Bye-bye Brownie!

[BigV]

Bigger question, slightly off topic:

Why, oh why, would you lie on your resume? I mean, really. Don't you think the stakes are a little high? And with an interested party (your employer) with whom you're hoping to have a long term relationship. I don't get it.

[mitheral]

Originally Posted by BigV

Bigger question, slightly off topic:

Why, oh why, would you lie on your resume? I mean, really. Don't you think the stakes are a little high? And with an interested party (your employer) with whom you're hoping to have a long term relationship. I don't get it.

Are you looking for a reason more sophisticated than "To get the job"?

[warch]

Regarding lies on Mr. Brown's resume- when your best pals are in power you maybe feel you're "taken care of" and it was. Its the illusion of credentials. Lieberman lost (more) big points with me not screening this guy better on the intake.

And I doubt that Brownie is just the one bad apple.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by warch

And I doubt that Brownie is just the one bad apple.

Exactly. If most of the top people at FEMA are unqualified patronage appointments, who's in charge now that Brown's officially out?

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Exactly. If most of the top people at FEMA are unqualified patronage appointments, who's in charge now that Brown's officially out?

Well, his replacement will be a FEMA official with 30 years.

R. David Paulison, head of FEMA's emergency preparedness force, will lead the beleaguered agency, according to three administration sources who spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement had not yet been made.

Paulison is a career firefighter from Miami who was among emergency workers responding to Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and the crash of ValuJet Flight 592 in the Florida Everglades in 1996, according to a biography posted on FEMA's Web site. He also has led the U.S. Fire Administration since December 2001, according to the site.

As chief of the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department, Paulison led 1,900 personnel under a $200 million operating budget. He was also in charge of Dade County's emergency management office, according to his biography.

How do you like that? Smack someone across the head with a two by four, and they actually do better on the second try.

Of course, in some areas you only get one chance. I have this picture of Bush looking over the devastated landscape of the United States and saying "Boy, I'm not going to do that again!"

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by richlevy

Well, his replacement will be a FEMA official with 30 years.

Heh, it's the Duct Tape Guy...

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by warch

Lieberman lost (more) big points with me not screening this guy better on the intake.

And I doubt that Brownie is just the one bad apple.

Being in the minority party, what exactly could he have done? In hindsight, he should have had his staff vet every department head, but noone has the resources. In this case the conventional wisdom on promotion within a department is to trust the department head.

[warch]

I just found UTs links to the rest of the stellar bunch. Ugh. Shame.

Can we have an independent commission look into the federal management of the war on terror, too?

[BigV]

Originally Posted by warch

I just found UTs links to the rest of the stellar bunch. Ugh. Shame.

Can we have an independent commission look into the federal management of the war on terror, too?

No.

[warch]

Awwwwwwww man.

[warch]

I guess I was hoping that Lieberman would not be so trusting of political appointees and so conventional in his wisdom. I wish he would have hired another intern with a laptop to help check references. I wish he was a bit more independent in his actions.

[glatt]

What about The Press? Shouldn't they be looking into that kind of stuff? The Washington Post put together their piece about the unqualified apointees in FEMA in just a couple of days after the storm hit. I think the press should start doing its job and scrutinize the government. The press has the resources needed for such scrutiny.

Originally Posted by glatt

What about The Press? Shouldn't they be looking into that kind of stuff? The Washington Post put together their piece about the unqualified apointees in FEMA in just a couple of days after the storm hit. I think the press should start doing its job and scrutinize the government. The press has the resources needed for such scrutiny.

Oh, right. The "liberal media" owned by Rupert Murdoch. No one listened to the press before. Why would they start now?

[Urbane Guerrilla]

I think TJ's is where I got the rooibos-blend too -- the rooibos-vanilla from Celestial Seasonings with that... really happy lion on the box. Like most blends, its flavor really comes out best with a bit of sweetening -- surely tastes much better than New Orleans standing water [nods to thread topic]. It's not quite the full-on, steep-half-an-hour, capital-R rooibos experience you get from something else TJ's has: the Red Tea Original organic Rooibos, but it's still plenty tasty. http://www.africanredtea.com Celestial Seasonings always offers good stuff, though. I wish they'd bring back their Earl Greyest, a double-strength Earl Grey -- wowie zowie.

[wolf]

Celestial Seasonings needs to go back to their original recipe for Bengal Spice. I haven't bought any of their teas since the reformulation (mostly because there are a lot of better brands of tea out there, like Stash and Republic of Tea, which has the coolest catalog. There are more tea accessories out there than you've ever dreamed of ...)