Vendredi

Area with deficient levee near hospital in downtown Alexandria~Bret McCormick

White House announces road map for coastal restoration in Louisiana, Mississippi
~Mark Schleifstein
~Editilla's takin'da back-hand turn~No! No! No!
Not another freakin'road Map! You know when they start that crap they are talking about Driving the Plan. Like Big Industry really gives a Rat's Ass whether we have Dry Land for a Port.
You don't really Need dry Land for a Port. The tide is Rising.
The Panama Canal is expanding, MS and Houston are expanding.
I say Big Industry sees Big Water as The Way. Water is Cheaper to Ship. Big Oil doesn't need dry land. That costs more Energy to Ship, and also that little Problem with Property Rights. Hey, with no Land, we have No Property Rights. Get it? No Problem!
However, on the other hand, we'll hold His'0'ner's to this one:
"We are really trying to emphasize two things today," Nancy Sutley, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality said. "One is that the federal government is on the job here. We're all working together. We understand the urgency, the need of getting our house in order."
"The other important issue is that we need to position coastal restoration and protection for the region front-and-center on the part of the federal government."
Hell. Even Editilla can count to 2 out of a 6 Pack!

Plan seeks to streamline coastal restoration~Naomi King
Roseate spoonbills take off from their perches Thursday in a swamp near Cocodrie. Click to enlarge.

Mississippi River could flood in spring~Amy Wold

St. Mary worried river could reach '73 level
~Tri-Parish Times~The record-breaking snowfalls in the Northeast may be miles from the Gulf Coast, but come spring when the snow begins to melt, local officials fear the impact could be devastating. Morgan City Mayor Tim Matte held a press conference Monday to post businesses and residents on the problem of potential flooding. Roughly 40 Morgan City business owners sat in to hear Matte's update. A week earlier, Col. Alvin B. Lee issued a similar message: "Get ready."

Lessons of the 1979 Easter Flood
~Adam Lynch~The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recommended last week that FEMA re-certify the levees protecting the Hinds and Rankin County edges bordering the Pearl River, despite the fact that the levees cannot stop a 200-year flood event similar to the 1979 Pearl River flood.

Revised outlook increases chance of major flooding in downtown St. Paul

Upper Midwest braces for severe spring flooding

Flood fears rise along rivers in eastern Nebraska

A look at federal reservoirs being used for water supply without initial authorizations

NAELS 2010 Staying Afloat: Adapting to Climate Change in the Gulf Coast and Beyond
~Dan Worth~The Conference will bring together top attorneys, engineers, business leaders, environmentalists, scientists, and planners from New Orleans, Louisiana, the US, and the world to discuss how New Orleans, hundreds of low-lying coastal cities like it and an interdependent world community will adapt to ever-increasing populations and a rapidly changing climate in the coming century.

Mind the deadline for Road Home elevation grants
~T-P Editlorial

Surprise, Surprise: Jindal appoints cronies to oversee hypothetical hospital
~SaveCharityHospital.com

New Orleans City Council District A race getting muddier
~Frank Donze

$800,000 award from city could end up hurting Zulu
~Ariella Cohen, The Lens

TGIF Time to Get Slabbed

Attorney Ravi Sangisetty Runs for Congress in Louisiana
~Richard Springer

Attention, Dick Cheney: Don't the Germans Know We're At War?~Harry Shearer

New Drug Increases Life Expectancy for Prostate Cancer Patients, Study Finds
~The study, led by Dr. Oliver Sartor of the Tulane Cancer Center in New Orleans, examined the efficacy of cabazitaxel in men whose prostate cancer continued to progress after receiving chemotherapy treatment with the drug docetaxel and hormone therapy. Those who received the new drug in combination with the chemotherapy drug mitoxantrone lived 2.4 months longer than those who received mitoxantrone with prednisone.

Our 2010 New Orleans Saints FANS

The 5 Year Anniversary
~Gulf Sails

So..like...zup with dat, man?
~Gary's New Life
~Editilla bites the tongue what feeds us!~
New Blog Find Alert! New Blog Find Alert! Yaaaaaaassssss!
Ain't often you can catch me speechless, as has this cat with the Big Apple. The way he stitch'hikes the Big Easy into the story of the Big Apple makes poor Editilla wanna'cry.
So we just stole this video offa his post thanks youz very mush...
because there is WAY'MO waiting in Gary's New Life. Comesee!

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fugue~NOLAFemmes

Orthopaedic surgeons will meet in New Orleans next week

Literacy conference next weekend in New Orleans

Odd Words
~Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans

Art About Food, in the Oxford American~Sam Sifton

"Grass at Freedom High", 28 x 30", mixed media on posterboard
(acrylic,pastel, charcoal) $300 unframed, Polly Jackson
~AKA~Da'Masqued Evinga! PWALLY, Mostly True Stories

~Langhorst Website and Calendar click to enlarge

Dave Bartholomew, father of New Orleans sound, reflects on amazing musical career ~WWL

Victor Goines follows jazz wherever it leads him
~John Wirt

(Fuck) OffBeat Magazine:
Off-color is more like it
~Missy Wilkinson, Gambit
~Editilla Picks a Bone from Our Heart~
~Those shameless fakirs. And for anyone who didn’t grow up around a southern dinner table, here is my comment to the offBeatoff in case they pull it (wit'up-dated lagniappe): I have never been so ashamed of one of my Favorite New Orleans Magazines as now in the fetid glare of offBeats OFFing Race Card.
The sun has truly fallen into someone's asshole there.
Who made the call on this month’s Used Paper?
You know what I’m talkin’bout, hear? Used, Paper, like you'd find in the bottom of any outhouse on my daddy’s farm back in the year they drove Emmett Till around Bolivar County, Mississippi –before they chained him to a gin fan and tossed him, beaten and tortured but still barely alive, into the Tallahatchi River, his face so disfigured that his Mother demanded an Open Casket!
That is what I am talking about here. Ya’hear?
Who made the Call? Who Fucking Made This Call????
Know this: I will not, cannot, post ANYTHING from offBeat in my own Blog until somebody here takes responsibility for hanging a bunch a white boys up on a Jungle Jim so you can laugh at the Lynched Niggers.
Yeah, I said it because That Is What This Means to Honkies.
That is why they threw Billie Holiday nickels and dimes without ever realizing that she was Singing About Them.
Listen to the SONG for Goddess sakes! Jeez Louie!
Learn why artist Really do music, or become the Fucking Off Beat.
~Stood UpDate~ offBeat's apology, such as it is. They looked up "Strange Fruit" on Wiki so I guess that settles it, eh?
We believed that in 2010, the phrase “strange fruit” could be used without automatically evoking the Billie Holiday song and its subject matter. This was an error in judgment for which we apologize.
Uuuhmmm, Y'all...that dog just won't hunt. Sorry. So Sorry.