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Things That Make Me Chuckle

by John Cole|  September 21, 20051:27 pm| 11 Comments

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My daily listserv email from the U. administration:

MOUNTAINEER E-NEWS- Sept. 21, 2005

1) ETHICS DAY CANCELED

Heh.

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  1. 1.

    TallDave

    September 21, 2005 at 1:45 pm

    Hehe, those college news services are a gold mine of unintentional humor.

    I once got one from my alma mater about a trip to a park on Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive that said “LSD Trip Promises Unique Experience.”

  2. 2.

    Jim Allen

    September 21, 2005 at 1:47 pm

    What happened? The honorarium check bounce?

  3. 3.

    Cyrus

    September 21, 2005 at 3:14 pm

    I saw a book once of accidentally hilarious headlines, but unfortunately I’ve never been able to find the same thing online. Probably my favorite: “Bishop defrocks gay priest.” Second best: a photo caption talking about Johnny Cash and his wife, but it’s under a picture of Johnny Cash and a horse.

  4. 4.

    kenB

    September 21, 2005 at 3:43 pm

    I saw a book once of accidentally hilarious headlines,

    Sounds like “Red Tape Holds Up Bridge”, by Jay Leno (he had (has?) a regular bit on funny headlines). Here’s one site (among many) that has a bunch, probably taken from that book.

  5. 5.

    srv

    September 21, 2005 at 4:02 pm

    Rummy toasting his hero:

    dod.gov/speeches/2005/sp20050808-secdef1801.html

  6. 6.

    Rusty Shackleford

    September 21, 2005 at 4:56 pm

    Nobody has pointed out one of the most recent examples:

    Bush: One Of The Worst Disasters To Hit U.S.

    That’s absofreakinlutely hilarious!

    politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blbushworstdisaster.htm

    snopes.com/katrina/photos/disaster.asp

  7. 7.

    Don

    September 21, 2005 at 5:33 pm

    It was too long, perhaps. Maybe they’ll reschedule it for an hour next time.

  8. 8.

    jobiuspublius

    September 21, 2005 at 7:39 pm

    ETHICS DAY CANCELED

    Does it sunset?

  9. 9.

    jobiuspublius

    September 21, 2005 at 11:06 pm

    New FEMA Chief
    Paulison Is Skilled at Disasters

    By Spencer S. Hsu and Christopher Lee
    Washington Post Staff Writers
    Tuesday, September 13, 2005; Page A12

    R. David Paulison, appointed yesterday as acting director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has encountered disaster before: three months before Hurricane Andrew laid waste to part of South Florida in 1992, he became chief of the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department.

    …

  10. 10.

    jobiuspublius

    September 21, 2005 at 11:26 pm

    You have to see all the stuff this guy is doing in prepartion to Rita:

    “We want to make sure we’re ready,” FEMA’s acting director, David Paulison, said. “We’d rather pre-position more assets than we need than not have enough.”

  11. 11.

    jobiuspublius

    September 21, 2005 at 11:30 pm

    …

    Brown, Chertoff and Bush were not prepared for this foreseen tragedy, but FEMA’s lack of readiness was predicted. By Witt, it turns out. In March 2004, he testified at a hearing conducted by two House subcommittees.

    …

    In an effort to build other Directorates within DHS that need more help, vital pieces of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate–FEMA–are being moved or underfunded to prop up these other very critical areas. Programs–like the very successful Fire Grants–are being moved out of FEMA. And the Emergency Management Performance Grants (EMPG) which provide the backbone to our emergency management systems are being cut and significantly restructured in a very detrimental way. In fact some estimates suggest that the 25-percent cap on personnel costs within the EMPG could result in more than half of the country’s 4,000-plus emergency managers losing their jobs. By throwing all of these disparate pieces together in the DHS stew, we have not only diluted the concentration on some of the most critical parts of our counterterrorism efforts, but we are allowing scarce resources to be directed away from consequence management. Our Nation’s emergency management system has often been held up as an international model; however, this country’s well-oiled emergency management infrastructure–that has been built over many years–is now in great jeopardy as DHS attempts to build capabilities in other areas of the Department.

    …

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