Mercredi

Recall organizers prepare suit in effort to remove Cao
~Dave Cohen, WWL

Joseph Cao: "I Might Be In the Closet"~Ryan Grim
~Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao, a Republican in a deeply Democratic Louisiana district, was welcomed on Tuesday night into the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus.
Addressing the group at a ceremony in the Capitol Visitors Center, Cao did a little bipartisan outreach. "Don't tell the Republicans, but I might be a closet Democrat," said Cao to a round of laughter.
~Editilla Swings a Happy Snap~
Weeeeeell, as a Conservative Christian Republican, Cao is Statistically more likely to be a Closeted pedophile, pederast, bathroom stalker, French Quarter John, exorcist, exterminator or meth’head cheese fucker. Jus’sayin…
Indeed, Joseph Cao’s party kinda leans to the Closet Lobby.
I think this is really his subconscious desires talking beneath a well suppressed “closeted” sexuality. And he wants it to come out… it needs help coming out, the way other fundamentalist Christians blithely toss that word “closet” around. Semantic sin… he has to be committing Semantic Sin in order for his Joke to work, right? In his mind Cao knows what the reference means because it exists there every minute of the day for Joseph Cao,
to wit: “I am Closeted”...and a DISGRASIAN™

New Orleans Releases Katrina
Recovery Worksheet~BBuzz

Brad Pitt to meet with Nancy Pelosi about New Orleans housing ~Citizen Sugar

Senate refuses McCain proposal
to strip billions in earmarks from bill
~Bruce Alpert
~Among the earmarks McCain (the bastad) cited as being "without justification" is $6.6 million for continued work by the Formosan Subterranean Termites Research Center in New Orleans. Photo curtsy~Wonkette.

DEQ responds to report that students in St. Charles, St. John and St. Bernard breathe some of the country's most polluted air
~Matt Scallan, Sandra Barbier

Did Governor PBJ LIE About
The 50 Ford Trucks Too?
What is the Governor's Job?
~Daily Kingfish

~After all, he's been a busy fundraising for his 2011 campaign ... $3.5 million in his first year as Governor. Lately however, he's been all over the nation raising cash:
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Fundraiser - Palo Alto, CA (1,834 mi.)
Fundraiser - Fairfield, CA (1,834 mi.)
Fundraiser - San Diego, CA (1,537 mi.)
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Fundraiser - Malibu, CA (1,626 mi.)
Wednesday, February 25 - Sunday, March 1, 2009
Vacation at Disney World - Orlando, FL (623 mi.) Fundraiser - (February 26)

Letter to Editor From Alaska:
Dear Governor Bobby Jindal,
I would like to point out that the money for volcano-monitoring is for the Eskimos in Alaska so that they will have early warning of an exploding volcano. With this early warning information, the Alaskan Eskimos will be able to evacuate the area in time to be able to save their lives. The politicians, the rich, the powerful and the white people have early warning systems to tell them when the volcano in their area is going to blow up on them. So, they will be able to get out of the area in time and save their selves.
The Republicans do not want money being wasted on the minority Eskimos to have early warning of an exploding volcano in their area. The Eskimos are not important politicians, not rich, not powerful and they are not white. Thus, they are expendable as far as the Republican Party is concerned. If the volcano in their area blows up and takes out the minority Eskimos, well, that is of no concern to the Republican Party.
Tell me this is not so for you and the Republican Party? Do you still say that the minority Eskimos of Alaska should not have early warning of a volcano that is going to explode in their area?
Sincerely, John Suter, Chugiak, AK
Bayoubuzz will be pleased to post a response.

Corps returns to bridge plan for
Causeway in Metairie
~Richard Rainey

Corps: Freshwater diversion complex~Amy Wold
~A ship navigates down the Mississippi River toward the gulf near Jesuit Bend as the surrounding marshland slowly collapses around it.
Photo: Ted Jackson

~New Orleans Council President Clarkson Wants Diversion For Coast~BBuzz

The Fallacy of Composition~Rick Brenner

Help Rush Limbaugh Pick A State For His 2010 Run!
(note: it's hard)~Daily Koz

Anglers drag half-ton shark into Port Fourchon ~Jeff Dute
~ Related~
Fishermen cited for having 85 sharks on their boat

Humane Society Undercover Lab Investigation Reveals 'Wretched Existence of Chimpanzees'
~The Humane Society of the United States says an undercover lab assistant videotaped "the wretched existence of chimpanzees and other primates" at the nation's largest primate lab in New Iberia, and found gross failures of federal oversight.

Ordinance allows cottages to stay~J.R. Welsh

OMG another “f” - Fugate to head FEMA~slabbed

Mississippi congressman Taylor renews wind insurance efforts
~Sean Reily~For Mississippi Rep. Gene Taylor, the condition of the private homeowners' insurance market along the Gulf Coast is reason enough for a government-backed windstorm program, and he's trying again to create it.

Alleged KKK imperial whizard pleads innocent in Lynch(ing)
~Benjamin Alexander-Bloch

A VIP Kids Second Line
~Big Red Cotton

Brenau Students Spend Sprink Break Helping Katrina Survivors

Area man grows, moves big trees ~Ed Cullen

Doors now open to flood museum~The 1927 Flood Museum in Greenville, MS, which houses the largest collection of 1927 flood memorabilia anywhere, officially opened Monday in the carriage house behind the Wetherbee House on Hinds Street.

Gigantic gem is subject of LA
court case~Linda Deutsch


~The emerald was dug up in Brazil in 2001 and became known as the Bahia Emerald.
Its first owner was a Brazilian gem trader who made the first sale of it. But after that, its route became muddled. At one point, it wound up in a warehouse in New Orleans that was flooded during Hurricane Katrina. This undated image provided by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's office shows an 840-pound emerald which will remain in the custody of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department while a judge decides which of a half-dozen claimants owns the boulder-sized rock, appraised at $370 million.

The planes in Spain fall mainly on the trains~Jerome Socolovsky
~AVE High-Speed Rail Network

Building good schools in tough
times~Architectural Record

"Images of New Orleans: Musicians, French Quarter, Mississippi River Wharfs" Opens March 6th and continues through March 31 in the Sharon Weiss Gallery, 20 E. Lincoln St. Columbus, OH .
~Editilla Con'tellas~Where is This??? Let us know!

Carry Me Home published
~Wet Bank Guide

Author Louis Maistros conjures
the ghosts of New Orleans past in
'The Sound of Building Coffins'
~Susan Larson

Baked Oysters with Fresh Thyme
and Sweet Garlic Butter
~Serious Eats

Fats Domino's 81st Birthday
Celebration, Tipitina's Saturday

Irvin Mayfield's Jazz Playhouse
to open in Royal Sonesta
~Keith Spera

St. Louis Jazz Cafe to open
~St Louis Jazz Notes

Mardi

The Inspector General’s Crime Camera report: download it here

Christian Group Takes University To Court On Free Speech Policy

As NOLA Charter Schools Thrive,
Tensions Grow~Larry Abramson

I Don't~Kevin Allman
~In its 1997 session, the Louisiana Legislature passed several important bills. It legalized slot machines at state racetracks, declared shooting a carjacker to be justifiable homicide and redefined marriage.

Obama Suspends Bush Rule on
Endangered Species
~Kate Galbraith, NYT

President Obama gets his Zulu Coconut ~Jonathan Tilove

The Star- Spangled Banner
~Made the national anthem by a congressional resolution on March 3, 1931, which was signed by President Herbert Hoover.
(Editilla would just like to point out the Irony here in Spades.)

Louisiana's incarceration rate is No. 1 in nation

Bill would allow concealed guns
on college campuses
~Ed Anderson

Talking “flood” with Noah and the NFIP~slabbed
~According to the NFIP Summary of Coverage, a flood is
“A general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of two or more acres of normally dry land area or of two or more properties (at least one of which is your property) from one of these sources."

Students spend Spring Break working on Katrina-damaged homes

Fishing pier to be added at Houma’s downtown marina ~Naomi King
~The area underneath the eastern side of the downtown twin spans remains undeveloped, but federal storm-recovery money could change that. A public fishing pier and other improvements could be built there as part of a plan to revive fisheries.
Photo: Emily Schwarze

EIS math error may under-
estimate risk of ariakensis oyster
introduction ~Karl Blankenship
~Last October, the Army Corps of Engineers and the states of Maryland and Virginia released a 1,500-page Environmental Impact Statement that analyzed the risks and benefits of various oyster management alternatives aimed at restoring the ecological and economic role of oysters in the Bay.
The draft EIS outlined three main options.
One used only native oysters for aquaculture and restoration; another used native oysters for restoration but would allow the use of sterile C. ariakensis oysters in aquaculture; and a third option would allow the introduction of breeding C. ariakensis oysters in the Chesapeake.
But a Maryland oyster gardener who reviewed the 1,500-page document discovered huge math errors in the EIS which, when corrected, suggested that an introduction of the foreign species would be inevitable from the large-scale aquaculture option.

La. delegates want Gulf Coast recovery disencumbered
~Shreveport Times

Federal agency awash in arrogance

FEMA rule means La. fire dept
can't rebuild~Chris Kirkham

Simple online disaster com using
RallyPoint~Daniel Terdiman

Dunceball: Obama vs. Limbaugh
~The Huck Upchuck

Governor ta'Geaux: Bobby Jindal
~Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal on Monday night said that he was glad to see RNC Chairman Michael Steele apologize to Limbaugh after Steele had called the conservative talk show host's program "incendiary" and "ugly."
"I'm glad he apologized," said the Child Governor, appearing on CNN's Larry King Live. "I think the chairman is a breath of fresh air for the party. As I said before I think Rush is a leader for many conservatives and says things that people are concerned about."

When I lived in New Orleans
~Uncommon Priors

PSFK Talks to Dirty Coast

Phantasmagorical
“Antiabecedarian” Art Show
in New Orleans
~Dark Roasted Blend
~Editilla T'n'T to Ecstatic Days

ArtSessions Panel Discussion
—Street Art, Part I: The Mark
~casa de Charlotte della luna

Not so subtle: Iran’s Inter-
national Film Festival to Screen
TWENTY Katrina films
~Intermap

Iggy Pop to release jazz album steeped in French literature?
~The Stooges' leader made the announcement in a video originally posted on his official website, holding court at the side of a swimming pool. "I just got sick of listening to idiot thugs with guitars, banging out crappy music," Iggy said, "and I was starting to listen to a lot of New Orleans-era Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton type of jazz." Watch Iggy’s erudite blathering all the way to the end to hear one of the proto-punker’s
New Orleans jazz-influenced tracks, "King of the Dogs".

Alex McMurray Returns to NYC
~NolaFunk NYC

"Unwigged & Unplugged," an acoustic 30-city tour in honor of “This is Spinal Tap." at 25

Music Review: Brasil Brazil 3
~Kit O'Toole



Make them Stoooooooooooop!

Terence Blanchard offers an alternative to 'The Circus'

Trombone Shorty documentary wins award

Lundi

San Francisco resident rallies
support for La. wetlands
~Laura McKnight
AP Photo~Bill Haber, with Hat T'n'T to John Tibbetts

Federal report calls for action to
save wetlands~Nikki Buskey
~The report, Status and Trends of Wetlands in the Coastal Watersheds of the Eastern United States (pdf), found that coastal wetlands lost a total of 59,000 acres each year.

KKK whizard to be arraigned in Lynch lynch case

New Orleans Ethics Review Board begins search for new Inspector General
~Louisiana Weekly

Just when you think it's Butter...
Carl(y) Rove(r) sayz Bush admin
'fulfilled' its Katrina duty'thing
~David Edwards and John Byrne

Pope'A'dope, Holy See 'No Evil' exonerates polluted bishop


Galette de Lundi
~Editilla Rotellas~Dat'Franchy'fo: Slabbin'Mondays!

Miss. would get billions if
spending bill OK'd~Ana Radelat

Managing a stimulus windfall ~Steve Hargreaves

Mine waste trips up Alaska gold rush~Kim Murphy

Another skirmish over Asian oysters~Tim Wheeler

Appliqués Speed New Tech To
the Front~Robert K. Ackerman
~U.S. Army researchers are speeding innovations to the battlefield by attaching them to system upgrades or adding them to large programs on the verge of fielding. The prevalence of software-driven systems allows for non-hardware improvements, and the modular nature of an increasing number of systems allows for new developments to be incorporated into them without adversely affecting their timeline or performance.

Pantry Ghosts~Serious Eats

Grandma’s Finnish Biscuit
~Aroma Cucina

Alligator Prepares New Release
From Eric Lindel ~DirtyLinen

Dimanche

Paul Harvey ... Good Day!
ABC Networks Memorial

VIP Ladies & Kids Social Aid and
Pleasure Club Annual 2nd Line
~Big Red Cotton

Antoinette K-Doe's funeral was an appropriately colorful farewell~Keith Speara


Earth Angels ~Katy Reckdahl
~Photo: Susan Poag
Delgado Community College Funeral Service Education students Shana Hickerson and Lyndsey Douglas try to prop up a headstone on a badly maintained grave at Holt Cemetery in New Orleans Saturday, February 28, 2009 during a clean up sponsored by Save Our Cemeteries that continues the work done by the Funeral Service Education students at Delgado Community College to clean up the neglected city owned cemetery. Any bones found were reburied.
Students from Delgado began cleaning up the cemetery as a class project last year and Saturday they were joined by volunteers from the Navy at NAS/Joint Reserve Base in Belle Chasse, Lusher High School, Brother Martin High School and community volunteers to help weed, pick up trash, straighten headstones.

Sunday Funnies, Railroad Blues ~Citizen K

Filipinos moving to New Orleans
area for school, restaurant jobs
~Mark Waller

Reality check...
~I would like some straight up advice on New Orleans, I have some ideas, but more information is always good. I'm considering moving here for school and life experience. I've looked over some of the recent posts and read some of the memories.
I have questions, if anyone is interested in answering them.

Green in the Red~Chad Calder

Group Targets Flawed Federal Levee Policies in Puget Sound
~An Army Corps of Engineers policy to remove trees and other vegetation from levees on Puget Sound area rivers jeopardizes endangered salmon and may compromise flood protection, American Rivers said today in a 60-day notice of intent to sue letter to the Corps.

Weekend Discussion:
Privatization of Water ~Aguanomics

Windmills on the Water?
'Potential is high' for offshore
wind power~Sherri McWhirter

Fence protects while it divides
~John MacCormack

La Fête du Citron
~Menton Daily Photo

The New Orleans Kid Camera Project

Painter celebrates indomitable
spirit of New Orleans: The Paintings of Linda Langhorst ~Kaizaad Kotwal
"Images of New Orleans: Musicians, French Quarter, Mississippi River Wharfs" continues through March 31 in the Sharon Weiss Gallery, 20 E. Lincoln St. Columbus, OH .
~Editilla Notellas~ The above painting is from the Artist's website, and may not be in the show March 6th.

The U.S. Army Blues Swamp
Romp Voodoo Boogaloo
~all about Jazz

Shreveport drummer Brian Blade performs in free concert at Loyola University

The Radiators-Recommendation
of the month~Skydog's Elysium

Samedi

Any one of us could have caught a bullet on Mardi Gras
~Chris Rose~A million-to-one. Is that good enough odds for you? It's not like you're trying to draw an inside straight or roll cat's eyes or even pick a winning pony. All you have to do is not show up at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Jarvis DeBerry: Violence mocks our state of denial

Good news and bad news for LA
in President Barack Obama's
budget proposal~Bruce Alpert
DIXCLAIMER! WARNING! BAT SIGNAL!

Louisiana would receive millions from bill~Ana Redelat

Katrina insurance litigation - selected Nationwide and State Farm cases ~slabbed

Federal commission studies recovery plans for children
~Sarah Chacko

Landrieu Unveils 9-Month Investigation into Federal Housing Response Following Hurricanes Katrina, Rita
~This is the first and only comprehensive investigation of the housing catastrophe that ensued after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck the Gulf Coast within three weeks of each other.
It reveals that HUD sought to play a greater role in housing recovery, but the Bush Administration rejected HUD's efforts.

Louisiana to seek New Orleans-
Baton Rouge passenger rail line
from federal stimulus pot that
Jindal called wasteful

John McCain still really hates
science~Phil Plait
~So, Senator McCain, let me make this clear: you, amateur exorcist and creationist Bobby Jindal, and the rest of your backwards-facing antiscience reality-denying brethren may huff and puff and say ridiculous things — and I’m sure you’ll continue to do so — but a lot of people see right through it, and a majority of the American voting population rejected it last November.

Jindal at the Alamo~lacoastpost

Mississippi soil to restore marsh

The Department of Homegrown Security~Chip Ward

Coming up in the Gambit:
America, Meet Bobby Jindal

Lose a favorite recipe in Katrina?
Mmmmmm Oyster Soup!

Guitar Saint Snooks Eaglin gets
rousing jazz funeral send-off by
Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas
and more~Keith Speara

Snooks Eaglin Memorial Roundup~NolaFunk NYC

Vendredi

Front Towards Enemy
~BAGnewsNotes

"For seven years, we have been a nation at war.
No longer will we hide its price."
~President Barack Obama
Special thanks, photo: Mathieu Grandjean

Mardi Gras in The Treme
~Big Red Cotton~"Many years ago I lived in Brazil. And no matter how much acai or cafezinhos or palm oil consumed, I could never ever keep up with my Brazilian friends and their partying - and I didn't even have a job during that time. I came to the realization at that point that to live in Brazil, one must develop *Brazilian*party*muscles*. Editilla Asstrixations.
This means learning how to survive on little to no sleep in pursuit of the party, knowing all hangover cures and at what point to activate which one, and attending each and every important celebratory function because, God forbid, folks raise the subject of 'that parade' or 'that party' and you can't add to the conversation because you weren't there.
New Orleans is Brazil, in North American form."

~A black wreath accented with Mardi Gras colored ribbons hangs on the shuttered door of Ernie K-Doe's Mother-in-Law Lounge along with a funeral notice for New Orleans icon Antoinette K-Doe.
The widow of singer Ernie K-Doe died of a massive heart attack on Mardi Gras. The notice says she will lie in state at the bar, on the corner of
N. Claiborne and Columbus, from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. today.
Photo & Comments~Eliot Kamenitz/The Times-Picayune

Jindal Admits Katrina Story
Was False~Zachary Roth
Editilla T'n'T~ Masqued E'vinga!

Megan McArdle's Jindalmania
~Pushing Rope

The Mickey Mouse In Louisiana
Gov Bobby Jindal
~Stephen Sabludowsky

~Once again, Editilla finds salivation slabbed!

CPAC debuts hyper-gesticulative,
ubber-prolixitive 13 year old
Infomercial Coach as alternate
to Jindal's Slumdog Bankruptcy ~Huffington Post

National Guard leaves New Orleans, ends crime-fighting

Parker Secures Client’s Freedom
~David Winkler-Schmit

Landrieu, Cao: N.O. FEMA chief should resign~Gerard Sheilds

Obama budget calls to commit to Gulf Coast projects
~Bruce Alpert

Disaster aid plan approved
~Allan M. Johnson Jr.

IberiaBank returns federal stimulus money

Most likely to be impeached? ~James Gill~The race to be named federal judge most likely to be impeached has been nip and tuck, but we always knew the winner would come from this very circuit.

Flood-zone work won't get money ~Chris Kirkham

Flood of questions
~Dave Caldwell~Dana Werner of the Corps of Engineers said Thursday that federal law now effectively prohibits the Corps from recertifying even its own work.

Agencies, enviros question levee
vegetation policy~Phuong Le

Mardi Gras Indians 2009
~A Minha Vida

Keith Spera's Music Listings

Jeudi

Landrieu calls for FEMA's
Louisiana chief to resign ~Desiree Evans

Cao asks for criminal
investigation into FEMA office ~Susan Edwards

FEMA's "Toxic Bureaucracy"
~CBS News has learned workers there accuse their bosses of intentionally holding up Katrina aid.

Busy Busy Bobby: Jindal’s a
‘60 Minutes’ man~Kevin Allman
~Editilla wanna smella~ Who'dat PR Firm is pushing our Little Peeyou? Enquiring Gentle'Rillas wanna know!

US Mayors Criticize Louisiana Governor Jindal~BBuzz

ICF subcontractor HGI to take
over role running Road Home
hurricane recovery program ~David Hammer

Cost of Keystone Corps project-
protecting Industrial Canal area-
doubles ---DIXCLAIMER!
~Editilla Show'N'Tellas~
This is the Betting part of the 3 Card Monty / Shell Game, where the "Tosser" sayz to the Sucker: "Show me YOU got Money to bet. Right Now! Show me Yo'Money! Lemme see the Money!!! NOW!!!!" at which point in the shuffling distraction the "Tosser" can then move the ball, seed or Monty card while We the Suckers take our Eyes Off the Game.

This is depressing, unmitigated Jack Ass Shit going down in Louisiana, to wit: from our piss'ant Governorcist running for President, Monkeying the Party Line the detriment of our State, to the insane lobby ass'trashing Charity Hospital, to the inexplicable delays and costs overruns with Morganza to the Gulf flood protection, to our sniveling little child governor, creationists, bitch'punk lackey Peeyoushing the funding for geoscientific (disaster) data collection... to the recent Corps design changes along the lakefront flood protection...
The only problem is that we can walk away from a common street Carney shell game. But, we cannot walk away from engineering slight of hand. We may run from it, but once it is done it is done.

Goddamn these heinous street thugs in the Corps of Engineers.
This is extortion, domestic terrorism by pushing the project to levels of Risk Fear Marketing. I'm scared, not of Heavy Weather but of Lying Engineers --as then all we are dealing with is Liars!
The Corps of Engineers holds a Gun to Our Head.
We Will do their project the Corps Way or They Will Kill Us.
This is not really just a simple 3 Card Morality Play, but syndicated tribal warfare, where the living don't count.

Why is this happening? Why are we finding out about such deep corruption of the funding process by the Corps Only Now?
Who is running this racket? Who amongst us signed-up to get so screwed? Who amongst us really understands just how deep the Corps has its Finger Stuck In Our Infrastructure???
I'll bet we could ask lacoastposter child and ASCECORPS TITAN: Gerald Galloway or ASCECORPS Consultant Medal Winna on the SLFPA-E levee board: Tom Jackson or local ASCECORPS blog'sniveler: Tim Ruppert. Geez I wonder if this deck shuffling has anything to do with the MRGO lawsuit? Naaaaaa....who cares? Somebody in America cares...

Growing disconnects between
Obama and Jindal-Vitter could
portend serious coastal
consequences~lacoastpost

Corps of Engineers' flood study cost increases; Cedar Rapids agrees to front Corps funds to keep study going~Jim Prosser
~It’s never a great confidence booster when the city of Cedar Rapids is fronting the federal government money. That is the case, though, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers feasibility study of Cedar Rapids’ flood-protection needs. The two-year study now is expected to cost $7.5 million, up a couple million dollars from previous estimates.

Destiny Does Dallas, or: Why the
Corps' "Unacceptable" Levee
Rating is a Blessing~Jim Schutze
~Only problem? Only the levees keep downtown from being wiped out every spring and summer when the river floods. The arrangement of downtown is a fist in the air to Mother Nature, a defiance. Some people love that stuff. It's the can-do spirit of the city, they will say. And I can live with that, as long as the city takes the risk very seriously.

Architecture Research

American Institute of Architects New Orleans Chapter Announces 2009 Design Awards

Dead of Night begins shooting in New Orleans

Kosmic Frenchmen Purple Face ~Jeff Lamb

'Let's Bake with Beulah Ledner' filled with New Orleans bakery's recipes ~Judy Walker

Funeral arrangements set for Antoinette K-Doe
~Alison Fensterstock

JoJo Hermann:
A Bayou Gratitude
~Jonathan Stumpf

Mercredi~Ash not what your country can do...

Give It Up

Antoinette K-Doe Passes on Mardi Gras Day ~Nolamotion
~Keith Speara~Gambit


Sexy President Obama's 1st
State of the Union Address~Video
~Governorcist Bobby Jindal offered the Grand Old Predicable, Limp Bisquet, Palin'quine, Michael Brown Jonestown Cult Bride Kool Aid Communion Retarte Retread of promising not to come in the nation's mouth again --if they could just get another shot.

Gnashed in double'licious apoplexy, Editilla cannot even find the energy to link to such inelegant pablum. And'ah, as Gentle'rillas well know, we only go in for da'pristine infantile toofy mastercatin here on da'Ladda.
<~Handmaiden's Tail?
Sarah wears Red. Peeyou want Sarah. They all do, all the remaining men in the Republican Party --and som'a'da Not Men too! Red...
Sarah. Red. Saraaaah! Red.
The color of Game.
Suffice to say, little Peeyou just could not raise his game above looking and sounding like a bull's branded jailhouse punk slumdog tour guide trying to imp Jimmy Stewart as "Mr Smith" to a full busload of Crackers on Crack in a Cracker Barrel across the street from the Universal Studios Mardi Gras Crack House.
Perchance Thin'skinned Edtitilla might bee hiving charitably.
...or Good Thing adults don't go to Sunday School.
Ok! Ok! So since we support the fairness doctrine, and all dat'doo,
here's our Child Governor's Soiree' into the Presidential Arena!

Louisiana Gov Jindal, Obama Speeches Lacking: Wrong on Unemployment Benefits
~Stephen Sabludowsky
~Oyster has a great post of Reactions to the Peeyou'z Flame Out, from everyone all over da'place --except yer Noble Ladder. HA!
Jeez Louie, what's a crumb gotta do to get a po'boy in dis'joint?

Possibly Toxic Chinese Dry Wall In New Orleans?

Napolitano tackles delivery of
storm aid~Bruce Alpert
~Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will tell a congressional committee today that she is assigning a new team of senior staff members at the Federal Emergency Management Agency to improve the delivery of federal aid and resources for hurricane recovery along the Gulf Coast.

April Fool - the joke’s on Allstate
(and) We haven’t blogged on it because we knew…..~slabbed

County, Corps dispute status of pumping station ~Once again, Henderson County officials have taken flood recovery efforts into their own hands, much to the puzzlement of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Taj Mahal, Irma Thomas to be inducted into Blues Hall of Fame

Mardi Gras!!!

Special T'n'T~Jeff Lamb

Hey Now!
Where'Yat?

Care is all stuff:
—Puff! Puff:
To puff is enough:
—Puff! Puff!
More musky than snuff,
And warm is a puff:
—Puff! Puff!
Here we sit mid our puffs, Like old lords in their ruffs,
Snug as bears in their muffs:—Puff! Puff!
Then puff, puff, puff; For care is all stuff,
Puffed off in a puff:—Puff! Puff!
“Ay, puff away,” cried Babbalanja, “puff; puff, so we are born, and so die. Puff, puff, my volcanos: the great sun itself will yet go out in a snuff, and all Mardi smoke out its last wick.”
“Puffs enough,” said King Media, “Vee-Vee! haul down my flag. There, lie down before me, oh Gonfalon! and, subjects, hear, —when I die, lay this spear on my right, and this pipe on my left, its colors at half mast; so shall I be ambidexter,
and sleep between eloquent symbols.” ~for Ashley Morris


Parades Today!
Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club
Uptown 8:00 a.m.
Krewe of Rex
Uptown 10:00 am
Krewe of Elks Orleans
Uptown 11:30 a.m.
Krewe of Crescent City Uptown after Elks
Krewe of Argus Metairie 10:00 a.m.
Krewe of Jefferson Metairie after Argus
Krewe of Elks Jefferson Metairie after Jefferson
Lions Covington 10:00 a.m.
Krewe of Covington Covington, after Lions
Krewe of Grela Gretna 11:00 a.m.
Krewe of BES Gretna 12:00 p.m.


Krewe of Houmas
Houma 11:00 a.m.
Krewe of Kajuns
Houma follows Houmas


Krewe of Bonne Terre Montegut 4:00 p.m.
Krewe of Skunks Lacombe 1:00 p.m.
Krewe of Chahta-Ima Lacombe 1:00 p.m.

Follow Me, Chicken! I'm Full of Corn!!!
Suivez-moi, poulet! I'm complètement de maïs!!!

New Orleans urban unschooling:
Free to live and learn
~Laura Garbers

Corps of Engineers says their own risky levees no longer qualify for federal rehab funds
~Peter Eisler
~More than 100 levees in 16 states flunked maintenance inspections in the last two years and are so neglected that they could fail to stem a major flood, records from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers show.
The 114 levees received "unacceptable" maintenance ratings in corps inspections, meaning their deficiencies are so severe that it can be "reasonably foreseen" that they will not perform properly in a major flood, according to the records, which were requested by USA TODAY. As a result, the corps is advising state and local levee authorities that the levees no longer qualify for federal rehabilitation aid if damaged by flood waters.
~Editilla gonna screw this Camel tru'da needle!
{Jus'cause it's Mardi Gras doesn't mean we can't get into a little... "V" for "Visceratin"!}
Wake Up America and smell where we been steppin! As levees.org restlessly rollin'n'tollin'yaz, it ain't just about New Orleans!
NO SOUP fo'You, America! Take it to da'Exquisite Corps!
If they build it...they will come --like where, in our...?
OoooK'ville! Who built these levees? Don't answer that!
Assume the Position! Pay no Attention to that Man behind the Levee! Who the are these assholes? What a racket! Wata'racket!
What an Ugly Red Herring that Quacks like a Duck!

Name me ONE engineer who would sign a contract to take Financial Responsibility for the failure of any structure they did not design and/or build. That is simply not the way professional engineering works and the Corps knows this better than anyone. Engineers do not sign-off on the Risks of Failure on any structure that They Did Not Design. HA! Gimme a forkin'break for goddess sakes and find another gimp leg to stand on, Gerry Galloway!
Yet while the Corps still has yet to take responsibility for recent catastrophic failures, they would have We The People Swallow this future-markets storyline that failure is related to costs, and that both costs and failure are inherent in Civil Engineering. That is a fundamental untruth of unsound engineering, though obviously a bedrock Corps Principal of Design, as with the Federal Levees that failed this past summer all along the Mississippi River, or the systemic design flaws within their entire network of federally built and maintained infrastructure, or not to mention the entire flood protection system in name only which failed in New Orleans in 2005.
Again, pay no attention to the Corps Issues.
Should we trust this Gerald Galloway and his ASCECORPS?

The entire premise of this article rests on the latest Spin'Filtration by the Corps of Engineers, and dead flies in the face of legal precedence, and the Corps own design policy. I'm telling you this stuff is dealt by Public Relations Professionals.
Complete ubber'bullshit policy they attempt to pass as mandate:
"We build it. You have to maintain it to our engineering standard. When it fails (due to our substandard design?) then you, small town America, are up shit creek without a paddle and no flood insurance --ya'losers, silly citizens, stupid tax payers. HA!"
Can everyone do the levees.org thing and go after articles like this, comment on their biased boo'rah?

Corps of Engineers rates Dallas
Trinity River levees unacceptable~Rudolph Bush

Lawsuit challenges Missouri River water plan~David A. Lieb
~The Missouri lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., against both the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which manages the Missouri River's dams and navigation system. The lawsuit by Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster contends the environmental assessment never considered alternatives to the water diversion project, nor how it would affect people in downstream states. It asserts that the Missouri River supplies water for about half of Missouri's 5.9 million residents while also supporting the state's shipping and agricultural industries.

Iowa Flood Victims:
Waiting For Answers
~While the city had mentioned possible buyouts for homeowners, Linda's family got tired of waiting. They started re-building - sinking their life savings into the effort.
But then, last December, the Army Corps of Engineers announced Linda's house is in a zone for construction of a new levee to be built sometime in the future. When exactly? No one knows.

Iowa Lawmakers push for faster results in flood planning
~PVTFloodResponse

More building in the flood plain? ~Karen Cohilas

Gore Pulls Slide of Disaster Trends~Andrew C. Revkan

Hold your oysters...

Mardi Gras 2009: NYC Survival Guide~NolaFunk NYC

As Mardi Gras Rages, City's Music Scene Struggles to Recover ~Rolling Stone

Lundi Gras

Zulu's 2009 Lundi Gras Festival

Downtown riverfront hosts arrivals of Rex and Zulu

9th WARD MARCHING BAND
Lundi-Gras night

~Parades Today!~
Krewe of Proteus Uptown 5:15 p.m.
Krewe of Orpheus Uptown 5:45 p.m.
Krewe of Zeus Metairie 6:30 p.m.
Krewe of Cleopatra Houma 6:30 p.m.

Inside the Superdome for Endymion ball~Lauren Wilbert

Ladders at Endymion
~Mosquito Coast

Hail Thoth!~The Huck Upchuck

Drunken Float Driver Arrested After Float Flips In Church Point

Small towns draw huge crowds
for Mardi Gras celebrations ~Shay Randle

The Challenge~First Draft

Plenty of Nothin' for New Orleans?~Harry Shearer

A New Orleans Intifada?
~Jordan Flaherty~A Grassroots Movement Rises in the Arab Neighborhoods of New Orleans???
~Editilla Casa'blinkas~At one time I sold Mardi Gras Beads Wholesale for an Iranian Jew down in the Marigny, after I had already worked for his Muslim friend, Ali, at the Cafe' down the street. Now THAT was an axis believe it, but nothing like riding delivery for the Turkish Mafia in the Quarters but you didn't hear that from me. Other than a rather worldly misunderestimation of Western Pay Scales I found them to be some of the coolest exotic people with whom I have ever worked.
But neither was even remotely Arab.
Soooo, buuuut ...where are these volatile "Arab neighborhoods"? These festering enclaves that this author would incite to jihad? Hmmmm? I would be willing to bet that he has coffee with that prick author of the Race War Chronicles.
Why can't these weirdo ax'grinders just leave us alone?

Models for Urban Planning
~Terrance Russell

Homeless radiothon is on air here today~Kat Bergeron

Crawfish crop weakened ~Advocate

Challenges of corn ethanol make
sugar more attractive
~Jeremy Alford

National Guard Gears Up for 2009 Hurricane Season
~Soldier of Fortune
~Notes from the NORAD blog.

Missouri River
~The Missouri River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, and the longest river in the United States of America.
The Missouri begins at the confluence of the Madison, Jefferson, and Gallatin rivers in Montana, and flows through its valley south and east into the Mississippi north of St. Louis, Missouri. At 2,540 miles in length, it drains about one-sixth of the North American continent.

Report warns of flooding risk
from lock failures in Illinois
~Jon Hilkevitch
<~Satellite image of the Illinois River watershed, which enters the Mississippi River just above the Missouri River at St. Louis.
Please click to enlarge.

Dirty Coast on CNN

The Mardi Gras Library:
Four New Orleans Cookbooks
~Lauren Salkeld

Mardi Gras Cream Cheese Pound Cake with Bourbon and Pecans

Be part of the Red Stick Intl. Animation Festival Review Jury

Lundi Gras, filled with Hot Picks
for music all over New Orleans
~Keith Spera