes and levees; also having audited engineering schematics on the New Orleans levees in the 1994-1996 era, rest assured that federal officials were properly concerned about that situation. The problem was that they were the only ones. We bucked and kicked local officials for years throughout the entire project. The municipality demanded the money, and received millions, but repeatedly, they had more pressing uses for expenditures. The optimal, shear-sloped design for the levee reinforcement was approved in 1995. I tell you truly that in my 40-year career as an engineer, the local authorities in our New Orleans levee project take the prize in the area of callous disregard and their bungling remains notorious to this day. Truly, it was scandalous. Consequently, I find it hard to cast a major portion of blame for this disaster on any other entity than the local representatives of those unfortunate people in New Orleans. The truth is, at least the last three mayors of New Orleans are grossly negligent and in dereliction of duty in regards to repeatedly skimming federal funds allocated for their levee fortification.

Allan McIsaac

More stuff on the link including a link to the original article from whence cometh this reply.