derek | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 07 2005 | hurricane katrina, business, economy, newsQuoted: Hurricane Katrina is expected to cut employment by 400,000 jobs, slash economic growth by as much as a full percentage point this year and result in a spike in gasoline prices of possibly 40 percent this month.
derek | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 12 2005 | matt lauer, george w. bush, hurricane katrina, newsWow -- Matt Lauer is a real live journalist. Nice!
derek | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 12 2005 | michael brown, hurricane katrina, news
derek | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 10 2005 | hurricane katrina, michael brown, fema, the office, gareth, news
LOL! Anybody who has seen The Office (only applies to UK version) has to read this article!
Quoted: "His bio, the White House press release, and a number of sources list him as assistant city manager in Edmund, Okla.," Miranda says. " When we called the folks in Edmund, they told us that, no, his position in fact had been assistant to the city manager, which is a purely administrative job, a very different job. He was an administrative assistant. It's sort of an entry-level, intern-type job for somebody who's interested in learning about government. …When he began that job in 1977, he was still a college student. He didn't graduate with his B.A. until 1978."
derek | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 08 2005 | hurricane katrina, flashAnimated social commentary about Hurricane Katrina. Funny, and then ... well, not so funny.
derek | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 08 2005 | wal-mart, hurricane katrina
Maybe this was just a PR stunt, but it's still a great thing for a company to do.
Quoted: Over the next few days, Wal-Mart's response to Katrina — an unrivaled $20 million in cash donations, 1,500 truckloads of free merchandise, food for 100,000 meals and the promise of a job for every one of its displaced workers — has turned the chain into an unexpected lifeline for much of the Southeast and earned it near-universal praise at a time when the company is struggling to burnish its image.
derek | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 07 2005 | michael brown, fema, hurricane katrina, newsDon't just fire Michael Brown -- jail him.
derek | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 07 2005 | hurricane katrina, fox newsIncredible footage from Hannity and Colmes. Geraldo starts crying as he describes the devastation, and Shepherd Smith is nearly speechless. This helps to put the horror of the situation into perspective -- these men are paid to be under control, and they completely lose it. What a shame.
derek | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 07 2005 | fema, hurricane katrina, firefighters, newsI'm beginning to wonder if FEMA is simply an experiment to see how incompetent a single organization can be. Shocking and depressing.
Quoted: "They've got people here who are search-and-rescue certified, paramedics, haz-mat certified," said a Texas firefighter. "We're sitting in here having a sexual-harassment class while there are still [victims] in Louisiana who haven't been contacted yet."
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Quoted: But as specific orders began arriving to the firefighters in Atlanta, a team of 50 Monday morning quickly was ushered onto a flight headed for Louisiana. The crew's first assignment: to stand beside President Bush as he tours devastated areas.
derek | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 02 2005 | hurricane katrina, social commentary, race issues, equality, news
Quoted: "Is this what the pioneers of the civil rights movement fought to achieve, a society where many black people are as trapped and isolated by their poverty as they were by segregation laws?" Mr. Naison wrote. "If Sept. 11 showed the power of a nation united in response to a devastating attack, Hurricane Katrina reveals the fault lines of a region and a nation, rent by profound social divisions."
Quoted: Many African-American leaders note that many of those still stuck at the center of the tragedy are largely black and poor.


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