Posted on 09/27/2005 7:05:46 AM PDT by SE Mom
Hearings beginning now on C-Span- Michael Brown will be grilled.
Have at it, folks:)
Yaah, and in colleges now, the kids wear their pajamas and slippers....sigh..
See....it is the moral decay of our country...I remember when girls were girls and wore dresses..!!! LOLOL With Petticoats!!!
" If it was pre-positioned as you say, why did they not disperse it after the storm hit? Why did it take days?"
It's my understanding that FEMA only has about 2,500 employees. Included in that total are the ones needed to do procurement and other tasks to assure the goods are purchased, staged and moved. The size of the disaster area was about the size of the country of Great Britain (IIRC about 90,000 square miles) - - that's not many folks per area. If you didn't get the goods you felt you needed, that's too bad; however, even before 9/11 and especially thereafter, we've been told numerous times to have a MINIMUM of 3 days worth of food, water, medicines, etc.
And, with the advance warning by the hurricane center and the weather folks on all the stations, I don't understand why people didn't evacuate. Did you not have transportation? Isn't there someone you could have called?Did you not have a friend that could help? Did MO not provide transportation for those who didn't have it? If you had transportation, did you try to help someone out who didn't?
I really feel for the poor people and devastation down there, but, if it had been me and my family, if we were told to evacuate, we would have been out of there whatever it took.
But you see, you are a person of the right. We believe in personal responsibility for most things comes first, then local, then state and finally federal. It's no more complicated than that for me and when people like Scarborough, who rips the President over and over about federal spending, chooses to again rip him over Katrina, I say they have revealed their true stripes. And it's no less un-American than the leftists if you ask me.
And one of FEMA's best employees retired as of tomorrow because of the BS fallout of Katrina..... at least one of the congressmen was concerned about it today.
Don't watch the Main Stream Channels.
Mostly Fox News and TCM or AMC.
I loved it today when Brown commented there was no one local to work with, and when asked 'why not', replied he was indicted.
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One of the factoids that we have known on these threads for days, and that "MSM" have not chosen to share with their viewers. Every time someone said "FEMA" like it was a person, I waited for the reporter or commentator to add that LA had a dept of Emergency Operations, but the head of it was under indictment. Even the idea that LA had a StateEMA, if you like, was never mentioned. So the media were complicit in the gotcha game from the very beginning.
That never happened, when I was listening.
He's that too but I've watched him for a long time and I find him incredibly twisted :)
I'd give him a 9. He held himself together during some rude and nasty accusations. He had his facts well in hand, and he did not respond with rudeness, just with enough 'edge' that the reps knew he wasn't going to whimper or go quietly.
If you can see the rerun of Brit's show, Brian Wilson did a report in the first 15 minutes of the show, with video of some of Brown's best comments.
When you think you can stomach it, you ought to read through this document:
http://landrieu.senate.gov/hurricanes/MasterSectionbySection.pdf
Someone posted it last night on another thread. It is line item....everything they are requesting. Be sure to be sitting down when you read and have a Large bottle of Pepto Bismol ready for when you've finished reading.
I was flabbergasted actually.
Thanks. I am watching him on CSPAN. He isn't Roberts, but he is coping.
If there is any lesson that should have been learned by a coastal population living in Hurricane Alley for a few hundred years, it is that Storm Surge kills by the hundreds and by the thousands.
What Is "Storm Surge" and Why It Matters. (Katrina Education Vanity)
It can be argued, public education being what is is today, that low-income folks don't know that.
However, there is absolutely no excuse for the Governor of a Gulf State not to know that and there is absolutely no excuse for the Mayor of a Gulf city below sea level not to know that.
Hundreds died because of the incompetence of Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin.
The liberal news media could be taking this opportunity to teach this lesson to all of America so that the FUBAR evacuation of New Orleans carried out by Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin never happens again.
However, the liberal news media would much rather have dead poor black folks with which to beat George Bush with that live poor black folks that they cannot use as political tools.
http://www.fema.gov/about/bios/brown.shtm
Just looked that up. He has quite a resume. All this time you would have thought he was just some Arab horse trader that got on due to political favors.
That question bugged me
Rudy was the Mayor and had the authority by law to get things done and in place
Brown worked for FEMA .. who by law does NOT have the authority to take control of a City or State
No one was shown dying at the Convention center. It seems that the reports we heard on TV were second hand, or rumors. In other words, there was nothing to SEE. What should have happened, however, wa that someone should have noticed that the TV reporters were hysterical and needed to be responded to immediately. Brown did not, because no one was passing that fact up to him.
Democrats say Republican lawmakers cannot fairly investigate the GOP White House
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I believe that it is called "Congressional oversight" - one of the things those posers get paid for. Just because they do not Chair the committees, the committeess do not exist for them.
It is time that Americans remind them of their jobs.
My question is: was he afraid to kock thgeir heads together or were they refusing to answer his phone calls, and if so did he try to get the White House to intervene?
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