Dimanche

Seventy years ago, on November 9–10, 1938, the Nazis staged vicious pogroms—state sanctioned, anti-Jewish riots—against the Jewish community of Germany.
These came to be known as Kristallnacht
Now commonly translated as “Night of Broken Glass”, it will forever remain a reference to the untold numbers of broken windows of synagogues, Jewish-owned stores, community centers, and homes plundered and destroyed during the pogroms.

Hurricane Paloma wrecks hundreds of homes on Cuba

Congress and the Corps
~Gerard Shields
~A history: projects, politics

A BILL
Introduced by Senator Mary Landrieu
and Rep. Charles Melancon

~To establish the 8/29 Investigation Team to examine the events beginning on August 29, 2005, with respect to the failure of the flood protection system in response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemble.

“Right after Katrina, things changed and there was a sense of urgency,” La. Sen. David Vitter said.
“It was the middle of a crisis and decisions were being made. Now that sense of urgency is gone and we’re back to the same old Corps speed.”

“We live and die by what the Corps of Engineers does or doesn’t do, literally,” said John Breaux, a Democrat who represented Louisiana in the U.S. Senate for 18 years.

"No more lawless or irresponsible federal group than the Corps of Engineers has ever attempted to operate in the United States.”~Harold Ickes, former Secretary of Interior

"The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States"
~Article II, US Constitution

More crap from the Times- Picayune~richard
~Editilla Crow'ellas~ HA! So There!

"Art shouldn't just be a rear-view mirror, it should have a headlight out there- pointing to where we need to go." -Barack Obama on hip-hop
Special thanks~Protean Muse

Competition seeks business model for bringing creative class to the city ~Gary Perilloux

New Orleans Redevelopment Authority to buy Gentilly Woods mall ~David Hammer

"The Evacuees are Restless", Gustav-related e-mails reveal disorganization
~Michelle Millhollon

“I saw sick elderly people smelling like PISS! Why? Because the toilets on the bus that brought them here was broken and the bus driver would not stop (for 8-10 hours) to allow them to use other facilities!”~Councilwoman Bowman wrote.

Hurricane heroes,
Hurricane Hunters get an exhibit at Hard Rock
~Mary Peres

Above and Beyond: Locals give of themselves in wake of Gustav and Ike ~Daily Comet

Storms split pecan harvest
~Janet McConnaughey

After Ike, thousands of FEMA trailers still sit Vacant

Amtrak: Business, politics in train tug-of-war

New Orleans: Alsace-Lorraine Jewish Experience, Nov. 2009
~Tracing the Tribe

In Living Color:
Photographs capture the spirit
of New Orleans~Judy Bastien

Most Identical Twins, 2000
From the series Twins
Hand-tinted silver gelatin print, 23-1/2 x 23-1/2 inches
Collection of the artist

Thoughts of standing still
~Leonard Lopp

Music Friday on Saturday: P-Funk ~Editor's note: A severe case of Obama fever has made everything one day late this week at Chin Music. Can we do that? Yes we can! It’s Obama week, no doubt about that. A week where, here in New Orleans, we can temporarily forget about those abandoned houses, forget about the semi- repopulated city, forget about foreclosures.
I’m sorry I even mentioned that stuff.
~Editilla notellas~ Sunday Sorrow Not Noble Chin!
I'm so happy that we got that Black Man in'da White House... --you could slam my tongue in a tailgate and drag me down a dirt road in Texas and I would still die laughing!

Fats Domino documentary to air on PBS