Saturday, November 22, 2008

Samedi~Déjeuner

New Orleans to top crime rankings; St. Louis comes in at No. 4 ~Jeremy Kohler

Behind the Scenes: A mother's grief in New Orleans
~Soledad O'Brien


Hospital plans worry
New Orleans neighborhood


Blakely hints this budget may be his last~Paul Murphy, WWL

Debrisville Notes~ADRASTOS

Jindal begins Iowa trip with tour, speech~Michele Millhollen

Texas Governor Blasts FEMA, Creates Hurricane Recovery Commission

A Personal Perspective on the Power Game and the NFIP’s Katrina Expedited Claims Procedures ~slabbed

HUD OKs Port of Gulfport Funding ~Melissa Scallon

Customs seeks to keep unsafe, cheap shrimp out of U.S.

Jeremy Alford
~Louisiana’s shrimp industry, along with those in other Southern states, has waged a long-fought battle to curb the illegal dumping of cheap foreign shrimp on the U.S. market. The shrimp is often sold below production costs.

State-supplied generators returned

Chertoff to hand over a changed guard~Carl Prine

'Blue roof' complaints investigated, Corps is asking Dept of Labor to probe Ike workers' claims~Matt Stiles
"We've heard a lot of those stories. It's unfortunate that these things happened."~Mike DeMasi, deputy director for project management in Corps's Galveston office.
~Editilla gotta Ax~
...because we knew there would be trouble'deep when the Corps of Engineers took over the Blue Roof program.
Much of this involves The Citizen signing over their"Right of Entry" in order to get into the program, to get a Blue Tarp. That is if they can find a pen amongst the debris of their damaged homes, with which to sign away their rights. Why? Why did the Corps of Engineers become involved in Roofing people's houses?
Why isn't the Corps taking care of flood control?
One of the main reasons I can see is this: the more money available to an organization, the more money available. Hence, the more "projects" that the Corps of Engineers can take on, then the more money they will have under their control, and therefore the more political power concentrated their way.
Many'a'rilla might ax themselves, "Oh but they are our own Government Engineers! Why would they do this?". The Answer is that the Corps of Engineers is NOT a "government" organization. Apparently they operate more to the benefit of Larger Corporations than the piddly needs of actual Citizen Tax-Payers.
Given their record in New Orleans and South Louisiana post Katrina and the Midwestern levee failures this past summer, it would appear that the Corps does NOT have the tax-paying citizenry's best interest in their "flood control" plans.
Maybe they are working for Big Energy, Titan Corp, KBR, ADM, Prudential Agri'biz, State Farm Insurance and other multi-national Non-Tax Paying, Land Granted Entities? Hell, the list goes on, but one thing is deadly obvious: the Corps of Engineers does not work for the American Tax Payers. Soooo, why would the Corps get into the Roofing Business...
--especially while their Levees already leak so badly?

Marathon Oil Corporation Donates $1.5 Million to American Red Cross for Hurricanes

News Alert: Big Oil pays taxes!
~Your Right Hand Thief


ACT Appeal Cuba: Hurricane Gustav and Hurricane Ike emergency assistance

Island Rd.*
no leaves on the trees,
only bare bark cascading like a brown river
outstretched on limbs formed in yearning arcs and tangles,
their dark silhouettes
haunting the still blue sky

they hover statuesque above tall grass
like old brittle veins
that once knew the warmth of a body
and the way to gather for making love
~please read further

Seems like old times
~Randy Rosetta


Coming up in this week’s Gambit: The Baby, It’s Cold Outside Edition

Farewell To Storyville
~Citizen K


K, W and N:
Four-letter stories
~Talmadge Gleck


New Orleans jazz from Claude Luter ~Jazzarific

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