"chasing down a hoodoo there"

i'm thinking that what the inhabitants of the great american city of new orleans need is my buddy nancy to come down & deal w/the litigation. nan took on the white house & the pope. of course, she had to hide out for a few years & never really got what she was after but still...i'm thinking this thing is going to need someone like nan.

today is the first day of the civil suit against the u.s. army corps of engineers gangsters who pretty much, single-handedly destroyed the city of new orleans(they dredged the canal from the gulf of mexico to new orleans that adds 10-15mph of speed onto the tidal surge from major storms; they built & "maintained" the shabby levee system that failed during the storm, etc). my only concern is that it's a judge decided(as opposed to a jury-decided) trial. this has been compared to the valdez trial in that it's the offended people against their offending government. of course, the initial ruling on the valdez crime was a triumph; the subsequent litigational undermining of that ruling has been a national disgrace. it seems to me this is set up to go through the motions & not do the right thing. the right thing is pretty damned obvious here. our great country so often times fails to do what's obvious...& what's right.

i'm not expecting much. i'm pretty sure my buddies in the crescent city are. i hope they get what they want. that city deserves it.