Dimanche

Report: Shrink N.O.’s ‘footprint’,
pay no attention to that Corps
behind (the curtain) the levee!
Engineering Academy sayz Run!
~Allen M. Johnson Jr.
~The 41-page review of an upcoming voluminous report by the National Academies, an advisory panel of scientists and engineers, also proposes the “voluntary relocation” of entire neighborhoods, “elevating” homes of remaining residents; buyouts, and improving local and regional shelters to make hurricane evacuations “less imposing.”
Editilla pulls a nail-studded Louisville Slugger,
swats this Carpet'bagger's testicles into a flood gate:
“Mother Nature always bats last.”~Ed Link
Hey Ed, you ain't Yogi Berra,
this ain't a forking baseball game,
--this ain't even Rocket Surgery...
IT'S THE LEVEES STUPID!!!
Katrina "walked" at bat you ingrate bastard! Katrina hit us a fowl ball and the Corps of Engineers could not field even that!
New Orleans did not flood because Hurricane Katrina missed the city. New Orleans flooded because the flood control structures failed because the Corps of Engineers built them on the cheap with substandard materials. New Orleans flooded because the Corps of Engineers built, deepened and widened the MRGO Navigation Channel, not only destroying tens of thousands of acres, hundreds of square miles, of natural surge protections but creating a man-made funnel to focus the flooding.
Stop pissing down our backs and telling us that it was Katrina!!!
The Corps did this on purpose for more make-work funding.
This entire "report" is beginning to look like ASCECORPS PR.
These are the Perps who flooded our city --NOT KATRINA!!!

Part~1 of this interview

Corps seeks public comment on proposed eastern N.O. lakefront projects

Morganza structures concern businesses~Kathrine Schmidt

Bull’s Eye Project sets next site on New Orleans~Durham Police Department Crime Analyst Jason Schiess has been selected to present “Operation Bull’s Eye: Reducing Violent Gun Crime in Durham” during the international Tenth Crime Mapping Research Conference this summer in New Orleans. The conference is put on by the Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety (MAPS) program of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ).

State finances go from riches to rags in a year of Child-Governor Jindal's GOP Presidential Campaign~Mike Hasten

Texas GOP Governor pusses up to US Government for Flu Shots, swears state may still secede maybe after dinner but they could, really~Wonkette

Sunday Funnies~Citizen K

Planning firm keeps Louisiana cities’ stories in mind with projects ~Ellyn Couvillion

Post-production studio under construction in Esplanade mansion~Kate Moran

19th-century New Orleans brothels revisited in new book
~Susan Larson

Last day for Festival International de Louisiane 2009


Special thanks~ Georgianne Nienaber

All around New Orleans, it was a day to remember~Chris Rose
~"There have been better days in New Orleans. I'm sure of it. After all, we've been around, what? -- 300 years? Certainly, there must have been.
But I dare you: Show me one.
Saturday, we owned it. Everything.
The Center of the Universe. Again."

From discipline comes freedom
~Andrew Gilbert~At its conception, jazz melded the blues and street music of African-Americans with the European classical tradition carried by New Orleans Creoles of color. Rooted in Crescent City culture, Jonathan Batiste is in the midst of creating an ambitious new synthesis that marries the conservatory with the nightclub.

The Genuine Cajun
~Walter Tunis~The carnival barker voice that begins the new BeauSoleil album, Alligator Purse, suggests the music that follows is a genuine and rare commodity.

“Folks, this is genuine Cajun breakdown music as heard in Evangeline Country. Let’s go, boys.”