{"id":196,"date":"2005-09-10T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-10T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=196"},"modified":"2005-09-10T15:55:15","modified_gmt":"2005-09-10T19:55:15","slug":"every-cloud-must-have-a-silver-lining-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Every Cloud must Have a Silver Lining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or, as Eric Idle sang in the &#8220;Life of Brian&#8221;: &#8220;Always look on  the bright, side of life! de do, de do, de di di di do&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Never miss a chance to pad your buddies pockets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/09\/10\/katrina.contracts.reut\/index.html\">From CNN<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Companies with ties to the Bush White House and the former head of FEMA are clinching some of the administration&#8217;s first disaster relief and reconstruction contracts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.<\/p>\n<p>At least two major corporate clients of lobbyist Joe Allbaugh, President Bush&#8217;s former campaign manager and a former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, have already been tapped to start recovery work along the battered Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n<p>One is Shaw Group Inc. and the other is Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root. Vice President Dick Cheney is a former head of Halliburton.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See?  Everyone benefits!  As the former first lady observed, the poor were disadvantaged anyway, and the Astrodome is an improvement, and the President&#8217;s buddies get to make more money off of tragedy!  Isn&#8217;t life just grand??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, as Eric Idle sang in the &#8220;Life of Brian&#8221;: &#8220;Always look on the bright, side of life! de do, de do, de di di di do&#8230;&#8221; Never miss a chance to pad your buddies pockets. From CNN: Companies with ties to the Bush White House and the former head of FEMA are clinching some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}