Saturday, July 18, 2009

Samedi

Corps fails their mandate again!
National Academies panel blasts Corps' long-delayed Category 5 flood protection plan
~Mark Schleifstein

~UpDate~ Garret Graves has now weighed into this article's comments commons of rollicking discussion!
~Editilla Notellas~
The Big Schleif
has smoked this story over the national media, like that little boy Cain Burdeau over at AP, so lite that we can't even hang his article, and the NYT as well --we add that one for pity's sake.
Indeed, The Big Schleif come'tru wit'da Editillero Extramaz!
And ya'know we hate to say we toll'ya but... we toll'ya.
Big Schleif hisself has been hanging on the various Corps boot'doggles like Morganza to the Gulf and the cost-plus-plus- triple'liscious surge barriers. In the meantime we have had to rip out their hor'shit public relations spin'filtration from OPP and call out the Corps own employees in our local media. New Orleans district is a busy place! But, lemme'tollya...
--we got'yer back. Editillero never sleep.


L.B. Foster to Provide Sheet Piling for NOLA Flood Walls

Citizens Sue Mayor in VA Hospital Case~NTHP
~Analysis: How the lawsuit against the Mayor could save taxpayers $5 million
~SaveCharityHospital.com


A city without Charity...
~Desiree Evans, Facing South


Evidence still stored in basement of Clerk of Courts despite flood ~Dennis Woltering

National Governors Association: It's time for a stroll
~Cameron Sinclair


Dear governors, Our Katrina story~Anita Lee

Our Atchafalaya: A basin kind of life~Claire Taylor
Atchafalaya Basin Pics collection

Amtrak report complete on NOLA- Orlando Sunset Ltd.

Remembered: Cronkite honored, delivers speech in New Orleans ~WWL


A.D. New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld
~Jamin Brophy-Warren


Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
~Alexander Alter


Death in the Dust Bowl
~Marylin Stasio
~If James Lee Burke has the deepest regional voice in the genre — and I do believe that’s so — it’s because he understands those feelings that keep people connected to the places where they have, or once had, roots. When Hurricane Katrina ripped through New Orleans, it swept all kinds of people, criminals among them, out of their natural element and into the strange foreign land called Texas.
RAIN GODS is Burke’s version of a range war in Southwest Texas — a pitched battle between gangs of displaced bad guys, fighting among themselves for the new territory against the outmatched locals.

Floodgates by Mary Anna Evans
~Lesa Holstine


Squeeze My Lemon into da'BBQ

Playing for Change, New Orleans ~Rachael Jones

KC native sings to heal NOLA ~Marcia Horn

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