Thursday, May 8, 2008

Jeudi

Thank you, New Orleans Daily Photo.
Sunset in New Orleans is Sunrise in Rangoon.


‘We are being Prevented from Talking about Burma at UNSC’: French Ambassador~Irrawaddy

600,000 killed, 100,000 missing in Burma~Burmese Bloggers without Borders~Interview with one official~According undisclosed interview with one government official, death toll is reaching 600,000 so far and 100,000 still missing.According his figure, 180,000 killed only Lutbutta township. 90,000 in Phyar Pone Township , 80,000 in Bogalay Township. 50,000 each in KywanGanKone , DayDaYae and MawKyane Township.Authorities ( army and its thugs USDA) are throwing away dead bodies to the nearby river.Even in Ye Way Cemetery in Yangon City, dead bodies are cremated in batch without proper identification. Emphasizing to Phyar Pone Township, authority declare Emergency Act and deter not to go out at night but then they are dumping dead bodies to the river.

5,000 sq km (1930 sq mi) of Burma still underwater: UN
~Map file here

Burma’s Recovery Can Gain from Recent Lessons in Disaster Relief~Laura Starita

Recovery chief deplores errors

Recovery czar retired Marine

AT&T demo's disaster preparedness
~With the Burma's cyclone Nargis dominating headlines worldwide, AT&T was in Chicago yesterday demonstrating to hundreds of its corporate customers how it responds to natural disasters.

Senate ethics panel dismisses Vitter (R-Pampr) complaint
"While Deborah Jeane Palfrey, who committed suicide last week, was found guilty of operating a prostitution ring, Sen. Vitter (R-Pampr) has not been held accountable for his activities. He walks away without even a slap on the wrist," Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington said.

Kudos to some Louisiana reporters~Kevin Allman

New Road Home appeal process offers hope for those in limbo

New Orleans mayor pushing residents to leave FEMA trailers~Lost in New Orleans

HUD Appoints New HANO Board Chair, as major public housing redevelopment advances

Hospitals In Louisiana And Mississippi To Receive More Katrina Recovery Grants

New Orleans Parishioners Fight to Keep Parish Church Open
~Voices from the Desert


Excellent! ~Born Angry
~Our Great 'Secretocracy' does not make us safer;
it undermines the Constitution.

FBI Raids U.S. Office of Special Counsel~whistleblowers.org
~In a notably ironic turn of events, FBI agents raided the office of Special Counsel Scott Bloch this morning, seizing computers and documents as part of an ongoing obstruction of justice investigation. Bloch, who is charged with protecting federal whistleblowers, has been under investigation for, among other things, whistleblower retaliation within his own agency.
Up-Da'tilla! Call Jack! We only have 24 hours to find out the contents of 2 thumb-sized data cards found in Block's office,or bathroom, in da'medicine cabinet next to the cyanide. Jack will know what to do--and he'll do it too, with no holds barred, intense,
visceral, AmeriCanDuity! Forkin'A!

Camp Bucca in Iraq, with about 20,000 inmates, is perhaps the world's largest extrajudicial internment camp~be just~In October 2007, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a contract to expand Camp Bucca's capacity from 20,000 to 30,000. While easing notorious crowding, the contract suggests Washington is preparing for even more detentions in the future.

Versar, Inc. Awarded $21 Million Option for Iraq Reconstruction by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Last Full Day
~Mississippi-Atchafalaya-Gulf Mixing Cruise

~Editilla gotta D'OH!~Missed these folks when they first pulled anchor a week ago. D'OH! D'OH! D'OH!
AND DOUBLE D'OH!! Please fang back through their log and follow the entire voyage.

Exquixotic Corps calls East Jeff levees safe

Corps May Open Beaver Dam Flood Gates Again

Flood Stage Levels, current 'real-time' guage readings~USGS

Missouri Receives Comments from Corps of Engineers on Permits for Shallow Water Habitat Projects

Cross Lake Water Supply Feasibility Study, Shreveport, LA

Water Skiers Want Their Own Lake

I stand corrected (and I love it)
~SableMinded


Red Cross tries to dispel rumors that it's doling out more recovery cash

Bruce on just another Sunday in the Bywater~Aroma Cucina
~Editilla gotta tol'yaz in'da InTres of Full'Disclosia~
I never can seem to watch what I'm sayin, even in a check'out line--let alone on various
Ladda'Rillas' comments sections...and especially when corresponding email wit'youz cats da'way I like to do. Well, one of 'yaz went and posted me! It was that way as a waif in church too...just couldn't keep my mouf'shut, different kind of posts though...then an unsuccessful career in juvenile delinquency and a stint with a Pharmaceuticals Testing Unit left yer Editilla with several aliases, multiple personalities, a slight tic and a case of syzygistic'dixlexaphasia.
Listlessly speaking rejuvenilation we enrolled in the PT Barnham School of Shameless Self Promotions
and graduated, suma naw'dog, Lettered in Typing,
majored sh*t in one hand half a dozen in the other,
with only a minor degree of pun'ished lugubriety
.
Now I are a blogger of astounding dementia!
And before anyone asks...ask me no questions and I'll tol'ya no lies. And if any of our Royal Fleu'rillas happen to have been at this little garden party, well
...don't you bee'spellin no lies either!


Kids Krewe: The Sound of Music
Kids attending NCSL's 2008 Legislative Summit in New Orleans can take part in The Sound of Music: New Orleans Music History at Tipitina’s & Casa Samba Interactive Performance.

Dixieland jazz comes to a corner of Wales

World Cocktail Week 2008
~May 8-13th
New Orleans
~Iris Restaurant, Swizzle Stick, Arnaud’s, Monteleone Hotel, Café Giovanni, Cochon, Lilette, Whisky Blue, MiLa, Commander’s Palace
Rum and All That Jazz
Presented by
Tickets Now On Sale!
Date: Friday, July 18, 2008
Time: 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Location: Historic Preservation Hall, 728 Rue Saint Peter
Special Thanks~Old New Orleans Rum

WWOZ ~WTUL
GAMBIT
~NOMENU

Jazz Fest Thank You’s

Editilla gotta tol'yaz~ Jazz Fest is over.
But there is still WWOZ online!
And dat'what keeps
yer oh'so humble Editeurilla
outta McDonalds wit'a armful of throwin-pies!
Y'all check'em out and give'em a hat tip from me,
yer loyal'royal, Editilla O'rilla d'Aphasia,
--and make sure there's a little money in dat'hat!
I renewed my membership online and so can you...
(:-->Pledge Online<--:)
Thank'ya vury'mush!
Viva La OZ! Viva La Pucelle d'Orléans!

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