Today I spent a few hours mowing the grass in my back yard. During this job I happen to run over several red ant mounds. After running over these mounds I couldn’t help but wonder what the ants thought of this. Was this some sort of catastrophe like Hurricane Katrina to them? One minute they are happy and content in their little ant lives and all of a sudden there community is destroyed by some outside force. Was my mower like some kind of natural disaster to them? Was A.N.N. (Ant News Network) on the site and reporting about all the ant deaths and the lost ant families? Was there much finger (or what ever ants have) pointing and blaming on their Government officials? Where was AEMA (Ant Emergency Management Agency)? Where was the Queen? What did she know about the disaster and when did she know it? Were there various Ant leaders crying about the fate of the poor and disenfranchised black ants? Were there Ant looters and Ant disaster survivors looking for food? Did the Ant police walk off the job in disgust or fear or because of depression? Did lots of Ant celebrities show up to pose for the A.N.N. cameras and make statements about some far off war the Queen had her army ants fighting against some terrorist bees. Did the Queen bring in Army Ant Special Forces and Army Ant National Guard to patrol the neighbor hoods? Were there cries of antmanity from all over the Ant word? Will hearings be held on the Government failure to protect the ants from this “natural” disaster?

I doubt that any of this took place. Watching the ants, they scrambled around and started doing their job rebuilding their home with out assistance from the government or disaster agencies. They took care of themselves. They worked to rebuild themselves. Their mounds will probably be rebuilt with in a few days and I’ll have to rain death and destruction upon them again as I just can’t stand red ants as I’m allergic to them. Ant mounds work as a cohesive unit, building and supplying food and caring for their queen. We, humans, on the other hand work as an individual unit. What happened in New Orleans has many faults and much blame to go around. Should New Orleans still be in the news? I don’t really have the answer to that. Being from Louisiana and seeing what is going on here with the “rebuilding” plans and looking at what is being done in Mississippi and Alabama and Texas all I can assume is that New Orleans is trying come back. Like the ants, it has lots of people both local and outside workers helping to rebuild New Orleans. There are lots of people displaced and unable to return. We have all read the stories of the evacuees in the hotels pissing and moaning about getting tossed out on their collective asses. Where are they going to go and what are they going to do? Well, I really don’t give a fuck. It has been 6 months since the hurricane and you haven’t gotten a job or and apartment or other housing yet? Sorry, fuck you. Get up off of your damn welfare ass and do something. Become a productive member of society. Those people that had jobs, owned property and contributed to the city are welcome back. If you were a welfare rat, well, you can get welfare anywhere. Don’t come back.

I say, take the 9^th ward and let all that property be sold at fare market value to the highest bidder and let the rebuilding begin. Take it and sell it to the mega casinos/resorts out of Las Vegas. Give them huge tax breaks but demand they build a casino/resort of a certain minimum size. Make New Orleans the Las Vegas of the south. To do that we of course would need to elect some “Good” people and get rid of all the old ass cronies that are there now. I say redo the entire state levee board system to just 1 maybe 2 levee boards and staff them with engineers that know what they are doing. Not what they have now. Louisiana needs a complete redo of its political system. From local levels all the way up to the state level.

New Orleans just had its first Mardi Gras since the hurricane. It was small and crowds were less but it was still a party none the less. Good for them. They needed it. With that all said I’ll end this with La Lazie Bon Temps Rouler, LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL!