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Brownie Evacuated

by BooMan
Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 12:29:40 PM EST

Here's some karma:

A series of wind-whipped wildfires north of Boulder, Colo., have forced the evacuation of more than 11,500 residents — among them vilified ex-Federal Emergency Management Agency head Michael Brown.
Brown was lauded by President Bush for doing a “heckuva job” in the botched response to Hurricane Katrina, which took the lives of 1,836 people and caused more than $81 billion in damage. Brown resigned in disgrace and the event looms as a national turning point against the Bush administration.

No word on why Brownie wasn't abandoned on his rooftop.

Brownie Evacuated | 9 comments (9 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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Abandoned on his rooftop. That would have been justice.

by Heart of the Rockies on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 12:38:41 PM EST

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The national guard was airlifting stranded cows by helicopter and doing food drops for livestock within hours of the Colorado blizzard that followed Katrina a few months later. Shame.

'vini, vidi, excreti' - Joe the Plumber

by anarchronarchist (mincers (-at-) hotmail (-dot-) com) on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 12:51:58 PM EST

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Hmmm....interesting.

That's probably because those cows looked like this....

and not this....

"I think generations pretty soon are going to start to thank this president for what he's done. This generation will."

by MikeInOhio (miken45054@yahoo.com) on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 01:05:12 PM EST
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You hotlinked! We're lucky they are serving a benign image instead of the infamous goatse.

'vini, vidi, excreti' - Joe the Plumber

by anarchronarchist (mincers (-at-) hotmail (-dot-) com) on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 02:22:06 PM EST
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Or send him one of those trailers. There's plenty to go around.

Oh, there you are, Perry. -Phineas -SLB-

by boran2 (blogistan@yahoo.com) on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 12:57:40 PM EST

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very few people even know he lives up here, which l'm sure is intentional on his part. he keeps a real low profile.

and FEMA's actually going to help out ... FEMA to help cover fire costs:

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will help pay the firefighting costs for the Olde Stage Road Fire that has burned more than 1,000 acres.
"While we don't send engines or firefighters to battle these blazes, FEMA does help reimburse states for their firefighting costs," said Garry Briese, a regional administrator with the agency. "Whenever a wildfire threatens large numbers of homes and looks like it may become a major disaster, we can help cover costs so the state can do what it needs to do to fight the fire."
Authorities at FEMA, a branch of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, approved a request from Colorado officials for the grant at 8:10 p.m. Wednesday.

amazing how quickly they approved that, eh.

winds have come up again too, but not as bad as yesterday, so we're still not out of the woods.

the revolution will not be televised...

by dada on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 01:33:31 PM EST

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Hope things are better out your way dada, I'm sorry the winds are making life difficult for you. Hang in there.

We need to push for Progressive change, now more than ever.

by keepinon (jaukkuri@sbcglobal.net) on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 09:22:26 PM EST
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Think about this....Bill Clinton's FEMA might have ben able to mobilise resources to deal with the wildfire before getting to the point of these evacuations...

Think about it---Clinton's people were honest, dedicated and professional. Brownie's were Good Republicans....no other qualification mattered.

-5.75,-4.05 "The invisible hand of Adam Smith seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people"---George Carlin

by justadood on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 06:22:49 PM EST

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Yeah, an award winning federal govt. agency under Clinton reduced to a cruel and inept piece of crap in just a few short years. Grover must be very proud.

"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live." Dorothy Thompson, Journalist

by Indianadem on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 07:39:21 PM EST
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