Daily Archives: September 9th, 2005 «

 

FEMA Chief Relieved of Katrina Duties

Posted by: ST on September 9, 2005 at 1:31 pm » 4 Comments

Via AP: Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown is being removed from his role managing Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, The Associated Press has learned. Brown is being sent back to Washington from Baton Rouge, where he was the primary official overseeing the federal government’s response to the disaster, according to two federal officials who [...]

 

Kanye West booed at NFL season opener

Posted by: ST on September 9, 2005 at 11:59 am » 3 Comments

Yeah!  The rapper who claimed on NBC’s Hurricane Katrina telethon that President Bush "didn’t care" about black people, got an unfriendly welcome in Foxborough: About the only negative on the whole night was during the early part of the pregame show when musician Kanye West was shown live on the video boards. The Gillette crowd [...]

 

“The Flight That Fought Back”

Posted by: ST on September 9, 2005 at 10:34 am » 8 Comments

Arthur Chrenkoff has posted a review of the Discovery Channel’s Flight 93 documentary "The Flight That Fought Back" that really, really makes me want to watch it. He writes: The film, part re-enactment, part interview with family members, fleshes out the stories of those ordinary men and women who had found themselves in a situation [...]

 

Sandy Berger’s slap on the wrist

Posted by: ST on September 9, 2005 at 9:03 am » 14 Comments

Can you believe this? WASHINGTON – A judge on Thursday ordered Sandy Berger, President Clinton’s national security adviser, to pay a $50,000 fine for illegally taking classified documents from the National Archives. The punishment handed down by U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson exceeded the $10,000 fine recommended by government lawyers. Under the deal, Berger avoids [...]