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Just Sitting in the Dark and Watching the Fire

 

Published 1/9/2009 by Al Kamen at Wash Post Federal Page

Former FEMA administrator Michael D. Brown was among 11,000 Boulder, Colo., folks evacuated yesterday amid raging wildfires that have scorched at least 1,000 acres. Brown, dubbed "Brownie" by President Bush during the Katrina Hurricane fiasco, moved back to the Boulder area, where he runs a disas... (link)

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