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Diversion plans criticized, researcher wants to rethink coastal restoration~Amy Wold

Advocates Renew Calls for Large- Scale Restoration of La.'s Coastal Wetlands ~April Reese

State releases updated corps reform wish list~Daily Comet

Cao now waffling on health care, beginning to sound a lot like an After-Birther?~"It is controversial because right now, with respect to our health insurance, we get to pick and choose what we want to purchase," Cao said. "But now, all of the policies are required to have essential elements. So that's why some people feel now that they lack the freedom to choose what they want because they might not want to pay for some of the things they have to pay for." Huh?
~Editilla flat'lines da'baby in da'batwata~
What did he say? Guess he ain't leaning anymore, eh?
I cannot afford "health insurance" (private), nor is it offered by my employer, so where is my choice, my Public Option?
I must by law still pay taxes for Sacred Cao's heath insurance in Congress --so he can legislate away any option for me (public) to gain easier access to health care?
He seems to be "leaning" for enriching the Insurance Industry at the expense of Charity Hospital care. In the Tao of Cao I am forced to pay more for Expensive Private Insurance in order to afford very over-priced Expensive Private Health Care?
Will Joseph Cao step up to the plate for The People or Not?
Will he become a true elected representative of The People, or is he just another future rising star GOP spit'ball Monkey like our Child-Governor Jindal?

4 Years After Flood: New Orleans faces major challenges
~Desiree Evans

The Browning of Grassroots
How astroturfing is taking over local activism. ~Daniel Stone

Rep. Maxine Waters asks for flat additional payment to Road Home grant recipients
~David Hammer

LRA: Louisiana Continues Investments Post Katrina ~BBuzz

Road Home recipients can get more time to rebuild if they show need~David Hammer
~Rainwater acknowledged that enforcing the three-year time limit to rebuild is very difficult for the state. But he denied that offering people a chance to ask for up to two year-long extensions was an effort to track those who are not rebuilding.
"I have no desire to enforce a covenant on someone who is really trying," he said. "But we all know that some people took the money and moved away. We want to help people work through issues, but in some cases, we need to enforce the covenants."

Jim Brown on the cost of regulatory capture: More shit for Louisiana taxpayers to shovel courtesy of the Office of Financial Institutions ~slabbed

Louisiana property owners could pay for $95M Citizens judgment

Shrimpers protest at state Capitol, allege price-fixing
~Jeremy Alford

Would this be before or after we're done ignoring Jindal's exorcism experience?
~Library Chronicles

Bill drops to Category 3

Camille, Katrina and the Changes Since ~lawyerahead.com

The "Functional Anarchy" of Genomes
~Guenter Albrecht-Buehler PhD

Air Force used Twitter to track NY Air Force One flyover fallout ~Richard Ladner
~The Combat Information Cell's first assessment of the event said "Web site blog comments 'furious' at best." "Damage control requires timely counter-information," but the opportunity for that had passed, the assessment said.
The cell recommended acknowledging the mistake and ensuring it didn't happen again.
John Verdi of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington said gray zones can emerge while monitoring social networking sites because viewing and participating is based on trust. "Lots of times individuals upload private or sensitive information that they expect to share with their friends or family and not the whole Internet world," Verdi said. "It would certainly be a major problem if the government were accessing that information under false pretenses."
Paul Bove, an Air Force digital media strategist, said service personnel are instructed not to do that. Nor are they to use aliases or represent a position that's beyond the scope of what they do."We always tell people, 'Stay in your lane and don't talk about something that you're not qualified to talk about,'" Bove said.
The issue of aliases is at the heart of a complaint stemming for the Army Corps of Engineers' performance in New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., asked the Pentagon inspector general to examine allegations that Corps employees posed as ordinary citizens and posted comments on a New Orleans Web site defending the organization from criticism following the disaster.
~Editilla Notellas~ We saw this article when it ran, but missed the statements at the end which have now been brought to our attention by a Noble'Rilla reader. Thanks youz.
And thanks to the AP journalist for noting the connection.
(I had wondered why we were getting so many hits from the Air Force. Good thing we take screen shots of our stat pages.:)
Perhaps such Defensive Cyber'Ops Tracking is the reason the Air Force decided to scare the shit out of New Yorkers by chasing the President's Jet with a fighter jet right over the city? I mean, that was such a stupid thing to do, one must wonder who ordered it?

Lawyer: FBI Paid Right-Wing Blogger Charged With Threats
~David Kravets

Official Kilogram Losing Mass ~NPR~More than a century ago, a small metal cylinder was forged in London and sent to a leafy suburb of Paris. The cylinder was about the size of a salt shaker and made of an alloy of platinum and iridium, an advanced material at the time.
Since 1889, the year the Eiffel Tower opened, that cylinder has been the standard against which every other kilogram on the planet has been judged. But that's creating problems. According to scientists, the cylinder's mass appears to be changing.

D'OH! Awwww... ahem, we t'ought they was talkin'bout Church!

Steadman Dreams~Citizen K

Calvin Harris' “Humanthesizer”, Quintron's New "Drum Buddy" and other Cool DIY Musical Instruments~Music Vixen

Cajun tradition~Cody Daigle

Theresa Andersson~Roxy

New Orleans in Kuala Lumpur
~Sharmilla Ganesan

Screening: Wild Man Blues ~Dave Lucas