Mardi

On The Cost of War, Or, Do You Know What We Could Have Bought?~Washblog ~"In the wake of Katrina, the Army Corps of Engineers is spending about $25 million to build a mile of levee. Instead of flooding Iraq with US troops, we could have bought 96,000 miles of flood control. (If we built just a bit less we could afford $50 billion to build each of 250,000 Louisiana residents a $150,000 house…and $50,000 worth of stuff to go in it.)"

Katrina Death Toll Back Up to 1,375~Ssvhesperphilomena's Weblog

US Supreme Court rejects Katrina victims' flood insurance case

More dead flowers: From Florida to New York--With Love, Big Insurance~A.M. in the Morning

Editorial: Can FEMA be trusted on trailers?
This editor would sooner face a cannibal in a gumbo cook-off, but instead trusts that We the People question whether FEMA is actually legally shielded from criminal liability by the same Flood Control Act that offered such Coward's Refuge to the US Army Corps of Engineers after their admitted negligent homicide?

N.O. jailhouse demolitions begin~FEMA will pay for one-to-one housing replacement, supports 'right of return' for inmates, Do Not Pass MRGO & Do Not Collect $200

Taco Legislators, Louisiana Style~Jeff Crouere

Gov Jindal Must Lead By Example, but something has happened on the way to the end of the legislative session.~Stephen Sabludowski

Two men arrested in heroin case related to student overdose

Hackers or Crackers at Think New Orleans BarCamp...or, is the show really over when the Fat Lady sings?...or, who ya'gonna call when
The Well runs dry?...or how to avoid those 'outsized notions of what is possibile' in disaster survival?

Leo, AD and the Expo in GAMBIT

How the Spooks Took over the News

New Orleans hospital adds 10 beds for mentally ill

Sen. Clinton to speak at N.O. symposium

4 NoLA Women Talk New Orleans~casa de Charlotte della luna

OU law students spend winter break in New Orleans doing pro bono work

ITALIAN AMERICAN MARCHING CLUB
2008 PARADE MEETINGS ARE COMING UP SOON!
February 20, 2008 - February 27, 2008 - March 5, 2008

Jefferson Davis' Beauvior, "Southern Shrine", to reopen

New Orleans Levee Disappears? Not scene since Thanksgiving last year!
Editilla stumbl'in, wonder'in, jonz'in...
...spictul'atin--Whaaahaaappen?

Martha Stewart to buy Emeril assets for $50M

New Orleans Real Estate - Top 10 Most Expensive Homes~Darryl Glade

Tank Says He's The Victim of Police Brutality In New Orleans...ummm, OK...Tank?

Nickel-A-Dance to return in March, to new venue

New Orleans scene is gaining momentum~Jeff Albert

Two Tributes to Keith Moore, King of Ambient Noize~blogofneworleans.com

Sonny Rollins, Part 1~JazzWax

WWOZ Archives Go To Library of Congress~Home of the Groove

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Lundi

Think New Orleans goes to Bar Camp!

The Soul of America~Ashley Morris

N.O. homeless policy on shaky legal ground~Council repealed law forbidding public habitation in 2001

N.O. erects info barrier for citizens, City Council~Mayor’s public records request policy violates state open records law
Editilla jus'wondering~Can anyone hand this Fool Mayor a rule book, Assembly Instructions or whatever passes for an 'Operating Manual'?

John McCain, George W. Bush, and the tragedy of Katrina: A study in negligent leadership~Hughes for America

FEMA not providing promised mobile homes for California survivors

An Epidemic of Police Thuggery First Seen in US Occupied New Orleans~The Existential Cowboy

New Orleans Police Taser Tank!
Editilla can't touch dis'one.

Four Letter Word ed. Joshua Knelman & Rosalind Porter~Stuff As Dreams Are Made On

New Mississippi delta would limit hurricane damage

Tom Fitzmorris's New Orleans Food

All Aboard for Belleville~The Musical Box

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Yat'Cuisine: New Orleans BBQ Shrimp~Yat'Pundit
Editilla ponda's and wonda's 'bout where'yat pundits sending a few cases of this holy manna to the flood survivors in Illinois?

Flood recovery brings uneasy mood to Watseka, IL~Michael "Brownie" Brown, nick-name patsy, panty-faced Bush fund-raising punk, inveterate suck-up and board member of Cotton Companies, a disaster preparation and recovery vulture capitalists subsidiary of CHARYS HOLDING CO, formerly: HIGH COUNTRY VENTURES INC, formerly: SPIDERBOY INTERNATIONAL INC, was this administration's FEMA director during the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe, and said people should always have essentials, like food, water, prescription medications and cash on hand. "The message that I have taken personally from Katrina is to get people to realize that it starts in your home first,'' he said, forgetting to mention, "and also most importantly, 1st confirm and solidify your dinner reservations at the finer restaurants asap-stat, before the storm evacuees get in the way and clog up the roads running for their harried little little lives."
The denial of federal assistance for Watseka, IL, Brown said, is evidence of why individuals have to be prepared
regardless of what the government is doing. "I think the country would be better off if we spent more money preparing local and state governments, if we did a better job preparing for more disasters more efficiently,'' he said.
If he only had a brain, a heart, courage or at least a little mascot of his own, Brown could not have made himself sound more self-serving, ludicrous and, well, freakish had he gone on to add: "Pay No Attention To That Man Behind The Levees!"

Watseka, IL fights against floods, FEMA

Death By FEMA All Over Again~We Could Be Famous

FEMA Announces They Won't Use Trailers~In several Tennessee counties, the road to recovery has hit rush-hour.
Katrina Families, Dead Flowers, and Big Insurance~A.M. in the Morning

Rapid sinking of Mississippi Delta only skin deep: study

Asterisk is Out of this World!

I don’t like this~Suspect Device

NOLA, Hoops, and All That Jazz~After the Deluge

Neville Brothers, the Funky Meters, the Derek Trucks Band, and Robert Earl Keen to Perform at Alexandria’s Annual Que’ in on the Red~CenLamar
Look out New Orleans! Alexandria ain't nuttin'but FUNKIN'IT UP!:-}

Sun Ra Does Disney~Toulouse Street

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Let a little hydrangea be planted in New Orleans~Irene Virag

What would you choose between...CHOWHOUND

Samedi

The New Orleans Demolition List and “Accidental” Demolitions: Grand Conspiracy or Hard-Charging Can-Do Incompetence?~Alan Gutierrez
Before and after photographs of a historic home on live oak lined Bienville Avenue in Mid-City, New Orleans, Louisiana by Karen Gadbois. Special thanks~Think New Orleans

No debate about it, NO Guts NO Glory

Holy Cross School construction begins

Louisiana shatters 2006 export record in 2007

Navy awards $1.4B contract to Northrop Grumman for fighter ship

Staying above it all~New federal flood maps for Vernonia, OR finally recognize what local homeowners learned the hard way, may serve as a warning to other cities.

Ocean Impact Map Reveals Human Reach Global

Any New Orleans Moggers?~Anna log








CE'08


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Geo-graphy: Ibis Editions Reprints the Levant~Bookslut

Dildos and Dumbasses~Gentilly Girl

Vendredi

Deconstruction New Orleans: From Waste to Wealth
Repodeconstuction Man's life is never boring!

Exquixotic Corps releases levee height needs

FEMA Plans Trailer Exodus Over Chemicals
In a file photo FEMA trailers that are being used for housing for University of New Orleans students and faculty are shown early Monday Morning in New Orleans, Aug. 28, 2006. U.S. health officials Thursday Feb. 14, 2008, are urging that Gulf Coast hurricane victims be moved out of their government-issued trailers as quickly as possible after tests found toxic levels of formaldehyde fumes. ~AP Photo/Alex Brandon
FEMA ready to roll trailer residents again,
Kafka rolls in grave

Criminal Negligence Anyone?

Dept. Of Homeland $ecurity
Big $heik (DOH$B$),
Michael "Jack'ya" Chertoff,
raps disaster law

Remarks by DOHSBS Michael "Jack'ya" Chertoff at Harvard University

Photo of New Orleans Mayor Playing With Gun Sparks Debate
~Picayune Assumes Position, apologizes for photograph of Stupid, Clueless Clown Mayor, Ray "Chocolate Don" Nagin, as he waves assault rifle at Sheepish Looking Police Chief during Press Conference On Public Safety.
Edittila cares little for whateva BSPR the T. Picayune and the mayor's office may try to spin here. Who you gonna believe a photograph or yer own lyin'eyes? ~Caught again with his fist stuck in a tight place the mayor says "What?"
Edittila would like to note as well that we spared you, gentle reader, all of this...hosery yesterday--on Love Day. But today is another story all together. And that story is this story all over the Forking Internet! Thanks again Ray, you icehole. Soooo, as this story is going to cycle and refuse to die for the next week or more, then your pissed-off vigilant Edittila d'Aphasia will make sure it does so with Ray "Baby-Head" Nagin's face on it--not New Orleans. Thank'ya...Thank'ya very much.

Gettin’ serious about crime in New Orleans~Undercover Black Man

New Orleans: 'The Vagina of America'~Eve Ensler: "You know what? The Mayor of New Orleans (the notorious Ray Nagin) just declared himself one of the first vagina friendly mayors."

Pastor and author Rick Warren to buy Saints, build Purpose-
Driven Field

Celibate Bishops Retool Marriage Program

Lawmakers start kicking the tires on ethics bills?

Former levee chief, employer fined

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Jeudi

Thank you RedefinedOne

Happy Valentine's Day
Noble Mons Every One!
~from~
The New Orleans News Ladder
&
Happy Birthday!
~to yer' oh'so humble'd~
!:~) Editilla da'Pun d'Aphasia (~:!
~One Broken Peace At A Time!~

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 found a friend in God,
do please ask them for Direction,
to the places they left the restless souls
to drown in their damn'nation.
~Under rooftops~In their backyards~
~behind the family sofas~
~while their Grand Mas~
~banged against the walls~
~abandoned in Saint Rita's!~

I don't really care what they say.
I heard it all before the breach.
Some may think they know what it means...
To bet your soul
and find your self
losing!

I'm going to build me a Living Ladder
I'm gonna lean it up against the World,
so we can Wake Up with the Rising Tide
so we can always find our own ways home
alone together
down that long long road
home.

Little Pink Houses for You and Me.... In honor of the Make It Right Nola foundation.

Photo Essays: Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina 2 years and counting~Mandi Zimmer~'Jackamo fee n'an n'ae'~Shawn Escoffery

$2.4 million in grants awarded for N.O. housing

Razing rules are still unclear...Why?

Mayor still raises, spends cash in '07...Why?







At the track, jockeying behind the scenes~James Gill

Businessman's Chinese Communist Party Spy-case arrest stuns associates. ~Well-liked restaurateur recalled as honest, enthusiastic capitalist..."Hey! Look everybody! I'm a Capitalist! See the Enthusiastic Capitalist! ~~not some Deep Cover Secret Agent for the Evil-Doing Democracy-Buggering Butchers in the Communist Party of China!" Now can we see where his campaign money went too? Follow the 'Free' Olympic Tickets?

N.O. Port pushes for $250M in state money for container terminal upgrade~a glass half-full of the $410M LRA allocated for New Orleans' Recovery?

Chemical risks in FEMA trailers confirmed. Case for criminal prosecution?

FEMA: Trains To Take You To The Camps~Not Another CONspiracy

Panel approves measure for secret deals limits?
A 'counter letter' is defined in legal dictionaries as "a secret agreement that expresses the true intent of the parties to a simulation."

Corps' Levee Plan has a hole, panel says

Spike Lee to lecture in Syracuse on his recent documentary, "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts,"

Those intrepid ladies~Round-Up with Charles Darwin, Daniel Boone, vampires and rescue dogs~Book reviews Chasing Ray

HOWLPOP! New Site New Fashions!

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Preservation Hall's John Brunious dead at 67

Thank you Preservation Hall

Mercredi

N.O. police show off new crime-fighting equipment.~Mayor C. "Baby Ray" Nagin shows the world that he is in fact a true, certifiable, goddamn foolish jerk-off idiot who still has not learned how to hold a rifle even after The Flood.
Editilla gets the joke. Sooooo it looks like Baby Ray is making those play machine gun sounds too: "eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh...I got you, Copper! You dirty raaaat!" Police Chief Riley: "Uuuuh, ha ha...Come on now, Mr. Mayor, that ain't really funny!"
What would one bet that The Chocolate Don is making a joke about pay raises to the police chief? Who is the mayor's tailor? What is this shit? Can someone please THROW A PIE AT THIS DUMBASS?!? Now? Before the day is out? And take that firearm away before he shoots somebody! Jeez Louie!

Katrina Response Head: Preparation Can Mean Disaster Survival~General Russel Honore Recalls Cold War's "Culture of Preparedness"
"Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile. This is a Disaster. This isn't something somebody can control. We ain't stuck on stupid."~Russel Honore

Bush coming in April to NOLA--NAFTA meeting
~neworleans.indymedia.org
Oh Yes! Oh Yes! The week after the Mother of all Vagina Monologues, VDAY 1({})! Please do let's let the Presidente know we care!

Huckabee calls La. primary 'goofy'~This from a man who looks like a chatty Arkansas Beaver and sounds like the Patriarch of The Hand Maiden's Tale?







Feet on the street with the Gentilly Project

Fertilizers, Animal Wastes Both Culprits in Gulf Dead Zone

GOP Vice President Rumors Run Fast For Louisiana Jindal~Neocoward draft-dodging dope addict, Rush Limbaugh, anoints the new governor as "the next Reagan." ewe!

Panel OKs revamp of ethics board~A House committee agreed unanimously Tuesday to strip the state Board of Ethics of its authority to rule on ethics cases, ignoring a plea from the board to delay consideration until it could weigh in on the matter.
Edittila shrillas~Now we're cookin' with gas! Doesn't this arrangement seem a bit...double-bass'ackwrd, tilt'd? Stilt'd? Wilt'd? Filch'd? Shoved-in to the Hilt'd?

LRA Approves Louisiana Parishes $500M Recovery Plans

Summit on public asses today



The Land of Creamy Beans~Toulous Street

Family Corruption In The Big Easy~A Look Into The Dark Side Of A Corrupt And Psychopathic Family
Editilla ticks and wondas~Who are these strange people and why do they keep showing up in my inbox? ...and'or..."You talkin'ta Me?---ARE! YOU! TALKING!! 'TA! ME!???"

FEMA to Use Vacant Trailers Rut'row...

Exquixotic Corps~Everywhere you want to be.
~Corps of Engineers Looking for 100 Million Cu Yd of Clay~GeoPrac.net
~Blackwater contracted to provide security for Army Corps of Engineers~Source Dorks
~MO- Corps to cut service at four lakes
~FL-Water managers blast Army Corps over Everglades costs
~GA-Reviving the barge
~OR-New Vernonia flood maps released

New Orleans' Levees: Can Disaster Strike Again?~National Geographic
"The corps's motto is 'Let Us Try,'. We've been trying long enough. Now it's time to actually do something." engineering professor Bob Bea of the University of California, Berkeley

The strange rhythms of death~Picayune Book Reviews

Reading Minds~Personalities in our world of words

Q&A With Porter Batiste Stoltz's George Porter~Westword

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Mardi

'Deadly Beauty'~"Jelly fish are dangerous, but if you look at them, they look beautiful." Robert, Age 12, 9th Ward

The New Orleans Kid Camera Project~Photos at Snug Harbor for PhotoNOLA

2-streetcar accident injures 23 people
Edittila's chin chillas~Tourists Attack?

Storm Shoves Ship Into New Orleans Levee

Federal city planners tout ideas

Exqioxotic Corps...Everywhere you want to be?
~Corps 0f Engineers completes MRGO Louisiana, New Orleans Area Closure Study
~Corps of Engineers gears up to repair Industrial Canal lock
~State of Missouri v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
~KS-Corps of Engineers looking into Wilson water
~GA-Water War Brimful of Confidence
~NC-Raleigh mayor worried about water

FEMA considering expanded use of trains in hurricane evacuations

This Week At Amtrak 2008-02-11~United Rail Passenger Alliance

Problems plague government buyouts of Katrina property

Picayune Editorial~Sniffing out a cover-up
Yeah, we hears ya'mouf talkin'. Edittila smella too and wondas~What the hell do you folks be smokin'down at that "newspaper" all year long? "Congress is right to press for answers and to insist that scientists who speak up do so without fear of retaliation." That's it? Your entire picayune opinion in one sentence? How wee'whanka is that? Whoa! Now don't get too excited! Don't hold back! We can handle da'truf!
BTW...Who & Where...do they plan to contract the disposal of this toxic waste of FEMA's trailers? What about the 1000s of poison pillboxes sitting in rows like meticulously arranged coolaid suppositories in the Arkansas sun--for years now?
Rather than feel-good propaganda of how the FEMA good-guys are donating cinder blocks to the rebuilding effort, it would be nice if the ciy's only major newspaper would get to the bottom of this story and ask actual questions of the actual perpetrators of this actual Federal Criminally Negligent Homicide, eh? Maybe just one question of the ganstas in charge of our fate, the authors of this forced disaster response? Perchance a bit of journalism on Product Liability? At least a phone call to someone or something? And we are still waiting to hear at least one name of those 1500 people still living in these deadly trailers out at the airport? Remember them? The ones in the recent TP article "Jefferson Parish Crackdown" :<-picayune word). Will we find ourselves knee-deep in toxic devestation AGAIN because our local newspaper of record FAILED THEIR DUTY to inform the public--AGAIN? Can't the Picayune at least pick on the evil-doers?
Of course as this scenario begs the question of SuperHeroes...could this indeed be a job for da'Mighty Mouse of Nola Bloggery? Here They Come to Save the Daaaaaay! Chere'yat Bourgeois Nievete?

The 300~Tin Can Trailer Trash

An Open Apology~Humid City v2.3

Louisiana Market Sac to benefit Make It Right~The Fashionable Housewife



GNO Inc. to present economic 'road map'

New Orleans - Market Report December 2007 (Condos)

Lt. Gov. Landrieu trumpets an additional $44M for City Park recovery

2 years after Katrina, police still struggle with mental patients

Gov. Jindal shrugs off ethics law potshots~“In our case, it (the fine) will be paid for by a worker with a personal check,” Jindal said. “Our belief is that if it is a campaign disclosure then it can be campaign funds. If it is an ethics violation it should be personal funds. ... The reason we paid for it in personal funds is we don’t want it to be a distraction."

Three Arrested In Pentagon-Chinese Communist Party Spy Ring

Possible New Orleans connection in CCP spy case

Milestones in Remote Sensing~Rashid's Blog

Gibson, U2, artists come together to support New Orleans music at the Grammys

Dr. John, Ronnie Spector Set For Ponderosa Stomp


St. Louis Cathedral~Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra Presents Music of the Mississippi @ 8

Johnny Vidacovich Duo w/ Brian Seeger~D.B.A.@ 10

NBA All-Star game to include three days of musical acts.

Mardi Gras 2008, 360 Degrees...of decidedly non-separation

Brass Pass Benefits

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Thank you, White in Bay Ridge
Edittila just can't get enough of it ya'know? Mon Chere, talk about da'fleur dis lilly white good guys!


New Song, Video~Ode to New Orleans~Louisiana native Daniel Glen Timms

And Prince Is Your Uncle~blogofneworleans.com

Interview~Irma Thomas’ ‘Rain’ washes away past injustice

Lundi

Ashes to Ashes-Ghosts Along The Mississippi~Bayou Contessa
Editilla ticklas~What a find this site! Great float pics too. Design therapy...now that is one leg upon which we can all stand, eh?

CDC under investigation over Katrina cancer risk

Two New Orleans residents charged with spying for China

Flavor of the City~Roadside produce vendors preserve an aspect of old New Orleans that nourishes the spirits of loyal customers
Editilla recommends y'all read, out-loud if possible~'Inventing New Orleans, Writings of Lafcadio Hearn' ...or you can sit outside any cafe in da'bywater and hear: "I'VE GOT WATERMELONS! RIPE PRETTY MELONS! IIIII'VE GOT ORANGES! BANANAS! SATSUMAS AND PEACHES! over a bullhorn driving around the block

N.O. Brew claims to be the country's first, fresh cold-dripped bottled iced coffee

Housing's crime going white collar~Lolis Eric Elie

Notes from the Field~Walter Gallas

Houstonians hit ground running in New Orleans
Editilla schlemillas~Yeah well after all they said about us...but, Running is one of many ways to hit the ground in New Orleans. One can drop and give me fitty Beounce! One can step onto First Street in a second line to Third or down Zero and Craps. And of course there's the old stand by: face down.

Obama win gives him 24 of state's delegates, Clinton 13

Surplus forecast rises by $207 million more

Text of Louisiana Governor Jindal Speech To Legislature

Gloria Steinem to speak at Tulane, Xavier events focus on Richard Wright

Day 898: eBook News~Maitri's VatulBlog

Exqixotic Corps
Everywhere you want to be...
~NY-Patterson wants Corps to deliver on promised money

Super Heavy Organ, Robert Walter~Review: All About Jazz~CD recommendation warmly recieved this morning via WWOZ's Problem Child

Toussaint brings New Orleans' vitality to stage

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Dimanche

"Noose," Painting by Haitham Eid, on Display at New Orleans African American Museum of Art, Culture










THE BIG TOP
-1638 Clio St. Sunday 2-6pm

Thank you New Orleans Daily Photo
This was one of Editilla's very special trees in one of so many secret places of refuge in New Orleans before the storm.

City Park Rebirth

Returning Home to the 'Barge House'

Independent voters feel left out of party

Excellant Election Results, Maps~CenLamar

Corps yields in bike path dispute

Exquixotic Corps
~TX-Tamez sues Michael "Jack'ya" Chertoff
~DC-Flood Levee Ideas Rattle Panel
~GA/TN-Georgia Considers Redrawing State Boundary To Get Access To Tennesse River
proposed boundary adjustment GA & TN

Priorities~NO Murder Blog

New book traces photographic history of New Orleans

Indians!

Thank you Copenhagen Cycle Chic


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