no-no
The Yankees are red hot. Blanco blanked the Jays with a no-no to get the Astros in the win column. And aside from the EPL having some important bottom-of-the-table matches today, that’s pretty much it for sports. So moving on…
Looks like the experiment failed. Or people just got tired of seeing their streets littered with zombies spaced out on meth and fentanyl. Anyway, I’m curious to see how well this goes over with the self-described anarchists in Portland.
Should have paid like this
Oh, this will cause some heads to explode. I’m sure twitter will be buzzing with pundits and so-called “experts” saying this should be disqualifying because now he’ll be beholden to the foreign leaders of some random country that the company who bonded him conducts business in.
This lady simply doesn’t give a shit who she offends. Good for her. She’s got more balls than than most. Even though she technically has two fewer balls than the “women” she’s talking fighting about this with online.
But it’s “the safest city in America.” At least that’s what they’re trying to claim since the city all but stopped going after these criminals.
That’s some fine police work, Lou. Bunch of dumb, lazy fucks.
Looks like a suppository
When “you gotta spend money to make money” goes too far. For a bunch of enviros. these people sure do hate the thought of teleconferences or commercial air travel.
I hope he stands his ground. He’s running a university, not a daycare center for crybabies.
What the hell is this bullshit? People aren’t forced to shop there and there’s alternatives. There’s no way this is the government’s business.
This doesn’t get enough airplay. I guess it offends people. And here’s a masterpiece. I love that song so much. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
My bet would be on “The DA won’t prosecute and makes it known they won’t… so no change in the Coastal Oregon regions.”
Morning, Sloopy! Morning, all!
As if the homeless shitting on the streets and front yards is all because of drugs, and they aren’t dealing with the former anyway.
Oregon came real close to electing a Repub for gov last go round, and also almost lost a rep seat to the R’s in the same election. They know that Portland is pretty much hated outside the I5 corridor and need to shore up some support. Kotex and Wheeler, who is in charge of PPB, are quietly beefing up Portland police presence, and it seems to be helping.
Sounds a lot like the “Crime statistics are down!” (because we stopped arresting and prosecuting people, so citizens stopped bothering to call the cops) they try to trot out from time to time.
We live in the age where fixing problems is now impossibly hard for the credentialed idiots that claim they will give us heaven on earth, so instead what they do is control people’s perceptions of things by gaslighting them.
I’m about ready to dump Wegman’s because they insist on charging me for a paper bag, and the last time I was in there I overheard that they’re doubling the .05 fee to .10!
(Oh, and strip steak prices have taken two price increases in the past 3 weeks.)
>.>
The article isn’t completely clear — though the one they linked there for context has a bit more — but I think the problem is that the scanned price is coming up more than the marked / on-the-shelf pricing. And people don’t often / always notice as the dollars fly by (too easy to have a $100+ cart, after all). Additionally, they’re charging CRV fees where they shouldn’t and pocketing the money.
So fraud, not “people can shop elsewhere” per se.. I mean yeah, you could put a big sign up as the state saying “Hey — this business is ripping you off and charging you more than the marked prices! Be aware!” and then caveat emptor on some level… but the state following up on fraud seems reasonable to me. It is a crime, after all. (And not a stupid made up crime).
It’s not a crime at all. It should be a civil matter unless it’s proven they were doing it intentionally.
To me this would fall into the “known or should have known” category of intent.
So, who goes to jail because some contractor or third tier database grunt botched an update?
The contractor, DBA, tester, manager, and corporate officers.
Up your QA game, folks.
Oh, and throw in HR and the Diversity department, just to be safe. They clearly cultivated a culture of incompetence.
Who signed off on it?
Ok. Though six of one / half a dozen of the other if the state ends up suing a company because of wide scale incompetence instead of actual malicious intent.
This way the usual inept government cabal can deflect blame for your policies to some other entity and keep the uninformed from realizing you are the culprit and need to be hung from a lamp post.
I still don’t understand how this authoritarian bullshit is constitutional.
I’m missing what’s authoritarian about it. You aren’t supposed to be able to tell the customer eggs are $5 and then ring them up for $7 and hope they don’t notice.
Adriana Bindman needs to take lessons in how to write. The story reads like the stores are charging more than they’re allowed to, not ringing items up for an amount that doesn’t match the advertised price.
You’ve got to click through one of the links to figure out that it’s about price discrepancies on the shelf vs the register and not charging more than they’re being allowed to charge people. And I ain’t got time for that.
—“it’s about price discrepancies on the shelf vs the register”—
I have had this problem with Vons/Safeway/Albertsons. It’s the reason I stopped shopping at their stores. I always check my receipt after check-out, and found many instances of being overcharged, but none of being undercharged (at Vons/Safeway/Albertsons). It happened often enough for me to change my shopping habits.
I find that too! Relatives like it though.
Just put that crate of Veuve underneath, Pats.
At this point, I don’t think we have any stores still charging for bags. Giant Eagle tried (when they got rid of their plastic grocery bags), and the response was… not positive. They still haven’t brought back the plastic bags (but keep the racks for them in the self checkout areas, taking up space), but they did start giving away paper bags.
I know people that would not shop at the places that would charge them for bags. I myself was one of those. That crap was already priced into the products, and they never unpriced it when they started charging for the bags too.
Sprouts here switched to heavier-duty bags and is charging for them. All it did is send a bunch of thicker bags to the dump.
We can’t just reverse course and say we were wrong about plastic bag bans.
Moral crusaders never admit they were wrong and are leery of any compromise.
We do that here in Oregon. Supposed to be reuseable, but you can only reuse so many bags. They are great for litter boxes though.
It’s state law around here. So – civil disobedience or sane locality?
Our state passed a law prohibiting municipalities from banning single use plastic bags. A couple had passed bans (as well as at least one county) previous to the 2020 lockdowns (that were set to go into effect that year). Once that all started, the bans were quietly suspended, and the state passed their ban on bans. The locally owned grocery store chain (which leans heavily into the organic, union shop, social signalling, etc.) fought against the single use plastic bag bans the entire time, and still uses the single use plastic bags that so many love (and reuse).
—“At this point, I don’t think we have any stores still charging for bags.”—
Here in the great state of California, single use bags are banned. You can buy the stores (reusable) plastic bags for ten cents, bring your own bags, or not use a bag. When the ban was passed, I asked several people who supported it, “What happens to all the money collected from the reusable bag charge?” Almost uniformly, the said the money would go into a fund to fight the litter problem. Wrong. Per the initiative law, the stores kept the money. Additionally, the law exempted those paying with any type of “welfare” card. Fast forward to check-out, and you can see the people using welfare cards routinely did not bring bags with them and needed new bags. The customers who pay for bags out of pocket usually bring some bags with them.
Never gets old.
New Jersey’s plastic consumption triples after plastic bag ban enacted, study shows
I don’t like them for a different reason…change from price/lb to price/each on most produce drove me away. 3 bananas for a $1 sounds great but most places sell $.40/lb and I can get 4-5 bananas for around a $1.
At one point, it wasn’t clear from the wording in the article if the stores were committing fraud by charging higher prices at checkout than the prices listed on the shelves.
But the performance outrage in the rest of the article led me to think it was sloppy writing from a “journalist” who agreed with the actions of the authorities fighting KKKapitalism.
I use my own bags. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don’t use bags. I either directly unload the cart into my car, or just carry out in my hands/pockets.
I have a string of orphans carry the groceries to the car.
Is this from the same pool of orphans you use to carry your litter around the store?
I am always on the hunt for efficient orphan management strategies.
Sadly, I have to used dedicated litter-bearing orphans, selected for upper body strength. I could dismount and let the orphans carry the groceries to the car on the litter, but then I’d have to walk on the market floor and who knows what the hell is down there. Besides, the jars of pickled baby harp seal kidneys would roll around on the litter and might bruise the fruit.
Lord Jesus… She’s coming right for us! was supposed to be a parody, not an instruction manual you morons.
You’ll know I found a magic lamp if suddenly cops have to be above average intelligence, are expected to question orders for their constitutionality and are held to high standards of bravery and competence. That’s apparently about what it will take — and it probably wouldn’t last even a generation before the CYA-ness snuck right back it. I do firmly believe there are good men out there who are cops — but I think they’s more than there should be of the “I like to throw my weight around”, “RESPECT MY AUTHORITAH!” and paper pushing easily spooked “Just following orders!” types.
“Kill ’em all. Let God sort ’em out” should not be a departmental policy.
These guys need to be prosecuted. But I fear the only discipline will come when the deputy that was pleading for the others to stop will be reassigned or fired.
The morning black pill does not want to argue with your assessment.
The deputy trying to stop the killing is immune from prosecution, but might find themselves driven out of the job by officers covertly treating them like a snitch and making their life hell. Especially if they are called as a prosecution witness.
Summary execution. If it was good enough for her, it’s good enough for the cops.
Aren’t “civilian” suspects who willingly lie to law enforcement routinely charged with obstruction of justice?
Hell, lying to the FBI is a felony. At least it is if you don’t have the right political connections.
The FBI claiming you are lying to them is sufficient proof of your criminality. Whatever they write on their magic paper is the truth. No, you’re not allowed to make a recording of the conversation.
This is an outrage that we are surprisingly sanguine about. Every other level of law enforcement records interviews, usually on video. But the fbi takes notes, often after the fact, and you are criminally liable for what they write.
I have never had a single incident with police where everything they wrote in their report was accurate. To the contrary, the most important report I was involved with got nearly every single fact wrong on the first draft. Luckily we were given the opportunity to review and revise before he left. He had assigned blame for an accident to the wrong people in a serious wreck with injuries (a truck ran a red light). He still got many facts wrong on the second attempt.
There is zero reason to allow the recollections of one person about something said to be a 20 year felony. Well…. there is one reason I can think of….
‘Hopefully this video can be used for training“
This angers me. It’s not a training problem.
It should be used as evidence in multiple manslaughter trials. But this is probably one of those deals where so many cops were firing they can’t figure out who killed her, so everybody walks. You know, just like in drive by shootings by gangbangers.
I had the same reaction.
Or Ray Lewis.
In any other situation, everyone in the group gets a murder charge. Felony murder rule.
Meh… maybe. I don’t know the “weird EV” market or if there’s actually any real market given Tesla and the government pushing for
union contractsthe Big 3 to get stuck in… but assuming they were treating it like a tech startup… having the CEO spending almost all the time marketing in person doesn’t seem inordinate for the second year of the company.And again, if they’re like most tech startups — they don’t expect to actually do much in the marketplace. The name of the game is to have the right tech, patents and/or people to be attractive for a lucrative buyout. So you can burn enough investment you’ll never make it back in sales as long as the investors get paid in the buyout.
Nothing in the article makes sense. If you only had a million in revenue, how did your operating losses come in at 250mm? Debt proceeds and stock sales aren’t operating revenue. If you get 50 million in sales next year, and thus another two hundred million in losses, why is the jet justified?
I can’t be bothered to look up the financial statements but neither could the so called reporter.
If you had $1MM in operating revenue last year, there is no way on earth that you will get to $50 – 100MM this year.
The cherry on top is that they are leasing the jet from . . . the CEO. So he’s pocketing all that money.
My little tech company has a whole lot more revenue than they do. Our CEO flies commercial. I haven’t looked, but I’d be somewhat surprised if he didn’t fly cattle class.
Well, the difference is you work with an actual company that is in business to make money. They, on the other hand, are a money laundering operation that is in business to hide money.
Apparently, they were really bad at it.
“a judge who found he gained hundreds of millions through a yearslong fraud scheme targeting banks and insurers.”
Does someone have a non-partisan link or can sum up this case? I was always under the impression it was a money grab to punish OMB because Democrats. I thought it was a civil case so to say there is fraud implies there was a crime but there aren’t any victims?
The accusation was that by claiming a higher valuation on property in applying for loans, he somehow tricked the banks into issuing loans they would not otherwise. This in spite of the banks themselves saying that they did not rely upon the declared asset valuations when determining the risk, and that the loans were all paid off in full, so no one was defrauded out of anything.
So, the conviction has no basis in fact, just partisanship.
And just for extra fun — the AG prosecuting the case stating he could fire sale properties that were so “inflated” to cover the bond (before the appellate court reduced it) where the only way the math works is…. if the properties are in the range that he claimed they were.
The insane premise/accusation by the NYC criminal gang masquerading as the legal system was that he knowingly inflated property values – and the state caught him because the property taxable rates the state set were mere fractions of the property value he claimed he could get if he sold the property – so that now is a crime because of him doing so (forget the fact this would be something done by accountants and lawyers). The courts then ignored the fact the bank pointed out that there was no problem at all – they did their own valuation – and then were glad to issue the loans that made them good money – to keep the charade going this is criminal. It is fitting that everyone in NYC bail out of the real estate market ASAP, as anyone that owns property of any kind now can be accused of criminal activity because of this precedent.
The taxable assessment is always lower than the market price. My house has a taxible assement of half the market price – and both are listed on the tax statement from the city. I didn’t set either, because I paid 18k less than their asserted market rate.
Huh, my taxable assessment was my purchase price. It’s getting reassessed this year.
You’re clearly getting scammed by your locality worse than the rest of us.
In NYC this is the dirty secret. Buildings that sell for millions are assessed at a fraction of that cost for tax purposes by the state/city assessors. Go look up the John Steward articles that came out after he stomped on his own dick trying to peddle this tax fraud argument. That idiot owned a multi million dollar property assessed at just $8xxK. He sold it for close to $18 million to someone that then only was able to sell it for $14 million later, and by this implementation of the law made Steward guilty of fraud.
My house is regularly reassessed to market value. Instead of capping the increase in assessment like some states, the rate is reviewed each year and adjusted to stabilize the overall tax revenue. It has dropped from 0.81% in 2020 to 0.77% in 2023. The 2024 rate will be set this month.
Your taxes can increase faster if your property value increases faster than the average for the county. It does prevent the situation where neighbors pay drastically different taxes because of when they bought their property.
In fairness, he did intentionally inflate the square footage of some of his properties. That seems pretty objectively fraudulent. Half a billion dollars fraudulent? No fucking way. But still fraudulent.
Or overstate instead of inflate.
Maybe the property is inflatable? Like a bouncy house?
By that logic, aren’t car MSRPs fraudulent?
No, since it’s clearly called the Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price. Trump wasn’t suggesting his 10,000 sf condo was really 30,000sf.
Well, an MSRP is pretty much the same as the owner’s estimate of value, really. You can pay it/lend on it if you want, or you can come back with a lower number.
And don’t get me started on the games auto makers play with their performance numbers (across the board). HP? Mileage? It’s very rare indeed for an independent tester to say “Yup, this thing puts out the HP and gets the mileage the company said it would”.
I have a whole lot of problems with this line of thinking. My property is 2 1/2 acres. 2 acres of that is considered wetlands and is really such during real wet years. I still own and am listed at 2 1/2 (and pay taxes on it despite not being able to use that extra 2 acres). And what if you have an unfinished basement? Or extra space that is unused? Can they now accuse you of overstating your space just because you pointed out that while the extra space was undeveloped now, it still would allow for development? The point is there are too many variables and ways to do this shit, so criminalizing any of it is a serious problem.
When the system allows the variability, choosing to criminalize it for one individual makes it obvious the issue isn’t that a crime was committed but that the state had an individual it wanted to make a criminal.
My property is 2 1/2 acres.
Would you be committing fraud if you listed it as 4 acres, or tried to present it as 4 acres to use as collateral for a loan? I know the bank would do their own research, but in this case we’re talking about an entirely objective measurement that was overstated. Much of the rest of that is already covered in regulations as to how it can be advertised. Some of it may vary depending on the state. You can’t count a doghouse in the backyard as an extra bedroom. You can’t count square footage of unfinished basements or attics as livable space.
I wouldn’t claiming it was 4 acres for a loan, but saying it is 2 1/2 acres in itself would be problematic since almost 2 of those acres are not developable. What if someone claimed since only 1/2 an acre was usable, I was committing fraud by claiming the full 2 1/2 acres for a loan? That’s the accusation levied here.
And again, do you think Trump filled out that paperwork? Or was that done by accountants/lawyers? The Claim Trump did that himself, on purpose, is the really big lie.
They read his mind and they see he is bad.
I can’t help but notice that you’re not answering the questions that I’m actually asking. Maybe you could, y’know, respond to my actual questions. Look, I’ll show you how it’s done.
saying it is 2 1/2 acres in itself would be problematic since almost 2 of those acres are not developable.
There’s nothing legally problematic about this. You yourself may have a moral problem, but assuming the deed and all other legal documentation about the property says there’s 2.5 acres of land in your name, then calling it a 2.5 acre property is perfectly legal. The lender can turn around and say “sure, there’s 2.5 acres here, but since most of it cannot be developed we’re not going to value it as highly” and be within their rights to do so.
Now I will answer the question you chose not to: Representing a 2.5 acre property as 4 acres is indeed fraud. The question wasn’t whether or not you were of sufficient moral character to not do that, it was whether doing so would be fraudulent.
Misrepresenting objectively measurable facts is fraud.
Whether or not Trump actually filled out the loan paperwork seems immaterial, since he was the one presenting the information therein as true.
And again, I’m not saying what he did was half-a-billion-dollars level of fraud, but clearly objective information was overstated, intentionally or not.
“Would you be committing fraud if you listed it as 4 acres, or tried to present it as 4 acres to use as collateral for a loan?”
You’d be making a material misrepresentation, but there’s no fraud unless the victim reasonably relies on it, and is harmed.
Absurd example: I could offer to sell a Glock for six figures, claiming it was Hitler’s personal handgun. I haven’t committed fraud. I even have a defense if some idiot pays me that much for it, because any reasonable investigation would show that it is impossible for that to be true. Would that make me a scumbag? You bet. Would that be a crime? Probably not, believe it or not, at least if the (traditional) elements of fraud are applied in anything approaching a sane manner. At one time, we understood that trying to protect idiots from themselves is not a good use of the law.
As I understand it, the detail missed in your question is that Trump’s tower apartment was some 10K square feet. However, he personally owns THREE of those apartments in the building even though only one is used. So you can choose to ignore that detail, but then you are missing the point.
“he did intentionally inflate the square footage of some of his properties”
Which is relevant solely as it affects value. Which the banks independently determined. So, who cares? For that mattter, who cares if the banks didn’t do their own valuation, but still got paid in full?
I know, I know, NY has a retarded fraud statute that excludes the traditional elements of reliance and harm. Which brings us to selective prosecution.
I’m no realtor, but I would think square footage of a property affects value.
Validating square footage is part of the valuation exercise for commercial property, at least. And I would expect for higher-end residential property, as well.
There’s one further nuance – the alleged victim has to have “reasonably” relied on the misrepresentation. I have no doubt that just taking an owner’s word for a big commercial real estate loan on what the square footage is falls outside that reasonableness requirement. So even if Trump lied, if the banks didn’t validate the square footage, there would at least be a big problem with any fraud case based on that misrepresentation.
Who do we want doing due diligence on transactions? The buyer/lender before the deal closes, or the state trailing along years later? Be careful what incentives you create.
This “fraud” case is missing two of the three elements of actual fraud – reliance and damages. There’s a reason why the statute was never? very rarely? used before Trump.
Which brings us to why businesses are shitting themselves over this case. The whole point of a legal system is to be able to level the playing field and plan accordingly. This takes that away.
I have no idea why they’d even ask square footage and valuation, unless it’s just a starting point. Everything is public record, and the banks will always do their own research either online or send an assessor to verify everything. There is no way a bank is going to ask how much you think your property is worth, and just use that number no questions asked.
It’s just a starting point. “Here’s how much I want to borrow, here’s the collateral I’m willing to put up, here’s what I think its worth.” The square footage is just part of the initial description of the collateral.
Serious question: is it truly known that he “inflated” the square footage, or was it a matter of “well my number included everything and yours omitted certain areas (mechanicals, whatever)”?
That might be a relevant issue if the dispute was between Trump and the bank. What possible relevance does it have when the real issue was Trump is a bad person in the eyes of the people with a little power.
I agree it’s irrelevant. Just wondering if that’s how parts of the argument went. Even on something as simple as a house, “what’s really included in that number?” is one of the first things you’d think of. So much more on any complex and large commercial property.
Democracy is the victim.
Not a crime and there were no victims. The banks want nothing to do with this.
Nothing more than lawfare against an individual because of his politics.
More than that — the banks testified on his behalf iirc. AG James wanted her political scalp…. and nothing else matters.
NYC made it a crime to get a loan to buy or sell a property for more than the state assessed taxable rate of said property…
They had to come out and say they were not going to prosecute anyone else for that ‘crime:. So a Letter of Attainder.
And if you believe the governor having to come out to say it was a one time thing and they wouldn’t do this to anyone else (with her fingers crossed behind her back for sure) is not a dead giveaway that they KNOW the shit they did – the precedent they set – was going to have consequences, I have a bridge in Baltimore to sell you. Has a little damage after some barge hit it. And anyone in that market that actually believes when NYC is in a money crunch or some politician has that time of the month and wants revenge, they wont use this racket to go after them, deserves what is coming.
I truly hope this ends up destroying the real estate market in NYC.
Several big developers have already said they are done in NY.
I’ll believe it when I see it happen.
I am not making this up. This is what actual authoritahs are saying:
The People of the State of New York are the victims. By gaining a benefit that non-orange, non-bad men would not receive (in the form of more attractive interest rates) it lowers “faith” in “the system” and “Society “as a whole suffers.
James and the Judge need to take a Haitain vacation.
You left out their claim that it somehow caused Trump to pay less in property tax than he should have. Although that would mean the county tax assessor did not actually assess his properties as is required by law.
They sued on behalf of a private party that claimed no harm, why not for another state?
NY has a civil fraud statute that claims the state can be a victim even if a real one doesn’t come forward or doesn’t even agree with state prosecutors who tell them they’d been defrauded. And the judge himself made a property valuation of Mar-A-Lago at $18m, which might have been the most preposterous statement during the entire trial.
There’s lots more about this trial that was completely ridiculous, but that one always stuck out as the most absurd.
The entire case hinges on the cringeworthy economic notion that there is an objective determinable value for real estate. Even though the value of anything is subjective – it’s worth what someone is willing to pay for it – and that making an opening offer for property valuation is literally how every real estate transaction ever invariably works.
So I can sue for fraud if they don’t take my lowball offer?
Not only that, but if you got a better deal than expected, be sure to report that as imputed income!
Thinking off all the times used cars are reported as being sold for $100 on the pink slip or bill of sale…
Hey, that other $5,900 in cash isn’t real.
I forgot to report the imputed income of WFH to the IRS. Time is money after all.
I didn’t think that that was a claim by the state, just something idiots on the internet have been saying.
https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2022/attorney-general-james-sues-donald-trump-years-financial-fraud
“The lawsuit alleges that Donald Trump, with the help of his children Donald Trump, Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump, and senior executives at the Trump Organization, falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to induce banks to lend money to the Trump Organization on more favorable terms than would otherwise have been available to the company, to satisfy continuing loan covenants, to induce insurers to provide insurance coverage for higher limits and at lower premiums, and to gain tax benefits, among other things.”
Give me the man, and I will invent the crime…
He inflated his wealth because it is known that the wealthy pay less taxes.
James isn’t the stupid one – every person that voted for her is a screaming idiot.
Yes, I can sum it up – the “case” would’ve made Beria blush.
Your mouth to God’s ears. Past time for these supposed adults to be treated as such. Then society as a whole should stop coddling these little jerkwads.
“Twenty-five students are suspended, unhoused and not allowed back on campus,” says one student protester, requesting anonymity amid ongoing legal and disciplinary cases. “We’ve been on interim suspension since Tuesday. Returning to campus could be grounds for trespass. Most of these students are low-income, on full financial aid from the university and rely on Vanderbilt for housing and food.”
Middle Tennessee State is just down the road, kids. You can resume your college
educationcredential-seeking in August.It’s supposed to be punitive. That’s what punishment is. That such morons were admitted brings shame to the school.
That such morons were admitted brings shame to the school.
DEI admits and the cavalcade of Cluster B fat chicks with septum rings and poison-frog hair that love them.
Should have thought of that before putting all that at risk, eh?
How dare you point out they should have understood there could be consequences for acting out the indoctrination to be activists sooner than later! They were fighting the good fight they were thought was consequence free for members of tat club!
But it was a protest for a righteous cause. Only protesting for the wrong cause is punishable.
But they were wearing masks! You shouldn’t be able to tell who was protesting!
Most of these students are low-income, on full financial aid from the university and rely on Vanderbilt for housing and food.”
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you Or in this case, don’t sit on the hand that feeds you. Entitled little shit.
Or when you do, understand the consequences. Welcome to the real world.
I had no idea Kevin Durant had to take a second job.
So this was a conversation I had with ATT…
What the fuck? Stop that shit.
I think the voting age should be 25 and that unemployed people or those not paying taxes should not get a vote…
I am tired of idiots canceling the votes of the informed in favor of the very system that is strangling the country to death,
Fine, but if I don’t get a vote I don’t have to follow any rules or laws you vote on.
The only things I want to vote on are things to limit government.
OK, as long as you don’t take any govt handouts too.
So you’re cool with illegals not folllowing any rules or laws?
Dude! They are undocumented vote cattle!
I can’t even!
Rishi Sunak, noted TERF:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/rishi-sunak-backs-author-jk-rowling-in-row-over-scotland-s-new-hate-crime-laws/ar-BB1kTXv9
We live in a time where a Sunak v. Yousaf fight is between two countries on one island northwest of France.
India v. Pakistan, blighty edition.
This popped up.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/high-energy-costs-drive-revolt-against-states-climate-policies-commitments
Tide is turning? Or just slowing.
Do you think the credentialed elite that do not make their living doing the dirty work of the blue collar deplorables would give a fuck what the deplorables care for?
Shit, look at the invasion at the southern border. The unwashed masses are close to 75% (an insanely high number in politics) against it, but the invasion goes on because the elite want it.
I remind people that one of the things the machine hated the most about Trump was that he showed people that the claims by the intelligentsia that the bad times for the lower middle class (which worked just fine for the top men) couldn’t be fixed and had to just be accepted was bullshit. We don’t have to live with a 1% GDP growth per year, and an anemic economy driven by government fiat. The machine hated that the deplorables found that out.
Having been exposed, and yet to feel the consequences – of course they just carry on in plain sight. And they will end up wishing they’d had the earlier consequences, which might only have cost them some money and status. The delayed consequences are likely to take more.
What I don’t get is that they still seem to be operating under the belief/assumption that no matter how bad the consequences will be, they will come out on top after the disaster anyway.
I imagine that’s exactly what the Roman aristocracy did as well. Having already fucked things up, you expect them in general to foresee the consequences? Some will I’m sure, but not most.
Always remember, they are living in a bubble and are honestly perplexed that most people don’t agree with them.
Yes, and in that they aren’t all that different from us or any other group. Christians are honestly perplexed when their faith isn’t shared (at least in general if not down to denomination).
Case in Point #1
Case in Point #2
If you flush away enough voters, your hijinks aren’t going to cover that.
It is another collective action problem. Everyone in the… machine, aristocrat, bubble, whathaveyou, is going to keep doing what they have always done, because they don’t know anything else. And it doesn’t matter if they see what is coming, they are going to treat it like a game of musical chairs, and are sure they will find a seat before the collapse happens.
My city just announced they’re replacing electric buses that fail in the winter and on hills with new diesels. It probably doesn’t help that the electric bus company went bankrupt.
But yeah, get ready to see a lot more of this stuff – reality is pushing back. At least from the bottom up. The states will continue drag this out to the very end, unfortunately.
“My city just announced they’re replacing electric buses that fail in the winter and on hills with new diesels. It probably doesn’t help that the electric bus company went bankrupt.”
So they made some side money first funneling tax payer funds to buying the junk EVs, then once these failed, will get another chance to feed at the trough buying the working ones? Yeah, they just did that in a couple of towns in “The People’s Republic of Connecticut” too.
Alas, the IanPat boonie hat is sold out.
https://www.varusteleka.com/en/product/forgotten-weapons-boonie-hat-ianpat/77397
I particularly like Varusteleka’s command of English.
That’s a really, really expensive boonie hat.
Are your boonie hats made of NIR compliantish materials?
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Motherfuckers. Evil motherfuckers. I would love to beat and torture every member of that department
And now, a little good news:
Since the Wright brothers’ pioneering flight in 1903, the aviation industry has made remarkable strides in safety, affordability, and accessibility. Comparing flight prices from 1970 to today reveals a staggering 90.8 percent decrease in the time price of flying, with transcontinental flights now affordable for the average person. Additionally, advancements in aviation technology have made flying dramatically safer today than it was in 1970, and are likely to improve flying safety in the future.
*Checks prices I paid from CVG to LAS* True I paid nearly the same price ticket to fly domestically than it would have been to fly to Australia…
Taking a cue from Ferris Bueller.
Apple worker used bathroom break to delete evidence he leaked to press: lawsuit
He should use the “Politicians and US government agencies do this all the time, and they never get in trouble for it” defense.
Unless you are a Republican. They have approximately a 5% chance of being accused with 1% conviction rate of the 5%.
isn’t it great how the NYP makes the headline more interesting by including the word “bathroom?”
Also, usually it’s a reporter refusing to name their source. In this case they have the source, but not the reporter.
Missed this on my news free Friday.
Biden’s Order: Let There Be Electric Trucks
I am starting to get the feeling that the left thinks they are going to lose the election, and thus are trying to get all of their pet projects and shibboleths in before the deadline.
Somehow if Trump gets in, some court will rule that he can not undo any executive orders of Biden. Even though Biden undid a shit ton of Trump’s, there will be some legal wrangling that will block Trump.
Comparing flight prices from 1970 to today reveals a staggering 90.8 percent decrease in the time price of flying, with transcontinental flights now affordable for the average person.
You can thank Alfred Kahn (and Jimmy Carter) for that.
KAAAAHHHHHNNNNNN!!!!!
No idea if the guy was legitimately threatened by the dog or not. But let’s go with the driver plotted to kill the dog. He carefully monitored the residence and waited for the exact moment when your Ring camera was removed.
‘Law and Order’ actor says Instacart driver killed her dog outside Charlotte home
In today’s conflicting principles:
There are a couple of city-owned 2-story parking structures close to downtown that I use. They are currently free, but there is going to be a vote to make them $2/hr during
“the season” (Memorial day – Labor day).
-Parking is a valuable resource/service, and should be paid for
-Payment for a service should be extracted from the person using it, not the general population
-But the money raised by this parking fee is going to the general fund, and not actually being used for the maintenance of the structures
-Clearly, this is designed to soak visitors, which I find particularly odious.
-Even worse, government workers and other employees of downtown establishments will be exempt.
Send that to Biden for his crusade against junk fees. Any tax/fee not earmarked for its intended purpose should be abolished.
Somewhat related, there’s a law going up at the state level here that would require that all parking meters would need to take cash as well as credit card.
I’m not overly opposed to it, especially since most of the apps are lowest common denominator junk apps that sell info for spam.
And reap additional fees on some of them. Also tracking your movements, etc. I think cities should also make it more prevalent when parking meters are not required on certain dates/times. Covington doesn’t really post it but if you are a local, you know from experience…out of town? No clue.
How quaint.
The hospital two blocks from me has increased its square footage of occupied space, without increasing its parking capacity, indeed, it has lessened it (taken up space with outbuildings and a helipad). This is putting pressure on the neighborhood, which is an older one with not every house having off street parking (many houses built before cars, and being in an historic zone are not allowed to put in garages). I am going to go to my councilman’s house down the street (she said to drop by when anything comes up!) and tell her that the hospital either needs to create more parking (a two story garage would work, or buy the cemetery next door to it and “convert” it) or they need to do parking passes for residents, and two hour for anyone else.
Is it libertarian to do this? I think so!
As a self described anarchist, I like to think that I own my body.
I like to think I should be able to ingest whatever the hell I want into my body (and suffer whatever consequences that arise).
Drugs should not be criminalized. In fact there should be drug vending machines, and they should be right next to the gun vending machines and the used panty vending machines.
Is a subscription to your newsletter available in a vending machine near me?
The newsletter is wrapped up in the used panties
Your newsletter, I wish to subscribe.
But is it fraud if the model on the vending machine was NOT the actual wearer of the panties?
Inquiring minds want to know….
And can you use the two-tone (yellow in the front, and brown in the rear) Lizzo panties as sails?
right next to the gun vending machines
Well, you really need to put your hands on a gun before you decide to buy. So, vending machines might do in a pinch, but you really need to visit the guy with the push cart in the plaza.
Now, ammo in the vending machine, would be a great convenience.
When I think Vending Machine Gun, I think of the one from CyberPunk 2077. It is so disposable you can’t even reload it, just fire until the magazine is depleted and throw away. If there were gun vending machines, I’d expect their products to be of a similar quality.
Hi Point has entered the chat
lol
I had a brief moment when I read that as Vending brand Machine-Gun.
“Vending Brand Machine Guns – cash out your enemies with a three for one deal on bullets.”
Vending Machine Gun – excellent band name.
This reminds me of that scene in Reacher S2. “Here’s a Glock 17.” “I wish I had my Glock instead.” “You have a G17. This is a G17, they’re all the same.” “But this one isn’t mine.”
“Can I get a pistol with a real safety?”
Why would you want that? They prevent the gun from firing.
+1 DA/SA decocker only
All joking aside, living right next to the general area, the issue is decriminalization, but not how you think.
Drugs and drug use shouldn’t be decriminalized, they should be legalized. And what that means it that everything along with them needs to be legal: distribution, importation, returns for defective merch, defending property against theft, etc. And Oregon did none of that, so all of the problems remain, along with all the externalities, which are either ignored or made illegal to deal with. You cannot defend you property, you cannot force the city to take care of its property, which you are taxed for, police are defunded, so problems like smuggling and large quanitities, which are still illegal, aren’t delt with, and so on.
In other words, the other half of the issue is completely ignored, form both the libertarian perspective and from the statist perspective. It is a lose/lose problem, hence the state, which is all powerful at the moment, is doing what is easiest from an electoral point: re-criminalizing drugs.
^ THIS. There would be zero fentanyl problem with all illicit substances treated like alcohol. There would be the same problems we have with alcohol anyway.
Bizarroland
The judge warned that Trump’s behavior represented a threat to anyone involved in the case and was even tantamount to an attack on the rule of law.
“It is no longer just a mere possibility or a reasonable likelihood that there exists a threat to the integrity of the judicial proceedings. The threat is very real. Admonitions are not enough, nor is reliance on self-restraint,” Merchan wrote in an order made even more surreal because it was referring to a possibly future president.
The ruling marked the latest extraordinary twist in Trump’s years-long assault on rules and laws that govern every other politician, business magnate or American. And it encapsulates a perilous national moment since it arose from one of four criminal trials that the presumptive GOP nominee is facing while running to reclaim the White House.
His astonishing lack of deference will be the end of civilization.
The peasants might actually think they are the equals of the mandarinate.
Funny how courts don’t react well to bullshit.
Is he still using Attorney Pot Head, Esq?
Almost as good as Trump in selecting legal counsel.
“Ordinarily — a normal defendant you would send him to Rikers,” Adam Pollock, a former New York assistant attorney general, told CNN’s Abby Phillip on Monday, referring to a famed New York jail. “Very quickly he’d figure out in Rikers what the right way to behave before a trial is.” But Pollock added: “President Trump is not every other defendant.”
Now talk about what an authoritarian he is, and he is a dictator from whom democracy must be protected at any cost.
Well the city isn’t putting violent offenders in Rikers prior to trial and are offerering no bail…so reap what you sow
“And they might get a rough ride in the van. Maybe a few sharp corners and sudden stops. It’s a teaching experience.” – Adam Pollock, probably
They really need to put him in jail to keep him from becoming a dictator and putting his political opponents in jail.
Trump’s threats are not simply an academic matter. And they are more serious than just rants on social media, as some of the ex-president’s GOP apologists often characterize them. Attacking court staff and their families creates a genuine security risk. The situation is especially troubling because Trump has a proven ability to incite violence with his rhetoric, which was on display when a mob of his supporters attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
His rhetoric is more hypnotic than Hitler’s. With a word, he can rouse his robot army to unimaginable acts of violence.
Saying “protest peacefully” was an obvious dog whistle Brooks.
They were one gavel from overthrowing Democracy!
“Attacking”. Not “criticizing”, “attacking”. You know, like with a baseball bat.
Somewhat related, there’s a law going up at the state level here that would require that all parking meters would need to take cash as well as credit card.
Speaking of which, has anybody else noticed the “NYC congestion fee” penalty for not being signed up for an autopay plan? It’s about 50%.
I don’t go near NYC
We’re against the wrong kind of money and meddling
Wisconsin voters on Tuesday were deciding on two Republican-backed constitutional amendments, one of which would ban the use of private money to run elections in reaction to grants received in 2020 that were funded by Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg.
The other proposal would require that only election officials designated by law can administer elections. That is already the law, but adding that language to the Wisconsin Constitution would make it harder to repeal.
Democrats opposed both measures, which they argued would make it more difficult to conduct elections in the presidential battleground state.
Republicans hate people who just want to help keep elections fair and honest.
ban the use of private money to run elections
I’d rather ban the use of public money to conduct primary elections. Let the parties pay their own way.
^^^THIS^^^
Only governments should administer general elections. And they should be overseen by any private citizen who wants to observe them and challenge a ballot or result. No final matters should be settled during a primary (like constitutional amendments, recalls, ballot initiatives, etc) and all primaries should be administered by the parties themselves and they should be free to set any limitations they want on who can vote in their primary.
Freedom like that is dangerous
There is a reason our elections are not auditable or secure. That failure is by design considering how quick and easy it would be to fix that problem.
We have what we have so the people with the real power can make sure that the serfs can only vote for approved candidates and then also rig elections when things go wrong and they can’t control the picks.
Keys Woman is an enhanced variant of Florida Woman
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2024/03/25/keys-woman-stalked-neighbor-for-nearly-2-years-after-victim-honked-at-peacocks-cops-say/
This sounds to me like a Karen with no real life obligations and a house full of cats looking for purpose. and she found it in ruining all her neighbor’s lives.
Both proposed constitutional amendments are in response to grant money that came to Wisconsin in 2020 from the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a liberal group that fights for voter access. That year, the center received a $300 million donation from Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan to help election officials buy supplies and run elections at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic before vaccines were available.
Get out the (Democrat Party) vote.
Just the classiest tranny bands.
The bands set to play the show included Dumpster Pussy, Dru The Drifter + The Back Alley Hookers, Boy Clothes, Spinning Lodge, and the Oitakus.
“transgender terrorist”
I wouldn’t call the shooter either.
“The show was to raise money for sex-change operations and to mail chest binders to people who “could not access them.”
Who can’t get chest binders besides kids who are too young to have a job?
“Spinning Lodge suggested that that’s because the FBI was in on it, saying, “his reasoning there can be no genocide is that anti-trans hate crime rates are too low. I don’t think he understands genocide. It’s kinda the whole point that the violence and attempted elimination of a group of people are state sponsored.”
OFFS!
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/03/nycs-government-chatbot-is-lying-about-city-laws-and-regulations/
Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Nor is relying on what we tell you the law is.
Well, we’ve already established that in New York Jurisprudence, fact don’t matter, so why would laws?
The only way government will tolerate AI going forward is if they can control it to tell the lies when they want to avoid “Hate speech” and “Misinformation” (meaning things the government and democrats don’t want you to know because it reflects badly on them and their evil agenda).
Works for the IRS. If you call their help line and they tell you to do A, that does not mean that the advice was correct or that they won’t fine you for doing A.
But Trump!
Kennedy told CNN that Biden “has used the federal agencies to censor political speech”.
“I can make the argument that President Biden is the much worse threat to democracy, and the reason for that is President Biden is the first candidate in history, the first president in history, that has used the federal agencies to censor political speech … to censor his opponent,” Kennedy told the outlet.
He did not address the more than 80 criminal charges pending against Trump for trying to forcibly overturn the outcome of his defeat to Biden, improperly retaining classified government materials after the Republican left the White House and hush-money payments to an adult film actor who has claimed to have engaged in extramarital sex with him.
Kennedy also did not address the multimillion-dollar civil penalties Trump is facing for business practices deemed fraudulent or a rape claim that a judge has determined to be substantially true.
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The Democratic national committee on Monday excoriated Kennedy for his remarks about the Democratic incumbent.
“With a straight face Robert F Kennedy Jr said that Joe Biden is a bigger threat to democracy than Donald Trump because he was barred from pushing conspiracy theories online,” Mary Beth Cahill, a Democratic national committee senior adviser, said in a statement.
Cahill accused Kennedy of merely seeking to be a “spoiler candidate” and – referring to Trump’s Make America great again slogan – said he pushed “his Maga talking points in prime time”.
Cahill said there was “no comparison” between Biden and Trump, whose supporters mounted the deadly January 6 attack on the US Capitol in early 2021. She also alluded to how Trump has promised to be dictator on “day one” if returned to the presidency.
Hey look over there!
Yeah, CNN had another “Oh shit, we are live and he told the truth” moment with this. They thought for sure he would agree with their lie about J6, and instead he pointed out the one abusing the 1st was Biden.
“With a straight face Robert F Kennedy Jr said that Joe Biden is a bigger threat to democracy than Donald Trump because he was barred from pushing conspiracy theories online,” Mary Beth Cahill, a Democratic national committee senior adviser, said in a statement.
Yes, Mary. Kennedy is correct. When the government actors pressure private actors to silence even conspiracies, the person in charge of the government pushing for the censorship, even if it’s censoring so-called “conspiracy theories,” then that person is the bigger threat to democracy, constitutional principles, and individual liberty.
BUT WE ARE DEMOCRATS!!! /and they’ll never experience cognitive dissonance
“He did not address the more than 80 criminal charges pending against Trump…”
There are only so many hours in the day. I’ve seen Kennedy oppose lawfare as well.
I know a lot of us here don’t like some of his other policies, but he’s been censored, is being denied secret service protection, and is pretty sure the CIA had something to do with the assassinations of his family members. He won’t win but his guy has vendetta against the right people and that can only be helpful.
the deadly January 6 attack…
TMITE
It was deadly for Ashli Babbitt.
Don’t forget how many times AOC was killed that day!
And raped if I recall
And the woman who was beaten to death by the cops.
Just plain folks
“I’m a teacher, so I love any time we can turn the White House into a classroom,” said the first lady as she welcomed the crowd Monday morning.
President Biden praised the event early Monday on NBC’s Today show. “This is the people’s house,” Biden said. “It always makes me feel good to look out there and see average Americans just walking around, looking at what’s going on. Because they own it.”
Average Americans who signed the loyalty oath and passed the background check and maintained a respectful distance under the watchful eye of armed security personnel.
Did she ever teach even for a semester, let alone a full year? Or is this just “I’m a teacher because I got a PhD”?
Thinking to OMWC’s inappropriate behavior, Microsoft Outlook was just encouraging me to “communicate more colorfully” by using emojis.
I wonder if Butlerville U. uses Outlook.
When I used to live in Memphis, they kept trying to pass a state income tax. They promised that they would lower the super high sales tax (9.75%). Unfortunately for them, it never passed. I have moved back to Sunny Minnesoda where we have an income tax and now a sales tax of 10%. (over 9% in all of the metro area).
So they’ve blown all the money that they were sent before, but I’m sure they will spend this wisely and not waste any of it.
I may have been too optimistic in my assumptions.
The city doesn’t even realize that tennis dead and pickleball is where it is at.
I can hardly wait to see the grift money that goes to rethinking how to build a road in preparation of our climate crisis.
In 1991 “The people’s Republic of Connecticut”‘ ole governor Weicker asked for a temporary state tax of 4.5% to help balance our government’s spending. The promise was it wouldn’t be for more than a couple of years, and in return the state would get rid of toll boots, all the speed traps to fund LEOs, and drastically lower the state tax. Idiots voted to accept it. They got rid of the toll boots (which mostly helped out of state traffic) and some municipalities stopped running speed trap rackets, but the sales tax was left in place. Fast forward to today, and the state tax is over %, the speed traps are coming back, and they are telling us toll booths are needed to pay for road maintenance (because all other road fixing taxes now go into a general fund to buy votes from people that don’t work). The sales tax has also only gone up too.
Government will never collect enough money to meet whatever spending they want. That’s the lesson.
Over 6.5%… damned keyboard.
I hate Connecticut Tool Boots. I have nightmares imagining them stamping on commuter cars forever.
Toll Boots.
Sigh, I’m as bad a typist as Alex.
The White House Easter event was allegedly “Science Themed”. I hope The Easter Bunny gave the presentation about global warming.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
So, on the ZWAK front, I am currently listening to Flowering Inferno:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH88FvcEAu0
Morrisey sucks without Johnny Marr.
Last night my safety/reading glasses broke, splitting in two across the bridge. Gorilla glue to the rescue, but I am glad I didn’t catch some flying steel to the face.
Also, my son just got into grad school.
‘grats to the son! School of choice?
Speaking of infrastructure, we are now being inundated with tales about millions of unsafe crumbling bridges, in the wake of that Baltimore fiasco. Did you know Congress and the President have not allocated a single penny for infrastructure maintenance in decades?
Don’t bike paths count as infrastructure?
In the world of poor government infrastructure, we would be lucky if all they did was build bike lanes.
+10,000 “shovel ready” projects
My fondest memory from the era when that term was coined was when Ted Kennedy died and someone described him as “a shovel ready project.”
I recall an $800 billion bill specifically for infrastructure signed into law by the Obamessiah. I guess that’s chump change now.
Trump’s fault!
Does anyone think the Baltimore bridge was a terrorist attack?
psst – I can cut you in on the deal for aluminum foil I offered yesterday.
I already have a complete wardrobe.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/lara-logan-francis-scott-key-bridge-collapse-everyone/
The path before the lights turn back on would’ve avoided the bridge. I wonder if the power came back on, and then they were able to deploy an anchor, and that turned the boat. They do turn the reverse on.
That being said, I can imagine both scenarios.
Morning. Reading the Morning Black Pill Links is always a fun way to start the day.
Today is the vote on whether to give that weasel John Sherman money to keep his little loser baseball team in Kansas City and by extension, the Hunt keeping the Chiefs in Missouri because they share the same parking lot. We are not really a baseball town, but with the Chiefs willingly used as a cudgel, because they’ve always been a package deal, this is going to suck no matter what.
They want to extend the 3/8ths cent sales tax for another 40 years to pay for a ballpark downtown in a place that wasn’t discussed until it was unveiled right before the vote (versus a plot of unused and ungentrified land just east of downtown), in a poor county, with fine print our municipality’s councilman (I don’t live in that county) says is super-hinky. The Jackson County exec is against it, and he was a former Royals player! The owner of the Royals has just been too sneaky about the whole thing and people know it’s a race between brand loyalty versus giving a bunch of money to rich dudes and displacing thriving businesses to do it. (They had 2 plots proposed. Both were unused, with plenty of parking potential. They delayed the unveiling for about 8 months. Then they unveiled it to be smack on top of a bunch of thriving businesses with no parking. You’re going to fit all these downtown? I think not.)
Tell the Royals and Chiefs to go ahead and move to Oakland. There are stadiums already built and waiting.
Ooooh, I only just found out yesterday the A’s are moving!
Is it just myself and robc that feel nauseous seeing that picture of a sea of parking lots?
San Diego said no to the Chargers after gifting the Padres. It can be done.
The only real thing the Chiefs get out of it is their own parking lot and refurbishment of the stadium and facilities.
Here’s the thing: The Royals were complaining about concrete rot and it can’t be fixed. The Chiefs are not complaining of this and just state their facilities need reno. THEY WERE BUILT AT THE SAME TIME. One can’t have concrete rot while the other does.
What a bunch of rubes! Everyone knows you only announce the bail out after elections!
That is what the Twinkies did. Just a few weeks after the election, the local county commissioner announced a grand deal where only our county paid a sales tax. The deal also said that it was null and void if the city of Minneapolis held an election on the proposal. Even though there was a city law that said such an election had to take place before any public funds could be spent.
Now the tax is almost over, but there are already rumblings about how we can’t get rid of it because it funds so much other stuff. Collections from the tax outpaced the payments on the loans. Instead of paying off the debt early, they spent the surplus on inner city youth sports, longer library hours and other nonsense. Of course now we are being told that anyone who wants to get rid of the tax hates kids and books.
*hangs head in vicarious shame*
Admission is the first step to recovery. Now consider your transgressions against BBQ with all that sloppy sauce.
There is no sin in my sauce!
Retreat, surrender, abandon
It shouldn’t come as a shock that a layer of asphalt perched on the edge of sea cliffs would be vulnerable to rain and erosion — especially with back-to-back years of abnormally high rainfall.
Caltrans sure isn’t surprised. It has long been assessing Highway 1 and the rest of the transportation system as part of its Climate Resilience Improvement Plan. A picturesque view of Highway 1’s famous Bixby Bridge even adorns the front cover of the public draft of the report, published last September.
“While infrastructure has traditionally been designed to endure a set of extreme weather events and frequencies, climate change is increasing the severity, frequency, and duration of these events, requiring advanced planning and innovation to adapt to the new norm,” the report states.
In that plan, Caltrans notes it has prioritized four projects to “address sea level rise and cliff retreat on Highway 1.” It’s easy to spot Highway 1 on this mapshowing the roadways Caltrans is prioritizing to study for climate change adaptation. Most of the stretch between Carmel-by-the-Sea and San Simeon is colored in.
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A better question might be: As climate change fuels more intense weather events — like the intense rain and sea level rise that put the state’s precarious infrastructure at even greater risk — what version of Highway 1 can continue to exist?
Once this was a nation of dreamers, builders and achievers.
CRIP?? Seriously?
Then they unveiled it to be smack on top of a bunch of thriving businesses wity no parking.
*flashes back to Colts Stadium “redevelopment”*
Now the tax is almost over, but there are already rumblings about how we can’t get rid of it because it funds so much other stuff.
*kicks chair, hops around clutching foot, cursing loudly*
Like drugs, once governments get a new tax fix, they will not quit.
I remind you the Temporary Johnston Flood Tax from 1936 magically became a straight liquor tax in 1951 and has since increased from 10% to 18%.
Swiss didn’t choose the Glib Life. The Glib Life chose Swiss. (Possibly NSFW)