"The President couldn't have chosen a better man": Mike Brown

[JBean]

No it wasn't JB, thanks for posting the info.

Pheww thanks Tomsgirl. I was embarrassed.:blushing:

 

[marrigotti]

Thank you! Sorry if it's too much duplication!

Thanks so much for posting that, JBean.

 

[less0305]

Pheww thanks Tomsgirl. I was embarrassed.:blushing:

JBean, thanks for posting!! I had a meeting tonight and I'm trying to catch up so having that short bio here for me was great...I didn't have to go searching on my limited time tonight!! :hand: Big thumbs up here, girl!!!

 

[BirdieBoo]

Yes JBean. Thanks.


I wonder why Mr. Paulison did not already have that job? He seems ideally suited for it, per the bio.

 

[DEPUTYDAWG]

Thank you! Sorry if it's too much duplication!

Hey JB! I'm glad you posted it, I haven't had a chance to sit and watch TV yet. And this guys sounds a whole lot more experienced. That's a start, LOL

 

[JBean]

Well, my disaster sister is the only person that I know personally that has real life experience with this stuff. She was so thrilled that he was chosen, I guess I was just excited to post. She has been trying to get me to pay attention to this stuff for so long, she finally has my attention.

 

[DEPUTYDAWG]

Well, my disaster sister is the only person that I know personally that has real life experience with this stuff. She was so thrilled that he was chosen, I guess I was just excited to post. She has been trying to get me to pay attention to this stuff for so long, she finally has my attention.

I still love that, "disaster sister!" :laugh:

 

[JBean]

I still love that, "disaster sister!" :laugh:

That was just for you DD! I told her that we all get a chuckle out of it.

As an aside the conference she was putting on was for firefighters and how to drive safely and arrive alive when they drive so fast in an emergency! LOL!

 

[Liz]

Thanks for the bio, JBean! It was 'news' to me!
He sounds like a good man for the job!

 

[KrazyKollector]

Thank you! Sorry if it's too much duplication!

It wasn't too much duplication for me. I hadn't read it yet.
Guess I was too busy taking with my Mom at the hospital to read the "newslinks". I very much appreciate you posting this.:clap:

 

[KrazyKollector]

Well, my disaster sister is the only person that I know personally that has real life experience with this stuff. She was so thrilled that he was chosen, I guess I was just excited to post. She has been trying to get me to pay attention to this stuff for so long, she finally has my attention.

LOL JBean! You may want to rethink the pairing of these two words in the same grouping, "disaster sister". She may want to deck you after that.

 

[KrazyKollector]

That was just for you DD! I told her that we all get a chuckle out of it.

As an aside the conference she was putting on was for firefighters and how to drive safely and arrive alive when they drive so fast in an emergency! LOL!

Very needed conference! I had two coworkers driving/riding a "bus" to an accident when they went through a red light without slowing down enough. Ended up hitting a car with a woman and child. Woman died and the driver of the "bus" actually did prison time. Even driving hot, you still have to give ROW.

Another two coworkers were driving/riding but not hot and got hit by another car speeding. It actually flipped the bus onto it's side. One EMT ended up having to leave that type of job because of his injury to his back and shoulder.

 

[DEPUTYDAWG]

That was just for you DD! I told her that we all get a chuckle out of it.

As an aside the conference she was putting on was for firefighters and how to drive safely and arrive alive when they drive so fast in an emergency! LOL!

Oh how funny...SO is a firefighter, and about a month ago they had their driving "class." Maybe it's the time of year for FF's to have driving training? LOL

 

[Details]

You'd have thought it'd be obvious the first time - appoint someone with experience and qualifications. :doh: :doh: :doh:

 

[Dark Knight]

FEMA Official Says Boss Ignored Warnings By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer


Federal Emergency Management Agency officials did not respond to repeated warnings about deteriorating conditions in New Orleans and the dire need for help as Hurricane Katrina struck, the first FEMA official to arrive conceded Thursday.

Marty Bahamonde, a FEMA regional director, told a Senate panel investigating the government's response to the disaster that he gave regular updates to people in contact with then-FEMA Director Michael Brown as early as Aug. 28, one day before Katrina made landfall.

In most cases, he was met with silence. In an Aug. 29 phone call to Brown informing him that the first levee had broke, Bahamonde said he received a polite thank you from Brown, who said he would check with the White House.

*snip*

Later, on Aug. 31, Bahamonde frantically e-mailed Brown to tell him that thousands are evacuees were gathering in the streets with no food or water and that "estimates are many will die within hours."

"Sir, I know that you know the situation is past critical," Bahamonde wrote.

Less than three hours later, however, Brown's press secretary wrote colleagues to complain that the FEMA director needed more time to eat dinner at a Baton Rouge restaurant that evening. "He needs much more that (sic) 20 or 30 minutes," wrote Brown aide Sharon Worthy.

"We now have traffic to encounter to go to and from a location of his choise (sic), followed by wait service from the restaurant staff, eating, etc. Thank you." :furious:

Rest of the story:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051020/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/katrina_fema&printer=1

 

[Marthatex]

Cronyism is a bad idea, especially when it trumps experience and competence, and when our welfare is at stake.

Is he still on the payroll?

 

[close_enough]

:furious: grrrrrr :furious:

 

[PrayersForMaura]

DENVER - Former FEMA Director Michael Brown, heavily criticized for his agency's slow response to Hurricane Katrina, is starting a disaster preparedness consulting firm to help clients avoid the sort of errors that cost him his job.

"If I can help people focus on preparedness, how to be better prepared in their homes and better prepared in their businesses — because that goes straight to the bottom line — then I hope I can help the country in some way," Brown told the Rocky Mountain News for its Thursday editions.

Brown said officials need to "take inventory" of what's going on in a disaster to be able to answer questions to avoid appearing unaware of how serious a situation is.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051125/ap_on_re_us/brown_disasters


:waitasec: uh..... isn't it a liiiiiiiiiitttttttle late for that? :slap:

 

[dakini]

DENVER - Former FEMA Director Michael Brown, heavily criticized for his agency's slow response to Hurricane Katrina, is starting a disaster preparedness consulting firm to help clients avoid the sort of errors that cost him his job.

"If I can help people focus on preparedness, how to be better prepared in their homes and better prepared in their businesses — because that goes straight to the bottom line — then I hope I can help the country in some way," Brown told the Rocky Mountain News for its Thursday editions.

Brown said officials need to "take inventory" of what's going on in a disaster to be able to answer questions to avoid appearing unaware of how serious a situation is.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051125/ap_on_re_us/brown_disasters


:waitasec: uh..... isn't it a liiiiiiiiiitttttttle late for that? :slap:

We may thank him for creating a new phrase that describes incompetence.

"Bakin' brownies" or "Pullin a Brownie".

 

[Marthatex]

Is that kind of like Bill Clinton giving lectures on Sex Education and Abstinence?