Here I'm Is, Da'American Zombie Woof
~Editilla finds the hair of the dog and hunts wit'it~
Follow our Intrepid Zombie as he takes Cedric Richmond through the William Jeffersonian Spin Cycle. After "Goating" one fey mayoral candidate into obscurity on last years campaign trail, our herolero thus dove under the radar to fly over the hated Oil and cover it for us with his wide-angel Zombie Eye.
But apparently, in secret, he has been busy at work in his Zombie Shop, tinkering and building the next iteration of the Zombie Attack Protocol Asskick (ZAPA)!
The C.O.R. --Chaos and Order Reorganizer-- is a mechanical harrow that looks like a feral Washing Machine fueled by Black Irish Whiskey and China White.
It is designed to masticate, to separate, to extricate da'Pros from da'Cons.
CLANK! Hello!? Is that the sound of an expensive Rolex watch smashing onto the inside Bling Attractor Rods (BARs), as Cedric Richmond begins to slowly unravel, going centrifugal in the Zombie COR? Here I'm is... Woof Indeed!


~"The arrogance of President Obama saying it's religious freedom to build a mosque at ground zero, (that's) equivalent to building a monument to the Army Corps of Engineers where the levees broke in New Orleans."~Hunt Downer, Tea'Tea candidate in the 3rd Congressional District.
~~~OK, how's this for Artifacts Not Politics?
When: Monday, August 23 at 10:30a - 11a
Where: 6932 Bellaire Drive
(T-intersection of Bellaire and Stafford)
~At ground zero of the 17th Street Canal in Lakeview New Orleans, Levees.org will unveil its first Louisiana State Historic Marker.
The traditional Louisiana state marker, (prototype at right, from the latest New Orleans Magazine, click pic to enlarge) complete with an emblazoned and beloved brown pelican on top, briefly describes the events surrounding the catastrophic breach of the canal’s wall during Katrina. “For too long, visitors to this flooded neighborhood were deprived of dependable information about what happened here,“ says HJ Bosworth Jr, civil engineer and lead researcher for Levees.org. “Now the answer will be there for everyone to see.”

~Historical Plaque To Mark Site of 17th Street Canal Breach~WWL
~Editilla Notellas~Above is an artists rendering, the actual thing is more 3D.

~The Big Uneasy, August 30th, coming to a theater near you!

*Please also see the latest from Fix the Pumps

"If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise": Review~Salon

The Friend I Miss...
~Disenfranchised Citizen

The Blond Haired Sister in Popeyes Chicken~Cliff's Crib

~This one goes out to Drake...and Cliff...and to all of us, Loved and Lost...

~Susan Cowsill performs tonight at the Maple Leaf!

Begin Again: Notes On a 5 Year
New Orleans Evacuation
~Karen Dalton-Beninato

8 Days 2 Year 5:
A Photographic Journey
~NOLAFemmes

My Elmer can do more in three minutes than those speed-daters do
~Poke Salad Granny

Five years after The Flood, New Orleans sees higher percentage of Hispanics~Ylan Q. Mui

AAJ questions oil spill victims rights in claims process~Green Heritage News

Details Faulted in Plan to Pay Oil Spill Claims~James McKineley Jr.

Oil spill adds to housing woes for Katrina victims in Mississippi

Gulf of Mexico oil spll landed sucker punch as region struggled to its feet after The Flood
~David Hammer

BP begins looking for mystery pipe

Thad Allen explains working with BP on dealing with leak~Sandy Davis

Governor Jindal calls for 5-year seafood monitoring

Let's play Video Saturday!

~Hat Tweet~Whodat35

Funky Mexican folk art and thrift-store finds spice up Carrollton home
~Karen Gadbois is best known as a serious New Orleans community activist, a crusader whose Squandered Heritage blog and The Lens investigative journalism website have tracked the city's Hurricane Katrina recovery and uncovered wrongdoing by public agencies. But at home, her playful side comes out, expressed in the decor of her Northwest Carrollton home and in her favorite non-work pastime, sewing.

~drewbrees Hope to see everyone at the Dome tonight for our home preseason opener. Gameday baby!
~humidbeings Baby I'm a #saints fan that's why I say #WHODAT http://bit.ly/4Xk2tr "Bring 'em to the dome" @Dee1music @shamarrallen #nola #music

Dedication Ceremony of Louisiana State Historic Levee Breach Marker
When: Monday, August 23 at 10:30a - 11a
Where: 6932 Bellaire Drive
(T-intersection of Bellaire and Stafford)
~At ground zero of the 17th Street Canal in Lakeview New Orleans, Levees.org will unveil its first Louisiana State Historic Marker.
The traditional Louisiana state marker, (at right, from the latest New Orleans Magazine, click pic to enlarge) complete with an emblazoned and beloved brown pelican on top, briefly describes the events surrounding the catastrophic breach of the canal’s wall during Katrina.
“For too long, visitors to this flooded neighborhood were deprived of dependable information about what happened here,“ says HJ Bosworth Jr, civil engineer and lead researcher for Levees.org. “Now the answer will be there for everyone to see.”
The marker was recently approved by the Architectural Historian with the Louisiana Division of Historic Preservation, and will be placed on the New Orleans city right-of-way on Bellaire Drive in the Lakeview neighborhood. The Army Corps of Engineers which owns the property directly behind the monument was cooperative and did not object to the installation. “This plaque is just the beginning,” says Sandy Rosenthal, founder of Levees.org. “We envision more historic plaques at other breach sites all across metropolitan New Orleans.”
The grassroots group will hold fundraisers to raise the money to install Markers at the London Avenue breach sites, the Industrial Canal breaches, the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet levee in St. Bernard Parish and more.
New Orleans Councilwoman Susan Guidry, Council President Arnie Fielkow and Harry Shearer (director of The Big Uneasy to be released August 30) have confirmed attendance. Founded 8 weeks after Katrina, Levees.org has five satellite chapters including New York, Florida, California, Oregon and Illinois. With a mission of education about the metro New Orleans flooding, the group now has over 25,000 supporters nationwide.

Festivals, markets and live performances on tap for New Orleans this weekend Post-Flood '05+5

And now a word form our scientists...

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Oil spill update from the field: Thick oil still oozes beneath a forgotten stretch of Grand Isle Beach

Way to Geaux, Mitch'Mo!
~"We've had hell and high water, pain and salvation," Landrieu said.
"We've survived Katrina, Rita, Ike, Gustav, the great recession and the BP oil catastrophe. The message is clear: Through it all, we are still standing unbowed, unbroken and ready to embrace whatever challenges come our way."
~"And while the oil gushed into the Gulf for 85 days, BP constantly dragged its feet to clean up and compensate, missed meetings, and seemed to react to the crisis with disdain," Landrieu said.
"They just wanted their life back as if it were our fault. And, once BP is finishing pillaging our coast for all that it is worth, while shirking their responsibility, they are poised to, in my opinion, cut and run."

Follow the Zombie...time on our side
~As Our Dauntless Herolero takes apart Cedric Richmond with Zombie Patience, Zombie Hunger, we see again how political criminality ain't Rocket Surgery --though just as freaky and twice the fun to consume! Feed the Zombie.

It’s official! SLABBED welcomes Allstate to the Branch qui tam case!

How much better is flood protection?
~Sabrina Wilson, WVUE

Fortifying the Wall – BP Accused of, and the NOAA Withholds…Information
~Disenfranchised Citizen

La. Scientist's Oysters Safe From Oil, But Pricey

Scientists find oil plume deep under Gulf~Sandy Davis

Tenn. Deluge Washes Out Rail Line

9 Days 2 Year 5:
A Photographic Journey
~NOLAFemmes

Extent of oil spills from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita is still being assessed ~Deepwater Horizon oil plume more than twice all natural seeps in the northern Gulf of Mexico~Mark Schleifstein
~BPGlobalPR Reports of 79% of the oil remaining in the Gulf are false according to the pie chart we made ourselves. http://ow.ly/2s889

Highs and lows of flood protection challenges for regional levee commissioners~Sheila Grissett
~Departing regional levee commissioner and engineer Stradford Goins, who has decided not to seek another term, left his colleagues with a request that they take a much closer look at some of the design and construction decisions the corps has made. Goins said he's particularly concerned about assumptions the corps and its contractors used in the computer modeling that is directly informing design of the new system. "If the models are right, we'll have a system that will protect us from a storm," Goins said on his way out. "But if the models are wrong, we'll have a system that won't protect us from a storm." Goins said he doesn't think that sufficient criteria were input into the models, which he said means the program didn't account for all the meteorological events that could influence how sufficient protection from a 100-year storm surge should be designed. "You need to thoroughly examine that model," he advised.
~Please also see~Mississippi River levees need work to defend against 100-year storm surge

Gulf Oil Plume Is Not Breaking Down Fast, Research Says~Justin Gillis

Feds Investigate Transocean's Possible Ties to Burmese Drug Clan
~Mac McClellan, Mother Jones

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No matter how you slice it Ol’ Girl deserves top billing. It is Katrina here at Slabbed, not the Hurricane formerly known as Katrina.
~Editilla cuts it with Occam's Razor~Yeah, well, even Prince couldn't pull that one off. What we name this Thing is what It will remain, as Time moves on like water under our flood walls or rock stars over our dikes.
Some painfully recall The Holocaust while others continue to pridefully refer to Hitler's Final Solution. Christianity has built its house on The Crucifixion while Islam speaks of Martyrdom and the Communists Chinese "own" Tibet as if they have always and refer to their massacre at Tienanmen Square None At All.
When we hear the words "Bhopal" or "Chernoble" what instantly comes to mind? When we hear New Orleans.... when we hear Katrina... when we hear The Flood or The Federal Flood of 8/29... when we hear Post-Flood... when we hear Engineering Malfeasance... what comes to mind?
But when I try to say it, I don't remember The Storm I remember The Flood, The Death, The Mahem, The Abandonment, The Corps Lying about overtopping and every other aspect of their crime of negligent homicide.
I remember Katrina, it was NOT what happened to New Orleans 8/29/05.

~Below is the scenario which has piqued a burr up Editilla's bum.
After spending the past 3 years battling Media and PR Framing of New Orlean's disaster as "Katrina", I find it far more repugnant to think of that name becoming Enshrined by our own Louisiana State Museum. Can y'all join me in writing to the Director of the Louisiana State Museum to change the title and thrust of marketing for their upcoming exhibit "Katrina and Beyond"?
~"Living with Hurricanes documents the human struggle in the face of a natural disaster, incorporating everything from survivors' personal mementos to their thoughts and feelings.
It documents how the recovery has brought about innovations — turning the region into a laboratory of new ideas."
— Museum Director, Sam Rykels
That is a Lie. Let's write Sam and set him straight. Be nice. Don't say anything that you couldn't imagine your Ho'So Humble Editilla saying. HA!
While it is bad enough that our local journalist Bruce Nolan would continuously, lazily proffer this falsehood, I'm growing increasingly disturbed by the idea that our State Museum would enshrine Katrina as the cause of The Flood of 8.29.05.
Please think about that for Posterity's sake. Do you want grandchildren hearing about Katrina? Or wouldn't it be better for generations of our children to always know why New Orleans flooded 8.29.05: our US Army Corps of Engineers?
So this won't happen again, right? Right?

Ready to forgive, but never to forget:
A guest column by Michael Homan

"Every year, family driven out by levee failures thinks it’s coming home" ~NOLAFemmes

Five years after The Flood of 8.29.05 Army Corps still dragging its feet on reforms~Sue Sturgis, Facing South

Mayor Mitch Landrieu expects completion of 100 recovery projects in three years~Frank Donz

Sand berm defense against oil from Gulf of Mexico spill gets $60 million financing installment
~Mark Schleifstein

British Petroleum’s $52 Million Dollar Mental Health Grant Leaves People Suffering~Disenfranchised Citizen

Conflicting reports stir Gulf oil dispute
~Sandy Davis

Excellent Repose: Dispersant Disaster
~Gulf Leak Watch

Lack of fishermen on panel draws complaints~Daily Comet

~ WhoDat35 Gulf Fishermen Debate Whether to Risk Selling Seafood Again (PBSNewshour) http://to.pbs.org/cTqMUH #oilspill #seafood #safety #blacktide

Gulf Future Volunteers Rock Outside Lands ~Gulf Restoration Network

Safety First~Fix the Pumps

4.1 Million Barrels of Oil, 11.6 Billion Cubic Feet of Natural Gas ~SkyTruth

Thad Allen photo-op releases oiled sea turtles back into the Gulf in Florida where the deep oil is headed

Starting Monday, emergency oil-spill claims to individuals will be paid in 48 hours, to businesses in 7 days, Feinberg says~David Hammer

Unveiling Ceremony for State Historic Plaque commemorating the 17th Street Canal Breach set for Monday 10:30am

New Orleans Levee Spin 101

This video brought Levees.org onto Editilla's Co'dar. The rest is Herstory.
I remember laughing "What the Hell?" --yet by the end of the day they'd pulled this video due to heavy legal threat and I was going "WTF"? So'z I call'em, and got off the phone thinking, "Well this is screwed. These people are really just a bunch of actual citizens! Gone'gone, the ASCECORPS gonna squash them like steam roller on a grass snake. You won't even hear the little thing fart on its way out." Well, ahem, by the end of the next day or so, this video was back up on youtube, going viral across the nation. It is a satire of children on the "officials'" reactions to levees.org videos like this one that Really had ASCECORPS ticked-off down to their rusty ball bearings. These videos marked the first time I'd ever seen Anyone prevail so quickly against the formidable weight of both the Corps of Engineers and their jail-cell punk lackeys the American Society of Civil Engineers.
ASCE meets CORPS to make a two headed baby that we've named ASCECORPS.
It wasn't until the following spring that I met Sandy Rosenthal, more or less on the battle front, at the 17 Street Canal Leak. I'm warping through time here.
Suffice to say this little group has become very much the Beotch'Wolf that roars above the simpering Corps and its Pied Ruppert leading a Creme-addled pack of rats into the rising tide.
Levees.org has gone on to author legislation and have it introduced in both Houses of Congress, advise our new mayor Mitch'mo on Flood Safety Task Force and above all shown the world the difference between the lying of the Corps of Engineers NO District and the Truth about why New Orleans flooded 8-29-05.
This Monday, August 24th, Levees.org will dedicate a La State Marker at the site of the 17th Street Canal Breach. A Metal Marker set in concrete which simply and clearly describes what happened there that day and why.
Paying heed to the Fullerean notion of Artifacts Not Politics, this small monument will out-last us --and especially, with its refutation, the Corps Lies.
The Corps may have started this, and tell us they "Build Strong", but it will be people like levees.org who will Finish This, and Finish Strong. Sinn Féin
~You are invited to Levees.org's 5th Annual Observance of the Worst Civil Engineering Disaster in U.S. History

Katrina shorthand fatigue
~Mark Moseley, The Lens

11 Days 2 Year 5:
A Photographic Journey
~NOLAFemmes

Camille used to be the storm everyone talked about here on the coast ~slabbed

And the Dam Began to Crack…Two Studies and the Fishermen Speak Out
~Disenfranchised Citizen

Head of Navy tours Gulf, shocked by amount of oil: “Wow, what are we in sir?” — Fisherman responds “Kind of looks like an UFO underwater, don’t it?” (VIDEO)~Florida Oil Spill Law
~WhoDat35 RT @PrjGulfImpact Public Comments at the Miss. Marine Resources Commission mtg. Aug.17th. http://fb.me/FXQpXsj4 #oilspill #blacktide

Ditty Vitty and Smurfette Landrieu surprise no one with their fetish for tag-team oil wrestling

18th Annual Cutting Edge Music Business Conference and Roots Music Gathering

Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame to honor Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew
~Keith Spera

Herman Leonard~Fred Kaplan, Slate

Levees.org 5 Years after the USACE flooded New Orleans~Is It Safe?

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David Waggonner interviewed in Harry Shearer’s “The Big Uneasy”

Face Value~Alex Woodward ~Gambit

Toxic Oil Settling on Gulf Floor

Nat'l Inst. of Health Oil Spill website
~Hat Tweet~bayougirlblog

Crabs In The Bulls-Eye: Timbalier Island ~Gulf Restoration Network

A Blog From Philippe Cousteau,
Speaking Out From New Orleans

The Gambit interview: Spike Lee

Actual books in actual libraries
~Library Chronicles

The 8/29 Bookshelf~Harry Shearer

The Dream is Over~Bayou Girl
~bayougirlblog Sign the petition 4 oil spill clean up workers to have respirators - they need them! http://bpmakesmesick.com/

Going Against the New Narrative – the University of Georgia, the American Medical Association and Mississippi Fishermen~Disenfranchised Citizen

JAMA: Is Gulf Seafood Really "Safe"? ~Kate Shepperd ~Hat Tip~Library Chronicles

Almost 80 percent of BP's spilled oil still threatens Gulf, report finds
~Facing South

Edrust has left the building! State Farm dumps its BP stock ~slabbed

Waste from oil spill cleanup has Gulf residents concerned
~Krissah Thompson

Study Faults the Corps of Engineers in Recovery Contracting for Small Businesses

12 Days 2 Year 5:
A Photographic Journey
~NOLAFemmes

Defend New Orleans reminds us that The BigUneasy will premier Aug 30th!
~Local screenings at Prytania Theatre & Canal Place on August 30th only. Prytania Theatre screening will be followed by a Q&A with Harry Shearer.

Why A Brush With Death Triggers The Slow-Mo Effect~NPR
~Editilla Flotellas~Why does this relate to our 5th Anniversary of the Federal Flood? Well, Gentle'rillas have caught some of my stories and others can fang back down the Ladder to posts at around this holy week of 8/29, both the week before and somewhat during the week following.
Let's ask the Angel of Grief and Loneliness...
As many people remember in that surrealistic way of nightmares, the time started stretching with each day that passed after the Corps Bad Levees Failed. My tank is nearing empty on retelling my own observances and experiences. What has made it to this Ladder is bad enough, while what has not can only remain passed over in silence...yet there were moments that I may never find the words to describe.
It is these and other moments that pay to the article above about Slow-Motion Live Fear During Catastrophe... or something like that. I had been through that before, where you are faced with Death and time slows down. This is true, and I have come to believe it a Nervous System Defense Mechanism.
(Sorry for the caps but I want to lay this out:)
During the Flood, so many "life-changing events" happened so often and in such relentless succession that Precedence became an obsolete, quaint law idea.
I can't count the times me and my friends would say "Damn! Never seen THAT before...", until it wasn't even funny anymore.
So many times something would happen to cause me to shake my head... sometimes trying to bury the image... sometimes in just abject wonder at my own peripheral vision's sudden astounding acuity.
I went through at least 3 Slow Motion Life/Death Situations... I mean, real dream stuff but real life slowed down like falling off cliff. But now I see it within the entire larger event of the flood that first week in New Orleans as the whole big thing moved slower in time and yet slower on each day that passed with no relief in sight. Follow that? "7 days" cannot cover it. The whole city moved into this lack of formal time --as every church clock had stopped ringing bells every hour which is really what always paced my days in New Orleans, and every other bank clock or whatever timepiece had stopped 8/29. Real Time had ceased since it wasn't needed as Real Civilization had ceased. Society seemed as if it had gone feral.
As I think back on these memories even still, some of them continue that slow motion replay as if that is actually how it happened... when I know that some of my own brushes with death were over in the blink of an eye...
...and thus I have lived to tell about it.
Here is one of my songs, started but not finished going on 3 years now....

~I'm going to take this little bone in my heart
I'm gonna put it in a glass box
with some candles and some broken clocks
just to see the sea of faces
stopping in the dark dark
~If you've found a friend in God
please ask them for direction
to the places they left the restless souls
to drown in their own damn'nation
--under rooftops--in their backyards
--behind the family sofa
---while their Grand Mas banged against the walls
---abandoned in Saint Rita's.
----I don't really care what they say
----We heard it all before the Breach
----They may think they know what it means....
----To bet your soul... and find your self
-----losing.

Loyola law professor to sign new book this weekend~Robert Verchick, J.D., Gauthier-St. Martin Eminent Scholar and Chair in Environmental Law at Loyola University College of Law, will sign his new book, “Facing Catastrophe: Environmental Action for a Post-Katrina World,” this Saturday, Aug. 21, at 6 p.m., at Octavia Books, located at 513 Octavia Street, in New Orleans.

Eat your dinner, there are starving children~Poke Salad Granny

Update on TD5
~An air force reserve unit reconnaissance aircraft investigating the remnants of Tropical Depression 5 found a weak surface circulation located about 120 miles east of the mouth of the Mississippi River. However, the associated showers and thunderstorms remain disorganized and mostly removed to the southwest of the low-level center.

IT'S THE LEVEES STUPID?
It was The Flood of 8/29.
Why can't we call it simply that then everyone will know. The Flood of 8.29.05
To call it Katrina 5 is to bow to the Corps of Engineers. Period, and it is a low bow to the flooded ground. No more.
Can y'all join me in writing to the Director of the Louisiana State Museum to change the title and trust of marketing for their upcoming exhibit
"Katrina and Beyond"?
~"Living with Hurricanes documents the human struggle in the face of a natural disaster, incorporating everything from survivors' personal mementos to their thoughts and feelings.
It documents how the recovery has brought about innovations — turning the region into a laboratory of new ideas."
— Museum Director, Sam Rykels
That is a Lie. Let's write Sam and set him straight. Be nice. Don't say anything that you couldn't imagine your Ho'So Humble Editilla saying. HA!
While it is bad enough that our local journalist Bruce Nolan would continuously, lazily proffer this falsehood, I'm growing increasingly disturbed by the idea that our State Museum would enshrine Katrina as the cause of The Flood of 8.29.05.
Please think about that for Posterity's sake. Do you want grandchildren hearing about Katrina? Or wouldn't it be better for generations of our children to always know why New Orleans flooded 8.29.05: our US Army Corps of Engineers?
So this won't happen again? Right?
~ Editilla Jus'sayin, this is some fine Habanero sauce http://www.melindas.com/products.html #hotsauce #nola #nolaeats

Ga. scientists: Gulf oil not gone, 80 pct remains ~The scientists say as much as 80 percent of the oil still lurks under the surface. The Georgia team said it is a misinterpretation of data to claim that oil that is dissolved is actually gone. The report from University of Georgia and other scientists came from an analysis of federal estimates.
~Hat Tweet~Whodat35

Ala. Gov. Riley's order limits attorneys fees in Alabama's oil spill suit

New Orleans Judge Barbier Will Hear Gulf Spill Cases

Gulf Oil Spill and Memphis Seafood

Bird Care In Numbers

The Myth Is Real – Let’s Eat
– The Obama’s Visit Florida
~Disenfranchised Citizen

TarTurlebabies and The Myth of Sisyphus in Gulf Shores
~PDX 2 Gulf Coast

Uncovering the Lies That Are Sinking the Oil~Truthout ~Hat Tweet~bayougirl

Don’t waste a good disaster:
Spill could help The Hoff
~Mark Moseley, The Lens

Safety regulators caught in revolving doors~Houston Chronicle

US commerce secretary coming to Louisiana~La. shrimpers worry about prices for new season

Governor Babar creates MS oil-spill recovery panel

13 Days 2 Year 5:
A Photographic Journey
~NOLAFemmes

First Listen: The Marsalis Family, 'Music Redeems' ~NPR

Dr. Riki Ott Says Health Officials Covering Up Thousands Of People Sick From BP Gulf Oil Spill~Hat Tweet~Bayougirl



Gulf Health Problems Blamed on Dispersed Oil~Darh Jamal, Truthout
~Hat Tweet~Whodat35

TD 5 may redevelop over Gulf of Mexico
~The remnants of Tropical Depression Five are still spinning over southwestern Georgia, and the storm is headed southwards towards the Gulf of Mexico, where redevelopment into a tropical depression could occur by Tuesday.

Speaking of Hurricanes and Denying The Flooding of New Orleans...
~Bruce Nolan at the Times-Picayune proves once and for all that he is working for the people who flooded New Orleans 8.29.05: the Corps of Engineers NO District!
~Editilla spits bloody needles in cramps of memory~
So! Bruce Nolan wants to work for the Corps of Engineers! Well let's send him out the door with a nice kick in his traitor's ass! I want this lying asshole fired for lying to the public by impersonating a journalist at the Times-Picayune.
Some call him simply a "jerk" for consistently denying the cause of The Flood of New Orleans 8.29.05. While most of the T-P actual reporters, even Sheila Grisset, have come around to the danger of calling our devastation "Katrina", Bruce Nolan continues to sell the Corps meme of ALL KATRINA ALL THE TIME.
I have enough of a problem with the Louisiana State Museum setting up an exhibit for "Post-Katrina" New Orleans, but this is much more insipid, even sinister.
He is either completely stupid, or is using his ass for his brain to get a job writing PR is for the Corps of Engineers under the table. He is a liar of the worst sort who has always slyly skirted The Line that we all know only too well.
Everyone not stuck on the fictional TV show Treme remembers The Line.
It was EVERYWHERE and defines the difference between a Natural Disaster which missed New Orleans and the Man-made Disaster which crucified the city 8.29.05 with Criminally Negligent Engineering by the Corps of Engineers. Everyone knows this, at least everyone I've spoken to in the past 5 years.
So despite the Facts, the indisputable facts, that the Corps flooded New Orleans Nolan still writes articles that say Katrina did it ---and Jim Amoss published it!
Whoever knows this punk, can they please slap him on his junkyard dog nose?

New Blog! Poke Salad Granny!

Here's another fav-o-mine thang blog:
Notes from New Orleans
~If we could describe our feelings for the Big Red Cotton, in a word or a few...
it would be until the peacocks call, in the bald moonlight of an old pecan grove,
red shoes falling across the windshield of an old Ford,
writing their names in the Red Dust.
~Way cool, this from their video section! Check'em out, toll'im Editilla say High!

Many problems linked by one theme - degradation of coastal wetlands
~Bob Marshall

Ivor van Heerden punkin' for BP again
~“Research shows these plants will bounce back,” van Heerden said.
~Editilla Hotellas~Oh! What "Research" are you citing here, Ivor?
I know you bought-and-paid-for BP "scientists" are barking this, but all the other "Research" screaming at me says we better get on it and do something or our wetlands Will Not Bounce Back. Which is it, Ivor? Who should we believe?
So then tell me again why are we trying to save the wetlands now?

Insight: The oil's underhanded threat to life in the Gulf
~Those who find reason to celebrate that the Gulf isn’t quite dead shouldn’t be surprised a few weeks from now, in a few months or a few years, when there’s a call that something has gone terribly wrong: The marshes that provide 95 percent of our seafood harvest are disintegrating; the crabs, shrimp, oysters and fish we once caught abundantly are suddenly scarce or nowhere to be found.
~Please also see~Frances Coleman: Over? Not to those of us on the Gulf Coast ~Hat Tweet~judyb

FDA testing delays put crabbing in some areas on hold~Amy Wold

Scientists: Mississippi River could save Louisiana coast

Crews Garey Joins Cause for Louisiana Wetlands~Billy Witz

Ken Feinberg says he is ready to take your questions~John DeSantis

If a Hurricane Hits Gulf Oil, Bring the Lab, Not the Cleanup…
~Disenfranchised Citizen

Spending their golden years behind iron bars~James Gill~Michael Francis Mara, arrested in Baton Rouge last week, is a mere 52. By European standards, he is practically a juvenile delinquent. In Germany, for instance, he would never qualify for the so-called "Opagefaengnis" (Granddad Prison), in Singen.

14 Days 2 Year 5:
A Photographic Journey
~NOLAfemmes

~Herbie Hancock, Susan Tedeschi, and Derek Trucks
~Very Special Thanks to Citizen K