Blackened Magnolias

The Kingfish, Huey P. Long, Edwin Edwards, and Bobby Jindal. What do these three men have in common? They were(and is in Jindal's case) governors of the great state of Louisiana. Now, you might be asking what's wrong with that? Well, nothing is wrong with that if you look at this from the wrong point of view. Huey P. Long helped Louisiana through one of the darkest times in American History, as the Great Depression strangled many of the nation's population into poverty, homelessness, and in some cases suicide. Edwards did some good, too. He pushed for a new constitution in Louisiana which was 50 years old and he was the first since Reconstruction to appoint blacks and women to high positions in his administration. Jindal.... well, Jindal hasn't done shit.

Corruption and horrible policy is the problem with these three men and almost every other senator, house rep(US or state level), or anybody who works for this state. Not to mention, most people up north don't exactly want to help us out with anything due to the corrupt bitches in power or the fact that they think we should all move... (in snotty Michiganite accent) "All those alligator people down there should move somewhere safer." However, I digress.

Louisiana is the state known for electing KKK members to office, now sure to some people it's not a problem... my fucking ass... The Klan doesn't only hate people of the tainted blood, mind you. The Klan backs WASPs and that's it. You're from Italy? Fuck you. You're Catholic? Fuck you. You're 1/800th Asian? Fuck you, chink(hope that didn't offend anyone, trying to get a point across).

We have had a governor(probably more than one) who had direct connections with the mob and one who was in stiff contest with the President of the United States. Federal funding was given to build a stadium in Baton Rouge in 1924, and money for rebuilding the levees, yeah those things that hold back water, went to expanding the SuperDome.

In a nut shell our politics are telling us, sports are more important than your life, but before you die how about you give us some money by going to an LSU or Saints game.

Don't get me wrong, I love football as much as the next guy and I'm a LSU student so I'll be in that "New Deal money" stadium more often than not. Yet, that doesn't make it right to use money to help people in whatever way to build a god damn stadium.

This brings me to my most recent knock against the Louisiana governor. Bobby Jindal, so set in the ways of the two-party system, denied the money that President Obama was sending to combat the recession.

Bringing us back to the subject of LSU, there is a pipe running under the campus which is the main sewage for the school. It is close to rupturing, a rupture could mean the collapse of an entire street and the closure of the school for an indefinite time due to evacuations.

Let me paint a picture for you. Florida against LSU in Tiger Stadium, 4th quarter comeback by the Tigers, authorities rush into the stadium ushering everyone out because Nicholson Dr. has collapsed and there is noxious gases escaping into the air that'll kill all of them.

The state was asked to put up $4 million dollars to fix the pipe... Too bad, we're too broke.

Thanks, Jindal.