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Ate there last week. I've been to the new orleans location, and it was ok.

This location, however, isn't that good. We got there on a thursday at 7. 1.5 hour wait. So we snagged a couple bar seats and ate. The food just isn't that good. Too much cilantro on everything. We had the calamari as an appetizer. All i could taste was breading, and it tasted a little burnt. I ordered the tacos and each one had 1/2 lb. of cilantro on it. Not one of them was knock your socks off.

It's a good place, if you want a quick lunch or something. But any wait over 20 minutes just isn't worth it. We'll go back, once the hype dies down in about 3 months.

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Thanks for the info. :cheers:

That's a good deal. Are all deck stains the same color, in regards to brands? I want to go pick out some stains to test them out on some scrap wood. So if i find some samples of thompsons cedar, for example, would that equate, color wise, to TWP?

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Well if the commercial fisherman were legit they have records of their catches and the prices they were paid on state docs called "trip tickets". If they were actually catching more and not reporting then screw them anyway for trying to cheat the system.

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My wife's cousins are shrimp trawlers. They were hired by BP to assist in the clean-up. They had a legitimate claim against BP, as it did affect their shrimping season. They also suffered affects from cleaning up the spill. They are doing better, now. But shortly after it happened, each one of them were coughing up shite months after the cleanup finished.

This is a small example of legitimate claims.

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The Rialto Unified School District is defending an eighth-grade assignment that asks students to debate in writing whether the Holocaust was “merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain.”

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What if the question was about another subject. I got it. What if the question was worded like this:

Debate in writing whether Slavery was merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain.


I guarantee you with 100% certainty you would not be saying the same thing you are now. Not to mention, the school would be boycotted, Sharpton and Jackson would be out front, the President would say there is no cause for this kind of hate speech, and every media outlet would attack the question as absurd.

You know damn well what this teacher was doing with this question. There are elements of the left and white supremacists who believe the holocaust was made up. However, the left are the ones in charge of the schools. So it's ok to have questions like this.

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If the annexation of the Mall of La and BRGH is what "kills" the incorporation effort (and I don't know that it will....the CP council might not vote to annex those areas....it still takes 7 CP council votes to annex an area), then all those other entities you listed weren't responsible for "killing" it. Your complaining just sounds like serious sour grapes and scapegoat-ism.

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From what i understand, it kills the petition due to the wording? As i understand the wording of the petition and this annexation, nullifies the petition.

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If you're an EBR resident, put pressure on your school board member, CP member and all other elected representatives just like I keep doing.

If you know Browning personally encourage him to run for office, hopefully for Mayor-President of EBR.

From what I've learned about him during this effort, I'd not only vote for him but I'd contribute to his campaign and volunteer to help him get elected. But I wouldn't piss on Bodi White or Lionel Rainey if they were on fire. The same goes for John Delgado.

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I agree with what you are saying.

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Don't just be a bitch-and-complain type and then wonder why nothing changes.

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Yeah, if only there was a way we could maybe petition for change....

For me personally, this just reinforces our plan for our child (due in the fall). The goal has always been private school, because we would never put our child in the BR school system if we had the means not to. It just would have been nice to have an actual viable option, instead of paying for my kids tuition, plus my taxes going towards someone else's tuition. BR schooling will not change, at least not within the next 3-5 years. Which means more people will keep moving to prairieville and the same frick ups that are currently running this city will avoid addressing the schools at all costs because they have no idea how to fix them, nor have any inclination to fix them, as long as they can act the way they do, and end up "winning" in the end. The status quo is here to stay, unless a new petition is drawn up.

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Move on to fixing the school issue now and first thing EBR needs to do is get rid of Taylor..

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:lol:

You do realize that fixing the school issue, or the lack thereof by EBR school officials, and BR bureaucrats is what led to the St. George petition in the first place, right?

Schools have always been the issue. BR fought tooth and nail against SG in order to retain their power over the failing school system. Now that they are winning the tax dollar battle, do you think they will actually do something to interrupt their power struggle? frick no. When has a government entity ever relinquished power to do what's right for the community, rather than for themselves?

Status quo preserved.

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The worst thing that could happen now for our parish would be for Holden or the EBR school board to take a victory lap and ignore the issues. That would royally piss me off.

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:lol:

You think the current politicians are going to do anything about the school system? They just proved they won't have to change their thinking when it comes to EBR schools.

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St. George is like the child that can't get its way and wants all the toys so it leaves.

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Yeah, frick those guys for seeing the glaring problem of the shitty public schools and instead of sitting on their asses and complaining, they actually tried to do something about it to better their children's education.

The nerve of people not wanting to waste tax dollars on a shitty school system. I mean, wanting the best for your child is so 1990's. If only we could be more like you, and let laziness and apathy reign supreme.

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I know people in south Louisiana that harvest the wild plants that gigantic stickers on them. The plant has large flat leaves and the stickers are on the edges of the plant. When the weed is mature it has a white "flower" that looks like dirty cotton. People tell me that they clean the plant and remove all the leaves. They are left with a stalk that they put salt on and they claim that it tastes just like celery.

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Not sure if this is a sarcastic post. But you are talking about Thistle. I love thistle. Haven't had any since i was a kid.