Comments on: Don’t Believe the Hype

By: Frank Russo

Frank Russo — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:42:52 +0000

Bottom line? We live in America, not Russia. We have freedoms or rather we did until garbage like this was allowed to continue. I can not believe that no one has challenged this in court. The company I’m employed by wants to relocate 12 employees to New Orleans and set up another 12 new jobs within the first 3 months of operation. I was considering coming back… yes I used to live in the garden district… very fond memories. However, I’m NOT going to do so while Nagin is in office. Between “chocolate city” and this new gestapo crap, you guys can keep the city until you kick his ass back out. Me? I’m staying put until you do. Who the heck wants to live like that? I value my freedom.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 03:30:11 +0000

Do check the statistics of checkpoints and traffic stops – if implemented properly they are extrememly effective. The point a lot of offices do not utilize though is to set up officers a few blocks before the stop and pull those over trying to evade the checkpoint – those people are your more serious targets. My only retort to your unfortunate experience, because yes there was an error – dont fault the officer for taking action – that was not a police error but rather the district attorney error for failing to remove that from their computer – All that to say – Your lament sounded eerily like the resounded phrase I hear all too often “Why stop me for speeding when there are real criminals out there? which all too often changes to, when you are t-boned by the guy speeding – Where are the police when you need ‘em?”

By: dsb nola

dsb nola — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:39:46 +0000

To stay off topic (it’s like Tron, once you turn …), I must second Sheila on the What to Expect books. They should be hamster bedding. Really. G Bitch got into a great letter fight with the authors a decade ago and ground them into the dirt. They’re clueless about diet and almost everything else. You ought to ask G about it sometime.

btw: G shouts out Sheila Kitzinger as another fine natural childbirth author.

We went the Bradley route and loved it.

By: Sheila

Sheila — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:52:43 +0000

Okay, this is off topic, but I saw your book list and B., please if you’re reading up on pregnancy, skip What to Expect. It’s disempowering and alarmist about all the wrong things–I had a midwife advise me to burn my copy and she’s not wrong; I couldn’t bring myself to do that so I left it on the curb but later realized I had just passed along the message that women can’t be trusted to grow or birth a baby.

Try Ina May Gaskin (Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth), Henci Goer (The Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth–which is alarmist about the right things!), or Penny Simkin (The Birth Partner) or Pam England (Birthing from Within). Samuels and Samuels (The New Well Pregnancy Book) and The Pregnancy Journal (can’t remember the author) are also worth looking at if you need every detail of what’s happening inside.

By: liprap

liprap — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:33:47 +0000

God almighty, this is awful.

Mark Twain wasn’t kidding about “lies, damned lies, and statistics.” The damned lying numbers are being used against the protesting citizenry.

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:13:33 +0000

I almost choked on my bagel when I read that this morning.
Some how we are to believe that with no “new’ initative nor any new ideas that “Crime” got scared and ran.

The checkpoints are one step above stcking a fishing net out on Carrollton and seeing what they can reel in.

We are still waiting to hear about our promised walk thru.

As always the message form the Mayors Office is loud and clear
“Shut up and go back to your hovels”

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 06:59:12 +0000

After I went to the airport rally for the Saints coming home (at 1:00 a.m.), I had no choice but to spend the night in Metry in a chair in a buddy’s hotel room. I wasn’t about to chance anything with expired tags.

By: Lee

Lee — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 05:54:27 +0000

In this youngin’s opinion, the only thing police checkpoints are good for are: Drunk Driving and Seatbelts.

Doesn’t NO have any detectives? Or a squad primarily dedicated to violent crime?