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Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:35:44 +0100

Can't add to the praise of The IND nor the justified condemnations of Stewart. I do want to say that I, for I, could not care less if his River Ranch development succeeds. The last thing Lafayette needs is another over-priced strip mall (disguise it how you will) or hotel. We already have too many of both and it makes me wonder if the Durel administration is selling Lafayette using post-Katrina numbers. Who is going to fill all these shops and hotels rooms? Most of the hotels in town struggle to reach 30 percent occupancy, excepting festival times and Mardi Gras. I'd like to seen an investigation of that! - RuthT

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Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:52:04 +0100

"it is not a sign of intolerance for us to notice that some cultures and sub-cultures do a terrible job of producing human lives worth living." I like it. I've said it myself in less efficient prose. I'm glad somebody in this day and age is saying it, too. I think I'll take your recommendation and read this, too. - ragin_cajun

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Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:34:58 +0100

Monsieur Anthony Boudin: You might want to read your Old Testament Hebrew Psalms to improve your 'palm readings.' After all, your Italian-Latin name 'Anthony' [Latin, Antoninus] means "blameless." That is, "sound, wholesome, unimpaired, innocent, having integrity." The Psalm cited [Psalm 37] above plays on the concept twice: Psalm 37: 18 [Hebrew, yeme temimim, "days of the blameless" ('lives of the wholehearted')] & Psalm 37: 37 [Hebrew, shemar-tam, "Mark (= watch, observe) the blameless" ('Mark the wholehearted man')]. To make short work of your sarcastic reply, there is no 'science of morality' yet; one, perforcely, appeals to ancient Babylonian & Hebrew texts for a savage insight into human evil. P.S. The experimental philosopher & cognitive scientist, Dr. Sam Harris, has issued recently his prolegomenon as to 'How Science Can Determine Human Values': The Moral Landscape (Free Press, 2010) 291 pp. I would suggest Monsieur Boudin that you read it! - Gaius Cilnius Maecenas

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Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:36:27 +0100

Glenn must have a very small 'third leg.' - Dudley E. LaBauve, III

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Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:39:19 +0100

written by Gaius Cilnius Maecenas "To This On-Going Group of Cyber Readers: Dr. Stuart needs to read his Wisdom Psalm 37 ------------------ I do not believe Palm readings. - Anthony Boudin

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Mon, 22 Aug 2011 07:53:41 +0100

"We can do our best to remove our tendencies but they do in fact exist. " Point very well taken. But I think there is a huge difference between a news outlet that uses time-honored editorial practices to try to present a news event without spinning it and a "boutique" editorial platform that proudly and openly proclaims that it is biased. It's hard to take the straight investigative pieces seriously when they're written by the same people that traffic in personal insults and bigoted remarks to "stir the pot". It's a lot like what Dr. Stewart is doing. Would any of you seek treatment from him now? Would any of you take him seriously as a doctor after his billboard stunt and rabble rousing? Of course not. So how can you believe that theIND is giving it to you straight, without bias, in their serious stories when they behave so childlishly in some of their other stories? - ragin)cajun

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Sun, 21 Aug 2011 09:52:19 +0100

Thanks for the great reporting!! Exploiting a tax loophole is not a crime so Dr. Stewart has already won by keeping his money. He lost the TIF issue fair and square. The remaining battle should be removing the tax loophole but only if it can be done without forcing the elderly and underfunded property owners from unfairly being squeezed out of their property by well funded developers, corporations and the government itself. - realitycheck

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Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:57:29 +0100

I feel sorry for his parents. - yadumonde

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Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:46:25 +0100

Some people just have too much money...and others have too much time. Real people think that this virtual battle is STUPID! - Real person

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Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:12:40 +0100

To This On-Going Group of Cyber Readers: I want to elucidate further on the "wicked, criminal, evil acts" of Dr. Stuart! His hostile acts against a cultured, well-bred and aristocratic [Greek, 'power of the best'] lady in our land constitutes "wickedness" [Hebrew, resha' (a.) crime against civil law & (b.) wicked in one's ethical relations with their fellow man] against God and man! Dr. Stuart's moral evil is captured in our Hebrew idiom as his 'presumptuousness of godlessness' [See the locus classicus at Deuteronomy 17:12-13] What does this mean? It means Dr. Stuart heeds neither priest nor judge! He foolishly thinks his cash insulates him from wrong-doing. He is a rasha' [Hebrew, "wicked, criminal man"]! Dr. Stuart needs to read his Wisdom Psalm 37 written during the Persian period of Jewish culture [522/1--334 BCE] where the psalmist instructs his young as to the distinction between wicked men and good men. Furthermore, his persecutee, our genteel Southern lady, can take refuge in the transitoriness of Dr. Stuart's wickedness. She can say with the psalmist, "I have seen a wicked man ruthless and spreading himself out like a leafy (tree) in its native (soil)!" Psalm 37:35 [Hebrew, ra'itti rasha' 'aris // umit'areh ke'ezerah ra'anan] The Hebrew term for 'ruthless' ['aris, is an adjective meaning "awe-inspiring, terror-striking"] acquires in the late Persian period the nuanced meaning of 'ruthless.' His deceit and treachery to a fellow human being smacks of insolence, swollen-self importance, and hatred. The source of his moral wickedness is caught by this ancient Hebrew proverb: kamoka kephar'oh ! ["You are the equal of the Pharaoh!"] If he were not spawn by the land, he would be unable to perpetrate his wicked deeds! - Gaius Cilnius Maecenas

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Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:41:51 +0100

Dr. Stewart was a practicing Radiation Oncologist in Lafayette. His parents were also physicians in the community. In my opinion, there is always a bias/slant of some extent if an article is written and/or reported by a human being! We can do our best to remove our tendencies but they do in fact exist. - Tish

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Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:15:19 +0100

Just curious...in some comments, glen stewart is referred to as "dr. stewart"...what kind of doctor is he? If a medical doctor, what is his specialty? - elrod

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Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:49:08 +0100

Keep it up Ind! - Rinkelstein

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Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:13:51 +0100

Personally, I'm glad it THE IND addressed this issue. Otherwise I wouldn't have known why all these crazies were outside picketing. They weren't very enthusiastic - they were just standing there, and their signs didn't make sense. - JD

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Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:08:49 +0100

Yes ragin_cajun, you've been saying as much for 2 years and for 2 years and today you have been and are wrong. You're obviously in bed with those forces that consider screwing the public constitutes an acceptable "business as usual" format for government. Furthermore, with respect to your redactor "The Ind is the only real investigative journalism outlet in this city. Patently untrue", demands a simple question, why were some topics never/ever reported by other "instruments" of the local media prior their presentation by the INDEPENDENT? Plus, on many topics reported by the local media in a "glance over approach" i.e, "fluff", the INDEPENDENT provides detailed and comprehensive coverage of the subject matter. Additionally, I've never found the INDEPENDENT'S reporting slanted or biased in any of the articles the paper has written. Have I agreed with every article every written, NO. Am I fan of every subject matter researched and presented, NO. Yet, I can not dispute or find fault with the presentation of and the substantiation of the INDEPENDENT'S articles. Personally, I understand and I accept the fact that many people in this area are unaccustomed to a publication performing and reporting the news in a responsible and critical manner, and, thus, do not know how to respond nor know how to appreciate it's existence. I further understand that their are those among us, such as ragin_cajun, who will never/ever understand nor appreciate the good job the INDEPENDENT is performing. But, such is life. - Greg Foreman

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Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:41:46 +0100

Both Walter and Heather have openly and proudly written right here that they write with a bias--a slant. So, actually, that is THEIR characterization. - ragin_cajun

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Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:32:53 +0100

ragin_cajun: You are incapable of political beliefs! You understand neither what a 'city' [Greek, polis "city, town"] nor a belief system is! You have not been fortunate enough to have received a classical education. You use language carelessly to deceive your fellow man! However, you paying taxes on personal real estates property own is commendable!!! - Gaius Cilnius Maecenas

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Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:00:03 +0100

What other investigative journalism outlets do you have in mind? "Slanted reporting...so-called journalists stir[ring] up racial tensions and political animosities." Those are your opinions, your characterizations. Not much different than political beliefs. How is it not a good service to inform citizens that developers are using a ridiculous tax loophole to pay no taxes on prime real estate while the rest of us pay our property taxes? That's the kind of investigative journalism that gets governments to revise ridiculous laws. - Resident

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Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:47:13 +0100

"The Ind is the only real investigative journalism outlet in this city." Patently untrue. "Just because you don't agree with some of the political views of the editor doesn't mean they're NOT doing a good job and a good service. " I guess "good service" depends on what you're used to. Is slanted and admittedly biased reporting a "good service"? Is "good service" watching so-called journalists stir up racial tensions and political animosities? I don't think that's a particularly valuable "service" to the "community". I've been saying so for 2 years, now. My political beliefs have nothing to do with it. - ragin_cajun

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Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:57:44 +0100

To the Staff of The Independent: It is not, generally, realized how morally evil Dr. Glenn Stewart's behavior captures. Within its realm of wickedness is the sin of presumptuousness of ungodliness: He has chosen to 'persecute' a fellow human being! Is this too strong of a charge? What he has done to Madame would incur a Divine Curse upon his manhood. See Deuteronomy 30:7, Jeremiah 15:15, 17:18, and Acts 9:4-5! There is a very good reason why the English verb, "persecute" means "to follow, pursue (with hostile intent), to oppress" be it in ancient Hebrew [radap], Greek [dioko] or Latin [persequor < per- + sequi 'to follow']! Dr. Stuart has inadvertently drawn attention to the illustrious Scottish surname, Stuart, from its original Old English (pre-7th century A.D.) meaning: Warden of the (Pig) Sty [Old English or Anglo-Saxon, stigeweard]! After the Norman Conquest, the Stuart families were raised to petty aristocracy in Scotland [High Stewards of Scotland]! Later, nobility & royalty! Instead of modeling his behavior on Scottish moral earnestness, he has chosen to consort with pigs! - Gaius Cilnius Maecenas