New Orleans Levee Spin 101

This video brought Levees.org onto Editilla's Co'dar. The rest is Herstory.
I remember laughing "What the Hell?" --yet by the end of the day they'd pulled this video due to heavy legal threat and I was going "WTF"? So'z I call'em, and got off the phone thinking, "Well this is screwed. These people are really just a bunch of actual citizens! Gone'gone, the ASCECORPS gonna squash them like steam roller on a grass snake. You won't even hear the little thing fart on its way out." Well, ahem, by the end of the next day or so, this video was back up on youtube, going viral across the nation. It is a satire of children on the "officials'" reactions to levees.org videos like this one that Really had ASCECORPS ticked-off down to their rusty ball bearings. These videos marked the first time I'd ever seen Anyone prevail so quickly against the formidable weight of both the Corps of Engineers and their jail-cell punk lackeys the American Society of Civil Engineers.
ASCE meets CORPS to make a two headed baby that we've named ASCECORPS.
It wasn't until the following spring that I met Sandy Rosenthal, more or less on the battle front, at the 17 Street Canal Leak. I'm warping through time here.
Suffice to say this little group has become very much the Beotch'Wolf that roars above the simpering Corps and its Pied Ruppert leading a Creme-addled pack of rats into the rising tide.
Levees.org has gone on to author legislation and have it introduced in both Houses of Congress, advise our new mayor Mitch'mo on Flood Safety Task Force and above all shown the world the difference between the lying of the Corps of Engineers NO District and the Truth about why New Orleans flooded 8-29-05.
This Monday, August 24th, Levees.org will dedicate a La State Marker at the site of the 17th Street Canal Breach. A Metal Marker set in concrete which simply and clearly describes what happened there that day and why.
Paying heed to the Fullerean notion of Artifacts Not Politics, this small monument will out-last us --and especially, with its refutation, the Corps Lies.
The Corps may have started this, and tell us they "Build Strong", but it will be people like levees.org who will Finish This, and Finish Strong. Sinn Féin
~You are invited to Levees.org's 5th Annual Observance of the Worst Civil Engineering Disaster in U.S. History

Katrina shorthand fatigue
~Mark Moseley, The Lens

11 Days 2 Year 5:
A Photographic Journey
~NOLAFemmes

Camille used to be the storm everyone talked about here on the coast ~slabbed

And the Dam Began to Crack…Two Studies and the Fishermen Speak Out
~Disenfranchised Citizen

Head of Navy tours Gulf, shocked by amount of oil: “Wow, what are we in sir?” — Fisherman responds “Kind of looks like an UFO underwater, don’t it?” (VIDEO)~Florida Oil Spill Law
~WhoDat35 RT @PrjGulfImpact Public Comments at the Miss. Marine Resources Commission mtg. Aug.17th. http://fb.me/FXQpXsj4 #oilspill #blacktide

Ditty Vitty and Smurfette Landrieu surprise no one with their fetish for tag-team oil wrestling

18th Annual Cutting Edge Music Business Conference and Roots Music Gathering

Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame to honor Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew
~Keith Spera

Herman Leonard~Fred Kaplan, Slate

Levees.org 5 Years after the USACE flooded New Orleans~Is It Safe?

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David Waggonner interviewed in Harry Shearer’s “The Big Uneasy”

Face Value~Alex Woodward ~Gambit

Toxic Oil Settling on Gulf Floor

Nat'l Inst. of Health Oil Spill website
~Hat Tweet~bayougirlblog

Crabs In The Bulls-Eye: Timbalier Island ~Gulf Restoration Network

A Blog From Philippe Cousteau,
Speaking Out From New Orleans

The Gambit interview: Spike Lee

Actual books in actual libraries
~Library Chronicles

The 8/29 Bookshelf~Harry Shearer

The Dream is Over~Bayou Girl
~bayougirlblog Sign the petition 4 oil spill clean up workers to have respirators - they need them! http://bpmakesmesick.com/

Going Against the New Narrative – the University of Georgia, the American Medical Association and Mississippi Fishermen~Disenfranchised Citizen

JAMA: Is Gulf Seafood Really "Safe"? ~Kate Shepperd ~Hat Tip~Library Chronicles

Almost 80 percent of BP's spilled oil still threatens Gulf, report finds
~Facing South

Edrust has left the building! State Farm dumps its BP stock ~slabbed

Waste from oil spill cleanup has Gulf residents concerned
~Krissah Thompson

Study Faults the Corps of Engineers in Recovery Contracting for Small Businesses

12 Days 2 Year 5:
A Photographic Journey
~NOLAFemmes

Defend New Orleans reminds us that The BigUneasy will premier Aug 30th!
~Local screenings at Prytania Theatre & Canal Place on August 30th only. Prytania Theatre screening will be followed by a Q&A with Harry Shearer.

Why A Brush With Death Triggers The Slow-Mo Effect~NPR
~Editilla Flotellas~Why does this relate to our 5th Anniversary of the Federal Flood? Well, Gentle'rillas have caught some of my stories and others can fang back down the Ladder to posts at around this holy week of 8/29, both the week before and somewhat during the week following.
Let's ask the Angel of Grief and Loneliness...
As many people remember in that surrealistic way of nightmares, the time started stretching with each day that passed after the Corps Bad Levees Failed. My tank is nearing empty on retelling my own observances and experiences. What has made it to this Ladder is bad enough, while what has not can only remain passed over in silence...yet there were moments that I may never find the words to describe.
It is these and other moments that pay to the article above about Slow-Motion Live Fear During Catastrophe... or something like that. I had been through that before, where you are faced with Death and time slows down. This is true, and I have come to believe it a Nervous System Defense Mechanism.
(Sorry for the caps but I want to lay this out:)
During the Flood, so many "life-changing events" happened so often and in such relentless succession that Precedence became an obsolete, quaint law idea.
I can't count the times me and my friends would say "Damn! Never seen THAT before...", until it wasn't even funny anymore.
So many times something would happen to cause me to shake my head... sometimes trying to bury the image... sometimes in just abject wonder at my own peripheral vision's sudden astounding acuity.
I went through at least 3 Slow Motion Life/Death Situations... I mean, real dream stuff but real life slowed down like falling off cliff. But now I see it within the entire larger event of the flood that first week in New Orleans as the whole big thing moved slower in time and yet slower on each day that passed with no relief in sight. Follow that? "7 days" cannot cover it. The whole city moved into this lack of formal time --as every church clock had stopped ringing bells every hour which is really what always paced my days in New Orleans, and every other bank clock or whatever timepiece had stopped 8/29. Real Time had ceased since it wasn't needed as Real Civilization had ceased. Society seemed as if it had gone feral.
As I think back on these memories even still, some of them continue that slow motion replay as if that is actually how it happened... when I know that some of my own brushes with death were over in the blink of an eye...
...and thus I have lived to tell about it.
Here is one of my songs, started but not finished going on 3 years now....

~I'm going to take this little bone in my heart
I'm gonna put it in a glass box
with some candles and some broken clocks
just to see the sea of faces
stopping in the dark dark
~If you've 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
--under rooftops--in their backyards
--behind the family sofa
---while their Grand Mas banged against the walls
---abandoned in Saint Rita's.
----I don't really care what they say
----We heard it all before the Breach
----They may think they know what it means....
----To bet your soul... and find your self
-----losing.

Loyola law professor to sign new book this weekend~Robert Verchick, J.D., Gauthier-St. Martin Eminent Scholar and Chair in Environmental Law at Loyola University College of Law, will sign his new book, “Facing Catastrophe: Environmental Action for a Post-Katrina World,” this Saturday, Aug. 21, at 6 p.m., at Octavia Books, located at 513 Octavia Street, in New Orleans.

Eat your dinner, there are starving children~Poke Salad Granny

Update on TD5
~An air force reserve unit reconnaissance aircraft investigating the remnants of Tropical Depression 5 found a weak surface circulation located about 120 miles east of the mouth of the Mississippi River. However, the associated showers and thunderstorms remain disorganized and mostly removed to the southwest of the low-level center.

IT'S THE LEVEES STUPID?
It was The Flood of 8/29.
Why can't we call it simply that then everyone will know. The Flood of 8.29.05
To call it Katrina 5 is to bow to the Corps of Engineers. Period, and it is a low bow to the flooded ground. No more.
Can y'all join me in writing to the Director of the Louisiana State Museum to change the title and trust of marketing for their upcoming exhibit
"Katrina and Beyond"?
~"Living with Hurricanes documents the human struggle in the face of a natural disaster, incorporating everything from survivors' personal mementos to their thoughts and feelings.
It documents how the recovery has brought about innovations — turning the region into a laboratory of new ideas."
— Museum Director, Sam Rykels
That is a Lie. Let's write Sam and set him straight. Be nice. Don't say anything that you couldn't imagine your Ho'So Humble Editilla saying. HA!
While it is bad enough that our local journalist Bruce Nolan would continuously, lazily proffer this falsehood, I'm growing increasingly disturbed by the idea that our State Museum would enshrine Katrina as the cause of The Flood of 8.29.05.
Please think about that for Posterity's sake. Do you want grandchildren hearing about Katrina? Or wouldn't it be better for generations of our children to always know why New Orleans flooded 8.29.05: our US Army Corps of Engineers?
So this won't happen again? Right?
~ Editilla Jus'sayin, this is some fine Habanero sauce http://www.melindas.com/products.html #hotsauce #nola #nolaeats

Ga. scientists: Gulf oil not gone, 80 pct remains ~The scientists say as much as 80 percent of the oil still lurks under the surface. The Georgia team said it is a misinterpretation of data to claim that oil that is dissolved is actually gone. The report from University of Georgia and other scientists came from an analysis of federal estimates.
~Hat Tweet~Whodat35

Ala. Gov. Riley's order limits attorneys fees in Alabama's oil spill suit

New Orleans Judge Barbier Will Hear Gulf Spill Cases

Gulf Oil Spill and Memphis Seafood

Bird Care In Numbers

The Myth Is Real – Let’s Eat
– The Obama’s Visit Florida
~Disenfranchised Citizen

TarTurlebabies and The Myth of Sisyphus in Gulf Shores
~PDX 2 Gulf Coast

Uncovering the Lies That Are Sinking the Oil~Truthout ~Hat Tweet~bayougirl

Don’t waste a good disaster:
Spill could help The Hoff
~Mark Moseley, The Lens

Safety regulators caught in revolving doors~Houston Chronicle

US commerce secretary coming to Louisiana~La. shrimpers worry about prices for new season

Governor Babar creates MS oil-spill recovery panel

13 Days 2 Year 5:
A Photographic Journey
~NOLAFemmes

First Listen: The Marsalis Family, 'Music Redeems' ~NPR

Dr. Riki Ott Says Health Officials Covering Up Thousands Of People Sick From BP Gulf Oil Spill~Hat Tweet~Bayougirl



Gulf Health Problems Blamed on Dispersed Oil~Darh Jamal, Truthout
~Hat Tweet~Whodat35

TD 5 may redevelop over Gulf of Mexico
~The remnants of Tropical Depression Five are still spinning over southwestern Georgia, and the storm is headed southwards towards the Gulf of Mexico, where redevelopment into a tropical depression could occur by Tuesday.

Speaking of Hurricanes and Denying The Flooding of New Orleans...
~Bruce Nolan at the Times-Picayune proves once and for all that he is working for the people who flooded New Orleans 8.29.05: the Corps of Engineers NO District!
~Editilla spits bloody needles in cramps of memory~
So! Bruce Nolan wants to work for the Corps of Engineers! Well let's send him out the door with a nice kick in his traitor's ass! I want this lying asshole fired for lying to the public by impersonating a journalist at the Times-Picayune.
Some call him simply a "jerk" for consistently denying the cause of The Flood of New Orleans 8.29.05. While most of the T-P actual reporters, even Sheila Grisset, have come around to the danger of calling our devastation "Katrina", Bruce Nolan continues to sell the Corps meme of ALL KATRINA ALL THE TIME.
I have enough of a problem with the Louisiana State Museum setting up an exhibit for "Post-Katrina" New Orleans, but this is much more insipid, even sinister.
He is either completely stupid, or is using his ass for his brain to get a job writing PR is for the Corps of Engineers under the table. He is a liar of the worst sort who has always slyly skirted The Line that we all know only too well.
Everyone not stuck on the fictional TV show Treme remembers The Line.
It was EVERYWHERE and defines the difference between a Natural Disaster which missed New Orleans and the Man-made Disaster which crucified the city 8.29.05 with Criminally Negligent Engineering by the Corps of Engineers. Everyone knows this, at least everyone I've spoken to in the past 5 years.
So despite the Facts, the indisputable facts, that the Corps flooded New Orleans Nolan still writes articles that say Katrina did it ---and Jim Amoss published it!
Whoever knows this punk, can they please slap him on his junkyard dog nose?

New Blog! Poke Salad Granny!

Here's another fav-o-mine thang blog:
Notes from New Orleans
~If we could describe our feelings for the Big Red Cotton, in a word or a few...
it would be until the peacocks call, in the bald moonlight of an old pecan grove,
red shoes falling across the windshield of an old Ford,
writing their names in the Red Dust.
~Way cool, this from their video section! Check'em out, toll'im Editilla say High!

Many problems linked by one theme - degradation of coastal wetlands
~Bob Marshall

Ivor van Heerden punkin' for BP again
~“Research shows these plants will bounce back,” van Heerden said.
~Editilla Hotellas~Oh! What "Research" are you citing here, Ivor?
I know you bought-and-paid-for BP "scientists" are barking this, but all the other "Research" screaming at me says we better get on it and do something or our wetlands Will Not Bounce Back. Which is it, Ivor? Who should we believe?
So then tell me again why are we trying to save the wetlands now?

Insight: The oil's underhanded threat to life in the Gulf
~Those who find reason to celebrate that the Gulf isn’t quite dead shouldn’t be surprised a few weeks from now, in a few months or a few years, when there’s a call that something has gone terribly wrong: The marshes that provide 95 percent of our seafood harvest are disintegrating; the crabs, shrimp, oysters and fish we once caught abundantly are suddenly scarce or nowhere to be found.
~Please also see~Frances Coleman: Over? Not to those of us on the Gulf Coast ~Hat Tweet~judyb

FDA testing delays put crabbing in some areas on hold~Amy Wold

Scientists: Mississippi River could save Louisiana coast

Crews Garey Joins Cause for Louisiana Wetlands~Billy Witz

Ken Feinberg says he is ready to take your questions~John DeSantis

If a Hurricane Hits Gulf Oil, Bring the Lab, Not the Cleanup…
~Disenfranchised Citizen

Spending their golden years behind iron bars~James Gill~Michael Francis Mara, arrested in Baton Rouge last week, is a mere 52. By European standards, he is practically a juvenile delinquent. In Germany, for instance, he would never qualify for the so-called "Opagefaengnis" (Granddad Prison), in Singen.

14 Days 2 Year 5:
A Photographic Journey
~NOLAfemmes

~Herbie Hancock, Susan Tedeschi, and Derek Trucks
~Very Special Thanks to Citizen K

BP clears itself over oil spill disaster?
~BP has declared itself not guilty of gross negligence over the Gulf of Mexico oil rig disaster after an internal inquiry.

BP yet to update emergency plan three months after Deepwater Horizon spill

Tar balls, dead fish & no clean up crews worry Hancock Co. residents, despite MS Gov Babar saying oil is "not toxic" ~WLOX~Hat Tip~Florida Oil Spill Law

As the Narrative Turns…Fraudulent Fisherman…Agenda Setting in the Gulf
~Disenfranchised Citizen

BP, feds uncertain about final stage of killing well~Sandy Davis

Efforts to cap well in Assumption face setbacks~Nate Monroe

Children don't mean a thing, if you aint' got that bling~American Zombie

Crescent City Farmers Market confronts demand for 50 monthly city permits ~Masako Hirsch

Plan for new teaching hospital conflicts with New Orleans master plan, consultants say~Bill Barrow

New Orleans scales back recovery vision ~Michelle Krupa

Your favorite Flood-inspired art?
~Editilla Moves Onward~ It is time we all moved on from calling this Katrina to calling it by its true name: The Anniversary of The Federal Flood, the Corps' Flood or, as levees.org aptly and strongly continues to label it, The 5th Anniversary of the Worst Civil Engineering Disaster in US History.
It was NOT Katrina that crucified New Orleans 8.29.05.
It was Engineering Failure by the US Army Corps of Engineers.
Even as the Louisiana State Museum prepares to enshrine this catastrophe as Katrina, help us out here to keep the focus on what really happened and why.
For now I'll settle for just: The Flood of 8/29.

15 Days 2 Year 5:
A Photographic Journey
~NOLAFemmes

An Absurd Experience on the Beach
~PDX 2 Gulf Coast~Editilla Notellas~ Wish we'd found this blog sooner. Please make sure to hit the home page of this blog. Until you do: Making It Personal: Individual Stories From the Gulf
~The_Gambit Dear nat'l media: That "disappearing oil" is all over Orange Beach, AL. if you want to look: http://bit.ly/a8jeSK

BP's oil-spill waste dumped on communities of color~Facing South

Oil's toxic legacy not erased~Politico

FEMA will forgive $18 million hurricane recovery loan to St. Bernard Parish~Bob Warren

FEMA "boneyards" near New Orleans, ready to move in again?
~Judith Martin, GHN

Water control system to monitor closure of New Orleans floodgates

SkyTruth Work Helps Link Mountain- top Removal and Water Pollution

Oil expert: BP admits “4,200 psi on the well when it’s supposed to be dead”
~Florida Oil Spill Law

Thad Allen Pulls the Bullshit Train Again: New monitoring plan to be created to find oil from BP's oil spill

Did the Status Kill Work? Dissenting from the Company Storyline…shared opinions~Disenfranchised Citizen

BP Spill: Catastrophe, Sure. Disaster? Nah.~Mac McClelland
~Given the size and far-reaching devastation of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, you may have assumed that it qualifies as a federal disaster. Though you'd have been wrong, you wouldn't have been alone. "I am shocked that the Stafford Act has not been used for a declaration of federal disaster," says Mitchell Moss, disaster expert and professor of Urban Policy and Planning at New York University's Wagner School. "This is exactly why we have this policy tool—to provide federal aid in this kind of crisis." And that aid could be crucial to some coastal communities' survival.

President Barack Obama to visit NOLA for 5th anniversary of Federal Flood
~Editilla Conswellas~This is NOT an anniversary of Katrina missing New Orleans. This is the 5th year since the Corps of Engineers flooded New Orleans. Even though the Times-Picayune inexplicably REFUSES TO GET THAT, We All hope Mr President doesn't come here and say again that Katrina flooded New Orleans, as he did last year on his Elmer Gantry Tinkle Stop Tour.
The Rising Tide bloggers club might support the Corps of Engineers by again giving them a Venue, this time a rerun for their Corps Boy Tim Ruppert to misdirect away from current engineering malfeasance such as on Option 1, but let's hope our President will have finally learned by now who flooded New Orleans 8.29.05 and shows His'O'ners balls to admit it.
Frankly, given his past actions, I suspect and expect that he will use our Anniversary to deflect from his not only selling out the American People to BP but also, more importantly, not declaring this Oil Crime a Federal Disaster.

~Very Special Thanks to Humid Beings for watching our backs.

Facing the Oil: Women of the Louisiana Delta Nourish Hearts and Souls
~Georgianne Nienaber~Our fearless Ladder reporter and known media felon in drag brings out the Big Ova of Women who will stand up next to a mountain and chop it down with the edge of their hand, like one of our very favorites Grandmere Mimi of the Wounded Bird.

The Ladies' Guide to the Apocalypse

Claims Magazine updates the changes in BP spill claims. ESIS still out. Worley still in ~slabbed

PRObama to visit Gulf for photo opps

2005 Texas City refinery blast dogs BP

Workers try to block oil drainage
~Environmental contractors worked Thursday putting up dikes to block oil from running into swamps west of a wild well that erupted Wednesday in Assumption Parish, as forecasters predicted up to 3 inches of rain through Saturday morning, emergency and weather officials said. Click pic to enlarge.

City begins new era with approval of master plan~Ariella Cohen, The Lens

Recent Flooding Underscores Need For Drainage Upgrades~WDSU
~Pumps operating properly during flooding

Most New Orleanians optimistic five years after Katrina, poll finds

16 Days 2 Year 5:
A Photographic Journey
~NOLAFemmes

Kermit Ruffins new album Happy Talk

NASA astronaut to present space- traveling CD to Preservation Hall ~Keith Spera

A week's worth of good music in NOLA starting tonight! ~Allison Fensterstock

The Walker Percy Prize in Short Fiction

Kindra Arnesen Fights for Plaquemines Parish~Alex Woodward, Gambit
~She's tired and getting sick. Arnesen lost 33 pounds in 100 days.
"Someone said I look like I'm on drugs, I'm like, 'Yeah, fucking have some Corexit.'"

*Please donate what you can to Coastal Heritage Society of Louisiana
If you can spare a little, please give a little. If you have a lot, GIVE A LOT.
~We are black and white and every shade between, we fish, we shrimp, we swim in the bayous with alligators and then eat them at our festivals. We are Catholics, Baptists, Atheists, Voodouns‘ and all brands of faith. Faith is in no short supply here. We love to cook and love to eat, love our football team and our traditions. We are artists and musicians, oilfield workers and doctors, lawyers, fishermen and waitresses. We are Moms and Dads, Grandparents and kids, sisters and brothers and while we may not be related , we are all family.
We ARE the people of Coastal Louisiana - a people like no other in a place like no other and just in case you didn’t know - we are fierce and protective of our way of life. We stand together, all of us of different backgrounds, political affiliations, nationalities and views, united to protect what we love. Protect it we will. Please consider helping us make a difference with a small donation of $5.00 - $20.00 by clicking the Make a Donation button on the right side of the page.

The BP Cover-Up~Mother Jones

Alabama sues BP over Gulf oil spill

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USF says government tried to squelch their oil plume findings~Craig Pittman

We are getting reports that non existent evaporated oil is showing up again on Florida’s beaches ~slabbed

Where's the Oil? Here, There, and Everywhere~Georgianne Nienaber

Because we said so~Library Chronicles
~“The FDA is not monitoring fish and shellfish for the presence of Corexit in seafood because it is not considered a health risk,”

The Jaws Syndrome; Life Imitates Art On The Gulf Coast; The Crime of the Century Pt II~Jerry Cope

New Orleans Judge Picked to Handle Gulf Spill Suit ~NPR

British Petroleum, the Government and BlackRock – the Connection?
~Disenfranchised Citizen

Will BP Skip the Relief Well, Declare Mission Accomplished, and Abandon Ship Without Permanently Killing the Oil Leak? ~Washington's Blog

Gulf leaders wary over wavering on final plug

Relief Well Intersection Version 2
~Oil Drum

Sandra Bullock continues in Women of the Storm's Restore the Gulf campaign
~Bruce Alpert

Exploratory well blows near La. 70
~David J. Mitchel

Morgan City's Shrimp and Petroleum Festival is on, begins Sept. 2
~Brett Anderson

New Orleans' master plan moving forward with no clear source of funding for citizen participation element
~Ariella Cohen, The Lens

Film Screening: Harry Shearer's "The Big Un-Easy"~Humid Beings

17 Days 2 Year 5:
A Photographic Journey
~NOLAFemmes

Dave Eggers wins American Book Award for 'Zeitoun,' set in New Orleans!

Five Years Later, The Big Easy Pushes Forward~Alan Greenblatt
~Five years after Hurricane Katrina broke the levees and New Orleans was flooded, the city's health is much improved. But like many patients still in recovery, New Orleans has its good days and its bad days.
~Editilla Ho'tellas~Despite the glaring, offensive, textbook Katrina Shorthand in that opening line, we hung this one for a few reasons.
1) We got it offa Humid Beings and we LOVE Humid Beings because they come from the Dirty Coast where everyone should go right now.
2) The article does our Herolero Mayor Mitch'mo up right.
3) We generally like Greenblatt and it is a pretty good article. So there.
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Odd Words
~Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans

Pieces of Katrina: The Rising Voices of UNO Press~Chasing Ray

Seafood Safety and Politics Don't Mix: Opening of Gulf Fisheries at Odds With Evidence of Harm~Riki Ott

Feds CONFISCATE independent LSU scientists’ samples because project not approved by BP, others
~Florida Oil Spill Law
~Linda Hooper-Bui, Louisiana State University Department of Entomology Associate Professor, writes in The Scientist, “My PhD student’s ant samples were taken away by a US Fish and Wildlife officer at a publicly accessible state Wildlife Management Area because our project hadn’t been approved by Incident Command.”

MS Governor Haley Babar, Oil Expert~Kate Shepphard
~"Once it gets to this stage, it's not poisonous," Babar the Elephant said. "But if a small animal got coated enough with it, it could smother it. But if you got enough toothpaste on you, you couldn’t breathe."
~Editilla gotta axe~ Is this man this big of a clueless dumbass? Is he this stupid? Wha'happen to this guy who seemed so on the ball when Katrina ripped his state a new ass crack? Oooh that's right, we forget he is now running for President on the Elephant ticket and must think he needs to act like a totally ignorant, over- medicated, grits-for-brains fool. Silly meeses. I mean he only needs to market himself as moderately more quicker than Sarah Palin, but not actually smart, which would scare away the Tea Baggers.
~Please also see~NOAA Tried to Silence Reports of Undersea Oil Plumes

Nothing like America's Wetlands/BP Chevron/Women of the Storm PR to ruin a good delta breakfast
~Editilla Crowtellas~Oh, and btw, the now infamous BigUneasy documentary is being shown to Newseum (WhateverTF that is) ad nausea tonight before New Orleans gets a look at it. So much for ONE DAY ONLY PR HORSHIT. SpaceyG: Anyone going to see @TheBigUneasy at @Newseum tonight pls Tweet some pics/vid while there.

~Oh Snap! Here's Harry Shearer doing the PR thing for The BigUneasy. Go see the movie. It really doesn't matter that he showed it to the Brits first at The Big Chill Festival and tonight is putting it into some weird place called a Newseum before showing it to NOLA under the lie that it is showing "One Night Only".
Does it really doesn't matter, since we are now under a full court 1984 BP/Federal Government PRESS with BP/Chevron (whom he supports through Women of the Storm) forcing us to believe that 75% of the oil is gone? It really doesn't matter that the Corps of Engineers will succeed in leaving the remaining floodwalls intact with their Option 1 on our outfall canals. We Just The People do not matter here.
I doubt you will find out from this movie how integrally Big Oil/BP (who is fucking our coast with this next/current "man-made disaster") works with the Corps of Engineers. But watch this movie, you may learn something that you haven't heard before. But how does this relate to BP/Ivor van Heerden/Women of the Chevron Storm? How? Go see the movie, but can you change your congressional representative in the midst of all this incredible self-aggrandizing Public Relations? Can you? Doubt it. This really wouldn't matter if Harry Shearer's PR People, Grayson Daughters, hadn't started hocking Shit Luggies about the flood to promote their own thing and blocking access to those who disagree with that. It really changed everything and you can follow my tweets about that. I mean after now 3 years of battling Corps of Engineers PR Propaganda we just don't have the patience for web links with those we thought knew what it means. (why couldn't Harry Shearer hire a local person like Humid Beings to pump this movie instead of some Atlanta Ho who does not know what it means to miss New Orleans? I still haven't gotten that one) Not all of us can afford the resiliency of a condo in the French Quarter or a fine house uptown. We don't have the luxury of Time on our side. Who are we supposed to fucking believe here? Go see this movie.
In the meantime, the Oil is gone, and South Louisiana really isn't disappearing in an oil slick. I'm so sick of people humping their thing on the back of the flood of 8/29/05 that I can't even see straight now. What focus we have worked so hard to build is getting DISPERSED all over the country before NOLA gets a shot at it.
But go see this movie. And watch the Simpsons, Spinal Tap and a Mighty MFKN Wind. Parse it with Ivor van Heerden saying for BP everything will be OK in record Time. Time may be The Revelator, but Death is the Existential Quantifier.
I mean, after enough Shock people are ready to believe anything.
Harry wants to tell us how the Corps fucked us when their bosses are fucking us again right now. So show your goddamn movie to everyone except who suffered from the Stakeholder's avarice and greed. What is the MFKN difference, Harry?
~letwits Thanx to everyone who came to DC screening of "The Big Uneasy", and stayed to ask questions. Next stop for the film: NYC?

An Open Letter to the Remaining Oil in the Gulf of Mexico
~Disenfranchised Citizen
~SkyTruth Space station astronauts photograph lingering slicks from BP #oilspill near Mississippi Delta on July 23 - http://bit.ly/bE65Zq

From oil to 'y'all': BP discovers the language of the people
~Roy Peter Clark

Louisiana Fishermen Slam Claims that Oil Almost Gone, Seafood Safe

Much to BP’s chagrin, oil-spill-related lawsuits will be tried in Louisiana

Markey Says For BP To 'Make Things Right' It Must Stop Low-Balling Flow Estimates

BP Spill Fund May Be Backed by Drilling Revenue~Bloomberg

Well capped, BP accused of reneging on contracts

19 Days 2 Year 5:
A Photographic Journey
~NOLAFemmes

~Acrylic on cardboard. 18 x 9 1/2"~Polly Jackson

What Can Be Done To Avoid Man-Made Disasters~NPR~Man-made disasters are a fact of life, from the BP Horizon oil spill to the West Virginia mine explosion earlier this year to the levy failures during Hurricane Katrina five summers ago.

Let the New Narrative Fly On…
~Disenfranchised Citizen

Low pressure system in southeastern Gulf has medium chance of developing in next 2 days

Crabs provide evidence oil tainting Gulf food web

Monitors to check lakes for oil

Fines could help pay for repairs to the coast

BP deposits $3 billion into fund for claims arising from Gulf of Mexico oil spill~Jonathan Tilove

Governor keeping close tabs on hospital board~Stephanie Grace
~"I guess we should now send (Jindal) the agenda of our meetings so that the board knows how to vote," Tony Falterman said.

19 Days 2 Year 5:
A Photographic Journey
~NOLAFemmes

My Parents~Bayoucreole

94L
~A area of disturbed weather (94L) over South Florida is generating disorganized heavy thunderstorms over Florida and the adjacent waters, but is not a threat to develop today due to high wind shear of 20 - 30 knots. The latest SHIPS model forecast predicts that wind shear will fall to the moderate range, 10 - 20 knots, tonight through Thursday. This relaxation in shear may allow 94L to begin to organize. However, 94L will not have much time over the Gulf of Mexico to become a tropical depression or tropical storm, as steering currents favor a westward or west-northwestward motion over the Gulf that would bring the storm ashore over the northern Gulf coast by Wednesday or Thursday. NHC is giving 94L a 20% chance of developing into a tropical depression by Wednesday morning. The Hurricane Hunters are on call to investigate 94L on Tuesday afternoon. ~Wunderblog


~Hat Tweet~Rexdingler

Oil, Oil Everywhere, Not A Skimmer In Sight~Michelle Erenberg, GRN
~Today Jonathan Henderson and I flew over the wetlands in Louisiana and along the coast from Timbalier Bay to South East Pass. What we saw contradicted what we have been hearing from BP, the Unified Command, the administration, and the press.

Matt Simmons “drowned at his house”; “Found Sunday night in his hot tub”
~Florida Oil Spill Law
~Mr. Simmons, 67, had retired from the day-to-day operations of his firm in 2005 and left the firm in June, but he was still considered a major figure in the energy banking and research world, constantly speaking out on a number of controversial topics ranging from the “peak oil” theory to BP’s troubles in the Gulf of Mexico.~NYT

MS Governor Haley 'What Oil?' Babar says that nature will clean up oil in Gulf, says oil is non-toxic, no mention of dispersant

Oil penetrates previously pristine Mississippi marsh, weeks after well cap
~Swirls of oil float at the edge of stained marsh grass inside Horn Island's Garden Pond, one of several marshes on the island's interior, on August 8, 2010.
The oil penetrated deep into the green marsh grass, coating the stalks from the mud to about 18 inches up. But MS Governor Haley 'What Oil?' Babar says Nature gonna fix it.

Lines Across La.'s Chandeleur Sound

Shrimpers greet uncertain season
~Kevin McGill~Docked boats were bedecked with fluttering red, white and blue streamers and rainbows of balloons in a bayou-country, pre-shrimp season tradition known as the Blessing of the Boats. On the menu? Heaping trays of barbecued chicken, smoked sausage and potato salad — but no crabs or shrimp.

Bobby Jindal’s Lack of Transparency Rivals BP’s…~Disenfranchised Citizen

Past Disasters Offer Lessons On Legacy of Deepwater Spill~John McQuaid

Convincing public that Gulf of Mexico seafood is safe will take time, experts say~Chris Kirkham

Details of the Cement Kill~Oil Drum

Disasters and economic challenges may spur new entrepreneurial activity in New Orleans~Matthew Albright

How the U.S. Army Corp/Congress Destroys Cities~Creole Folks

Montegut faces strict regulations under new flood maps~Nikki Busky

What is the history of the Danziger Bridge?~Blake Pontchartrain, Gambit

20 Days 2 Year 5:
A Photographic Journey
~NOLAFemmes

R.I.P. Chief Al Morris- North Side Skull and Bones ~R.I.P. Clyde Kerr, Jr.

A Very Silly Dream~b.rox

New Orleans - Day Three!
~Martina's Moments

What Are Burnt Ends? And Why Are They So Delicious?~Serious Eats

Tooth Bus rolls free dental care into New Orleans neighborhoods
~Humid Beings

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu marks 100 days with 100 projects
~Michelle Krupa

Outside review of floodwall plans to be costly~Sheila Grissett

Dave Dixon, driving force behind our New Orleans Saints and Superdome, died this morning ~The team was to be called the Saints, a name Mr. Dixon had cleared with Archbishop Philip M. Hannan. "He thought it would be a good idea," Mr. Dixon recalled in an interview. "He had an idea the team was going to need all the help it could get."

Ladder Herolero Mark Schleifstein on Bob Edwards Weekend!

~When four young pelicans decided to put on a performance of 'synchronised billing' it became a hard act to swallow.The youngsters opened their bills together as a welcome downpour swept across the coast of New South Wales north of Sydney. ~Special thanks~Daily Mail
~Editilla jus'sayin~ Sometimes having such a Big Mouth can come in handy! Of course it helps if one doesn't usually have their foot stuck in it ahem. I love pelicans. It turns out that our Brown Pelicans are the only ones who dive for food. Here's more on our lovely threatened State Bird. ~Hat tip~ Sandy Rosenthal.
~Wonder what some birds say about BPFeds saying all the oil is gone?

Beauty of the Gulf of Mexico is only skin deep thanks to oil spill
~Bob Marshall
~Hat Tip~The Mosquito Coast ~Hat Tweet~docbrite

The Death of Delacroix
~Thanks Katrina

I will gladly pay you tomorrow, for the price of a hamburger today
~American Zombie

US urges more study of sea damage after BP spill

BP's next big gusher~J.P. Reynolds
~Since the tragedy in the Gulf struck on April 20, a veritable flood of litigation has ensued. As of the time of publication, over 250 civil lawsuits have been filed as a result of the disaster.

Corexit Poisoning: Coast Guard and Obama Administration Betray the People and Country They Are Sworn to Protect~Mark Sircus ~Hat Tweet~Jercope

Satan in a Sunday Hat~Bayou Girl

Oil spill plugged, but more oiled birds than ever are being found~Paul Rioux

NOAA map shows surface waters clear of oil, but crude sightings continue around coast ~al.com

Spike Lee to journalists: “You need to ask questions and not accept the lies being told” by BP and government
~Florida Oil Spill Law

Well plugged, recovery doubts remain
~"We're scared," fisherman Joey Yerkes, 43, said at a meeting Tuesday night in Destin, Fla., with Vessels of Opportunity participants, a BP program that pays boat operators knocked out of work by the spill to assist with response activities. "The end to the leak is good news, but the damage has been done," Yerkes says. "I believe they've destroyed our fish stocks, they've destroyed my living and I'm not sure the water is safe to be in."

Native people fight to survive BP oil

BP planning transition from cleanup to recovery~Naomi King

Semper Fi Nola!

Sunday Funnies~Citizen K

21 Days 2 Year 5:
A Photographic Journey
~NOLAFemmes

~"Trickster", acrylic on posterboard ~Polly Jackson
~Editilla Notellas~ We haven't been hanging Ms Polly's paintings for a while because we couldn't bring ourselves to mix them what's been going on in the Gulf. The link above goes to her blog, where she also posts wonderful short stories and essays as which never fail to level out my mood. I highly recommend checking out her paintings on her facebook wall and gallery website located there as well.

Glen Hall III, Leader of The Baby Boyz Brass Band~Red Cotton, Gambit