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Skriven 2005-09-20 22:50:00 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ROY WITT
Ärende: Brown v Blanco
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-=> Quoting Roy Witt to Frank Scheidt <=-

 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*?!!?

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

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

... "Beep beep boop beep boop beep beep." ÄÄ R2D2

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