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Katrina flooding victims in court to seek damages~Cain Burdeaux
~In this Dec. 24, 2005, file photo, a view is seen from the Claiborne Avenue Bridge of a barge which breached the Industrial Canal levee during Hurricane Katrina in the destroyed Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans. A coastal geologist testified Monday that he warned the Army Corps of Engineers decades ago about the dangers of the shipping channel that funneled Hurricane Katrina's storm surge into New Orleans.


Astro'Turfers do Spin'Filtration
~What is Astro'Turf? Astro'turf is Artificial Grass posing as True Grass. It is when an organized group uses blog commentary to pass themselves off as representing a certain local group or interests, to wit here: Engineering, as if they have shared grass-roots in the game --when In Fact they work fo'da Perps of this heinous crime! Astro'Turfing involves spinning a story a certain way outside of the official statements, for example those of the Exquisite Corps of Engineers.

Editilla Notellas how Dr. Ivor van Heerden's word is considered solid enough for this MRGO court case, yet this miscreant astro'turfer must skulk around the local media comments sections, spin'filtrating testimony.
Here we have a person with actual foreskin in the game, practicing actual Military Defensive Blogging such as you can find here.
But Mr. Spitoon has also thrown in the more specious aspects of Astro'Turfing like you find from Greg Peters at his blog Suspect Device. <~And on that bent note, one wonders how Gambit could stab us in the back by unapologetically printing this fool's frat'rag drive-by cartoon back-stab at Dr. van Heerden in the Easter Print Edition ~>yet not show the guts, ova or cajones online for even a howdy, Ivor, howz'ya mominem?
That's it, Gambit. No More Kitty Litter For YOU!
Lo da'Redundancy! Oh, da'Horror... da'hoooorrrorrrr!
{'Course... if Gambit were to publicly apologize for putting out such badly medicated feckless horse sh*t, then we could certainly find it in our broken heart of hearts to forgive them their lost deadline of sight.
Right, Gentle'rillas? 'Course... we could just call their advertisers and ask them WTF!}
---or Co'Intel'Bro Turfer, "Soft-hand" Tim Ruppert
(Corps engineer and former president of LA/ASCE) at his blog Tim's Nameless Blog, to which Greg Peters is fond of linking for genital support, like ASCECORPS Bed'Buggers.
---or ubber'gullible Clay (mechanical engineer) in the City Business article comments section, verbatim quoting Greg Peters' ass'handed self aggrandizement: [To quote Greg, "Rejection of van Heerden's bullshit does not mean acceptance of the ACOE/ASCE's [REDACTED]. This is not an either-or proposition. "Ivor = Right/Everyone Else = Wrong" is a false dichotomy. Was his firing unwise, or ill-considered? Maybe -- I doubt it, but maybe it was. That does not mean that LSU has abandoned all hope, sold everyone's soul down the river, blows the ACOE for nickels and makes change, etc., but to read some of the commentary raging around the web, one would think that an act of brazen apostasy had been committed against Our Great Leader."][Editilla's gotta'few choice woid for yo'yo great leader.]

That should be enough for now to show that these idiot'winded flatulators are everywhere, or seem organized and coordinated in their timing. They always shoot from the shadows, if not outright in the back. They crow the loudest about being local, but if they tell'ya ya'momma loves'ya --don'beeleeve it!
They are coward opportunists and profiteers of this great tragedy, who should be hunted down and wiped away when ever and where ever they turn up on the souls of our flooded footsteps Sinn Féin!

Slabbin'gavel to gavel on MRGO!
~Slabbed Pretrial Composts

Letter: Hurricane expert’s firing criticized~Elementary fairness itself demands that an individual losing a job knows why, even more so in a university. Unlike any business, the coin of the academic realm is logic, reason and argument, not just that, “They have the power to do so.” Given the history since the Katrina debacle, the only possible conclusion is retaliation, Dr. Ivor van Heerden having embarrassed some at the top in his criticism of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the failure of the levees.
That he was correct on this seems not to matter to some.

Protest the firing of LSU scientist Ivor Van Heerden for speaking out about levees~Blageur

Exquisite Corps of Engineers upbeat, happy to drown local Levee budgets with costs of world's largest pump
~Paul Rioux ~DIXCLAIMER!

Governing By Chaos,
a City in Shambles~Lord David

Alleged Ku Klux Klan member found incompetent to stand trial in Lynche murder
~Benjamin Alexander-Bloch

Child-Governor Jindal goes to Texas for campaign cash, meeting with oil tycoon

Recovery agency seeking to drop cases ~Sarah Chacko

State will pay fishermen to take survey~Katherine Schmidt

Secretary Napolitano Announces Additional FEMA Funding for Katrina/Rita Public Assistance Projects

VeriChip announces sale of VeriTrace system in New Jersey

Tons of released drugs taint U.S. water ~Jeff Donn

Lessons From the Reverse Engineering of Nature
~Dr. Shahid Naeem

Red Stick Animation Festival
Baton Rouge~April 22-25th

5 Minute Oil Change stores to benefit Children's Hospital

Next Week in Alexandria: The Annual LA Historic Preservation Conference~CenLamar

Folk-art festival enlivens boat blessing~Matthew Pleaseant
~Decorated boats glided slowly down Bayou Little Caillou Sunday afternoon, passing a festival some locals say is reinvigorating the annual boat blessing.
The Chauvin Folk Art and Blessing of the Fleet Celebration, held biannually, brought music and art lovers to the Sculpture Garden, an elaborate monument on Bayouside Drive.

New Orleans bartender Maksym Pazuniak wins 'Tales'' top prize

The Men Behind The Bluesmen: Dave Bartholomew
~Squeeze My Lemon

Terence Blanchard, Nicholas Payton featured in Documentary Channel series~Dave Walker

Loyola adds to New Orleans Jazz Fest lineup

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