yep, it's racist

Louisiana Senate staffer suspended over Obama e-mail

Published: Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 11:13 PM     Updated: Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 11:19 PM

 The Associated Press 
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A Louisiana State Senate employee was suspended without pay Tuesday after sending an e-mail to hundreds of government workers apparently trying to show President Barack Obama as white and suggesting that opposition to him doesn't equate to racism.

Several African-American lawmakers replied to the e-mail, complaining that it was offensive.

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The message, sent by Senate researcher Tammy Crain-Waldrop and obtained by The Associated Press, includes a doctored photo of Obama with light skin, blue eyes and a different hairstyle and says, "Do you like him any better now? No? Me neither ..... Then you're not a racist."

don't try to blame the saints for this one

3 men plead guilty to beating newborn calf to death after Saints loss last year

Published: Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 6:05 PM     Updated: Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 6:59 AM

 Benjamin Alexander-Bloch, The Times-Picayune 
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Three men have pleaded guilty to stealing a newborn calf from a farm and beating the animal to death with shovels last year after a night of drinking at a New Orleans Saints party was soured by the team's disappointing loss to the Dallas Cowboys.

View full sizeDwayne Jenkins, left, David LeBlanc, center, and Carnie Smith pleaded guilty in the beating death oif a newborn calf in December.

Dwayne J. Jenkins, David J. LeBlanc, Jr. and Carnie B. Smith  stole the 3-day-old calf from Red Bluff Farm near Folsom -- known for its petting zoo that caters to school children -- and dragged the animal to a nearby apartment complex on Louisiana 1078 where the Saints party had been held on Dec. 19.

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In the apartment complex's parking lot, the intoxicated men took out their frustrations by beating the calf to death with shovels, according to authorities.

well, some of those trailers do look awful alike

A Metairie man provides some interesting research into the phenomenon of beer goggles directed at front doors.

JPSO says intoxicated man mistakes Metairie home for his own; tries to kick in doors

Published: Thursday, October 14, 2010, 6:43 PM     Updated: Thursday, October 14, 2010, 6:46 PM

 Michelle Hunter, The Times-Picayune 
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After discovering that he was locked out of his Metairie house after a Saturday aftertnoon stroll, Karl Kornrumpf resorted to smashing glass panels on the front door and then kicking a side utility door, all to no avail.

A quite inebriated Kornrumpf, 57, conveyed his difficulties to a Jefferson Parish deputy sheriff, who found him at about 4:45 p.m. swaying on the front porch of the home, located in the 2300 block of Belmont Place, according to an incident report.

His house was exactly one street over in the 2300 block of Taft Park. The deputy arrested Kornrumpf and booked him with disturbing the peace drunk and criminal damage.

Kornrumpf, who remembers none of the episode, admitted Thursday that he'd been drinking and went for a walk around the block to talk to friends.

"I was talking to them. That's all I remember. The next thing you know, I wake up and I'm in jail," he said Thursday. 

well, i didn't have any cash on me

Sometimes a lady just needs to enjoy the cooler weather. Via the Times-Picayune:

Naked woman arrested after stealing cab in Covington

Published: Monday, September 13, 2010, 6:02 PM     Updated: Monday, September 13, 2010, 6:03 PM

 Jeff Adelson, The Times-Picayune 
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A Michigan woman allegedly made off with a cab after disrobing in its back seat and demanding her driver take her from the north shore to the Great Lakes State, authorities said.

View full sizeCovington Police DepartmentJennifer Gille

Jennifer Gille, 29, got picked up by a cab about 1 a.m. Sunday from a motel in Covington and was driven to Harrison Avenue south of the city, Covington Police spokesman Capt. Jack West said.

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But when she arrived at the destination, Gille refused to get out of the cab and began behaving erratically, West said. The woman first took off her clothing, then demanded that the cabbie take her to Michigan, he said.