In L'Aquila
The pic relates to protests in Rome, before the parliament house.The initiative is meant to remind the G8 leaders and our premier that 25000 people are still under the tents in L'Aquila, three months after the earthquake.
Superior hurricane protection too expensive -- for now--
says Corps of Engineers
~Bigad Shaban, WWL
~The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it has already decided how it plans to provide 100-year flood protection for the metro area, but local and national lawmakers are saying not so fast. --But the Corps still sayz: "Screw You New Orleans! Ya'Buggaz,
It's Our Way or the Flood Way!"
Another Stimulus? Who Needs It?
Not New Orleans~Harry Shearer
~Editilla motellas from the back hand path~
We have been carrying Harry's latest post for the past couple of days, as this issue with the Exquisite Corps shoving OPTION 1 up our outfall canals is a very big deal. Getting reamed is always a big deal, even when the pusher isn't particularly well endowed.
As such, the Exquisite Corps knows the game of Endowment.
Here we can see the Real ASCECORPS at work, to wit: The Fix.
All this other stuff we have been subjected to, the local media infiltration and PR spinfiltration, the local blogger astro-turf disguised as (ha!) local bloggers grass roots, the heavy handed firings within the hurricane research community, all has served well to distract the taxpayers from this Major ASCE'Fork.
Most, if not all, of what the Corps says is bullshit slight of hand to keep our eyes off this very Funding Ball.
They have put a gun to our heads this hurricane season and said:
"You will take our Option or you will drown."
That is called being offered a Deal We Cannot Refuse by a Bazillion Pound Syphilitic Gorrilla spitting in our living room.
Editilla axs everyone to watch the Committee Hearing.
See Senator Vitter clearly demonstrate the Exact Wording of the Congressional Mandate on a big poster board to the insolent, straight-faced obfuscating Brigadier General. Hear the brave Corps General Yes Mam keep bouncing the answers back to:
"Let me talk to our lawyers and I'll get back wit'yaz."
He never answered the questions.
The Corps does this Costs-Humping regularly, usually right now at the start of hurricane season. They tried it last year with Morganza to the Gulf surge protection, flood control system: from $800 Million to $11,000,000,000, Billion with a capital B.
They did it again this year with the MRGO/ICWW Surge Barrier, nearly tripling the original costs: {The cost of the barrier and a second gated structure that will be built at the Seabrook entrance to the Industrial Canal from Lake Pontchartrain is now expected to cost about $1.8 billion, said Karen Durham-Aguilera, director of the corps' Task Force Hope, which oversees levee construction. Durham-Aguilera said that's about $540 million more than the two projects were originally expected to cost.
The corps has asked Congress for permission to cover higher costs with money now set aside to pay for armoring earthen levees when they are completed in 2011.}
Unfortunately for New Orleans the Corps has hired an expensive public relations firm to mix up the local media view of this asce'fork and hence was able to literally drop this latest slam-dunk in the laps of a confused and misinformed citizenry: the American Public, the Actual Stakeholders.
I would like all of you reading to bare in mind: once the Corps gets through with New Orleans the rest of you will be a piece of cake.
You will eat this cake and you will like it.
Or you will drown.
Federal, local agencies to split levee-study costs~Nikky Buskey
The Easy Answer to the Trinity River's Levee Problems? Just Blame Katrina~Sam Merton
~Indeed, the 53 levee breaches flooding 80 percent of New Orleans forced the corps to develop new testing standards, which is why Dallas slipped from receiving "excellent" ratings on its levees to a point where no one knows exactly how much work or dough it's gonna take to ensure downtown Dallas won't become the next New Orleans.
Bid to Cut Army Corps' Project Spending a Net Loss for Taxpayers~Taryn Luntz
Tugboat pilot plan may have backfired~Cain Burdeaux
N.O. hospital leader leaving
~Jan Moller
Landrieu: I'm not running for New Orleans mayor
~Analyst: Landrieu's departure leaves New Orleans mayoral race wide open
Stormy Daniels to Sarah Palin: Let's talk!~Politico
~“As a woman who is often criticized and dismissed by the media, I obviously can relate to Governor Palin on many levels,” Daniels said in a statement. “Given this, I am very interested to hear what she has to say about the challenges women like ourselves who are not afraid to display our sexuality face when it comes to being taken seriously as leaders.”
Dow cleanup continues as motorists detoured from River Road~Matt Scallan
7th Annual Tales of the Cocktail!
~2009 Official Cocktail: The Creole Julep
Created by Maksym Pazuniak, Rambla/Cure
~2 1/4 oz. Cruzan Single Barrel Estate Rum~1/2 oz. Clement Creole Shrubb
~1/4 oz. Captain Morgan 100 Rum
~2 dashes Fee Bros. Peach bitters
~2 dashes Angostura bitters
~8-10 mint leaves
~1 Demerara Sugar Cube
Maksym's cocktail will be served throughout Tales of the Cocktail,July 8-12 and will be featured in the summer issue of Culinary Concierge Magazine and on CocktailTimes.com.
Be sure to keep up with what's happening at Tales of the Cocktail
<~via the TalesBlog.
~Shorter descriptions for the Gambit's "Top 50 Bars" list for your convenience, from The Librarian.
~Book Signings~RumDood~LA'tail
Modiki El Niños and Atlantic hurricane activity
~Dr. Jeff Masters
An Evening with the New Orleans Master Plan
~Gill Benedek
A Fresh Look for New Orleans' Working-Class Neighborhoods
~Emilie Bahr
Keeping count of the Gulf Coast
~Facing South
Author Makes Mark by Inking Book Deal in Spite of Flood
~On August 27th, 2005, two days ahead of Hurricane Katrina, Daphne Marie Doucette and her family fled New Orleans, Louisiana in her Toyota Sequoia en route to Alabama.
Underestimating the threat of Katrina, (and, as everyone else, completely ignorant of the Corps of Engineers' bad flood walls~Edtitilla,) Doucette packed very little and as a result left behind floppy discs of her three finished manuscripts, which represented nearly four years of work at her personal computer.
An American Opera: The Greatest Pet Rescue Ever!~Interviewing leaders of animal organizations and volunteers who went to New Orleans after (the Corps of Engineers bad floodwalls failed and flooded the city), it is revealed that at the beginning, everyone had different ideas about how things should be done, but no one was willing to take charge because the problem was bigger than anyone could have imagined. The film champions the volunteers whose only concern was saving animals, unlike the animal organizations who were more concerned with the chain of command.
The Shaw Group Inc. will perform solar power work
Google Announces Chrome OS
~Nick Mediat
From a tiny acorn...
Heroin Makes Comeback (?) ~WDSU
Now Is the Time for New Orleans Breast Enlargement?
Project 30-90 greens up music festivals in New Orleans
~Meghan Jones
Local musicians to perform at memorial for New Orleans musician~The bands are set to perform at a memorial benefit in honor of Steve Phillips, an active member of the New Orleans music community for more than 20 years. Phillips died June 5 of cancer. He was 53. The benefit, an all-day show and dance, is planned for 11 a.m. until "well after dark" Sunday at
The Bayou Barn, 7145 Barataria Blvd., Crown Point.
The venue is about 20 minutes south of New Orleans.
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