How Did This Tidbit Of Info Slip By?

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It's amazing the lefties haven't stroked this for all it's worth. Someone is slacking on their job in creating more distain for Bush.After all this is more evidence that Bush caused the Hurricane in order to put more money into an old Cheney endeavor.


~~~ When I was young, I found that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks"

Albert Einstein



Title: Halliburton Hired for Storm Cleanup
Source: Houston Chronicle

URL Source: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3335685
Published: Sep 3, 2005
Author: H.C.
Post Date: 2005-09-03 00:20:22 by abelard
14 Comments


The Navy has hired Houston-based Halliburton Co. to restore electric power, repair roofs and remove debris at three naval facilities in Mississippi damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

Halliburton subsidiary KBR will also perform damage assessments at other naval installations in New Orleans as soon as it is safe to do so.

KBR was assigned the work under a "construction capabilities" contract awarded in 2004 after a competitive bidding process. The company is not involved in the Army Corps of Engineers' effort to repair New Orleans' levees.

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Oh and then there's Sean Penn being himself as always
BTW, I don't dislike his acting (actually one of my favorite actors) only his politics and the way he goes about it all. Sort of along the same way I feel about our beloved Musician. Love his music but dislike his political beliefs. But that doesn't make me wrong or right, just lets me forming my own opinion. I do admire Sean's effort and besides donating I would love to help in some fashion that I could use my expertise.

http://www.thisislondon.com/til/jsp/modules/Article/print.jsp?itemId=20274160

This is
LONDON
06/09/05 - News section

Penn accuses Bush amid rescue chaos



The US government was accused of "criminal negligence" as hopes of finding survivors faded and the death toll from Hurricane Katrina continued to rise.

Holidaymakers returning to the UK spoke of the scale of the misery while one said leering police officers demanded young women flash their breasts in return for help.

Oscar-winning Hollywood actor Sean Penn, who has been assisting rescue efforts in New Orleans, said the US government did not "seem to be inclined to help".

"We were pulling drowning people out of the water, it's the ultimate distress and human suffering ... dead bodies," he told GMTV.

Penn said he had spent nine hours on Monday searching the water for people and during all that time he saw just three boats carrying US officials.

"There are people that are dying right now and I mean babies and old people and everybody in between - they're dying. There are people dying and (the US government are) not putting the boats in the water, I think that's criminal negligence. I don't think anybody ever anticipated the criminal negligence of the Bush administration in this situation."

The US authorities were also castigated by British bus driver Ged Scott, from Wallasey, Merseyside, who was on holiday in the New Orleans area.

He stayed in the Ramada Hotel during and after the devastation with his wife, Sandra, and seven-year-old son Ronan. At one stage, Mr Scott, 36, had to wade through filthy water to barricade the hotel doors against looters.

He told the Liverpool Daily Post: "I couldn't describe how bad the authorities were. Just little things like taking photographs of us, as we are standing on the roof waving for help, for their own little snapshot albums.

"At one point, there were a load of girls on the roof of the hotel saying 'Can you help us?' and the policemen said 'Show us what you've got' and made signs for them to lift their T-shirts. When the girls refused, they said 'Fine' and motored off down the road in their boat."

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Oh and then there's Sean Penn being himself as always
BTW, I don't dislike his acting (actually one of my favorite actors) only his politics and the way he goes about it all. Sort of along the same way I feel about our beloved Musician. Love his music but dislike his political beliefs. But that doesn't make me wrong or right, just lets me forming my own opinion. I do admire Sean's effort and besides donating I would love to help in some fashion that I could use my expertise.

http://www.thisislondon.com/til/jsp/modules/Article/print.jsp?itemId=20274160

This is
LONDON
06/09/05 - News section

Penn accuses Bush amid rescue chaos



The US government was accused of "criminal negligence" as hopes of finding survivors faded and the death toll from Hurricane Katrina continued to rise.

Holidaymakers returning to the UK spoke of the scale of the misery while one said leering police officers demanded young women flash their breasts in return for help.

Oscar-winning Hollywood actor Sean Penn, who has been assisting rescue efforts in New Orleans, said the US government did not "seem to be inclined to help".

"We were pulling drowning people out of the water, it's the ultimate distress and human suffering ... dead bodies," he told GMTV.

Penn said he had spent nine hours on Monday searching the water for people and during all that time he saw just three boats carrying US officials.

"There are people that are dying right now and I mean babies and old people and everybody in between - they're dying. There are people dying and (the US government are) not putting the boats in the water, I think that's criminal negligence. I don't think anybody ever anticipated the criminal negligence of the Bush administration in this situation."

The US authorities were also castigated by British bus driver Ged Scott, from Wallasey, Merseyside, who was on holiday in the New Orleans area.

He stayed in the Ramada Hotel during and after the devastation with his wife, Sandra, and seven-year-old son Ronan. At one stage, Mr Scott, 36, had to wade through filthy water to barricade the hotel doors against looters.

He told the Liverpool Daily Post: "I couldn't describe how bad the authorities were. Just little things like taking photographs of us, as we are standing on the roof waving for help, for their own little snapshot albums.

"At one point, there were a load of girls on the roof of the hotel saying 'Can you help us?' and the policemen said 'Show us what you've got' and made signs for them to lift their T-shirts. When the girls refused, they said 'Fine' and motored off down the road in their boat."

When Americans hate America so much it's no wonder the rest of the world doesn't like us! People But I guess he's just one of those liberal babies who spend all their time whining about what a dreadful place America is.

[mhafinancial]

When Americans hate America so much it's no wonder the rest of the world doesn't like us! People But I guess he's just one of those liberal babies who spend all their time whining about what a dreadful place America is.
Get real. The rest of the world doesn't "like us" because of the policies of this president and this administration.

Period, the end.

[borntorun0102]

When Americans hate America so much it's no wonder the rest of the world doesn't like us! People But I guess he's just one of those liberal babies who spend all their time whining about what a dreadful place America is.

Not liking Bush is not the same as not liking America. This is still the United States of America, not the United States of George W Bush. Any time someone criticizes anything about Bush I hear "oh, you just hate America" It's really infuriating. Your love of Bush doesn't give you some kind of monopoly on patriotism. Did you require yourself to love Clinton and never criticize him? There has been no human being since Jesus who was perfect anyway. And different people have different ideas about which way our country should go on different issues. Doesn't mean any of us hate our country. Casting that aspersion is just juvenile bull.