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HOMELAND SECURITY

FEMA Can’t Spell, Manage Emergencies

What to do when your FOIA request turns up boring documents? Seize on that most satisfying of criticisms, the typo. As Raw Story has done, delightfully, with Michael Brown’s application to work for FEMA. Below, a sample of Brown’s application (helpful proofreading marks provided by us at no additional cost):
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And, hilariously, they did it again on the next page. Simple error? More likely: FEMA’s subconscious demonstration of resentment at losing its independence to a de[a]partment that, while a completely useless and nightmarish bureaucratic cesspool of money, you’d hope has a few secretaries on staff who can proofread these things.On Brown’s Application, FEMA Misspelled Homeland Security [Raw Story]


8:43 AM on Wed June 14 2006
By Alex Pareene
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