Huey Long birthday today, party Fairmont.Thurs.26th

[oscar111]

If i recall right... better check it first.. new orleans magazine..???hmmm???odd... is sponsoring a free open party at the FairmontRoosevelt{huey's old home}, no less, six to nine pm thurs today to honor huey. Also a short essay contest, what wd u do if you were huey today?

Heard on their station, "business news radio" which is AM, between clearchannel soul music and "strongest christian station around".

hmmmm jst start at WWL, go to r. , past that soul station , and there you are... one station short of strongest christian station. All clustered , center of dial. why is business radio celebrating Huey? Are they feeling secure?

WGNO? might be the call letters. try , for party info, website for that, and site of Fairmont.
Errol Laborde might be the radio station owner, not sure. He was host last night of a show on the station.

George mason university site is co sponsor with CCNY of some history website with recordings of Huey speeches. Good listening. Text is shown as he orates to the senate. google it, lost the link.
If you find link , post here.

Can anyone explain how it is that the actor who did the oneman show on huey, and now and then hosts the wwl talk afternoon show, is ultra RW? did i hear wrong, or was not he the actor for huey?

Is huey a valid argument that we dont have to settle for DINO's ?

was his louisiana just as RW as ours, till he began his speeches?

PS his most famous speech, the "greatest ever speech in La.", was in cajunland, during a campaign, about the evangeline poem, in which huey said "let me dry your tears".

PS was huey a workaholic? was he a partial victim of dinking too? did he have poor diet? Is it true, "his wounds would not have killed him, it was really due to gross incompetence by his attending doctors'? if so, were they TRYING to finish him off? Were they just the usual RW doctors, or were they in cahoots with the triggerman doc?

PS do you have a site that has his flyers.. his own words.. in regular print? one site has photos of them that are unreadable.

[rogerashton]

1. Huey sent me to college free.

LSU was still free in the 1960's when I was there.

Workaholic -- probably. My Grandma, who probably didn't like Huey (our class didn't) but who believed she could and should always find something nice to say about anybody, always made the same comment about Huey whenever his name arose. "He was such a hardworking man. We never passed his office in Shreveport, no matter how late, that the light wasn't on."

I think Grandma was scraping pretty deep in the barrel to come up with something nice to say about Huey. She never said he wan't working on evil.

[oscar111]

2. EDIT of first post

the station that had party info..
WGSO AM radio, i think, not WGNO.. has CNN most of the time. Has Bloomberg business news in the morning. Has investment advisor Ray Luchhia around noon, the one with rousing 50's rock bumper music.

--- LSU was free? I thought it had some small fee.

---- I thought only CA had ever had free colleges in the USA, up until Reagan-the-monstrosity ended that "to kick out the hippies".

---is it true that some LA. grade schools now do NOT provide free textbooks and paper and pencils to all students? Did i hear right that some students HAVE to share textbooks? That all across the USA, teachers are reaching into their own pockets to buy paper for students?

---ps what % of US kids are growing up on a piece of sidewalk for a home? Why is there no outrage? {as Dole put it in his odd switch -for -a -moment}.

[rogerashton]

3. There were two fees.

$25 general fee, and $10 activity fee per semester.

The $25 was often remitted, and I had that "scholarship." The $10 was the season ticket to the athletic events. Close enough to free?

[oscar111]

4. close to free!

LOL.... you are right , close for sure!

Did you know hi school was NOT free in the US till.. was it about 1911?

I say all college should be free, as in some EU nations.. and some give all a living allowance too.
Only then will we maximize our brainpower, and ... we must do this "to be competitive " with rising India, China, Indonesia, and EU. To borrow a phrase from the RW idiots.