Thanks, Homeland Security! June 1, 2006 zuzu Really. I’m sure we really didn’t need all those anti-terrorism funds in New York after all. I’ll sleep safer, knowing that Omaha will get those dollars. **headdesk**
For the first time, they said, teams of law enforcement officials from around the nation evaluated the effectiveness of the spending proposals submitted by the 46 eligible urban areas, cutting grants for cities that had shoddy or poorly articulated plans. In other words, Bloomie blew it. If people knew how poor NYC’s response was on 9/11 they’d be thinking of lynching Juliani instead of running him for President.
Sorry this is here, but there is no email address for you all on this blog sooooo…. Could you publicize the Needing of Submissions for Carnival of Feminist’s XVI? I don’t have that many now and would like to see lots more come in before next Tuesday. I would like to see some submissions on disability and feminism, but I won’t turn anyone away unless I have no idea what the post is supposed to mean or if it has nothing to do with feminism to begin with. I’m easy! The very first post on my blog tells people how to submit and get their wonderful posts to me!
Does anyone else find it interesting that funding is being taken away from blue-voting urban areas like New York, Portland, and Seattle, and funneled off to places where BOO SCARY TERRORIST strategies are still winning votes for the neoconservatives? Or that the cities–primary targets, certainly, in the event of actual attacks–are being left exposed after measures taken like Portland, OR’s rejection of the Joint Terrorism Task Force’s local involvement? It feels awfully punitive to me.
In the newspaper yesterday (yes, the NY Post!) they were saying that the cities that were funded are mainly the hometowns of government bigwigs. Bill Frist is from one of them (Louisville I think), and some other Homeland Security guy is from Omaha, etc. This really sounds like the corporation who fires its good workers and hires ditzy legacy-hires because daddie is high up. And liberals and conservatives alike from the major cities are outraged.