Saturday, January 5, 2008

Samedi

Exquixotic Corps' study urges new wall
Editor studddders~What study?
1)Why announce this now, when the engineering figures are months away from public release and hence outside review? Answer: Advanced PR by the Corps, known to any circus magician as 'The Set-Up'. In other words, the contracts are already signed. The fix is already in and here comes a Shiny Coin for the us all, plucked from thin air right before our astounded faces! Simply Amazing! How did they do that?!?
2)Who is double-checking the Corps historically double-dealing, inaccurate and incompetent engineering math?
3)Does anyone else notice a recurrent pattern here?
4)Where is the 8/29 Commission Investigation into the Corps engineering of the last flood wall and levee failures which costs 1000s their lives? The project director, Sturart Waits, has at most 10 years previous civil engineering experience~all with the Corps...mostly in the construction arena...eeghadzooks!
5)Who'ya gonna believe? The US Army Corps of Engineers, who built the levee to your left, or your own lyin'eyes?
6)Please note two previous 'set-up' articles in yesterday's TP. The 2nd article is also republished in today's TP (known as 'hammering the nail'). Why no questions asked, no follow-up investigation presented...just the word of the USACE? Bigger floodwall best bet, study says~~Harvey Canal project picking up steam
editor wonders~is this what is meant by the term "getting rolled"?

CA~Levee break floods homes; mudslides possible


Levee breaks in Nevada, 3,500 stranded

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Levees of Maintenance Concern~Levees.org

Is US up to post-Katrina task?

Permit holdups stall riverbed clearing


Road Home will add case workers

Inspector general inching along


Plan redirecting landlord aid stalls


Skeleton found in N.O. housing complex

2 homeless people freeze to death


Breaux teaming up with Trent Lott

{editor ventriloquates~Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!}

Baker leaving House for lobbying job with Mana
ged Funds Association, Hedge Funds

Why Iowa? Sociologist says it's groupthink

{Anthropologists say it's lemming-think. Iraq War Contractors say Cha'Ching! Da'Wizard say "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"}

Chancellor's job may be in peril

Rebuilding New Orleans~Real Travel

Reviewing everything in New Orleans~Boots in the Oven

Every picture tells a story


Liprap's Lament~The Line


Your Right Hand Thief


A New Year's Wish & Farewell~Andrei Codrescu

3 Ring Circus~Big Top Art Opening 6pm


House of Wax

WWOZ~GAMBIT

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