Delaying safe pump stations for New Orleans is not an option: an editorial, by the Times-Picayune --who gave the Corps Free Pass!
~Editilla snaps a fuse into a million watt anus~
Is This the kind of after-market alligator tears you show the public --after you have taken so much Advertising Money from the very Cause of our Increased Risks? Remember how we had to drag the Times-Picayune kicking and screaming into this story?
They have effectively Not Covered this problem the entire time, instead soft-balling any inference that the Corps was behaving illegitimately, always --ALWAYS-- giving the Corps the benefit of the doubt and their worst, corps-biased reporter: Grrrissette.
This "news" outlet has proven itself incapable of handling the Corps. We need to point out to the Times-Picayune that to have been used as flood wall filler by the Corps of Engineers was not a compliment. Just as now: to be used as the official Mouth Piece for the Corps to pull the wool over the City's eyes is rat'fink, unconscionable. The Times-Picayune has failed to protect us. Why cry about it now?


~Special thanks~Alex Woodward, Gambit

In Morerro, the Corps finally puts Band-Aid on Still Failing Levee~The 1,600-foot earthen levee, which runs south from the Old Estelle Pump Station, has failed twice, once in the early 1990s and again in 2007 when two sections totaling 600 feet long slumped badly. Prodded by the levee board, the corps has agreed to use costly geotextile fabric to stabilize known trouble spots before raising the levee from 10 feet to 14.5 feet to guard against a 100-year storm, which has a 1 percent chance of occurring each year. As part of the agreement, the corps will cover the costs of repairing any failures for five years after the levee has been raised, Morgan said.
~Editilla's Incumbent Recombinant Compostinal~
~Again, what we have heyaaaah... is a Fail'yaaaa... to...
Do It Right The First Time? The Corps has established a Pattern here (Post Flood) of Doing It Wrong the 2nd Time, and shoveling it down our throats with project delays until we are forced by Nature to Go Their Way Or The Flood Way.
What am I missing here? At gun-point across this Flood Control System In Name Only we allow the Corps to Do It Their Way. Then, later, when It Breaks We Own It. Has anyone else noticed that the Corps of Engineers offers No Warranty No Return?

Marketing plan being developed to help Delcambre shrimpers by spring~Richard Burgess
~A major initiative to revitalize the Port of Delcambre is already beginning after voters approved a property tax one week ago that will generate about $300,000 a year for the Twin Parish Port District, officials said Friday.

A Saturday Happy for the Slabbed Nation

Mixed opinions on having flights to Cuba from New Orleans
~Susan Edwards

Test flights to begin
~Photo by Northrop Grumman
The Fire Scout, an unmanned aerial vehicle which will be used by the Navy reconnaissance missions, is assembled at the Northrop Grumman facility in Moss Point and will now be tested at Trent Lott International Airport.

Giving God a Hard Time
~Jojo Soira de Veyra
~In the immediate aftermath of the flash flood wrought by typhoon Ondoy (Ketsana), Metropolitan Manila Development Authority chairman Bayani Fernando had the media-perceived gumption to pin the blame on everyone, including himself.
His take was leveled against himself, first for failing to convince developers and informal settlers (squatters) to get out of the waterways and relocate in what he deems a necessary move for his department's flood control mission to work. Unwittingly, he had backhandedly leveled the blame primarily on these very developers (who had acquired permits from government to build real estate subdivisions on wetlands).

Mountaintop Removal Begins on Coal River Mountain
-- Help Needed Now
~Matt Wasson

“The name—of it—is ‘Autumn’”
~Robert Frost's Banjo

Larose French Food Fest is off to a good start~Perry Pitre

Marsalis: Racism and greed put blues at the back of the bus