Text 12446, 46 rader
Skriven 2005-09-21 08:49:03 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 12398 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
Ärende: Brown v Blanco
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20 Sep 05 22:50, FRANK SCHEIDT wrote to ROY WITT:

 RW>>> By David D. Kirkpatrick and Scott Shane

 RW>>> The New York Times

 RW>>> WASHINGTON - Hours after Hurricane Katrina passed New Orleans on
 RW>>> Aug. 29, as the scale of the catastrophe became clear, Michael
 RW>>> Brown recalls, he placed frantic calls to his boss, Homeland
 RW>>> Security Department Secretary Michael Chertoff and to White House
 RW>>> Chief of Staff Andrew Card Jr.

 RW>>> Brown, then director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency,
 RW>>> said he told the officials in Washington that Louisiana Gov.
 RW>>> Kathleen Babineaux Blanco and her staff were proving incapable of
 RW>>> organizing a coherent state effort, and that his field officers in
 RW>>> the city were reporting an "out of control" situation.

 FS>>                            ... [snip] ...
 FS>> PREDICTION:  Govt. Official "A" will blame Govt. Official "B" who
 FS>> will blame "A" who, then, will blame *both* "B" and Govt.
 FS>> Official "C".  "C" will blame both "A" and "B", both of whom will
 FS>> blame Govt. Official "D" who will immediately blame "A", "B", and
 FS>> "C" ... and on and on ... [sigh] ... we'll find *no one*
 FS>> taking the blame, though all will admit making minor errors --
 FS>> errors of no consequence but which will create an illusion of
 FS>> *someone's* taking blame ... BTW, *I* am not to blame!!  How
 FS>> about *you*?!!?

 RW>> Well, yes I'm to blame for the whole thing. You see, I was posting
 RW>> in a 'sysop' echo without having a sysop nodelisting at the time. It
 RW>> was such a terrible offense, Mother Nature wanted to impress upon me
 RW>> that there are some assholes in the world who needed another excuse
 RW>> to do more criticism of the USA and how she's at fault for global
 RW>> warming, etc,...

 FS> OK, so you *are* to blame, but not *seriously* ... Mother Nature
 FS> can be a rough one at times!

Yes, I'm seriously not to blame...Mother Nature loves me.


Roy

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