Senior officials in Louisiana's emergency planning agency already were awaiting trial over allegations stemming from a federal investigation into waste, mismanagement and missing funds when Hurricane Katrina struck.Remember the REAL BLAME NAME? Even more hilarious:
The day before the report was issued, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Louisiana obtained an indictment against Michael L. Brown, deputy director of the Louisiana office of emergency preparedness. (Brown is no relation to former FEMA director Michael D. Brown who resigned this week.) Louisiana's deputy director oversaw the state's Hazard Mitigation program.So either a) the MSM either had a story in pocket about the charges against the Louisiana FEMA's Michael D. Brown and suppressed it so as not to confuse the message in their biased attack on Dubya's Mike Brown -- or b) they're totally incompetent. Or c) all of the above.
Interesting about how questions about the MSM typically end up in a form like this isn't it?
I pick (c) of course.
Remember this?
4. We do not yet have teleporter nor replicator technology like you saw on "Star Trek" in college between hookah hits and waiting to pick up your worthless communications degree while the grownups actually engaged in the recovery effort today were studying engineering.I'm thinking of promoting it to a Jaw Dropper. This idea that people with better than average writing skills -- but typically no other professional qualifications -- are somehow better qualified to understand and honestly communicate a wide range of complex subjects than professionals is one of the most risible ruses of all time.
As a society we have ceded entirely too much power to the "4th estate" in our quest for the material benefits of specialization. Absolute power has corrupted them absolutely as well as allowed them to brainwash their way to entirely too much respect. (And I say that in knowledge of how poorly the MSM is regarded by much of the public.)
Blogging has opened up a critical avenue for the re-engagement of citizenship -- and none too soon! All of a sudden, subject matter experts can gain a foothold against the venal and stupid MSM.
And it's also our unthinking trust in specialization along with violating the "Prime Directive" that has been key in leading us to the verge of the Tinfoil Apocalypse. Too much technology is leaking into the hands of nihilistic, bloody, brutal serial murderers.
I hope it's not too late to avoid it. But the evidence in favor of Apocalypse is getting pretty ugly.
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