Saturday, August 2, 2008

Samedi

Thank You Masqued E'vinga!

Army Corps Of Engineers To Work On Weak Floodwall
~The Army Corps of Engineers has an emergency plan to protect nearly 2,000 feet of Industrial Canal flood wall it says needs serious reinforcement near the Gentilly Woods neighborhood.
Welcome to the 100 Years Score!
~Lawmakers Furious They Weren't Notified Sooner
~"I looked at this and said, 'Oh my God,'" said
New Orleans Councilwoman Cynthia Hedge-Morrell.
"I'm angry, because I don't think three years after Katrina we should be having this discussion,"
She was also outraged to find out about the floodwall weaknesses from a newsletter sent to residents.
"How dare they not keep us abreast of what's going on,"
she said. "This is unacceptable, considering we're coming up on the third anniversary of Katrina and we have 85 unidentified bodies to bury three years later."



Why Not Trust The Corps? They're "Scrambling"
~Harry Shearer


ASCE 501(c)6 = PAC
Memorandum
Regarding: Increasing ASCE’s political involvement.
From: D. Wayne Klotz, PE, Chairman,
ASCE Task Force on Political Involvement

During the past year the Task Force has evaluated the Society’s current activities and also looked at ways to increase its public policy and political involvement.

~Editilla say doooo'tella~
We don't suppose Y'all will be supporting Mary Landrieu, eh? Charles Melancon? Is this what $30 Million Plus has gotten us?
Considering the comments on the rest of their news letter, it would appear that the LA Chapter of the ASCE has quite a roach up their tight asses for outside engineering critique of their $30 Million still-unborn, yet undead IPET study.
Indeed, ASCE, La'chief, largest financial beneficiary of Corps Contract Engineering work, would have the director of Levees.org, Sandy Rosenthal's, head on a platter for exposing their Public Relations Seminars masked as explanations of complex Engineering...if they could just get people to listen!
And what better way that forming a PAC.
Editilla says this should be illegal just on the hidden face of it.
The very organization which owes its paycheck to the Corps of Engineers should not be allowed tax-exemption --so they can lobby My Congress to allow the Corps to flood
ME and anyone else near one of their "flood control structures" again and again, providing even more Project Engineering work for ASCE members who toe the levee line. No! No Soup for these Bastads!
~But Wait! There's more.

Corps plans to improve
St. Charles floodwall


State parks commission rejects border fence offer
~The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission rejected a $105,000 donation from the federal government in a nixed deal that would have surrendered 2 1/2 acres of state-owned land for the border fence. The rejection effectively adds the commission to the list of border fence opponents, and the US Army Corps of Engineers say they will now go to court to take the South Texas land. Federal officials sought land in the Las Palomas Wildlife Management Area, located in Cameron County. The real estate division <--(????)--> of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers first proposed a land-for-cash swap in May.

NASA plans to cut 200 jobs in New Orleans

Anita Lee on The Hartford Multi Peril Plan Plus Sam Friedman Chips In ~slabbed

New national commission investigates post-Katrina housing discrimination
~Facing South


ACORN implicated in New Orleans scandal~Union News

FEMA: Aid not requested
Well Exuuuuuse Us! Da'Fat Lady Stomped Her A-BOMB SIZED FOOT riiight down on top of all
Our Tiny Little Heads--and we have BEEN A LITTLE BUSY WIT'IT...ever goddamned day since 8/29!

~Editilla gotta step in hear'ah~
As Gentle'rillas are well aware, I rant immolatedly
about the use of tax-funded Public Relations Spinfiltration by the Exquixotic Corps and their jail cell punk lackeys the ASCE, but what we have he'ah is mo'than a fail'ya ta'comoonicate.
This is PR 101, what yer oh'so humble Editilla calls: Seeding the Clouds Planting the Story, just as in the way the Corps/ASCE flood us with media about muskrats, lack of funding, bad lawyers, paid engineering consultants--all prior to We The People finally getting to hang their asses in Public Court.
~Here we have FEMA employing the same tactic (Perchance even the same PR Firm?) to seed the public view and plant their own story before we get a chance to exercise our constitutional rights to Redress from our Federal Government in Our Federal Court.
In the Candyman World of Public Relations, the most important thing is To Be the one telling the story, giving the Answer to the Question before it can B.
However, Truth is not in play here!
First and Foremost the Story Narrative, the Answers, the Tiny Lies, must be laid before the Questions.
Such is the Nature of the Beast in Orwell's 1984...
--as fetidly illustrated by our own government using corporate mass marketing and media to actually manifest doublethink in the public's mind,
--right before our very eyes!
Seeding the Clouds before the Storm, sewing
Cancer Cells of contradictory replications into the Fabric of The Story. This explains so many things about their bullshit press conferences and meaningless drivel. More importantly it begs another Question of how our Press has handled their Questions, particularly given our Press' own lack of Answers. But we have met the Reaper and he is Us!


FEMA Braces for Slew of Trailer Suits ~Suemedha Sood


Commenting on Gulf Coast Recovery Efforts
~Knight Foundation


This Darkness Got To Give ~Citizen K

"Dollar Bill" McCain" ~BAGnewsNotes

New Orleans Red Dress Run
Hat T'n'T~pistollete

Camp Noah, recovery for kids

Healthcare in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast Three Years after Katrina

Grand maw needs a loving home
~Louis Maistros


The Oxford American and Sarah M. Broom’s “A Yellow House in New Orleans” ~Kevin Allman

Taste of Home (New Orleans) ~Celeste's Blog

Nowdy Visits Katrina Ground Zero ~slabbed

Editilla jus'wanna...come home.


We expect nothing less...than the best.


Special Thanks, Photos-Tin Pan Fortune City

A fest...
A fest to build a dream on



The Eighth Annual Satchmo SummerFest
Is back at the Old US Mint!







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