Fema stages a bogus news conference, complete with agency employees posing as reporters, in order to promote the agency's handling of the wildfires in Southern California.
It's funny to me that the equivalent agency in Russia (Ministry of Extraordinary Situations) has an American-sounding acronym: Emercom. Fema, on the other hand, has a Slavic ring to it and is an agency from the Soviet Union.
Posted by Kriston at October 29, 2007 4:45 PMTo completely overlook your point and pick on minutiae, that EMERCOM business sounded fishy to me.
Turns out, if you google it in the latin alphabet, you get lots of hits. But in cyrillic, only a handful. So it seems to me they must call it МЧС for their own purposes, and Emerkom (or com) for ours.
Done being boringly pedantic.
Posted by: susan at October 29, 2007 8:24 PM