A TIZZY

Well, dears, I am simply in a tizzy this morning. I just read about that guy in Jefferson Parish, who is the assessor. Now what is his name? I should remember it because his father tricked everyone in order to get him the job. Let me check the parish website. Oh, Chehardy. My the mind is getting dull (watch it!). Why does he get in the paper with his blog and I do not. I think the Times-Picayune would find some of my remarks most amusing to some readers. Well, I read it online and no longer pay for it. At least that is one important thing. Oh, how I remember my dear father reading the Picayune, then the States, and then the Item. Then the two, the Picayune and the States-Item and now in my day and age only one. Good thing is that at this point it is free.

Wonder how much Chehardy gets in retirement? Now, enough about him. Let's get down to brass tacks. The politicians will be heaving their expensive lunches in Jefferson soon enough. They won't be able to afford those expensive boots that at least one of them wears.

The issues on my mind this a.m. are three. Newsweek's description of New Orleans as the number one dying city and the debacle about the combination of SUNO and LSUNO and the causes of so many problems.

1. It has been dying for decades. Katrina merely hastened its possible demise. The cause, dears, is simply the continued moral decay. When we speak of moral decay, we refer to the criminals that have been and are in political office, the destruction of public education, the failure of the family unit, the continued fights along ancestral lines, etc. It is time to put some of those issues on the line and start the improvements. The tales that could be told are numerous and time does not allow me to mention all of them.

2. Stop the bull about the unification of the colleges and get on with it. Let's remember that an education is more important than the ancestral background of its staff and students. It is long past the time that Ruby Bridges made her famous walk and people are still fighting but this time it is coming in the form of reverse opposition. Remember first and foremost we are all Americans. Time to break the status quo and time to move ahead.

3. The reality of the city of New Orleans is that much of it is reclaimed marshland. You take your chances when you build in these areas. However, careful planning and building might alleviate some of the possibilities of flooding. Those people in Lakeview that are complaining about lost land should remember this. However, they should be paid for the land taken from them. Start putting people to work and let's tear down the blight. You got criminals in the jail - chain them up and start them working. Work for a living - no free rides for convicted criminals. This one will allow me to be called racist. However, criminals come from all ancestral lines. Free men died in New Orleans while building that old canal and their ancestry was Irish. It was cheaper to pay them than to lose a slave of African ancestry. Neither those of Irish descent and those of African descent should have been treated in that manner. However, when it comes to convicted criminals,working on non-dangerous jobs should be allowed. However, many jobs are dangerous just because of the criminals walking the streets of New Orleans. Young people dying while those in the know refuse to come forward and identify the perpertrators.

Well, enough for this morning. That lazy husband of mine, Rhett, just got his gorgeous self out of the bed and I have the coffee brewing. Wonder what he will fix me for breakfast. Oh yes, dears, I do have him trained.