# Brown's gotta get fired right? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 9, 2005, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796 "2005-09-09T11:39:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/81 "2005-09-09T19:04:46Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > Michael Brown must be returning so he can resign of his own volition because he’s failed his Lord and Master. There’s no other explanation. > > -Joe [Darth Vader] You’re in command now, _ADMIRAL_ Allen [/D.V.] ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/82 "2005-09-09T19:18:04Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > From the more spin zone: [Brown was leaving anyway.](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050909/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/katrina_brown_15;_ylt=AqJYuurAkYPbyZn8W.RqDDQbLisB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl) Amazing the someone could say that with a straight face. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/83 "2005-09-09T19:31:54Z")
Great News Moron is out and Admiral in charge of Coast Guard is in. This is actually a very good appointment. Somebody with a good record from an organization known for thinking on their feet will now be in charge. I will continue to bash Bush’s admin but this is an excellent step. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/84 "2005-09-09T20:03:54Z")
Well, I’ve updated my resume. Where do I send it for the soon-to-be-hiring Director of FEMA? ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/85 "2005-09-09T20:03:59Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > [Darth Vader] You’re in command now, _ADMIRAL_ Allen [/D.V.] Yeah, sure. **IF** Vader’s typical MO was to give them a dump truck full of cash and a cushy job for the rest of their life… Hell, I’d vote for Vader right now. Better an evil overlord than a bunch of incompetent boobs who are so busy giving each other handjobs that they can’t accomplish anything positive. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/86 "2005-09-09T20:04:38Z")
Let’s not forget Jokeroo’s posting (#69) showing just how “_out of it_”, **Dubya** is. To him this response to a national tragedy seems an unqualified success. What a dumb shit. * * * \*\*jrfranchi \*\* _Great News Moron is out_ Nope, sorry JRfranchi, Dubya is still President. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/87 "2005-09-09T20:05:31Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > Great News Moron is out and Admiral in charge of Coast Guard is in. > > This is actually a very good appointment. Somebody with a good record from an organization known for thinking on their feet will now be in charge. > > I will continue to bash Bush’s admin but this is an excellent step. Damn CNN is saying Brown was only recalled. Comcast said he was fired. Damn Damn Damn. I want this idiot on trial for mass man slaughter. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/88 "2005-09-09T20:06:29Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Sure he was planning on leaving. Yep. > > Hey, can I have the FEMA position? I’m at least as qualified as Brown. So am I. AND my name _is_ Michael Brown, so they won’t even have to put a new sign on the office door. Think of the taxpayer dollars they’ll save! ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/89 "2005-09-09T20:07:43Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > To supervise. With any luck, he’ll be supervising the signing of an already prepared resignation letter. Pfft. If there was any justice, his next task would be assisting his cousel in the preparation of his own defense. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/90 "2005-09-09T21:11:46Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > Great News Moron is out and Admiral in charge of Coast Guard is in. > > This is actually a very good appointment. Somebody with a good record from an organization known for thinking on their feet will now be in charge. > > I will continue to bash Bush’s admin but this is an excellent step. Yeah, I heard him talking about the things that need to be done and the situation on the ground and stuff, and while I know that’s not enough basis for judgement, he definitely sounds like he has his feces assembled and will get something done. Too bad he (or someone like him) wasn’t there in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/91 "2005-09-09T21:15:26Z")
Out of a cannon? Into the sun? ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/92 "2005-09-09T21:42:28Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > Anyway, I haven’t sucked the right dick yet but point me in the right direction and I’ll get cracking. I’ve asked a few males nearby and they say that would hurt. ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/93 "2005-09-09T21:43:41Z")
According to an article on my Y! front page right now: > [@Associated Press](#): > > WASHINGTON - A beleaguered Michael Brown said Friday he doesn’t know why he was removed from his onsite command of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts,[…] ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/94 "2005-09-09T21:46:21Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > So instead of “restoring honor and dignity to the White House” we got Tammany Hall? Good one. I was thinking Teapot Dome, but Tammany Hall works, too. ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Scene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bob\_Scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Scene)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/95 "2005-09-09T21:49:47Z")
I’m really kind of pissed off that someone in this thread already mentioned that **Clinton got a blowjob,** but luckily I had a backup strategy ready. You see, Brownie’s FindLaw profile, where he claimed to have won an “Outstanding Political Science Professor” award at a school where he was never a professor, and where he claimed to have run a nursing home where no one ever heard of him, was a **parody!** He just wrote that to embarrass you. You fucking n00bs. ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/96 "2005-09-09T22:11:22Z")
I have this image in my mind of Michael Brown sitting in his D.C. office, playing solitaire on his computer. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/97 "2005-09-09T22:17:34Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Good one. I was thinking Teapot Dome, but Tammany Hall works, too. Teapot Dome works better for the whole Halliburton exclusive no-bid contracts thingy. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/98 "2005-09-09T22:18:40Z")
I don’t suppose there’s any chance that there’s some kind of government regulation that makes lying about qualifications for a high-level position like this against the law, like fraud perhaps? That would be sweet. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/99 "2005-09-09T22:24:52Z")
Reading **SisterCoyote’s** link, I realized that Bush has surrounded himself with people (and is himself a person) who have absolutely no self-awareness whatsoever. “What do you mean, things are going badly? Things look great!” Totally out of touch with any semblance of reality whatsoever. It’s sad… ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796/100 "2005-09-09T22:41:35Z")
> [@Bob Scene](#): > > I’m really kind of pissed off that someone in this thread already mentioned that **Clinton got a blowjob,** but luckily I had a backup strategy ready. > > You see, Brownie’s FindLaw profile, where he claimed to have won an “Outstanding Political Science Professor” award at a school where he was never a professor, and where he claimed to have run a nursing home where no one ever heard of him, was a **parody!** He just wrote that to embarrass you. You fucking n00bs. You DO realize that this would be grounds for banning from the SDMB, even if he was a paying member? Where’s the _asshole_ smiley when you need it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browns-gotta-get-fired-right/320796.md?page=6)