Daily Archives: November 23, 2009

In recog­ni­tion of all those brave and res­olute Sal­va­tion Army San­tas with their bells, buck­ets, and numb fin­gers, noses, and cheeks Nolan­im­rod hereby presents the fol­low­ing entertainment:

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Over a hun­dred bil­lion was sent to New Orleans after Kat­rina.  An on-site inspec­tion, how­ever, reveals a city still dev­as­tated, parts look­ing like Europe after WW II.  Where, one might ask, did all the money go?  Well, if you really want to know you might start by look­ing at the guest list for Mary Landrieu’s fundraiser as the Con­quis­ta­dores meet to divvy up more of the country’s money.

If you’re still wait­ing for all that help they appro­pri­ated money for four years ago Nolanimrod’s advice is: Don’t Hold Your Breath.

Sen. Mary Lan­drieu, D-La., will host a fundraiser for Sen­ate Major­ity Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., in New Orleans next month, an event that comes on the heels of Reid’s assis­tance get­ting Louisiana a wind­fall of Med­ic­aid money in the health care reform bill.

Brett Duke/The Times-Picayune archiveSen. Mary Lan­drieu, D-La.The event was planned “sev­eral weeks ago,” accord­ing to Landrieu’s office. She and polit­i­cal con­sul­tant James Carville will host a brunch on Dec. 12 at the St. Charles Avenue home of David Voelker, an investor who chairs the Louisiana Recov­ery Author­ity and was a sup­porter of Barack Obama’s pres­i­den­tial campaign.

Oh!  How’s New Orleans’ recov­ery going?

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OK.  I’m kid­ding.  But this is nearly that goofy. They are look­ing for vio­la­tors of civil rights.  Oh!  No, silly.  Not YOUR civil rights.  I mean REAL civil rights cases.  You know: The 60’s Kind.  Kinds like these:

Among the cases is Johnny Robin­son, a black teen shot by police in 1963 in the after­math of the 16^th Street Bap­tist Church bomb­ing in Birm­ing­ham, Ala. Another case is the killing of John Earl Reese, a 16-year-old who died in 1955 when two men fired shots on a black café in Gregg County, Texas.

The F.B.I., true to the spirit of J. Edgar Hoover, is not eas­ily deterred.

Now, the agency is at a dead end in the search for rel­a­tives in at least 33 civil rights-era cases, and the FBI needs the public’s help. Agents are appeal­ing for rel­a­tives of the vic­tims to come for­ward, the lat­est chal­lenge in a three-year-old effort to right his­tor­i­cal wrongs.

“We have done every­thing we can to find those fam­i­lies and we’ve run out of leads,” said Cyn­thia Dei­tle, unit chief for the FBI’s civil rights divi­sion. “Whether it’s a spouse, child or par­ent. We’ve even gone as far as locat­ing cousins who are the next of kin.”

See?  You can’t fool those feds.  They’ve fig­ured out that cousins are kin. And if you were wor­ried about a bunch of F.B.I. agents lolly-gagging around, check­ing out the new ankle-tattoo on the temp in the new Murders-That-Are-OK-Because-Nobody-Hated-Anybody sec­tion be reas­sured that they are work­ing very long hours.

Dei­tle said the inves­ti­ga­tions are “incred­i­bly labor inten­sive.” Agents who can’t get in touch with rel­a­tives seek sher­iffs or deputies and comb neigh­bor­hoods where the crimes occurred.

In 1428 they dug up bones of Catholic dis­si­dent John Wycliffe and burned them.  We used to laugh about that.  How stu­pid!  Well, this F.B.I.  effort to get peo­ple who, if caught, can prob­a­bly be exe­cuted by can­celling their dial­y­sis appoint­ment, turn­ing off their oxy­gen, or swip­ing their pills sounds a lot like that, doesn’t it?

Read the whole story in The Buf­falo News.

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