Corps of Engineers "fools us twice": 2011 flood damage to levees and riverbanks will exceed $2 billion
~Editilla Cotellas~Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...

This was a working wetland . . .
~Bayou Woman ~Hat Tweet @captainswallow

Lake Pontchartrain 'Beach Sweep' extends well beyond the beach

first game in da dome! wOOt!
~the hungry termite

Here’s something for the scrapbook: Fazzio co-conspirator Mark Titus in plea talks with US Attorney Letten ~Slabbed

Legislators OK hospital plan

Booty: Dog on Board
~Pauline's Pirates and Privateers

At The Mississippi's Edge, Residents Cling To Land ~NPR

1/21/07: Never Forget~moosedenied

Another Summit To Save Our Sons
~Cliff's Crib

Kirk Cheyfitz of Story Worldwide has updated his post on Trout Point Lodge ~Slabbed

Plea negotiations may affect case against River Birch landfill chief financial officer

Find out what gamblers lost -- and casinos won -- across La. last month
~Kevin McGill

Navy's 110-year presence in New Orleans comes to a close

Speaking of loaded dice, property taxes and the Corps of Engineers: 500 days at Fix the Pumps

Oil found at a third spot in Barataria Bay

New drilling permits would not be expedited by GOP proposal, regulator says

Gulf Shores, Ala., request for beach-cleaning equipment denied by BP

Chevron confirms Gulf of Mexico oil leak

Iowa Congressman Introduces Bill to Change Missouri River Flood Plan

Oil rig workers survived Gulf storm in raft

Then and Now: Pictures of NFL QBs "before they were stars"
~ Alejandro de los Rios, Gambit

Report: La. overpaid on jobless claims

Comment Bump~ American Zombie

I have a sneaking suspicion…
~Disenfranchised Citizen

Future NASA rocket will be most powerful ever built
~The Ares-V (left) and Ares-I. Click to enlarge.
~View Expanded Views of Ares-I, Ares-V (293 Kb PDF)
Fact Sheets: Ares I Crew Vehicle (PDF, 690 KB) | Ares V Cargo Vehicle (PDF, 381 KB)
~"It's appropriate that we named these vehicles Ares, which is a pseudonym for Mars," said Scott Horowitz, associate administrator for NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, Washington. "We honor the past with the number designations and salute the future with a name that resonates with NASA's exploration mission." The "I and V" designations pay homage to the Apollo program's Saturn I and Saturn V rockets, the first large U.S. space vehicles conceived and developed specifically for human spaceflight.

Pedicabs Are a Go in N.O.
~NOLA DEFENDER

1880: Humble beginnings for Commander's Palace, a landmark New Orleans restaurant

Black N' Gold Kick-Off Party! Bonerama + Cha Wa + Ying Yang Twins
~Humid Beings

New Orleans Saints and Drew Brees seem serious about working on a deal

Shrimp trawl data is a big problem in sea turtle study

$124 million Federal grant to aid reading education in Louisiana

Plans firming up for water institute
~Amy Wold

New Orleans Burlesque Festival's Mina Mechante, on the art and craft of burlesque
~Maria C. Montoya

Is New Orleans like an abusive lover?

Blogger Profile: Katy Monnot of Bird On The Street ~NOLAFemmes

Jean-Paul Villere: Stomp Sign -- The Familiar Voice of Jivin' Gene
~Uptown Messenger
~Editilla Hotellas~ We haven't been to Da Messengah enough lately, digging deep into Editilla's House of Piety. We thank Robert Morris fo watchin our back and hipping us to da goins ons.

It is a stubborn, stubborn fact that Clancy Dubois is a complete sellout like Garlandfill ~Slabbed

~Hat Tweet @LeveesOrg~We just added two more groups to our webpage listing Aliied Orgs - Hike for KaTREEna and St. Pauls Homecoming Ctr. bit.ly/oHLdi5

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees is worth his weight in gold

From The New York Times: La. Business Owners Sue Over New Rules for Guest Workers

Yep, its still the fishers fault, part 17 ~Disenfranchised Citizen

More BP mistakes in Gulf of Mexico oil spill revealed in new evidence

Angola to Zydeco: Louisiana Lives
~Hat Tweet @FoodRush

Ask the City Planning Commission to reduce flooding by zoning responsibly
~Watershed NOLA

Censorship of inmate mail at Orleans Prison alleged in civil rights lawsuit against Gusman~Matt Davis, The Lens

Mayor Mitch'mo to hold city-wide crime summit at UNO Lakefront Arena

FBI Goes Inside NOPD~NOLA DEFENDER

In New Orleans, all “short-term rentals” are not created equally
~Lunanola, NOLAFemmes

Big Rex demands that krewe of 'Tit Rex change its name

Review: Cafe Atchafalaya
~Ian McNulty, Gambit

Great blogs dig deep into Louisiana music ~Allison Fensterstock

On this day in New Orleans, snowballs were still a Really Big Deal
Haley, 7, and Shane Babb, 5, anticipate the cool sweetness of their snowballs as they wait for Shiela Marriott to prepare them at Ro-Bear's in Harahan.
Photo: John McCusker
~Editilla was doing this very thing~ building some kid a perfect snowball, at the Flora Cafe' that morning when Valentine came in for his early juice.
{I also did fresh-squoze juice for Ali.}
Only this morning Val was a bit up on breaking news: "Hey, Juicy," he says "Did you hear that one of the World Trade Center towers is on fire?" "Nah", said I, more interested in making sure to swirl the Condensed Milk just right around the cone of crushed ice to the top, without breaking it down, which would not do at all, mashing up all the color layers I had painstakingly laid in the snowball already. While the kid watched, Val, stepped across Royal to get a paper and comes back in looking a little scared...looking me right in the eye he said, "You may want to get over to Big Daddy's and check the TV." "What?", I said, stepping around a few more of the children waiting for their snowballs. Then da'Angel storms into the cafe, "HEY EVERYBODY! SOMEONE HAS JUST FLOWN A GODDAMN AIRLINER INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER IN NEW YORK!"
The place emptied like fire in a theater, as everyone ran to the bars across the street to see it on the Tube. Suddenly Schiro's was packed too. Suddenly there was not a car on the street outside, as I suspect anywhere else in America either. Me, I turned around and looked at the children waiting on their snowballs and asked, Who's next?

Corps of Engineers ordered to stop Industrial Lock Expansion ~Levees.org

Corps of Engineers whips out their Pimp Boat to show off their Pimp Levees!
~The Army Corps of Engineers marked the near-completion of improvements to the New Orleans-area hurricane levee system on Friday with a boat tour of key segments of the system. Guests on board the M/V Mississippi included Lt. Gen. Robert Van Antwerp Jr., chief of the corps, and Jo-Ellen Darcy, assistant secretary of the Army for civil works.

Offsetting disaster allotments is a disastrous idea, former Homeland Security sec says

Tropical Storm Lee surge reveals tar mats on Fourchon Beach~Mark Schleifstein

Gulf Research Pilot Troubled by Oil Sighting in Macondo Prospect
~Georgianne Nienaber~Hat Tip~ Sandy Rosenthal

"Pretty Slick" BP oil spill documentary film

What New Orleans jury will vote for the death penalty?: Jarvis DeBerry

New Orleans Saints' offseason workouts weren't a waste of time
~Hat Tweet @Official_Saints, @skooks~For fans asking about how to get a Sproles #Saints jersey, you can preorder it here: bit.ly/pFYMss

Refusing to let the 9/11 anniversary be owned solely by horror
~Billy Sothern, The Lens

Malaka Of The Week: Jeff Landry
~Adrastos, First Draft

Ingalls awarded $482.8 million contract

Chicago Invades New Orleans in September~New Movement Theater

~"Guara, Whirling Butterflies", acrylic on canvas, 12 x 16" ~Polly Jackson

New Orleans Seafood Festival Offers Expanded Menu~NOLA DEFENDER

Second line Sunday: Young Men Olympian Jr. 127th anniversary parade
~Big Red Cotten, Gambit

Saints 2011 Burning Questions: Because, you see, there was actually fire this time. Get it? It's funny!~Library Chronicles

Chicks in the Huddle~Mother Hen

When I grow up, I’m going to Bovine University ~Moosedenied

Uh, did somebody say the Saints?! ~Disenfranchised Citizen

I’d like to thank the academy, my wonderful wife and Nowdy. But I’d especially like to thank Vaughn Perret of Trout Point Lodge for being so predictable ~Slabbed

Garland Robinette violated the public's trust: Stephanie Grace

Chinese drywall forces Hurricane Katrina rebuilding group to premature end

Teacher joins governor’s race as qualifying continues~Michelle Millhollan

Oil prices rise as storms cut production

Feinberg still stalling Hood’s lawsuit ~Disenfranchised Citizen
~Editilla Notellas~Yeah, sometimes we multi-post our fav bloggers when they decide to face the day with a 50 pound hammer. It's all about the aggregation of aggravation don'ya know.

1 Mo Day! WHODAT SAY...
DEY GONNA BEAT DEM SAINTS?


~Hat Tweet~LeveesOrg~Boz Again! H.J. Bosworth Jr is the featured speaker in this Fox 8 TV news story about Corps' new flood protection. fox8live.com/news/local/sto…

Media ethics are not negotiable
~James Gill~Garland Robinette did not fall from grace just because he has achieved geezer status, however. After using his radio show to advance the interests of Fred Heebe, Robinette relieved him of $250,000. That would have been just as disgusting when he was young.

A Matter of Tru$t~American Zombie

Yet another anniversary — and still no substitute for Charity Hospital
~Sandra Stokes, The Lens

Tropical Storm Nate

HARVEST: A Grand Opening Celebration at the New Orleans Food Coop!

Levee Safety Data and methods used to calculate Corps of Engineers’ LSAC ratings should be released ~Levees.org
~Surely the nation will fare much better if objective prioritization replaces the current practice of funding pet projects based on political issues. When the corps releases this data, we may find that exorbitant amounts of funding is being spent on levees that actually protect few resources. The data may even reveal instances where, for just incrementally more funding, the flood protection for heavily populated areas with large amounts of infrastructure and value can be raised from 100-year to 500-year or even 1,000-year protection.

Tropical Storm Lee stirs frustration with Corps levee plans in Plaquemines and Jean Lafitte~Mark Schleifstein
~"When it was authorized by Congress to be taken into the federal system (of levees), it was supposed to protect us from a 50-year storm," Nungesser said, which would have been higher than needed to fight Lee's surge. "It was slated to be raised to a height of eight to 10 feet, but the corps upped the standard for levees and (Brig. Gen. Michael) Walsh is now saying there's not enough money to finish it. "He wants to build what he's got money for, then turn the levee and connect it to the Mississippi River levee," Nungesser said. "That's absurd. Congress authorized this levee to protect our evacuation route out of the parish and for Gen. Walsh to unilaterally make that decision is un-American."

Nungesser talks about hole to be cut in levee

West Bank communities clean up after Tropical Storm Lee

Water drains from bayou communities; schools open as normal~Nikki Buskey

The Two Things Obama Got Wrong ~Harry Shearer

Today on the Stinktank~10 PM TODAY: the Payola Pundit plans to use his radio show "Garland Robinette's Stinktank" to mouth you long day about that $250,000 "loan" from River Birch owners (to keep him bent over with a ball gag in his " public opinion?" Hmmm?) Also, rumor has it, he will trot out all the hungry orphans he's been able to sponsor with what Fred Hebbe "loaned" him.

~UPDATE~ Robinette says he did "nothing wrong" amid questions raised about $250K no-interest "loan" from landfill company owner

Garland went all Rudy on us this morning ~Library Chronicles

The Fox in the Henhouse: Garland Robinette~He Said/She Said NOLA

Riki Ott or Feinberg? I’m thinking Riki knows the health better ~Disenfranchised Citizen

Divorce rate in La. above nation’s

Tuesday Reads ~Sky Dancing

Satsuma Cafe hosts benefit dinner for Vermont flood victims

Wardell Quezergue, the Creole Beethoven, Passes ~NOLA DEFENDER

The Breton Sound: "Eudaemonia" available for download 9/13 --BUT YOU CAN GET IT THE DAY BEFORE!!

Lots of Garland chatter in the area blogs --or-- Heebe’s whores: The Garland Robinette connection to the Jefferson Parish Political Corruption Scandal revealed.~Slabbed

Labor Day Links~Library Chronicles

Two Uptown homes set for tear-down hearings ~Uptown Messenger

Mouth of Mississippi River reopens to ocean-going ships as remnants of Tropical Storm Lee move out

Tropical Storm Lee's surge causing flooding in some neighborhoods~Mark Schleifstein

Images: Lee Washes Out Parts Of Plaquemines Parish ~WDSU

Gulf oil spill cleanup workers' health claims drawing scrutiny from Kenneth Feinberg

More from Dr. Feinberg
~Disenfranchised Citizen

Zurik Rocks!~American Zombie

Treme? Here at Slabbed we wipe our asses with Treme. A Guest post from a NOLA Lifer ~Slabbed

Plaquemines Parish levees overtop as Tropical Storm Lee hovers

New Orleans Levees Won’t Be Tested by Gulf Storm, Officials Say ~Bloomberg
~Sandy Rosenthal, president and founder of Levees.org, a group set up after Katrina to monitor the status of the improvements, said she is satisfied with the work. Even so, she is taking items from the first floor of her New Orleans home to the second level and moving cars to higher ground. “If the rain falls too fast, the pumps may not keep up,” she said in a telephone interview. “We would expect floods. But I wouldn’t expect the levees to break.”

Gulf weather system likely to bring 10-15 inches of rain to New Orleans over weekend

Tis the season for second-line parades!
~Big Red Cotton, Gambit

Video: Dr. John says: Bring back Reverend Avery C. Alexander Charity Hospital! Sign the NEW Petition

Marsh fire continues to blanket downtown New Orleans with acrid smoke

How Congress Rewarded the Corps of Engineers for Drowning New Orleans
~Sandy Rosenthal, Huff Post
~Sandy hipped us to this gallery of 6th Anniversary pics and captions. Personally I'm not into it, slamming hammer on my own house in the midst of the Corps of Engineers openly jailhouse fucking New Orleans on real flood protection.

Oh, and we must have Harry Shearer!

Why Has President Obama Forgotten Katrina Victims? ~Pierce O'Donnell

Federal Flood's 6th anniversary finds Gulf Coast on mend
~Cain Burdeau and Kevin McGill

~"Down the Street Pregnant with Pears", acrylic on canvas, 40 x 48"
~Polly Jackson