Mercredi

~Special Thanks- Citizen K

Highway 61 Visited,
The Confederate Gibraltar,
and Reverand Raymond Cooke

Bringing in the New Year at Jackson Square with music and fireworks~Jill Hezeau

Shaw Group Inc's ‘Golden coffin’ challenged by bank
~Gary Perilloux

Parsons to support Army Corps of Engineers

WaPo - AIG a fulcrum of the global financial crisis~slabbed

Possible buried treasure at heart of court battle~Mary Flood

2008 was the year the Army Corps of Engineers came to small town America.
~And came, and came, and came again. It all started in December 2007, when the corps announced it coveted an unspoiled hay meadow in Conneticut. The military group hosted several meetings and press conferences in town this year and by and large dominated the media, what with newspaper and television coverage for each and every visit.

A new parade honoring Joan of Arc joins the Phunny Phorty Phellows to kick off Carnival ~Molly Reid

A look at the best -- and worst -- of the 2008 literary scene
~Susan Larson

New Orleans recipe adds sugar to macaroni and cheese
~Judith Evans

New Orleans' courtyard gardens stay lush in winter

Yes, I Want To Make a Year-End Gift to Support WWOZ!

Mardi

Hunk da'Burnin Love da'Home!

OCD~Moldy City

Hank uberstanks
~Your Right Hand Thief

Three years out, city seems to sag
~Jarvis DeBerry ~"People who wonder how the Corps of Engineers is going to protect the city when some of its staffers blame New Orleans for Katrina's flooding may also wonder how Riley will protect the city if he's blaming the high incidence of crime on forces outside his control.
Is this is as good as it gets? We've got to hope it isn't.
Back in 2005, when he was launching his mostly successful push for levee boards reform, former State Sen. Walter Boasso declared, "The days of doing things half-assed are over."'

Times Picayune asks: "Are we too hard on the Corps?", Levees.org responds to UNO engineering professor's Christmas Day letter
Below: today's Corps Ops Ad War Against Democracy (COAWAD) on the Levees.org page.
Perhaps this virtual revenue flood of tax-payer funding is why the Times Picayune/nola.com keeps slyly asking
"Are we too hard on the Corps?" Poor Babies.
Who'da thunk such Cute Engineers could kill over 1200 Americans and try to Lie about it? Not even blink?
Who'dat think they gonna beat dem'Saints? Blink Me!
Click to enlarge and see other Corps ads on levees.org.
The worst service in New Orleans
~Ken Foster

Jena Six: Real Crime Victim:
Poor White People
~Jeff Crouere, BBuzz
~Editilla Shhhhrrrrillas~Like, if I were a taggert...
we'd see a pile of Republicans, a Pack of Zealots, Horde of Peccary, Pods of Congressional Pedophiles, a Gaggle of Palins... but, what we have heah is a fail'yah to CoMoonicate! Hee'yah?
Hee'yah we have a gathering of two or more ignorant poor whites: a Klux of Klan! And Pay No Attention, sayz da'Wizad Crouere,
to DAT'NOOSE HANGIN in da'Tree!
--Or the Klan Rape Training Camp just east of this Eden!
--Or forced sterilization for poor black women!
--Or David Duke, Vitty Scents, The Exorcist!
Hahahaha, the Reaper Laughs like a Rhesus Monkey,
since Death Knowles it is all pink on the inside. Hahahaha.

What a surprise! Deputy Commissioner of MID joins law firm representing State Farm ~slabbed

The Soul of New Orleans
~Julia Reed, Garden & Gun
~Special Editilla Tip'n'Tanks to Thomas Builds-the-Fire over at A Drug Called Tradition. Y'all go and give'em some who'dat special kind'bud love'dubbinations... since they getting all nervous about gettin'any Sugar in they Bowl this year! Hahahaha. Rooolllll Tide! Unless you play our Tigers, then its "Piss Off Yankee Punks!"
Hahahahahaha... I mean, on one hand you have the Graceful Southern Gentlemen and on the other a bunch of Cross-Dressed Out Mormons who have the gall say they understand Jazz after they stole the name for their basketball team. On one hand you have Roll Crimson Tide. On the other you have... Lake Meade? Utes? WTF is a Ute? Sounds like a defecated masticulation. HA!

Support The New Orleans Women's Health Clinic!~elle

Bush aides say Katrina was the turning point -- but where were progressives?
~Chris Kromm, Facing South

Judge rejects class-action status in trailer suits
~Michael Kunzelman

Ike, Gustav most expensive 2008 disasters~Geir Moulson

Tennessee: Corps to dredge river around Kingston plant

Black eyed peas and cabbage
~the mosquito coast

Lundi

Nuclear Urbanism

Many bridges 'functionally obsolete'

Pastor holding violence vigil in New Orleans~WWL

Louisiana Governor Jindal Complains To President Bush ~BBuzz

They Want to “Stop & Go” Again on Fuel Source~Gentilly Girl

The Ellis Island Economy
~Hamida Kinge

Nine reasons not to trust Ken Salazar

NoLA Rising presents Style Wars at the Marigny Theater

Wilbert “Junkyard Dog” Arnold, R.I.P.~NOLAmotion

The Education of a Writer
~MF Korn Louisiana Melancholic

Hanukkah Day 6: Safam's "Candles of the Menorah" ~Teruah

Best of the Beats~offBeat

Jazz great Freddie Hubbard dead at 70

WWOZ braces for shrinking income as economic tempo slows ~Stephen Maloney

Dimanche

You're Invited to Bob French's Birthday Party!
Happy Birthday Bob French!
~Big Red Cotton

Tim Wise:
On White Privilege in Chalmette
~New Orleans -- It's Just Me

La. must list gay dads on birth record

"Walking through heaven's gate"
Glen David Andrews
~S'All About Thanks~Food Music Justice

Corps can't get a pass just because it's 'trying'


Today's Advertorial Corps Ops Engagement (ACOE)
Click to enlarge

Google Satellite Maps Of The World - Exciting Images Of The Earth, Hurricane Katrina...

Mark Taylor of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers leads a group discussion while using colorful sticky notes to map out government coal mining permit process Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008 in Zanesville, Ohio.

Mr. Secretary, we're watching you~Anne Butterfield

Buffett tops philanthropist list for a 3rd year
~Number of years Warren Buffett has topped the list: 3
Amount given by Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, since 2004: $40.655 billion

Cognitive Biases in the Assessment of Risk
~Future Current

Pour Some Sugar on Me
~A Drug Called Tradition

Black woodworkers no longer a lost chapter in New Orleans furniture history~Molly Reid

'Free Will' Martin Urbach
~Mark F. Turner, all about Jazz

Jazzhouse.org

Samedi

Saturday Blogwhoring Thread
~First Draft

Houma performance featured on television tonight

Bostonian tries to attract, keep young people here
~Michael Luke, WWL

Landowners fight corps' plan to take their land for its clay
~Paul Rioux~When the Army Corps of Engineers announced it needed the equivalent of 20 Superdomes filled with clay to raise levees in the New Orleans area, Richard Robichaux had hoped to sell the corps dirt from a former Waggaman sugar plantation his family has owned for more than a century.
But rather than buy the clay, the corps wants to buy the land -- against the family's will, if necessary.
~DISCLAIMER! WARNING! BAT SIGNAL!~
~Below~ Screen shot of today's Expensive Tax-Forked Corps Public Relations Op (E.T-FkdCPRO) placed beside this article about Expensive Tax-Forked Corps Ops (ET-FkdCOs)
~Please click to enlarge.
Blogging 101, Military Style
~SGM Troy Falardeau
~Editilla Gotta Ax~ All youz Military Friends of da'Ladder (M.F.oda'L.) please check these folks out and come on back over here, ya'heah? Or post it onto your own blog and we can hang it here. So'z we can all know Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (WTF).
That is kinda what we are for, right... here.

Defensive blogging
~Soldiers in the Blogosphere
~"A story this morning on milblogging.com caught my eye for a couple of reasons: it involved the Army Corps of Engineers (my branch) and it involved what I'll term "defensive blogging". The story is about allegations by the website Levee.org that Corps of Engineers employees left comments "targeting citizen critic using tax payer money" and were "re-writing history" (the news report by WWL TV can be seen here.) I have no idea if this is an organized effort by the Corps of Engineers, but it certainly highlights one way that the military can (and, I'd argue, should) engage the blogosphere - by leaving comments on blogs to correct or complete a story."~MAJ Jakob Bruhl <-emphasis span="" style="font-size: 180%;">

Farewell FEMA Trailers
~Anita Lee
~Trailer parks dotted the South Mississippi landscape in 2006. All 46 trailer and mobile home parks FEMA built in the three Coast counties have now closed, Photo: James Edward Bates -Sun Herald

True, Home ~YRHT

Oyster Dressing,
Basic New Orleans Style
~Just East of Eden

Vitality returns to homes
in Village de L'est
~Stephanie Bruno
~Village de l'Est, a neighborhood in eastern New Orleans identified strongly with New Orleans' Vietnamese community. One portion is bounded roughly by Dwyer Road on the north, Chef Menteur Highway on the south, Saigon Drive on the east (it runs roughly east-west but makes a turn toward Chef on the east end) and Palace Street on the west. A second portion is across Dwyer Road, where Willowbrook Drive is the main thoroughfare. Commercial activity such as restaurants and other businesses cluster on Alcee Fortier Boulevard in the blocks closest to Chef Menteur. Mary Queen of Vietnam Church on Willowbrook serves as the neighborhood's spiritual core.

Houston’s High Water Problems
~Urban Transport

Rare Books At NOBTS Get Attention~Gary D. Myers

eight feet deep~"Although I believed it would have been a long time before I could bring myself to read any in-depth literary work about Katrina, I have recently found myself intrigued by Douglas Brinkley's "The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast."'

Prospect 1 New Orleans:
Photo Essay Part 2~Art Fag
Sanford Biggers, Blossom, 2007

'Park the Van' Holiday Soiree is tomorrow night!
~Static Television
Hanukkah Day 5: The Leevee's Latke Clan & How Do You Spell Channukkahh~Teruah

Similar in the Opposite Way
~Jeff Albert

Al Hirt Our Man in New Orleans
~all about Jazz

Vendredi~Soirée

Sandy Rosenthal on
The Alex Jones Show
"The Katrina Myth" Revolved Pt-1~Pt-2


The Morning After~Citizen K

US Population Shifts to South, Except LA~Pistolette

BAGnewsNotes
~Sgt. William Olas Bee, a U.S. Marine from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmser in Helmand Province of Afghanistan May 18, 2008. The Marine was not injured. Image: Goran Tomasevic.

Vendredi

Terrebonne Parish Storm-recovery spending undecided
~Naomi King

Spirit of giving~Ellyn Couvillion
People may remember hearing or seeing the ads that hit the airways, billboards and newspapers after Hurricane Katrina.
One of the ads, in particular, was bluntly reassuring:
“You’re not crazy,” it said.

Officials call Bayou St. John a flood protection liability, but New Orleanians call it a 'treasure'~Molly Reid

Environmental studies start on projects to rebuild coastal Louisiana~Mark Schleifstein
~DISCLAIMER! WARNING! BAT SIGNAL!~
Screenshot: Today's Tax-funded Corps/TP Flash Ad

Ground laid for more flood trouble?~Hal Bernton

La. financial problems not as bad as rest of America~Mike Hasten

Fourth man charged in theft of alligators

Mulate's reopens: Restaurant renovated after Gustav damage
~Jeff Moore

Songs 4 Foodies #4
~Robert Frost's Banjo

Go for Green Holidays in
New Orleans
~Karen Dalton-Beninato

Hanukkah Day 3:
Battle of Driedel Kitsch
- Gay Cowboys vs Ersatz Hassids
~Teruah~Captain Smartypants "BrokeBack Dreidel"

Jeudi

The 2008 Golden Monkeyfist Awards
The Delta Prime Award
to
New Orleans Ladder
~Editilla Oh'So Humbly Thanks da'Fistas!~

Before the Levees Break:
A Plan to Save the Netherlands
~David Wolman
~"To understand risk, you must consider the value of what would be lost," says coastal engineer Marcel Stive , a pink-faced man of 57 years who heads the coastal engineering and water research centers at Delft University of Technology, just north of Rotterdam. The half of the country that is below sea level—including the area behind these dunes—generates about 65 percent of its GDP. That's nearly $450 billion a year.

"Let's be kinder to the corps, for safety's sake", UNO Engineering Professor's letter just wants us to like them --or fear them?
Editilla has a better idea: why don't we round them up,
and send the entire Corps of Engineers Command to Gitmo --with the other terrorists-- until they tell us who built our Failed Flood Control Structures.
Why don't we Get all Bush/Cheney Doctrine on their asses:
attack the terrorists before they can try to kill us again and torture them until they tell us who attacked us on 8/29/05.
And By The Way...has anyone asked the Times Picayune how complicit were they in the recent Corps violation of the Federal Code governing the Illegal use of government computers? Guess that is not the same thing as these Expensive Tax-Funded Public Relations Ads the Corps runs in the Times Picayune 24 hours/day 7 days/week on nola.com beside favorable coverage, Letters to the Editor and editorials
--like the one below from today's Letter to the Editor.
Are the Times Picayune and the Exquisite Corps working together to Reduce Risk, or Market Risk? Who'ya got in your Wallet?

Revisiting the Future of Ecotopia
~Scott Timberg
~Editilla T'n'T~Planetizen

Clean Water Act ‘decimated’
~Dick Kamp
~House leaders, Waxman and Oberstar, had written letters to EPA and the Corps to address evidence that EPA no longer was enforcing pollution laws in much of the country and that the Army Corps of Engineers was deliberately failing to protect the Los Angeles and Santa Cruz rivers under the Clean Water Act.
The Corps has a backlog of thousands of permits nationwide,
400 in the Los Angeles (Arizona-California region) alone.


Heavy Weather ~by Bruce Sterling
~In the 2020's, America has been through a revolution or two, it's still holding on, but barely functional. Technology continues to improve, promising solutions with the next breakthrough, yet society is failing and vast tracts of land have been become uninhabitable.
The weather systems,
in particular, are out of control. Lots of Big Weather Systems.
~Alejandro Unger, "Alex", is messed-up German-Mexican rich kid. He's always in search of a remedy, legal or not, for his allergies, his dismal health. He's a junkie for medication.
~Rescued, against his will, from the clinic at which he is undergoing a radical medical treatment, he is forced to join his opinionated and impassioned sister and her new-found friends, the Storm Troope. The Storm Troupe are hurricane-hunters.
They're scientists and adrenalin-freaks who live for the data and the excitement of the next storm. Led by brilliant but obsessed Jerry Mulcahey, they believe in, dream about and fear the imminent arrival of the mother of all hurricanes.
~Editilla Acapolkas~Yep, if you could put me in a church, before you nailed the doors shut and burned it down, the altar would hold the tao te ching, inside a building built of dharma surrounded by sprawling grounds of Secular Ecohumanism and ringed by a 4 dimensional, wave-like, seething perimiter of guerrilla cyberpunk rail-tail futurist hyper-level social view.

Harry Shearer Gets It Wrong
~We Could Be Famous

Save Mid-City; Save Charity Hospital; Save New Orleans
~Alobar Greywalker

Pioneer spirit in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward ~Peter H. King
~Robert Green's mother and granddaughter died in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He created a memorial on his vacant lot to remember them. Photo: Kirk McKoy ~Los Angeles Times
~In the Katrina-ravaged neighborhood, where many homes were passed along by families across three or four generations, pluck and unity prove to be the cornerstones of rebuilding.

Hispanics changing the face of Nuevo Orleans, Immigrants,
many illegal, rebuild the city
~John Moreno Gonzalez
~"Life is hard here, harder than any place I've been in the U.S.," said Jose Campos, 37, who came here from El Salvador, by way of Florida. "It's a dangerous place, a bad place," he said, "pero cuando usted puede encontrar el trabajo, it' s todo el digno de él."

Contracts Point to Significant U.S. Commitment in Afghanistan
~Walter Pincus ~The indication of additional troop deployments in the works for next winter comes in three solicitations from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for military housing contracts. Each could cost up to $100 million, with two of the three scheduled for completion by late next year.

Md. files claim to recover voting machine expenses
~Laura Smitherman
~"Under basic contract law, this is money that should be paid by Diebold or its successor and not by the taxpayers,"
Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler said in an interview.
"This is sort of the final chapter of the touch-screen machines that we've had issues with in Maryland since we've gotten them."

Sports Illustrated on the Vick dogs: Has the tide finally turned for pit bulls?~Christie Keith

Celebrating in the Oaks~Froggy

Kosher in New Orleans
~And, just in time for Chanukah, the rabbi Uri Topolosky accomplished that. Cafe du Monde was recently certified as officially kosher by the Louisiana Kashrut Committee.
Beignets made in all six establishments throughout the city and the make-it-at-home boxed mix sold nationwide are being made in accordance with the ancient dietary laws.


Susan Cowsill Featured on LCN-TV Concert Series

Mercredi

Mustard-Whiskey-Glazed Ham
~Serious Eats

Judge authorizes class action suit for New Orleans school employees fired after Katrina

Terrebonne Parish School Board's plan gathers dust
~Robert Zullo

Edwin Edwards Still Kicking Louisiana In The Butt
~Jeff Crouere

New Orleans Faces "The Nation"
~Harry Shearer
~"It's holiday time and we probably all want to be thinking about something other than bloodshed and disaster. But the editors at The Nation feel otherwise. In the January 5 issue, they've run a long investigative piece on perhaps a dozen unsolved shootings of African-American men in the largely-white New Orleans neighborhood of Algiers Point in the days after the event shorthanded as Katrina. It's a lengthy, painstaking piece of work.
And, just like the work of much of the mainstream media about the disaster in New Orleans three-plus years ago, it lies."

St. Henry’s to hold Christmas Eve service, despite closing
~Michael Luke, WWL

OSHA probes complaint at Exxon Baton Rouge refinery

In just months, Cuba back from storms ~David Adams

Iowa Small Businesses Still Want $200 Million for Flood Recovery

Ike victims caught in a new whirlwind~Purva Patel
~Homeowners struggle to deal with limits on their flood policies and local rules requiring them to pay more to rebuild up to code.

Kansas Levee system under review~Very few engineering firms are willing to do the certification work FEMA requires, which often results in cities paying out sums similar to what Osawatomie paid to have their own levees certified.
“I can’t be for certain, but my suspicion would be that many engineering firms are probably not comfortable putting their insurance and licenses on the line to certify a structure they did not design to begin with,” Osawatomie City Manager Bret Glendening said. Glendening added that many of the levees in the U.S. were built by the Corps of Engineers, then turned over to cities like Osawatomie to maintain.
Please click and enter zip code.

Wash. state finds 30 dangerous illegal dams ~Shannon Dininny

Exquisite Corps awards $900M in energy-saving contracts

Swiss Re Estimates That Over 238,000 People Were Killed by Catastrophes in 2008, Insured Losses Soar to $50 Billion

Update: Pagan ritual celebrates Rudolph's demise~Citizen K

Point and Place:
William Eggleston's Vibrant Spaces~Barry Schwabsky
Untitled, circa 1975, Eggleston Artistic Trust/Cheim & Read, NYC

"Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other...Art, or what we call that, you can love it and appreciate it, but you can't really talk about it.
Doesn't make any sense."~Bill Eggleston,

Special thanks~Muse-ings

Possibly 4th Street:
Bonerama Christmas Special
~Rob Trucks

Mardi

Cupcakes take New Orleans

Broadmoor Lives!
~Tanya Alexander



Happy 65 Harry Shearer!
~25 @ Le Show!


"A shocking disregard for the facts and for the corps' own mission"~Your Right Hand Thief
~Editilla Krewellas~The pot thickens!
~Composted fo'da lagniappe sharp discourse on da'Oyster's comments section on this OnGoing crisis of the Exquisite Corps of Engineers Rotting the minds of our chir'rens... or failing that, spin'filtraiting the noble commons of Nola Bloggers' Comments Sections! It's like one'a'dem Kafka Wheels or some'ting...
--a Promethean Liver Translpant... vultures rolling stones in up and down mountains in and out of the Red Castle!
Hahahaha... Abbey Hoffman couldn'a writ this stuff! Yikes! He did write this stuff! And We Stole That Book! Hahahahahaha!
You will know them by their sounds of buzzing wings.

And now our Editillero Garland Robinette gives this Story legs like a race horse, with an awsome radio interview yesterday with Sandy Rosenthal, founder of levees.org.
Tune in to find out how she did it and how you can too!
Catch these little fakirs with their hands in their pants! HA!
Finally, somebody who is more pissed off at the Exquisite Corps than yer oh'so humble Editilla! That's right, Robinette lays down such vapid eviseration on da'Co that well, errrah.... Editilla is just caught Speechless! Babe in a sandbox babe in a sandbox me.

If Garland Robinette says something you can take it to the Bank.
I remember him on the air, during the flood. Garland was the ONLY thing on the radio, until you could hardly understand his stripped vocal cords. Really, it was That Heroic, and one of the only things that kept us going through the Dark Nights and Crazy Daze. Really. I'm tollin'ya... alive journalism.
And he lays it out a full half-hour with Ms Rosenthal
--even more details of this preternatural nefarious neotechnical skulduggery: it turns out that the Exquisite Corps is also haunting the ReWrits of Wikipedia? ??? Exuse me? Our Wiki???????
NOoooooooooo --say Mr. Bill!
Suck My Forking Toe --sayz Editilla!
I'll be Damned --said Jesus!
Get Down! Get Back Up Again --Ow James Brown!
And Thank Providence for WWL! Jeez Louie!
Always watching our Backs, Panthère dans le marais!
Or a true pack of Catahoulas no lie.
Always with their Eyes on da'Prize, New Orleans.
Never Forget How Good It Can Get and Watch'em Back!


Personal info that 16,000 Katrina Texas evacuees gave FEMA appears online

Back pay: Miami wants FEMA to cut check for 2005 hurricane damage~Yudislaidy Fernandez

Idyllic existence hangs in the balance~Matt Weiser
~Special thanks~ Aquifornia
~These islands are really bowls. A century of farming and development has depleted their organic peat soils, causing some island interiors to fall more than 20 feet below sea level.
If flooded, these bowls would fill with salty water from San Francisco Bay, contaminating the freshwater supply and requiring painful rationing statewide.
According to researchers, earthquakes and sea level rises anticipated in the next 30 years mean there is a 62 percent chance that a dozen or more islands will flood simultaneously. As these risks grow, such a disaster becomes a virtual certainty by 2075.
"Sooner or later, nature's going to rear up and grab at least part of it back," said Raymond Seed, a UC Berkeley civil engineering professor who diagnosed the '05 levee failures in New Orleans.

The Challenge Clearly Stated
~Searching for Liberty
~Editilla Schem'shillas~Thez Pundits in Canada!
Thez Pundits in Canada! Yaaaasah Ya'Bitcha!

Practical Disaster Recovery For Midsize Companie
~Howard Marks
Editilla T'n'T~Waiting for the Next Disaster


Green Man On A Mission Arrives In Houston For Christmas
~Boswell left Atlanta, GA on December 1st on his two wheels - and so far his fundraising journey has taken him through Mobile, Gulfport, New Orleans and Baton Rouge, among other lesser-known stops.
Boswell's blog can be found here , which has links to his National MS Society site. See the Baton Rouge news clip here.

Hot Shots~Will Coviello







The Katrina Collection
~Art Foundango


Hanukkah Day 2: Yes We Can ~Teruah

New Orleans Producer Darius 'Deezle' Harrison Nominated for Three Grammy Awards

Music star Warren Haynes gives back to community

Lundi~Extra! Extra!

Levees.org, too close for comfort!
~Mon, 22 Dec 2008 WWL Radio's Garland Robinette speaks with Sandy Rosenthal, Founder of Levees.org. Here da'Podcast.
- Attack emails were sent to Levees.org from the Corps of Engineers computers. Did Levees.org get too close for comfort?
Hear shocking new details of the Exquisite Corps' dank nefarious plots to warp the minds of children... or at least ReTell, ReFrame the Lie of their role in the Federal Flood of New Orleans on 8/29!

Algiers Point Anger
~New Orleans Slate

Lundi

Naivety Scene ~Special Thanks~ Karen Apricot

Katrina, the Left,
and New Orleans Today
~We Could Be Famous

MRGO closures on tap
~Amy Wold

Corps-led panel to urge national safety standards for levees
~Peter Eisler

Levees DVD~Modern Marvels

Report sounds alarm on dead zone in the Gulf~Chris Kirkham
~DISCLAIMER! WARNING! BAT SIGNAL!~
Screenshot: Today's Tax-funded Corps/TP Flash Ad

$50 billion Ponzi scheme hits wallets in New Orleans
~Scott Satchfield~WWL

Delegation Urges Hurricane Loan Forgiveness~WDSU

Health panel to visit
~Gerald Shields~Members of a new federal commission are planning to travel to Baton Rouge and meet with state and federal officials over a recent report that some child hurricane victims are not receiving adequate health care.

LaserGrip & LCP--Deadly Duo
~The Shootist

Bonfires of New Orleans,
and Safety~Pistolette

Katrina's American Angels
- KATRINA.COM
~A Christmas Story

Louisiana film industry has record year~Stacey Plaisance

Black and Glitter Christmas Tree ~Nola Nik

Truffle Cups
~Smoky Mountain Café

Stanton Moore’s Signature Snare~bigdrumthump

1941: when whitey's lindy hoppers ruled the earth
~Louis Maistros

The Moldenhauer Archives
~JAZZolilo

Savor the sound of the Crescent City~Wayne Curtis

Dimanche

'Hiccups' mean levees in Iowa won't be fixed by spring
(Click map to enlarge)
~Iowa homes and farm fields in a dozen areas will be protected by damaged levees next spring because U.S. Army Corps of Engineers repairs are running late.
The corps repeatedly predicted that all flood-damaged levees certified by the corps would be fixed by year's end.
Only three of 38 levees and other flood-protection projects requested by local authorities in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri are done, according to corps spokesman Ron Fournier.
A dozen Iowa projects are among those unfinished.
"There have been some hiccups," Fournier said.

Times Picayune brings out the "S" word: SNIPER
Be Afraid...beeee very afraid, especially if you've every been Snipe Hunting. Look out Snipes! Jarvis has got yo'numba and...
the Corps got you in their Sites!

Our View: Regional plan for recovery~The Advocate

Oysters are here to stay Haul expected to be at pre-Katrina levels~J. R. Welsh

Vitter (R-Pamp) to run again
~Gerald Shields

Samedi

ALLIGATOR TEARS!
The Times Picayune cries to wipe its ass
of its own Conflicts of Interests
with the Corps of Engineers
with a new Advertorial
on Corps Conflicts of Interests!
"Any corps employee, especially in New Orleans, who thinks that residents here are to blame for their homes being flooded shouldn't be a corps employee. "
Editilla wants to know if they are talkin'bout the entire staff of the Times Picayune?

~Click pic to enlarge~

~Editilla Crowellas~
Abbey Hoffman might be dead...
--but we stole that book!~These egregious offenses against the Public Trust didn't happen on just "levees.org blog".
They happened on the levees.org Times Picayune blog!
Now the Times Picayune is trying to distance itself (wipe its ass) from the fallout of this Breach of the Public Trust in the veracity, or even "truthiness", of their advertorial journalism.
The Times Picayune is NOT watching our backs, but stabbing.
Like Carney Barkers straight out of the PT Barhnam School of Shameless Self Promotions PR 101: When caught Red-Handed then issue a statement of plausible deniability, as ASCECORPS on WWL:

“There are over 1,600 people working at the Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans District to reduce risk for the metro New Orleans area. As each day passes, we are reducing risk. This isolated incident involved one person out of 1600 people that make up the New Orleans District."
Cocky Bastards, Them!

Then OK, when that doesn't work, when this story makes it out of the bag across the nation to places like Michael Moore's website, InfoWars, top 5 You tube, various and sundry other blogs, the Abbey's bathroom wall and even a tiny site in Mongolia, then it is time to #2: Issue the Apology to Ms Rosenthal and levees.org,
to nip it in the Rosary Bud, let the story quietly die,
attempt to "own the story instead of it owning you" so to speak:

On Thursday, Dec. 18, Colonel Alvin Lee sent a formal apology to Ms. Rosenthal: “Please accept my apology for the unprofessional comments someone in my District posted to your web site,” said the letter. “I have reinforced with my entire staff that this was an inappropriate and unacceptable use of our computers and time."
Oh? Not so full of Hubris now are we?
"Inappropriate and Unacceptable use?"
How about a punishable violation of the US code:

TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 47 > § 1030

It appears that, with today's advertorial, potential cover-up,
the Times Picayune is stuck on stupid, #1: Plausible Denial.
It was on their own TP/Nola.com website that this started!
Once you spot the smell you can find it on the shoes of comments with every article they publish on the Corps. PR Flash Ads or not!
Next, the Times Picayune will try to spin this that they are not the same as Nola.com, and those ads are on nola.com not the TP.
Editilla say suck my toe!
A difference that makes no difference is no difference!
As an experiment, try to flush the Times Picayune down your toilet and then try to flush the Corps of Engineers IPET Report on their Failures in building our levees.
Same result and they both mean more flooding!
ASCECORPS also came onto the levees.org blog proper.
And, Not Only There but we've already shown Gentle'rillas how these Creepo'Nawlins fakirs like "Stevo" and Nameless Tim Ruppert have come onto this Ladder to spew their bile and attempt to misinform the public.
And Ruppert spoke fo'da ASCECORPS at Rising Tide?
They're EVERYWHERE! YAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA!!
Using what Ms Rosenthal refers to as "Internet Caller ID for IP addresses", Editilla also has reams of screen shots and what'nots of my stats pages showing them (CORPS), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) all over the Ladder, (ASCECORPS).
CHECK YOUR STATS!
We maintain that this Counter Insurgency Tactic is not about intimidating Sandy Rosenthal. HA! They should know better. Poor levees.org is simply the easiest target because Sandy Rosenthal is Always In Their Face making the Corps Face Facts.
This is a blatant attempt to Re-Frame, Re-Tell and Basically Lie the Story of the Catastrophic Failures of the Corps of Engineers' Flood Control Structures on August 29th, 2005.
This is about Hearts & Minds, Gentle'rillas...
...winning back Hearts & Minds...
--both of which Editilla lost that first week of the Corps' Flood.
Hearts & Minds.... (Oh, and the MRGO lawsuit April 20th!:)

As bloggers and news outlets around the country begin to study their own stats, they are beginning to realize that the Exquisite Corps truly is...
Every Where We Want To Be.
If/when any'youz Gentle'rillas finds these creepo ASCECORPS cronies skulking around your own sites, then please by all means take a screen shot of your stat page and send it to:

WWL TV Tips
or: dwoltering@wwltv.com
codeword: SpinFiltration.
HAHAHAHAH!

Tell'em Editilla sent'ya!

But tell them...tell everyone! hahhahahahaha!

WWL watches NOLA's Back so NOLA watches WWL back!
WWL first broke this story so we reward them with our patronage, love and affection! And they also do not run any Goddamned Expensive Tax-Funded Corps PR Flash Ads.

But Editilla gots one thing to say to all this Boo'Rah, (HA!)

IT'S THE LEVEES STUPID!!!
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Editilla watchin'youz!

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