"When a Charity Hospital baby tells ya some- thing, it's the truth."
~SaveCharityHospital.com
LSU Board approves hospital governance agreement
~Jan Moller
~A deal spelling out the governance of a proposed teaching hospital in lower Mid-City won quick, unanimous approval today from the Louisiana State University System Board of Supervisors.
OSC Report Substantiates Allegations of Defective Hydraulic Pumps in New Orleans
~An independent evaluation released in June by the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), relying on the assessment of an independent engineer, has determined that there are serious safety and reliability issues with hydraulic pumps that were installed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. These pumps are designed, in case of emergency, to move flood water away from the city to the lake side of the floodgates. Despite repeated internal reports that the pumps were faulty, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and Department of Defense Inspector General (DoDIG) have repeatedly denied inherent flaws in the hydraulic pumps since 2007.~Garland Robinette lands on this like a 50 pound hammer.
~Levees.org will be featured on Anderson Copers 360
Friday night at 10p EST.
Playing the Inside Game...
--A Cautionary Tale
~Harry Shearer
~Obama's remarks about New Orleans during the campaign were anodyne boilerplate, and what he's giving us now is more of the same. He won't even do the obligatory photo-op in the city on 8/29; he told the Times-Picayune he'll come down "before the end of the year". He didn't say which year.
UPDATE~ Since the release of the Office of Special Counsel's scathing report of corruption and lies surrounding those Pumps, we have decided to compost this piece from the other day.
It still bears mentioning that our President doesn't know why New Orleans flooded on 8/29/05 because apparently he gets all of his information from the Corps of Engineers.
Rather than Acting as Commander in Chief of the Army, our poor clueless youngster leader-wannabee is actually apparently merely Reacting to being Commanded By the Corps of Engineers.
~Editilla Scarecrow'tellas~ I have received considerable critique regarding my Letter to the White House, which I also posted onto Harry's comments section, and continue to send around New Orleans and the rest of the country. Given such a response, we should probably start composting the thing.
(Thanks fo'yo comment/letter Crescent City Ray!)
They argue that I am being rude and insensitive and giving the Neocoward After'Birthers ammo with which to flick wicked words at the Obama, with my statement to the President:
IT'S THE LEVEES STUPID.
They say people in Harry's audience might be offended or not understand. I know Herollero Harry Shearer understands.
I know my readership understands we have no time to "play nice".
I damn well know savvy political fixer Jim Carville reads the Ladder and understands, as he is where I got the inspiration.
And, just as when Carville nailed Big George Sr's defeat, I hope this works to bring us a better and truer candidate in the next Presidential Election --and I will work towards that goal should Obama continue to forget his place in New Orleans.
But in the interest of fairnes, how's this: OBAMA IS BULL SHITTING NEW ORLEANS FOR POLITICAL GAIN.
Obama needs to see real political consequences of continuing to keep his head in his ass about New Orleans. If not, then in 2012 Haley Babar and Bobblyhead "Zaphir" Jindoll will roll over his failed presidency like a fat cartoon elephant.
Just as there are No 2nd Chances with Catastrophic Engineering failures, there is No Crying in Politics. So suck it up, face the Line,
fix the problem or drown in your own damn'nation.
Sen. Landrieu's plan to export Louisiana's coastal destruction to Florida~Sue Sturgis
~While Louisiana struggles to restore coastal wetlands ravaged in large part by decades of oil and gas drilling, its senior senator is leading the effort to lift the ban on drilling off Florida's Panhandle.
US Federal Water Policy
- A New Wave Is Coming
~Jeremy N. Block
US Supreme Court asked to consider mining appeal ~AP
~Several environmental groups are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether the Army Corps of Engineers is properly issuing fill permits for mountaintop removal mines.
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