Round Robineer

Across the country and right here in Looweezieanna, polticians and their co-horts took a hint from the negative newspaper articles about National Whatever Conference in Hawaii: Don't go. It's a waste of taxpayer dollars. Even corrupt New Olreans had sense enough to only send one person. 21 St. Charles Parish officials, however, must not have read the paper this year. Everybody in government went, it seems. Even the parish Director of the Retired Services Volunteer Program went. Which brings up another question. Why is there a director for this program? Shouldn't it be a volunteer by definition?

I see the Queen Bee vetoed several spending bills, such as a $60,000 per year Oil City museum director's job. Only the vetos didn't go far enough. What about the health care payments to legislators like Joe McPhearson and Mike Michot, who both own health-care related companies. Chew the fat governor, then spit it out.

You gotta love animated Weather Channel anchor/meterologist Stephanie Abrams, waving her hands and giving War-like commentary about Hurricane Dennis. "Someone is going to take it on the chin" and "Someone is going to get nailed" she says just before going to commercials. Of course, Hurricane Dennis is serious. Two people in Pensacola have already been killed. One woman had a heart attack in a shelter and a boy was killed in a car accident as his family was evacuating, according to the Pensacola News Journal.

On Friday, as Hurricane Dennis struck Cuba, Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard wrongly called for an evacuation of the WHOLE parish. Why not just the lower part of the parish, i.e., Grand Isle and Lafitte. No wonder people don't know who to listen to prior to a major hurricane coming. Rightly, people go with their gut feelings on these things, and not officials. The prediction is when the next big one comes and Aaron calls for an evacuation, people won't bother to listen to him. He says he wanted the hords of people to avoid traffic nightmares of Hurricane Ivan last year. He might have been a bit gun shy given the mess created by state police for Ivan. Of course, most people listened to Jim Cantori predict correctly that Dennis was headed to the Florida Panhandle.