VL-IV (15) Tubal Nuances, pages 355/356, 370/371, 377/378

[Johnny Marr]

Can't think of Ronnie at the moment without my thoughts turning to JG
Ballard's Why I Want To Fuck Ronald Reagan, a piece which only gained in
credibility after Clinton was in charge.

Any 'soccer' fans out there might be interested to know that Cristiano
Ronaldo's named after Reagan (allegedly not because the father agreed with
Reaganite politics but because RR was his favourite actor)

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:08 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=33295&ref=rellink
>
> Louisiana governor defends decision not to federalize Guard units
> By Elaine S. Povich CongressDaily February 2, 2006
>
> Louisiana Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco on Thursday defended her
> rejection of President Bush's request to federalize the Louisiana
> National Guard in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.   "I told the
> president that the proper way is for me, as governor, to remain in
> control of the National Guard," Blanco said.
>
> She said while she was "pushing" for more federal troops to come into
> her state, she was adamant that she would have control of the Guard.
> The panel was holding its 15th hearing on hurricanes Katrina and Rita
> in an effort to determine what went wrong and what the federal
> government can do now to prevent similar circumstances in times of
> natural or man-made disaster.
>
> Mississippi Republican Gov. Haley Barbour, who also testified before
> the panel, said the question of federalizing his state's National
> Guard never came up with the administration because he made it clear
> beforehand that he would not be amenable to such a suggestion.
>
> Blanco also described being pressured with a midnight phone call from
> White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, intended to make her give up
> control of her troops. "It was a very different kind of pressure," she
> said. "I was offended."  She was pressed to sign a "memorandum of
> understanding" that would federalize her Guard units and when she
> asked why the hurry, she was told that the president wanted it in time
> for a news conference the following morning.
>
> Both Blanco and Barbour blamed the Federal Emergency Management Agency
> for not getting them the food, water and ice they needed. Barbour said
> his state "took matters into our own hands. The federal government
> cannot be in charge in Mississippi and they never were."
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Robin Landseadel
> <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > If you'd like to be even more crazy/scared:
> >President Regan signed Presidential Director Number 54 in April of 1984
> that allowed FEMA to activate a secret national readiness exercise. This
> exercise was given the code name REX84. The purpose of the exercise was to
> test FEMA's ability to assume military authority.
>
>
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