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Skriven 2005-09-16 09:36:15 av Roy Witt (1:10/22)
  Kommentar till text 12253 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
Ärende: Brown v Blanco
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16 Sep 05 08:43, 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 Brown
 RW>> recalls, he placed frantic calls to his boss, Homeland Security
 RW>> Department Secretary Michael Chertoff and to White House Chief of
 RW>> 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*?!!?

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


Roy

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