Daily Archives: April 21, 2012

Brought to you by the Flat Earth Society.

Neither one very entertaining…

or if you prefer in glorious color…

http://battleofourtimes.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/texasbootgloriuscolor.jpg

Previously on Beet’s B.O.O.T.

http://battleofourtimes.com/2012/04/13/dont-mess-with-beets-b-o-o-t/

http://battleofourtimes.com/2012/04/05/my-b-o-o-t/

Shrug off your dread, time for a chuckle (despite our grim future…)  Time to sit back and dread drearier stuff…or something…

or if you prefer in full living color…

http://battleofourtimes.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/insectsattack.jpg

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1061125965

The office of the Los Angeles County coroner has completed its investigation into the death of Andrew Breitbart on March 1, and has confirmed that he died of natural causes, namely heart failure.

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=119144260

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/04/20/Coroner-Andrew-Breitbart-Died-of-Heart-Failure

Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. on April 18 filed a last ditch appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to overturn a more than $100 million judgment that it was slow to adjust claims from 2005’s Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita, the Associated Press is reporting.

The appeal marks the last judicial option left for the state-run insurer-of-last-resort, which has lost all of its prior appeals in state court. Indeed, as reported by Rebecca Mowbray of The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune, Citizens filed its appeal on the same day that Jefferson Parish Judge Henry Sullivan signed an order for the full $104.6 million to be deducted from Citizens’ account at Regions Bank.

http://outofthestormnews.com/2012/04/20/la-citizens-appeals-to-scotus-despite-order-to-pay-policyholders/

Yup.  That’s right, it’s 2012.  Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were in 2005.  I suspect in 3012 we will be still talking about it…maybe even cele-mourning  the silver-linings or something.  And a few lawsuits will be well on there way to being settled and stuff.

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/04/us_attorney_jim_lettens_office_1.html

New York’s Newsday didn’t have much nice to say about Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s speech Thursday night to the annual New York Republican dinner in Manhattan. A report on the newspaper’s website says his keynote speech started out well enough, but many Republicans said “droned on far too long.

He told a stale joke (“My father walked to school. Uphill. Both ways.”) then went deep into the weeds of the Bayou State’s financials — focusing at one point on ‘UAL’ debt.”

Jindal, however, got much better marks from the Business Insider, which called it a “a big, slashing keynote speech.”

“In some ways,” the website said, “the event looked like a passing of the torch, from Newt Gingrich — an also-ran in the 2012 campaign — to Jindal, the young, rising star.”

The reporter, clearly pursuing the theme that Jindal is auditioning for a spot the national ticket, said “Gingrich went well beyond the usual praise for Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. He sounded the presidential horns for a potential vice presidential nominee.

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/04/new_york_newspaper_finds_gov_b.html