Bush Creates Faith-Based Initiatives Office Within Homeland Security Dept. To Improve Disaster Recovery...

Scummy Sleezbuckets, more money into the pockets of their fundamentalist jerks pockets, and who gives a shit about the people, that is just right in Georgies America.

Washington Times Eric Pfeiffer March 9, 2006 at 09:34 AM
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A day before returning to the ravaged Gulf Coast region, President Bush created an office for faith-based initiatives within the Department of Homeland Security to improve disaster recovery efforts.

But the new office also will have some old business -- reimbursing groups that spent millions on recovery efforts. While the new Homeland Security office will give private religious organizations the opportunity to compete for federal dollars and contracts, proponents also say they hope it will streamline efforts to pay back private organizations that already have assisted in Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts.

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Hill, McGraw Lash Out At Bush For Katrina Failures: "I Fear For Our Country"...

Associated Press March 9, 2006 at 08:35 AM
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Faith Hill and Tim McGraw -- two stars who usually stay out of politics -- blasted the Hurricane Katrina cleanup effort, with Hill calling the slow progress in Louisiana and Mississippi "embarrassing" and "humiliating."

The country music artists -- who are natives of the storm ravaged states -- were at times close to tears, and clearly angry when the subject of Katrina came up during a news conference today. They had met with reporters in Nashville to promote their upcoming Soul2Soul II Tour, but when asked about the hurricane cleanup, the stars pulled no punches.

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Playing Katrina Catchup, Cont

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Maybe it's the fact that the engineers inspecting the Corps' work rebuilding the levees in New Orleans are issuing better, or more, press releases. Or maybe the Washington Post is just playing a better game of catchup. In any case, for the second day in a row, the Post follows up on a story reported weeks ago in the T-P: that two different independent engineering groups are finding serious fault with the materials the Corps is using to repair the levee on the east side of New Orleans.


Can Brian and Anderson be far behind? Sure. Meanwhile, as they say on the news, the T-P advances the story yet again: the Corps did not update worst-case storm weather data before it began work on the levees that failed.

UPDATE: Here's what Brian's working on for tonight, from the the Daily Nightly blog: And the story I warned about in this space yesterday because of its emotional impact... Ron Allen's story of rebuilding from the Lakeview neighborhood in New Orleans is airing on tonight's broadcast. It's an emotional look at an unusual case to emerge from the storm.

Emotional enough for you?

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Katrina deaths: 1100 and increasing in Louisiana, more than 200 in Mississippi and Alabama,1900
unaccounted for in Louisiana.

Senator wants answers on 2,000 missing in Katrina

Privacy policies may be delaying locating peopleWASHINGTON -- Calling it "totally unacceptable" that nearly 2,000 people remain unaccounted for more than six months after Hurricane Katrina, a Michigan senator Wednesday called on federal investigators to determine whether overly rigid governmental policies have made it harder for people to find missing family and friends.

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