Lundi

Shepherd cuffed and hauled to halfway house~WWL

Levee lawyer dealing with breech of a different kind~slabbed
~Editilla stirs on da'slab as da'Pot thickens-
"First they came for the Trial Lawyers and who the hell would give a damn?"
Anyone who might think this case is unrelated to the Multi-Billion Dollar lawsuit against the Corps is a goddamned fool and Editilla wants the name of their pharmacist. Not only has the State of Louisiana joined this tea party, but also City of New Orleans ($77B), Entergy ($655M) and Serwage and Water ($460M).
Call it Beotchwulf Battles wit'da Exquixotic Corps?
Suddenly, what the US "Justice" Dept (their lawyers) has planned for Plaintiff's Lead Attorney O'Donnell in this "unrelated" (yeah, right) case takes on a sinister salience. Whoa! I'd wager this will make their prosecution of Insurance Attorney Dickie Scruggs look like a Grade School Bully'Punk Pile'On. No, this is "Justice at the end of a Rove", and as such will be much meaner, more akin to a Jail Yard Shank Partay.
Mark my words...or these: Et tu, Brute?

New Orleans attorney Joe Bruno, the plaintiffs' representative on a committee helping plan for trial of all Katrina-related case on Duval's docket, said the MR-GO case ruling will be useful for court challenges to more than 100 corps-built levees around the nation that a recent study deemed unsafe. But in the near term, Bruno said, Friday's ruling in the MR-GO case could buttress his plans for a new federal lawsuit aimed at holding the corps responsible for the 17th Street Canal floodwall break that left 80 percent of New Orleans flooded after Katrina. Bruno said the suit will claim that the corps gave the city Sewerage & Water Board a permit to dredge the 17th Street canal, work that allowed water to undermine soil beneath the floodwall, ultimately causing the wall to break.

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This would also explain why Recovery Scar O'Dell's every 3rd statement on his recent tour was "Beware of the corruption!" "We haf'ta knock out the corruption!" "Watch out--Corruption!" (Editilla cops to a tiiiny bit of paraphasing her'ah:) Seeding the clouds in advance of planting a story is how we have come to regard that type of PR spin'filtration, like when the Corps spent the summer trying to tell us that everyone BUT them is responsible for the catastrophic failure of their flood control engineering, to wit: Congress, Muskrats, God, Iowa farmers, local governments, Katrina the Clown.
However, Pierce O'Donnell begs to differ.


Campaign-Finance Indictment Threatens Lawsuit Against Corps ~People close to Mr. O'Donnell suggest that he is being pursued aggressively because of the Katrina lawsuit and because he has been a vocal critic of President Bush -- a charge the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles vehemently denies. And if you believe the post Rove/Gonzales Justice Dept then Editilla has a few choice lots over in the lower 9th Ward in New Orleans that you can get cheap cheap.

Heavy rains put residents below Clarence Cannon Dam in peril
~Paris, Mo. - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Mark Twain Lake is cautioning citizens, especially those below the lake’s Clarence Cannon Dam that precipitation during recent days has pushed elevations at the lake to above-record levels.

Nart Villeneuve:
The (b)Logosphere - Part 1 & 2
While bloggers are quite aware of the danger of government censorship and surveillance, the same skepticism concerning free expression and privacy often does not extend to the corporate sector. The blogosphere looks more like the logosphere, unlike the nologosphere of earlier incarnations of independent media.
~Editilla gotta'axa~Do we mean this logosphere? This Logosphere? Or the Legosphere?
While some open, decentralized elements remain, particularly the use of open source software such as wordpress and open licensing such as creative commons, most of the tools and platforms used by bloggers are corporate, proprietary products: Blogger/Blogspot, Twitter, Gkype, Gmail, Feedburner, Flickr, Technorati, Facebook, Myspace, Youtube etc… This is not necessarily a bad thing, it just presents a different set of challenges.
The companies that provide blogging, social networking and video hosting services are becoming aware of the fact that a core user constituency is engaged in citizen journalism (yikes!) and digital advocacy. (Go Finger!) And that this also presents challenges. These companies are in a position in which they are are compelled to comply with the censorship and surveillance demands of governments and corporations in addition to protecting the privacy and freedom of expression of their users.

Louisiana latest state to reject REAL ID~Hat T'n'T-Gentilly Girl

Agency's new list raises more questions

Hispanos en Nueva Orleans
~A Minha Vida

TP Wrongfully Opposes Edwards Early Release~Central La Politics

More people volunteering in Louisiana~While nationwide volunteerism saw steep drops in 2007, a new report finds Louisianians more than doubled the annual man-hours put into volunteer work in 2007, compared to 2006.

Louisiana Shepherd, Jefferson, Vitter: Resign~Sabludowski

Members of Congress debate energy policy in New Orleans

2008 flooding: What worked, what didn't in Iowa

Private Contractors' Role in Afghanistan To Grow With Awarding of Latest Contracts

Why didn't McCain want to see the troops in March?

Petraeus: 'Long, Hard Slog'~NPR
~Gen. David Petraeus is nearing the end of his tenure as the top U.S. commander in Iraq. This fall, he takes over as chief of U.S. Central Command, where he will turn his attention to military operations in other parts of the region, including Afghanistan ...and maybe vice-president for McShame? Surly I jest!
Laugh now cry later. What's in a name?

“Louisiana: Photographs by Stuart Klipper” at the Ogden

American Outside Art Interview - New Orleans ~NOLA Rising


Pain, Pain Go Away~Jamie
Boudreau
~Scofflaw's Den
~Infusions of Grandeur

Bingo! Parlour Profile #2:
The New Orleans Jazz Vipers

Music Review: Grayson Capps - Rott 'N' Roll ~Richard Marcus
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Russell Porter: Hot 8 Brass Band of New Orleans, pt. 2