Embattled FEMA Director Michael Brown is being sent back to Washington and a new leader has been picked to handle on-site Hurricane Katrina relief operations, a senior administration official tells CNN
www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/09/katrina.washington/index.html
Hmm….. Did George tell a lie or is he cutting his losses? 5+ years and this is the first time he has replaced a defective administrator, so I am wondering what the deal really is.
$20 says Brownie gets a medal.
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I have looked all over for this story on a site, but so far the only place I find it is on CNN Headline news. Here in Florida the last 8 minutes or so of the 30 minute cycle are “Local News†and one of the stories they had was a Katrina Shelter for the refugees from AL, MS and LA outside Orlando in Groveland, FL.
They had it set up for 300 people, beds, showers, clothes, and massive amounts of catered food, and had a huge turnout of volunteers to help out.
Not one person that needed it was there.
The director was LAUGHING how well the volunteers where going to eat, and they showed the food and I must say I am impressed on the high quality of food. They also showed the new beds, new blankets and clothes and everything else and not one person showed up.
And it goes into part of my other issue I have with people in “power†like Bush and this woman in Groveland FL laughing and smirking when 1000’s are dead and 100,000 or more are homeless.
USE YOUR F***** HEAD, no one wants to see some person of “authority†smirk or listen to them chuckling when we are in a national disaster. At least fake that you care when you are on the camera.
Rice is said to have been shopping in NY buying shoes, when a woman approached her asking how she can be on vacation and shopping when a Cat 4 just destroyed NO she had the woman physically removed by security.
Yeah, we are such a great nation, I can’t tell you how proud I was watching George flying over the destruction in Air Force One on his way to a Fundraiser for the GOP in SD and then some golf. He must have had a great view in those 747 windows flying at 300MPH.
CNN had the FEMA director on tv asking him, why does CNN have better information then FEMA and why the tsunami victims had food drops 2 days after and it’s day 5 and still no food drop? All this FEMA guy could say is “we are going toâ€
FEMA needs to be disbanded… they simply have no clue.
The mayor of New Orleans is far more professional then I would be, I would have called Bush out with much more words bleeped out.
This is a sick sick sick mess, and I don’t know what is worse, the Cat 4 or the “helpâ€.
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**Written 27th Aug
Just under 2 hours before I do another draft for FFL, actually 3 drafts. 715PM is my second draft of the 3 I am running, and I might have to draft for a friend who is still grieving over the death of his stepson.
Then not paying attention to the date I joined a public league that drafts at 930PM. No biggie, worse case I miss the last round or two of the first draft, I am not missing the first few rounds of a draft, which would be stupid.
This week has flown by pretty fast which is fine with me I am still in shock over my friend’s stepsons’ death. His funeral was today and I regret not being there for it but with our issues with the truck taking much more then expected to fix…. Well, timing is never good.
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And it’s only 3 days old. Pauline was in Indiana and I was in St Pete on a boat all day Sunday, both of us enjoyed our day. And on my way home I noticed the engine was making more noise then normal, and the ac cut off for a few minutes.
I woke up early Monday and had a “private session†for jury duty at 930am and was asked to clarify some questions, and I was told to report back at 130pm and after I left I stopped and got the mail and the engine died. After I started it, it was ok, until I slowed down and it wanted to die.
I went back to court and once more the truck wanted to die. Pauline was coming in at 5:20pm into Orlando which is a 45 min drive and for the past week I had been getting out of court between 5pm and 530pm, so she was just going to meet me outside the baggage claim since by the time she got off the plane, got her bag I should be there. We got out of court at 5:10 so I called to leave a message on Pauline’s cell telling her I was on my way and she answered, the plane landed 30 mins early… what are the odds?
So I drive all the way to Orlando and I didn’t hear the noise as I loud as it was Sunday night, I pick Pauline up and I swear as soon as she got in the truck, the ac stopped working, so it was a long miserable drive home. We got home and I looked over the engine and not seeing anything wrong I went to go get some food and on the way out I stopped at our mail box (3 blocks away) and the truck died, as soon as I started it, it died. It took about 10 tries before I could get it running, turned around and coast it home, with no power steering. I open the hood and the belt is broke.
Ok, it’s pain in the ass, but no biggie, Pauline called a friend and she got the new belt for us and came over so I could put it on. Now every vehicle I have ever worked on has a pulley on a spring that you can turn 1†or so and it allows you to put the belt on with ease…. not this one. It took me an hour to get it on. So Pauline starts the truck for me and as soon as she did, it ate the new belt, and then I knew we were screwed.
So her friend takes her to a car rental place and she gets a rental, and then today we have the truck towed to a dealership. The air compressor is shot, $1200. Ok, now we are just mad, but what can we do? Meanwhile I am in court and after a few hours it is once more my turn for questions and then I am excused from jury duty. I still can not say anything more on this case.
So I am physically and mentally beat, pissed off over the truck and the timing of it all and then I get home and find out a close friend has had a death in the family. So now I am really bummed, just when you think the world can’t get any worse for you, it shows you that in the grand scheme of life, these “major issues†that you think are major are really not shit.
The truck is now fixed and we will pick it up tomorrow I think, tonight I just want to chill out, Pauline had to change her work schedules from opening to closing today due to the truck issues, so now she got home at midnight and had to go in at 7am todoay. So she is in for a rough few more days at least, and with all the traveling she has done she won’t get a day off for another week.
All I know is I want a “do over†for the last 2 days
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