Jeudi

"Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated," quipped Uriel Little, 76, a former St. Bernard street department worker who evacuated before Katrina. "They can leave my name on there if they want," said Mr. Little, who lives at St. Margaret's Daughters Nursing Home in the Bywater. "It doesn't bother me. I know that I'm still alive, and that's what counts. I just wish the rest could have gotten out," he said. "A lot of people didn't make it, and I knew a good many of them."
Blessings & Peace to Those Souls Lost.

Tales of Grave Ulysses~Toulouse Street

Why We are Protesting the New Orleans Times Picayune~Daily Koz by scorpiorising
Any questions on Ladder Hangin' Policy can check the Sinn Féin to the right...or peruse the various & sundry, errra..."adulterated" headlines and whatnot rants up'n'down this Ladder. Coincidentally I had my own 'problems' wit'da Picayune and decided to greatly slacken the threads to the TP, mainly as I felt completely blind-sided by Judge Duval's ruling on top of their bad miscoverage of the housing demonstrations. Having seen the TP building during the flood, I cannot understand why they do not range about looking for blood like a pack of Righteous Catahoulas. I love their journalists who lost their minds. I lost mine too, and my heart and any sense of taste and timing, but had to see what other outlets could match their volumn around New Orleans. Thankfully I can report no dearth of news about New Orleans of by and for New Orleanians...particularly and most laudably amongst the nola blog-0-reamery.
Your NO News Ladder depends on news from around the country, and the woild, about Nola as much the reverse from within and without you. Doubleshining. Stitch-hiking. But the real fun of the game for me at 4am (almost) every morning is finding, discovering the news about our Fair Lady. Just'dat...it keeps me out of McDonald's with a loaded water gun. And I am quite gratified by everyone's patronage thank you very much.
Like any tide rising it ain't what is not here, ya'hear? Like Hamlet's Revenge we note the tilt of our Ship of State and so move with care about what it means to be or not...subtly camouflaged within verdant, pungent, misty vials of congroovience and implicitudinal demostrafications don't'cha know...
Res Ipsa Loquitur

Fats Domino / Michalopoulos print Donated to the NoLA Rising Auction Part of the Art Show

Robert Green Gets Probation

Do you believe in Robin Hood?~Louisiana Questions

David Vitter is Thinking About Your Granddaughter's Vagina~Chris Kelly

Louisiana Jindal Administration, Censorship And The Internet~Steven Sabuldowski

Louisiana Jindal, Ethics and India~Jim Brown

Treading Lightly~The Army Corps of Engineers' footprints for lakefront pump stations might allow many popular landmarks and homes to remain in place.

Mayor Ray "Babyhead" Nagin reveals details of new blight program

N.O. water board to seek engineering firm proposals
What? Oh Cripes! Now everyone is doing it! Just a few hard corps tourists is all we'll use it on they said, really, emminent threat and all that---What? Ooooooh! Water Board...sorry:)

Gulf dead zone plan stagnates. What now? Go fish?

Recovery Case management to falter, thousands still needing help across the Gulf

Hey, it's just $16.4 million

Lessons for Katrina in Valdez

SALVATIONS- Juried Furniture Exhibition~Join us at 7:00pm on March 14, 2008 for SALVATIONS 2008 - A Juried Furniture Exhibition, Gala and Auction benefiting The Green Project.

A Party Goin’ On Right Here~blogofneworleans

West Virginia Wesleyan College Students Spending Spring Break In New Orleans, will fly the 'Bobcat' flag

New Orleans Ballet Association Presents “River North Chicago Dance Company”
Saturday, March 1, 8pm - The NOCCA Institute - 2800 Chartres NOLAFunGuide.com



The Heat Is On
Daupine St & Jordan by the Industrial Canal~Friday
Exhibitions~Fri-Mon

New Orleans Artists in Exile~Jonathan Ferrara Gallery's traveling exhibition of work by displaced New Orleans artists.


Buddy Miles
Buddy Miles, the rock and R&B drummer, singer and songwriter whose eclectic career included stints playing with Jimi Hendrix in Band of Gypsies, hit songs, studio work and as the lead voice of the California Raisins, the animated clay figures that became an advertising phenomenon in the late 1980s, has died. He was 60.

Warren
McDaniels
Passes
President, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Foundation 2002-2004, Chair, WWOZ Governance Board 1995-2002

Pianist Jonathan Batiste returns for NHMF show

BackTalk with Glen David Andrews, John Swenson~offBeat
WWOZ~GAMBIT

The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano and other reviews~Chasing Ray

Ned Sublette
The World That Made New Orleans
Lawrence Hill Books
By Tom McDermott~offBeat

Mercredi

Andrea Dezsö



There Will Be Floods by Alex Prud'homme~Once Again NY Times OP/Ed Promotes Incorrect, Dismiss'directive, Red Herring Cause of Levee Failures. Says Fear the Picture, not the Reality! Believe in the Corps! They Just Want You To Like Them!
Editor never tires of responding to these shell-game 'journalists/authors' with a Letter to da'Editor, but I think the Gray Lady really enjoys getting lots of correspondence. Really, a little hand here?

Corps of Engineers wants to move money around; topic may be aired at Jefferson Council meeting today~Damn! Just when you thought you were done with those breathing masks!

Finances threaten levee work, official says. Here Comes the Fix? OK, Gov Jindal...You're Up!
"I do feel we've been let down by the White House," said John Barry, a member of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East that oversees levees east of the Mississippi River and the author of "Rising Tide," a noted history of the corps' actions during the 1927 Mississippi River flood. "We are not being properly treated. The president has not been keeping his promise to the region."
This is a common tactic of the Corps of Engineers when manipulating municipalities to follow their command in tax-payer financed projects all across the country. Delay. Through partisan politics in congress they will pit state against state, county against county and parrish against parrish over "finances". We can blame each other for stealing each other's tax money, as with GA, AL and FL recently.
For example, why now, this late in the design phase of the levee rebuilding? Is this why the Corps again delayed the release of the levee report in December?
Foundry no. 2 by egg theorem. Dedicated by Raphie on 4/13/2007 to the Man Without a Country," Kurt Vonnegut (RIP)
They will hold out until we are so afraid of the next flood, the pain, the loss, the sickness that we will be forced to our knees to bend over and assume thier position, accept their bidding, pay their price. They play us like a drug dealer, holding the fix in the air until the junkie is begging for it.
Did they wait for Ohio to flood a couple of congressional sessions before finally taking action on their levees? Missouri? Nevada? California? Louisiana? Places you might not think of in every State of the Union. Why are we now reacting to the demands of the Corps of Engineers again? Who left them in charge? Who will be their next "spokesperson"? Please fang back through past Ladder posts, usually under the category "Exquixotic Corps", for articles on this.
And of course you can contact Levees.org.
We need to GET THESE CREEPY PERPS OFF THE JOB and intitute new government in their place. Why not?
I believe New Orleans is already dancing as fast as it can.
Nothing at the Exquixotic Corps of Engineers has or will change until we haul them before the American People and deconstruct their corrupt management.
Please call for the 8/29 Commission Investigation.
The Ladder covers the Corps all over the country for this reason: It is not only about New Orleans. New Orleans will survive Sinn Féin. Of this your oh'so humble editor has no doubt and nor should the rest of our generous countryfolk, the kindness of our strangers thank you very much. This matters to every American Citizen, a few thousand of whom now stand on this Ladder and should get on the phone to their elected representatives before our phones go out during the next catastrophy.
Or, given that their Charter pre-dates our US Constitution, will the Exquixotic Corps of Engineers simply wait it out and outlive us all? Delay. Time. Water under failed bridges across failed levees will carry failed Lives through the heart of our failed Nation like silt through a cracked and failing hour glass.

Scientists claim Army Corps' 'dangerous experiments' will worsen Mississippi River floods

Army Corps of Engineers barred entry to former CO bombing sites. We don’t trust you, people living in the area told officials at a Monday meeting. Landowners questioned the timing of the inspections, saying it was very suspect the Corps would want to look into it 60 years after the war and in the midst of the controversy over the proposed expansion of the Army’s Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site by 414,000 acres, 646.875 square miles. How big is your county or parrish? For perspective, the state's largest, Vernon parrish: 1,328 sq mi. Just sayin...by the way this all begs the question of the Corps' Federal Charter and why Sean O'keefe wants to inject his lizard brain into it?
AND WHAT ABOUT THE LEVEES?

Let Them Eat Dirt! FL residents, Corps of Engineers face off over bomb-site cleanup~Donna West-Barnhill, a contractor hired by the corps to officiate at the meeting, told residents that they can ask that the cleanup be conducted to a high level, such as, "So much so that people can eat the dirt." West-Barnhill told residents that the corps feels that the military is ultimately liable for the costs. Resident Ron Cumello asked, "Are we going to get that in writing?" but received no solid answer.
WHAT ABOUT THE LEVEES?

Arthur Ashe School slated for demolition. Photo by Karen Gadbois.
Recovery School District S.O.S.~Think New Orleans

School Facilities Master Plan for Orleans Parish: Eastbank High Schools~Becky Houtman

Liptrap's Lament-The Line

Dear Senator Vitter - My Modest Proposal~NOLA radfem

Paradise plastic. Cheap and fantastic.~Today's episode of The Library Chronicles

The Appeal of the Appeal of the Property Taxes~Tin Can trailer Trash

Baby-Head Mayor Rips Plan to Empty FEMA Trailers...uuuuh, errrah...Ooooo,k'ville, may be he has a final solution?

New Orleans Homeless Pushed Into Barrack. Are We There Yet?

120-foot long and 30-foot wide air-conditioned tent filled with double-decker bunk beds stands on the New Orleans Mission's grounds in New Orleans, Friday, Feb. 22, 2008. The makeshift facility, expected to offer meals and overnight staysfor 120 people, is a short-term solution to what some call a homeless epidemic in the city. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)

Some Notes on Hillary Clinton in New Orleans from the Point'Coupee Democrat~Cenlamar

Love Me Some Spongebob Taking On Casablanca, The Godfather, etc.~World Class New Orleans

Louisiana to Revamp Mental Health Plan

Community Organizer Robert Green to Be Sentenced

Bad drag~Metroblogging New Orleans

The way we were: New Orleans in 1867

New Orleans Booksellers Rebound

Lucero at House of Blues~9pm

WWOZ~GAMBIT



Box3
CD Release tonight at the Blue Nile, upstairs 10pm

Mardi

More pictures of Make It Rights

Mid-Century Architecture at Risk in New Orleans

Yazoo Pumps, R.I.P.?
More background information on these Equixotic Corps Pumps here.

Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans environmental report public meeting~6 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 6249 Canal Blvd. The meeting presentation will discuss New Orleans lakefront levee west of the Industrial Canal, the Outfall Canal closure structures and the potential areas where borrow material may be obtained. The meeting is free and the public is invited to attend. Thank you New Orleans City Business.

Newly formed coalition is seeking answers to resolving continual flooding problems in Ohio

CDC airs Katrina issues

Huey P. Long, Sean Penn, Katrina, & Non-Random Acts of Kindness~Marking Time

Just sayin'...thanks Think New Orleans

Gold Rush Network, a Company Partly Owned by EMAX Holdings Corporation, Increases Their Investments Into Katrina Re-Development Group

Jasper Company Helps Struggling New Orleans Organizations

Going Green To Help New Orleans

Transit transition: RTA overhauls bus fleet with biodiesel units

New Orleans~the long thread

Examining the Katrina effect~Lecture series at Rice looks at evacuees' lasting impact on Houston
Just as we work to define ourselves as "Survivors of the Corps of Engineers Malfeasance" rather than "Victims of a hurricane", this editor would like to see more "re-branding" or "framing" of this disaster-crime away from the red-herring-boned misnomer of Katrina and more reflective of the true, real and proven reality of: Federal Flood Effect, Federal Flood, Corps Issue, Levee Failures...any more suggestions? Product Liability? Criminal Negligence? Hit & Run?

Ghetto Clearance Part 1~Squandered Heritage

Two key Katrina insurance cases go before Louisiana's high court~A pair of cases with high-stakes implications for Louisiana's insurance market are scheduled to be heard today by the state's highest court.

Truth Expression Festival to feature live music, art vendors

ASCD to Hold Annual Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 15 -17, 2008

'New Orleans Monologues' tells the Katrina story with humor, courage, intensity
...and don't forget to set your calendars, coming in April:
VDAY 1({})

Of Altruism And Malice….Monday Musings~casa de Charlotte della luna
Editor would like to note that sometimes Monday is so kinky that it comes on Tuesday too. Nah, just missed this one yesterday...but follow the subject matter closely.

NYC hound in'da Warehouse District~Ch0whound
Let's let'em know we care, y'all.

Snug Harbor releases its March lineup

Oshkosh musician wins Linkin Park sweepstakes~to join rock band in New Orleans Habitat effort Wednesday

New CD! Kali. Z. Fasteau & Kidd Jordan - Live at the Kerava Jazz Festival: Finland~all about Jazz

WWOZ~GAMBIT

Lundi

Local 'Green Project' Recycling Efforts Help Rebuild New Orleans



'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' Finishing 5o State US Tour in New Orleans~Calls on Nationwide Builder Coalition to Help the Extreme Team Tackle Louisiana~"Even three years later, the gulf region is still suffering in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and I believe it is going to take the entire nation to rebuild, which is why it makes sense that we would need an extreme coalition of builders from all across this country to pull together and help make a difference in New Orleans for deserving families on the show," says Denise Cramsey, executive producer for "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition."

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Freon Capture
Refrigerators have a number of components that shouldn’t be disposed at a regular landfill and in fact should be recycled by an authorized “appliance deconstructor”. Yep that’s the official term for companies that recycle these types of things. After hurricane Katrina over 390,000 large appliances like refrigerators were inspected and deconstructed.

Rodrigue’s Louisiana: Forty Years of Cajuns, Blue Dogs and Beyond Katrina March 1 – June 8, 2008

Nutria Nation: marsh-eating critter rebounds post-Katrina

Hold Everything Dear

Post-Katrina skyline rises along Mississippi coast

Evangeline Franklin points to Katrina to stress need for advance planning




2008 GIS/CAMA Technologies Conference

Pictometry and HitachiSoft to Showcase Technologies at CAMA Show in New Orleans

Story of OPP demolition and 'One to One Replacement' of Jail Cells overlooked during Mayor Goon'Buele's latest Stupid Outburst~Liptrap's Lament

Louisiana Weekly Editorial: Let it go, Mr. Mayor~Think New Orleans

Jindal wants to be GOP convention keynote speaker~Your Right Hand Thief

The Pulitzer for Getting Katrina Right is Yet to be Awarded~Harry Shearer

For Katrina Evacuees, A Chance to Be Heard
Editor notes the Racist Bias in the Washington Post's continued portrayal of those affected by the Federal Flood as mostly black, contrary to prevailing data and Editor's own lyin'eyes.

Lawsuit hits medical access post-Katrina

Legends of Mississippi tort crumble, one-by-one

Church Aids Katrina Survivors

Doomsday vault opens in bid to preserve seeds

Gardens of New Orleans: Exquisite Excess

LINKIN PARK To Help Rebuild Homes In Hurricane-Affected New Orleans Area

WWOZ~GAMBIT

Dimanche

Beignets on da'Bayou~Houmatoday.com rated beignets on how well they measured up to Café du Monde, as well as the traditional homemade beignet, made from leftover bread dough, a taste of south Louisiana culture and a tradition believed to stretch back more than 200 years.

Thibodaux music store plays pivotal role in storm recovery

Samedi

John Brunious
(October 12, 1940-February 12, 2008), Leader of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band will be honored with a Jazz funeral second line procession on Saturday, February 23rd at 1:00 pm. The Second Line will begin at Preservation Hall at 726 St. Peter Street, go right on Bourbon Street, left on Ursuline Street, onto Rampart Street where it will pass the former site of Lu & Charlie’s Nightclub, it will proceed down Rampart Street and left onto St.Philip Street, right on Royal Street, right on St.Louis Street, right onto Bourbon Street where it will also pass the Famous Door and the procession will end back at Preservation Hall.

Donations needed as Montanans head to New Orleans

Cops Helping Cops Rebuild New Orleans, One Home At A Time

FEMA agrees to test hurricane trailers for formaldehyde...brah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Fats Domino
80th Birthday
Celebration
featuring
Randy Newman,
Dr. John,
Allen Toussaint
& more!




Arts Market
of New Orleans
Over 100 Artists
Plenty of Food
Live Music and KIDS!!!
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Palmer Park,
S. Carrollton and S. Claiborne Aves
in Uptown.

Fleur de Tease at Desire Cabaret

Clinton comes to New Orleans

Obama's Senate Record~soupwiththefork

SECRET SERVICE LEAVES OBAMA AT RISK / RAISES GRAVE CONCERNS, de ja vu in Dallas all over again?~OpEdNews.com

Mass Mobilization in Jefferson Parish?~We Could Be Famous

Alternative Media Expo Today!~Humid City

C. Ray Throws Public Tantrum: No One Surprised~Loki
Tide gathers, rises, ponders the value of Pie...in'da Face.
Editilla could not agree more! C. Ray got soooo much Face too! Make it a Chocolate Pie too!
Oh'so Fun! Oh Fortuna!
Oh My! Is That A PIE!?!
It'be like baggin' rats in a pothole...or parking lot. When you check out the television interview, dig the double cheeks that our Goon'buele has picked up on his "Itenerate Adventures"? Excuse and Escatilate me! But...ain't them's some waddlin' JOWLS on dat'Bald Peckory? Whoa!
Get Outta Heah!

Not exactly crazy~Library Chronicles

Clarence Ray Nagin: a tenuous grope of reality~Ashley Morris
Editilla sorry we missed this one the first time but hey, great beotch-slaps are timeless.

Louisiana Former Politician Perkins Angry About Gay Sexual Education Contents (GayS.E.Cs)
...refuses to just suck it up

FEMA Site Shows Recovery Money

Exquixotic Corps of Engineers Works Hand and Fist With Butt Wright Patt to Break BRAC

Corps OKs clay sources for levees

geosynthetica^®- get the dirt on geosynthetics
...just axsin'...

Larry Blumenfeld on New Orleans’ Refusal to Vanish

City Hall begins a rebuilding boom

New Orleans Projects Paint the Town Green~Preservation Nation

MS's Dearth of Domiciles

Faubourg Treme: The untold story of New Orleans
~FoodMusicJustice

WWOZ~GAMBIT

Vendredi

New Orleans: The Human Parts of the Equation~Damian Kulash

Coldcocked: Lee Zurik Looks at Mayor Nagin’s Leisure Time in Office and Nagin Says It’s Personal~Think New Orleans

Editilla cares little about where Baby Ray spends his Leisure Time...but to know when and where to deliver da'Pie. Come on, folks...ya'know ya'wanna, Let's Give Ray A Pie. Editilla knows another thing too...C. Ray'done kicked over da'wrooooong Nestful'O'Drunken Hornets!

Cold Cockers and Steven Colbert~Liprap's Lament

Old School Cold Cocking~Library Chronicles

From Cliff's Crib, here is a rough rendering of who else spent their summer '07 "vacation" in New Orleans (and please make sure to fang over to read Cliff's latest installment of Sitting On My Porch Part VI) Viva la Mighty Nine't!
262,000 Residents based on the official population estimate.
+
5000 People who are living with someone else because they got kicked out of Texas.
+
2000 Crooked contractors staying in hotels; because when you steal money it’s not good to have an official address.
+
500 People staying in trailers that is supposed to be empty. They usually have bootleg electricity.
+
5000 People who are here everyday but swear up and down they live in Atlanta, Memphis, Dallas or Houston now and are not coming back.
+
20,000 Workers from Latin America. I don’t think anyone really knows where they all live but they are here.
+
5000 Family members of the workers from Latin America.
+
500 Thieves, pimps, prostitutes, scam artists, drug dealers, fugitives, hustlers, and anyone else that needs to hide in a city where everyone is dealing with so much that they can’t pay attention to people like them. If you believe the media this number should be 200,000.
If we take our base number and add all the sections of population they missed, we come to an even 300,000. Mayor Nagin has my permission to use this in the media to make his case if it means more resources.

Straight shooter among the libertines~James Gill

New Orleans - Part I~VideoVoice Collective

CiviCRM at NTEN in New Orleans .. (March 18th/19th)

Interview: "The Axe in the Attic" Filmmakers Ed Pincus & Lucia Small

Toxic Katrina Trailers. Never Again.~Daily Kos

Roads & Transit an imperative investment in public infrastructure~Petuniajrn

IPS students earn credit and help Katrina survivors

Buffett’s Horse Wins In New Orleans

Spooky... from Katrina to Heath


The night my music died~The Bean Bag
Editor knows not the whys nor wherefores of multilevel sociocultural network aggregate adhesion. It was all supposed to just be only so much math...simple information theory...heartless equations...easy, like hunting with a pack of blind hounds, merely go and ask the Great Google...
...Got any news? Yeah...go fish.

New Orleans seems at heart of Davies’ CD

Kevin Naquin's new CD changes with the times

Chris Rose~The 60-Second Interview: Paul Cebar

WWOZ~GAMBIT

Jeudi

Thank you New Orleans Daily Photo
Fouder of Barnes & Noble pledges $20 million gift planned for Gentilly

NY developer, city to discuss plans for Gentilly mall

N.O. homeless plan changes direction

N.O. City Hall creates pool of 50 firms for recovery work

Recovery schools say they're owed millions

Jindal's Louisiana Legislative Session On Steroids~Bayou Buzz

Report: FEMA misdirected $13M in disaster relief~"A few million here...a few million there...
...pretty soon we're talking real dead people, eh?"
~Invector General

Here is one of the ways FEMA set-up the tax-payers to fail before the flood.

After covering up the toxic poisionings of 1000s of tax-payers in FEMA trailers, CDC issues praise for West Virginia's response to Hurricane Katrina victims
That is the problem with Disaster Capitalists and our Center for Disease Control lying to, decieving the American public on these FEMA trailers. How do we believe anything they say about anything now? Shit in one hand half a dozen in the other, and given the CDC's current lobby associations within the Distaster Response Industry, we can now expect around 80% innaccuracy and 20% down right spin-lying public relations?
"S&C’s media training course sent huge ripples of understanding and enlightenment through our ranks. How these professionals can transform masters of techno-babble into credible spokespersons so quickly and smoothly is an amazing thing to behold.”— Kevin Quinn, Chief Public Affairs Office, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

You all may not know that Editilla has been woikin'ta get a Woman elected God for eva, but would have settled for President of the United States...tho'noooot this time...soooo barring that, I can rest assured that Golden Goddess keeps an Eye on the rebuilding our levees and on the Exquixotic Corps of Engineers and will not stop, in the form of Levees.org and the glare of its founder Sandy Rosenthal.
Thank you Babe Rockin Activist Lady! (B.R.A.L!:)
We need you more than eva!

February 20, 2008
A federal judge has determined that the US Army Corps of Engineers "squandered millions of dollars in building a levee system ... which was known to be inadequate by the Corps' own calculations."
But an 80-year old law tied Federal District Judge Stanwood Duval's hands and compelled him to release the Corps of Engineers from all financial liability for their shoddy workmanship. Says Duval, the law created an environment where "gross incompetence receives the same treatment as a simple mistake."

This is insane.

Click this link and demand the 8/29 Investigation Act today!
http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/1625/t/2541/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=2075

Judge Duval in the final page of his statement says "…It is not within this Court's power to address the wrongs committed. It is hopefully within the citizens of the United States' power to address the failures of our laws and agencies. If not, it is certain that another tragedy such as this will occur again…"

The 8/29 Investigation Act is the way for the citizens to exercise their power!

Demand the 8/29 Investigation Act!

Demand an unbiased thorough analysis of the flood protection failures that nearly obliterated a great American city and its suburbs.
Hold the Corps Accountable! Demand the 8/29 Investigation Act!
Even if you have already sent a letter, send another! It takes one minute!

Thank you,
Sandy Rosenthal
Founder, Levees.Org
www.levees.org
Click here for New York Times story on Judge Duval's ruling.

"By the time we thought 'That Could Never Happen Here' it already had!"~80 yr old Lithuanian doctor just before the Nazis separated his family for ever and tattooed a number on his forearm.

FEMA says formaldehyde conclusions are not true--Whoaaaaa??? Hey, it works for the President? Just...tell 'em it's not true. Tell em' that's just rain trickling down their leg and they'll believe it every time...those drugged stupid & clueless American tax-payers.

MS Coast lawmakers, former allies begin to question Gov. Barbour's Slight of Hand Double-Dealing Whoop-Whoop-
Eeeeyuk'yuk'yuk Face Slapping Eye-jabbing Knuckle-nosing them with the State's Hurricane Recovery Funds



State Insurance Report outlines problems for 'Citizens' after hurricane

ATMIA Conference 2008 opens in New Orleans

Oracle RMAN Pocket Reference~Data Recovery~"As profession continues to embellish more whole to joint dealings at every take of the organization, the employ of IT has swollen to embellish nearly all-encompassing. These days, its arduous to encounter corners of a consort that profession does not touch. As a result, the requirement to organisation for possibleness disruptions to profession services has accumulated exponentially."
(...just to let y'all know that Editilla never makes this stuff up:)

The 9th Annual National Invasive Weed Awareness Week (NIWAW) Reminds Us to Spread the Word, not the Weeds

Large marijuana farm in Abita house seized, Big DOH!

The Kaiser Chiefs Rock Brit Awards and New Orleans Anthem~Karen Dalton-Beninato

Jazzy Joint: $15M Music Hall of Fame to retune Rampart

WWOZ~GAMBIT

Book Reviews~Latest from Chasing Ray and Bookslut

Camera Found in New Orleans~Found Cameras & Orphaned Pictures

Mercredi

Heart
fully
rotted

NO haiku
loots
Tree of Life

Dies
ourselves
alone


Tombstone Tree Moon River, Homeland Security by Dawn Dedeaux

Hunter S Thompson and me~Ashley Morris

Day 906: Look! In The Sky! It’s Falling And There’s No Light!~Maitri's VatulBlog

Thank you American Artist


Letter from the League of Women Voters on Ethics Package, State Mayoral Conference and more 'Heads-Ups' from da'Bayou Buzz

New Orleans Area Events: Week of February 20~Touching tribute to the recent passing of Verita Thompson by Margarita Bergen

Jambalaya, Where Oh Where Oh?~blogofneworleans.com

Anti-Feminist Bingo II & Men Harass a Mannequin~NOLA radfem

Random New Orleaniana
~Metroblogging New Orleans

Experts Say Perfect Storm For Drug Abuse In New Orleans

Young 9/11 victims rebuild New Orleans

Children of 2001 terrorist attack volunteer in New Orleans

Spirituality and Older, Black, Hurricane Katrina Survivors~Hospice & Nursing Homes Blog

Another look at the victims of Hurricane Katrina~Data: Most Hurricane Katrina victims were not black

How Qatar Helped Katrina Survivors

Tax Exemption for Housing Hurricane Katrina Survivor

More Promotions at FEMA Coming Up on Friday!~ViceZilla

Allstate reinstates policies stopped after Katrina

OK, Editilla (no relation to ViceZilla:) wants to lay out just a few of the opening ledes from around the country, concerning the recent US Supreme Smack Down of Flood Damage Lawsuits Against Travelers and Allstate Insurance for lack of payment.
We of course hung this vital story onto the Ladder the minute it appeared yesterday, but in the past 24 hours have watched it morph and spread across the Web like a Borg Virus. So, we started with the initial AP article and then try to keep to individually published pieces from across the country to give our gentle readers a broader perspective of the beginning of this next propaganda smash victory for the forces of darkness, your Federal Government. We will continue to post as new articles come onto the Web.
The reason for this is that there are at this hour on the web nearly 50 different articles on this Abortion of Justice with nearly 80% of those articles off of the same single AP, posted and reposted. Get the picture? It happened this way when Judge Duval bent over and assumed the position in the last Levee Breach Case. That story generated, within days, at last count over 275 articles with nearly the same AP story and headline: "New Orleans Loses Levee Case", "Court Rules Against New Orleans".
Editilla has grown weary of hearing that shit.
Why the media view of this scene matters to me can best be explained in Richard Marcus' excellent review of "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Klein....(or read the forking book, but Mr. Marcus does cover other ground)...or in the court's opinion: “even if the plantiffs can prove that the levees were negligently designed, constructed or maintained and that the breaches were due to this negligence, the flood exclusions in the plaintiffs' policies unambiguously preclude their recovery.” ...or the implied "even when the US Army Corps of Engineers confesssed to criminally negligent homicide."
We just cannot let them get away with this. Can we? Doesn't this matter in the rebuilding of those levees? The relocation of this city? Does this matter to the homeowners who paid their insurance premiums for the past 50 years while being reassured by the US Corps of Engineers that the levees were sound? And now after it all broke apart the Corps is off the hook for admitting their failures, even rewarded with more contracts, and the insurance company doesn't have to pay their policy, and in fact racked up record profits? And now the FEMA-approved contractor has skipped town with half of their road home money? Does it matter that these people have no one to call? No court of redress? WTF?
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Supreme Court rejects Katrina victims' flood insurance case~Shreveport Times

U.S. Supreme Court Declines New Orleans Levee Flood Damages Case~Insurance Journal Texas South Central News

High Court Rejects Katrina Appeals~Hartford Courant

U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear Katrina insurance lawsuits~T. Picayune

High Court Rejects Katrina Victims' Appeals~Christian Broadcasting Network

U.S. Supreme Court Will Not Hear Xavier U.'s Hurricane Katrina Case~Chronicles for Higher Education News Blog

Supreme Court won’t hear Katrina levees case~Business Insurance

Supreme Court Rejects Hurricane Katrina Appeal~RTTNews Global Financial Newswires

What is wrong with this picture?~Redeye Left in Alabama

Riddle me this!~Tin Can Trailer Trash