Say Hello to Hurricane Beta

It's just about to achieve hurricane status off Central America with talk of it hitting the US.

Wow, another chance to prove that FEMA and Michael Chertoff (the boss of FEMA in his position as Homeland Security Chief) are partisan, incompetent, and a complete sham to filter money toward Halliburton, et al under the Bush Administration.

Of course, when most of Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire plus upstate New York were out of power and phones, buried under ice and snow, from a Wilma-driven nor'easter, it didn't get that much press play and we certainly didn't get - or ask for - any FEMA help. But as a blue state, Vermont would get nothing from the Bushies anyway.

AND we not only had all the (nature-supplied) ice we needed, we're warehousing in New England tons and tons of ice that sat outside New Orleans not being delivered when Katrina began to strike two months ago today.