cheney scares me way more than bush does. and i guess bush doesn't really SCARE me overly much, he just makes me want to.... i dunno. shake something furiously.

I can't disagree, but I still place the larger share of the blame on the federal government, in no small part due to the fact that the current presidential administration has destroyed FEMA, moving them into the Department of Homeland Security, reducing their disaster preparedness function to 25%, and placing the leadership of the agency under someone who hasn't got the qualifications to do it. There's no question that FEMA is going to play a significant role in any future 9-11 like attacks, but really, the likelihood of a fire, flood, tornado or hurricane is almost certainly greater than a terrorist attack. FEMA was almost entirely revamped under the Clinton Administration, to make it an effective response tool under competent leadership-something it really hadn't been previously. The current Bush administration has really reversed a lot of the progress that FEMA had made.

My feelings on that are entirely unrelated to my feelings about the Bush administration in general. FEMA has an ongoing and important function, their services are in demand annually, and it should be a cabinet level agency on it's own, not under the ageis of Homeland Security.

I have no idea where I got it from, so if you want to use it, I think it's probably fine.

absolutely. there's always time for that crap once things are resolved. a year later, and things are still beyond not even close to being resolved.

makes me wonder what in the world the 2008 election is going to be like.

how lovely things are nowadays.