Jim
this does not paint a pretty picture
http://www.pptkids.org/index-20041231.php
wonder if those prayer kids remember this when they ask "why nobody's helping those people"
and then Mike Brown got to work with a staff like this,
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=108454
i see serious conquences if someone in Washington had the balls to stand up, that job goes to the Attorney General but alas he too is,.. a Bush appointee
i think it's time the United States Attorney General needs to step up and organize one of those black ops intelengence squads and go see, where the Fema funds are and what rescorces are left in the entire FEMA department, can't believe i just heard former FEMA director Mike Brorn doesn't see why he was removed from his post. so he's saying he was just staying the course he was told to???(where have i heard that line before) is that like following orders?? now who was it gave him that position??
Homeland security director Chertoff should resign for taking 11 days to recoginizing that FEMA was being led incompitently as well
11 days and 6 hours later,..FEMA director Mike Brown gets removed from the Katrina refief effort,
someone with a brain is finally getting close to the top of the command and control structure now
that's only the idea,..but it really is 2000 usd per household to those housed only in the Astrodome and will not be avaiable for another 2 days, it will take FEMA that long to figure out how to do it,.., i believe they wanted to deposit the funds directly in their banks but found that most were so poor they didn't have bank accounts.(shame on them)so since they told the press and the rumor spread, while they were getting that done over the next 2 days,why not,..let the Red Cross set up a desk to distribute aid,..the lines form and wait begins,....when Red Cross says,..we've got 350 usd for an individual and 1000 usd for a household and we're here to sign up the first 500 applicants, Red Cross is asked by the line thousands,.."where's the 2000 usd we heard you had",..they say,....that's all we have, can we say,...riot...and everybody is shocked as to why,
the poor people think they're always getting screwed. and yet in the face of all this abuse,...violence doesn't break out, deffinetly unforseen by FEMA senior offices whom are beyond clueless, still can't figure a way to communicate with the masses(communicate = state clear facts by any means) this stuff must all be in that outscorced IEM contract for the disaster plan Mr Bush paid 500,000 usd 15 months ago, wonder how much progress IEM has made on that to date
new news,
VP Cheney tours the disaster area, and gets cursed by a heckler (must be one of those impacient residen ,....opppsss insurgents), tells the press "that's the first he's heard of anyone complaining".(amazing that they've got all their Republician buddys looking so far the other way that their necks might stay twisted till the clean up is done) Oh the incredible incredible world of spin that these guy exude doesn't have any place in Goverment, nice to see freedom of speech has been repeled as of yet and that it didn't get this guy shot by the secert service ,...well not yet anyway
i know i'd like to nominate, FEMA director "Good ole Browine" for disaster czar,..... if anybody knew how to be a proficient king of disaster he's fully shown he's more than fully capable
Bob
FEMA has worked very hard to keep the Communication down,..just ask that Jefferson parish dude who had his lines cut by ?????
he had to post an armed gaurd to protect is own recsorces
wonder if that was before or after Mr Bush said things were going well
i think it was very astute of the sheriff to post a guard after having heard the Presidents promise,
"the things we do well, we will replicate"
i sure hope it doesn't take Congress and the House as long to clean up the disaster that is in power Washington as it is going to take to fix one tenth of the disaster in the Gulf Coast region
all the planning was "outsorced"
http://www.ieminc.com/Whats_New/Press_Releases/pressrelease060304_Catastrophic.htm
It's no wonder Mayor Ray wasn't sure what to do and ran around screming for help
I would love to see the FBI seize all their records to show how far 500,000 bucks had gone in 14 months wonder whose campaign they gave their money to?? can we say, 250 gift cards
i just called the RNC to findout how much money they have contributed to the relief efforts so far,
i got, "let me check and see if i can get an up-todate figure for you", "sir i don't have that figure avaible now but i know that we will match our employies contributations 100%" "let me connect you with our Constitistuant Services Department, they'll be able to tell you more, hold on while i'll transfer you over"
i thought, must be lunch time there ringing stops and voicemail
i bet FEMA has alot emergency phone lines providing services like this,..
i imagine that the "2000 dollar credit Card" for the refugies,.... oppps insurgents idea, must surly be playing big havoc with their GOP buddies, leaving them wondering were their money is going
Oh how i long for that, "Greatest Generation"
60 plus years ago,
i watched the recent flood for video clips, showing the Japanesse attacts on Pearl Harbor, i didn't see one soldier waiting for a Presidential order to shoot back. i don't think those aircrews needed approval to start their planes and take off
4 years ago
i watched as planes crashed into the World Trade Center and was waiting to see helicoptors flying people off the tops of the World Trade Center towers, then thought to myself,.. the NYC police and fire depertments don't have those kind of aircraft to airlift hunderds people. someone had 90 minutes to react but no one came
i then listened to three years of buracracy trying to shield itself, "in the intrest of National security concers,.....the answer of,. "who would have thought something like this could happen?" was about their best defence all the while spending this countries rescorces to pork barrel politices i believe it's called. i won't even go into the Iraq War reasoning and funding methods
Last week
i watched the ultimate breakdown in the way this adminstration has handled this crisis situation along with many many life changing decicions. i believe this adminstrations ICS started with deflecting it's culpibality , to being unaware of the very situation they were informed of a year ago,.... too bad Mr Bush didn't read the Huricane Pam report FEMA put out, while he was enjoying his vacation,...
he might have said,.... "hey, Brownie, what ever happened to the follow up report" but i guess not since he would have known he had cut funding to it
i thought i saw a photo op of Mr Bush signing something many hours before Huricane Katrina
came ashore. (kind of makes things hard to deflect after doing that)
giving this administration 40 billion dollars and not expecting the same thing at occoured in the Oil for Food program makes about as much sense as watching the weather channel telling you that a bad storm of biblical proportions is coming your way and saying. "No Problem i closed my windows"
perhaps they should hold the hearings in the Superdome and think about the long term implications of the Roberts nominations' merits as well, while they sit in the s*itty mess they created
the answer is,... a CLOSED door hearing from this adminstrations cabinet.....i'd almost sacrifice my freedom to be a fly on the wall ....
it will be, the greatest story ever told,
gezz they've got it looking like Iraq already,..wonder if they think the residents oppsss insurgents are going to attact them with roadside bombs and pick up trucks with machine guns,...12 to 15 armed personel standing at checkpoints while people suffer,.... calous calous unforgivabily calous
the answer is,... a CLOSED door hearing from this adminstrations cabinet.....i'd almost sacrifice my freedom to be a fly on the wall ....
it will be, the greatest story ever told,
gezz they've got it looking like Iraq already,..wonder if they think the residents oppsss insurgents are going to attact them with roadside bombs and pick up trucks with machine guns,...12 to 15 armed personel standing at checkpoints while people suffer,.... calous calous unforgivabily calous
the fact is on Aug 28th 2005,..from top to bottom, the fedral response was,..."Asleep at the switch.
it seems to have had a remarkable rest
Sept 05, 2005 upon the passing of Chief Justice Renquist,.."we found a plan of action"
the future chief justice,...JOHN ROBERTS
this will be know as the greatest american tragety,...until,..some other UNFORSEEN event occurs. let's all pray Mother Nature's kind to all, the rest of this huricane season.
personally, i think both parties of this administration sould be glad to donate all the money in the Democratic and Republician election campian funds to those poor people who couldn't afford bus fare to get out of the way of Katrina
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