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13 Dead, 3 Missing in Central US Storm

Film Festival Schedule & Locations

A look at the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival~Susan Larson

Karma Come Home By Dustin Parks~CenLamar

Obama's "A more perfect union" speech & Happy Birthday to...~Your Right Hand Thief

What we never talk about
~Chasing Ray

NetSquared Meetup at 08NTC in New Orleans Tonight

Cry Me a River~Journalist Michael Grunwald on the hubris of the Army Corps~Grist

Engineering Change~A brief history of the creation and growth of the Army Corps~by Jennifer Cutraro~Grist

Disaster Recovery Supply

EPA, Army Corps Square Off Over Mississippi Delta Drainage Plan

Levee, coast money needed as $300 million OK'd last week falls far short?

FEMA sets price for documents at $209,990~FEMA is requiring The Advocate to pay $209,990 for documents the newspaper requested for a story about the agency’s post-hurricane contracts.

FEMA, Manufacturers of Relief Trailers Face New Lawsuit

Louisiana moves from 10th to 2nd-most dangerous state

Crime & The Katrina Controversy~Redstick Rants

A fiscal conservative in the bedroom
~James Gill
~U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-Pampers) is obviously correct when he says that "anyone who looks at the two cases will see there is an enormous difference" between him and Eliot Spitzer. Vitter, as befits a Republican who styles himself a fiscal conservative, stuck to a relatively modest budget, apparently never paying more than a few hundred an hour for sex.
Editilla schillas~AND THEN THERE IS VITTER'S DIAPER THINGY?

Vitter (R-Pampers) Claims There's 'Enormous Difference' Between His Case and Spitzer's, Really?~Howie Klein

Criminally Negligent Dumbass Ex-FEMA chief, Faux Disaster Consultant, Michael "Brownie" Brown o'whines: "If there's another disaster, like Katrina ... I want to have a gun"

Fisheries revival plans get state money

Cash crunch jeopardizes Katrina relief network

Voluntour Opportunities in New Orleans~Intelligent Travel

An alternative spring break for University of Buffalo students in New Orleans

How Catholic is New Orleans?~NOLA Notes

BECA Gallery: Call to Artists~New Orleans Photo Alliance

Jammin' At Condon's & From New Orleans to London/New Orleans Joys~Michael Steinman, all about Jazz

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Editilla just wond'rin...are these the fabled
Profits of Doom?

Which lucky child deserves to have their home rebuilt or restored?~Think New Orleans

Katrina's Forgotten Teens: Can Film Foster Change?~Annie Waldman

Soundtrack To Apocalypse NO
~Liptraps Lament
Editilla scats 2nd Line Ninja Féin!

Scrutiny widens over Road Home contract~Inspector general now calling for audit of company

Easter Song~Toulouse Street


Liens du Moment: 3/18~Varg
Editilla'chillas this blog wit'a scene from da'
James Brown "GIT DOWN! GIT BACK UP AGAIN!" Award for Brave Brass Ballery écrasez l'Infâme!

Obama in New Orleans~Peter Zinn

China's Commy Coward Junta Blocks Dalai Lama's Birthplace
"There is ample fact and plenty of evidence proving [the protests were] organised, premeditated, masterminded and incited by the Dalai clique," says Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, aka - The Butcher of Tiananmen Square and a person obviously very afraid that The Big Bad Lama might soil the Olympic Ambitions for Legitimacy of the Thug Junta still ruling China with brutal fists today, right now, even as we speak freely.
Special H/T'n'T Burma News Ladder.

Understanding how Google.cn filters



Dada daaaaah--d'dah daaaaaah--d'd'daaaah--d'd'daaaah...
yanananananananananana Na Naaaaaaaa!

Exquixotic Corps
...everywhere you want to be!
~Water battles brew in Southeast
~KS-Army Corps postpones spring rise because of flooding concerns
~TX- El Paso denies feds access to road for border fence

Will New Orleans produce the next American gangster?
...swamp monster? funny-looking public enemy evil-doer #1?~Kimbery Tsao
Editor oh'so humbly offers this article in the category of: "Is the World Truly Going To the Mall in a Hand Basket Or WTF???" Please puruse and by all means respond to the author and be nice but...
do let'em know we GDMFK'n care?

Nailing together New Orleans
~Chrissie Long

New Orleans still slowly making comeback
~William O'Brien

New Orleans Public Library Announces Ambitious Master Plan

2008 Tennessee Williams - New Orleans Literary Festival~Spotlight Al Young

Stan Kipper and his New Primitives - by Diana Olson

Jazz trumpeter Irvin Mayfield to Help New Orleans Libraries

Jazz Fest Music To 'Sync Up' In New Orleans~Bayou Buzz

Can't Stop, Won't Stop: Hip Hop Caucus' We Care Concert

Grant Stewart: Young at Heart
~JazzWax
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3rd Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival~March 26-30, 2008~Lafayette, LA
Among the filmmakers at this year's festival will be veteran documentary filmmaker Robert Mugge, whose numerous films featuring Louisiana musicians will be screened. Other featured films include "Gypsy Caravan" and the French language film "Forever."
Films · Schedule

Katrina Aftermath Erodes Bayou Culture

The Corps of the Matter~A special series on the Army Corps and the Mississippi River

To Appeal Or Not Appeal - That Is The Inflatable Dam Question

FEMA changes appeals process for hurricane rebuilding projects

Schneider creates fuel-hauling unit from Katrina recovery work

New Orleans City Government continues to slap around recovery survivors~Michelle Krupa

Black teens the real target of Clearview Mall policy, parents say~The Louisiana Weekly

New Orleans Homeless Rate Soars To 1 In 25

Radio Ralph: New Orleans

Way down yonder in New Orleans~Madeleine Hawks

The Sounds of New Orleans

New Orleans: Recover, Rebuild, Rebirth~Eboo Patel

700 Clinton GI U Students Spend Day To Help Rebuild New Orleans, rake leaves, meet Brad

Katrina’s Impact on Physics in New Orleans
~Physics Buzz

Students from Newfoundland and Labrador's College of the North Atlantic lend a hand in New Orleans~The six students, from the civil engineer and architectural engineering programs, traveled to New Orleans with three of their professors for one week in March to volunteer their time and skills helping city planners.

Agent Advice: Michael Murphy of Max & Co.: A Literary Agency & Social Club

Wednesdays at the Square

Ellis Marsalis Quartet to Release New CD~"An Open Letter to Thelonious" On Elm Records~all about Jazz

P.B.S. - Porter Batiste Stoltz
~Glide Interview

A Harry situation~The Manila Times~The original gentleman of croon swings by the country for some genuine big-band action

"Steve Goodman: Facing the Music"~Book details a gifted musician's brief, prolific life

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We’ve incorporated a few new flight rules, now that we are about to have robotic EV’s:
1. Dextre may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. Dextre must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. Dextre must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
“The Robot Actors Guild (R.A.G.) members bristled about these rules and, ‘being held down by the man,’ but figure that they can’t be held back for long. ‘First Dextre, next Data, then THE MATRIX!’ declared Optimus Prime at arrival at JSC.”

Dimanche

From the Ashes of My Lai

Are you worthy to live in New Orleans?
~Ashley Morris
Yet another one'a'dem little things yat'means New Orleans
~Louisiana Weekly

Louisiana 2006¹: Tue., Mar. 13, 2007: 2,358
Louisiana: Mon., Aug. 2, 2006: 1,464
Mississippi: Tue., Jan. 24, 2006: 238
Florida: Mon., Jan. 9, 2006: 14
Georgia: Mon., Jan. 9, 2006: 2
Alabama: Mon., Jan. 9, 2006: 2
Ohio²: Wed., Aug. 31, 2005: 2
Kentucky³: Wed., Aug. 31, 2005: 1
Total: 4,081
Thanks to Ezra Boyd of Louisiana State University~Robert Lindsay

Samedi

$3,472,400,000
Louisiana's payment, to date, for the Iraq War

In the Eye of the Storm
~Mother Nature's got nothing on Daddy Warbucks

CONOPS Autonomy Recommendations for VTOL MAVs~Based on Observations of Hurricane Katrina Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Operations~Dr. Robot Nerd School

Disaster City® helps master any disaster
~Stacy Semrad
~Emergency responders from across the globe venture to Disaster City® for unparalleled search and rescue training and exercises. Simply put, Disaster City® is the most comprehensive emergency response training facility available today.

LSU AgCenter Hosts Hurricane-Resistant Home Improvement Seminars

Nagin: Katrina anniversary goal for getting rid of FEMA trailers

Religious Leaders Help Renters Buy in New Orleans~NPR

A Mid-City Ressurrection Aimed At Helping Seniors Come Home

Cross to step down as adjutant general~Harold Cross, who led the Mississippi military units through the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is stepping down as adjutant general of the state National Guard and Air National Guard.

Blanco defends Road Home firm's raise~Road-Ho'mers say, "Yeah, we heah ya'mouf talkin!"

Landrieu, Vitter put in 2 cents

Virginia evacuation numbers double for hurricane

Coastal Infrastructure And Operations Will Be Severely Impacted By Climate Change

Bill Clinton: Put recovery leader in White House--but I'm not here to campaign for my wife who is running for President by the way.~In town for a first-of-its-kind gathering of 700 student activists from around the world organized by the Clinton Global Initiative, the former president declined to comment about his wife's political campaign, saying he is muzzled because his organization is supposed to remain politically neutral. Riiiiiiiiight...

CGI University (Day One) -- Opening Plenary
~Live blog from PhilanTopic

A Streetcar
named Inspire
~Lori Gomez
resides in Pearl River but her work is steeped in
New Orleans flavor.
She’s painted murals in area businesses featuring New Orleans themes.
Lori’s work can be seen at LoriGomezArt.com

Patricia Clarkson, Belle of the Ball~By Alex Simon

Harry Connick in Manila for big band concert
~"Harry Connick Jr. has a deep affinity with most things black. He talks with a Southern accent, having been born in New Orleans. He considers the late entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. as 'the greatest artist of all time.' He would like to see Barack Obama become the next United States President 'so he can change a lot of things.'"

Your Formal Invitation from ReX~Do You Think You Know Art in New Orleans?
~NOLA Rising

Irish Channel Parade

Schedule of St. Joseph's Altars 2008

St. Anna's procession marches to a different tune this Palm Sunday

Green Wave marching band in 67th Annual New Orleans Saint Patrick's Day Parade

Wayne Shorter Quartet Performs with Terell Stafford Quartet at Kimmel Center

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Thanks, Steve. Sometimes gator'bait is the only way to say it, eh?
Road Home operator got raise~Blanco/ICF Investigation Needed~$756 million here...$912 million there...pretty soon your talking about $156 million Real Money--That Did NOT Go To Real Survivors Who Really Need It. Thank You, Gov. Blanco. BTW...
How's Your House?

Did that kick in the crotch hurt enough? Well, here's another!
~thanks, Ashley Morris: the blog, Dr. Daddio of da'Pristine Smackdown...the excitable boy.

Katrina lawyers plead guilty to bribery charges

Students meet in N.O. for Clinton Global Initiative, unwittingly advance Clinton Campaign Initiative?

RSD School Demolitions Update~Liptrap's Lament

Silda Spitzer, Hillary Clinton, Dina McGreevey, Wendy Vitter, and Me~NOLA radfem

Sally Kern Redux~Gentilly Girl

FEMA Trailers Invade Elysian Fields~NOLA Rising
~Temporary Art Installation seems sad, aimless, as if... searching...for a certain herd of Pretty Pink Boxes? Perhaps they seek...cloiture? Hmm?
But the Pink Boxes are gone, Little Fema Trailers, gone'gone wit'da wind...

"So I give this gob sod a glass of Green Spot"~Your Right Hand Thief

Oyster Jubilee to Celebrate Louisiana’s Culinary Culture

Lagniappe's '08 Fair and Festival Guide

Calling of the Tribes Powwow
~March 14-March 16, Houma, Terrebonne Livestock Arena, 221 Moffit Road.

African American Heritage Trail has 26 stops, beginning in New Orleans

The Masking of the Mardi Gras Indians~"If I had a heart attack at 92, I'd still mask. In New Orleans, you don't need a reason to do what you do, you do it because that's the way it is!" Larry Bannock, Chief, Golden Star Hunters~Super Sunday Schedule

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3 New Orleans Artists Launch National Tour
~NOLAfunGuide.com

The big uneasy~Interview with James Lee Burke by Keith Austin

Half New Orleans Poor Permanently Displaced: failure or success?~Bill Quigley

Doggie rehab caters to canines in Marrero

Debris removed from coastal waters

Gulf Coast business starved for seasonal workers

Coastal Housing Recovery Needs Still Strong

Louisiana homeowners face differing standards for flood insurance offset

Army trains roll along south of Fallon, NV

Jeudi

Special thanks to D.M. Edwards with and excellant review of the Rounder release: "City of Dreams" at PopMatters Music
Legal observers needed for Super Sunday Parades
~FoodMusicJustice.com

Mardi Gras Indian Super Sunday Parade Route~thank you, blogogneworleans.com

Food for feast days
~Celebrate St. Joseph's Day with Pasta Milanese.


New Orleans Events: St Patrick's Day Week~Margarita Bergen

Artists gain market appreciation

MS AG Distributes Katrina Insurance Court Settlement

Federal Flood Survivors Question Red Tape

HUD Secretary Draws Strong Criticism at Hearing~The Justice Department and the housing department’s inspector general are investigating whether the secretary, Alphonso R. Jackson, improperly steered hundreds of thousands of dollars in government contracts to friends in New Orleans and the Virgin Islands.

Vitter Urges Nagin To Destroy Lafitte Projects

New Orleans, Southeast Louisiana Businesses Falling Into Despair~Bayou Buzz

Crowded budget threatens hospital

Rebuilding New Orleans Public Library

Alternative takes on spring break recovery experiences~by Justin Scott

Survey to assess health impacts of Katrina and Rita~Facing South

National Awareness of Iraq War Fatalities Plummets~The Pew Research Center

Out of the Ruins~Inside the Headquarters

Corps sticks to its soil standards for levees

The Best News Yet
~blogofneworleans.com
~with special thanks to Your Right Hand Thief

Mediterranean Shipping Co. starts direct service to South America

New AMS draft policy statement links Hurricane Katrina and climate~What's Up With That?

Mattel debuts New Orleans-
area Barbies
~New Orleans Levee
DOWNTOWN BARBIE/KEN or can be FRENCH QUARTER BARBIE (AGAIN)
This versatile doll can be easily converted from Barbie to Ken by simply adding or subtracting the multiple snap-on parts.

Review: New Orleans Mon Amour~Film Threat

How Big Easy Theatre Awards Work

Artist Spotlight: Troy "Trombone Shorty"
Andrews
~NolaFunk NYC
"If a band is from New Orleans and they're playing in your town, the chances are they're going to be pretty bloody good!"~Jon Cleary, currently on tour down under

A Melody of Jewish Meditation
~By Alexander Gelfand

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'The Jungle' comes to
New Orleans
thanks~Rope-a-Dope

More Tesla love~more book reviews from Chasing Ray

Mnemonic~Shawn Major

Acadiana artist chosen for inter-
national biennial in New Orleans
~Louisiana
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Rich Addicks~AJC
Governors boycott D.C. hearing about water battle. State Execs divided, conquered and denuded by
US Army Corps of Engineers
Suitless Wondas Always Da' Winnas!
"It will play out in a lot of different ways across the nation," Mike Hayes, the director of the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. "You'll have agricultural producers battling it out with urban areas or other agricultural producers. It will make it hard to apply one solution in one place."

Pump Tests
~blogofneworleans.com

La. wetlands hero has feet of clay
Since Katrina, Williams has made four documentaries
~some of which have been streamed on his website www.mrbill.com. Another is being shown at the Historic New Orleans Collection in the French Quarter.

Congress focuses on post-
Katrina housing

Disaster contract in dispute

Workers find ally in US Congressman

Mid-City park's upgrade in limbo

Think it’s finished? Think again~inside Rhodes

BHS students take in New Orleans

By the Tail~Crawfishermen and crawfish processors have different views on the factors wreaking havoc on crawfish prices~The Independent

FCC and wireless carriers butt heads over backup power for cell towers

Happy Still'Birthday
Dept. O'Ho'land Security!!!
~Nørse Berserker~"Thus, at the age of five, DHS has all the bureaucratic sclerosis of an octogenarian and is on the road to juvenile delinquency."

Here Come the YURPs!~Startup New Orleans~thanks too'da alldaybuffet

Orphaned pit bulls from Hurricane Katrina get Gulf Island to themselves

Disney ranks New Orleans as a favored family destination
~~Oh Dante's Hell! Now It's Started...

Ricky Graham's 'Still Here' a hilarious look at life in New Orleans

Bayou Classical~Gulf Coast Soul~The Independent

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Mardi Gras Indian Super Sunday Parade Route~thank you, blogogneworleans.com

Workers Sue Gulf Coast Company That Imported Them

Working To Make the Corps of Engineers More Accountable

Corps of Engineers says working pumps will enhance flood protection...blinding all with their Abslolute Wizdom Experience (A.W.E.) from the Bull Shit Sherlock School fo'da Bloody Shameless Sychophants, Syzygists & Schitzophreniacs!
(B.S.S.S. fo'da B.S.S.S.&S.)
Editilla say pull my chain...you gotta be kidding!
I made up the later part of that lede. Really, but not the highlighted opening. In fact I rarely tamper with a headline (ha!:), well, just a bit sometimes...but really, I don't make this stuff up.
Corps of Engineer press conferences are begining to sound like listening to the daily brief of an armed therapist. To stand in a room with college educated journalists and actually say--with a straight face--
"We think that Operational Pumps enhance flood protection", without at least a fart cushion or red rubber noses goes beyond the balzy pale relm of gall and into the valley of the shadow of jailhouse punks and red wing masterbaters.
This is rediculous. We deserve at least funnier bullshit for the ton of tax money we have already paid this creepo. With a name that will live forever in Double-Think Eponymfamy, Ed Link, Mr. "Pumps are important" (the only quote attributed in the article--hence the AP, and hence the ankle-nibbling sniveling Corps' enabling Mouthlink T-Picayune piece yesterday) is noted as a Prof at U of Maryland doing the study--not the founder and director of the multi-million dollar, Corps designed and initiated, non-peer reviewed, ass wipe shell-game IPET study that has been assailed by civil engineers across the country as biased at best, bad engineering at worst, or even just downright unseamly, illicit. This "man", this Corps' owned lab-rat geologist administrator is The Sphynxter of that entire propaganda spin cycle so to speak. With friends like this who needs a goddamned executioner? Hell da'Reaper woiks fa'Nuttin!
These Cruel Avatars of Shock Doctrine,
these Bastards of Disaster Capitalism,
they have no manners.
They will "go there" and "do that" and look us not in the eye while fingering our children, because in their world view V'e are nothing more than the little remnant dying mass of clueless patriots.
To the Freidmaniac NeoConservatives, V'e are no longer The People but The Chattle. V'e do not matter one knat's ass as V'e are no longer even consumers of goods and services but users of drugs and bad credit.
All of this serial flatulence, this idiot wind, brings to mind a nifty quote I heard just today from one of my sorta namesakes and patron saints, Will Rogers,
~"If stupidity got us into this mess then why can't stupitity get us out of it?"
...or we could work smarter not harder...
Convene the 8/29 Commission

Report: Pharmaceutical Drugs In New Orleans Drinking Water
~Anti-cholesterol, sex hormone, and pain relievers found in water system...well duh! Hellllo? Can we say, "Holy Trinity, Batman!" ...New Orleans?
Editilla tokes, strokes and pokes anotha pilla...
~This nationwide big delima was covered last night, on prime-time TV news, but your Clariton Free editor thought they were just kidding. Ya'know like the insurance commercials..."So easy a cave man could do it!"--yeah right, tell that to the No'State adjuster, when they didn't even have oxymorphomotrypdixlexiassomenafitn way back in 10,000 BC! Back when T-Rex really sucked!
This may perchance explain much about our country's growing hair-trigger presumptions of guilt before innocence, of opinions before facts, of corporation before cooperation, of profits before the pursuit of Happiness, of fear before We The People, of da'Rock before the da'Roll, of da'Second befo'da Line.
...of da'Sinn befo'da Féin!

No Standards to Test for Drugs in Nation's Water Supply

Just when you think you have had enough...
Our Mary Ann
Popped With
Mary Jane

Climate Change Will Have A Significant Impact On Transportation~eNewsUSA

Back Logs~New Orleans Murder Blog

Ray "Baby-head" Nagin Announces Street Repairs 3 Years Post Katrina

Operation Clean Sweep No Longer Monitored by Graffiti Hurts~NOLA Rising Hell Yeah

Exceptional Recovery Slide-Show from Engineers Without Borders-IUPUI
Editor Notes~These are some of the cats, posted on an earlier Ladder, who come to spend their spring break working on houses in the City That Care Has Not Forgotten By The Kindness of Strangers. Please do check out their ongoing site coverage here. Please say hello...tell'em thanks...let'em know we care too, eh?

A Fantastic Millworks Shop in New Orleans - Central City Millworks~Darryl Glade

Artists Announced by Prospect 1 Biennial in New Orleans

Blue Velvet
Re-dressing
New Orleans
in Katrina's
wake
~from the
Vector Space with
special thanks to
gleemie at rahrahfeminista2

Physicists Spotted Attempting to Split Drinks in Quarters
Actual bar napkin left at Molly's->
~Debating Big Daddy on Bourbon Street's 2 Drink Minimum as more like 3.14 alchohol/water, while attempting to pay dancers with superscript! ~Winning every sidewalk 3-Card Monte and Shell-game to hoodlum angst!~Waxing luminescent upon the optical lattices for quantum computing the price of a Shoe Shine wit'da bruthas along Riverwalk.
Editilla cocks da'Cosmic Trigga, cracks an Egg above da'Antediluvian Plain~Y'ALL!--T'ink bout'dis would'jyaz? Really...7000 physicists loose in New Orleans...all talking at the same time...gesticulatin' in the air...I mean, really, it ain't just me this time.

Widow of R&B pioneer Ernie K-Doe directs the rebirth of legendary lounge in New Orleans

Catherine Russell Honors Her Love of Jazz with 'Sentimental Streak'

Review: Dreams to Remember: The Legacy of Otis Redding~Tuned Into Music

Preservation Hall Midnight Preserves schedule announced!

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