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See any similarities?  Man again imitates NATURE …

So, there you have it!  Disasters have a common element.  Humans!  Whether Mother Nature starts it or Humans start it, the results are the same.  People, their lives and their possessions are the casualties.  Displaced people, displaced lives are the lesson.
Oh yes, we DO come [...]

Posted by bosskitty August 24th, 2008 | Tags: Disaster, displaced persons, Foreign Policy, Georgia, Katrina, War | Category: Disaster, Foreign Policy, Georgia, Katrina, War Cost, displaced persons | Leave a comment

 
GAO Hands FEMA Another Katrina Blow
FEMA officials must be wondering if Hurricane Katrina will ever blow over. Now, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports that FEMA lost another $30 million taxpayer dollars through “ineffective oversight” of contracts to maintain and deactivate those mobile homes and travel trailers use for emergency housing. The loss, reports the [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 28th, 2007 | Category: Excess, FEMA, GAO, Katrina, Mismanagement, Oversight, Public Health, Tax Dollars, arrogance, catastrophe, consequences, emergency, fraud, profiteers, refugees | Comments (3)

(CBS) There are still 50,000 families along the Gulf Coast living in travel trailers given to them by FEMA. Six months ago we began investigating reports of toxic formaldehyde fumes making some of those people sick. And as Chief Investigative Reporter Armen Keteyian reports, FEMA has done more to cover their own backs than help [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 7th, 2007 | Category: CBS, Corruption, Disaster, Excuses, FEMA, Hypocracy, Ignorance, Katrina, R. David Paulison, Tax Dollars, Waste, chemicals, cover up, incompetence, taxpayers | Comments (1)

Another week another veto; Bush the most fiscally irresponsible president in our history continues to veto bills that would help Americans. In his lasted move Bush has vetoed a water project bill that would have repaired the hurricane damaged areas of the Gulf Coast, especially in the Katrina area. The bill would also restore wetlands [...]

Posted by nytexan November 2nd, 2007 | Category: Army Corps of Engineers, Bush, Congress, Katrina, Politics, Veto, water project bill | Comments (6)

Wastewater
 
National Small Flows Clearinghouse: for use by Purdue University** Wastewater Characteristics, What is in Wastewater?, Important Characteristics, How is Treatment Achieved?, Testing and Measuring Wastewater, Reducing Wastewater Helps,
 

Basic Wastewater Characteristics
Do you know [...]

Posted by bosskitty October 20th, 2007 | Category: Global Warming, Health, Katrina, chemicals, contamination, genetics, mutation, pollution, recycle, toxic | Comments (1)

States Feel Left Out Of Disaster Planning
By Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post Staff Wednesday, August 8, 2007
A decision by the Bush administration to rewrite in secret the nation’s emergency response blueprint has angered state and local emergency officials, who worry that Washington is repeating a series of mistakes that contributed to [...]

Posted by bosskitty August 8th, 2007 | Category: Accountability, America, Armageddon, Bush, Casualties, Cheney, Chertoff, Collateral, Corruption, DHS, Deception, Democracy In Action, Dillusion, Disaster, DoubleSpeak, Excuses, Executive Branch, FEMA, Homeland Security, Hypocracy, Katrina, King George, Kucinich, Legacy, Outsource, Oversight, Patriot Act, Politics, President, Promises, States, Tax Dollars, The Divider, The Liar, Waste, administration, conspiracy, destruction, dictatorship, disinformation, economics, national security, neglect, resonsibility, taxpayers, threat | Comments (2)

John Cornyn continues to disgrace all Texans by consistently voting no and neglecting our soldiers. However, he does find time to vote yes for the wealthy and corporations. John Cornyn is the worst Texas Senator.
From EmpoweringVeterans.org has joined the rest of Texas in our push to get rid of John Cornyn. They have [...]

Posted by nytexan June 23rd, 2007 | Category: Afghanistan, Cornyn, Election, GOP, Iraq, Katrina, National, News, PTSD, Politics, Republican, VA, Vote, War, veterans | Comments (8)

Congress appropriated $5.7 billion to rebuild New Orleans’ flood protection systems.
Thanks to the Associated Press for revealing that when the Army Corps of Engineers solicited bids for drainage pumps for New Orleans, it copied the specifications — typos and all — from the catalog of the same manufacturer that they awarded the $32 million contract [...]

Posted by bosskitty April 30th, 2007 | Category: Bush, Corporate Corruption, Impeach, Katrina, Legacy, National, News, President, Scandal | Comments (1)