Thursday, February 11, 2010

Preservation group sues to halt N.O. hospital plan
~Michael Kunzelman, AP

~The Washington-based group said about 25 square blocks in Mid-City would be bulldozed and about 600 residents and several dozen businesses would be evicted to make room for a new Veterans Affairs hospital and a teaching and research hospital to replace storm-damaged Charity Hospital, which hasn’t reopened since Hurricane Katrina.
~Editilla Notellas~ The bold italics represent the Katrina Shorthand Jive that the AP seems intent on continuing to use to Misstate the Facts of New Orleans' Flood 8/29/05.
We have decided to boycott the AP whenever they Tell This Lie.
Our campaign includes much more than simply not publishing the AP, however, since Charity is so near and dear to our hearts we will publish this piece. We just ask that this reporter do some fact checking about Charity Hospital.
At least ask Russell Honore how he had his men Pump Out The Flood Water in record time and had Charity ready to go.
My point is, it was not Storm Damage from Katrina. It was Flood Damage from the Corps of Engineers flood wall failures.
~"It took ten days to pump all the water out of the basement, while most of the workers, including me, were cleaning and decontaminating the first three floors, removing biodegradables from the first 14 floors, boarding windows and weatherproofing the building in a preliminary way. Specifically I recollect that the Navy Seabees boarded up every broken window in the building. - The cleanup was essentially complete by September 21.
I observed at that time that the first three floors were spotless. Electric power had been restored, and the air conditioning was functioning..."
~testimony of Dr. James Moises.
~"Between September 7 and September 19, 2005, I personally witnessed and participated in the complete restoration of the first and second and parts of the third floor of Charity Hospital. - The 82d Airborne worked around the clock, in shifts, to clean Charity Hospital and make it ready to reopen. Almost immediately, over a three-day period, they pumped all the water out of the basement... The 82d then sent in their decontamination teams to clean up and test, to determine if the basement and first three floors were decontaminated. The team did this over several days, and on September 19 declared the tested floors ready for human habitation. It was at this time I and others got word that LSU wanted us out of the building in order to shut the building down." ~Sworn affidavit, Staff Seargent James A. Johnson

Let's call them The Feints!
More commentary in the ongoing Astro'turf battle raging around Dr. Ivor van Heerden's lawsuit against LSU

~Editilla Rotellas~ The above lede is to the newer article published last night. I think the T-P does this with Corps articles so as to split the hot commentary developing. For example here is the original bad article we hung yesterday, with 81 comments so far.

Chaos Cancels; Babylon, Muses Postpone Parades ~WDSU

Distracted or disillusioned?
~Eli Ackerman, The Lens


Jim Brown on the challenges facing NOLA mayor elect Mitch Landrieu ~slabbed

US Labor Department secures $1 million in overtime back wages for 154 Hurricane Katrina recovery workers

Trashman Talking

Creative bakers reconfigure the king cake~Ian McNulty

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