Somali pirates drown with ransom ~"There has been human and monetary loss but what makes us feel sad is that we don't still have the dead bodies of our relatives. Four are still missing and one washed up on the shore," Abukar Haji, the uncle of one of the dead men, said. Editilla can't hold it~Aaaaawww poor Pirates!
Savannah's Port: Corps foot-dragging~The Savannah River deepening is one of the most studied projects in U.S. history. It's had input from the U.S. departments of Commerce and the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency and Georgia and South Carolina resource agencies - not to mention environmental groups and concerned citizens. Still, the Corps announced in October that it wants another six months of economic impact study, followed by an additional six months to deliberate over the findings of the new research. That means we're still up to 10 months away from a resolution. Area to miss deadline to certify Big Ditch levees ~The Wichita Eagle
Eli, Eli lama sabachthani? Three arrested as New Orleans police remove parishioners keeping vigil at closed Uptown churches~At least three people have been arrested today after the Archdiocese of New Orleans sent police to two occupied Catholic churches to remove parishioners who for more than nine weeks have participated in a vigil in resistance to a closure plan. Police were instructed to arrest occupiers if they continue to resist, with Archbishop Alfred Hughes deciding "It's time to bring this to a close," spokeswoman Sarah Comiskey said.
NOLA Crime Watch: Citizens as “co-creators rather than subjects.”~Humid City Topics covered in this Citizen Crime Watch letter: 1~We could use some more of that sunshine disinfectant around here. 2~When the police respond to your 911 call, they’re already too late. 3~Strike Against Crime. 4~Police Violence? 5~Remembering Ja’Shawn Powell. We could use some more of that sunshine disinfectant around here. Lessons learned. Painful lessons learned. That’s one way to characterize the experience of living in post-Katrina New Orleans.
Getting our housing in order ~slabbed Port of New Orleans, city spar over future of wharves. Riverfront could get park, or poultry firm~Jen DeGregorio ~Editilla Notellas~ There is Clear and Present Dangers in placing and transporting Anhydrous Ammonia for refridgerant, over 50,000 pounds of it, right in the middle of our World Class Tourist Center right next to the US Mint, the French Market, current river park benches, future park, Washington Park, Frenchman Street, established NOCCA High School and the very neighborhood where Editilla did the Federal Flood of '05. Special thanks for lede photo from this Website: Building a time bomb~Best site for This Info. ~video here~Editilla would like to Remind Everyone that 50,000 pounds of Anhydrous Ammonia ain't nothing to sneeze at, and it is the Stupid Shot that will Kill You Every Time! This unbelievable discussion should not even be happening. We started posting on this Dangerous Issue back in the summer, then again in December, and again today. Same issue. At no time has the Times Picayune reported one single word on these inherent dangers of this Anhydrous Ammonia... ---despite our continued pleading with them to do so. Thank youz Sean Cummings for opposing this. As we redesign our riverfront, the Freight system along this stretch of river will have to move to accommodate our safety. That is really the 600 Godzillian Pound Gorrilla in this discussion. Those Train Tracks will have to be dealt with eventually. The day before Katrina we counted over 75 Tank Cars of Extremely Dangerous Materials parked all along the flood wall for their safety --not our safety. There were dozens of these tank cars filled with Sulfuric Acid, Anhydrous Ammonia and other stuff that kills on contact. Levees.org Still Responding to UNO engineering professor's Folsehoods ~Editilla gotta toll'yaz~ We always enjoy moving a post from day to day (composting) if their comments section stays as active on an Issue as this one. Damn Rollicking I'd say! Corps of Engineers to survey Metairie side of 17th Street Canal ~Sheila Grissett
Why I’m Here ~Michael Patrick Welch ~Editilla Crow'ellas~ Hey y'all, I have gotten myself wrapped up in a tilla'rant & dust'up with a real Music Writah over on THE Gambit! Hahahaha... come on over and join the partay! Gentle'rillas know well how Po'Editilla can stick my foot in it! Hahahaha.... really though, THE Gambit always does that to me. I often end up saying more there, on the Blog of New Orleans, than I would here --or in more polite company. It is like they have some mysterious, ho'jo boo'rah animagnatizm spell'checkah goin'on or some'ting. But then again, much of the Nola Blog'0'reamery seems like an open savanah complete with wild animals and hunters and everything you need to survive. They often will write these little posts and have comments post the post post post... HA! But yesterday on THE Gambit I found one of those Petulant Feudalist Tart Mall Rat'fink Music Writahs bitching about New Orleans. So about 1 in the morning I let him have it. Hehehe. An 8 YEAR VETERAN of the city (yawn) and NOVELIST to boot! If you don'beeleeve me then jus'ax'im. Hesayz New Orleans music needs to do this, New Orleans music needs to do that.... --like (get ready you know it's coming) like Austin. Well, Gentle'rillas may well imagine the flea that jumped up Editilla's Ass upon hearing such a piece of co-dependent Beotchwolfery! Slooooowly I toin! Step By Step, Inch By Inch, Miiiilllle By Mfkn Texas Mile! And I pick up a Rock... Album! I have been watching Music Mavens circling New Orleans for longer than 8 years. Circling like blinded vultures. The Crucifixion of August 29th, 2005 gave them all easy pickins. They land. Editilla pounce. Dat'who'dat in da'bayou state. Sinn Féin. He may be a Music Writah, but I. Am. A. Magazine.Readah!!!
Katrina Denial Has Already Begun~Pierce O'Donnell New Orleans City Council approves recovery money for hospitals, park, arts projects ~Bruce Eggler ~The total includes $75 million to prepare the site for the planned new Veterans Affairs hospital, $25 million to acquire the site for a hospital in eastern New Orleans, $70 million for New Orleans Redevelopment Authority property acquisitions and blight reduction programs, $30 million for a riverfront park in Bywater and Faubourg Marigny, and $15 million for a Canal Street "performing arts district. "Together with $102 million in LRA-financed programs approved for 2008, the 2009 recovery budget provides money for plenty of what Recovery Director Ed Blakely, almost two years ago, famously predicted would be a proliferation of "cranes on the skyline." But No Soup for Charity! Get'em Grrrrrillas! T&I Committee Tabs $85B for Infrastructure
A bit more on defensive blogging ~Major Jacob Bruhl ~Editilla Notellas with Extreme Prejudice~ This officer in Army Public Affairs has misunderestimated the difference between what he is attempting to sell as "Defensive Blogging" and the commentary of the survivors of his Corps' catastrophic failures, which I prefer to call "Offensive Blogging".
Restless Souls of the Irrawaddy Delta If you found a friend in God please ask them for direction to the places they left the restless souls to drown in their own damn'nation.
Levees.org responds to UNO engineering professor's Christmas Day letter ~Editilla Notellas~ Re-posted due to continued Rock'N'Rollicking Commentary on this issue of Slight-of-Hand and just how a Civil Engineering Professor from UNO could say such stupid and erroneous things in defense of the Corps of Engineers and get his ass handed to him by levees.org. Y'all come join the fun!
Housing demolition suit set back by appeals court ~Allen M. Johnson Jr. Wait, WTF, Pope Ratzi Smokes Cigarettes ~Wonkette ~"Is this some hilarious WSJ New Year’s joke? Because there is no evidence we can locate, outside of some obviously photoshopped images of Ratzi in a cloud of cancer, to suggest our crappiest pope indulges in this particular variety of sucking on cylindrical objects." Comments: -Best British English expression EVAR: “Can I bum a fag?” -Smoke without sex? -next thing you know, you are gonna tell me that he gets plastered off the communion wine! -Holy smokes? -I heard he butts them with his tongue, just to show the Cardinals what a major bad ass he is.
Jazz on the Tube The Internet's jazz video jukebox ~Editilla Chin'Chillaaaaasss!~ This is one of those Ideas what should'a happened a long time ago! Y'all please go check them out and sign up fo'da Jazz Tube! Here is just a sample:
"I did not intend to condone these particular actions on the part of my Corps. I intended to use this story as an example of one way we can engage new media in ways other than just running our own blogs. As for "defensive blogging", I do think it is a valid way to engage the public we support. However, I think the way CENTCOM handles it is the right way - completely open and upfront about who is making the post - unlike the way this was seemingly done on Levees.org."
Hank uberstanks ~Your Right Hand Thief Three years out, city seems to sag ~Jarvis DeBerry~"People who wonder how the Corps of Engineers is going to protect the city when some of its staffers blame New Orleans for Katrina's flooding may also wonder how Riley will protect the city if he's blaming the high incidence of crime on forces outside his control. Is this is as good as it gets? We've got to hope it isn't. Back in 2005, when he was launching his mostly successful push for levee boards reform, former State Sen. Walter Boasso declared, "The days of doing things half-assed are over."'
Times Picayune asks: "Are we too hard on the Corps?", Levees.org responds to UNO engineering professor's Christmas Day letter Below: today's Corps Ops Ad War Against Democracy (COAWAD) on the Levees.org page. Perhaps this virtual revenue flood of tax-payer funding is why the Times Picayune/nola.com keeps slyly asking "Are we too hard on the Corps?" Poor Babies. Who'da thunk such Cute Engineers could kill over 1200 Americans and try to Lie about it? Not even blink? Who'dat think they gonna beat dem'Saints? Blink Me! Click to enlarge and see other Corps ads on levees.org. The worst service in New Orleans ~Ken Foster Jena Six: Real Crime Victim: Poor White People ~Jeff Crouere, BBuzz ~Editilla Shhhhrrrrillas~Like, if I were a taggert... we'd see a pile of Republicans, a Pack of Zealots, Horde of Peccary, Pods of Congressional Pedophiles, a Gaggle of Palins... but, what we have heah is a fail'yah to CoMoonicate! Hee'yah? Hee'yah we have a gathering of two or more ignorant poor whites: a Klux of Klan! And Pay No Attention, sayz da'Wizad Crouere, to DAT'NOOSE HANGIN in da'Tree! --Or the Klan Rape Training Camp just east of this Eden! --Or forced sterilization for poor black women! --Or David Duke, Vitty Scents, The Exorcist! Hahahaha, the Reaper Laughs like a Rhesus Monkey, since Death Knowles it is all pink on the inside. Hahahaha.
What a surprise! Deputy Commissioner of MID joins law firm representing State Farm ~slabbed The Soul of New Orleans ~Julia Reed, Garden & Gun ~Special Editilla Tip'n'Tanks to Thomas Builds-the-Fire over at A Drug Called Tradition. Y'all go and give'em some who'dat special kind'bud love'dubbinations... since they getting all nervous about gettin'any Sugar in they Bowl this year! Hahahaha. Rooolllll Tide! Unless you play our Tigers, then its "Piss Off Yankee Punks!" Hahahahahaha... I mean, on one hand you have the Graceful Southern Gentlemen and on the other a bunch of Cross-Dressed Out Mormons who have the gall say they understand Jazz after they stole the name for their basketball team. On one hand you have Roll Crimson Tide. On the other you have... Lake Meade? Utes? WTF is a Ute? Sounds like a defecated masticulation. HA!
Mark Taylor of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers leads a group discussion while using colorful sticky notes to map out government coal mining permit process Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008 in Zanesville, Ohio. Mr. Secretary, we're watching you~Anne Butterfield Buffett tops philanthropist list for a 3rd year ~Number of years Warren Buffett has topped the list: 3 Amount given by Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, since 2004: $40.655 billion
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 besidethis 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."~MAJ Jakob Bruhl <-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
Parish residents say recycled shingles help land, officials disagree~Naomi King
