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Posts Tagged ‘FEMA’

Media: Doin’ a heck of a job there, FEMA (UPDATED)

I don’t know whether or not to laugh, or begin packing my bags to move to Canada before Big Brother finally succeeds.
Via the Washington Post:
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s No. 2 official apologized yesterday for leading a staged news conference Tuesday in which FEMA employees posed as reporters while real reporters listened on a telephone [...]

October 27, 2007 in Watchdog
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FEMA trailers in Peoria?

UPDATE: WCBU’s Jonathan Ahl has a very plausible (and non-scandalous) explanation in the comments section.
UPDATE 2: OK, I’ll admit it (again). Not a huge scoop. Get off my back. Everyone is a critic.
I am baffled by this. I debated putting on a reporter’s hat and making a bunch of phone calls.
But I didn’t [...]

March 9, 2006 in Overset
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Peoria firefighters at risk

Wisely, a group of Peoria firefighters are getting ready to evacuate themselves should Rita take a turn toward Louisiana. That looks to be what is happening.
Be careful guys. We are proud of you all, but upu need to mind your own safety as well.
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September 23, 2005 in Local
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Our leader then, our leader now

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September 20, 2005 in Statehouse & Capitol
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‘Taking resposibility’ means taking the blame

One of the knocks against President Clinton was that he didn’t fire Attorney General Janet Reno after she took responsibility after a tank attack on the Branch Davidian compound n Waco ended in flames and mass death.
I know wonder what those same conservative critics think should happen to President Bush now that he says
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September 13, 2005 in Statehouse & Capitol
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White House has to settle

Via MSNBC: Bush chooses new FEMA director:
The White House picked a top FEMA official with three decades of firefighting experience to be FEMA’s new director, senior administration sources said Monday.
Actually, this guy is their second choice. But the guy who runs the Westminister Dog Show turned them down. So they had to settle for someone [...]

September 12, 2005 in The Wire
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And they say the media lies …

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September 11, 2005 in Overset
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More evidence of disaster relief idiocy

Will someone please explain to me why stupid stuff like this keeps happening.

September 10, 2005 in The Wire
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‘Ignorance is not leadership”

I couldn’t have said it better myself, B.J.
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September 9, 2005 in Citizen Journalism
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Even more dirt on FEMA director

Again, via Archpundit:
When Brown left the IAHA four years ago, he was, among other things, a failed former lawyer–a man with a 20-year-old degree from a semi-accredited law school who hadn’t attempted to practice law in a serious way in nearly 15 years and who had just been forced out of his job in the [...]

September 8, 2005 in Citizen Journalism
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No evacuees in Peoria until Sunday

From Peoria City Hall:
The City of Peoria has been notified that there will be no planes coming into Peoria until Sunday September 11th 2005. However this notice is subject to change upon notification from FEMA, Media will be advised if there is any change to the Sunday notification.
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September 8, 2005 in Local
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More details emerge about FEMA idiocy

FEMA’s response to the disaster is almost farsical, were it not so maddening:

September 8, 2005 in Overset
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Smoking gun at FEMA

If you ask me, this guy is toast:

September 7, 2005 in Statehouse & Capitol
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Red tape got in way of disaster relief

As I’ve said, there’s lots of blame to go around for the post-hurricane misery on the Gulf Coast. I’ve leveled a lot of blame at local officials for not doing more to evacuate and for not providing adequate policing after the flooding.
But the Bush administration — especially FEMA — deserves some of the blame:
When Wal-Mart [...]

September 6, 2005 in The Wire
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