Comments on: Dogs and Chaplains

By: Laurie

Laurie — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:20:55 +0000

I know someone on the list. His conviction for “crimes against nature” was for spiking a guy’s drink, then raping him. There aren’t enough grains of salt on Earth to take for THAT.

Lou, you should learn to spell French correctly before adopting such smug ways.

By: Jack Ware

Jack Ware — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:23:51 +0000

We’re just going to have to disagree on that one point. I think the condition has been allowed to persist to the point of being the status quo because no one is talking about it (or waving it around). If something is wrong, or embarrassing then it needs to be fixed.

I’m surprisingly less bitter in person. And I love me some beer – but no hard liquor thanks just the same. :)

By: Lou Maheu

Lou Maheu — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:57:41 +0000

My apologies Jack. You are more than qualified to live here. Just quit waving the dirty underwear and start using it to clean. We are all aware of the status of Louisiana and New Orleans. It has been in this condition long before either of us became bitter and mean spirited. Focus on the unique goodness and keep working and then maybe I’ll buy you a beer with a Jack back. I think we would both enjoy the arguments.

By: Jack Ware

Jack Ware — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:59:13 +0000

Lou, I’m sorry you don’t feel I qualify to live here. It speaks volumes.

By: Lou Maheu

Lou Maheu — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:47:17 +0000

Laptop, Jack. Rebuilding a special place where I was born and raised. That was my suggested addition to the discussion. My first hurricane was Betsy. My Grandparents’ home,bar and restaurant had six feet of water on St. Roch St. Many other family members lost their homes. Those damn Republicans were around even then.
You were flamed because there are many residents who have carried the burdens of the city and state long before you. We don’t pretend to be dissipated ex writers or eccentric failed painters from far off climes.

By: jack Ware

jack Ware — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:47:08 +0000

Well, Lou, don’t let me turn you off to the whole Metroblog thing. Might I suggest you read the http://seattle.metblogs.com/ since its a little closer to where you posted your comments from**.

Besides, you don’t have to agree with me- that isn’t a requirement at all. But it would be nice if you added to the discussion instead of just flaming me.

**Your ip address shows you as posting from Richland , Washington, about 217 miles South East of Seattle. :) vacationing?

I’m just sayin’.

By: Lou Maheu

Lou Maheu — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:33:41 +0000

Mon Dieu,Sorry for underestimating you mon ami. I never presumed you would have such excellent taste as to copy the work of Baudelaire.
Le realite et toi, vous ne vous entendez pas, n’est pas?
The mewling of some out of town flotsam still here from some long forgotten Madri Gras has finally convinced me. This shit is not worth reading. Cynicism and criticizing are exercises for the vain and lazy. I am sure even your sycophant La Termite can understand that.
It’s about rebuilding a special place. Concentrating on shit only causes you to step into more shit. Au Revoir my displace Floridian

By: Bernie

Bernie — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:34:57 +0000

Take that with a grain of assault?

By: termite.

termite. — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:34:26 +0000

Jack, you took the words right out of my mouth.

heh. :p

By: Jack Ware

Jack Ware — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:42:15 +0000

A grain of salt Kevin? Really? Well, nice or not, that friend of yours is a convicted sex offender. There isn’t really an amount of salt that can change that. But you bring up an interesting point. There seems to be a resistance in this city to admit that someone is guilty….of anything. I’m all for innocent until proven guilty. But once you’re found guilty, that’s it, you’re guilty.

But that isn’t to say that your friend isn’t really nice:

“Elle ne se plaignit en aucune façon de la mauvaise réputation dont elle jouit dans toutes les parties du monde, m’assura qu’elle était, elle-même, la personne la plus intéressée à la destruction de la superstition, et m’avoua qu’elle n’avait eu peur, relativement à son propre pouvoir, qu’une seule fois, c’était le jour où elle avait entendu un prédicateur, plus subtil que ses confrères, s’écrier en chaire: “Mes chers frères, n’oubliez jamais, quand vous entendrez vanter le progrès des lumières, que la plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu’il n’existe pas!” :Baudelaire

And so Lou Maheu can keep up with the conversation, here it is in whiny, hillbilly English. :)

“He complained in no way of the evil reputation under which he lived, indeed, all over the world, and he assured me that he himself was of all living beings the most interested in the destruction of Superstition, and he avowed to me that he had been afraid, relatively as to his proper power, once only, and that was on the day when he had heard a preacher, more subtle than the rest of the human herd, cry in his pulpit: “My dear brethren, do not ever forget, when you hear the progress of lights praised, that the loveliest trick of the Devil is to persuade you that he does not exist!”"