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Dry_vby
Skeptic Friend
Australia
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 Posted - 09/09/2005 : 19:50:27
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So, everyone can sleep easy again, The Bushwacker has found some one to blame:
http://dsl.optusnet.com.au/news/story/abc/20050910/12/international/1457376.inp
So much for the blame-game.
Sorry for the link.
I have pasted the text below, for those still interested enough to read it.
International News
Katrina emergency response head replaced
6:26 AM September 10
The director of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), who has been strongly criticised for his handling of the response to Hurricane Katrina, has been sent back to Washington.
The Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff ordered Michael Brown back to the US capital.
"I have directed Mike Brown to return to administering FEMA nationally and I have appointed Vice Admiral Thad Allen of the Coast Guard, as the principle federal official overseeing the Hurricane Katrina response and recovery effort in the field," he said.
"Mike Brown has done everything he possibly could to coordinate the response to this unprecedented challenge."
Mr Brown, a lawyer, has headed FEMA since 2003. He previously served as FEMA's deputy director and general counsel.
A friend of former Bush campaign director and previous FEMA head Joe Allbaugh, he served as commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association before joining FEMA in 2001.
As the Katrina disaster swelled, President George W Bush gave the beleaguered FEMA chief a public vote of confidence last Friday, saying: "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." The same day, Mr Bush had called the initial relief effort "unacceptable."
Critics, including some Republicans, have blasted Mr Brown for delays and missteps in the Government's response to Katrina and some have demanded his ouster. Several media outlets have said he was unqualified for the job.
It is reported in Time magazine that Mr Brown's biography on the FEMA Web site overstated his disaster relief experience.
He was said to have been an "assistant city manager with emergency services oversight" in Edmond, Oklahoma, but a city official said the job was actually "assistant to the city manager," with little responsibility.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, Mr Brown has directed the response to more than 164 disasters and emergencies, including the 2003 Columbia Shuttle disaster, the California wild fires in 2003 and the 2004 hurricane season.
Source: ABC/Reuters
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"I'll go along with the charade
Until I can think my way out.
I know it was all a big joke
Whatever it was about."
Bob Dylan
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Edited by - Dry_vby on 09/12/2005 01:26:53
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CourseKnot
Skeptic Friend
USA
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 09/11/2005 : 13:18:01 [Permalink]
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| We all know the jist though despite the link above being locked to non-subscribers. Blame the local officials. The Bushies all have their talking points. |
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 09/12/2005 : 11:48:41 [Permalink]
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| Dry_vby, did you post then delete it? The menu page said there was a post from you today. |
| Edited by - beskeptigal on 09/12/2005 11:49:10 |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 09/12/2005 : 15:50:33 [Permalink]
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Edits to a post will make the thread show as if you have the most recent post.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 09/12/2005 : 16:18:32 [Permalink]
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Bush's appointed cronie Brown resigned today:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/12/katrina.impact/index.html
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Diversity, independence, innovation and imagination are progressive concepts ultimately alien to the conservative mind.
"TAX AND SPEND" IS GOOD! (TAX: Wealthy corporations who won't go poor even after taxes. SPEND: On public works programs, education, the environment, improvements.) |
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gezzam
SFN Regular
Australia
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Posted - 09/12/2005 : 16:33:43 [Permalink]
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I was listening to Air America on Friday and Al Franken was going through how much "Brownie" had padded his resume...
Time has some more details on it.
I mean we are all guilty of talking ourselves up a little, but jeez, didn't they double check this stuff. Maybe they should have spent more than 40 odd minutes at his confirmation hearing. |
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