Some advice for people who talk to exit pollsters:
Little more than three years ago, the greatest engineering disaster since Chernobyl according to one expert occurred in the city of New Orleans, blamed by three different teams of investigators on misfeasance and malfeasance by an agency of the United States federal government. ["a system in name only" says the Corps' own report.]
Not a word about it in this presidential campaign. It didn't happen. We dreamed it. They must have dreamed it down there.
Not a word. Why? No, not evil. Not malice. Not any of that good stuff. You and I know the reason, ladies and gentlemen: it didn't show up in the polls.
The candidates decided what to talk about based on what people in the polls say they're concerned about, and it wasn't even in the top ten. So, you know, I don't care whether you vote or not. It's no skin off any part of my anatomy. But I will say this: if you are going to some place on Tuesday and you're going behind a little curtain and you're casting what you think will be a secret ballot. And you then decide, the minute you leave that private booth, to go out and talk to a total stranger and tell him how you voted, how much money you make, and what religion you are, just make sure when he asks what demographic group you belong to, you say "genius."
Does the Army Corps of Engineers have a project near you?
Howdy, this is such a fine blog. Thank you for keeping the Lights On in New Orleans. We are all big fans of Harry.
I hung you onto today's Ladder.
Perhaps you might be interested in this little Levee Finding thingy they came up with at Levees.org:
http://www.areweatrisk.org/?utm_campaign=referral&utm_source=null&utm_medium=awar_badge
I hope you enjoy the Ladder. We will be 1 year old this November 11th! Yea! Please fang back through the posts and if you have any suggestions or whateva, we'd be most gratified to have them in our Inbox.
Thank you,
Editilla~New Orleans Ladder
Thanks for that interesting link, Editilla. Here's a compelling bit from that page:
And that's just levees.