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| Avast! Louisiana Commandeers BP Vessels |
| 2010-05-24 |
| Venice, Louisiana -- On a Sunday of expanding coastal destruction from the Gulf oil disaster and little progress in containing it, frustrations bubbled to the surface from local and state leaders in Venice to federal officials in Houston and Washington, D.C. Parish leaders and Gov. Bobby Jindal emerged from an afternoon strategy session at a Venice fishing harbor to complain about a lack of urgency from federal agencies and BP to address the oil washing into coastal marshes day after day. Jindal said he supported a decision by local and Jefferson Parish leaders on Grand Isle on Saturday to commandeer about 30 fishing vessels that BP had commissioned but hadn't deployed to lay down protective boom as the oil came ashore. The normally dispassionate Jindal even joked that he would go to jail with the mayors of Grand Isle and Jean Lafitte if federal authorities tried to stop them. Ironic when you consider the original Jean Lafitte |
| Posted by:Matt |
| #4 Jean Lafitte became the mayor of Galveston, Texas by promising to pay all of the city's debts. He tethered donkies on the beach, with a long pole attached to a leg. The lamp on the end of the long pole swayed back and forth as the donkey moved. This made the beach appear to be an achorage for ships. Those captains wishing to join the anchored ships ran aground and the pirates looted the grounded ship. The Jean Lafitte political theory still works, as Obama has promised to pay everyone's bills (except mine and yours) and is looting the treasury anchored in D.C. |
| Posted by: whatadeal 2010-05-24 16:33 |
| #3 DB, the Louisiana attorney general just issued an opinion that, under the Tenth Amendment, we don't gotta wait for the feds. Here. Keep your CSA uniform handy. |
| Posted by: Matt 2010-05-24 16:13 |
| #2 Govourner Jindal is still waiting on EPA officials to do a study on the effects of building a sand wall to stop the oil. Meanwhile the marshland is being destroyed by the oil. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2010-05-24 15:29 |
| #1 So finally, everyone remembers, just in time, that Louisiana was founded by pirates. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-05-24 14:22 |