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Governor Blanco of Louisiana issued a press release explaining that former FEMA Director Mike Brown erred in his testimony before Congress claiming that she hadn’t included the affected parishes in her request.

I noticed on September 7^th that FEMA had erred in its preliminary disaster declaration and excluded the parishes that would be most subject to damage.

Melanie at Just A Bump In The Beltway may have located the problem: FEMA’s Map Assistance Center. If you are more used to asking about “supersizing” than reading maps, you may not give the correct answers about locations, or even be aware that counties are called parishes in Louisiana.

I’m sure Brown is one of those guys who won’t stop and ask directions.

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After hearing Brown tell a committee of Congress what a great job FEMA did in Mississippi, I think he needs a complete medical examination as I suspect a stress-related disorder. Fortunately I know a specialist on stress-related disorders caused by the FEMA response in Mississippi, Dr. Ben Marble. Having helped the Vice President, I’m sure Dr. Marble would be more than happy to help Mr. Brown resolve some issues.

After watching Governor Haley Barbour on television my Mother is interested in knowing what planet the state of Mississippi he is describing is on, as the state on this planet is still awaiting help.

Oh, anytime FEMA would like to start paying its bills on Ivan, that would be appreciated, and we could probably send more help to those forgotten in southern Mississippi.

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The military-industrial complex has launched a Battle Over Model War Planes.

The taxpayers pay these people to develop the aircraft and then buy them for millions. Now the companies want more money from middle school consumers who build model airplanes. Any royalties will be paid by the people who buy the kits.

Avarice, plain and simple. What’s next – a fee on teddy bears in uniform?

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They’re off on a 3,000+ kilometer trip across Australia powered by the Sun. The Dutch team is again in the lead according to the CBC.

Update: Dutch team wins in 29 hours and 11 minutes of driving time.

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Ron Franscell of Under The News is an editor at The Beaumont Enterprise. While they are having trouble getting a print edition out they have been running the paper on the ‘Net.

When they ran into problems uploading pictures to the paper’s site he started Rita Images. Now the site is running pictures being sent in by readers.

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In honor of the centennial of E = MC²

Shrubbery = Corruption + Cronyism

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John Ellis has been term limited, and he needed to spend more time with the defense attorneys for various members of his family anyway, so we are having a Republican primary for governor. The top contenders are attorney general Charlie Crist and chief financial officer Tom Gallagher. Both have been considered moderates, but to get the nominations they need to change their message for “the base”, which is pretty damn base in Florida.

The St. Petersberg Times wants us to: Meet the new Tom Gallagher.

Now there’s a new Tom Gallagher making his fourth run for governor. This one wants Roe vs. Wade overturned, cheered on legislators as they tried to force the insertion of a feeding tube into Terri Schiavo, favors a constitutional ban on gay marriage and denounces “activist judges.”

I don’t expect much from politicians but it would be nice if they would at pretend to believe in the rule of law. The man will sell his few principles for votes, so we should trust him because?

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DeLay indicted for conspiracy!

Justice not DeLay’d!

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