Mercredi

The Afghanistan War: Just Askin'
~Harry Shearer

Did Louisiana Child-Governor Jindal Play Kiss-Up To Obama On Health Care? ~John Maginnis

Study Forecast: 35,800 new Louisiana jobs over 2 years,
New Orleans economy shunned on fears of levee safety

Coastal restoration advocates prepare push for Obama visit
~Mark Schleifstein


~Editilla Go'tellas~ I have been hard on our Beaux'bama of late, regarding what we see as Yankee Bourré Slighted Hand on his place in our flood recovery. Louisiana has opened the door wide for him, yet he continues to ask the Corps of Engineers for directions to the bathroom. Lemme toll'ya, it's embarrassing!

After working for his election (and actually donating Money, hard-earned green energy) he pissed me off so bad by not showing in New Orleans for the Anniversary, instead going to play golf at a Rich Peoples Place --like Some Former Faux Presidente.
Rather, Obama left us waiting like badly medicated step-children, then gave us all a Cotton Candy Public Relations Interview. Grrrr... if I wanted to be really rude I'd say he put on his Black-face make-up to dance a little jig for the ignorant native journalists... but there is no cause for such reciprocal rudeness.
Still, at least Hillary actually bedded a Southern Governor --yet all Obama's Ram'n'Axelrod seems wont to do is Stick It To Them.
I'm tollin'ya, it's embarrassing. We don't get no respect.
Dude thinks he can play golf with the Family Jewels....
--Not My Nola Diamonds Thank You Very Much!
But what really puts a tick up Editilla's Bum is how Obama seems to state publicly that Katrina flooded New Orleans, which is of course the ASCECORPS PR LIE. That is why we are calling this The Hurricane Tour On The Road Home To No Where.
The hurricane hit Mississippi. The Corps of Engineers hit New Orleans. Why is that so hard for our smart sexy new President to get? Is he going to come here an tell us Katrina did it?
Obama, IT'S THE LEVEES STUPID.
Anywayz, when I saw this video again it reminded me of the Hope that we all had --this month one year ago-- after such abject Hopelessness. I remember how New Orleans came out for Obama. He better remember too, and start listening to Our Body Politic --instead of his Exquisite Corps.
Editilla expected us to have real, honest flood protection at least going by now, for Goddess Sakes! Instead the Corps has installed inoperable bad pumps on our outfall canals, decided against replacing their bad flood walls and is now shifting millions of dollars between projects to cover their ASCEs.
Speaking of Goddesses, our girl Susan Cowsill will be performing at this years Voice of the Wetlands Festival, along with an All-Star Line-up of Herolleros who Live for Louisiana.
If Obama is really smart he would be there too, taking the VOW.

Public meeting called for Tonight
~Save Charity Hospital

Davis Pond Diversion should get more use, officials say, despite threat to oyster beds
~Matt Scallan
~A crowd of state and local officials lined up Tuesday to demand that the Davis Pond Diversion structure in Luling be opened wide to pump more fresh water into the Barataria Basin. The structure, which opened in 2002, pumps an average of 5,000 cubic feet of water per second from the Mississippi River into the basin, has the capacity to divert 10,650 cfs. The Army Corps of Engineers is considering ways to improve the operation. Rut'row.

Learn to live with it
~Filipino Voices~The Dutch project, although experimental and small—15 floating and 35 amphibious houses plus a floating greenhouse—has attracted international attention. BBC news reported that officials from New Orleans visited Maasbommel to see how these houses worked. But floating and amphibious houses are only the beginning.

In New Orleans, Home Floats To Withstand Floods ~NPR

Local man raising funds for Manila recovery effort
~Michele Marcotte

Flood control millage goes to voters~Bob Warren

Housing Battle Reveals Post- Katrina Tensions
~Campbell Robertson

World Monuments Fund targets Phillis Wheatley Elementary
~Phillis Wheatley Elementary School

Check out Josh Charles - download a song, help rebuild New Orleans through the Preservation Resource Center ~ROFNO ~H/T & Editillos to Red Stick Irene!


Mayor Ray Nagin increases budget shortfall estimate by
55 percent~Bruce Eggler

The Yes Men Fix the World is a Riot. No, Really.~The Yes Men
~"You'll see us knock $2 billion off Dow Chemical's share price, expose New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin for the corporate lackey he is, and show some of the most powerful free-market spokesmen to be C-level liars."

Katrina the Clown mulls running the show
~The New Orleans Levee
~“While Katrina has no comment at this time – and not just because she’s mute – we can confirm that she has been in meetings with advisers since Arnie Fielkow’s withdrawal and is closely following the mayoral race,” said Rita Bendin-LaBonk, Katrina’s recently appointed media juggler.

New Orleans: Who Calls the Shots?~A 2nd from Stuart Lob

Obama may decide fate of NASA jobs in New Orleans~John Snell

Fifth Circuit vacates District Court ruling in Katrina Canal Breaches Litigation ~slabbed

“Water judge” way out of line
~Bob Barr

WA Levees Get Inspected

Study examines waterflow effect on dam~Nancy Cohen

County, Corps of Engineers to fund Galveston levee study

Geo Domains Expo to be held in New Orleans

Holly Clegg And Crab Nachos ~BBuzz

Poet Dave Brinks finds his bliss in 'the encyclopedic living nature' of New Orleans' people
~Susan Larson

Odd Words...
~Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans

Words & Music: A Literary Arts Festival in New Orleans
~Shari J Stauch

Preservation Hall Jazz Band forges creative partnership with bluegrass legend Del McCoury
~Keith Spera

Rocktober~Gambit

New Orleans Moonshiners to Reopen the Spotted Cat Tomorrow Night
~Jay Mazza, New Orleans Music

Mardi

Map: U.S. Counties with Levees,
What if Hurricane Katrina Impacted Your City?~H/T & Editillos~ Levees.org
~With Special thanks to Ezra Boyd and Dr. Ivor Van Heerden

Higher levees on Mississippi River at New Orleans ~WDSU

In limine in limerick
– Bossier v State Farm
~Nowdoucit, slabbed
~A lawyer by the name of Guice
has tried to play fair and be nice
but when State Farm raised her ire
she grabbed their personal voir dire
and asked the Court for ice.

Wetlands loss linked to Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas pipelines in new study
~Mark Schleifstein
~A new study for the federal Minerals Management Service concludes that the construction of pipelines related to oil and gas production in the Outer Continental Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico "can cause locally intense habitat changes, thereby contributing to the loss of critically important land and wetland areas."
~Editilla Ho'tellas~ Many of these "energy developers" are in town this week. Sooo, we would like to suggest that if any'yaz want to go meet them and give these folks a piece of your mind, or walk around in front of the place with signs, or just hit them in the face with a Hubig Pie, then you can find packs of them here.

~Catastrophe in the Making~

~Special thanks to Levees.org, and MRGO must GO

Investigators Link Levee Failures to Design Flaws~Joby Warrick and Michael Grunwald
~Editilla No'tellas~ We call old articles like this:
"Ghosts Writers of the Storm", because of the way they will show up out of the blue on one of our incredible arrays of search engined ass'grabbery... an article written just months after the Corps' levees failed. That is one of the most endearing qualities of my own interest in the Internets post-Federal Flood, to wit: the Corps and the Energy Industry can lie, cheat and steal their asses off --as they regularly do-- to control our information on the failures of their systems, but just as well on the Web, the Net, the Truth of our own work to counter that ASCECORPS PR also lives forever and stands to contradict their lies with facts.

Obama Visit To New Orleans' Hurricane Place Ward Thingy: You Comment ~BBuzz

Obama Blows Dalai Lama Meet To Kiss Chinese Junta Ass
~Editilla Lo'tellas~ Correction: Obama Kisses the Saudi Royal Hand, Sucks the Chinese Junta Ass and Assumes the Position of the Exquisite Corps as Commander In Name Only?
What am I missing here? I thought Obama is supposed to be Our President, that is 2% of the US population, or at least goddamn know who flooded New Orleans, why Aung San Suu Kyi is Still imprisoned, whether women can drive alone in Saudi Arabia and who drove tanks through Tienanmen Square. It isn't much to ask. I know the answers to these questions but I'm not President Hope
--even though Hope was in my vote. Now I feel as if I've been Hope'A'Doped.

Alligator Bayou flood gate closed
~David J. Mitchell

More projects return America's rivers to their natural state
~Jeff DeLong

Makeshift levee work could boost flood risk, USACE warns
~Chris Grygiel

State will go for secret special arbitration with FEMA on Charity Hospital
~Save Charity Hospital

Shaking Up HANO
~David Winkler-Schmit

Ham radio club seeks access to Jackson County antenna
~April M. Havens

GCCF awarding remainder of Katrina funds to nonprofits
~Anita Lee

"Always leaving the same effect without ever knowing why",
the Library Chronicles turns 6 this week!

Coffee fest to focus on market opportunities in India

Bongé in New Orleans
~Pam Firmin

We Dance: Post-Flood ONCE ON THIS ISLAND Documentary Now In Theaters~The Marquee

The New Orleans Film Festival ~Gambit

NOLA Project: Finer Noble Gases and White Bitch
~Noah Bonaparte Pais

Sneak Peak of Universal Pictures' Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant to Benefit the Tipitina Foundation

This just in: Gretna Fest rocks
~Chris Rose

Lundi

Dems question Vitter contribution from former Miss. congressman ~Kevin McGill
~The Democrats said they will bring their complaint to the Federal Elections Commission, citing a $5,000 donation Governor Haley Babar's PAC made to Vitter in August.
That donation was followed by a $5,000 contribution to Babar's PAC from the Commerce Hope Innovation and Progress PAC. CHIP PAC is affiliated with former GOP Rep. Chip Pickering, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
~Editilla gotta ax~ Is Chipper such a Picker? Chip da'Pick?
~Mississippi Gov. Haley Babar has shown he knows how to maneuver his way through a bad storm.
While leaders in neighboring Louisiana rebuilt the state's recovery from 4 major hurricanes and the Federal Flood of New Orleans --and at the same time trying to get their mind around Senator David Vitter (R-Pamp), his illegal appetite for prostitutes on the tax-payers's dime and an absolutely Clownish Diaper Fetish...
Babar was taking bows for his work in Mississippi and cruising to re-election with a higher margin than four years earlier.
What? Oh! Well... jus'sayin...harrrump da'trump!
Among Babar's other associates are the monkey Zephir, the old elephant counsellors Cornelius and Pompadour (Pompadour was created for the Babar TV series), his cousin Arthur, and his children, Pom, Flora and Alexander. Later, a second daughter, Isabelle, was introduced. The Old Lady comes to live in the Kingdom as an honoured guest. Despite the presence of these counsellors, Babar's rule seems to be totally independent of any elected body, and completely autocratic, however his leadership style seems to be one that works for the overall benefit of his elephant subjects; a form of "gentle authoritarianism".

NYT can’t fit the word “levee”
~Ray Lang, OLF&AWE

New Orleans: Who Calls the Shots?~Harry Shearer
~She is one of many people advising the president about what he should do and see while in New Orleans, but she does not know who ultimately calls the shots on that.
"I don't even actually know who that person is, " Woodka said. "Maybe it's the president himself."
~Editilla takes the Back Hand Path~
~Yes, the President is supposed to be the Commander In Chief. Yet, he appears to be getting all his direction from the Corps of Engineers, hence a Gulf Coast Hurricane Recovery Tour to the New Orleans Disaster Ward Thingy Place... a trip that doesn't include the Gulf Coast or Hurricane Recovery.
The Hurricane hit Mississippi and the Corps of Engineers hit New Orleans. We survived the hurricane...Go Figure. Go Fish!
As Harry described in one post about trying to "Go Insider", after a labyrinth of playing cards and who'dats, he finally met with the President's Word on this --and who did THAT turn out to be?
You guessed it, our Exquisite Corps of Engineers!
Everyone is saying we should be Nice to the President when he comes to town. But, I really think our attitude towards his Yankee Bourgeois Naiveteiness regarding the Flood of New Orleans does not matter, because he and his "people" don't seem to be listening to We The People.
While there is no cause for Rudeness, I am just about tired of Obama's Game and think he now owes us more than a few explanations about the Corps of Engineers continued Bad Engineering Scams --not more full court press partays.
We have problems in New Orleans: in-operable pumps, un-repaired bad flood walls, millions of dollars getting shifted around from project to project. He has had the OSC Report on this (again posted by Harry) on his desk since JUNE.
We need Answers and Action from the Commander In Chief.

Landrieu Examines Galveston Disaster Recovery Efforts and Future Reform Needs

Squatters make dikes ineffective
~Hermogenese Ebdane Jr.

Execs unable to deal with stagnant flood~Manila Bulletin

The Swamp Witch Tackles the Green Monsters~NOLAFemmes

Surprise! Surprise!
~Crescent City Hack

Guess Who Loves The Saints ~Kotaku

N.O. coffee business strong, but competition brews along Gulf
~Susan Buchanan

Project Home Again (PHA) Continues to Help Families Affected by Federal Flood
~“Four years after the storm isn’t the time to quit, it’s the time to look around, understand where redevelopment can happen and redouble our efforts to bring the city back. There are still thousands of families out there who, now more than ever, want to come home,” said Leonard Riggio, chairman of Barnes & Noble, who along with his wife, Louise, founded Project Home Again shortly after Katrina. To date, PHA has built and gifted 32 new homes in the Gentilly neighborhood.

New Orleans inspector general office's report blasts city's budget process ~Bruce Eggler

Money troubles in Catahoula Parish ~WWL

This little piggy went to mediation …and this little piggy
~Nowdoucit, slabbed

This little piggy went to market mediation,
This little piggy stayed at home,
This little piggy had roast beef got taken
This little piggy had none.
And this little piggy

went “Wee wee wee” all the way home.

Structural Project Engineer -Flood Control

Birds are getting scarcer in Grand Isle ~Matthew Barnidge
~Louisiana lost about 1,900 square miles of coastal land in the 20th century. Scientists predict another 700 square miles will disappear by 2050. This coastal land is critical habitat for migrating birds because it provides a resting place en route to Latin America.

In Season: Serious Eats
~Figs were a common theme in the Bible, and the Egyptians considered figs to be sacred, often burying the dead with baskets of figs. In ancient Greece, Plato wrote that athletes were fed figs to make them stronger. Fig culture spread to the northern Mediterranean and Adriatic shores until it reached southern Italy, and then the rest of Europe. When the Spanish planted figs in Mexico, and the Franciscan monks moved northward with pockets full of figs--that's when they came to the States.

Author Nevada Barr reads and signs her novel today
~Octavia Books 513 Octavia St. Book launch party with author Nevada Barr who will read and sign her New Orleans novel, "13 1/2", 6pm Free.

Louisiana writer Tim Gautreaux to be honored~Kevin Allman

Norton Girault, at 91, words still matter ~Bill Ruehlmann

Tombstone tours: Check out these famous boneyards
~Beth J. Harpaz

New Orleans Bounce
~My Private Casbah

Rev Billy and the Life After Shopping Gospel Choir Rocked the Brooklyn Lyceum
~Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn

A Fall filled of festivals
~Geraldine Wyckoff

Heritage School of Music fund-raiser featuring
Richie Havens

Dimanche

Hate To Say We Told'Ya, But...
~Congress lets New Orleans down:
a Times-Picayune Editorial --paid for by your US Army Corps of Engineers
~Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, Rep. Ed Pastor, D-Ariz., and Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-N.J., were the lawmakers who took the action that Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., called "breathtaking in its arrogance.'
Both Sen. Landrieu and Sen. David Vitter, R-Pamp., said that the Corps of Engineers was responsible for persuading committee leadership, through "back channels", to strip the language from the appropriations bill. That interference is especially offensive coming from the agency that built the flood protection systems that failed catastrophically during Hurricane Katrina.
~Editilla jus'tollin'ya~"Back Channels" are for jail punks!
Aside from the unbelievable coincidence that nearly all of those committee members had bad flooding in their districts just last year, what we have hear'ah is more than a fail'ya ta'comoonicate.
~The Corps of Engineers doesn't so much as "Lobby Congress" as hire public relations firms to advance their Stakeholder Interests in Congressional Districts across the country --where the Corps inevitably has pork barrel feeding troughs. Given that the Corps is on the ground in 45 of 50 states and that over 50% of Americans live within running distance of a Corps Flood Control Structure, one could understand the Corps' Special Hubris fo'da Peoples, t'wit: We The Survivors of their Failures, the American Taxpayer.
And yet, greased as we are, one might still not consider that the Corps might also deploy expensive lobbyists against our interests in Washington DC. Bipartisan My Ass Splitisan.
Smiling Faces Show NO Traces...


Tribe says it must abandon island community~Naomi King

Census plans special effort on the Gulf Coast
~Alexandria Town Talk

Fish Farm Clusters in Gulf Concentrate Pollution and Oppostition~Amy Wold

The man who will never be Mayor ~Library Chronicles

Where did our billions go?

And we are worried about Dry Walls?
I mean...come on...are those rows of armed women goose-stepping in pink mini skirt uniforms and white go'go boots? What? And they're wearing little white jazz berets??? What?????
Who are these Peoples? Where they Got them Boots?
The Borg? HA! The Borg's got Nothing on these blush replicants!
The Borg rattle in fear before the Charge of the Go'Go Brigade!

Will California become America's first failed state?
~Will Blog for Food
~But even Schwarzenegger is humbled by the scale of the crisis. At a press conference in Sacramento to announce the final passing of a state budget, which would include billions of dollars of cuts, the governor speaks in uncharacteristically pensive terms. "It is clear that we do not know yet what the future holds. We are still in troubled waters," he says quietly. He looks subdued, despite his sharp grey suit and bright pink tie.
Later, during a grilling by reporters, Schwarzenegger is asked an unusual question. As a gaggle of journalists begins to shout, one man's voice quickly silences the others. "Do you ever feel like you're watching the end of the California dream?" asks the reporter. It is clearly a personal matter for Schwarzenegger. After all, his life story has embodied it. He arrived virtually penniless from Austria, barely speaking English. He ended up a movie star, rich beyond his dreams, and finally governor, hanging Conan's prop sword in his office. Schwarzenegger answers thoughtfully and at length. He hails his own experience and ends with a passionate rallying call in his still thickly accented voice. "There is people that sometimes suggest that the American dream, or the Californian dream, is evaporating. I think it's absolutely wrong. I think the Californian dream is as strong as ever," he says, mangling the grammar but not the sentiment.
~Editilla Gotta'Ax~ Yeauuuuh, what's he supposed to say?
"Ja! Sie sind alle beendet worden!"???

Changing weather patterns affect local water storage ~Aquafornia

Louisiana book festival
~Greg Langley

Live review: Henry Butler
~John T. Davis

In Pursit of Bo Consciousness
- Part 5~Home of the Groove

Family Ties Parade Today, 1pm
~Red Cotton

Harvest the Music
~Lafayette Square (located in the 500 block of St. Charles Avenue, across from Gallier Hall).
This FREE, series runs each THURSDAY through October 29 from 5:00pm until 7:30pm.

Inspired by Adrastos: Already Gone

Samedi

'Katrina shorthand' strikes at Harper's~Your Right Hand Thief

Local corps projects to receive millions~Robert Zullo
HOUMA — More than $8.6 million federal dollars for Army Corps of Engineers projects in Terrebonne and Lafourche are included in a bill awaiting the Senate’s endorsement and the president’s signature.

Congress votes: water, energy funding~Mankato Free Press
~Steve Scalise, R-La., faulted the bill's New Orleans flood-protection policy. "If we have learned anything from...Katrina, it's that the federal levees that failed us before cannot be rebuilt the same way they were," he said.
~Editilla Licks da'Mold~ And We Shall Trippeth With'eth! We wanteth to tasteth of'th the Body of'th The Exquisite Corps and drinketh of'th the ASCECORPS Cool Aid that Scalise musteth have drunketh...ya'thunketh?
If we learned anything from Katrina, it is the difference between a Weather Event and Multiple Catastrophic Engineering Failures. Weather Events Happen Naturally.
Engineering Failure is Caused by Man Made ASCE'Fuck'Ups!
What I learned from Katrina in New Orleans is to trust in the wisdom of the ages to show me how to dance. What I learned from the Corps of Engineers in New Orleans during Katrina, and especially in their aftermath cover-ups, is more akin to facing down and eliminating the rapists of my little sister. I am tired of seeing the word "Katrina" next to the words "levee failures", because that is a Lie. I was there and saw it with my own lyin'eyes. It Was Not Katrina. Simple. It's The Levees Stupid.
Sucking up to the NO'CO will get you NO'WHERE, Scalise...
--so faggetaboutit you absolutely forking clueless elected official!
Until the likes of Scalise and Jindal and Obama get this stake driven into their hearts, we will never see the end of the Corps' Misdirection and possible Repeat Failures.


Special Thanks Levees.org

Garland Robinette Think Tank
~Lead researcher for Levees.org H.J. Bosworth, and Rep Scalise,
were on Herollero Garland Robinette's Think Tank yesterday.
~If Editilla were fancy live-bloggin this broadcast...
I'd say Bosworth just said Congress gave New Orleans The Finger?
~Scalise speaks of blatant contradictions, yet says the Corps is the Only Game In Town, hopes for Face Time with President when he wanders into the New Orleans Gulf Coast Hurricane Ward Place allegedly sometime later this month.
~Bosworth now says we are in Danger from inoperable Hydraulic Pumps on our outfall canals.
~Scalise lays out clearly our increased Risks from the Lyin'Corps' Option 1 over the saner Option 2 Plans. Admits to having drunk Corps Cool Aid in the past and hallucinating a visit with The Magnificent 7 Luminous Spheres but now has re-awakened to the idea that Temporary Pumps is a worthless con'con proposition of previously owned horse manure?
We'll see...republicans can just get so weird sometimes.
~Bosworth comes back Solid with the Truth about what the Corps Actually Specified regarding these MWI Bad Pumps. (Editilla sees Facts as funny things, laughing alligator tears.)
~Scalise can be heard playing with his Bolo Paddle.
Naaahhh, just kidding... well, we're just really hoping that is what we're hearing. BlancoBlancoBlancoBlancoBlancoBlanco
~Bosworth stresses that a Lie is a Lie and the Government did Not get what we Ordered from the Corps!
(Editilla para-sails a bit here:) Suffice to say...
~Bosworth, himself a Stakeholder, drives a Sterling Silver Freight-Train-sized Rail through the Heart of the Exquisite Corps' Vampire Bullshit.
~Scalise reminds Editilla that Democratic Bourgeois Naivete in Politicians is a Dictator's Best Friend.
~Bosworth puts a fork in it by pointing out the inherent difference between how the Europeans trust real engineering at their 3rd busiest airport 20 feet below sea level as Americans carelessly bend over to assume the position to Lie with the fetid Body of our own Un-Dead Grisly Rotted Exquisite Corps.
~Editilla O'Pines to all Stakeholders! To the Castle!
We Shall Plant Our Stakes In The Heart of the Bloody Red Castle!
Yaaaaahahahahahahaaaaa...whew! Ahem, yes, well...
~Beaux'Garland Rocks Editillero World!

Corps to discuss increasing flow of river diversions
~The Army Corps of Engineers and state officials will hold two meetings to discuss increasing the use of south Louisiana's two biggest river diversions — Davis Pond and Caernarvon.

Seven miles of pipe will pump sand in Pascagoula
~Harlan Kirgan

Landslides buried at least 3 Indonesian villages
~The U.N. estimates as many as 4,000 people may be buried under the rubble. But more than three days after the disaster hit, the chances of pulling most of them out alive are slim.

Tri-State Water Dispute: Georgia's Hand Further Weakened~Emily Green

Obama to New Orleans: Hold On, I'm Coming~Harry Shearer

Teachers' union claims company cheated Filipino teachers
~Paul Murphy, WWL

Arbitration panel will decide Charity Hospital reimbursement
~Jan Moller

Furious Five reporting for Gangsta Duty!~Red Cotton

Black Menace - Ghetoasnigga 1992 New Orleans
~The Music Dynasty

Vendredi

Wonkette Picks a Winnah!
~Now Ain't She One Fine Piece of Rich Fertile Handmaiden's Tail!
~Set in the Republic of Gilead, a country formed within the borders of what was formerly the United States of America by a racist, chauvinist, nativist, theocratic-organized military coup motivated by an ideologically-driven response to the pervasive ecological degradation of the land, widespread infertility, and attendant social dislocations. Beginning with a staged terrorist attack killing the President and ousting Congress, the coup leaders launched a revolution which overthrew the United States government and abolished the US Constitution. The new theocratic military dictatorship, styled "The Republic of Gilead", moved quickly to consolidate its power and reorganize society along a new militarized, hierarchical, compulsorily-Christian regime of Old Testament-inspired social and religious orthodoxy among its newly-created social classes.

Meanwhile in other news... the Fat Lady's Still Singing!
Typhoon Parma: a new disaster for Asia~Jeff Masters

Corps misappropriates, steals $80,000,000 (Million$$$) from St Bernard Parish Flood Control to pay for other projects
~"It's crazy that they'll cut something this important from our projects and send the money somewhere else," said Bob Turner, the levee authority's executive director.
Turner is particularly concerned that the corps is looking at building a "stop log" closure across the Caernarvon Canal rather than the long-planned sector gate. Such a cost-cutting change would require closing the navigable waterway four to five days before a storm, an unnecessary hardship to marine industries located behind the new floodwall, he said.
"The more severe problem is, what if a tropical storm blows up right off the coast and there's (no) time to get it closed, " he said. "It requires a large crane lifting large pieces in the canal . . . and with high wind and pouring rain, that's dangerous."
~Editilla Slide'rules out Risk Reduction~
~As the Corps of Engineers Absconds with Hundreds of Millions of our hard earned tax dollars for Faulty Pumps and No Outfall Options, they scurry about the Funding Ship of State like trained rats in some nefarious criminal gang looting what money is left to cover their ASCECORPS VERMIN ASSES.
So now the real Shell Game Roulette is in full spin with the Corps.
Where da'Nut? Where da'Nut? Follow da'Nut!
Don't watch da'Hands --FOLLOW DA'NUTS!
Don't listen to da'Man --FOLLOW DA'NUTS!
We told you all this months ago, even last year, that the Corps would wait until the trucks start rolling to really start playing Russian Roulette with a Shell Game. But alas, coming from silly Editilla --not some Smarty'Cat Engineer who is good at interpreting reports-- what does it really matter to the price of rat's ass in China, eh?
Remember how we described the Massive Corps Shell Game? Remember how we would say the Corps are Lying Murderers who will Cheat at Dodge'ball With Our Flood Safety in order to control their own revenue stream? Silly Editilla. Engineers don't Lie.
Who gives a flying nun's fart what we say, eh?
We guess USACE HQ has hit your New Orleans Ladder lo these hundreds of times just for the cheerful banter we direct their way. (-:Hi Corps!:-) They Know How We Love the Corps...just Love'em ta'Bits! But who do we love even more than the Exquisite Corps? Oh, that would be the Engineers who have kept Silent about the Corps Engineering while the Fix Was In.
Now the cylinder is Spun, the Hammer Cocked...
who's going to find the Bullet --Don't Watch The Hands!
A Shell Game of Russian Roulette in a Casino of the Damned.
The Corps knows this is not a game of Engineering where the Truth either works or it fails. The Corps know this game better than anyone, to wit: Criminal Engineering Negligence (CEN) is easier, more lucrative and the witnesses all die-off in the long run.
There is nothing more dangerous than a Lying Engineer...
--because then all we have left to work with is the Word of a Liar.

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House Passes Bill with $35 Million in Melancon-Secured Water/Oil and Gas Projects for South Louisiana
~Louisiana RealEstateRama
~“I am extremely disappointed that two hurricane protection projects critical to south Louisiana – Morganza to the Gulf in Lafourche and Terrebonne Parishes and Pump to the River in New Orleans – will not be advanced by this bill. Louisianians who are depending on these projects to protect their homes and businesses are losing patience with the Army Corps, and I share their frustration. Without this protection, we spend every hurricane season hoping and praying that another Katrina or Gustav doesn’t destroy what we have worked so hard to rebuild. In the coming weeks, I will be aggressively working to find a pathway to advance both Morganza and Pump to the River, and will hold the Corps accountable for building the best possible hurricane protection for the people of south Louisiana.”

Federal Flood Coverage,
A Love Story
~Bam Bam Bigelow, slabbed

La. takes hospital funding dispute to arbitration

Health care reform comes to New Orleans
~Scott Satchfield

Days Late and Dollars Short, High-speed rail link gets support from Rep. Anh 'Sacred' Cao???
~Despite an impassioned (?) last-minute (?) plea (?) Thursday from Rep. Anh "Sacred" Cao, R-New Orleans, fellow Repo'man Child-Governor Jindal is sticking with its decision not to seek $300 million in high-speed rail money for a NO-to-BR rail link.
~Editilla gotta'Ax~ How many hands of Go Fish for Ahn before he finally scores an issue to anchor his drifting platform?
The other day it was "Got any FEMA?" GO FISH! And last week he mewled: "Got any Cat 5 protection?" GO FISH!
But this latest thing that really tickles Editillas bum is the idea of Sacred Cao squinchin'up an impassioned face for anything.
Master Drill Sargent sayz...
SHOW ME YOUR PASSION FACE!
Master Drill Sargent sayz...
I WANNA'SEE YOUR PASSION FACE!
Didn't this fey mouthpiece watch the movie Apocalypse NO??? Isn't he supposed to show up and do his Job before the Ax Falls on the Sacred Cao?
Oh da'Horror! Da'Hooorrrrrooorrrr!

James Gill: Some officials just love their work
~Guandolo's dalliance with the witness, Lori Mody, did not come to light until after former Congressman Bill Jefferson, D-New Orleans, had been convicted on a slew of felonies. The FBI now declines comment on what it deems a "personnel matter."

Republicans Support Honduran Military Coup Leaders

Some background on the New Orleans Tropos network
~American Zombie

First Annual Student Joan of Arc Competition ~NOLAFemmes

David Ohle’s Those Bones
~Tobias Carroll ~Editillos to The Scowl

Jessica Lang to visit New Orleans



Drew Barrymore's 'Whip It!'
~Mike Scott


The Big Easy Rollergirls sponsor Whip It Contest!

Free Live Music @ Freret Market this weekend~The Trumpet

Bonerama to get minds out of the gutter? BWHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
~Sierra Starks

New Orleans street performer 'Grandpa' Elliott LP out Nov. 3
~April MacIntyre

Jeudi

Corps to NOLA: Drop Dead (unless we get Option 1)
The Fix Was In~Matt McBride
~Also~Redaction - an ugly game
~Once again, apparently the Corps is going to let New Orleans drown if they don't get their way. In short, for the last six months, the Corps has been withholding vital information, and in some cases deliberately excising it from the public square, during the fight over Option 1 and Option 2.
In an Administration that is supposedly priding itself on openness and transparency, someone needs to tell the White House that the Corps is subverting those values as much as possible in an effort to advance an agenda not supported by anyone but themselves.
~Editilla Co'tellas~And By The Way...They're Heeeeerrre!
I know the DOD/USACE IGs both said that appropriate action was taken in the recent Corps Felony Computer Fraud, such as stopping such blog-ops. But, it appears that they have not, and indeed (perhaps emboldened by the IG Whitewash) they have expanded this activity, and hit this New Orleans Ladder yesterday 42 times, looking for Matt McBride / Maria Garzino.
Now at well over 20 hours worth of hanging out on your Ladder..
we think it is more than mere pusillanimous Brass Ball Envy!
Why the sudden USACE big interests in what an engineer of this caliber has posted on their Pumps House Gang Scam'doozle?
<~Thanks PHOTOSEARCH
Below is a screen shot of only half --and they also dropped by this morning!
I mean, what are we supposed to do? Say Hello? Wave? Blow Kisses?
Hey, USACE, Suck My Toe!?!?

~Please click pic to enlarge~
~While I am not saying such a flood of USACE Hits on my blog is connected to their current Full Court Lobby in Congress against better Options for our Flood Control, ['Pump-to-the-river' fails in Congress ~Mark Schleifstein] I do think such Blog'Ops coming on the heels of this engineers' fine expose is rather, ahem, telling and fortuitous. As such we find it well worth re-posting, spreading and sharing Matt McBride's incredibly detailed layouts of this Slime by the Corps of Engineers New Orleans District of Manipulating and Redacting Critical Data and thus misleading (lying to) the public.

Obama Still Doesn't GET IT?
So the change we need is…a map
Quick, someone get this Corps- Laquered President a map! ~slabbed
~The big slab of the day comes from President Obama who apparently can’t tell a federal flood from a hurricane.
The White House on Wednesday indicated that President Barack Obama's trip to the hurricane damaged Gulf Coast will not include Mississippi, nor, apparently, the Gulf Coast. Poor Obama, he must be getting his directions, taking his cues, again from the Corps?

Could a New Orleans Flood Be Coming to a City Near You?
~Carol Forsloff

State Treasurer John Kennedy offers a compromise to LSU on WWL Radio, LSU refuses to appear~Save Charity Hospital

La.'s endangered brown pelicans make a recovery~Nikki Buskey

Jefferson Parish drainage projects get $16 million in federal grants~Paul Rioux

Worst year for New Orleans foreclosures?~David Cohen, WWL

New Orleans Solar Powered Streetlights To Set Example For Nation ~WDSU

Political turmoil in Honduras may cause citizens to flee to N.O.
~Lucy Bustamante

Aid, temporary morgue headed to tsunami-hit Samoas
~Martha Carr

Death toll tops 500 after second earthquake

First Annual Student Joan of Arc Competition ~NOLAFemmes












~NOFF Schedule

Chef John Besh's cookbook is his love letter to New Orleans
~Judy Walker

Polly Jackson's gotta cool new website!
~Y'all can check in and ax her about her new projects with cards! At right: Editilla in Frog mode, waiting for coffee. Well, No, but...

An independent struggle
~Cody Daigle

Soul Asylum's Dave Pirner set to play first Gretna Heritage Fest
~Chris Rose