Monday, May 18, 2009

Lundi

Obama to New Orleans:
Drop Dead?~Harry Shearer


Measuring delta health on a global scale~Lacoastpost
~I wonder if the change from a “smoother” coastline to the more “birdsfoot” river-dominated morphology has mostly to do with the land use changes? That is,
a more restricted river course would preclude frequent avulsions and construction of the distributive dispersal pattern.
A more restricted river course would result in more spatially focused growth. I don’t know … just thinking out loud.

Army Corps PR belies safe water levels in canals
~Sheila Grissett


Landrieu Leads Second CODEL To Netherlands to Study Dutch Flood Protection ~Levees.org

Comment period for "Big Straw" extended until July 27
~hummingbirdminds


Gathering extratropical storm set to drench Florida, Cuba, and the Bahamas~Dr. Jeff Masters

Report on Interim LSU Public Hospital says costs too high, efficiency too low~Jan Moller

LSU System to cut 300 jobs at New Orleans public hospital

New Orleans to Promote City’s Bio-Boom

Disaster Capitalism Paying Off Big for Charter School CEOs in New Orleans~Schools Matter

Monday Revival~slabbed

They laugh alike, they walk alike, At times they even talk alike
~Firedoglake
~Editilla can't help it... nice to know we scooped one of our Big Fav Blogs yesterday morning. Sure did.
Rumsfeld threw truck-size obstacles in the way of deploying troops to New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Claiming that there’d be problems with “unity of command,” Rumsfeld was adamant that only the National Guard be sent out—but they were slow in arriving and did little to stem the chaos. Bush snapped at him for the disorder in a meeting about the situation: “Rumsfeld, what the hell is going on there? Are you watching what’s on television? Is that the United States of America or some Third World nation I’m watching? What the hell are you doing?” Five days after the hurricane hit, Bush told Rumsfeld he had to deploy troops. “If we had put those troops in on Thursday, the narrative of Katrina would be a very different one,” one senior official said. ~Daily Dish

Michael Dell ordered to testify in New Orleans case

Making Butter at Home
~Serious Eats


Artist Jonathan Blum restores rabbi mural on St. Roch Avenue
~Doug MacCash


NolaFunk Lagniappe

Swing Territory, Part II
~3quarksdaily

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