French Quarter/Marigny groups to deliver anti-crime petition Thursday~Kevin AllmanHeeding Obama’s Call, Writers Pitch In To Rebuild America
~Gerbil News Network
~For Armand St. Stephen, a recent graduate of Tulane University, Barack Obama’s inaugural call to public service was both an inspiration and a revelation. “I got misty-eyed when he talked about showing kindness to strangers when the levee breaks,” he says. “The only time you hear the rest of the country talking about our levees is when there’s a hurricane or somebody gets drunk and puts on Don McLean’s ‘American Pie’.”
He Said The 'L Word'!!!
~Big Red Cotton ~"That's practically a mic check for New Orleans!!! I'm swooning...
Now I can't say I understand how volunteering and building levees would go hand in hand. I guess Sandy Rosenthal and levees.org would have more to say about that, although much of their energy seems to be spent on challenging the Army Corp of Engineers on their PR-centered rather than public safety-centered efforts. And if memory serves me correctly, it was that red chapeau-wearing, martini lunch loving volunteer levee board we had in place before the storm that partied with the Corp for years, all the time overlooking engineering reports that predicted our levees would one day fail.
So I'm not sold on the whole volunteer- to- levees concept yet. But I'm willing to suspend my disbelief to listen to what the new man in our life has to say."
~Editilla Con'Sooooiellas~Whiskey Tango Blogrot?
Is it the Pharmaceuticals in the Water in New Orleans that could make an otherwise trendy, nola.com blogger use a genuinely cool presidential scenario to, what, marginalize the local safe-levees volunteer community? Before I start this Rantzilla, Gentle'rillas must rest assured that had anyone said such stupid horse'poo about Big Red Cotton, then Editilla would be on their ass like a fightin'javelina! Update: Big Red has clarified this butterfinger, but Editilla is loath to just chuck all this pristine zilla'rant.
What the hell...moving finger having writ and all...
Why shoot blanks at a local safe-levees advocacy group?Aside from this Big Red chewing-gum-blogger's brutally incoherent, drive-by, scatological decent into the fallacy of false equivalency, their memory could stand some correction as well.
Perhaps more medication or the shock treatment of levee failure might do the trick, since it appears that their "memory serves them" none at all regarding the nature and work of levees.org.
Would this Big Red Cool Aid have us all Pay No Attention to That Men Behind The Levee?
Big Red's Bubble Gum has gone stale indeed if they think blogging stray flecks of existential angst and innuendo about such a hard working local grassroots group goes any deeper than, saaay,
a puddle at a tree pissing party.
Why say something so obviously divisive and incorrect about levees.org uncovering Corps COINTELPRO tactics? Ironic though how Big Red seems to have also had ASCECORPS Punks doing COINTELPRO in their comments section on this nola.com site too. Ironic? Surely they knew? Perchance they should run their own IPs. The PR Machinery of ASCECORPS is very real and active in New Orleans media. Everyone knows that now because of levees.org. Anyone who thinks the FedCorps doesn't play such hardball is a goddamn fool. We all need to find Common Ground.
And then there is that "equivalency thingy" again, further down the blog post: I do not see how James Carville's embed with Cheney's speech-writer has helped address one thimble-full of Louisiana Wetlands Protection very much (pre or post Katrina) or the failed flood control systems in and around New Orleans and the Nation. I believe Big Red has misunderestimated the power of the almighty dollar in Carville's base motivations to work PR as he does. While I can see how growing up in a Leprosy colony might lend someone to a fetish for crones, this man took an oath to go to bed with the most neoliterate, singularly grotesque media hag in Suffragette City! Mary Matlin? Jeez Louie! Trach me with a pen! James Carville is a PR Pimp if he is anything --somewhat a mentor to Editilla in that regard: "It's The Levees Stupid!"
It appears that Big Red would have us all drink such oh'so Tragically Hip'Cool Aid, sit back, assume the position and lay down for the Exquisite Corps, or automatically assume that Louisiana Democrats will keep us safe. Thanks BRC.
How do you take your Cool Aid? Sugarcane or Aspertain?
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Could independent voters bring down David Vitter (R-Pamp)? ~Jim Brown
Prima Pelican~NODPLouisiana Stimulus: Enter Governor Jindal And Sen Landrieu~Stephen Sabludowsky
Katrina recovery review ordered by new FEMA leader
~Bill Barrow
An Artful Response to Disaster~Stephanie Atlan
~Paul Villinski conceived of his traveling artist studio while visiting a post-Katrina New Orleans in the summer of 2006. He found himself scavenging the streets, longing to transport his New York studio so he could settle in and get to work grappling with the devastated city. His solution?
Salvaging a FEMA-style trailer, the formaldehyde-ridden government response to temporary shelter, and reinventing it as the Emergency Response Studio (ERS).
Do we need an anti-torture policy at home?~Jordan Flaherty
'Project Egypt: A Politically Incorrect View': An American Contractor Offers Uncensored Take on Egyptian Project and Society~"Project Egypt" is a construction project based in Cairo. The purpose of the project is to build the Egyptian army and its corrupt general a new computer center. Managed by a slew of government agencies -- each contributing additional headaches to what should be a simple project -- and funded by the American taxpayer, the endeavor was administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Shaw Awarded Contract Extension by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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~Gretchen Mae Stone
Prom dresses to sell!
“Desire” Photography Exhibition~Slide show
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~Post_Oil_Geography
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La. makes strong showing at Academy Awards~The Advocate
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~Dan Willging, offBeat
Stereo Sinai - Biblegum Pop
~Teruah - Jewish Music
Mark Mullins & Jimmy Robinson at Carrollton Station Jan 30th
~all about Jazz
New Wynton Marsalis album
“He and She” coming Spring
~From The Horses Mouth
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NolaFunk NYC
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I was in LSU the same time as David Duke. I don't believe there was ever a time when the Free Speech alley was such a packed place -- He always loved to stir up controversy
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