FEMA will send firefighters to NOLA in order to.... hand out flyers!?!?

This is truly unbelievable. This article in the Salt Lake Tribune is telling how FEMA has decided to take about 1000 firefighters from all over the country and train them on how to hand out flyers in NOLA!!!!!

Who the hell is making this up? Think about it. You've got hundreds, maybe thousands of people still stranded in NOLA who desperately need all kinds of help. You've got the mayor of New Orleans pleading on national TV for extra firefighters as his are so exhausted, and FEMA have decided that the available firefighters that the country can send down to the gulf states need to follow courses on sexual harassment and how to hand out flyers! It really does defy belief.

I guess some of the more extreme conspiracy theorists would argue that FEMA is actively trying to sabotage the rescue and relief efforts going on in NOLA in order to just be able to write off that state as ultimately that will be the cheaper solution for the bankrupt USA. I know it sounds wacky but when you read this article, you can actually start to believe that because FEMA's actions are truly so moronic as to border on the surreal.

"There are all of these guys with all of this training and we're sending them out to hand out a phone number," an Oregon firefighter said. "They [the hurricane victims] are screaming for help and this day [of FEMA training] was a waste."
Firefighters say they want to brave the heat, the debris-littered roads, the poisonous cottonmouth snakes and fire ants and travel into pockets of Louisiana where many people have yet to receive emergency aid.
But as specific orders began arriving to the firefighters in Atlanta, a team of 50 Monday morning quickly was ushered onto a flight headed for Louisiana. The crew's first assignment: to stand beside President Bush as he tours devastated areas.

Read the article here.