Fema Changes

DHS Secretary, when asked by Senate what he thought about putting Fema back as an independent Federal agency said he was "against it" What a surprise .. Gee let's ask someone if they want to reduce the size of their own empire... He further stated that sometimes disasters might be terrorist events and we don't want two agencies running things.. September 11th, 2001 Fema pulled together a pretty good response in New York, (of course NYC also has the best resources on the planet) but none the less - they did just fine on their own with previous hurricanes and tornadoes, without being under DHS.

More red tape and Layers of weak management does not a decision make. *

*(quote from some yet to be famous guy)

Why Johnny Kant reed or rite reel good.

News Quote: "Saying that high school students who have passed their classes should be able to graduate even if they flunk California's test of basic math and English skills, a powerful San Francisco law firm sued the state Wednesday over the California High School Exit Exam"


Come on .... file a Lawsuit ? ... "They are picking on us ?" .. what do you mean we have to pass basic tests to read and understand math ?... ..

These teens will begin to vote... but not be able to understand what they read in the local paper.. is this the way we are going to improve government ?

The fix for future federal response

Putting Federal Emergency Management response back into the hands of the professionals is the fix that needs to be made to the current DHS structure. Prior to DHS being put in charge of Fema, it preformed well and had the respect of those it served.

Katrina Investigation

News reports of DHS secretary testimony states that Secretary didn't want to step in and take charge, because of his experience, and what he learned during 9/11. This is exactly the problem. This well intentioned agency head is an attorney, and was a an attorney, then. Call it what you may, federal prosecutor, Judge, etc - highly qualified to file suits, draw up legal papers, prosecute cases, and probably a nice guy, but.. Not an emergency responder, manager, leader, or crisis responder. Until we put people in charge of emergency response agencies who are professionals in emergency response... We will run into the same problems in decision making and leadership in these agencies. Keep the attorneys working in their own profession.
And Leave the emergency management to Emergency professionals.

Bridge For Sale

Did anyone buy the "I dont know how I got to England" story from that murder suspect ? - The amnesia excuse worked twice in U.S. history - once on the Barnaby Jones T.V. series and once in a Peter Sellers movie.