Saturday, September 13, 2008

The Fire of Hurricane Ike

It sure got my belly roaring.

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McGovern competed against 170 candidates for the $500,000-a-year job. Past presidents - such as Elizabeth Dole, now a Republican senator from North Carolina, and Mark W. Everson, a former IRS commissioner who was ousted from the nonprofit agency after an extramarital affair with a subordinate - were chosen in part because of their Washington star power."

Isn't that A LITTLE MUCH?!!!


"'Trial by hurricane' for Red Cross chief; McGovern takes post at rocky time for charity group" by Philip Rucker, Washington Post | September 13, 2008

WASHINGTON - On a visit to Sichuan Province shortly after the earthquake hit, Gail J. McGovern, president and chief executive of the American Red Cross, recalls being stunned by the extent of the devastation. "You're driving through the most idyllic scenes you can imagine - bamboo valleys, pristine mountains - and you come around the corner and half the mountain was chopped off," she said.

In her 24 years at AT&T, McGovern rose from computer programmer to the executive in charge of the consumer-markets division, with 40,000 employees. She later was a division president at Fidelity Investments before joining the faculty at Harvard, where she taught marketing.

And that is who is in charge of the Red Cross, huh? You are doin' a fine job, Brownie!!!!

McGovern competed against 170 candidates for the $500,000-a-year job. Past presidents - such as Elizabeth Dole, now a Republican senator from North Carolina, and Mark W. Everson, a former IRS commissioner who was ousted from the nonprofit agency after an extramarital affair with a subordinate - were chosen in part because of their Washington star power.

Yeah, and so their pockets could be lined while they were not officially in government!

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Also see: Red Cross Responsible for Federal Relief Efforts

Are you TIRED of being ROBBED, AmeriKa?!!!!