Re: Pools of stagnation

[Jones Beene]

Ah... The Devil made him do it... Its funny that so much either well-disguised "keen observation" or "alternative perspective" comes and goes regularly on vortex, almost unnoticed amidst the conspiracy theory bunko and blame-game shenanigans. As Richard - who knows a few things about Texas politics and disinfecting water - opined, undoudedly tongue-in-cheek... "Unwittingly, the mayor of New Orleans and the Louisana governor accomplished the impossible task of solving the problem of how to eliminate a city population of 60% welfare status citizens in one week. It will take longer than that to pump out the polluted water. Neither one requiring expensive disinfection." I suppose, if one wanted to get cynical about the future prospects about N.O. (just say NO?) in the future months... after the legislature clears out the old ghetto areas, FEMA makes the city water-tight, and special interests get total control of the old Negro neighborhoods... for purposes of "redeveopment"... followed very shortly thereafter by the Louisiana legislature making gambling legal in Nawlins, thereby giving an incredible economic landfall to the developers... ahem... whoever they will be?? then all of this will look like another pre-planned event, and who better to blame than old lucifer hisself... or is that old Louis Cypher? Does anyone remember the sensationally devilish and highly stylized role of Robert De Niro in "Angel Heart" ? Bobby imbues the satanic role with just the right amount of sardonic humor and restrained menace, of the casual N.O. variety, so as to make the character memorable and fairly relevant to present circumstances. Set in both Harlem and New Orleans in 1955, this supernatural thriller stirred a brief controversy among the segregationalists and prudes, when released in 1987 - because of some sexually explicit scenes featuring Mickey Rourke and Lisa Bonet (or  Liliquois Moon, if you are from esseff) who was previously popular in the family-style role of  'Denise' on The Cosby Show ... the scenes were actually considered too sexually explicit to be rated R but one sonders if the inter-racial thinkg was not partly to blame.  Wow if you can get hold of the uncut version, you might wonder if good old Bill, the model of the minority family man, had a little side-actoin going. Well anyway, the whole N.O Bush show, with Laura claiming "frame-up" is all so very pseudo-biblical....and in the words of pseudo-evangelists, Bergquist and Detweiler Jesus In New Orleans The last time I saw Jesus I was drinking bloody mary's in the South In a barroom in New Orleans Rinsin' out the bad taste in my mouth She wore a dark and faded blazer With a little of the lining hanging out When the jukebox played Miss Dorothy Moore I knew that it was him without a doubt I said the road is my redeemer I never know just what on earth I'll find In the faces of a stranger In the dark and weary corners of a mind She said, The last highway is only As far away as you are from yourself And no matter just how bad it gets It does no good to blame somebody else Ain't it crazy What's revealed when you're not looking all that close Ain't it crazy How we put to death the ones we need the most I know I'm not a martyr I've never died for anyone but me The last frontier is only The stranger in the mirror that I see But when I least expect it Here and there I see my savior's face He's still my favorite loser Falling for the entire human race For the youngsters out there, Dorothy Moore was an R&B idol (back when all Negro pop music was decreed by the record companies to labeled as R&B - presumably so the white youth would know not to be enticed to purchase it) ... and she had two huge hits in the seventies with for covers of "Misty Blue" and "Funny How Time Slips Away."  "Funny How Time Slips Away" was written in 1961 by non other than a young Willie Nelson. Dot's version wasn't as definitive a soulful recasting as Joe Hinton's primo rendition... but it did better on the charts. So...What's the big deal? and what is the connection between Satan - what some might call a warped view of Jesus, "Funny How Time Slips Away." and N.O. politics?   Ah... is it the anti-christ??   http://www.bushisantichrist.com/ Check out the "hook 'em horns" hand-signal that Bush (and Laura) are constantly flashing to the world, whenever he gets the chance (about half way down the page are a half-dozen shots of this strange signal - which ccording to dubya, he is NOT giving the internationally recognized sign for devil worshippers.   His lame explanation?  According to the man-hisself, he is really giving the sign of the University of Texas Longhorns !!   But this deception doesn't hold water for two very good reasons.  #1 George W Bush never attended the University of Texas.  He received his undergraduate degree from Yale University.  The University of Texas law school turned him down because his record at Yale was so bad.  Family connections enabled him to get into Harvard Business school. Let's face it - nobody in their right mind goes around continually flashing the sign of a college they never attended, a college that rejected him.   Did old dubya do the Faustian deal with old Louis to get in the White House. Some (the detractors of Laura Bush) are on record as saying that she played the rolde of Eve in all of this. After all, they say Laura killed here boyfriend in 1963, and got away with it becasue of putting-on a big show about "getting saved" for the press, when the "fix was on"... according to the victims's relatives. It is plausibly Faustian, but very likely just more conspiracy theory bunko and blame-game shenanigans. `It was a very tragic accident that deeply affected the families and was very painful for all involved, including the community at large,'' says her spokesman, Andrew Malcolm. ``To this day, Mrs. Bush remains unable to talk about it.''   Wonder why.   Signed (with tongue-in-cheek),   Harry Tuttle             ----Ductwork engineer and Faustian enforcer