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June 4, 2008
Blog Blast For Peace
~casa de Charlotte della luna

Watch: Army Corps Shows Off Upgraded Hurricane Protection
“You can’t out-engineer Mother Nature,” Army Corps of Engineers Col. Jeffery Bedey said. But the Corps said its giving it its best shot, particularly at the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet.
~Editilla can't sit stilla!~Wit'Apologies to
dear Charolette's Bloggin'Peace Blast:)
~Apparently Col. Bedey can't even "Out-Engineer" his way Onto the Engineering Certification List for the State of Louisiana.
Perchance one of you smart Nola Bloggers can go out and find this fellow's Engineering License Number or at the very least go check their work wherever they say they have worked. I went to the 17th Street Canal Leak and found out that they are lying like dead dogs about having done a single thing about it. Now this man Jeffery Bedey wears a hat and has rank. But does he have an engineering license in the State of Louisiana? Hello, Nameless Tim Ruppert? Do you or any of your fellow linkeys in the blog'0'sphere or over at the ASCE know this guy? He is not the person put fourth as head of that project a couple of weeks ago. That would have been Mike Park, Hurricane Protection System Program Manager for the Corps, or Kevin Wagner who has been demoted to "Corps Spokesman".
Mxz. Aguillera, today's spokes'piece, was just recently transferred here from Oregon. What does she know about Shine'Nola and Louisiana Flood Control, other than apparently, that Presidente Bush is doing a heck'of'a job? And by the way note how she mumbles at the end of her speil something about waiting for Congress, as if we all know it is always someone else, usually those silly politicians, or of late Mother Nature, who is in the way of their mandate--never the Exquixotic Corps, eh?
Who will be spokes'piece next week?
They learned this in their PR class: Keep saying something, anything--especially if it is bullshit, off'point, erroneous, misdirection slight'of'hand. But give the questioning public something. What this fellow says now contradicts what they have said earlier which contradicted what they had said before as to what they mean when they say "Closing MRGO". Unfortunately their ambiguity will cost more lives in the event of another catestrophic failure of their engineering works. I hate to be this way but they are lying through their forking teeth.
Is Jeffery Bedey an engineer or not? Has he ever actually built anything? And if not then WTF is he doing talking to We the Tax Payers about our safety from storm surge and flood control? Robert Bea has actually Built Things and signed his Name to the work. But still, one does not have to be an engineer to simply go and just look at where these liars say they are working. Everyone should check behind the Exquixotic Corps. Just go and see if they are doing what they say they are doing where they say they are doing it. And if, like Nameless Tim Ruppert, you are an alleged civil engineer, and past president of the Louisiana Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers<--who performed already discredited IPET report which misdirects and whitewashes the Corps culpability in those initilal levee failures if 8/29/05--then it is even more encumbent upon you to do so before publicly disparaging as "simply paid litigant consultants" Real Engineers who have Actually Built Things...like Robert Bea. The reason that a Judge will allow testimony by engineers like Robert Bea or experts like Raymond Seed or Robert Meade is because these people sign their names at the bottom of their work. The Corps of Engineers does not do this. The USGS will sign their name to their work. Any Real Engineer will sign their name to their work. That is why they achieve licensing. It matters. The US Army Corps of Engineers never persents us with anyone willing to sign their name at the bottom of their engineering work. Nay, they hide behind their "Project" like so many Nazis did at Nuremberg. They are just following orders. They have paid media spokes'peices for the general public, or seemingly "uninterested parties" to spread innuendo on the side in the blog'o'sphere, as Tim Ruppert attempted to do here in the comments section of this Ladder not 2 weeks ago. At first I thought I had unwittilngly offended a concerned Nola Blogger of the Rising Tide community, but then I discovered that he is a paid lackey of the Corps/ASCE, actually has a financial interest in smearing Robert Bea's 48 years of Real Engineering Expertise. Tim Ruppert's connection to RT ain't none of my silly ol'bidness, but...this creep did not attempt to email me privately to ask for a correction, as would be man'erly, but instead came out in public, on this blog, annonymously, like a cheap theif in the night. Why? Because he pays innuendo to da'corps.
I think this worth repeating that the Editillero hang Chicken Asses like Tim Ruppert out to dry in the light of day, because with the Exquixotic Corps we are not dealing with Real Engineers who actually build things but Project Engineers who build things with planned obsolesence, so they will have future Project Engineering work to repair their inevitable failures.
It is apparently The American Way. This is the way the have proven themselves to operate. That is why their structures fail all across the country. What the general public may not be aware of is their formidable Public Relations Machinery, of which smeaglies like Tim Ruppert are a part, albiet more like a jailhouse punk to his cell'daddy. This PR machinery is about answers, preferrably misdirecting ones or something that sounds like factual as: "Future Peer or Think Tank Reviews"-Mxz. Aguillera, the head of one of their "Levee Task Forces" for a multi-parish area. What? Think Tank Review? That sounds like a 70's glam'band. WTF is a Think Tank Review, Mxz. Aguillera? Will you hire Tim Ruppert, or his buddies at the ASCE to do you another "Peer Review" for $25,000,000 tax dollars? What? And all this while...
water is flowing, erroding under your levee "repairs" right now.
I saw it with my own lyin'eyes!

Corps talk to focus on Industrial Canal~The plan is included in the corps' "Individual Environmental Report 11, Tier 2, Borgne," which outlines environmental issues associated with the plan. Questions or comments concerning the plan can be addressed to Gib Owen? Who? You won't find him here but do find Gib here. Please check their mission statement. Dat'why they call it city business?

Despite corps delays, parish will begin building storm levees

WAVICS
~Wave -Current -Surge Information System for Coastal Louisiana

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

Years After 9-11 and Katrina, Emergency Networks Still Inadequate

Task as Americans is to be ready for disasters~As the Atlantic hurricane season begins, Honoré, who was commanding general First Army and leader of Joint Task Force Katrina before retiring, offers his views on why the United States needs to develop a culture of preparedness for natural disasters.

Residents must band together ~Lolis Eric Elie

Where Shall We Put The Pyramid? ~Toulouse Street

How do you "liveblog" something which has no life?
~Your Right Hand Thief

Liprap's Lament - The Line

It's Gonna Be Fine ~First Draft

THE WALL~Lord David in Humid City

Relatives of New Orleans Congressman Jefferson indicted

Obama, Clinton to headline National Conference of Black Mayors

Trailer occupant killed in stand-off with New Orleans police

Smuckers buys Folgers brand; plant to still make coffee

Sunday Brunch: Bourbon Vanilla French Toast ~Serious Eats

New Orleans DA Running For Judge

Judge delays ruling on rental property

UW-Madison students restore New Orleans Lower Ninth Ward bayou

Volunteers of America Organizes Army of 350 to Rebuild Parts of St. Bernard Parish
~Volunteers of America will dispatch an army of more than 350 volunteers to help rebuild parts of St. Bernard Parish that remain devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The day of service coincides with Volunteers of America's National Conference scheduled June 7-10 in New Orleans and is part of the organization's long- term commitment to rebuild the Gulf Coast region.

First Anniversary Celebration
Toasts & Tails “HERE COMES SUMMER” Wine Tasting
~Canine Culture

Only in New Orleans: Cockroaches Creole-style

Rigdon Marine commits to New Orleans

China cordons off schools collapsed by quake

2 dead in Amtrak train's second collision in 1 day

Rodrigue Show Final Soiree
~Editilla met Rodrigue one day in the Marigny at the "dog park". None of his dogs looked like the Blue Dog.
However, he was very much the funny dog and another wonderful dog'park conversationalist who loves the city dearly. After that, I went and checked out his Louisiana paintings. Ya'jus gotta be there to get it, like they always say, and Rodrigue has gotten it.
When I looked at some of his paintings the imagery caused me to dream of that dog park, a bald green lot, with two trees beside the coffee'warehouse, where you can see the bags loading in from the trucks and you can feel it on your skin when they roast it up, where the people gather with their very best friends to drink in the shade and talk in the wind, where a flat bywater sunrise can find them, layin'down their entire lives.
I have seen a dog who looks just like the Blue Dog...or more like Blue Dog's iron'rail twin. Running beside his master through the city as he bicycles to and fro, Sidhartha stitched and sawed through traffic with all the grace and dexterity of a bike delivery rider from da'Verde Mart.

Exhibition at Cantor Center features masterpieces spared from Hurricane Katrina

‘Trouble The Water’ Award-Winning Katrina Documentary Shows At BAM Rose Cinemas (Sun 6/8)

Molten hot and scary as thunder

The songs were like mantras, and their incessant repetition and lack of dynamic variation lent them a kind of hypnotic power that was quite different from the other components of the standard R&B repertoire. Benny Spellman's Fortune Teller, John Lee Hooker's Dimples, Muddy Waters' Hoochie Coochie Man and Little Walter's My Babe were great numbers, coming on a hotline from R&B Central in New Orleans or Chicago. But they had elements of structural variety and decoration that seemed almost prissy.
The source of a Diddley song seemed to be somewhere deep within the earth, close to the molten core. The Diddley beat was a means of summoning thunder, and as such it seemed to hark back further than the recording studios of Chicago, further than the juke joints of the Mississippi delta - all the way back to the west African lands from which slaves had been transported, and to the music they made before their descendants got their hands on trumpets, pianos and electric guitars.

Just A Closer Walk With Thee
~How Long It Takes
~Editilla did this once, with the song "Since I Fell For You",
and have so far found around 10 different recorded versions.
Hat Tip as well to Home of the Groove.