In one of those rare &ldgt;stream of consciousness&rdqt; moments the other day, I was thinking about an article that appeared in the Daily Comet nearly a year ago. A barber was given a citation for cutting hair on a Monday which was illegal because of a law within the city limits of Houma, La. As can be expected, there were...

You're at home enjoying the evening. Suddenly you start feeling the pangs of a heart attack. Do you call 911 or check your bank account first? If you answered bank account, it's not because you're worried about a hospital bill, it's because you're worried about a 911 bill. There are certain things that each level of government is suppose to...

We've all seen those checks come in the mail. You know the ones, usually for a couple of dollars, maybe even as much as ten or twenty. Once you deposit the check your long-distance service gets switched over to some fly-by-night company that's now charging you $20 a month and you don't even make any long-distance phone calls. At least...

One of biggest goals among liberals is to drastically change, if not outlaw, the right to own guns. The number one argument is that if you outlaw guns then criminals will not be able to own guns meaning they won't be able to use them to further their criminal pursuits. What these gun control advocates fail to see is that...

A quick note before reading the main text: This is more of a ramble than anything else. I haven't linked to any articles like I usually do, mainly because I'm still trying to overcome a sinus infection. There are a bunch of tangents in here and over time I intend to tackle each one and flesh it out a bit...

CITY, 4 FEB 2009 (VIS) - Holy See Press Office Director Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J. made the following declaration yesterday afternoon: "With reference to the latest requests for clarification concerning the position of the Pope and the Catholic Church on the subject of the Holocaust, it should be borne in mind that the Pope's ideas on this matter were very...

WASHINGTON - United States Senator Mary Landrieu, D-La., today made the following comments about yesterday's late-night release of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Disaster Housing Strategy (NDHS). In July, FEMA released a version of the NDHS -- 13 months after the legal deadline by which it was required -- with significant shortcomings. In particular, an analysis of the NDHS...

The Parish of St. Bernard and SDT Waste & Debris announce today they have resolved all differences in connection with work involving the collection and hauling of trash and construction debris from the parish's transfer site once located on Paris Road. In mid-2007, the Parish and SDT worked toward a Cooperative Endeavour Agreement by which the Parish would allow its...

On December 19, the Daily Comet ran a story about the Lafourche Parish government announcing it was going to give businesses and residents the opportunity to receive local news and information from parish government through an email service. The need was sparked because of comments made following Hurricanes Gustav and Ike about residents who evacuated turning to email to receive...

Last week, Greg LeBlanc, Sr., owner of the Geri LeBlanc Pontiac Buick GMC franchise here in the Thibodaux area announced he is terminating his franchise agreement with GM. He cited the viability of GM as a going concern as his reason for closing the franchise. Is this foresight on his part, as the Big Three (Ford, General Motors, Chrysler) automakers...

Do doctors use a Good Cop/Bad Cop routine with their office staff acting as the bad cop? My daughter was recently diagnosed with Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD), which can best be described as a nerve signal getting stuck like a needle on a record. It's not a disease and is treated with physical therapy. In an effort to ease pain...

Let me get one thing straight first. We have not had conservative leadership in the White House or Congress since Ronald Reagan left office. You liberals can scream "But you have Bush the Elder and W". Yes, we had both Bush's, but they were simply members of the Republican party and not true conservative leadership. The Economic Growth and Tax...

I don't know who created this picture, so I can't give credit....

The Great Depression is often said to have been triggered by the Wall Street Crash of 1929 which is said to have caused many of the bank failures in late 1929 early 1930. The real cause is government policies. The first problem was the passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930. By raising tariff's on over 20,000 imported goods,...

The stock market has wounded many 401(k) and IRA retirement accounts. Many people are wondering ever more so if they will have the funds to retire and lead the retirement lifestyle they were looking for. Here's the first basic rule of saving for retirement: Never put into the stock market what you will need in the next five years. This...

Just to quote Barack Obama, the Manchurian Candidate himself. He said he thinks health care is a right while John McCain thinks it is a responsibility. McCain is right on this one. Once health care becomes a right, no one will get health care (look at Canada). Health care has to remain a responsibility. And, yes, you should be able...

Hey Wes, Hope y'all are having long nights with all this Wall Street mess. Just a quick note to let you know that Sen. Landrieu can put me down in the NO column for supporting any type of bailout, buy in, or whatever else they want to call it plan. The idea behind a free market society is sometimes you...

Since the Democrat Party and Barack Obama started spouting this out after Senator John McCain won the GOP primary, I've been wondering if this would really be true. John Lott, a senior research scientist at the University of Maryland, wrote an article for the Philadelphia Inquirer that questions if the Obama campaign can back up its claim. Before McCain announced...

This is not your typical blog post, especially from me. This is a copy of an email I sent to a friend of mine. As you can summize, he's liberal and I'm conservative. Seems to me, the Dems have a lot of hands in pot of economic woes. Was it just plain deceit or was it a conspiracy for select...

Following Hurricane Katrina, I learned a lot about dealing with insurance companies and with FEMA. Here are just a few things to keep in mind as you begin dealing with these entities yourself. SBA Even if you already have a home loan, apply for an SBA loan. Use it to pay off your existing loan. The interest rate will be...