See you at Rising Tide IIIThe Katrina Myth - Help bust it once and for all ~Ken McCarthy
Report: DOD to again probe post-Katrina pumps in New Orleans ~Janet McConnaughey
Officials oppose pump plan ~Sheila Grissett
~"The reality is, we're limited by authority and appropriations," Col. Jeff Bedey told the authority. "Congress has asked us to come back and tell them what it will cost, and then Congress can make its decision."
Bedey said the corps doesn't yet have good cost estimates. But an agency official told a group of elected officials last month that the more expensive project could cost as much as $1 billion more than the two-station plan in just the 17th Street Canal.
~Editilla checkas da'Corps reality,
finds it leaky, warped and listing~
No, the "reality is" that ASCECORPS is over estimating costs again and again to make more work with incredible double-dealing gallish gulag aplombico.
Just as they did with the Morganza Levee System
(as reported by fellow Ace Gumshoe Schleifstein),
which went from $800 Million to $12 BILLION in the blink of their evil eye, Bedey here now drops another BILLION DOLLARS onto the table like this is some kind of bully'marbles game.
Try to imagine how long it must take these faux engineers to do these estimates? Does this Mouthpiece really expect us to believe that this all depends on Congressional understanding and funding of ASCECORPS Shifty Engineering Estimates (see comments)? HA! HA!
And wha'happen to Tom Jackson's Corps Outrage from the Levee Board yesterday? (see Tilla'rant Jeudi)
He's got such a burr up his bum about these Corps plans.
What's the matter Tom? Cat Bond got your tongue?
Hell, Jackson is in the Cat Bird seat: having not only consulted for the Corps over the decades of bad flood engineering, and then sitting on the very board of inquiry called to investigate their apparent cover-up investigation of that very bad engineering work,
Mr Jackson now gets to sit on the very important (independent?) Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East --where he can further shepherd the answers as to why our Levees Failed?
We need answers, Tom Jackson
--not your boo'rah running interference for the ASCE in front of their apparent cover-up roll in this soon to be released (finally goddamn it) yet infinitely collapsible IPET Levee Report. Time, the Leveelator.
Ah so this is perchaps why he protesteth so much!
"It's the Corps! It's the Corps!"
"Pay No Attention to'da ASCE up its sleeve!"
How he barks so loudly about his bad'ol ASCECORPS. Perchance they all are going down when the IPET Report falls apart upon review this September, like so many origami levees, and Tom would distance ASCE from the fallout of their own incestuous malfeasance.
Maybe Tom Jackson needs to go with them, step down from our Levee Board and step aside, pink slip is showing. Maybe it is high time for people like Jackson and Tim Ruppert and the rest of the upper ASCE politicos to move aside before the rising tide of their own members' outrage --the real engineers.
Real engineers, with whom I have spoken across the country, are at the end of line with what these Presidents at ASCECORPS have done to The People's Trust in American Civil Engineering.
Medal Schmettle! Please return your ERP Medal that ASCECORPS presented you for covering their AssWipe! Do it for the Hopping Hill at the 17th Street Canal Levee Breech "Repair", where The Duck Stops Here, where they come home to roost in the salt water marshes forming there! Do it for the Living, and those still bearing it.
Do it for your own screwed pooch as now you would shout "They Broke It"? HA! No Soup For You!
Carrots and sticks
New Maps Put Some Hartford-Area Properties In Flood Zones~On the old maps, there's no indication that the areas were protected by levees or in any danger of flooding; now, said Hartford City Engineer John McGrane, the draft maps show a zone emanating from the river called "shaded area X."
That new delineation, McGrane said, suggests that FEMA doesn't fully trust levees anymore.
New Ethics Organization for the Construction Industry Best Practices Forum
~A luncheon address by the Deputy Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
~Editilla would love to be a fly on that shithouse wall.
Road Home recipients in NOLA short by average $54,586 according to new report ~slabbed
All Those Federal Funds: Why the New Orleans Recovery is Slow ~Harry Shearer
FEC split in Vitter's push for legal fees ~Bruce Alpert
Vitter's Prayer"Good Lord Nose Finger,
Great Man in da'Sky,
please releas'eth yo'boy from'eth these lowly fetterin'bonds of'eth Earthly Ethical Propriety!
Marketh me mine assface
Thine Improprietor
--at least Thine 'Imp' part- Punk'eth of Mine Republican Master Pimps
Who Willst Ever Prevert'eth Thout's Nameth
fo'da Glory Holin of Democracy.
But above all, Lord, can'ya manna mia some slack heah and pay'eth my PR and Legal Bills?
Ya'knoweth, Lord, that a man should not have to cop'eth for his own Whores or Lobbyists while in the service of The People.
Grant'eth Thy Bundled Servant This Dispensation + Court Costs, Oh Tool'Pusher Vanisher of Coastlines!
As I did it All for You, but in the name of the State of Louisiana, I have Earned the Right To Free Legals and nickname: "Da'Lyin'Dong!"
--World With Our Oilin~A'MEN!"
Louisiana not on the radar for Obama ~Jonathan Tilove
Author James Lee Burke offers his advice on where to go in New Orleans
New Orleans artist brings back the marching bands ~Doug MacCash
Auditions to be held for Heritage School of Music's fall semester
Welcome to the International Arts Festival - 2008 Artist lineup‘King’ Louis Prima Needs A Star
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