HULK SMASHED
Well, hell.
2nd, right be Mena. I got your back girl.
I'm in the mood for piling on all of em. BAstards.
ql - we're a hell of a team.
Keep piling on Fredo?
Noooooo problem!
After all...
Hurricane Katrina changed everything.
Now there are three of us. We will be invincable.
Yeah, Liberman is garbage
And it would help if I could spell.
The new guy just had a press conference and denied that FEMA is responsilbe for the body recovery -he said it is a state function. The EMS guy for the city of New Orleans specifically said it was FEMA
no wonder the bodies are still sitting there
mike brown is so yesterday
Bush is the main target, the whole pivot for the regime.
I wouldn't mind some Atriettes piling on *me*...
Don't you love it when the bullies start whining, "No fair".
This isn't a case of one bad apple, which I'm sure is how the Bushies will spin it. Bush doesn't run an administration; it's a Crime Syndicate. Al Capone is president.
I'd put hi on suicide watch, myself. how much can one take?
The new guy just had a press conference and denied that FEMA is responsilbe for the body recovery -he said it is a state function. The EMS guy for the city of New Orleans specifically said it was FEMA
Who was responsible for body prevention?
Brown was pleasant enough, if a bit opportunistic, Jones said, but he did not put enough time and energy into his job.
that's our guy alright.
Lets not forget to pile on Roberts. And then Gonzales, when they annonce his SCOTUS nomination.
"Did someone say "piling on"?"
JimmyJeff
could a pile of turds be put on Fredo?
Gee, I went to look at Eschacon photos, and I'm two threads behind!
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The new guy just had a press conference and denied that FEMA is responsilbe for the body recovery -he said it is a state function. The EMS guy for the city of New Orleans specifically said it was FEMA
Are you kidding? So this back and forth bullshit is still going on?
Fuck'em. Pile on until they're fucking buried.
OT, but reposted from below:
http://katrinablog.msnbc.com/ 200...ly_miss_ki.html
Video of Miss Kitty being reunited with her 2 legger in his hospital room.
maybe Bush has piles.....
Fun with FEMA mismanagement:
Drownie, You're Doin' A Heck Of A Job
Search code on NO homes. Red X with date at the top, search team ID on the left. On the right, obstacles by floor so 1-2 would mean there's something like rats or an overturned fridge on floors 1&2. The bottom are the dead, thanks to the pols. 7 with or without DB are human, LB for living bodies, k-9 for dogs.
NYT:
But Richard A. Falkenrath, a former homeland security adviser in the Bush White House, said the chief federal failure was not anticipating that the city and state would be so compromised. He said the response exposed "false advertising" about how the government has been transformed four years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Take that, trollies!
piling on? bury the fuckers.
-J.T.
Why doesn't someone start pushing for an independent commission to put together a plan for the recovery that will be necessary for both the short and the long term, and not just filled with corporate types.
Unions, educators, bankers, builders, folks right across the spectrum should be involved.
Put someone like Jimmy Carter in charge, with someone like Colin Powell (yes, him) to start setting up programs and financing.
Take the whole subject away from the BushCo cronies right from the start.
The EMS guy for the city of New Orleans specifically said it was FEMA
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People can't turn away from this - it's too sickening and too close to home.
The thing is, this group of thugs is already way past the point where sane people can devise any sort of punishment that would fit their crimes.
Cronyism, folks. It's all about cronyism.
It happens that I know a bit about Southeast Asia: I want to tie Bush's management style to Suharto's. Is that wrong? The parallel kinda works for me.
in the Bush Junta its not what you know, its who you know.
Joementum just keeps popping up like some kind of old moldy wet sock.
It happens that I know a bit about Southeast Asia: I want to tie Bush's management style to Suharto's. Is that wrong? The parallel kinda works for me.
I'm not sure it would really resonate - I'd say to stick with homegrown corrupt assholes wherever possible.
Or South American banana republics, which I think we have a lot in common with now.
I think FEMA is only responsible for recovering bodies of people who died because of their fuckup. State and local authorities are responsible for collecting those who died because of their fuckup. And to determine which is which, the individuals should get themselves to the DMORT facility where they can be processed, and then the "responsibility for dead body" form (the FU-0311/21) needs to be filled-out in triplicate and forwarded to Mike Brown in DC, but please, for the love of all you hold dear, make sure to have it stamped by the proper coroner who has jurisdiction over the body, or you will cause a massive delay, and nobody wants that.
I think FEMA is only responsible for recovering bodies of people who died because of their fuckup. State and local authorities are responsible for collecting those who died because of their fuckup. And to determine which is which, the individuals should get themselves to the DMORT facility where they can be processed, and then the "responsibility for dead body" form (the FU-0311/21) needs to be filled-out in triplicate and forwarded to Mike Brown in DC, but please, for the love of all you hold dear, make sure to have it stamped by the proper coroner who has jurisdiction over the body, or you will cause a massive delay, and nobody wants that.
Hungry. Must eat, or pass out. Be back later.
♥
Here's another juicy tidbit NYT article:
Even so, the prospect of a major hurricane hitting New Orleans was a FEMA priority. Numerous drills and studies had been undertaken to prepare a response. In 2002, Joe M. Allbaugh, then the FEMA director, said: "Catastrophic disasters are best defined in that they totally outstrip local and state resources, which is why the federal government needs to play a role. There are a half-dozen or so contingencies around the nation that cause me great concern, and one of them is right there in your backyard."
I'm not sure it would really resonate - I'd say to stick with homegrown corrupt assholes wherever possible.
Oh, boo. Well, it's not like there's not enough of those.
How about, to avoid the appearance of impropriety, no Bush campaign contributor can be appointed to a federal position? How about we bar any corporation in which any member of the gov't owns stock from pursuing gov't contracts? Just for a year, say. Think how many problems that would solve!
This may have been mentioned already- I'm just listening now to This American Life, Ira Glass' PRI show. He said they decided to let people who were in New Orleans tell their stories in a much longer format than you get on the TV news.
Their experiences are horrifying, enraging, shameful - everything we've been hearing and worse, plus given in first person from people who there. I strongly recommend catching it on your local station or download it when it's up next week. Truly compelling radio.
Time now to start examining all the resumes of Bush's hires. Before they make a mess of something important, too.
In response to FEMA not being responsible for body recovery I posted this yesterday morning
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Interesting...
Today's Times -Picayune has this note
A private firm, Kenyon Worldwide Disaster Management,
has been hired by FEMA to coordinate the recovery of
bodies in Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard and
Plaquemines parishes.
Turns out Kenyon is a division of Service Corporation International (SCI) which owns around 1200 funeral homes.
SCI is the company involved in the 1999 scandal involving Bush while he was governor of Texas, aka Funeralgate
http://www.tpj.org/Lobby_Watch/f...ch/ funeral.html
http://www.salon.com/news/featur...1999/09/29/sci/
http://archive.democrats.com/vie...m/
vie...iew.cfm? id=1292
Bush's point man in this was one Joe Allbaugh
And so it goes...
Go caption this photo...I dare you...
http://socialitelife.com/mt/
arch...ption_it_71.php
Are you kidding? So this back and forth bullshit is still going on?
res ipsa loquitur
Baby, I keep telling you - there is no federal government. There has been no federal government to speak of since Clinton's administration was dismantled.
Anyone who was at all well-informed, competent and/or decent, quit long ago.
The reason this is all nothing better than chaos is because no one knows what the fuck is going on because there is no one to be in charge. Someone has to be in charge, in this case it's FEMA by law and FEMA doesn't exist.
The mayhem in the gulf states does not make me happy, really, the exact opposite. That the fault of not addressing the anticipated needs of a category 4 hurricane lies at the feet of this administration shows me, once again, they are not for equality all citizens of this country.
OT: Afghan defence chief escapes shooting
Afghanistan's defence minister has escaped an assassination attempt made on his convoy while another minister and the army chief survived a helicopter crash in a day of near-misses.
Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak had just left Kabul airport at 9.25am (0455 GMT) in a helicopter when his car was fired on by four men in combat uniform, ministry spokesman General Mohammed Zahir Azimi said.
The minister was unhurt.
Nine suspects, all Afghan soldiers, were arrested in connection with the shooting, Azimi said.
"It is clear that it was an assassination attempt on the defence minister," he said.
Go caption this photo...I dare you...
Great Scott!
I... have no words.
Everyone should check out the Americablog's pictures of people in NO lined up around the blocks for six hours for food stamps. Not food, but food stamps. This country is so fucking doomed.
The gradual Erosion of standards results in
John Gibson being called an anchor man
Ayn Coulter being called a pundit
Brown being called a Director
This being called a Government
Totally OT, but I love this about the compound: I had been noticing a large clothesline with metal t-shaped poles at each end for some time. It has a two looping wires with a pully. I hadn't thought much about it except for its intrinsic quality but I realized I can start drying my heavy material items on it like blue jeans and all, which take longest to dry. Should save alot of energy.
RealTexan,
There's a lot about SCI in Molly Ivins book, Shrub, as I recall.
And aren't they the model for the evil conglomerate that wants to take over the Fishers in the first several seasons of Six Feet Under?
I can name several large events that are likely to happen.
Earthquakes in N. and S. Cal,
Mt. Ranier in Seattle.
Yellowstone???
more Hurricanes across the east coast (is NY ready even now?) and in the Gulf states.
Blizzards in almost any part of the lower 48 states. the gulf states probably would never have a strong blizzard, but even a deep snow would cause much disruption and deaths.
Sorry for the bad links, here are the good ones
http://www.tpj.org/Lobby_Watch/f...ch/
funeral.html
http://archive.democrats.com/vie...iew.cfm?
id=1292
So "brownie" keeps his job and salary. He'll quietly resign in a few months. A year from now he'll be pulling down twice what his FEMA salary was because that's the way cronies take care of each other.
BTW I'll bet no one ever called him "brownie" before Bush struggled to create an illusion of familiarity with the guy last week. Asshole.
landslide
But he's from Guymon and he goes to church!
Dunno what else anybody could want.
Corrupt from stem to stern.
Just unbelievable.....
Cronyism, folks. It's all about cronyism.
yup. It's bad enough that Brownie is incompetent and unqualified for his job (same goes for Pat Rohde and other top people there) but the real scandal is the cronyism.
How many other key government jobs are filled with capaign photo ops organizers or someone's college roommate? All of them?
Go caption this photo...I dare you...
Why didn't you warn me it was bat day?
I just need some wooden clothes-pins...
Time now to start examining all the resumes of Bush's hires. Before they make a mess of something important, too.
Echidne of the snakes
Check Josh's TPM site on the FEMA Seattle guy...same crap.
Firms with Bush ties snag Katrina deals
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Companies with ties to the Bush White House and the former head of FEMA are clinching some of the administration's first disaster relief and reconstruction contracts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
At least two major corporate clients of lobbyist Joe Allbaugh, President George W. Bush's former campaign manager and a former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, have already been tapped to start recovery work along the battered Gulf Coast.
One is Shaw Group Inc. and the other is Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root. Vice President Dick Cheney is a former head of Halliburton.
Bechtel National Inc., a unit of San Francisco-based Bechtel Corp., has also been selected by FEMA to provide short-term housing for people displaced by the hurricane. Bush named Bechtel's CEO to his Export Council and put the former CEO of Bechtel Energy in charge of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
BTW I'll bet no one ever called him "brownie" before Bush struggled to create an illusion of familiarity with the guy last week. Asshole.
Bush probably couldn't remember his first name.
The Bush Legacy: Ineptitude - Indifference - INCOMPETENCE!
ah yes. the future might be costa rica and a benelli nova pump
THE PRESS WANTS TO SHOW BODIES from Katrina. It didn't want to show bodies, or jumpers, on 9/11, for fear that doing so would inflame the public.
I can only conclude that this time around, the press thinks it's a good thing to inflame the public. What could the difference be?
What is revealed clear as day is that George Bush does not give a shit whether this country is protected from natural disasters, or anything else for that matter. The indictment is of Bush for reckless disregard for his oath to preserve, protect, and defend.
Oblivious - In Denial - DANGEROUS!
Ô¿Ô, I'm jealous. Those old well made clothes lines are tops. I'm still trying to get one of my masonry buddies to fix up a proper hook so I can use my pull out line - it's not nearly as good. Just don't get all over enthusiastic and try to dry your towels outside - they just get hard and scratchy.
How utterly shameful. From CNN's Politics Section, I see this story. Does anyone know if they're talking about it on the air?
From CNN.com:
Firms with White House ties get Katrina contracts: FEMA taps Halliburton subsidiary, Shaw Group, Bechtel for cleanup
rather: T-shaped poles.
jojo - proof. Now. Lestwise, blow it out your stupid fucking ear.
I'll bet no one ever called him "brownie" before Bush
NO, I think he's the type of dude who's gotten where he is cos he does brown nose so much.
wingnuts head will explode when they read this
Gay cowboy film rides off with Venice Golden Lion
VENICE (Reuters) - Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain," a tale of homosexual love in the mountains of Wyoming, won Venice's Golden Lion on Saturday, beating film festival favorite George Clooney in the race to take the top prize.
The latest movie by the director of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Hulk" is adapted from a story by Annie Proulx and stars Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as love-struck cowboys whose forbidden affair begins in 1963 and ends 20 years later.
Taiwan-born Lee described "Brokeback Mountain" as a story of love against adversity. Independent and low-budget, like several U.S. entries at the festival, it was filmed in Canada to save money.
"After two big movies, I decided to make a small movie that really moved me," said Lee, who flew back from the Toronto Film Festival to take the award.
"I have the impression this is the most auteur-specialist of all film festivals and I never thought I would come here. I can't tell you how proud I am."
I am just horrified. People that sign a petition related to gay marriage are about to be publicly "outed" -- with their names and addresses published on the Web, so that every ignorant yahoo out there can threaten them for exercising their right to petition the government. But no, this isn't a bunch of right-wingers trying to intimidate supporters of gay marriage:
A pair of gay activists are raising the stakes in the fight over same-sex marriage, vowing to post on the Internet the name and address of anyone who signs a petition to ban gay marriage and civil unions in Massachusetts.
``I have the fight in me now, and if people I know, or that I support, or that I do business with are on that list, I might not support them or their philanthropies or their businesses,'' said Tom Lang, who launched knowthyneighbor.org with his spouse, Alex Westerhoff.
Lang, 42, said he and Westerhoff, 36, are only providing via the Internet public information that any citizen could obtain at the secretary of state's office. But anti-gay marriage activists are outraged.
``We think that it is intimidation by no other name,'' said Kristian Mineau, whose name was listed as one of the first 30 signers of the petition. Mineau said he will explore the rights of people who have signed or plan to sign the petition.
``Certainly it raises my concerns. This is the first I have heard of it,'' said Mineau, president of the Massachusetts Family Institute.
Mineau and his wife are listed on the site, along with their address. Also listed: former Mayor Raymond L. Flynn; Dover Selectwoman Kathleen W. Weld and her husband, Walter Weld; and Richard W. Richardson, spokesman for the Black Ministerial Alliance.
...
Lang said he was not advocating that gay marriage backers use the Web site as a method of intimidating the signers, but rather as a way to ``open up communication'' on both sides of the debate. ``We are not telling people what to do. We are letting people become their own armchair activists,'' he said.
Oh yeah, and if a pro-life group put up a website listing the names and home addresses of abortion doctors, but claimed, "We want you to open up communication with them," I would believe that, too.
Go caption this photo...I dare you...
My God! A Negro!
I don't know about all my drawers and things hanging out there, yet...
I'm catching up, so looked for my FEMA flunkie for Texas, who happens to also be in Regional Director of LA:
Gary Jones
Acting Regional Director, Region VI
Gary E. Jones was appointed acting regional director of FEMA's Region VI in December 2004. Mr. Jones is responsible for administration of emergency management programs in the five-state region that includes Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. He is also responsible for oversight and implementation of response and recovery operations for presidentially declared disasters in Region VI.
In 1993, Mr. Jones was designated deputy regional director and has served as acting regional director on four other separate occasions. From 1983 until 1993, Mr. Jones worked in the FEMA Region VI Technological Hazards Branch, serving as branch chief and regional assistance committee chairman. The branch program responsibilities included Radiological Emergency Preparedness, Radiological Defense, Hazardous Materials, Earthquake Preparedness, Hurricane Preparedness, Dam Safety and the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program.
Mr. Jones has 41 years of government experience at the federal and state level. Prior to joining FEMA, Mr. Jones worked for the Arkansas Department of Health in a variety of emergency medical services positions and later served three years as the director of Arkansas’ Emergency Medical Services Program. Following his 13 years with the Arkansas Department of Health, Mr. Jones served as the Arkansas state coordinator for physician recruitment with the U.S. Public Health Service.
Mr. Jones holds a master's degree in public health administration from Tulane University and a bachelor's degree in education from the University of Arkansas.
From his bio, he looks well qualified.
So,
Why have we not heard of him or heard from him?
NYMary-
Yep,wasn't her name Mitzi or something like that?
Modo does a pretty good take down of hiring boobs for FEMA in the NYT's - I get tired of her endless snark though - I guess in her defense it is pretty hard to be pithy and find something funny to say - Maybe she could just be pithy
Seems to me she is full of pith
Bush is the guy who had to have a bigger plan than Leiberman's bill and made FEMA part of homeland security - There were lots of warnings that it would gut Fema's ability to respond to natural disasters- these people listen to no one.
Bush and his short-sighted admin are to blame for the incompetency of FEMA - and still it would not have been nearly as bad if he had just quit vacationing and gotten down to the business of taking care of the American people - sadly, he couldn't be bothered
How shameful. From CNN.com's Politics section, I see this story. Does anyone know if they're talking about it on the air?:
Firms with White House ties get Katrina contracts: FEMA taps Halliburton subsidiary, Shaw Group, Bechtel for cleanup
[Sorry about the repost]
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OT ... Are there any "Six Feet Under" watchers here? I told ya'll I am making my way through the the show on DVD.
I'm up to the beginning of season 3. I need someone to tell me if Nate gets back together with Brenda, because I cannot stand this granola-head played by Lily Taylor. I would rather see him having a passionate relationship with a nut than a snooze-o-rama with Crunchy Lisa, who is nuts in her own special way.
I can only conclude that this time around, the press thinks it's a good thing to
inflame the public. What could the difference be?
jojo | 09.10.05 - 4:51 pm | #
That you're a flaming asshole?
Go caption this photo...I dare you...
Sorry can't. Sometimes a picture IS worth a thousand words.
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NTodd,
Same yayhoo's been posting the same crap with the same phrasing all day. Not even worth responding to.
When you visit, should we plan a detour to the cider mill and donut factory?
And now for something completely different... cute pussycat paintings!
I'll dry my underwear with a dryer but t-shirts and jeans, I'll do there....
Talking Point:
Bush can't fire Brownie because he'll go to the press and tell how he spent days desperately trying to reach the vacationing President to get the executive powers he needed to mobilize the military. This is part of the coverup that directly relates to Bush.
p.s. Remember, talking points don't have to be based on truth--just compelling enough to get people repeating them at the office, church functions, talk radio, etc. If the opposition has to spend time disproving them, all the better. Don't look at me, Karl Rove made the rules.
I, for one, would like to thank Mr. Lieberman for the intense 49 minutes of grilling.
Those steaks were delicious.
When you visit, should we plan a detour to the cider mill and donut factory?
Mmm...cider'n'donuts...
... cute pussycat paintings! dave™©®
How do they hold the brushes?
RealTexan,
Mitzi Dalton Huntley. A fine model of Texas womanhood, especially when she murdered that crazy woman's aunt with a golf ball.
res,
Be careful what you wish for, honey....
RIL - Nate end up with Anne Coulter in season four, and Malkin in season five.
There was no way I could have used all those buses. What was I supposed to do? Use them to transport people to higher ground!? Ridiculous.
Ô¿Ô,
I throw clothes from the line into the dryer for a few minutes and tumble them without heat. It takes the stiffness right out of them.
I'm up to the beginning of season 3. I need someone to tell me if Nate gets back together with Brenda, because I cannot stand this granola-head played by Lily Taylor.
Just keep watching. All will be revealed.
Season Three's pretty good. Season Four I wasn't too thrilled with. The just-ended Season Five might have been the best. "Ecotone" featured the best death scene ever.
Be sure to FREEP the poll. Currently 84% say Bush failed....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9280.../site/newsweek/
or
http://tinyurl.com/d8wc5
Eye of the Political Storm
A new NEWSWEEK poll suggests President Bush could become Katrina’s next casualty.
res,
Be careful what you wish for, honey....
As I was typing that post I realized that I was talking about myself ...
THE PRESS WANTS TO SHOW BODIES from Katrina. It didn't want to show bodies, or jumpers, on 9/11, for fear that doing so would inflame the public.
Sigh. The press doesn't "want to show bodies" in NOLA, it wants to be free to do its job. FEMA wanted to bar them from observing the recovery effort.
I seem to remember seeing jumpers on 9/11 and many many times since.
The wilful delusion of the right is amazing. Would you say that 2+2 = 5 if that was the GOP talking point of the day?
It's especially hard to transport people away from a disaster when armed officials threaten to shoot them if they try to leave.
NYMary ...
I also want to know if Hunky Keith gets to be a cop again?
I don't want to get too excited about this, but the CNN and MSNBC websites have similar headlines up. The MSNBC one: "Firms With Bush Ties Snag Katrina Contracts."
Maybe they've finally caught on.
(apologies if someone's already mentioned this)
Damn it. I swear I closed that tag.
I blame Blanco, Nagin and Haloscan for my error.
And yes, let's not forget Lieberman's 42-minute ass-smooch that subbed for a real grilling into Drownie's qualifications at his hearing ...
RIL - Nate end up with Anne Coulter in season four, and Malkin in season five.
Well he does have a fling with that nasty nasty single mom, who's vaguely Coulter-ish...
res ipsa loquitur-
Skip season 4! Except the opening death for "In Case Of Rapture", my favorite all time one.
Gotcha CS.
When you visit, should we plan a detour to the cider mill and donut factory?
*grumble*
Will Rove 'suicide' Brownie, composing a heartbreaking note, etc., to make liberals look mean?
If he does, will Brownie's wife's name be misspelled, like in Cliff Baxter's suicide note?
Go caption this photo...I dare you...
http://socialitelife.com/mt/ arch...ption_it_71.php
jillian
Can't believe I'm gonna stoop to this, but...
Dude:
Ummm, that NTodd is HOT!
BB:
OMG! WHERE'S HIS PANTS!?
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Put someone like Jimmy Carter in charge, with someone like Colin Powell (yes, him) to start setting up programs and financing.
Take the whole subject away from the BushCo cronies right from the start.
For some time, the SBA has fulfilled this objective. After 9/11 they served as point.
Now? Well, turns out there were some big, big profits to be made - and the bill's come due.
"Congress to investigate 9/11 loan abuses
FRANK BASS and DIRK LAMMERS
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Congress will investigate the "flagrant abuse" of a federal loan program designed to help businesses recover from the Sept. 11 attacks and make sure such problems don't occur with Hurricane Katrina relief, a key Senate Republican announced Friday.
Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, chairwoman of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, announced the investigation in response to an Associated Press story Thursday that showed the federal program was so loosely managed that it gave low-interest loans to companies that didn't need terrorism relief or even know they were getting it.
"The apparent widespread abuse of loans provided through the Supplemental Terrorist Activity Relief Act is nothing short of an outrage," Snowe said.
The committee chairwoman said she would demand answers from both the banks that gave the loans and the Small Business Administration, which supervised the program.
"Congress must seek and find answers when confronted with a situation that represents a possible betrayal of the public trust especially at a time when the people of the Gulf Region need every resource available to recover," Snowe said. "...I intend to exert my oversight power to determine how such flagrant abuse could happen and to ensure that Small Business Administration loans truly go to those who need them."
The SBA guaranteed $3.7 billion in loans under the STAR program, bringing its total Sept. 11 assistance package for businesses to nearly $5 billion.
Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the committee's top Democrat, joined in the call for an investigation.
"This was a deliberate attempt to cover up White House budget gimmicks that left the SBA's largest loan program underfunded and on the brink of shutting down," Kerry said. "The administration asked SBA employees to bend the rules and steer regular loans through the program aimed at helping businesses impacted by 9/11."..." (Miami Herald)
res,
No. Is he a bodyguard to the stars yet? That might be season 4.
jojo was right, nothing but good clean fun over there at Know Thy Neighbor
outing homophobes is way way cool. looking forward to more of the same. participatory democracy and all that.
I've already done a heavy blanket that way and it dried faster than then it would have in a dryer.
Sallyh, is there any way I can buy a cookbook without signing up with paypal?
Incog - but I realized I can start drying my heavy material items on it like blue jeans and all, which take longest to dry. Should save alot of energy.
Oh darlin' - your sheets. They will smell so good.
If nothing else, hang your sheets to dry.
watertiger,
It'll still be open first weekend of October.....
In case of rapture is definitely one of the best scenes ever shot.
I forgot about the nasty single mom he met at therapy. It was kinda funny how she used him for sex, and he was like, I only thought males did that...
RealTexan,
Is that the one with the inflatable dolls? Genius!
No. Is he a bodyguard to the stars yet? That might be season 4.
Damn. That's what he really liked.
I'm in season 3. He's some sort of rent-a-cop for a gated community-type neighborhood.
In looking up Gary Jones, FEMA's Regional Director for LA, I ran across the other Gary Jones, General of LA National Guard. He caught flak for calling evacuees insurgents.
But, then there is this article from the small town paper where Jones is school superintendent.
Here's the important line:
State Adjutant Gen. Bennett Landreneau called Jones on Sunday (August 2
morning and assigned him the role of task force commander in charge of coordinating relief units, including more than 4,000 Louisiana National Guard troops, Jones said.
"I already had my stuff packed and ready to go," said Jones
"I can only conclude that this time around, the press thinks it's a good thing to inflame the public. What could the difference be?"
That the video of the towers falling was about all anyone could handle. But what do I know?
"There has been no federal government to speak of since Clinton's administration was dismantled."
Tina...you'd really be shocked at just how accurate you really are.
Without discussing details,I've been absent from the military-industrial complex for 14 years and since my return, I've see things that are outright shocking...I would never have thought I would see or hear things that occur regularly on a daily basis. And everyone is following thru as if its natural to do so. The religious BS at the USAF academy is just the tip of the iceberg. Without firm control from the Federal Government the military is drifting on a parallel course to the ship of state.
regards
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It was kinda funny how she used him for sex, and he was like, I only thought males did that...
Why won't anyone use *me* for sex, dammit???
Whoever cam up with don't thread on me should get a pony. At least a carrot for the pony.
Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney!
Go fuck yourself!
NYMary
That's the one, I loved it because it a couple of possible deaths before she met her maker.
The wilful delusion of the right is amazing. Would you say that 2+2 = 5 if that was the GOP talking point of the day? The Old Man From Scene 24
The example I have been using for a long time to explain the troll mindset to the nonblogobsessed:
Look! Here are two rocks- hold them. Now here are two more rocks - take them. Now how many do you have?
Troll: Rush says five.
But look - just look at what's in front of you!
Troll: You're a liar, a racist, and a moran. Everyone but the elitist liberal media knows there are five, and it's because you hate Bush that you deny it.
Personally, I have concluded that Zippy is right: Fun is three rocks.
The party of Liebermann, Clinton, Biden, and Dean is just as bad as the Repukes. All bow before their corporaate masters.
I have left the Democratic party for good, and will bejoining the Green party.
NYMary ... Does Rosie have a transitional object?
The poor suffer Katrina's landfall.
The rich reap Katrina's windfall.
The heavy blanket was stiff. I needed it to throw over and cover a recliner String's been scratching on. And clothesline drying doesn't leave any damp spots like a dryer does.
NYMary - I don't suppose that you are a little anemic from the pregnancy, and thus your tiredness?
res, keep watching. That's all I'm gonna tell ya.
The journey is worth it. So much more than what you're worried about now happens that when it's all over, you won't believe the sweep of it. Last season was kind of meh, but this season was majestic. Hard as hell to watch, gutwrenching, yes, but breathtaking television in the long run.
Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney!
Go fuck yourself!
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FREE DR BEN MARBLE!!!!!!!!
Tena, I intend to.
I love that sort of thing.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar | Email | Homepage | 09.10.05 - 5:01 pm
Bingo, GWPDA, which is why I think we might have to go outside the federal govt right now.
And the Dems would be well advised to start offering some solutions right now while the time is right.
Yeah.. the Democrats seemed to have no problems with Michael Brown's resume until now.
I guess they were too busy pandering to unions in 2002