FEMA budgets
2004:
Army Corps request: $11 million
Bush request: $3 million
Approved by Congress: $5.5 million
2005:
Army Corps request: $22.5 million
Bush request: $3.9 million
Approved by Congress: $5.7 million
2006:
Bush request: $2.9 million
Thursday, September 1, 2005
From www.gawker.com
Just moments ago at the Ferragamo on 5th Avenue, Condoleeza Rice was seen spending several thousands of dollars on some nice, new shoes (we’ve confirmed this, so her new heels will surely get coverage from the WaPo’s Robin Givhan). A fellow shopper, unable to fathom the absurdity of Rice’s timing, went up to the Secretary and reportedly shouted, “How dare you shop for shoes while thousands are dying and homeless!” Never one to have her fashion choices questioned, Rice had security PHYSICALLY REMOVE the woman.
Angry Lady, whoever you are, we love you. You are a true American.
Angry Lady, whoever you are, we love you. You are a true American.
Allright who shit on the train?
If you have to shit, please do what everyone else does and get off the brown line and shit on the red line, next to the puddle of puke and lottery tickets.
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Feed your inner Tyler Durden
How smart are these guys? Evidently, due to great oversight from many bookstore chains 1984 has been shelved in the wrong section! You all must help! If you go into a bookstore and they have 1984 in fiction, please reshelve next to Bush Books in the non-fiction or political sections.
Insert your Ministry of Reshelving card, then take a picture and send it to their flickr file so that the Ministry of Reshelving knows you're doing your part for freedom.
Freedom is Slavery
War is Peace
Ignorance if Strength
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
POWER ON!
Sorry I've been away for so long but I had a wedding in Cleveland, a Schadenfreude Promo video, a new movie at my production company and a whole bunch of unacceptable sitting on my ass to accomplish. While sitting on my ass I watched Zentropa, Orgazmo, Dawn of the Dead (2004), Stander, Captain America (the 60's cartoon), Captain Power (yes, that Captain Power, can you tell I went to the comicon?) Gamera (2001), Cutey Honey (live action, 2003 and perhaps the greatest movie ever made), The Aristocrats, Dukes of Hazzard (perhaps the greatest movie ever), 40 Year old Virgin (Funniest movie since Ron Burgundy), and the 1980's toy tie-in classic animation, Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light. Oh and a ton of Monty Python, and Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 3, and the Daily Show DVD set. So. Back to work. Tonight Schadenfreude meets for the first time since the last time, technically we are on sabbatical, but as you might notice have been meeting every week or so to guest spot in someone else's show, but tonight we actually get back together to talk sketch, specifically rewriting a few old sketches just in case we end up auditioning for the Aspen Comedy Festival, which is also what I'm creating a video for. I'm taking the concept vaguely put forth in the animation test that's up on the site somewhere and grounding it a little. Playing clips from the radio show of Phudi Mart, Ed Bus, and Dinnerbansky and Ross and tieing them together. I don't know how I'm going to do it and it's late. I've found all my audio clips but none of my video, I think I'm just going to use sample video to get the idea across for our meeting tonight. It's so late. I have got to stop sleeping though, too much time.
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Saturday, August 20, 2005
You Mowed Down His Cross
Wow.
You wonder what would make a man, a christian, no matter his opinion, drive over crosses representing the fallen. You wonder. I think we all know, and this is how truly dangerous the speech from the right-wing attack machine is, it's inciting, it's fire in a very crowded, very twitchy movie theatre full of armed citizens, murder of a "traitor" will be next, as the right more and more sharply defines the disagreeers as enemies of state, this civil war will get bloody. They have brought some dangerous people into their fold because a vote is a vote, no matter who gets hurt in the process, I think they've been pretty clear on that. Sacco & Vanzetti were unavailable for comment.
From Truthout.org
You Mowed Down His Cross
By Perry Jefferies, First Sergeant, USA (retired)
t r u t h o u t | Letter
Thursday 18 August 2005
Mr. Northern:
I am a Veteran of the Iraq war, having served with the 4th Infantry Division on the initial invasion with Force Package One.
While I was in Iraq, a very good friend of mine, Christopher Cutchall, was killed in an un-armored HMMWV outside of Baghdad. He was a cavalry scout serving with the 3d ID. Once he had declined the award of a medal because Soldiers assigned to him did not receive similar awards that he had recommended. He left two sons and a wonderful wife. On Monday night, August 16, you ran down the memorial cross erected for him by Arlington West.
One of my Soldiers in Iraq was Roger Turner. We gave him a hard time because he always wore all of his protective equipment, including three pairs of glasses or goggles. He did this because he wanted to make sure that he returned home to his family. He rode a bicycle to work every day to make sure that he was able to save enough money on his Army salary to send his son to college. At Camp Anaconda, where the squadron briefly stayed, a rocket landed inside a tent, sending a piece of debris or fragment into him and killed him. On Monday night, August 16, you ran down the memorial cross erected for him by Arlington West.
One of my Soldiers was Henry Bacon. He was one of the finest men I ever met. He was in perfect shape for a man over forty, working hard at night. He told me that he did that because he didn't have much money to buy nice things for his wife, who he loved so much, so he had to be in good shape for her. He was like a father to many young men in his section of maintenance mechanics. They fixed our vehicles with almost no support and fabricated parts and made repairs that kept our squadron rolling on the longest, fastest armor advance ever made under fire. He was so very proud of his son-in-law that married the beautiful daughter so well raised by Henry. His son-in-law was a helicopter pilot with the 1st Cavalry Division, who died last year. Henry stopped to rescue a vehicle belonging to another unit on what was to be his last day in Iraq. He could have kept rolling - he was headed to Kuwait after a year's tour. But he stopped. He could have sent others to do the work, but he was on the ground, leading by example, when he was killed. On Monday night, August 16, you took it upon yourself to go out in the country, where a peaceful group was exercising their constitutional rights, and harming no one, and you ran down the memorial cross erected for Henry and for his son-in-law by Arlington West.
Mr. Northern - I know little about Cindy Sheehan except that she is a grieving mother, a gentle soul, and wants to bring harm to no one. I know little about you except that you found your way to Crawford on Monday night in August with chains and a pipe attached to your truck for the sole purpose of dishonoring a memorial erected for my friends and lost Soldiers and hundreds of others that served this nation when they were called. I find it disheartening that good men like these have died so that people like you can threaten a mother who lost a child with your actions. I hope that you are ashamed of yourself.
Perry Jefferies, First Sergeant, USA (retired)
You wonder what would make a man, a christian, no matter his opinion, drive over crosses representing the fallen. You wonder. I think we all know, and this is how truly dangerous the speech from the right-wing attack machine is, it's inciting, it's fire in a very crowded, very twitchy movie theatre full of armed citizens, murder of a "traitor" will be next, as the right more and more sharply defines the disagreeers as enemies of state, this civil war will get bloody. They have brought some dangerous people into their fold because a vote is a vote, no matter who gets hurt in the process, I think they've been pretty clear on that. Sacco & Vanzetti were unavailable for comment.
From Truthout.org
You Mowed Down His Cross
By Perry Jefferies, First Sergeant, USA (retired)
t r u t h o u t | Letter
Thursday 18 August 2005
Mr. Northern:
I am a Veteran of the Iraq war, having served with the 4th Infantry Division on the initial invasion with Force Package One.
While I was in Iraq, a very good friend of mine, Christopher Cutchall, was killed in an un-armored HMMWV outside of Baghdad. He was a cavalry scout serving with the 3d ID. Once he had declined the award of a medal because Soldiers assigned to him did not receive similar awards that he had recommended. He left two sons and a wonderful wife. On Monday night, August 16, you ran down the memorial cross erected for him by Arlington West.
One of my Soldiers in Iraq was Roger Turner. We gave him a hard time because he always wore all of his protective equipment, including three pairs of glasses or goggles. He did this because he wanted to make sure that he returned home to his family. He rode a bicycle to work every day to make sure that he was able to save enough money on his Army salary to send his son to college. At Camp Anaconda, where the squadron briefly stayed, a rocket landed inside a tent, sending a piece of debris or fragment into him and killed him. On Monday night, August 16, you ran down the memorial cross erected for him by Arlington West.
One of my Soldiers was Henry Bacon. He was one of the finest men I ever met. He was in perfect shape for a man over forty, working hard at night. He told me that he did that because he didn't have much money to buy nice things for his wife, who he loved so much, so he had to be in good shape for her. He was like a father to many young men in his section of maintenance mechanics. They fixed our vehicles with almost no support and fabricated parts and made repairs that kept our squadron rolling on the longest, fastest armor advance ever made under fire. He was so very proud of his son-in-law that married the beautiful daughter so well raised by Henry. His son-in-law was a helicopter pilot with the 1st Cavalry Division, who died last year. Henry stopped to rescue a vehicle belonging to another unit on what was to be his last day in Iraq. He could have kept rolling - he was headed to Kuwait after a year's tour. But he stopped. He could have sent others to do the work, but he was on the ground, leading by example, when he was killed. On Monday night, August 16, you took it upon yourself to go out in the country, where a peaceful group was exercising their constitutional rights, and harming no one, and you ran down the memorial cross erected for Henry and for his son-in-law by Arlington West.
Mr. Northern - I know little about Cindy Sheehan except that she is a grieving mother, a gentle soul, and wants to bring harm to no one. I know little about you except that you found your way to Crawford on Monday night in August with chains and a pipe attached to your truck for the sole purpose of dishonoring a memorial erected for my friends and lost Soldiers and hundreds of others that served this nation when they were called. I find it disheartening that good men like these have died so that people like you can threaten a mother who lost a child with your actions. I hope that you are ashamed of yourself.
Perry Jefferies, First Sergeant, USA (retired)
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