{"id":2734,"date":"2004-08-08T19:59:30","date_gmt":"2004-08-09T09:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/09\/national-preparedness-month-september-2004\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T07:50:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T15:50:15","slug":"national-preparedness-month-september-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/08\/national-preparedness-month-september-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"National Preparedness Month: September 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10414,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.gsa.gov\\\/Portal\\\/gsa\\\/ep\\\/contentView.do?pageTypeId=8199&amp;channelId=-13260&amp;P=WCA&amp;contentId=16903&amp;contentType=GSA_BASIC&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.gsa.gov\\\/Portal\\\/gsa\\\/ep\\\/contentView.do?pageTypeId=8199&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10415,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/redcrosssecure.org\\\/greaterbeverly\\\/?articleID=12&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10416,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thismodernworld.com\\\/weblog\\\/mtarchives\\\/week_2004_08_08.html#001686&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/thismodernworld.com\\\/weblog\\\/mtarchives\\\/week_2004_08_08.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10417,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.americaprepared.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10418,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.americaprepared.org\\\/pdf\\\/NPM_calendar.pdf&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Coming this September, on the three-year anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsa.gov\/Portal\/gsa\/ep\/contentView.do?pageTypeId=8199&amp;channelId=-13260&amp;P=WCA&amp;contentId=16903&amp;contentType=GSA_BASIC\" title=\"GSA - National Preparedness Month - September 2004\">National Preparedness Month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Because the prior 35 months were all about slacking off and letting the terrorists win, apparently?<\/p>\n<p>This will be <a href=\"http:\/\/redcrosssecure.org\/greaterbeverly\/?articleID=12\" title=\"Sept. is Preparedness Month\">publicly announced to the world<\/a> on September 9th, by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge. Why announce it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thismodernworld.com\/weblog\/mtarchives\/week_2004_08_08.html#001686\" title=\"all of September will be 'National Preparedness Month'\">nine days into the month<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Why September 9th? That&#8217;s awfully late, if it&#8217;s supposed to be the entire month. My guess, thinking like Karl Rove: this year&#8217;s 9\/11 anniversary falls on a Saturday, so an announcement on the date or even Friday would only get a burst of free media on a weekend. But by timing it for the 6 pm news on Thursday, it&#8217;ll reach the Friday papers, and thus be fully-injected into all of the emotion-laden anniversary coverage, plus the Sunday morning talk shows.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaprepared.org\/\" title=\"The America Prepared Campaign, Inc.\">America Prepared Campaign<\/a> has a downloadable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaprepared.org\/pdf\/NPM_calendar.pdf\" title=\"NPM Calendar (34.4kb .pdf file)\">calendar of events (PDF link)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s much more to all of this &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thismodernworld.com\/weblog\/mtarchives\/week_2004_08_08.html#001686\" title=\"all of September will be 'National Preparedness Month'\">check out This Modern World for more fun details<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, keep in mind, that this <em>isn&#8217;t politically motivated<\/em> (the fact that they didn&#8217;t do something like this until election season, and that it all kicks off just after the GOP convention, is <em>entirely coincidental<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Uh-huh.<\/p>\n<p>Right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Notorious&#8221; by Duran Duran from the album <em>Decade<\/em> (1988, 4:01).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming this September, on the three-year anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks: National Preparedness Month. 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