Got tape?"Did you remember the duct tape?" is the question being tossed around dinner tables in homes across the country these days. "Remember the Duct Tape," might become this generation's equivalent of "Remember the Maine" or "Remember the Alamo."
Duct tape is being hailed as a key ingredient for surviving a terrorist attack. Why? Because the government suggests that designating a room in your home, and sealing it with plastic sheeting held firmly in place by duct tape, will help protect you from fallout resulting from a biological, chemical or nuclear attack. (One thing all you Martha Stewart or HGTV-types should know is that duct tape comes in a number of colors. In addition to the traditional gray, there's yellow, blue and camouflage as well.)
However, before running off to your local hardware store, ask yourself what in heaven's name the Bush Administration is up to. Has it gone completely daft? Is manufacturing fear going to ratchet up support for Bush's war with Iraq? Do the Bushites really want the American people in such a discombobulated state that the only thing Americans can think about is where to find the required amount of duct tape they need?
Even I don't believe that this is what the neocons had in mind when they first began developing plans for US global domination in the twenty-first century. Did they really expect this global domination thing to be a cakewalk?
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AND...THERE'S THIS!Embattled Brown Resigns As FEMA Chief;Bush named R. David Paulison, head of the FEMA's emergency preparedness force, to replace Brown.
The president was told of Brown's resignation earlier Monday and spoke to
Homeland Security Secretary Mike Chertoff, who was Brown's boss, from Air Force One in the afternoon as he flew back to Washington from an overnight visit to the region.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the White House did not seek Brown's resignation.
"This was Mike Brown's decision and we respect his decision," McClellan said.
McClellan praised Brown's work but conspicuously left out any reference to his contribution to the Katrina efforts.
"The president appreciates Mike Brown's service," he said. "Mike has done a lot of great work on a number of hurricanes."
Besides leading FEMA's emergency preparedness force, Paulison has led the U.S. Fire Administration since December 2001, according to a biography posted on FEMA's Web site.
He is a career firefighter from Miami who was among the emergency workers responding to Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and the crash of ValuJet Flight 592 in the Florida Everglades in 1996.
Paulison also was chief of the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department, leading 1,900 personnel and a $200 million operating budget. He was in charge of Dade County's emergency management office, according to the biography.
In an interview, Brown said he feared he had become a distraction.
His resignation came three days after he was sent back to headquarters from the Gulf area, where he had been the government's disaster point-man. It also came a little more than a week after Bush, on his first on-the-ground visit to the region after the storm, said, "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job."
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