OFF TOPIC Snide comments about hurricane Katrina

[Jed Rothwell]

My apologies to our Republican friends reading this forum, but I cannot 
resist posting two quotes here.

FEMA director Mike Brown was employed from 1991 to 2000 as the chief rules 
enforcer for the Arabian Horse Association. On Thursday he expressed 
surprise and consternation when told by a reporter that 15,000 people were 
stranded at the New Orleans convention center. Kate Hale, the former 
Miami-Dade emergency management director, said of Mr. Brown: "He's done a 
hell of a job, because I'm not aware of any Arabian horses being killed in 
this storm."

Yesterday the Daily Show yesterday played a comment made by the Presdent's 
mother, Barbara Bush, during a radio broadcast. She described the people in 
the Texas Astrodome: ". . . and so many of the people in the arenas here, 
you know, are underprivileged anyway. This is working out well for them."

(Okay, she did not mean to be snide. This resembles Herbert Hoover's naive 
remark that during the Depression many people left their jobs for lucrative 
opportunities to sell apples in the street.)

- Jed