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02/08/10 In honor of The Saints winning the Super Bowl last night and with Madri Gras fast approaching (on February 16th) I thought I’d run some my photos of New Orleans. These were taken on my last visit to the Crescent City for Jazz Fest in April 2007.
[Leaning tree by the Lafayette Cemetery in the Garden District.]
[04/26/07 Marvin "Word" Day works the counter at the Camillia Grill. This photo was taken the day after it re-opened after being closed for almost 2 years since Katrina.]
[Fais Do Do at 37th annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. The guy's shirt reads "It Ain't Easy Being Sleazy"]
[Crawdads and Abita beer at Frankie & Johnny's.]
[Ruined house in Lower 9th Ward almost 2 years after Katrina.]
[Sarah in the French Quarter.]
[Café DuMonde]
[Children practicing musical scales outside the 37th annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.]
[Crawdaddyman gets a surprise hug outside Jazz Fest]
[Amy in the French Quarter.]
Rep. Jack Murtha Passes Away
[Rep. Murtha press conference in the House Press Gallery in 2006.]
02/08/10 Pennsylvania Democrat Jack Murtha, 77, died at 1:18 p.m. at the Virginia Hospital Center today in Arlington, Va.
The first Vietnam combat veteran to become a Member of Congress, a king of pork-barrel politics, a survivor of the ABSCAM scandal and a vocal critic of the war in Iraq, Murtha was a close ally of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and was her pick to fill the position of House Majority Leader she vacated after her elevation to Speaker of the House. Murtha wound up losing that race to Rep. Steney Hoyer (D-MD).
On Saturday February 6th, Murtha had officially become Pennsylvania’s longest serving Member of Congress.
UPDATE: 02/09/10 According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Rep. John P. Murtha’s (D-PA) death has been attributed to mistakes made by the surgeon during Murtha’s gallbladder surgery. According to a source close to the Murtha family, doctors inadvertently cut Mr. Murtha’s intestine during the laparoscopic surgery which caused an infection.
