Good morning one and all to another amazing day!
Uncle Miltie on track to tear Florida to pieces
Tampa Bay races to clean up debris from Helene before Hurricane Milton arrives
How FEMA got into the illegal immigrant business, and who is covering it up
Karine Jean-Pierre abruptly walks out of press briefing after quarrel with reporter on FEMA funding
North Carolina State Board Of Elections Alters Election Rules After Helene
Kamala Harris Implodes During 60 Minutes Interview
Kamala Harris Support Among Arab Voters in Michigan Dwindles — Risks Losing State
I don’t think she ever had a real lead, but this is still not good for her.
Supreme Court to Consider ATF’s Attempt to Regulate ‘Ghost Guns’
Red Lobster’s CEO finds main suspect in chain’s bankruptcy filing
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
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Uncle Miltie on track to tear Florida to pieces”
Stay safe Glibronis in the path of this thing!
My sister and her daughters are on the other side of the state, in Trump country, and we’ve got Glibs right in the danger zone. Hope everyone’s ok.
“How FEMA got into the illegal immigrant business, and who is covering it up”
If at this point you have not realized that the unelected, unaccountable massive government bureaucratic criminal cabal only does things that helps itself, and that if it happens to help American people it is coincidental at best, you need to have aliens land their spaceship in your back yard and anal probe your brain into the on position.
There is no fed gov entity that is not rife with corruption and ineptitude left, but we still have the country thinking government should solve all their problems, voting that way, and assisted by heavy cheating getting their way.
I guess those of us that know better will just have to suffer because of the ignorance of the machine.
It isn’t all unelected. Congress funded this. But you can’t get American voters to pull their heads out of their asses and change their representation.
Not when abortion is on the line and fatcats aren’t paying their fair share.
(This is the level of discourse in all the House ads I’m seeing.)
Look Congress is terrible, except my Congressman
rhywun – exactly. And this is what voters actually believe! [channeling South Park on Mormons]
channeling South Park on Mormons
The “this is what they believe” tag line was on Scientologists. They did the Mormons “dum-dum-dum-duumm” song, but put on the screen “this is what they actually believe” for the Scientologists. I guess it worked as they didn’t get sued!
I stand corrected
Gotta say, JI has a point. Americans have been voting for big government consistently for generations. The old saw that democracy is about giving the people what they want, good and hard, still rings true.
There were hundreds of reasons to oppose that spending bill. But people might call them names if they shut down the government.
voting for big government consistently for generations.
That’s my biggest black pill; even if Democrats win via cheating and ballot stuffing (and frankly, I think they do to a not insignificant degree), it remains that at least 50% of the population votes for it. A significantly larger portion when you include ‘centrist republicans’, whatever that means. A smaller fraction, but not insignificant is actually enthusiastic about a ticket that has the head saying people saying what they want, uncontrolled and unregulated, on social media “has to stop!” and the second in command setting up no-shit East German style snitch lines. I’m not sure that what made humans so successful in an evolutionary sense can be effectively scaled up to the level of modern civilization and not go terribly sideways, a la 20th century.
“Karine Jean-Pierre abruptly walks out of press briefing after quarrel with reporter on FEMA funding”
KJP is the only woman I think can give Koh-Moh-Loh a run for her money when discussing who is the more stupid.
To be fair, it’s KJP’s job to be stupid. She was a natural for the roll. Also, is it just me or does everyone here see her in a Bud Light induced fog now when she does her thing?
“Red Lobster’s CEO finds main suspect in chain’s bankruptcy filing”
Like a Chinese buffet restaurant owner in a panic that he was going to lose everything due to the people I saw grazing at the buffet and consuming everything as soon as it came out of the kitchen: “You people like killer whales! This is all you can eat, not eat all you can! I have kids to feed! Go home now!”…
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S07E07/1156805
What is it, 2/3 of adults that are obese now? The all you can eat business model won’t last much longer.
Tis no man.. tis a remorseless eating machine!
Mis-thread, but it works.
Obligatory
Thanks for that. I miss John Pinette.
Didn’t show my favorite line from that skit. “You so big! You scare my wife!”
NPR is gushing about Kamala’s performance on 60 minutes and how smart she is for going on all these podcasts to reach American Voters where they are.
Defund NPR
Who are you going to believe??? Us and the bullshit we tell you or your own lying eyes and experiences!
The socialist’s last line of defense.
YOU DON’T KNOW YOUR OWN NEEDS LIKE WE KNOW!!!
There’s all sorts of things hitting my feed about how the Harris campaign is slaying/dooming themselves with their media campaign of minimal appearances, with few “mainstream” media appearances. One had a line that may have been the most insightful, “The only people more full of self-entitlement than politicians are the DC press corps.”
Failed vertical integration, or moral hazard?
Reminds me of a white van touting “Free Candy”
BAZINGA!
Yes.
shrimps iz bugs
This. I don’t get all the fuss over disgusting non-foods.
non-foods.
Shakes head sadly and resumes planning surf-n-turf Friday evening repast.
oh don’t get me wrong I eat shrimp.
Ah lahk shrimp.
Speaking of the NPR demographic:
In response, Rossmoor has curtailed protests and suspended the columns, igniting backlash. “They are treating us like ‘we’re the grown-ups and you’re the children,’” says Michael Goldberg, a 74-year-old retired philosophy and religion professor and a protest leader. Rossmoor also launched a “Civility Task Force” to address general unrest.
From Bocce to Brawls: How Politics Tore Apart a California Retirement Community
A baby boomer paradise erupts in red-blue political strife, from dueling newspaper columns to a fitness-center fracas. Call in the ‘Civility Task Force.’
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/rossmoor-retirement-residents-california-political-divide-6e1b2fc3?st=W65WH9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
People running their mouths on how Trump is going to round them up is no different than thinking Kamala is going to jail Elon Musk.
Fuck off.
Eh, meant as a general reply to the article.
“The rich need to pay their fair share.” – Kamala and every other moronic leftist
I do love asking someone who says that – what exactly is their fair share? What percent of the total tax burden?
You know the answer to that JI: More.
Suthen – how much more? What amount tallies up as the fair share? No, I never let them off the hook once they hung themselves on it.
Also needing clarification: What counts as “rich”?
Pavel Durov waves hello!
Someone who surely is interested in calming things down.
“Golden Rain”?
Seriously?
Seriously?
No kink shaming.
(But, WTF?)
Chocolate Rain – Tay Zonday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA
Where’s the “my politics are none of your fucking business” club?
I’m starting the Fuck Off Slaver Club.
There’s three hard left organizations. Is anyone proposing to set up anything that isn’t leftist? Is this strife all pinko-on-pinko?
The revolution is supposed to only eat its young, right?
From the skimming I did, it sounds like the old-guard GOP types are getting outnumbered. It is California, after all.
Anyway, I hate every fucking person involved. IDGAF about your “causes”, assholes.
Where’s the “my politics are none of your fucking business” club?
It got left in the dust in the 20th century.
Now your choices are the “make the activists so uncomfortable they dare not speak in your presence” club or the “bend over and try to enjoy the ride” club.
That’s next to where I grew up. Riding a bike around all those old people is downright dangerous. I want to protest their driving skills.
One hurricane hitting a state can be bad luck, two seems like carelessness
Darth Cheney really hates Florida.
You raise a good point. Once Dame Judi kicks it, who’s going to be the worlds high-class bitch?
Keira Knightley
Meryl Streep?
not British enough. You cannot be American and high class.
Yeah, etiquette lessons from behind the Iron Curtain are precisely what we Yanks need.
Gordan Ramsey
which branch of clan Ramsey is that Gordan?
I hope some kids in KJPs neighborhood dress up as Peter Doocy for Halloween.
I like the cut of your jib…
Unfortunately she probably lives in a neighborhood where celebrating Halloween is considered colonialism.
She’s Haitian. Isn’t every day Halloween?
You support harassing women of color?
That one, yes.
Console yourself with Titty Tuesday.
https://archive.is/iYp9w
How about a little Walz?
It’s fake but true but what matters is the narrative.
Holy crap.
I ask anyone that tries to defend this Walz shit if they would be saying the same thing if this was Trump’s running mate caught lying…
And yeah, the reaction is always the same.
I found this enlightening.
It’s the same game they always play – put on an “aw shucks” demeanor while appointing the vilest, most radical scum to positions of power so they can “smash the system”.
I see the problem. Walz puts a Polish guy (Losenski) in charge of education
/sarc
Walz can lie all day, and he’s just “misspoken” or “expressing emotion”. But he and the rest of the Dems want to institute online censorship that will get you kicked off social media or even arrested for doing the same.
Maybe using some kind of social credit score.
I bet you could you hear Kammy grinding her teeth during that one…
Governor Walz, can you define pathology?
Now in important news
France’s army faces deterrence test against Putin’s Russia
In May, thousands of French soldiers will need to get to Romania in 10 days to test their ability to meet NATO requirements.
https://www.politico.eu/article/frances-emmanuel-macron-army-transformation-putin-russia-nato/
In May, French soldiers will participate in a large-scale military exercise in Romania dubbed Dacian Spring 2025 that will assess their ability to swiftly move to NATO’s eastern flank. It’s a key competence should Russian President Vladimir Putin decide to attack an alliance member.
That is a stupid name.
I guess I didn’t realize France had rejoined NATO.
“In other news, General de Gaulle is still dead!”
I guess they have intel that Putin will hold off for a couple years.
They did better than that against the Blitzkrieg.
Drake – considering the advantages they had over the Nazis, not really.
I mean they got their army in the field and ready to lose battles in less time.
“…that will assess their ability to swiftly move to NATO’s eastern flank.”
They’re practicing the von Schlieffen plan?
NATO does not have an Eastern “flank”. The East is its front. It has Northern and Southern flanks.
“The far right can’t take away our hopes and memories. Culture is our weapon” writes Milo Rau in the Guardian:
Because all three of the values underpinning the revolution – liberty, fraternity and equality – are now disappearing into thin air in Europe, the birthplace of democracy.
And the political changes seem irreversible: In seven European democracies, far-right parties have entered government, and in several more states, including France, they are pushing at the gates of power. Hungary, Serbia, Slovakia and, of course, Russia, have quasi-autocratic governments. Last Sunday the Austrian Freedom party (FPÖ), a party that even the conservative media describe as “radical rightwing”, won a general election for the first time. They campaigned on the slogan “Fortress Austria”, in effect advocating an ethnically and culturally cleansed country. The term is reminiscent of “Fortress Europe” – a phrase favoured by Goebbels.
The FPÖ manifesto calls for “two genders” to be enshrined in the constitution, “remigration” to be radically implemented and for the creation of a two-tier society in which only “real” Austrians are entitled to social benefits. In the words of the FPÖ, it wants to “gain full power over government, space and people”.
In the area of cultural policy, it wants to follow the example of neighbouring Hungary and Slovakia and cut public subsidies for “woke events”, such as the Eurovision song contest and the Vienna festival, which I am the director of.
In the eyes of the FPÖ, “woke” is presumably anything that is not brass band music, operetta or Germanic-pop schlager music.
In doing so, it is politicising a trend that has been apparent throughout Europe for many years: I remember in 2019, when I was still artistic director of the NTGent in Belgium, we demonstrated against the Flemish region’s budget cuts. The process of allocating subsidies was akin to distributing scarce food after a natural disaster: institutions and independent companies were thrown together into a pool that had far too little money at its disposal.
In neoliberal fashion, the actual problem – namely, insufficient subsidies for the arts – was translated into a competitive conflict.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/05/the-far-right-cant-take-away-our-hopes-and-memories-culture-is-our-weapon
I’m told by a relative that if Trump is re-elected, we’ll all be speaking German. 🙄
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoaOwSPJPHw
Even worse: Russian with a Minnesoda accent.
Tundra:
Not Cantonese or Mandarin with the Walz accent?
Neph: Sadly that’s much more likely
Walz speaks Minnesodan with a Nebraskan accent.
/Carpetbaggers Inc
At least he’s not from Iowa.
/things I’ve picked up from my MN coworkers
/things I’ve picked up from my MN coworkers
I think Wisconsin is worse.
Why yes, they are. I wonder how that has happened.
zOMG muh hobby horse! 😨
Liberty – Here are your allowed outlets for protests and speech. No, you can’t say things we deem hate speech, and you can’t buy things we banned with your own money.
Fraternity – Sexist and outdated by their own stated policies.
Equality – We mean of opportunity, they mean of outcome.
We mean of opportunity, they mean of outcome.
You see, that’s part of the problem with that specific word – what are the precise bounds? And honestly, once you are on the defensive about meaning, you’ve already lost.
Equality – We mean of opportunity, they mean of outcome.
Equality of opportunity is just as much a hellscape as equality of outcome. I had much more opportunity in life than some kid born to a single black mom in Compton. To equal that out would require state intervention to the extreme.
Equality of treatment under the law is as far as I’ll go.
“Because all three of the values underpinning the revolution – liberty, fraternity and equality – are now disappearing into thin air in Europe, the birthplace of democracy.”
So the people that want to control and punish speech are pissed that the populous is not accepting this marxist idiocy anymore… And then claim democracy is dying because of those opposing their authoritarian shit.
For “threat to democracy”, always read “threat to bureaucracy”.
PS. Populace is the noun, populous the adjective. Kindly pardon my pedantry.
Good morning, Banjos!
The creepy cartoons are outstanding, but it does make one speculate about the high quality of drugs back then,
*Downs bottle of Tundra’s Snake Oil with Laudanum.
It’s official. A decision on the Lower Thames Crossing is delayed until May 2025.
360,000 pages, almost £300m spent, and the decision will be a year late.*
*This is assuming they don’t delay it again.
https://x.com/Sam_Dumitriu/status/1843367998448644169
I dunno man that seems like months of well compensated fruitful work. Lots of people getting a wage, which should be the point, not building roadz that kill gaia or whatever
You don’t have to worry about a London bridge falling down if you never build it.
https://nypost.com/2024/10/07/us-news/redneck-air-force-is-bringing-aid-to-nc-when-fema-came-up-short/
More dudes stepping up. All the nearby military units still at their bases.
Impossible! Biden deployed the 7th Army to distract ze rednecks for his invasion plans!
This is terrible. I bet those dudes didn’t even go through mandatory diversity training.
For our cocktail Glibs:
European Beverage Stocks Fall After China Imposes Brandy Tariffs
Remy Cointreau fell as much as 7.7%, while Pernod Ricard was down about 3%. LVMH dropped more than 4%
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/china-imposes-tariffs-on-eu-brandy-imports-cd0da0a0?st=dWEJgC&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Taiwan is copying Germany’s extremely dumb mistake:
It’s shutting down all of the country’s nuclear power plants.
The island already depends on imported fossil fuel for around 90% of its energy.
https://x.com/AlecStapp/status/1843108714628399395
Germany has already been ramping up coal again. Because unicorn farts do not, in fact, exist.
I’ll bet a bunch of natural gas would be good for Germany right about now, huh?
Wir sehen what you have done there.
A shopping cart Zipline over a collapsed bridge.
https://x.com/GardensR4Health/status/1842189688037335209
Lies! No areas are destroyed and everything is under control.
The Government havs become Bagdad Bob on his best days
Amazon Prime days…
FYI: Looks like Levi’s in my shopping list are heavily discounted. The lowest is $26, with a bunch of others under $40.
I just scrolled through some of the recommended deals. 15% off here, 20% off there… *yawn*
Duluth Trading Co is having a good sale right now.
Thanks ordered a few that dropped significantly.
Regarding NPR: The “news” just keeps undermining their own credibility. I think the death toll from Helene is going to be more than Katrina, yet where are the major news anchors? People can’t help but notice all the gaslighting.
I guess they should ramp up the climate change blame.
2020s news trend:
Ignore the event
Everyday folk start getting info out via socials
Media deny it and claim disinformation/misinformation/conspiracy theories
Few days later, claim to be arbiter of truth
“People can’t help but notice all the gaslighting.”
Some people notice. Other people crave and revel in it.
Britain’s best columnist correct once again
https://x.com/edwest/status/1843178944599912521
Any of us the comment section could handle that 60 Minutes interview. Kamala acts like she just got here, and she needs time to get up to speed on all the facts. She’s a professional politician at the national level, it’s been her JOB for YEARS. She should be at least familiar with the big issues, and yet somehow she’s not.
saving her energy for dealing with Putin and Xi and the like?
And day drinking.
She is perfectly California shallow.
Her word salads have a particular flava that I definitely associate with California.
The stupid parts of CA, TYVM.
TO’G, I’m a native, and the stupidest and shallowest are almost always imports.
The media has always been on her side, especially in CA, so she’s never had challenging questions.
And as a 4th generation Californian, I second the opinion that the stupidest and shallowest are the imports.
GB News
@GBNEWS
‘It has ruined my life.’
@PatrickChristys
speaks to Sammy, who expresses her anger at Waitrose after they offered her a £25 voucher when she was knocked out by a falling cauliflower.
https://x.com/GBNEWS/status/1843439602012696721
When bad things happen to good people. TW – look at the news source.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/30897657/knocked-out-by-waitrose-cauliflower/
“…anxiety…”
Of course.
The bad news is that I got suspended from teaching geometry. The good news is I’ll be submitting lesson plans for my critical thinking classes from home until further notice.
Bing sure brought the bathos today:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2024/10/how-to-think-like-machine.html
You and Evan just can’t win lately. Sorry to hear that.
I am not up to date what happened?
Did you ask the students for a proof that a pimp’s love is different from that of a square?
Polish composer: “I will write piano pieces which girls will love in 200 years”
Russian composer:
https://x.com/chribreuer/status/1843361170008486036
Meanwhile, Carl Orff wrote an aural aphrodisiac.
“Nolte: JD Vance’s Debate Win Erases Kamala’s 4-Point National Lead”
Hey I actually predicted something right! Many passed off that debate as meaningless, my gut was telling me it might be consequential. I think I’m batting .225 right now.
I am going with there was no lead, and they are realizing that this election might be a Trump runaway, and they have to keep pretending they actually do not do propaganda, so it is now “closer”.
That’s as good a theory as any. We’ve seen the moderators in a presidential debate “fact check” one side with false information, so at this point anything is possible.
Politics UK
@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Joe Biden and the US ‘pushed’ the government to hand over the Chagos Islands
Senior officials told the incoming Labour government that refusing to sign away the islands would jeopardise the ‘special relationship’
https://x.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1843407292932178103
Doesn’t sound that special to me, at least not lately.
Speaking of green Germans…
ThyssenKrupp (or however you spell it) announced the other day they are, shall were say, recalibrating their projections for net zero steel production. Physics wins again.
Physics simply has not been sufficiently colonized.
I think you mean “decolonized”.
Nope, it needs to be colonized, the natives aren’t civilized.
Old English word of the day: wyrtgælstre, meaning a woman who chants over herbs. It was used by the church as a derogatory term, but it’s quite fitting for heathen women and practitioners of traditional medicine.
https://x.com/Sagnamadr/status/1843441498987344375
Leftists are like “If Trump wins and deports the illegals who will work the farms?”
That’s easy. Those jobs can go to all of the former government employees once Elon starts making cuts.
https://x.com/ronrule/status/1843473785154089027
This.
Today in “move out of the way peasants”.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1fyd268/oc_uturns_into_oncoming_traffic/
Maybachs start at about $200k.
that is what In-Sewer-Ants is fore
When will Kamala exclaim, “I’m a people person!” as she proclaims her love for the middle class?
Hopefully before the Obamas and Clintons sick the guy in the speeding truck at her and put her ass in traction?
Leftists are like “If Trump wins and deports the illegals who will work the farms?”
College professors, in dunce caps.
Maybachs start at about $200k.
With a turning circle like a fire engine.
in a Maybach you don’t usually need to turn the earth revolves around you
Correct.
Nice.
What, exactly, do you do here?
It was just one of the searing questions that Whitaker formulated as he peppered Harris and, for a shorter time, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in advance of the November election. Harris and Walz have been cautious in their approach to sitting with traditional media, a strategy that has worried some Democrats that it could hurt them in the end. With 29 days until the election, the Harris campaign announced a media “blitz” that includes late-night show appearances.
I’m sure it was worse than a Gestapo interrogation. Those darn extreme right wing journalists at the networks all have it in for her.
Your searing question is my softball. Still couldn’t handle it either way.
They are both breathtakingly bad at this.
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
As if the last 8 years weren’t proof enough of that?
Meanwhile, in Mexico
Open casket is an interesting decision.
Let them see what they’ve done?
Stealing MS‘s thunder?
Just my standard colonialism.
Today in wasei eigo:
Tokyo cracks down on ‘kasuhara’ amid rise in customers abusing staff
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/08/japan-tokyo-kasuhara-customer-harassment-crackdown
There are like 10 versions of “hara” or harassment in borrowed words. Some of theme are real English others creations.
My favorite is that “sexual harassment” becomes “sekuhara” one word. And many Japanese feel like that should immediately be intuitive to an English speaker.
Harakiri, of course, is not a form of harassment.
Not unless you do it right.
Next up, disability claims for teeth sucking.
(http://1000thingsaboutjapan.blogspot.com/2011/05/wont-miss-318-teethwind-sucking.html)
“Is this Ron? Well, we finally get to speak. My staff has been trying to get a hold of you for two days now. I wanted to talk with you because I think it’s important, in these moments, to recognize what is happening in the moment. To recognize that a hurricane is coming and it might be a disaster. A hurricane is a storm with high winds, and that means things can get destroyed, as there are powerful winds. After which is where the aid comes in, mmkay? So, just because a hurricane has passed here before does not mean that this hurricane will be the same. It will be a new hurricane, unburdened by previous ones, and we can expect that our perceptions of the disaster will also be different and those that are experiencing disasters will also be our most vulnerable… hello Ron, are you still there?”
*enthusiastic applause*
At one point, Harris was pressed about how she would pay to fund small-business credits, child tax credits, housing assistance and other promises she has made on the trail. Her initial response was to criticize Trump’s economic policies.
“I’m going to make sure that the richest among us, who can afford it, pay their fair share in taxes. It is not right that teachers and nurses and firefighters are paying a higher tax rate than billionaires and the biggest corporations,” she said.
Whitaker pressed Harris, saying that in the “real world” she would not get it through Congress. She disagreed.
She’ll have those stiffs in Congress eating out of her hand.
She’s a uniter.
teachers and nurses and firefighters
Those poor underpaid blue collar workers.
Crushed under the heel of their capitalist employers.
No but seriously, hippos are territorial murder machines
https://x.com/FilmLadd/status/1843320860326674575
Damn. Those things can motor.
An incompetent weapons supervisor walks into a bar…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/07/rust-armorer-pleads-guilty-to-gun-charge-in-separate-case
Of course.
“You’re going to hear conversations that are about himself and all of his personal grievances. And what you will not hear is anything about you, the listener,” Harris said. “You will not hear about how he is going to try to bring the country together, find common ground. … That is why I believe in my soul and heart the American people are ready to turn the page.”
You’re the page, you blathering ninny. You and Joe had your turn at bat, and hit all the balls into the stands.
From the morning remnants… there was an article behind a paywall that says that FBI statistics show that Civil Asset Forfeiture takes more money from people than theft from burglars.
Over $5billion stolen via CAF.
Unbelievable.
Without the censorship/propaganda regime in place this would be a game changing scandal.
The Scale of Civil Asset Forfeiture
In 2014, for the first time ever, law enforcement officers took more property from American citizens than burglars did. That year, the Treasury and Justice departments deposited over $5 billion into their respective asset forfeiture funds, while FBI reports showed burglary losses topped out at $3.5 billion
It’s ok, because it’s from drug dealers and other criminals.
Outside of places like this, very few people are even aware of the horrors of Civil Asset Forfeiture.
What do you mean, how much will it cost?
A decade after the Flint, Michigan, water crisis raised alarms about the continuing dangers of lead in tap water, President Joe Biden is setting a 10-year deadline for cities across the nation to replace their lead pipes, finalizing an aggressive approach aimed at ensuring that drinking water is safe for all Americans.
Biden is expected to announce the final Environmental Protection Agency rule Tuesday in the swing state of Wisconsin during the final month of a tight presidential campaign. The announcement highlights an issue — safe drinking water — that Kamala Harris has prioritized as vice president and during her presidential campaign. The new rule supplants a looser standard set by former President Donald Trump’s administration that did not include a universal requirement to replace lead pipes.
Biden and Harris believe it’s “a moral imperative” to ensure that everyone has access to clean drinking water, EPA Administrator Michael Regan told reporters Monday. “We know that over 9 million legacy lead pipes continue to deliver water to homes across our country. But the science has been clear for decades: There is no safe level of lead in our drinking water.’’
That should help housing affordability.
Unconstitutional. Next.
SCOTUS:
The water pipes fall within the emanations and penumbras of navigable waters.
If you flush a teeny submarine down the toilet…
Heard somewhere that the problem wasn’t so much that the pipes are lead. It’s that the new DEI hires did not maintain the proper pH in the pipes, causing the lead to enter the water.
Sorry. We gave all of that infrastructure money away to Ukraine.
The new rule also revises the way lead amounts are measured, which could significantly expand the number of cities and water systems that are found to have excessive levels of lead, the EPA said.
More power for the EPA? Nobody could see that coming.
Plus the graft!
https://newjerseymonitor.com/2024/10/03/company-lied-about-removing-lead-pipes-in-newark-prosecutors-allege/
Meanwhile in local news…
Jets fire coach Robert Saleh: source
https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/10/08/jets-fired-coach-robert-saleh-source/
A Rog strikes again.
He was garbage on Sunday against a very beatable Vikings team. So of course the coach has to go.
I wonder who’s next? Stefanski?
There’s questions in the local sports media if Stefanski is even allowed to bench Watson. I’m having flashbacks to the injured Baker year, when we had the highest paid backup in the league and didn’t use him. Now we’re pretending our overpaid shitty backup is still a top 10 starting QB even as he puts up numbers worse than Bryce Young.
I thought of you, Neph, while reading this
Not one but two entries; impressive.
Neph: an article in the Athletic yesterday questioned whether he’s even an NFL QB, much less top 10.
Saleh is bad though. He’s 20-36 as a coach.
Sure, but did he have any say on personnel?
He had the say on coaching.
That would be awesome if the Niners could pick him back up as their defensive coordinator. He was great.
Twitter informs me that the Jets should hire Andy Reid and Steve Spagnuolo. I’m not quite sure they’re looking for jobs, tho, so…
“Donald Trump claims to have been to Gaza despite no evidence of visit”
Maybe he mixed it with Hong Kong?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/08/trump-gaza-visit-claim
“Former president says territory where 41,000 people have been killed”
Sorry, I don’t take anyone who retails Hamas propaganda as a credible source of information.
Wow. That is how you hit piece
The new regulation is stricter than one proposed last fall and requires water systems to ensure that lead concentrations do not exceed an “action level” of 10 parts per billion, down from 15 parts per billion under the current standard.
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“I think there is very broad support for doing this. Nobody wants to be drinking lead-contaminated tap water or basically sipping their water out of a lead straw, which is what millions of people are doing today,” said Erik Olson, a health and food expert at the nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council, speaking generally about the EPA’s efforts to replace lead pipes ahead of the official announcement.
It’s just like eating lead wheel weights every morning for breakfast.
“The roughly $60 million ship, the HMNZS Manawanui, was conducting a hydrographic reef survey on Saturday when it ran aground near the southern coast of Upolu, Samoa, according to a statement released by the New Zealand navy.”
So it’s a aground.
“The ship has come to rest about 500 feet from the ocean surface — a depth that means it is less likely to be disturbed by future storms, exacerbating any existing hull damage. But that depth also makes salvage efforts more difficult, Battershill said.”
Aground in 500 feet of water. How did it go from aground to deep water without sinking followed by sinking?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/07/new-zealand-navy-ship-sinks-samoa/
Are you questioning what a lesbian ship captain can do?
Was motorboating involved?
Almost certainly.
The ship began tilting on its side early Sunday morning, with plumes of smoke billowing from the vessel. Within three hours, it capsized and sank.
JFC, they must have ripped the hull wide open. A bit more than running aground.
Coalition of the mentally deficient.
“States sue TikTok, alleging platform is addictive, harms kids’ mental health
More than a dozen states and the District of Columbia sued TikTok on Tuesday, alleging the platform exploits and harms young users while “deceiving” the public about these dangers.”
Well, it is addictive and harms kids mental health.
Then let those who have suffered the harm initiate the litigation, not political attention whores.
R.I.P. El Tiante
RIP 🙁
“On Tuesday, medical watchdog organization Do No Harm (DNH) launched a first-of-its-kind database revealing the medical facilities that are providing this type of egregious care to children in the United States. This database is called DoesMyHospitalTransitionKids.com
Researchers at DNH did this by analyzing thousands of insurance claims across hospitals and pediatric facilities. The database focuses exclusively on patients from infants to 17 and a half years old. These were confirmed cases of gender-transition-related treatments. Confirmed cases of gender transition-related treatments were established by querying confirmed gender procedures and prescription codes and then matched with a gender related diagnosis code.
According to DNH, nearly 14,000 children in the United States underwent “sex-change interventions” of some kind between 2019 and 2023. The organization’s findings show that the total number of patients receiving sex-change surgeries was 5,747. The total number of minor patients receiving puberty blockers and hormone treatments was 8,579…”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2024/10/08/do-no-harm-embargoed-n2645826
STOCHASTIC TERRORISM!!!
nearly 14,000 children
Ticking away the time until they explode in rage for what was done to them.
As if they were right in the head BEFORE they got their choppadickoffame’s and addadicktome’s.
If you’re 18 and want to transition, you’ve got a mental health problem. If you’re 8, your mother does.
I bet when they do the fuckers that did this to these kids will find ways to convince these kids it was those domestic terrorist Christian types that did it to them…
In the wake of that 60 Minutes interview… X is a wall-to-wall with Kamala on The View. They ask her if she would have done anything different in the past 4 years, and she says no, she can’t think of anything. THIS IS THE VIEW.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1843674493748949037
Also says she was directly involved.
This bitch truly is a team blue genius…
Well, the hosts and audience for that show are utterly braindead, so there’s really nothing bad that can come of it.
Trump would be worser!
A new report from the nonpartisan nonprofit Committee for Responsible Federal Budget finds that both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Harris will deepen the national debt to pay for their initiatives. Trump’s estimated economic plan would sink the nation $7.5 trillion further into to debt over the next decade, while Harris’ estimated proposals would cost the government half that — around $3.5 trillion.
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The report said their estimates come with “a high degree of uncertainty” because of lack of specifics from both campaigns; the estimates for Harris’ plans range from adding $0 to $8.1 trillion to the debt, while the forecasts for Trump range from $1.5 trillion to $15.2 trillion.
The committee warned of “an eventual fiscal crisis” if politicians don’t address the national debt more forcefully. The nonprofit also provided an overview of the candidates’ competing economic visions — pulled from campaign websites, emails, speeches, social media posts and discussions with campaign staff.
I have complete confidence in their numbers. And you should, too.
Eh, Kammy will undoubtedly be more likely to raise taxen than OMB.
The question is: who will spend more. And Trumpy-boi loves to spend.
As if either of their “plans” stands a chance in Congress anyway.
I am going to bet all these asshats did is see which plan takes away more money from a criminal government that seems unable to control its spending, and never looked at which plan despite the fact it would remove money from an inept government, would do better for the economy as a whole. That’s how you get to the conclusion that somehow letting government steal even more of our money is less harmful.
Did they factor in the spending multiplier?
Ah yes. NPR: Budget hawks.
“It was impossible to pause, dim, or turn it off,” one person wrote on Reddit.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/qantas-apologizes-explicit-movie-daddio-every-screen-flight/