Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Bill limits state, local liability for Exquisite Corps levees
~State and local agencies that inspect and certify levees built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wouldn't be legally liable for any damage caused by faulty design or construction, under a bill approved Tuesday by a House committee.
The measure (House Bill 491) by Rep. Robert Billiot, D-Westwego, would exempt levee districts, drainage districts, owners and operators of property used for flood protection, state agencies that oversee the levees and their contractors from liability for personal injury, property damages and other losses caused by federal design and construction failures.
Billiot said the agencies shouldn't be responsible for levee decisions beyond their control. "The local levee districts and levee boards play no part in the design and construction of the levees that are built to protect the citizens," said Tim Doody, president of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East, which oversees levees in the New Orleans area.
~Editilla Notellas~ Well, a Story with its own legs?
Funny that, since now it is the Law in Louisiana that we are not responsible for the lying bullshit, suit-tight, ASCECORPS of Engineering Levee Certifications or their building. That is not news to us, but it is nice to know that now It Is The Forking Law!
Hats Off to our State Legislature for taking this matter in hand.
What I want to know is what does Tim Doody think of the AAUP Investigation of LSU firing Ivor van Heerden?

Louisiana Sportsman foaming Tea-stained K-9s over action by
Gulf Restoration Network?

~"Beware the Gulf Restoration Network!
Have you heard of this group? They formed right after Katrina, an offshoot of Al Gore-type global warming groups.
On the front, you won't see the connection...
---but just dig a bit, you will find the ties."
~Editilla Shotellas~Hell Yeah! If you dig deep enough you can make a latrine, climb down into it and listen to the echo of your stupid Pea Tarty rants falling into the shiny water!

Fraizier Moore makes the AP finally Get It!~"Treme" begins in fall 2005, three months after Hurricane Katrina and the preventable engineering failure that caused flooding in some 80 per cent of the city, leaving destruction, death and thousands displaced.
~Editilla Big Cherry Os!~ Oh yeah, leave it to the Canadians, who were the first ones knocking on our door the day the levees failed 8/29/05.
Thank you Frazier Moore for working it back to Reality! Gentle'rillas are well aware of our tireless efforts to stem the tide of Katrina Shorthand. But what Y'all aren't aware of is some of the names Editilla has emailed several AP reporters and editors regarding their fatalistic use of Katrina Shorthand to describe the Man Made Disaster that struck New Orleans.
Now we see someone has finally come around.

Still more details emerge on HBO’s Treme with John Goodman ~Levees.org
~The fat lady has yet to sing, but Levees.org supporters should feel very encouraged by all the reviews about co-star John Goodman in HBO’s upcoming new series ‘Treme.

Dry eyes, please~Elaine Wolff
~Hat TnT~Sandy Rosenthal~But judging by the first two episodes, writers David Simon, David Mills (RIP), and Eric Overmyer don’t trust our innate sense of justice or (perhaps fairly) our grasp of recent history: They’re in a hurry to remind us that the flooding of New Orleans in the wake of the hurricane was not a natural disaster — that thankless task is handed to John Goodman’s crusading university professor, in a scenery-chewing clip meant to also remind us that mainstream media are opportunistic goats rutting in the fields of pathos.

Columbia Journalism Review Hearts Mark Schleifstein for "Katrina" coverage

Dutch planners, architects want to help New Orleans live with water~Mark Schleifstein
~Also a little'mo from On Transmigration

Coastal restoration experts identify projects ready to begin to levee authorities

Coast Guard, contractors work to contain oil spill in Delta Wildlife Refuge~BobWarren

Policy Statement 498 - Louisiana Coastal Wetlands ~ASCE

Officials say spring flooding is unlikely to be severe
~Nikki Buskey


Flooding, Mudslides Kill at Least 102 in Rio de Janeiro

Oyster, illness link studied
~Amy Wold


Our own Oyster makes it to the bottom of T-P Politics page!
The liberal blog Your Right Hand Thief digs up a report from Eunice Today that quotes an anonymous source in Attorney General Buddy Caldwell's office claiming that the attorney general joined the suit against the new health-care law in order to keep Jindal from proposing more cuts to his office.

Veritas~Your Right Hand Thief

I would totally subcribe to this: The Daily Nagin
~Library Chronicles


Desperately seeking Clio
~American Zombie


Everybody’s somebody’s plaything – “Aaron Broussard practicing law, keeping low profile” ~slabbed

Stormy Daniels Team Issues Response To Louisiana Sen. Vitter , Republican Party ~BBuzz

Shaw Group to manage $78M state energy program

F-15s to fly out of New Orleans from April-August

Richard Hastings Headlines Financial Webinar

Float builders would get civil suit immunity under House bill

French Quarter FEAST
~Coleen Rush


Prom Night~Polly Jackson

Blake Leyh on Treme~Gambit

Alex Chilton's life in New Orleans was a mystery, and that's how the Big Star singer wanted it
~Keith Spera


Drummer Stanton Moore Goes to the Heart of Funk
~All About Jazz


Theresa Andersson: "Oh Mary" video, new live DVD
~Here Comes the Flood


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