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After looking in a 7 year old girl's ears today, she asked me, "Do you use that same thing in everyones' ears...doesn't it get yucky?"
I asked a 2 year old the other day if Elmo was in his ear, (a technique I use to keep them calm and distracted long enough to get a good look). The child replied with a withering look, "No, he's on my diaper!"
My son and I had a long talk today about legal and illegal immigration. He thinks it just isn't fair for the U.S. to keep people out of the country when all they want to do is work so that their baby can have shoes.
Miss Teen was pissed yesterday because she got an 88 on an English assignment. No, you don't understand...this is a paradigm shift...this is the kid who's normal response to poor grades is "well, at least it isn't failing" or "sure, I failed the test, but everyone did". She was mad. about. an. 88. I am so proud.
Signs are popping up in yards around New Orleans and Slidell that say "Waiting for Road Home Money". Almost 18 months after the storm and the Road Home program is completely fucked up. (Sorry RM, that one needed more than a fireplace) From the Times Picayune editorial page last week:
"If Louisiana residents were grading the company managing the $7.5 billion Road Home program, there's no question that ICF International would get a big fat F.
The company, which will make $756 million off its state contract, had only closed on 177 grant applications out of 98,812 as of Jan. 15. Storm victims are complaining about errors as well as the slow pace. In a matter of months, ICF has gone from being virtually unknown to occupying the uppermost tier in the pantheon of hated post-Katrina entities -- right up there with FEMA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers."
And finally, the cost of living in this area has dramatically increased. Homeowners insurance costs more, building supplies cost more, labor costs more, and then there was this elaborately decorated grafitti on the side of a closed grocery store in the Fauberg Marigny neighborhood:
WANTED: Affordable groceries
(And how many words in the State of the Union about the Gulf Coast, New Orleans and hurricane rebuilding----ZERO)
I asked a 2 year old the other day if Elmo was in his ear, (a technique I use to keep them calm and distracted long enough to get a good look). The child replied with a withering look, "No, he's on my diaper!"
My son and I had a long talk today about legal and illegal immigration. He thinks it just isn't fair for the U.S. to keep people out of the country when all they want to do is work so that their baby can have shoes.
Miss Teen was pissed yesterday because she got an 88 on an English assignment. No, you don't understand...this is a paradigm shift...this is the kid who's normal response to poor grades is "well, at least it isn't failing" or "sure, I failed the test, but everyone did". She was mad. about. an. 88. I am so proud.
Signs are popping up in yards around New Orleans and Slidell that say "Waiting for Road Home Money". Almost 18 months after the storm and the Road Home program is completely fucked up. (Sorry RM, that one needed more than a fireplace) From the Times Picayune editorial page last week:
"If Louisiana residents were grading the company managing the $7.5 billion Road Home program, there's no question that ICF International would get a big fat F.
The company, which will make $756 million off its state contract, had only closed on 177 grant applications out of 98,812 as of Jan. 15. Storm victims are complaining about errors as well as the slow pace. In a matter of months, ICF has gone from being virtually unknown to occupying the uppermost tier in the pantheon of hated post-Katrina entities -- right up there with FEMA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers."
And finally, the cost of living in this area has dramatically increased. Homeowners insurance costs more, building supplies cost more, labor costs more, and then there was this elaborately decorated grafitti on the side of a closed grocery store in the Fauberg Marigny neighborhood:
WANTED: Affordable groceries
(And how many words in the State of the Union about the Gulf Coast, New Orleans and hurricane rebuilding----ZERO)
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