FEMA did EXACTLY what their website says they're supposed to do!

[merwin]

I'm serious. Jon Stewart showed this webpage on The Daily Show tonight. Frickin' hilarious!!!

http://www.fema.gov/about/what.shtm



They start at disaster, go through the following path: response, recovery, mitigation, risk, reduction, prevention, preparedness, and ends up back at disaster!

[tuvor]

1. I was waiting for someone to post this, just so I could recommend it. n/t

[merwin]

2. LOL, thanks :-) It's my first 'Greatest' post I think.

[tavalon]

3. Well,

that one just went up on my livejournal.

[merwin]

4. Thanks for reminding me! I'm going to stick that in my blog

[theophilus]

5. That could be the Bush Administration Logo! n/t

[Binka]

6. Fire...Ready...Aim

NumbNuts!

[rateyes]

7. lol---fire, ready, aim...

now, if we can only get them to point the gun at themselves instead of the American people.

[Binka]

8. Indeed...I Love The Fire...Ready..Aim.... I use it for everything

Whenever I see Fuckwittage in action I say it. Everybody always fucking cracks up. My other personal FAV is OBE... it means overcome by events! I use it when I fuck up.

[rateyes]

10. Love it...sounds like

you have great mental health.

[Binka]

11. I Have Her In My Life She Is My Mental Health (Four Year Old Angel)

Her older brother Benjamin age 24 is currently in Ramadi serving with the Marines 3/7 Division. I need her love more than ever! And my sense of humor!

[rateyes]

12. She's gorgeous...

reminds me of my 3 angel daughters at that age. Just whispered a prayer for her big brother. I've had relatives and friends---one now at Baghdad airport as a medical assitant, in theatre over there.

Peace.

[Binka]

14. Thank you For Your Kind Words

Ben has been out on an extended patrol he is re-con and I have not heard from him in 17 days.

Ben at graduation Feb/2005

[rateyes]

15. Looks like he knows the meaning

of Semper Fi

[merwin]

16. I'll be praying for him to come home safely!

It's good to keep up your sense of humor in tough times. Makes you not go quite as crazy.

[Binka]

17. Laughter does heal! Ben will laugh his ass off when he gets my "care" box

It is the size of a small dishwasher. I sent him 4 cartons of Marlboro's, face scrub, face gel, blistex, baby powder, foot powder, jock itch powder, deodorant, shampoo, razors, shaving cream, power bars, cliff bars, protein powder, socks, two Five slot stack containers(to hold all the shit), 4 cans of cashews, 4 bags of pistachios, 10 bags of HOT Jerky, 50 slim Jim's, red vines, jolly ranchers, Italian cookies, and some high quality tweezers.

He is gonna shit. LOL!

[merwin]

18. LOL, that's a great care package. They'll ship him the whole thing?

[Binka]

20. Yes I Had A Friend Mail It From NAS Sigonella Here In Sicily

He is my neighbor and he can ship ANYTHING to an FPO address for FREE! The box weighed 48 pounds! he is a Navy Sea-Bee.

[merwin]

21. I can't imagine how much it would cost normally

[Glenda]

9. LOL! THanks for posting!

When I saw it on the daily show, i looked everywhere on the fema site and couldn't find it anywhere.

:pals:

[Mr_Spock]

13. It's like the equivalent of a circular firing squad

FEMA - Frequently Endangering More Americans

[Glenda]

23. "Frequently Endangering More Americans"

Did you come up with that one yourself?

[Mr_Spock]

24. You betcha

Always thinkin ya know :D

[demo dutch]

19. LOL!

[FM Arouet666]

22. It is all making some sense now.

Response = Delay
Recovery = Impairment
Mitigation = Unnecessary Red tape
Risk Reduction = Increase mayhem
Prevention = Facilitate disorder
Preparedness = Incompetence

And back to Disaster. Simply had their terms all mixed up. Silly double speak republicans.