Saturday, December 27, 2008

Samedi

Saturday Blogwhoring Thread
~First Draft


Houma performance featured on television tonight

Bostonian tries to attract, keep young people here
~Michael Luke, WWL


Landowners fight corps' plan to take their land for its clay
~Paul Rioux
~When the Army Corps of Engineers announced it needed the equivalent of 20 Superdomes filled with clay to raise levees in the New Orleans area, Richard Robichaux had hoped to sell the corps dirt from a former Waggaman sugar plantation his family has owned for more than a century.
But rather than buy the clay, the corps wants to buy the land -- against the family's will, if necessary.
~DISCLAIMER! WARNING! BAT SIGNAL!~
~Below~ Screen shot of today's Expensive Tax-Forked Corps Public Relations Op (E.T-FkdCPRO) placed beside this article about Expensive Tax-Forked Corps Ops (ET-FkdCOs)
~Please click to enlarge.
Blogging 101, Military Style
~SGM Troy Falardeau

~Editilla Gotta Ax~ All youz Military Friends of da'Ladder (M.F.oda'L.) please check these folks out and come on back over here, ya'heah? Or post it onto your own blog and we can hang it here. So'z we can all know Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (WTF).
That is kinda what we are for, right... here.

Defensive blogging
~Soldiers in the Blogosphere

~"A story this morning on milblogging.com caught my eye for a couple of reasons: it involved the Army Corps of Engineers (my branch) and it involved what I'll term "defensive blogging". The story is about allegations by the website Levee.org that Corps of Engineers employees left comments "targeting citizen critic using tax payer money" and were "re-writing history" (the news report by WWL TV can be seen here.) I have no idea if this is an organized effort by the Corps of Engineers, but it certainly highlights one way that the military can (and, I'd argue, should) engage the blogosphere - by leaving comments on blogs to correct or complete a story."~ <-emphasis span="" style="font-size: 180%;">

Farewell FEMA Trailers
~Anita Lee

~Trailer parks dotted the South Mississippi landscape in 2006. All 46 trailer and mobile home parks FEMA built in the three Coast counties have now closed, Photo: James Edward Bates -Sun Herald

True, Home ~YRHT

Oyster Dressing,
Basic New Orleans Style
~Just East of Eden


Vitality returns to homes
in Village de L'est
~Stephanie Bruno

~Village de l'Est, a neighborhood in eastern New Orleans identified strongly with New Orleans' Vietnamese community. One portion is bounded roughly by Dwyer Road on the north, Chef Menteur Highway on the south, Saigon Drive on the east (it runs roughly east-west but makes a turn toward Chef on the east end) and Palace Street on the west. A second portion is across Dwyer Road, where Willowbrook Drive is the main thoroughfare. Commercial activity such as restaurants and other businesses cluster on Alcee Fortier Boulevard in the blocks closest to Chef Menteur. Mary Queen of Vietnam Church on Willowbrook serves as the neighborhood's spiritual core.

Houston’s High Water Problems
~Urban Transport


Rare Books At NOBTS Get Attention~Gary D. Myers

eight feet deep~"Although I believed it would have been a long time before I could bring myself to read any in-depth literary work about Katrina, I have recently found myself intrigued by Douglas Brinkley's "The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast."'

Prospect 1 New Orleans:
Photo Essay Part 2~Art Fag

Sanford Biggers, Blossom, 2007

'Park the Van' Holiday Soiree is tomorrow night!
~Static Television

Hanukkah Day 5: The Leevee's Latke Clan & How Do You Spell Channukkahh~Teruah

Similar in the Opposite Way
~Jeff Albert


Al Hirt Our Man in New Orleans
~all about Jazz

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