Jeudi

Screen shot of today, Dec, 18th. Click to enlarge.

~DISCLAIMER! WARNING! BAT SIGNAL!~

Part 3: Protecting southeast Louisiana will be extraordinarily expensive~Mark Schleifstein
~Editilla Notellas~ It would appear now that the Corps Marketing Contractor has begun tailoring the ads to fit the articles published. This makes them Advertorial.

New computer storm model condemns role MRGO played in Katrina flooding~Sheila Grissett
~DISCLAIMER! WARNING! BAT SIGNAL!~
~Commissioners peppered Van Heerden with questions, quizzing him for details of the work done by his team at the LSU Hurricane Center, along with a well-known modeling company in the Netherlands and a group of engineers from the University of California at Berkeley. At least one of the Berkeley scientists also does work for the litigation team in New Orleans.
~Editilla gotta ax~ Ms. Grissett, can you please write something other than unmitigated horse Spin? If you were actually there, can you please tell us with what questions the Levee Board "peppered" Dr. Igor Van Herrden, and his answers?
If you were not actually there, as it appears from this article, then what are you doing here, scratching your advertiser's ass,
writing Advertorials for the Exquisite Corps?
Come on Ms. Grissett! For all our sakes MRGO HOME!
Monday the Corps goes before the Judge to present their "expert evidence", in the MRGO Lawsuit. Trial is set for April 22nd.
These are our citizens, Ms. Grissett, the people of New Orleans.
And, since you failed to note his identity, that "Berkeley scientist" is Dr. Robert Bea, an esteemed and highly qualified expert witness with 45 years of geophysical engineering, marine structures science experience. Your bias is evident.
That litigation which the Times Picayune continues to fail to mention is known as: "Robinson v. United States of America".
Information can be found here and here.


Mr. Cerasoli’s morning
~Kevin Allman

N.O. Inspector General Has Big Day~ Jeff Crouere, BBuzz

State rejects FEMA offer on N.O. hospital~Allen Johnson Jr.
~O'Dell: Offer for Katrina-damaged hospital firm

~Special thanks~ Food Music Justice

Millions in aid confirmed for Terrebonne, Lafourche
~Naomi King

I forgot about the library
~Jewel Thinks

Gallup Path for Macroeconomics
~Famille d'Entreprises
~Lieutenant General Russel Honoré (retired) explains how the application of business and charitable principles can give people around the globe what they need most: a good job.

Swiss Re says 2008 insured losses $50 bln for industry

Clinton discloses Katrina donors

Map of Death ~Brooke Borel
~Heat and droughts caused the most deaths at 19.6 percent, followed by severe summer weather at 18.8 percent and winter weather at 18.1%.
Together, earthquakes, hurricanes and wildfires made up 3.4%.

PR-Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Project Home Again Reunites Gentilly Neighborhood in Time for the Holidays
~Today Leonard Riggio, the Chairman of Barnes & Noble, and his wife Louise, will for the first time meet the twenty Hurricane Katrina survivor families to whom they are personally giving the gift of a new home.
David Briant, a single father of two who has been sleeping on his sister-in-law's sofa with his young son since Katrina, says that the work the Riggios and Project Home Again are doing is different than what anyone else has tried to do in New Orleans.
"The Riggios are reaching out to help working families, people who had homes before Katrina and were trying to take care of their families," said Mr. Briant. (Italics mine)

Celilo Falls~Cascadia Journal

Mercredi

Wheel in the sky wows local residents~Nikki Buskie

Environmental impact of Dulac levee improvements outlined

Buck up Buddy, it’s time to sink or swim - Foti’s insurance antitrust suit dismissed ~slabbed

Nation Of Morons:
Oh, Those Clever Engineers!

Katrina recovery: new push to help small landlords
~John Moreno Gonzales
~An $849 million Hurricane Katrina recovery program hobbled by red tape and the national credit crunch will seek to issue rebuilding money directly to small landlords without the involvement of banks, officials said Wednesday.

Nagin defends untouched recovery funds
~Allen Johnson Jr.

Council May Override Nagin's Budget Veto~WDSU

Larry Flynt To Run For Mayor Of New Orleans
~Editilla O'rilla d'Aphasia

Critics say hazardous shipping rule falls short

Building a time bomb
~Much concern should be given to the planned building of the New Orleans Cold Storage warehouse at the foot of Esplanade, right next to the US. Mint, at the Governor Nichols St Wharf. Why? Because of their Blast Freezers which are anhydrous ammonia refrigerant systems!!!!

Viper

Fighting the wrong ideas
~HoumaToday.com

NASA assigns engines tests to Stennis

Tiger’s fate discussion gets unruly in hallway~Greg Garland
~The battle over the fate of a tiger on display at a Grosse Tete truck stop turned ugly at an Iberville Parish Council meeting Tuesday night as opposing sides nearly came to blows outside the council chambers.
One of Sandlin’s workers, a woman, had to be physically restrained several times from attacking an animal rights activist who called her “an inbred.”

See the labyrinth
~New Orleans Can Thrive

New Orleans Music World Lacks Business Opportunities~BBuzz

R.I.P. Michael P. Smith
~Black Cat Bone

Mardi

USACE Spinfiltrates
Levee Activists, Bloggers!
Levee watchdog group says angry posts coming from inside
Corps of Engineers~WWL

~Editilla can't stands no'mo!~
Video here.

Reducing Risk My Ass! What the hell are they doing with all of our Flood Control Funding?
Why, using our dwindling tax dollars to Infiltrate and Spin the story of the cause of the Federal Flood! ~Further evidence here.
See also comments here
UpDate 1: Thank You First Draft see comments too
Apparently the Corps doesn't know when to quit!
Needless to say everyone within blogging distance of the our Exquisite Corps needs to go look over their own Stats and see if these underhanded, Over'rot, homo- entropic, Creepo'nawlins faux engineers
are skulking around their own blogs as well?

If anyone finds these IP addresses in your stats, please save a screen shot of it and send it to Dennis Woltering at WWL TV. Thank you, WWL. You Editillero! Eye on the Ball!

(click pic to enlarge) Editilla T'n'T~ Whois.net

amvn91h.mvn.usace.army.mil / 155.76.159.253

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Vendredi~Déjeuner":

Editilla,
Thanks for the link to our "conversation" on the NOLA.com levees blog. Maybe some of your readership (what, 2 or 3 other kooks) will actually learn something. Your rants are certainly entertaining, I'll give you that.
I am not a Corps employee as you allege nor am I trying to intimidate levees.org or any other single-minded Corps-haters. I am, however, determined to push back against uninformed, hate-filled diatribes that do nothing but inflame emotions and harden feelings. It's called balance; it's called dialogue - a necessary component of democracy. Later...

Stev0
Posted by Anonymous to New Orleans Ladder at December 8, 2008 9:47 AM

Editilla said...

stevo, I deleted your comment because no one is allowed to insult our valued readers on this blog.
This ain't just child's play --and 120+ hits/day (and growing) proves that our Gentle'rillas appreciate that.

They are welcome to go watch you make a fool of yourself in the Times Picayune but not here.
I am the only person allowed that privilege on this Ladder.

Show some balls, stevo, and comment on the levees.org blog where you have already shown your ass.

Thus spake Editilla.

December 8, 2008 10:05 AM

Editilla said...

And stevo, you engineering suit freaks can't even spell Statcounter?
Stupid Stupid Stupid.
Plodding, predictable pricks.
You really should be more careful with our tax-paid government property.

You told me that you do not work for the Corps of Engineers, yet you seem to have no problem using their computers, which might be a felony for this type of activity --especially if, as you allege, you do not work for the Corps of Engineers.
My attorney is looking into it.

Or, perhaps you just suck Corps over at ASCE:
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS UU-65-210-114-D6 (NET-65-210-114-0-1) 65.210.114.0 - 65.210.115.255

Which is it, dogo?
Either way this is why I refer to you assholes as ASCECORPS.

December 8, 2008 11:35 AM

UpDate 2: It would appear that the ASCECORPS
has many heads looking into this breach of the public trust.
Now from today's Ladder's stat counter page. Click to enlarge.

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS UU-65-210-114-D6 (NET-65-210-114-0-1)
65.210.114.0 - 65.210.115.255

Blogging and Commenting: US Army Corp of Engineers Takes it on the Chin Courtesy of Blogger Sandy Rosenthal ~slabbed

Reform the Corps Now~Gambit
~Editilla crowellas~ Once again a Herollero Shout-out to Gambit for watching our backs. Thanks Gambit!
Unfortunately for us, such prescient gumshoellery obviously matters not one whit to how the Corps of Engineers behaves, when it always seems to come out swinging after dark.
The Time is Now to Pass the 8/29 Investigation Legislaton!
Introduced by our own Mary Landrieu and Charlie Melancon.
I mean, where do hundreds of tons of surge barrier piling sleep?
--Any goddamn where our Exquisite Corps wants to lay it!
Why, just ask their consultant on the Levee Board: Tom Jackson.
Gambit can't do this alone. That was one fine article,
but we need Congress Hip to the Corps. We need the 8/29!
IT'S THE LEVEES STUPID!!! No 2nd chance Engineering.
NO MORE SOUP FO'DA CORPS!!!
~Editilla Notellas~ Please make sure to pick up the Gambit hard copy around town too. It's free and we can read it by candle light when the levees fail again!

Iowa Cities want flood gauges, but the Corps says price is too high!~Des Moines Register
~The Corps of Engineers, which pays for gauges near its reservoirs, is unlikely to be able to finance gauges in other locations, said Corps spokesman Ron Fournier.

Report: Engineering society needs ethics policy~Clear News

Work starts to plug leaks in Kenner floodwall~Sheila Grissett
~DISCLAIMER! WARNING! BAT SIGNAL!~
web shot of TP Corps Flash Ad beside this article. Click to enlarge.

Best of New Orleans Contest: YOU be Quint Davis, 2009 Jazz Fest lineup announced
~Gambit Daily

Promised Progress
~Richard A. Webster
Special thanks~People Get Ready

Alvar Arts Night: Music Edition! Tuesday, Dec 16 ~nolabrarian

31, Live at The Library,
Irvin Mayfield’s 2nd Annual Birthday Bash

Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
~The Library of Digress

Second Baby Grand Piano FInds a Home~NOMRF

Lundi

Jus'sayin...

Audit raises serious questions about HANO; ~Katy Reckdahl

New Years Resolution
~New Orleans Murder Blog

Report: Katrina, Rita challenges still remain~Jeremy Alford

FEMA restricting funds for Cameron Parish

The past isn’t dead (Koudin v State Farm), it’s not even past (Payment v State Farm) ~slabbed

Adopt a Soldier

THIS THURSDAY: Last Stop Shop with the New Orleans Craft Mafia!

Nash Roberts~Joanna Scholer

AIGA New Orleans Design Summit ~Humid Haney

Writers for Relief Vol. 2 now available~J.C. Hutchins

Students Return After Helping Hurricane Victims

Bucknell University prepares for 6th Katrina recovery trip

First Commercial Hydrokinetic Power Project In U.S. History Is Approved By FERC

Take Care Health Systems
Opens Health Care Clinics in New Orleans

Bohemian Black vs. Blackened Voodoo~Kegerator

Live Broadcast: Irma Thomas and David Torkanowsky
~WWOZ

Otis Clay among Lineup
for 2009 Ponderosa Stomp

A Marsalis who is drumming up the "life aspects" of music
~Geraldine Wyckoff

Eddie Gale - Ghetto Music
~jazzzin

Reading the Black Jazz Writers
~Do The Math

NolaFunk Lagniappe

Dimanche

'The Color of Loss' photo exhibit finds unexpected beauty in post-Katrina New Orleans
~The startling images that photographer Dan Burkholder encountered in post-Katrina New Orleans include
"Computer With Window".

The Myth of the Lakeview Butterfly Gates~Levees.org
~Editilla weighs in here heavy on the idea of blogger, media harassment and spin'filtration by Our Exquisite Corps,
like finding a nanomeme in a haystack.
~Web snapshot of Times Picayune Corps Flash Advert on Levees.org blog page today. Please click to enlarge.

A Tale of Two Cities:
Desolate New Orleans, Ruined Galveston That Gets New Body Blow~Carol Forsloff

Analysis: Katrina's towering reminder~Brian Schwaner

More Evidence of Slabberator
Misuse: The Farm’s “Sham
Transactions”, Zurich’s Sham Reinsurance Deals~slabbed

Coast financial outlook upbeat
~Mary Perez

Coming up in Gambit Weekly: Mayoral line-item veto edition

New Orleans on track to deploy
~Philip Ewing

Uruk

The Katrina of Real Estate
~Mark MacKenzie

Funding still trickling in for Iowa flood recovery
~Christinia Crippes

Health Care And Preparedness Report Cards: The System Needs Work~DemFromCT

The Unites States is the Best Country in the World, Except When it Isn't
~Francis L. Holland

Secure operating systems
~SMPN 12 Tangerang Cyber Club

FDNY delivers smiles to
Bayou La Batre~David Ferrara

Day 7: New Orleans Part 1
~Dave Ford Does Earth

48 hours in New Orleans

Earl King: Hard River To Cross
~Blues Town

Dixie Ticklers' New Orleans-style nursery rhymes~Editilla T'n'T~se1

Samedi

Building a time bomb
~Much concern should be given to the planned building of the New Orleans Cold Storage warehouse at the foot of Esplanade, right next to the US. Mint, at the Governor Nichols St Wharf. Why? Because of their Blast Freezers which are anhydrous ammonia refrigerant systems!!!!
~Editilla would like to Remind Everyone that 50,000 pounds of Anhydrous Ammonia ain't nothing to sneeze at, and it is the Stupid Shit that will Kill You Every Time! This unbelievable discussion should not even be happening.
Anhydrous means "without water."
Because of its high affinity for water, it readily absorbs water to create ammonium hydroxide, which is corrosive like lye. Anhydrous ammonia is a hygroscopic compound, which means that it seeks water from the nearest source, any source, including the human body. Caustic burns can result when anhydrous ammonia contacts body tissue. Most deaths from anhydrous ammonia are caused by severe damage to the throat and lungs from a direct blast to the face. When large amounts are inhaled, the throat swells shut and the victims suffocate. Exposure to vapors or liquids also can cause blindness. More here.
By the way, don't these fools need to get Permitting from the Corps of Engineers? Uh Oh...
The Times Picayune should be sued for not noting this clear and present danger in their article today.
Not one word about what happens when Anhydrous Ammonia reacts with water, for example, in your lungs.
This is Heinous Disregard for the Public Safety.


Meta Talk Time. How do we build a grassroots progressive coalition in the Crescent City?
~We Could Be Famous

FEMA more than triples amount of money for Charity ~WWL

State Farm launches Mac-attack on Payment case with missiles, ground fire and bomb to keep MID market conduct exam from jury~slabbed

Big Three Bailout: Southern Senators Immune to Irony
~CarConnection.com

Illinois trying, it really is, but the most corrupt state?
~NYT

No! Not Our Exquisite Corps!!!????


Curious tourists flock to Galveston post Ike~T.J. Aulds

Terriers to Return to New Orleans to Aid in Katrina Relief Urban Plunge

To Tulane, for English and Altruism~Robin Finn
~And how was he certain it was his grandmother’s attic, the students, naïvely and nosily, wanted to know?
Because her corpse was inside, he informed them, shrugging off the macabre aspects of such a discovery.
“He told us, ‘Hey, life is hard here; people live and people die.”

Snow laden bamboo in
New Orleans~pzych

PhotoNOMA Rescheduled ~NOPA

Call to artist & Designers: BECA Gallery New Orleans
~Coo Coo for CoCA Puffs

A tough life for the nanners

The Age Of The Funky Western Civilisation~Retro Universe

St. Louis Cathedral Christmas Concert Schedule
~Sharon Keating

Vendredi

Miracle on 34th…uh… Bourbon Street~Kevin Allman, Gambit

Treme Creole Gumbo Festival

Nagin cuts $18.5 million from budget~WWL~Using his line item veto power, Nagin trimmed the spending plan by $18.5 million including across the board cuts for nearly all city departments.
Nagin's cuts are at least 2.5 percent for all agencies except public safety. He also ordered a hiring freeze for all departments.

N.O. still smarting over Coast ad

In Congo Square:
Colonial New Orleans
~Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
~The story of New Orleans isn't merely rich with the enduring tensions of American history--between Old World and New, nation and federation, slavery and freedom. It is also in many ways at the center of American history: the city's acquisition was the midwife of American empire, and prompted the spread of a system of racial slavery whose rise led directly to one of our history's defining events--the Civil War.
New Orleans--the "inevitable city on an impossible site," as one geographer memorably called it--has figured since 1803 not only as a crucial pivot of the US economy but also as an essential wellspring of its culture. Editilla T'n'T~Citizen K

There’s No Calendar in their Wallets: AIDS Funding Update
~David Winkler-Schmit

New Orleans Murder Blog

Overview and update on Corban v USAA~slabbed

Dopewater~Molly Day
~Municipal water supplies around the country --including ours-- contain trace elements of discarded pharmaceuticals.
Should you be worried?
~Editilla gotta ax~ ...uhmmm... what were you saying?


Red streetcars returning to service in N.O.
Photo'rilla T'n'T
<~YatPundit


Global Warming???
~Scared Monkeys
~Snow hits South Town in New Orleans, Houston … Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee

Engineering

Rule Eases a Mandate Under a Law on Wildlife
~Felicity Berringer
~The rule, quickly challenged by environmental groups, lets the Army Corps of Engineers or the Federal Highway Administration in many cases rely on their own personnel in deciding what impact a project would have on a fish, bird, plant, animal or insect protected under the Endangered Species Act.

George W. Bush Library
~World Prout Assembly
The Library will include:
1. The Hurricane Katrina Room
~which is still under construction.
2. The Alberto Gonzales Room
~where you won't be able to remember anything.
3. The Texas Air National Guard Room
~where you don't even have to show up.
4. The Walter Reed Hospital Room, where they don't let you in.
5. The Guantanamo Bay Room, where they don't let you out.

New Orleans Project
Photography by Jenny Lemper
~1870 Art Center

Holiday Affordable Art Bazaar at The Studio at Colton School
~A new take on the traditional holiday shopping experience, this one of a kind holiday arts market within the mammoth Studio at Colton School will feature the work of many of the 70+ resident artists from the Studio and other participating local artists. Browse dozens of inspirational exhibitions, whittle away at your holiday shopping list with one of a kind, unforgettable pieces for your friends and family and support your local cultural economy and art scene, all in one afternoon.
Special Affordable Art Bazaar Kick-Off Party
(featuring music and food)
Saturday, December 13, 2008 / 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Holiday Affordable Art Bazaar Dates and Hours
December 13 – 21, 2008
Weekdays from 3 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Weekends from noon – 5 p.m.
~The Studio at Colton School

After pictures are CURSED
~Did We Survive Katrina Or Not

Taj Mahal celebrates 40 years of music with new CD, 'Maestro"
~Jim Harrington

Batiste And Ellis:
New Orleans In New York~NPR
Editilla T'n'T~ all about Jazz

FUNK - Definition by AcronymFinder
~Rare Soul Grooves

Visiting Act ~ Eric Lindell
~Michael Andrews
~Melted Butter, Straight Up:
Eric Lindell returns with his blue-eyed soul intact

Songs 4 Foodies #2
~Robert Frost's Banjo

Jeudi

Gambit Reader Snow Shots

Crescent City Snow


Slabbed:
~Levee Boards and MR-GO settle with defendants’ insurer,
~State Farm’s 67% rate increase request raises important issues

Berkeley engineer sees big flaws in repaired New Orleans levees
~John Schwartz
~Editilla Notellas~This article is a year and a half old.
We want to give Gentle'rillas some background perspective on some of the expert testimony that will be brought to bear in the upcoming Lawsuit against the Corps of Engineers over their failures with the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO) which resulted in the Flooding of the city of New Orleans in 2005.
This multi-100s Million Dollar Lawsuit will go to court on
April 20th, with much pre-trial back and forth.
December 22nd the Corps will go before the judge to present its own "expert reports". Oh to be da'fly on'dat shithouse wall!
Just because you see them advertised all over the Times Picayune's website, there are many who loudly beg to differ that the Corps is "Reducing Risk by Building Strong".
The settlement cited in the above lede by slabbed is between the various Levee Boards and their Insurer.

Hurricanes hamper oyster farming~Allen Johnson Jr.

Farm workers who escaped involuntary servitude return to take employer to court
~Mexican guestworkers who were subjected to involuntary servitude in the strawberry fields of Louisiana from 2006 to 2008 today brought major civil litigation against their former employer, Bimbo’s Best Produce and Charles “Bimbo” Relan.

Mississippi Groups Sue HUD, Objecting to Use of Katrina Aid for Port~Spencer S. Hsu

Pitt's First "Make It Right" Homes Complete
~Architectural Record
~The first six homes built by Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation are now finished. They represent not only fresh starts for home- owners, but also blueprints for affordable, storm-resistant, and sustainable housing designs. Please check out slide-show.

Recovery Obstacles Continue to Challenge Communities~PAR

Shaw Awarded COE Military Munitions Services Contract

NOPA All Over da'Place!
~One Night, 100 Photographers!!
~New Orleans Photo Alliance Street Fair
~Mardi Gras 360 Degrees and more.

Happy Birthday Liptrap!

Nick Spitzer signing new book tonight~New Orleans Can Thrive

Carnival Sounds~freesound project

Eco-friendly Music Festival in New Orleans Seeks Name

Tipitina's Benefit
For Big Chief Bo Dollis

Trumpeter Christian Scott fights for the future of jazz
~Chris Barton

Tulane offers Jazz Studies and New Orleans Music

NolaFunk NYC

Mercredi

The Masqued E'vinga Strikes Again!
Hrrmph!

The Scheme: final curtain
- who done it (Chapter 7 qui tam)
~slabbed

La. delegation mixed on bailout
~Gerard Sheilds

Illinois, Not Louisiana, Is The Most Corrupt US State
~Jeff Crouere

Geronimo~Citizen K

Begging Your Questions
Editilla prompts the first of many examples to come of:
Shotgun Framing Article Placement.
Before Obama's pick for Budget Chief has even opened his mouth regarding todays challenges, industry media is already attempting to Spin'filtrate his past statements as if they would apply to current realities. petitio principii. Please follow the link cited at the bottom of this article to get it from the Horse's Ass!

Last piece in place for floodwall
~DISCLAIMER! WARNING! BAT SIGNAL!~

Duke Realty Inks $950M Contract with Army Corp
~Erika Morphy

RICS Americas in Collaboration with Leading US Engineering and Construction Groups
~The groups, comprising the American Society of Cost Engineers International (AACEi), the American Society of Professional Estimators (ASPE), the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the United States General Services Administration (USGSA) and the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS), will collaborate together to increase the value that can be derived from Building Information Modeling (BIM).
(AACEiASPEUSACEUSGSANIBSBIM)
~Editilla fulla acronymity~ ASCECORPS

Kill the Sea Lions Before They Kill Again!~Critter News
~"Judge Michael Mosman’s ruling means Washington, Oregon and Idaho can shoot or remove up to 85 sea lions next year.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates the animals eat three thousand salmon annually."
~Editilla gotta ax~ Who'da thunkit? Suddenly...
--the Corps of Engineers are experts on Sea Lion habitat???
Uuummmm... hey guys... IT'S THE LEVEES STUPID!!!

Army CID Unit, Special Agents Recognized for Excellence
~The MPFU centrally directs and coordinates all fraud investigations worldwide and works with other federal agencies on a regular basis. MPFU investigates allegations of fraud involving weapons and support systems within the Army and provides investigative support for civil/military contracts awarded or administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

U.S. infrastructure proposals ring glad tidings for molybdenum
~Mining Era

On This Day: Dec. 10th, 1962
A Modest All-America Who Sits on the Highest Bench
~A Drug Called Tradition

Mardi

New Orleans > Shreveport
~A Drug Called Tradition
~"‘Bama fans, hoping their school would make its third straight trip to the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, La., were disappointed Sunday when The Tide accepted a Sugar Bowl bid. Old habits die hard. Cheer up…an argument can be made that New Orleans is a little bit better than Shreveport. Here’s a few of the reasons the Big Easy is better than the Big Sheezy."

So Which Is It? ~~Click pics to enlarge.~~
~Times Picayune says the Corps of Engineers is Protecting National Treasure or Fucking Booty at Risk? Webshots of TP Aditorial today (top) and their Aditorial Sunday.
Conflict of Interest that makes no difference is no difference.

Bad civil engineering drowned New Orleans, not a bad storm ~Levees.org

Army Corps Kayaker Case Settled: Biologist Who Demonstrated for the L.A. River Paddles off to Law School~PEER
~The case of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers biologist whose activism has helped shape national policy has drawn to a close. Heather Wylie had faced a proposed 30-day suspension for kayaking the Los Angeles River on her own time as part of a public protest demonstration against Corps policies weakening the Clean Water Act.
Pursuant to a settlement negotiated with attorneys at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) who represented Ms. Wylie, the Corps has authorized the release of the following statement:

"Ms. Wylie has reached an agreement with the Army Corps of Engineers that resolves all outstanding issues between them. The agreement does not admit any liability or wrongdoing on the part of either party. Ms. Wylie will end her government service effective December 8, 2008."

More Info From McBride and WWL, More Silence From Nagin, White~We Could Be Famous

Land Acquisitions in Mid-City Raise Questions About Speculation, Malfeasance
~A. Caritas

Housing project rebuilding starts ~WWL

Tough economic times scuttling Superdome-area plan
~Alan Sayer

Pearl Jammed~Ian McNulty
~Gambit Weekly~The oysters now coming into
New Orleans restaurants are of extraordinary quality.
They look fat on the half shell, taste salty and feel meaty in the mouth. Some on both sides of the oyster bar say these are the best they've seen local waters produce in a long time.
But such praise is cold comfort for many working the Louisiana oyster reefs and running the shoreside processing plants, because the question of quantity rather than quality is pressing on them now. While oysters are readily available across the market, this year has proved quietly disastrous for Louisiana oyster growers and has sown deep anxiety about the future among industry veterans.

National Report Card on the State of Emergency Medicine gives Louisiana: D+
~Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath still play a significant role in Louisiana’s emergency care environment. While the state now ranks among the best in Disaster Preparedness, Katrina’s impact has also left Louisiana in dire need of more providers to care for a population that has large numbers of uninsured and a higher than average risk of suffering from preventable illnesses and injuries.

Who “Uses” a Blog?

Yeshiva Social Work Students Visit New Orleans
~Jews for New Orleans

New Orleans:
Trying to stay out of trouble
~SEER Lab Azerbaijan

Ponderosa Stomp 2009 Info

New Orleans~April Smith

Lundi

Fats Domino’s House Restored
~Alabamian in New Orleans

Post-hurricane planning efforts falter~Melinda Deslatte

Four years to make a menu
~Your Right Hand Theif
~"Quite simply, its "taking so long" because the Bush administration wants it to take so long. These delays are by design. The Bush administration never, ever, EVER seriously considered approving Category 5 flood protection for South Louisiana. It was NEVER on the table. EVER!"
~Editilla Notellas~Please see our post yesterday on this very subject and its Conflict of Interest with the Times Picayune.

Contractors Ready to Gorge at Federal Trough
~Noah Shachtman

Corps of Engineers Commander takes lucrative corporate job

Ah-rump (kiss kiss) Kamp Re ~slabbed

“The only thing I am certain of is that I am anti-abortion"
~Kevin Allman

Black voter strength surges in New Orleans~Lance Hill

We’re #50~Gambit

Budget cut talk just a ‘peep’
~New Orleans City Business

Old Man River Making New Energy?

Alexandria to sponsor special mulch giveaways

It Takes a School to Save Louisiana Wetlands

Wonder Where Wetlands Wander? Guidance Gives Goose Egg~Dwight Merriam

CANO call for Entries!
~Studio at Colton’s "Turning the Tables" project invites local artists of all disciplines to submit proposals for collaborative- based exhibitions that foster exploration of new media, innovation, and expanded networks of collaboration between creative disciplines.

Submission Guidelines:

• Include a written description of your project in 500 words or less
• Include 3-5 representative images.
• Creative Alliance of New Orleans (CANO) membership required for submission. Access, print and fill out the application available at www.cano-la.org. If not already a member, please submit your CANO application along with or before proposal.
• Printed applications with images should be submitted to the Administration office at the top of the front entrance staircase at the Studio at Colton.

WHEN:

Proposals due by 5:00 p.m. Monday, Dec 15.

Exhibitions will run from January 1 – 31, 2009

An Opening reception will be held January 6, 2008

WHERE:

The Studio at Colton School

2300 St. Claude Avenue

New Orleans, La. 70117
View the flier here.

'The Hour I First Believed'
by Wally Lamb
~Review, Mary Dixie Carter

Sweet Home New Orleans
~Bleeding Diamonds

Twangorama at The Green Room in New Orleans on Dec. 12th
~all about Jazz

Better Than Ezra plus Graham Colton at HOB

Dr. John's "City That Care Forgot" Nominated for "Best Contemporary Blues" Grammy

Dimanche

The Masqued E'vinga Stikes Again!
At least someone else still begs to differ...
Times Picayune Backs Up (To) Corps of Engineers on Levee!

"The failure of the Industrial Canal floodwall, which was overtopped by Katrina's surge,
resulted in its collapse and the inundation of the Lower 9th Ward."

~Silly Editilla falls to the floor in sarcastic pyroximations~
I had thought other Engineers, even the Corps, had told us that the floodwalls had failed and the levees were breached because of corrupted engineering, which resulted in the flooding of New Orleans on August 29th, 2005! It was Katrina all along!
Oh dear! It was a Natural Disaster --Not a Man-made Disaster!
Editilla pleads Nola contendere with apologies for having bothered y'all with all this... harangue'n of hands!
Who'dat Man In The Red Castle? My guess is we may never know --but we can certainly trust the Times Picayune to give us the existential narrative, eh? And, the Times Picyune wants you all to remember One Thing:
No matter what anyone else says about them, the Corps of Engineers is is is...
--"What you mean 'is', Kimosabe?"--
Reducing Risk in Louisiana by Building Strong!
~Snapshot of today's TP Advertorial for the Corps. --Curtsey, nola.com~ BellyFeel Safe. Newspeak Strong.
Snapshot, Mark Schleirstein's advertorial today. Click to enlarge.
So what are we, Protected Treasure or Booty at Risk?
Does anyone else see these goddamn ads all over this narrative?
Do I look like I have a Rhino horn stickin'outta my ass?
And BTW, Happy Birthday John Milton.
<--Tax-Paid Flash Ad lifted from the Times Picayune's nola.com site as evidence of this "news media's" ongoing Conflicts of Interest with the Corps.

What's Missing From Obama's Infrastructure Plan
~Harry Shearer

New Orleans 'should Move To Higher Ground' ~iCivilEngineer

Publicity Is Not About Press Releases

This week’s Gambit:
The O.J. Marinello edition

Does this offend you NOW?
~dakinikat

Restaurant Tax Write-off
Equipment donation for culinary program~Colton Kitchen Project