Bookworm Beat 10/11/24: a meme and podcast edition
In addition to a carefully curated selection of memes, I’m back podcasting, this time under the aegis of American Thinker!
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Tag: FEMA
Bookworm Beat 10/5/24: the “if you don’t get it know” meme edition
Between the vice presidential debate, the government response to Hurricane Helene, and Iran’s attack on Israel (all alluded to in the header image), if you don’t get it now, you never will.
Continue readingCERT — Bureaucratic teaching
Yesterday I completed the first half of my Community Emergency Response Team (“CERT”) training. CERT is a FEMA program that’s intended to give ordinary people some basic crisis management skills in the event of a natural or terrorist disaster. I ended up learning a fair amount, but it wasn’t thanks
Continue readingGovernment incompetence reveals itself in big ways and small — here’s a small way
I won’t be blogging tomorrow (or at least, I won’t be blogging until late in the day Pacific Time) because I’ll be attending a CERT training class. CERT stands for “Community Emergency Response Teams” and is a FEMA production. After 18 hours of class, I’ll theoretically be a member of
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