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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>No wonder I feel sometimes that I am missing part
of the conversation! I just checked my postini account at FSR and there were
some emails there of which this is one.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lewiston and Clarkston do not get hurricanes. The
ocean is a few miles away. The entire area is not deteriorating the levees are
not in danger of breaking. Not the same thing.</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=sunilramalingam@hotmail.com
href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com">Sunil Ramalingam</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 04, 2005 1:19
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Of Deltas and
CO2</DIV>
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<P>Should we get rid of the levees in Lewiston and Clarkston?<BR><BR>Sunil</P>
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From: <I>"Pat Kraut" <<A
href="mailto:pkraut@moscow.com">pkraut@moscow.com</A>></I><BR>To:
<I>"vision2020" <<A
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A>></I><BR>Subject:
<I>Re: [Vision2020] Of Deltas and CO2</I><BR>Date: <I>Sun, 4 Sep 2005
13:12:53 -0700</I><BR><BR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I do not want us to repair any more levees.
Something is terribly wrong when you can stand on a street and see ships go
by above you! This is an opportunity for the area to move back and let the
ocean have its land back. Just how much money do you think it would take to
'study' it one more time. Just how much do we spend to 'save' New Orleans??
It really isn't that 'special' a city! It is time to go a totally different
direction.</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=thansen@moscow.com href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">Tom
Hansen</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ophite@gmail.com
href="mailto:ophite@gmail.com">'Andreas Schou'</A> ; <A
title=pkraut@moscow.com href="mailto:pkraut@moscow.com">'Pat Kraut'</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">'vision2020'</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 04, 2005 6:12
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Vision2020] Of Deltas
and CO2</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I am with you
100%, Andreas.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Under our current
president, FEMA was relegated to being a sub-agency within Homeland
Security, thus drastically reducing its budget.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">And who does Bush
appoint as Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Emergency Preparedness
and Response (FEMA)?</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Michael D. Brown,
a former Colorado and Oklahoma attorney and former bar examiner on ethics
and professional responsibility for the Oklahoma Supreme Court, a person
with virtually no experience in emergency management. An attorney in
charge of our nations emergency management? He may not be able to
solve anything, but he will most certainly be able to put some serious
spin on his responses to questions.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ms Kraut
stated:</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Why does
everyone want to make the Fed responsible for everything?? When did they
take over?</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">HUH?? What
part of Federal Emergency Management are you struggling with, Ms
Kraut?</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">FEMA is
struggling to identify additional large temporary holding facilities
(comparable to the Houston Astrodome). This is a simple question
that should have been addressed a couple years ago when the mayor of New
Orleans and the governor of Louisiana were seeking federal funds to repair
the 17<SUP>th</SUP> Street levee.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">But then, we
wouldnt want to interrupt George Bushs vacation with something so
trivial now, would we?</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Tom
Hansen</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Moscow</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
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Idaho</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
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<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy">"If not us, who?<BR>If not now,
when?"<BR><BR>- Unknown<BR> </SPAN></FONT><FONT color=navy><SPAN
style="COLOR: navy"> </SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
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face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com]
<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Andreas
Schou<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Saturday,
September 03, 2005 8:02 PM<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Pat Kraut<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> vision2020<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Vision2020] Of Deltas
and CO2</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN class=gmailquote><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">On 9/3/05, <B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Pat Kraut</SPAN></B> <<A
href="mailto:pkraut@moscow.com">pkraut@moscow.com</A>>
wrote:</SPAN></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I disagree! Someone in Louisiana should have told
her! Why does everyone<BR>want to make the Fed responsible for
everything?? When did they take over? <BR>The locals could have done whole
rescue operation if they had paid<BR>attention. There is a picture
circulating showing the school buses all under<BR>water. The mayor could
have confiscated them and sent those people out of <BR>town by force. But,
he keeps yelling about the feds not coming in time! He<BR>is just hoping
no one asks him too many questions.\</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Pat --</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">It is the federal government's responsibility,
like it or not, to do disaster relief. You can argue about whether or not
it should be their responsibility later, but the fact is, at the time of
Hurricane Katrina, it was FEMA's responsibility to handle the evacuation
planning and then pick up the pieces. </SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">George W. had put a chronic fuck-up in charge of
FEMA who was fired from his last job for malfeasance, dismantled their
planning office as it transitioned to the Department of Homeland Security,
sent the Louisiana National Guard to search for phantom WMDs in Iraq, cut
all disaster mitigation funding to the /entire state/ of Louisiana, and
defunded the levees. It is at his desk that the buck stops, but he and his
stand-ins are doing their best to blame everybody else: the victims, the
first responders, the police, the looters. Thisis a failure of management
at the highest levels: food was dropped in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, within
/two days/ of the tsunami. Food got to New Orleans, LA, /today/, or six
days after the hurricane. We are a first-world nation. This should not be
happening here. </SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">If I had done this in my work, I would have had my
ass canned, and then I would have been sued, and for God's sake, they
would have been right to do it, too. This administration has abdicated any
pretense of taking responsibility for its </SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">-- ACS</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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