Welcome to September... The Department of Homeland Security’s ready.gov website is decked out accordingly. “This month,” said President Obama in a proclamation issued yesterday, “I encourage all Americans to bolster their readiness in the event of a crisis.”
Hmmm….
In a completely unrelated development, Mr. Obama about to become “the first U.S. president to receive a crash course in survival techniques from Bear Grylls,” says a press release from NBC, also issued yesterday.
The president is in Alaska this week… and as part of his sojourn, he’ll record an installment of the reality TV show Running Wild With Bear Grylls. Exactly what survival techniques he’ll learn today, no one’s saying -- we’ll have to wait until the program is broadcast later this year. Yeah, that’s real appointment viewing.
We mean it when we say this development is completely unrelated. We looked for “Bear Grylls” and “National Preparedness Month” on Google News and nothing came up that included both of those search terms.
Evidently, no one in the White House managed to put two and two together to give National Preparedness Month an extra publicity boost. That’s how huge and ungainly the federal government has become.