Damn I am taking too long in between posts.
I am not a resident of New Orleans, but the New Orleans city elections are coming up soon. As a result of Katrina, many of the city’s residents are living outside of the city. The city is going out of its way to make sure those resident not in the city are able to vote. However, groups such as the NAACP and Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Push Coalition want to delay the election. They have said that this is a poll tax because of the cost associated with traveling to the city to vote. Keep in mind though that if you registered to vote in your new place of residence then you are no longer eligable to vote in your old place of residency. And if the city was mostly white, would these same groups be involved?
There is something else that is troubling me about this that affects more than the city of New Orleans. As a result of the Voting Rights Act, Louisiana and several other states, must preclear any election changes with the Department of Justice. Fortuneately this provision is up for renewal in 2007 and hopefully we can get this voted down. I know during the 60s, blacks were discriminated against and everyone person deserves the right to vote, but this should apply to either all states or no states (preferably none).
This past weekend (March 25-26) many illegal immigrants held protests. There are legal immigrants and illegal immigrants. I fully support legal immigrants and have a lot of respect for doing things the right way as it is not a quick process. Illegal immigrants are illegal. We don’t need new laws; we just need to enforce our existing laws. We need more people like the Minuteman Project and Rep. Tom Tancredo (Republican – Colorado). And the liberals accuse Bush of being a conservative. If it hasn’t happened already, it is only a matter of time before terrorists come through the U.S. – Mexican border and launch another attack. Also, considering many of the protesters want to be American Citizens, there were a lot of Mexican Flags at the protest.
Flood Gates are going to be delivered to the area over the next few weeks. I am still skeptical when the Army Corps of Engineers says the levee repairs will be completed by June 1. But there is a chance they might. I am not sure where I will be living, but it probably won’t be St. Bernard. Metairie (which also flooded but not as bad as St. Bernard) is becoming more and more likely.
Since my last post, Harry Browne passed away (March 1). Browne was the Libertarian Party Candidate for President in 1996 and 2000 as well as one of the co-founders of Downsize DC. Although I did not vote for him, I commend him for doing more than his share of things to help fix what is wrong with this country.
With the wedding coming up, we had to take care of the Bride’s Maid’s Dresses this past weekend (and then the tuxedos pretty soon). Robin got sick so it ended up being me along with Holly and Katie. Shopping for dresses with two girls. Not quite as bad as one would think. Of course we missed Robin. But we are doing what we can so our wedding turns out good and we want our Bride’s Maids to look good (but not better than the bride 
).
I installed a mod for bblog that blocks spam and after doing a brief test, it seems to work pretty good. I have had close to 10,000 pieces of blog spam.
Abbey Fest is this weekend. Looking forward to it. It will be the first time some people will get together since Katrina.