By the way, the local media came up with an interesting tidbit of the "forewarned is forearmed" variety. A couple of local reporters checked into the background of the head of the Northwest Regional office of FEMA here in Seattle.

He has a degree in business from a diploma mill (one of those places where if you send them a check, they'll send you a nice looking diploma to hang on your wall) and absolutely no experience in or knowledge of emergency management.

Is this a great country, or what?!!

Don Firth

{Who the hell appoints these people, anyway!??}

Oh! George did! Recommended to him by Jennifer Dunn, a Washington State Congressional Representative (Republican).