Vendredi

Corps plans to rebuild wetlands
~Mark Schleifstein
!DISCLAIMER! !WARNING! !BAT SIGNAL!
~With Blog'Ass Link'A'mentation Thanks Katrina!






Burma's Suu Kyi Under Arrest For 13 Years
~Richard S. Ehrlich

Slip Sliding Away~jlp




~Professor Longhair’s residence,
from the rear elevation
facing the new New Orleans
~Special thanks- Just An Uptown Girl

Lafayette prospects touted
~Speakers at an economic forum Thursday said Lafayette is a prime location for the state’s new pet economic development project: digital media.

FEMA extends deadline for individual assistance

Hospitals learn power lesson

All disasters have much in common~It is a little-known irony that the ongoing meltdown of the global credit market occurred at about the same time that the world was actually commemorating the International Day for Disaster Reduction (Oct. 8, 2008).

Texas talking - the latest from both sides of its mouth ~slabbed

Treasury May Purchase Stakes in Insurers in Expansion of Capital Injection

`It certainly beats having these troubled banks end up being taken over by the government,'' said David Havens, a credit desk analyst at UBS AG in Stamford, Connecticut. ``It's better for just about everybody that you have a private-market solution and the government facilitating to make sure it happens.''
~In textbook Doublthink Shock Doctrinaire Reference to "the government" giving one Huge Bank 7.7 BILLION DOLLARS to buy another failed Huge Bank for 5.2 BILLION DOLLARS... as part of a plan for "the government" to give 250,000,000,000 Godzillion Tax Dollars to the failed "private-market solution"...at a cost/benefit ratio to the Food Stamp Program of 1,738,297,222-to-1.

Historical Hurricane Activity
~ESM Research

Allstate Posts Loss on Investments, Hurricane Ike

EMC Insurance Posts Q3 Loss On Hurricanes Ike, Gustav Impact

Union Pacific’s Profit Rises

Charting a path through uncertainty to reduce team anxiety ~Cinda Voegtli

National Guard Provides 'Security Blanket'
~Sgt. Michael L. Owens

Which matters most:
Quantity or Quality of posts?
Let’s Discuss…
~There's a Blog in my Soup
~Editilla hopes~ we have already established our own, a'hem, psychologically disqualified funny'bonafides here...
I have even been asked if I have a job, called many things by other "real nola bloggers"... aggregator, clinical (as in need of), Beotchwolf, even blogger (booger too!:)
To which I usually reply that climbing this Ladder every morning keeps me out of McDonald's with a rifle, or at least I no longer scream at people in check-out lines. I usually don't tell them that I have to look for my lost City That I Can Not Forgot, every day, because we can't afford the levees failing again, or the therapy of excising that tiny little bone from my heart. Gentle'rillas keep us.
I used to be a living artist now I do maintenance for a living.
Arguably that flood ejected me from all categories,
leaving us listless... wit'a tic and tendency to get all plural...
--but it is when Editilla gets mail that we know there is really a Santa Clause on 42nd Street! HA! I was born here on da'Ladder...
after that goddamned Federal Flood put us on the back hand path, the long road home, and have come to realize doing this that often we just don't know where we're going until there we are...
--often staring in awe at the posts of the Nola Blog'0'Reamery, perspicuously amazed as Oliver before a Krewe of Artful Dodgers --and that after spitting my soup out laughing so hard or crying or getting more and more Pissed Off-- alone, away...but always moved to da'Beat. Jus'sayin...who'dat, mon'chere Sinn Féin? ...after a while I figured we might could use a Ladder.
~~As for the best way to get hits? HA! Correspondence.
Everyone ...every one hung lo upongst this Ladder
...has heard from Editilla ...one way or a'nudder.

NoLA Rising at Voodoo Fest!
~NoLA Rising will be joining our Brothers and Sisters from the NooMoon tribe this weekend at VooDoo Fest. Stop by and see us. We'll be having us some fun and painting on everything we can get a'hold of.

Kid drummer to be envoy in US
~Drumming prodigy Daniel Petersen is taking his drumsticks to the United States after becoming Cape Town's youngest tourism ambassador. Just six years old, Daniel, from Kraaifontein, is to travel to New Orleans on Saturday to perform at Voodoo Fest, as guest of the New Orleans South Africa Connection as part of a week of African music celebrations.

Matthew Golombisky and the ears&eyes Festival ~Laura Mayer