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Afternoon Roundup:

Dec. 4th, 2005 at 4:40 PM

Proposed bumpersticker: "I support our troops. Our politicians can go f$$k themselves."
The NY Daily News did an investigation of where the 9-11 money went: to all sorts of firms and prople who didn't deserve it: Some grants appear to have been awarded without anyone taking a serious look at the applicant. Consider the case of GKN Securities, a stock brokerage firm. On Sept. 10, 2001, GKN formally notified the Securities and Exchange Commission and the National Association of Security Dealers that it had closed its doors more than a month earlier. "GKN is conducting no further business other than seeking to satisfy its remaining liabilities, which are substantially in excess of its remaining assets," the company wrote in an official filing.But the following year, GKN officials blamed the company's losses on the attacks.
And then, there's the question of where and if the Katrina money's kicking in...
And that insurgency is still in its last throes, as per the VP and the National Security Adviser.
"In the final analysis, it is their war. They are the ones who have to win it or lose it."
"I'm assuming you're really going to keep your mouth shut on the subject," then National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger told his staff in October 1975 in response to reports that Indonesia had begun its attack on East Timor.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency pulled all its workers out of New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward yesterday after threats of violence and planned to request additional police or National Guard support, a FEMA spokeswoman said. But Tami Frazier, a spokeswoman for Nagin, said the New Orleans Police Department commander in charge of the area reported no incidents, complaints or removal of anyone for making threats. "We have stated . . . that we would have guards out there and police officers escorting people during this time," Frazier said, "but there has not been an increase in police or guardsmen." Federal agents have arrested six people in the New Orleans area in recent weeks for making threats against FEMA workers, who have been advised against wearing clothing with the agency logo in public.
The truth behind mail-in rebates.