Mercredi

Corps of Engineers: It’s Your Bill, Not Ours
~David Winkler-Schmit
~Editilla Co'tellas~ Well, I also watched the entire Council Committee Live Stream meeting with the Corps Colonel and I have to say: we're fucked. Yep, good and truly corn'boned.
It is a good thing to have so informed Public Participation as we saw today from the Citizen Questions. But it is a very bad thing when that Public seems so much More Informed than the Corps of Engineers and indeed our own Levee Board (who we find out now uses IPET people to Peer Review the Corps who wrote the IPET...yeah, they said that and poor Editilla was seized by the most vicious dark deja vu all over again).
Regarding the Law which governs our Flood Safety Structures, this Corps Colonel was clueless. All questions, each very thoughtful and well researched, were left UnAnswered by this Corps Colonel or his weird looking side-kick Dark Man Bradly.
Questions about Option 2 and 2a over Option 1, $10 Million/Year Pump Maintenance Fees, Shifting Safe Water Levels in the Outfall Canals, Project Funding Priorities, Contract Delays and Bidder Protests. NOTHING BUT BOO'RAH and PRETTY PICTURES.
The Corps tried once again to use this important Legislative Time as a Public Relations Soiree, replete with a slick OPP-produced (with PR Cruise Ship Music) Snappy Graphic Video Presentation Opening on the MRGO Closure Structure and ambled through other Public Relations accomplishment-getting stuff.
A real Pony Show, I mean, this was 3 hours of absolute Bull Shit. No Freaking Answers Not One. Even when Sandy Rosenthal of Levees.org directly contradicted him with The Law stating that our outfall canals are the responsibility of the Federal Hurricane Protection System, this Clod-head Colonel did not get it.
After 3 hours of this I can't see how anyone could feel safe moving back to invest in New Orleans over then next 10 years.
The people building our Flood Protection can't answer questions, direct question, cogent questions, Tax Payer Questions.