~The corps must realize that leaving Louisiana vulnerable to nature's most destructive storms carries a heavy cost, too.
~Editilla gotta ax~ Costs? What costs?
WHAT COSTS TO THE CORPS? The Corps of Engineers has paid No Cost for their failures. Indeed, the Corps has grown stronger than ever, more politically connected than ever, and they are also now lining up major wetlands groups like candy ass'canes to appoint their Corps Titan as head of our Nation's Civil Works.
In Fact we have Rewarded their Corps Failures with more and more Corps Funding. We have allowed them to get away with the Flood of New Orleans in '05. We have allowed them to continue delaying and increasing the Tax Payer Costs for south Morganza to the Gulf. We allow the Corps to say whatever they want to us without independent validation. We have even allowed the Exquisite Corps to get away with stuffing this very Times Picauyne Newspaper as filler in concrete floodwalls. Eitilla sayz that is Punk'd'Up! So I also gotta ax: Why is the Times Picyune always, always, coming in after the commission of the crimes.
That simply will not do any longer.
For example, TP, how is the lawsuit MRGOing?
Keeping Hope Alive....And Fear At Bay~Pierce O'Donnell
Corps design may have to change
~Paul Rioux ~The latest clash in a decades-long battle over one of the nation's most fiercely defended wetlands could send the Army Corps of Engineers back to the drawing board to modify designs for the centerpiece of its West Bank flood-protection upgrades. Comments and graphics.
ASCECORPS Say Lets Play...
Spin the Model
~Editilla gotta Pilla~ ~Oh! Model, not Medal!~
Here I was just minding my own biz, doing the morning constitutional thing with Crazy Mazy and coffee, trying to wake up enough to climb this Ladder... when one of my plants over at Levees.org pitched me this article. Everyone know Editilla has a problem with fleas and engineers! That is the pestilence to which the Exquisite Corps has devolved before me: fleas... up Editillas butt! Soooo I gots plants all over da'place, planted by the seeds of discontent, and they send me stuff like this, knowing how it will get my goat by its mangled horn and drag po'thang to apoplexia.
The author of this piece of Public Relations Ass'Buff Lede PRABL writes copy for McGraw-Hill, little Missives of Misinformation to cloud the water around ASCE/Corps of Engineers ASCECORPS faux engineering shenanigans, Little Miss'Informed.
Really. She writes like a cheerleader for a high school yearbook.
Indeed the article is about having Earthquake scientists peer review flood structures. OoooK'ville! AND our intrepid gum'smacker brings in Corps Expert Model Ken Dolls:
Tim Ruppert and Robert Gilbert!
Oh Boy, here is where Editilla's worm begins to sloooowly turn! We Love These Corp'd Lackeys: one a lying douche'bag rising nola blogger and the other a Medal Winna!
Yeyaah can I getta Witnaaaasss! The former and da'latta...
Timmy Ruppert's eponymous nameless blog is a perfect example of décalage, defensive douché'bloggery.Right there beneath his picture, beneath that long column of cointelpro, he disclaims any connection between his views and Corps Policy, yet posts exact Corps Policy, then gets quoted in the yearbook faux article as an expert on Corps Policy. Timmy would have the whole Nola blog'0'spere believe he is just another citizen devastated (whispered by His Own Corps Engineering Malfeasance) --not above all a Current Corps of Engineers Supervisor Spin'Filtraitor.
Mr. Nice Guy just wants you all to like them. Mr Ruppert is trying to sell us a bill of goods.
He is the worst kind of Smack Dog Snip Hunter.
Hey, you mad dogs are welcome to do your tree-pissing where ever you want --but out here in the blog'0'reamery and across the flooded plain we take offense when it keeps hitting our leg.
Jeez! Louiezzzzz! Soma'body hand me ah Lucky dog!
Gregory Peccary wanna'bees --everywhere we wanna'beez!
Robert Gilbert was on the wrecking crew IPET review and received his Medal from the Corps before the report was even published, lined'em'up and pinned it on his fey chest.
This guy is spinning like a bottle in a prom closet!
This is advance Public Relations Advertorial.
Illustration: "Little Timmy"~Masqued E'vinga!
Bunnatine “Bunny” Greenhouse,
a Whistleblower and Real American~Michael Lang
~Ms. Greenhouse, the former top civilian contracting official for the Army Corps of Engineers, stated, "The bottom line is that without access to independent courts, real judges and juries, whistleblowers don’t stand a chance, and fairness and transparency will not see the light day."
She is asking fellow Americans to contact their elected representatives and demand strong and effective whistleblower protections for federal workers in order to ensure that fraud in stimulus spending can be detected.
Parades for Friday the 13th 
~Krewe of Pygmalion
Uptown 7:00 p.m.
~Krewe of Oshun
Uptown 6:00 p.m.
~Knights of Excalibur
Metairie 7:00 p.m. ~Krewe of Atlas Metairie 7:30 p.m.
~Krewe of Cleopatra Westbank 6:30 p.m.
~Krewe of Eve Mandeville 7:00 p.m.
~Mona Lisa & Moon Pie Slidell 7:00 p.m.
~Krewe of Hercules Houma 6:00 p.m
Summit puts face on Katrina
~Kat Bergeron
~The human aspect of Hurricane Katrina recovery needs more attention as each week more people with unmet needs show up at social service agencies more than three years after the storm.
That was the strong message at Thursday’s Katrina Recovery Summit II: Where Are We Now? attended by disaster recovery, case management and advocacy groups.
Can da'President stop stumpin
the "K" Word all the time
--humpin'dat stimulus package--
and maybe get on wit'it, axually
do the "K" Right Thing?
Slidell mayor blasts FEMA for
comments on local recovery
efforts~Christine Harvey
~Jim Stark, assistant administrator for FEMA's Gulf Coast Recovery Office, did not mention Slidell specifically when he told a newspaper this week that officials in communities impacted by Hurricane Katrina are wasting time "trying to wring more money out of the federal government" when funding might not be available."That is the most incredible bull---- statement I've ever heard in my life," the Slidell mayor said Thurs at a press conference in the trailer office he has used since Hurricane Katrina destroyed Slidell's City Hall almost 3 1/2 years ago.
~Editilla gotta ax~ bull---- shot? pock? scat? scit? scud?
Books On Katrina Recovery
~Katrina Networking
Some Katrina Funding Lessons
~Alliance for Justice
New Orleans residents love its charm~After Hurricane Katrina ripped through New Orleans, many residents were quick to rush back. Dan Baum covered New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and talks to Kai Ryssdal about why the Crescent City is so appealing.
Bag of Broken Bottles
Banana fritters: a New Orleans breakfast classic
Youth music program struts their stuff this Mardi Gras season
~Big Red Cotton
Astral Project still tearing it up
~Howard Reich
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