Over a dozen pump stations back in Plaquemines Parish's control
~Maya Rodriguez
Donaldsonville-to-the-Gulf levee alignment decision is postponed
~Paul Rioux~Hat Tweet~Healthy Gulf
University biology professor demanding apology from LSU
~The Daily Reveille~A wildfire of criticism brought the University’s academic sanctity into question following the removal of Dominique Homberger from teaching an introductory biology course because of students’ low grades.
Those advocating the University’s position say it was a necessary removal to protect students.
On the other side, there are faculty who believe “the University has defecated on the Holy Grail of academic freedom,” as one faculty member bluntly described the situation.
~Editilla say all work and no school makes LSU a dull board!
Or, an Ivor a Day keeps the Tigers in Play!
7 injured, 11 missing after deep- water oil rig explosion
Can California fix the Delta before disaster strikes?
Speaking of Disaster Scholars,
Katrina Longhand and
Fuckmookery in the 1st Degree...
~I realize it is not politically correct to talk about abandoning a city with a 300-year old history. And New Orleans is an important conduit for oil, natural gas, and other products entering through that deep-water port. However, I am sure that some kind of elevated housing could be constructed for those who choose to remain there to work in those industries, which are vital to U.S. commerce. I envision that something like an oil rig structure could be devised that would serve the purpose.
But to spend billions of dollars and to squander hundreds of tons of physical materials to rebuild repeatedly seems like folly, not to mention the future human suffering that this encourages.
~Editilla Bat Signals~Y'all go and pay this indecent intellectual some choice commentary, let'em know we care?
For the moment Editilla is having to sit a spell, breath deeply, eat my nitro pills and play darts with my knives on what is left of a shredded picture of The Red Castle.
Innovation in the Face of Climate Change~Elizabeth Skree
City lied about cost of demolishing Lower Mid-City
~SaveCharityHospital.com
Friends & Charity Hospital Babies--
This Thursday, April 22nd, at 10:00 a.m. at City Hall, the City Council is holding a public hearing to decide whether to allow the closure of streets on the proposed footprint for the VA hospital. While the City Council is only debating whether or not to shut down the streets, the Council's role as a rubber stamp represents their first ever public hearing about the hospital issue.
We believe that the City Council should deny the closure of streets before the full cost and impact of these hospitals is known. It is unconscionable that residents who fight for their neighborhood, while permitted access to their own homes, would be slowly choked off from what was once their community.
It is unfortunate that the City Council has taken a piecemeal approach to these projects. Rather than address the full scope of the proposed medical complexes, we are stuck debating streets. However, we must use this opportunity to make our voices heard.
Just last week, The Lens reported that the City has already appropriated an additional $25 million from the revolver fund to go towards the Lower Mid-City plan -- a surprise to the City Council. The City has been lying about the cost of demolishing Lower Mid-City and the true cost of these projects continues to be hidden from public view. We cannot allow them to proceed.
Please urge the City Council to halt these projects until the full impact is understood.
Here's what you can do:
- Call or write your City Council member. Tell them to deny the closure of public streets in Lower Mid-City until the full cost and impact of these hospital projects is understood.
- Join us at the public hearing on Thursday at 10:00 a.m. We hear time and again how much of an impact your presence has at public hearings.
- Forward this message to your friends, family or other supporters.
Yours sincerely,
SaveCharityHospital.com
State releases long-awaited lead cleanup money, but city takes no action for daycares
~Brentin Mock, The Lens
“Power to issue regulations is not power to change the law” – Rigsbys issue subpoena duces tecum to FEMA ~slabbed
Conservative challenger to David Vitter has an arf-fully interesting side business~Kevin Allman
More Local Talk About Treme ~NOLAFemmes
Unquiet on the Battlefront
~Back of Town blogging Treme
~Editilla Cronellas~
New Orleans has never suffered Fools kindly. For me that has always been the living dying irony behind the Harlequins.
Cliff describes an innate dissonance of New Orleans culture, the violence of which had come to nearly every doorstep that summer before the flood.
What would happen during the flood came fast and final.
This is not that story, I know, but what Simon will have to show me is how all of this comes through the wood-chipper post-flood. Given our loss since the water went down of beloved musicians, renowned film makers and precious artists just to not name a few, this scene with the Chief strikes me as almost gratuitous.
For me this Flood was no more Racially effective than the Reaper, yet post-flood I have seen every attempt to drive the narrative in that direction. I am hoping that “Treme” is not shaping up to be just such a vehicle too, with a certain cliche'd viscosity of fuel.
I was also stunned by the hubris in the voodoo references. I can’t go there but to say that “Angel Heart” nearly had to shut down because of the workers’ comp claims…. and that Armstrong Park sat dark for over 20 years after they put it on top of that hood.
Y'all can laugh all you want about who takes the cock in this city, but I'm not going to be standing next to you when that piano drops outta'da sky right on top of yo'bumb ass. Jus'sayin, take the Lucky Beads...but don't ask the Crone from whence they came.
Great blogging and commentary over at Back of Town.
Authenticity tourism
~Library Chronicles
A Non-New Orleanian's Guide to HBO's New Orleans~theBVX~Authenticity is "Treme" creator David Simon's calling card. On "The Wire,", Simon immersed us in the sights, sounds and slang of Baltimore. He does the same with New Orleans on "Treme," but the learning curve for culture in the Big Easy is pretty steep so theBVX is giving you a cheat sheet .
~~~Hurricane Katrina was not a natural disaster,
it was a man-made. An opening scene shows professor Creighton Burnette, played by John Goodman, barking at a news reporter who's made the mistake of referring to Hurricane Katrina as a "natural disaster." "What hit Mississippi," says Burnette, "was a natural disaster, but what led to 80% of New Orleans drowning under water was the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' faulty levees." Burnette is not splitting hairs. Katrina actually missed New Orleans, but the surges led to the infamously tragic flooding. Activists have organized at Levees.org to ensure that America never forgets this important distinction. In real life, Goodman is a spokesman for the group.
New Orleans Marching band
~Mark McNulty Photography
Bobby Jindal: Tea Party Mascot?
~In a contest of shape-shifting exorcistic frenzy during a recent fundraiser for the coming Palinate, child-governor Bobby Jindal misspoke from the Lizard Spell Book for Chameleons and instead turned himself into an Iguana. But that spell contains no "Change-Back" clause, thus slowing the evolution of poor Pyush's plans for higher office for the next oh, 160 million years. Zeigen Sie Eidechsewohlfahrt!That's Sweet!~Judy Bastien
~Veronica Fuselier Paul has been cooking almost all her life.
The Opelousas native has taken a skill that was developed out of necessity and turned it into a career in New Orleans. She has since retired and moved back home, but she hasn't stopped cooking. Just about every week, Mrs. Paul can be seen at the Music and Market event with trays full of goodies, like pralines, pepper jelly and her fresh-from-the-oven sweet potato pies.
2 comments:
There's someone running to the right of David Vitter? That's like a Catholic wanting to dump Pope Benedict because he isn't authoritarian enough.
And why do all these people think they're Constitutional experts? And "experts" isn't really the word -- they act as if they're channeling James Madison.
Not only that, he likes to dress up dogs.
BTW, I think they are calling him Pump Benedict now.
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