Michael Brown
Michael Brown
Former administrator of FEMA who resigned from his position after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Many americans blamed him for the slow response to help those in New Orleans in the aftermath of the deadly hurricane.
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 November 1954
CityGuymon, OK
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At a news conference, Pelosi, D-Calif., said Bush's choice for head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency had 'absolutely no credentials.'
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As we entered this quarter, we expected desktop units to be relatively flat, with revenue down sequentially due to continued pricing pressures, ... However, pricing pressures have been more severe than expected, with the sequential rate of price decline roughly double that of the prior two quarters.
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That's why I now have complete cooperation from the military, ... I have everything I need to ramp this up and do what we have to do to secure New Orleans, to take this urban area and make certain it's secure, get people out of here, and start the recovery process.
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You see, I get it when it comes to incident command systems, ... I get it when it comes to emergency management. I know what it's all about.
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They are fighting an uphill battle. They wouldn't give me the money and resources to do it.
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There were five trucks arriving (Thursday) night to feed well over 50,000 people. There's less than that there. We're also diverting supplies to the convention center, which I learned about (Thursday). So I understand people's frustrations. But this has been an absolutely catastrophic disaster, and we're doing absolutely everything we can to get the supplies into those folks.
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There were a few stages in the match when the atmosphere was a little bit daunting, but I was able to knuckle down and finish well which was really pleasing.
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There's about 36 hours for folks to get ready. Beyond that, it's just too late.
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This is truly a catastrophic event, ... Larry King Live.
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And that's one of the things that I think we need to go back and find out, because I was sounding those alarm bells, and to this day I'm incredibly frustrated that we didn't move and could not move things faster.
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As a former (boys) tennis and softball coach at Northwest, I can speak to this. There were times I had to dress our student manager in order to have enough to start softball games. While we want people to have opportunity, where are the numbers?
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This is the first object to be confirmed to be larger than Pluto in the outer solar system.
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This is not about saying he's going to get off. It's not about beating the case. It's acknowledging that different homicides are treated differently.
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This disaster did not end the day Katrina made landfall,