The ever-incompetant and useless Department of Homeland Security, which is becoming a serious contender with the Pentagon for being the Department of Useless Bullshit announced that it will no longer usepolitics as a factor in granting taxpayer dollars for emergency equipment to places like North Pole, Alaska. Wow. Who would have ever believed that the 1600 Crew would use politics as a yardstick for neediness. Gosh, I'm so upset I might have to give up blogging. Not.
Facing cuts in antiterrorism financing, the Department of Homeland Security announced today that it has overhauled its system for evaluating new requests for money from a $765 million aid program for cities. The new system is based less on politics and city boundaries and more on assessments of where terrorists are likely to strike and potentially cause the greatest damage.
No one could have ever imagined that that might be a good way to allocate funding after the all-important date of 9/11, which changed everything except ummm, nothing. Politics has always been the strongest suit of the Lying Fucks, and policy has not. Nice to see Chertoff admit that in public, I wonder if he's still doing "a heckuva job" today? Seems he might have gone off the reservation a bit. Ooops, his bad.
Someone must have given Mikey a copy of the budget and a map of the US:
"A single urban area may, in fact, include several cities," Mr. Chertoff said. "For example, what we have identified as the California Bay Area consists of Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose, as well as other, smaller, communities."
Pretty shockingly astute observation for a college graduate, isn't it?
