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* Dear Debbie Schlussel, TV shows are fiction.
* Tommy, please keep talking... Democrats, shut up and let him. Hubris is heavy, let it bury him.
* Doing your job isn't partisan.
* Some news defies description and must simply be read.
* The tool is loose. Just in time to work up justification for another war.
* The "Pave the Earth" society's in charge of Katrina cleanup.
* What, no pardon for Neil? Is anyone comparing these to Clinton's? It's only fair.
* In case the intelligence disappears out of your debate on design.
Because it's not getting enough visibility
BROWN: I just want to state publicly that ice was one of those commodities that I feebly attempted to get FEMA out of the business of ice, because ice was originally intended to be only a life-saving commodity for baby formula, medications for hospitals and that sort of thing. And ice is one of those commodities that the demand for has just grown and grown and grown. And so while I have tried to limit something, I failed miserably in that regard.(UNKNOWN): Would the gentleman yield?
BROWN: Everybody wants ice.
JEFFERSON: Yes, I yield.
(UNKNOWN): Because I think this is really interesting, Mr. Brown. Have you ever been through a hurricane?
BROWN: No, but I've been through disasters where I haven't had power for a long time and I know that the refrigerators go on the blink and food spoils, et cetera. But I don't think that's a federal government responsibility to provide ice to keep my hamburger meat in my freezer or refrigerator fresh.
(UNKNOWN): Well, if it goes bad and, as you said, people should -- you first said just a little while ago, people should be prepared to feed themselves for two or three days...
BROWN: With nonperishable...
(UNKNOWN): ... if I may. So now you're saying, OK, they're trying to feed themselves for two or three days. We have a low-cost alternative to feeding them; we should just give them a couple bags of ice to keep that stuff from going rotten.
BROWN: No, because they can't cook it.
(UNKNOWN): Now you're saying you shouldn't do that. But let me follow up. What else do they do with the ice, Mr. Brown?
BROWN: Pardon?
(UNKNOWN): What else do they do with the ice?
BROWN: I assume...
(UNKNOWN): Because I think we have a serious disconnect and I think I'm really beginning to realize why you were removed from this job. What else was that ice used for?
BROWN: Ice should be used for life saving, to keep baby formula fresh and for medications. And I think that's what it should be used for.
(UNKNOWN): How about keeping the dead corpses from rotting in the...
BROWN: Because you can't use it to keep...
(UNKNOWN): ... sun?
BROWN: ... hamburger meat because you can't cook the hamburger meat. That's why we say, have provisions for two or three days of nonperishable items. And I think it's wrong for the federal government to be in the ice business, providing ice so I can keep my beer and Diet Coke cool.
Heck of a job. Heck of a job.
Posted by kerry at September 30, 2005 08:02 AMSince Debbie had her panties in such a bunch over the ignorance of female voters when concerning a fictious show, just imagine how incensed she was the last time the real thing happened when the Fox News crowd was four times as ignorant as their PBS watching neighbors.
www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/Iraq/Media_10_02_03_Report.pdf
Posted by: Nephew Matt at September 30, 2005 02:55 PM