For this huge task, FEMA tapped Tiffany Brown, an Atlanta entrepreneur with no experience in large-scale disaster relief and at least five canceled government contracts in her past. FEMA awarded her $156 million for the job, and Ms. Brown, who is the sole owner and employee of her company, Tribute Contracting LLC, set out to find some help.
Ms. Brown, who is adept at navigating the federal contracting system, hired a wedding caterer in Atlanta with a staff of 11 to freeze-dry wild mushrooms and rice, chicken and rice, and vegetable soup. She found a nonprofit in Texas that had shipped food aid overseas and domestically, including to a Houston food bank after Hurricane Harvey.
By the time 18.5 million meals were due, Tribute had delivered only 50,000. And FEMA inspectors discovered a problem: The food had been packaged separately from the pouches used to heat them. FEMA’s solicitation required “self-heating meals.”
For this huge task, FEMA tapped Tiffany Brown, an Atlanta entrepreneur with no experience in large-scale disaster relief and at least five canceled government contracts in her past. FEMA awarded her $156 million for the job, and Ms. Brown, who is the sole owner and employee of her company, Tribute Contracting LLC, set out to find some help.
Ms. Brown, who is adept at navigating the federal contracting system, hired a wedding caterer in Atlanta with a staff of 11 to freeze-dry wild mushrooms and rice, chicken and rice, and vegetable soup. She found a nonprofit in Texas that had shipped food aid overseas and domestically, including to a Houston food bank after Hurricane Harvey.
By the time 18.5 million meals were due, Tribute had delivered only 50,000. And FEMA inspectors discovered a problem: The food had been packaged separately from the pouches used to heat them. FEMA’s solicitation required “self-heating meals.”
I was just coming to post this. You're right, it is enraging.
miniroller Sometimes I don't mind the tweets. But, who is that random person and why do I care about their opinion? If I want to know random twitter users' opinions, I know how to find twitter. This isn't a twitter aggregating board. I'm more interested in your own personal opinion, even if it happens to be reiterated somewhere in twitterverse.
The kids version is even worse. It has a picture of him posing with Girl Scouts while they all wear little tiaras...including him! 😭
Dream Big Dreams?
I think so! It’s always on display at Amazon Books and I pick it up and flip through it while my kids play and pick out books. And then I softly weep for what was.
miniroller Sometimes I don't mind the tweets. But, who is that random person and why do I care about their opinion? If I want to know random twitter users' opinions, I know how to find twitter. This isn't a twitter aggregating board. I'm more interested in your own personal opinion, even if it happens to be reiterated somewhere in twitterverse.
Got it, I’m really sorry; I know I’ve apologized before & promised to cut down & then I start up again, it’s like an embarrassing addiction. For REAL this time!
OK- the reason that I post Tweets is because I read something that I think is very funny/ clever & seems to go along perfectly with a comment I see here. When other ppl post Tweets (don’t worry, i know I’m the worst x 100, not trying to bring others down), I really appreciate that I don’t have to search through Twitter to find something that coincides so perfectly with a conversation here.
Nonetheless, I’ll stop. For real this time. I know some people have said they don’t mind an occasional Tweet, & I’m ashamed to admit I obviously can’t handle that, & must hereby vow NO MORE. I really am sorry guys.
miniroller Sometimes I don't mind the tweets. But, who is that random person and why do I care about their opinion? If I want to know random twitter users' opinions, I know how to find twitter. This isn't a twitter aggregating board. I'm more interested in your own personal opinion, even if it happens to be reiterated somewhere in twitterverse.
John Fuegelsang isn't exactly a random person, he's a comedian and political commentator. That said, I agree with your overall point.
And then someone probably wrestled the phone away from him to tweet this afterward, because no way did he give two shits about this guy other than to use him as a pawn in his racist-ass games:
George Papadapoulos' fiancee is again insisting he was more than just a coffee boy.
Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand
George Papadopoulos' fiancee, @simonamangiante, is in the middle of a tweet/retweet storm of stories about how Papadopoulos played a high-level role on the campaign and never did anything without permission.
Has anyone noticed that Pence is looking kind of orange these days? Could have just been the screen at the gym, but the people on after him didn’t look orange...
Has anyone noticed that Pence is looking kind of orange these days? Could have just been the screen at the gym, but the people on after him didn’t look orange...
Is it like in the Jim Carrey Grinch where that right-hand guy kept copying how the mayor looked? Out of sheer devotion and kiss-assery?
Carter Page lied to @gstephanopoulos this morning & said he’s never spoken with Trump ever.
Here’s video I found of Carter Page saying he had been in a number of meetings with Trump & that he had learned a tremendous amount from him. #TrumpTreason
miniroller Sometimes I don't mind the tweets. But, who is that random person and why do I care about their opinion? If I want to know random twitter users' opinions, I know how to find twitter. This isn't a twitter aggregating board. I'm more interested in your own personal opinion, even if it happens to be reiterated somewhere in twitterverse.
John Fuegelsang isn't exactly a random person, he's a comedian and political commentator. That said, I agree with your overall point.
I don't know his name. I clicked through and figured out his opinion makes sense for the topic of politics, and I definitely know his face. I more wanted miniroller to spend the extra few minutes to provide the context with the tweet - who is the tweeter, why does this tweet matter.
HOW has Carter Page not been placed on lock-down yet?!? I realize he’s a bumbling, attn-needy, often-blushing fool, but can no one stop him?! Doesn’t 45’s administration see him as an albatross? Are they planning on placing all blame on him & throwing him under the bus, so are just using him as a very vocal sacrifice?!
John Fuegelsang isn't exactly a random person, he's a comedian and political commentator. That said, I agree with your overall point.
I don't know his name. I clicked through and figured out his opinion makes sense for the topic of politics, and I definitely know his face. I more wanted miniroller to spend the extra few minutes to provide the context with the tweet - who is the tweeter, why does this tweet matter.
I apologize again, & certainly see how some contextualization of the Tweeter should have been included.
George Papadapoulos' fiancee is again insisting he was more than just a coffee boy.
Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand
George Papadopoulos' fiancee, @simonamangiante, is in the middle of a tweet/retweet storm of stories about how Papadopoulos played a high-level role on the campaign and never did anything without permission.
The cast of characters in this saga is really something else. Everyone is kind of dumb, desperate to look important, and messy AF. A novel of this drama would be dismissed as unrealistic.
White House chief of staff John Kelly suggests that some of those eligible for DACA “were too afraid” or “too lazy to get off their asses” to sign up for the program
George Papadapoulos' fiancee is again insisting he was more than just a coffee boy.
Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand
George Papadopoulos' fiancee, @simonamangiante, is in the middle of a tweet/retweet storm of stories about how Papadopoulos played a high-level role on the campaign and never did anything without permission.
The cast of characters in this saga is really something else. Everyone is kind of dumb, desperate to look important, and messy AF. A novel of this drama would be dismissed as unrealistic.
It's already been written, Fire & Fury, and people don't believe a lot of it.
George Papadapoulos' fiancee is again insisting he was more than just a coffee boy.
Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand
George Papadopoulos' fiancee, @simonamangiante, is in the middle of a tweet/retweet storm of stories about how Papadopoulos played a high-level role on the campaign and never did anything without permission.
The cast of characters in this saga is really something else. Everyone is kind of dumb, desperate to look important, and messy AF. A novel of this drama would be dismissed as unrealistic.
People have said since last summer that the story of this presidency & its Congressional sycophants would be turned down as a screenplay by even the most superficial production companies as too unrealistic.
Post by sparrowsong on Feb 6, 2018 15:40:47 GMT -5
Does Jeff Flake have a Trump nn yet? If not, he’s about to get one.
Jeff Flake: "Words matter. Have we arrived at such a place of numb acceptance that we have nothing to say when a President of the United States casually suggests that those who choose not to stand or applaud his speech are guilty of treason? I certainly hope not." (via ABC)
Which is why it's so telling that the Trump team can't seem to get their story straight with him. If these people had their hands clean, they could easily say that CP was a loose cannon and then wanting to get to the bottom of his dirty tricks. But they are running around like crazy trying to distance themselves but also defend him at the same time, and they all change their stories about his role and who knew him.
President Donald Trump’s war on opioids is beginning to look more like a war on his drug policy office.
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway has taken control of the opioids agenda, quietly freezing out drug policy professionals and relying instead on political staff to address a lethal crisis claiming about 175 lives a day. The main response so far has been to call for a border wall and to promise a "just say no” campaign.
The characters in this saga who are currently the most interesting to me, mainly because I can't get a solid sense of WTF they are really up to, are Carter Page, Devin Nunes, and James Fucking Comey. Those are the three that I think I'll understand much better later down the line from the perspective of history.