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Memo on transparency
~Editilla goes'ta Rent-A-Veil~

If you found a friend in God
please ask them for direction
to the places they left those restless souls
to drown in their own damn nation
~~under rooftops, in their backyards,
~~behind the family sofa...
~~while their Grand Mas banged against the walls
~~abandoned in Saint Rita's.
~~~I don't really care what they say.
~~~I heard it all before the breach.
~~~They may think they "know what it means"
~~~to bet your soul ...and find your self
~~~losing!

~Thank you Times Picayune.
This major media Editorial does much to help repair the damage done this week to rebuilding safe levees by Gambit's acquiescence to ASCECORPS.

(Sorry Gambit. I saw Dead People in their Flood.)

These Creep'0'Criminals would have us pay NO Attention to That Man behind the Levees.
Since they have failed to stop the 8/29 Investigation from being entered into Congress, ASCECORPS Spin'Filtraitors are now trying to slow down the Bill's progress until they can defeat Landrieu and Melancon, the Bill's sponsors.
Gambit wants to get us to "join with them" (ASCE) and "help them" (ASCECORPS) recraft this legislation --which is already written.

(No. I made a promise to those Dead People.)

ASCE did this latest slight of hand in the smarmiest of ways under the visage of one Tom Jackson, a past president of ASCE who served on the ERP and currently infiltrates the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East, coming off in the Gambit editorial as if we are shutting them, the poor babies, out of the Investigation rather than the other way around. Lemme toll'ya, that conflict-of-interest shit may work for the Bush administration's Contract Procurement Specialists, but no longer walks here in the Land of Safe Levees. It is an obvious Conflict of Interest for this man, Jackson, to be on the Levee Board, let alone being given such a venue for public relations spin, while his group is Under Investigation.

What is the benefit of Mr. Jackson pointing out Corps deficiencies if they never get corrected? Oldest trick in da'book of tricky business: offer this to see not that.
Well, it certainly serves to give Mr. Jackson the appearance of impartiality, eh? Or, is the purpose of such disclosure simply to give the public a little jerky, something to chew, while ASCECORPS treads water.
If Mr. Jackson truly believed a word he said in his faux criticisms, then he would support fellow ASCE member Raymond Seed's 42 page Ethics Complaint --rather than attempt to divert attention away from it as he did in Gambit this week, crying "us'n'them".
Doth Thouesttt Protest'thing?

Rather "Us'n'Them", how'bout "Them'n'Them": ASCECORPS ...Our Uncle'Sam'Daddy!

They were approached and solicited for participation and cockily refused, even laughed at the very idea.
ASCECORPS has very diligently kept the public shut out of their own Investigative process and now are beginning to act like other Capitans of NOAH's Ark ...as in WHERE Is The Goddamn Money? $36,250,000? How has ASCECORPS blown through So Much Money in such a short time? 3 Years?
~~And With So Little To Show For It?
$12,000,000 per Year? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot???
That IPET Report better have pictures!

(Life Matters When Our City Grieves Her Dead.)

There is a Real Problem here between the upper echelons of ASCE(CORPS) and their rank and file member engineers, as Dr. Raymond Seed is not acting alone in his Ethics Complaint. Hence, Mr. Jackson must step down from overseeing the repair of our levees until such conflicts in that process are resolved.

In 190 Days we will finally have a the Corps in Court over MRGO. That gazillion pound gorilla is really what much of this ASCECORPS misdirection is about.
(And future Engineering "Consultant" work for ASCE)
ASCECORPS ~gon'hafta~ Step-it-up'n'MRGO!

We will find out, Mr. Jackson, who signed-off on this crappy, illegitimate engineering. We will discover the names of who came up with this criminally negligent flood control system.
God help anyone who is behind our failing levees
as Goddess Damns those who built them.

Did you sign your Corps work, Tom Jackson?
Dr. Raymond Seed signs his work.
Dr. Robert Bea signs his work.
They wear
The Engineers Ring.
Do you wear the Engineers Ring, Tom Jackson?

Do you? Or is it another Ring?
One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring
to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.


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