Samedi

Corps Public Relations Gets Giant West Bank Pump Station Celebration Under Way
~Friday's event capped a week in which the corps held a three-day closed-door summit at a Metairie hotel (?) to brainstorm ways to cut $200 million to $300 million from the project to keep it under budget. (???)
Tom Podany, chief of the corps' protection and restoration office, said it's unclear whether the goal was met because the corps is still reviewing the proposals. "This is part of the normal process of doing cost containment and trying to find the best value," he said. "We're looking at different construction techniques to keep the project under budget and on schedule."
~Editilla Gotta'Ax, WTF? Nola.opp strikes again!
~4 years, FOUR GODDAMN YEARS, after their structures failed and flooded New Orleans, the Corps is still playing the Funding Shell Game --and is now holding secret meetings in Metarie Hotel Rooms to do their Budget Work??? Oh For Crying Out Loud. What The Fucking Hell? Who goes to a Metarie Hotel room to play with $200-$300,000,000? Riiiiight, like the difference between 200 and 300 Million tax dollars is just 1 digit, chump change to the Corps of Engineers.
Did they talk about the $370,000,000 the Corps has already blown through installing defective and inoperable Hydraulic Pumps on our outfall canals? Did they discuss any of the Hundreds of Millions of dollars they have already shifted off of armoring our levees and over to Plaquamines parish?
Once again, the Corps got their Congressional Mandate. They got their funding. And, once again, they are coming in late and $300,000,000 over budget?
Someone pinch me, I'm having another nightmare. It is the same bad dream over and over, but with a revolving tormentor, this time played by a Red-Headed Public Relations Succubus Boss Lady, on top of me, holding my head under the flood water. She pierces my eardrums with her Lizard-forked tongue and hisses "Ssssilly Editilla, you sssstupid-asssss taxsss-payersss.
You all ssshould have lissstened when we weren't telling you anything! You ssshould have abandoned New Orleansss to the Rissssing Tide --just like my Exquissssite Corpssss Commander: Colonel Alvin 'NO NO Protection' Lee."

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