Sunday, July 20, 2008

Dimanche

Congressional group tours 17th Street Canal~One of the top issues on the agenda during the coming days is how much should Louisiana be forced to pay for levee improvements. Right now, the state faces a cost share of $1.8 billion – money it’s supposed to pay within the next three years.
"Haven't we paid enough? Haven't the citizens of this area already paid enough in terms of livelihoods and lives lost due to the failure of the federal levees?" said Sandy Rosenthal of Levees.org. "We don't deserve to pay such a large match, especially since these levees should have been built right in the first place. Had the levees been built right, we'd be well on our way to recovery right now," said Rosenthal.
~Related TP article
...WWL Real Journalism Video here...but no mention of the active and growing LEAK in the 17th Street Canal Breach Repair.
~Editilla is having a hard time today

understanding What Could Be More Important than
Flowing Water underneath that Levee Repair, except perhaps
Flowing Water underneath other Corps Levee Repairs
,
or their practice of stuffing some of these levee repairs with Times Picayune newspapers...or perchance the general Corps engineering incompetence, albeit wit'savvy media manipulation.
This whole "Matching Funds" issue is the Corps pitting us against our own legislatures, Governed against Governor. It may look like Congress, but one must never forget that the Corps has Engineering Projects in EVERY CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT,
and has played this funding game a lot longer than anyone living in New Orleans today.
Their ultimate goal is Control of Flood Control. Monopoly.
But, then again, I was there when their levees failed in 2005.
And I was there this past May 26th, Memorial Day, (HA!) and stuck my arms elbow-deep into that growing 17th Street Leak and felt the Flowing Water. Then, Levees.org returned 1 month later to find that the Leak had grown 5 times larger and now attracts migrating ducks! I mean, Goddamn It!
Who else was here in New Orleans during that flood? Who else danced at The Reapers Ball? Does No One Remember the Water? Who remembers the smell of death and can look me in the eye and tell me that SAFE REBUILDING OF OUR LEVEES IS NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING? Are people this fucking crazy? Drugged?
Rising Tide? Hello? I suppose when these levees fail again you will just have to swim with the rest of us, eh?
Or change the name to Riding Tide?
"On Monday, the group is scheduled to tour part of the metro area before heading to the Mississippi Gulf Coast."
I apologize for missing the import of this Congressional Bus Tour, and did not know that they would go to the 17th Street Canal,
~~a mere life-jacket-toss from this awful growing Levee Leak.

~However, here is another chance to make them hear us.
Please surround that bus on Monday. Make them hear us!

Locals racing to remind nation of Katrina
~If memory fades over time, then some local advocates are racing against the clock as the three-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina comes ever closer to keep Katrina in the nation’s thoughts.

Tropical Storm Dolly has formed in the western Caribbean sea.

GOP heads north to Alaska, Dems go south to New Orleans

New Katrina Talking Point
~Firedoglake

~Editilla gotta hat'toppa~
The Nola blogging community has beaten all over this issue with dead horses. Gentle'rillas gotta wonda how these Hot Bloggers do not have their own heavy'dog national whateva, as they consistently slam nails in the coffin of these never ending stories?
I gotta tol'ya...I am afraid to try to list them all so many hot ones, like letting genies out of a rat bag.


In flooded Iowa, New Orleans volunteers can say . . .

Nurses find that helping is best medicine

New Orleans to keep closer watch on its Police
~CENTRAL La. POLITICS


La. doctor cleared in patient deaths recalls storm

Katrina, Graffiti
and the World I know~dakinikat


Update From New Orleans ~bjkeefe

Lawmaker slams FEMA for Arkansas disaster response

The Nature Conspiracy in Southeast Colorado - Part 2 ~Deanna Spingola

Marcellus girls return from New Orleans


Jacques-Imo's Cafe Spinach Salad~Chowhound New Orleans

Subversive Sounds - Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans~all about Jazz

NolaFunk Lagniappe

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