Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : Daemon
From : Finnigann
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 19:55:00

-=> Daemon wrote to Finnigann <=-

 Da>   Re: Re: Um...no comment?
 Da>   By: Finnigann to Daemon on Mon Sep 05 2005 07:14 pm

 > They make their excuses... they should have exacuated. They spent FEMA money
 > (I am not sure how this relates to pork, actually) And in general they turn

 Da>   It doesn't.  Years back, the Army Corps of Engineers inflated the
 Da> numbers for a completely unrelated project to increase their own
 Da> available funds.  They were very much in the wrong and they were caught
 Da> with their hands in the cookie jar, and all involved personel have
 Da> since been replaced or simply eliminated as positions entirely.

 Da>   But it's been the Bush administration's ready excuse for
 Da> under-funding EVERY project they seek funding for, as a matter of
 Da> course and as an explicitly-expressed priority since by labeling
 Da> everything the ACE seeks to do as "pork".

 Da>   It wasn't FEMA at all that committed the transgression.

 Da>   Frank just gets confused about things like names, dates, numbers, who
 Da> cited what, how communication is accomplished in a BBS, what day it
 Da> is...

 Da>   I hope someone helps him get dressed in the morning.  *shakes head*
 Da> That could be ugly.


Imagine if FEMA had responded like this four years ago...

.... And that is how we know the Earth is banana-shaped.
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