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after reading jim louis's post about eating oyster po-boys i started thinking about where the oysters came from. they would have come out of the gulf of mexico just as they were prior to katrina? then i began pondering the water quality in the gulf. time line : levee breaks, floods nola. levees patched, black flood water including petroleum, lead and other heavy metals are pumped back into lake pontchartrain which runs down into the gulf of mexico which is where the oysters live.


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isnt it time to retire the word whimsy? for me it always conjures radishes :

Thelma Todd : Oh, Professor, you're full of whimsy.
Groucho : Can you notice it from there? I'm always that way after I eat radishes.
but more to the point, i spy our friend tony's chair in this weeks sketchpad make-over.


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"You come to these FEMA centers, you sit all day," said Myrna Guity, 43, whose import business was wiped out by the storm, along with her home in New Orleans East. "You get no answers to your questions. They're evasive. You're constantly 'pending.' What are you going to be doing, 'pending' for the rest of your life? I've lost everything."

Others wondered fearfully what was on the other side of their current privation. "We're almost begging them, 'Please, bring this trailer before Christmas,' " said DeLois Kramer, 43, who said she is "sort of living out of the car" with her 7-year-old daughter, Katlyn.

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