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Brown Poufed Hair As Katrina Hit, E-mails Say

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Posted on May 10, 2006
Michael 'Heckuva Job' Brown
From occoquan.com

Former FEMA director Michael Brown

Former FEMA director Michael “Heckuva Job” Brown told an aide he was “sitting in the chair, putting mousse in my hair” as he waited for a media interview immediately after the Aug. 29 disaster began. He also disputed that levees quickly broke—despite getting reports to that effect.


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Former FEMA director Michael Brown disputed that floodwaters had breached New Orleans’ levees in the early hours after Hurricane Katrina roared ashore, new e-mails released Tuesday show.

The 928 pages of e-mails, obtained and released by the Center for Public Integrity, also portray Brown and the Federal Emergency Management Agency as obsessed with media coverage in the days leading up to and immediately following the Aug. 29, 2005, disaster. At one point early that morning, Brown reported to an aide that he was “sitting in the chair, putting mousse in my hair,” as he waited for media interviews to begin.

Later that morning, at 9:50 a.m., a FEMA staffer at the National Hurricane Center sent department brass an alert from a local TV station report that “a levee breach occurred along the industrial canal” near the city’s low-income Ninth Ward.

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By Jaime, May 11, 2006 at 1:52 pm #
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I am also in New Orleans and like you Gonnuts, I am sick of this mess we call home.  However, my anger goes in all kinds of directions.  No, the republicans are not doing us any favors but I don’t seem much from the other side either.  Most of the lawmakers in Washington have still not taken the time to come on down and see what we are talking about - regardless of party.

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By Joe Paris, May 11, 2006 at 1:53 am #
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Brownie’s dull-witted comment cements his legend as a pathetic cheat, liar, and dumb-ass. But he might have improved his hair presentation for the media by using what “MAry” did in the movie “There’s Something About Mary”: his own jism - that way - a double pun would have obtained: he was fucked up AND a jerk-off !

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By Brownie Scout, May 10, 2006 at 12:10 pm #
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And the most tragic thing of all, his hair still looks like doodoo!

But he definitely looks like he was on the right track with mousse.  He is not a gel guy.

It’s really, really nice to know that the “grown-ups” are back in the White House.  Remember that one?  They used to use it a lot.  Now they know that to invoke that old saw, or the “restoring honor and integrity” meme might cause someone to laugh right in their lying faces.

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By mark claire, May 10, 2006 at 11:34 am #
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a bush apointee less than brilliant?  who’da thunk?  when you put a bastard in as top dog, what do you really expect all the way down—- AND YET, people tell me the GOP may retain its hold on the house or senate this year… does nobody actually read anymore?  and when they read, can they NOT see the lies? 
the list of crimes we commit as a country grows daily, the GOP dogs are in the courts everywhere, and the idiot at the top has his finger on a red button… this guy and his relationship with a moose is the least of our worries.

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By Gonnuts, May 10, 2006 at 10:50 am #
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I live in New Orleans. Another report of the incompetence of the bush administration doesn’t surprise anyone here, we live it every day. We see it, we pass it on our streets, we smell it, it has effected our work, our relationships and our very souls. It’s broken many hearts. Our current suicide rate is 5 times the national average.
From top to bottom the bush administration has awarded failure and buried those that would speak the truth or God forbid, be competent at what they do. The list of failures, crime and corruption is too long to post on a forum such as this, you’d need a volume of books to cover them all.
The question is what are we going to do about it? When is the breaking point going to be reached? Do we have to wait till gas hits $5 a gallon? Or will it take bush using nukes on Iran and killing millions more in his march to WWIII and Armageddon before we act?
I live in only one city that bush has chosen to let rot, when his real aim is to destroy the world.

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