~Please also see this from Mother Jones
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Editilla NPR saying this morning Obama called the Flood a Man-made disaster. He did NOT http://huff.to/b9EGcD #TheBigUneasy #ItsTheLeveesStupid #nola ~Today I remember the smell of rain, the sound of silenced bells, the sight of a clear blue birdless sky, the feeling of OZ evacuated to Hell.
It was the quietude one might find stepping off the edge of an abyss, in the weightlessness before irrevocable descent begins... and struck me as the first of many scenes to come, which I'd never before imagined possible and would have nothing to compare with then or now. Our city of living and dying metaphor had awakened from the Storm, in the shadow of the jaws of Gravity's Rainbow.
---We did not know yet that the levees had failed.
~Now it's started... flowers at the base of the new 17th Street Canal Breach Marker
in front of the flood wall at the intersection of Bellaire and Stafford.
Feel Free...Shirley Laska on NPR's Marketplace
Ryssdal: And so these students that you have and the young people that are coming to New Orleans, they eventually acquire this academic expertise, they go out and do recovery things in New Orleans and they have this marketable skill that then they can take elsewhere.
Laska: They can, of course we hope they stay for a while.
Ryssdal: Fair enough.
Laska: But they also will go back. They'll go back home, they'll go to other major cities and other areas where their skills will be desired. And I truly hope that the businesses and government agencies will recognize them as having, I would call it "human infrastructure for risk reduction."
Be Revolutionary~b.rox
~ skooks It's August 30. Happy New Year, New Orleans.
~ Editilla @skooks Thanks Youz! Happy New Year To You Too! Who'dat say they gonna beat dem Saints? #whodat #nola #saints #PostFlood #TheBigUneasy
~Hat Tweet~humidbeings
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu's Flood Anniversary Remarks
Quick update (with pretty new trees!)
~Fix the Pumps
Obama New Orleans Flood Anniversary Winkle-stop Tour Pictures
~Editilla Potellas~Actually, they start at the 3rd photo: other shots of the day of New Orleanians taking the grief in their hearts around NOLA...
...from Monsters & Critics thank you very much.
Reinventing Paradise 2.0
~Robert Corsini, Truthout
Many FEMA claims from Hurricane Katrina remain open~Michelle Krupa
~Editilla gotta Axe'ya~But if the President would only Admit that New Orleans' flooding was due to Federal Negligence --and not "the Storm"-- then we wouldn't have this problem with True Recompense, right? Right?
Katrina’s 3 R’s – Repetitive loss, Repetitive fraud and Repetitive fk-ups! ~slabbed
And now, a word from our sponsors… Vol. 10 – vacation version
~Disenfranchised Citizen
~For 90 years, the Roman Candy cart had plied the streets of New Orleans, selling taffy. When it reappeared after Katrina, people wept.
~Story by Allan Turner, Houston Chronicle
2 comments:
Whoa, beast numbers.....now THAT'S scary!!!
Excellent post....
and how sad that time makes memory fade.....it shouldn't. We should ALWAYS remember!
HA!
7666 Trombones in the Beast Parade...
We won't forget Miz Wiz.
What's in a Name?
Perhaps that depends on who's calling the Game.
I get into this on Tuesday's post.
What's in a name?
Was it a Holocaust? Or just a Final Solution to which some may agree or disagree on the efficacy.
Was it Crucifixion of Man's Sins or Martyrdom to a Cause.... or just a lousy way to hang out for Easter Weekend?
Was Timothy McViegh a Militia Patriot who killed 167 American Citizens --and a Day Care Center packed with children-- or was he more like a Muslim Extremist who killed thousands on 9/11?
Is Sarah Palin a goddamned fucking idiot, or is she simply a finely crafted branding piece of Handmaiden's Tale?
Do you like your bread butter-side Up or butter-side Down?
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