Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another fantabulous day and the links!
Fulton County DA Proposes Start Date For Trump Trail One Day Before Super Tuesday
Legal experts say Meadows will succeed in transferring Georgia case to federal court
Was Weiss appointed Special Counsel legally?
Congress probing whether Democrats improperly using nonprofits, foreign money to win elections
Inflation still too high and could require more rate hikes, Fed meeting minutes show
Yellen boasts ‘most Americans’ happy with personal finances, but polling shows otherwise
Workers making more than $100K laid off at alarming rate as number of US millionaires plummets
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Congress probing whether Democrats improperly using nonprofits, foreign money to win elections”
I could save them some time.
Capt. Renault to head up the investigation.
And nothing will happen.
Morning, Banjos.
No need to grouse about traffic, I’m working remote today. Given the Mandated “Training” on my calendar, I think it best. I’d probably be cancelled if anyone were to hear what I have to say.
Mornin’
Was helpfully reminded this morning that I’m overdue on “Discrimination-Free Workplace”. 🙄
I can’t wait to see what’s new since the previous seven times I took that one.
Today’s drivel is in the similar vein.
“Inflation still too high and could require more rate hikes, Fed meeting minutes show”
This shit in infuriating. How about not carpet bombing money everywhere in the first place, assholes.
Why do you want inflation to intensify?
It’s only the kind hand of government that’s keeping inflation low by spending billions of dollars.
*This is what Progressives actually believe*
They’re making room to drop rates when the economy crashes.
In Powell’s defense, it’s not really his fault. The government used COVID to force the Fed’s hand as Powell was ready to start tightening back in 2020.
And when Powell actually started tightening, they tried to get rid of him. Anybody remember the insider trading scandal?
Bernanke and Yellen are the main culprits behind all of the MMT. This is about propping up Europe at our expense.
We’ve been doing that since the end of WWII, why change now?
The real sea change in policy began with Greenspan back in 87. Since that time, the Fed Put has been standard operating procedure. As soon as things got dicey, the Fed would print.
By all appearances, Powell seem determined to end that policy. The market didn’t believe him at first, but they do now.
As far as Europe goes, the coordination between the Fed and ECB began in earnest in 2011. It’s no coincidence that the vast majority of money creation happened over the ensuing decade. The European banks depend on dollars for liquidity, but it fucks us over.
Ha! You want to talk fuck us over – just wait for something that replaces the dollar as world reserve currency. Then no more exporting our inflation.
While the process of de-dollarization has started, there’s a long way to go before we really get there (if we don’t go full-blown WW3). 88% of world trade is still in dollars.
The most important thing for all of us is to get rid of the neocons.
You mean something like this?
China’s taking that action in order to prop up their own currency right now.
The fundamental problem that the world has is that getting out of dollars is easier said than done.
The dollar only became the world reserve currency post WWII. It isn’t unimaginable that something could replace it just as it replaced the pound sterling.
It isn’t unimaginable at all.
It’s just that reserve currency changes almost always involve a war.
another fantabulous day
Meh.
It’s beautiful outside.
The sky is blue and all the leaves are green!
All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey
Of all the scenes of Dragon on youtube, the California Dreamin scene is not among them.
That scene is great because the actress playing Linda is telling Bruce that she’s pregnant with their daughter, and the IRL daughter is the singer in the band.
Fulton County DA Proposes Start Date For Trump Trail One Day Before Super Tuesday
“It’s not political.”
Well, it’s not like anyone else who was President or was running for President ever broke the law.
“We had a water line break — all non-Dem observers out, please!”
“We were doing a test run with a sample charge sheet… that just happens to look exactly like the indictments while the Grand Jury was still supposedly deliberating…”
“Just the tip!”
I’d ask who believes Fulton County on anything to do with this mess… but I know full well the answer is apparently “About 56% of the country because it plays to their preconceptions.”
Ack pbbbt.
Bill the Cat ’24!
If you’re going to have chest congestion, I recommend not hacking it up in public.
I would take the Meadow Party in a heartbeat over the crap show that is the Uniparty these days, yeah.
Dershowitz: Gore, his legal team and I tried to find uncounted presidential votes, lobbied officials and fought in the courts in 2000.
Some truths are inconvenient.
A little something to fire up OMWC.
This falls under the Lawyer and NGO Executive Full Employment Act.
Congress probing whether Democrats improperly using nonprofits, foreign money to win elections
Considering they aim to “win” at all costs…
Decay in our military? What are you talking about!?!
https://www.duffelblog.com/p/army-creates-new-future-douchebag-congressman-mos
Just a friendly reminder that your comment WILL get caught in spam if it has more than 2 links.
I am working on a post that will contain three or more Firsts. I do not believe this has ever been done. I never saw it with my Third Eye, but I believe that it can be achieved.
I hope that this will be not be blocked by a spam filter.
“Philadelphia has become overwhelmed by drug-fueled crime under Democratic District Attorney Larry Krasner, a self-described ‘progressive prosecutor.’
His failure to crack down led to his impeachment in 2022 for ‘dereliction of duty’, however he remains in office after his trial was indefinitely postponed.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12413911/Philadelphia-businesses-forced-set-BOOBY-TRAPS-like-hidden-sprinklers-open-air-drug-markets-city-customers-dwindle.html
How about we legally change the name of every homeless person to Donald Trump?
I’m not buying the part about addicts flocking to Philly from CA and NY
They can get all the drugs they want right where they are.
Is this what 7:30 A.m. looks like? Ugh.
*looks around*
It looks like 8:30ish to me.
A good part of my workday is done. 7:40 here and I am about to take a break.
I’m just about to join my first meeting of the day.
Same – The Change Management Meeting
(-.-)
Do you get to change senior management, ideally starting at the very top?
No, I get to change the version of the software from 21 to 22.
Just a 1 on 1 for me with my boss.
/imposter syndrome intensifies
Look, I’m not saying I’m an imposter, but there’s no way my job is difficult – no matter how hard it is to get other people to understand basic concepts.
Meh, I’ve been up since 4:30.
You miss some delightful conversation not joining us in the hour or two before AMLynx post!
I dunno but sure looks like 1330z to me
Yellen boasts ‘most Americans’ happy with personal finances, but polling shows otherwise
They’ll be happier once they own nothing and have no privacy.
Organized retail crime is a burgeoning issue impacting retailers nationwide. However, the incidents in California are “particularly acute,” according to Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) President Brian Dodge.
Because it is practically encouraged.
Point of discussion: Should police be barred from having visible tattoos?
Which would stigmatize tattoos more?
Yes. Make it part of the uniform.
I’d prefer it since I think most tattoos are either stupid or make you look like a gang member — and the police already have their uniforms for the latter.
But I don’t see where it is important enough to “bar” anything. And I imagine there are a lot of communities where that would make the labor force unusable. I’m much more concerned with seeking those without the attitude towards abuse of authority, capability to understand the limits of law and policing, no actual ties to criminal gangs, etc.
Case in point — a couple of days ago this lovely article was on RedState… and it infuriated me, frankly. “They can’t take away our right to stop people for whatever reasons we make up so we can investigate you just because you look funny / we get bad vibes / we feel like harassing you!” (Because you know damned well that “Speeding” or “I thought I saw the belt unfastened” or “Furtive glances at cell phone” or “Driving too slowly” or “Driving too cautiously… suspicious!” can easily be whatever the cop needs it to be… so in practice, traffic stops are carte blanche for warrantless investigations and often searches (“Fetch forth the Fourth Amendment Bypass System — our K9 officer!”).
And I’m generally supportive of law and order… but it needs proper constraints and we’re past that as a general rule in this country. Rant off.
Watching Live PD and “First 48” type shows has given me a newfound respect for the dogs and what they can do… but also completely confirmed suspicions that some (but not all) handlers use them to allow illegal searches.
And yet, they don’t do a rigorous double blind and statistically significant test for qualification.
When I’m dictator, all “drug dogs” will be adopted out as pets.
We don’t need those thanks to the New Professionalism. Another relic of Scalia’s belief in Top Men. See also Chevron deference.
When I’m dictator, all drugs will be legal so they won’t be needed.
Since there is zero constitutional basis for the gummint to outlaw non-alcohol drugs (and when they outlawed ethanol, they had the decency to amend the constitution to allow it), I’d be busy woodchippering all of the judges who didn’t toss out drug cases as well as everyone working for DEA.
When I’m king, all “drug dogs” will be sent to Jimbo’s in-laws.
That’s because every study that has used such an approach has shown that dogs are no more accurate than a coin toss.
We can’t have that now, can we? The word of the King’s Men (and dogs) must not be questioned.
Probably not in this day and age, that would make it very hard to recruit new cops. The Army had to relax its restrictions even more recently because it was hampering recruiting.
Even more than their new woke policies are hampering recruiting?
In 1970 when my dad moved up to our remote part of NW Minnesoda as a probation officer, his boss made him shave his beard. Professionals did not have facial hair according to him.
After a year or two, the boss relented and Dad grew his goatee out and kept it for life. He did get pissed when the hipsters/grunge dudes in the early ’90s all adopted his style of beard.
“Who said anything about being a professional?”
I think that police employees should have a mandantory ‘POLICE’ tattoo in three-inch-high letters across the forehead, so we can identify them out of uniform.
“POOR IMPULSE CONTROL”
The DNC infighting is stepping up.
https://theleadingreport.com/2023/08/16/epstein-named-as-middleman-between-obama-white-house-lawyer-jpmorgan/
I am curious as to how this plays out. Is it really infighting, or is there a real, puritanical third party, bent on savagery and destruction of anything not woke which is trying to be born? Kind of an inverse Tea Party.
It looks like Clinton versus Obama versus Dimon to me.
Workers making more than $100K laid off at alarming rate as number of US millionaires plummets
Unless you work for the government, of course.
The company I used to work for has apparently had two RIF’s since I left.
Sounds like I picked the right time to find another job.
The Ts continue to ruin things for the Ls, Gs and Bs.
A weekly speed dating evening for lesbians in the Bloomsbury district of London has become a target of woke activists after discovering that it prohibited biological males from attending the event.
Speaking to the Mail on Sunday, the founder of the speed dating event, Jenny Watson, said that she was forced to enact a ban on transgender people from attending last year after a man came to the pub wearing a purple latex costume while having “an erection”.
“Another time, a trans woman came into the female toilet and pushed their body at a woman who was upset and told me after. It got me thinking that this isn’t fair on women,” Watson explained.
I seem to recall when the first absurd bathroom bill kerfuffle broke out that I warned people that perverts would take advantage of this crap.
I got called names and my argument got mischaracterized.
This is why I don’t talk to real people.
We are all just characters in UCS’ imagination?
Hey, at least I’m so square that the i just becomes a -1 and I stay real.
I recall because you beat me to it
At least in England, it looks like the start of a divide between the Ts and everyone else.
But it’s always Tea time in England.
Royal Albert Hall applause.
I didn’t know holes could clap.
Clown world. Because the Ts are at the top of the victim stack now, the world has to pretend that lesbians want to date men who pretend to be women. Whee!
The asshole who insisted on being allowed to attend might be T, but it’s the G who ruined things. In England, it was primarily Stonewall.
This is the cringiest propaganda ever.
From today’s episode of Ukraine in the Know;
Blood drips from Vlad Putin’s mouth and he bathes in the blood of innocent Ukrainian children.
Hey, that’s the transgender psycho that said Russians aren’t humans. What a ridiculous sack of shit.
Drastically improved avatar, Stinky! 👍🏻
phhhbbtttttt…..
I agree. Afraid to say anything because of what it might become next…
I am assuming thay is a State Department gig?
Say what you will of Baghdad Bob, he looked more like a human than this robot.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
It’s dusty in here.
Lovely. Thanks, Jimbo
It’s difficult to overstate the effects this is going to have.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/over-40-japanese-women-may-never-have-kids
What is in the water over there? Dudes needs to get their game on.
The effects of three generations of post-war semi-westernization.
You nailed it. Compare Japanese men prior to WWII to men post WWII.
I’m assuming the fiercest Japanese men got themselves taken out of the gene pool.
I’M TIRED OF THEM PUTTIN CHEMICALS IN THE WATER THAT MAKE THE FRIGGIN JAPANESE GAY!
This story seems like it could lead to some serious role reversals.
I’m envisioning a bunch of mobile pot trucks driving in a circle for protection against a bunch of white slackers attacking them.
*Should be noted that our legal pot can only be sold on reservations now. No one else can get a license until 2026.
A pot food truck would be a twofer at TOS. Staff it with gay illegal migrants for a quadfecta.
In that neck of the woods, the illegals would all be snow backs. Muling in untaxed maple syrup.
Would someone who facilitates the snow backs entry into the US be called a husky?
Timber Wolf.
MadCat
Ah. The New York model.
Sort of.
The licenses are restricted, but not to Injuns. They’re restricted to drug felons.
I was referencing the abundance of dispensaries in the New York reservations.
It’s not sold on reservations.
Head over to the Seneca reservations, there are dozens of dispensaries there.
Hmmm. Now I’m wondering about firearm sales…
Then I’m confused because I just looked it up and there are only a handful of legal outlets.
There was some gaffle about “medical dispensaries” – maybe it’s those? I guess those have been around for awhile but I don’t consider that in the same class as “legal weed”. I.e. weed that I can buy.
rhywun:
These were all recreational dispensaries. As an example.
@Rhy – There have been a bunch of news articles about the concerted (and apparently futule) efforts to crack down on unlicensed dispensories.
Because of the onerous licensing process, people just started ignoring it.
What… the…. fuck…
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-gop-investigates-state-department-atheism-grants
Maybe their focus should be elsewhere instead of strongly worded tweets
If they want to bring down religion, leave it to the private sector
The subversive private sector will slowly erode the moral underpinnings of Islam far more efficiently than the govt. Branded hijabs are just the camel’s nose under the tent.
Does that mean a branded burqa is the camel’s toe?
lolsnort
Addendum: “I am the Law”
Minnesoda Law and Order Links:
Goodhue will not become a hive of villainy thanks to the county sheriff.
Why even become a school cop if you can’t thump a kid?
Straight to shooting kids instead?
Shoot them with Spiderman nets and wait for the real cops to arrive.
Shoot, shovel, and shut up.
In high school, Goodhue wrestlers were our arch rivals, They wrestled dirty: biting, pinching, pulling hair.
/still scarred, literally
Most effective way to get a struggling wrestler to comply?
Thumb to the rectum.
If you can’t control the head and neck, you can’t restrain them, except via thejtraditional ‘Everybody grab a limb!’ technique.
Maybe bring back saps?
Go old-school.
35 years later I now know where this was sampled from. 😮
I love finding samples in a movie or song randomly. Pre-internet it happened quite a lot. Some are obvious but others might be a simple beat or sound bite.
It won’t happen much any more as samples have to be paid for……Thanks Vanilla Ice
I see Arizona doesn’t want to be left out of the Trunp indictment game. I encourage more of this.
I love this guy.
https://twitter.com/SallyMayweather/status/1692165968087154704
He’s not wrong.
AI has you pegged. Every state stereotyped
I didn’t I know was half-black, half-asian.
Why are some pictures obviously AI generated while others look to be stolen from somebody’s facebook page. Also WTF happened in Florida, a Slestak invasion?
Florida is essentially correct.
Me neither. I’m only mediocre at sports and math.
You’re Tiger Woods?
Missing two elements of the Cablinasian mix.
Nevada and Kentucky spot on. So many gingers in Northern Kentucky
Iowa — I see that couple around here on a regular basis.
Books trip to Alaska.
It got Warshington wrong. Warshington is marshmallow shaped Triggleypuffs with a man bun.
Only in Seattle.
California looks like gay Razorfist.
“Hilary could to bring ‘very heavy’ rains, winds, surf to Southern California”
Baja California didn’t kill itself.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/tropical-system-brewing-pacific-expected-182131236.html
Congress probing whether Democrats improperly using nonprofits, foreign money to win elections
Here’s a crazy idea: follow the First Amendment. There’s no exceptions in it for nonprofits, foreign money, or anything else. Just a simple “make no law.”
Here’s a crazy idea: follow the First Amendment. There’s no exceptions in it for nonprofits, foreign money, or anything else. Just a simple “make no law.”
But then we couldn’t put handcuffs on rich people and corporations. Are you nuts?
If you put rich people and corporations in handcuffs, how can they pay the grift? You just want to threaten them a bit so they cough up that sweet money.
Well house bid fell to someone that actually went for their original asking price. House hunt goes on.
How bad is St. Paul’s new plan to pay for child care for poor families? Even the mayor Melvin Carter thinks it is nuts, and Carter is the guy who started a guaranteed income program and banned late fees at the libraries.
When an uber progressive politician like Carter says your funding numbers don’t add up, you know you are relying entirely on bold action and magic.
But bold change is always good.
I prefer italic change.
Pretty sure I’ve read that is horseshit. Just like the claims that “Head Start” works.
I sort of remember that up until 3rd or 4th grade the Headstart kids did better, but after that no one can tell who had pre-K instruction or not.
Do you want our K-4th graders to be dumb?
With the amount of money going to their education you’d think they’d be fucking geniuses already.
It’s almost like there are other factors at play.
Our Big Gay Walz was just bragging about universal pre-K here. I’m sure it will be a smashing success.
Hey now. Let’s not disparage America’s most libertarian governor.
2nd most. Polis holds the title.
/TOS
multi-million dollar property tax hike…providing free child care
Somebody doesn’t know what “free” means.
Gender Traitor:
OT, but the NAGA’s have heard our complaints:
Native American group promising Anheuser Busch-style boycott of Commanders backs Cleveland Guardians name change
erasure of years of proud tradition.
Because it is. Teams named themselves after American Indians as an homage to their warrior culture.
Are you trying to claim that team names are not meant to mock or belittle the target? That’s just crazy talk.
If they hadn’t sissied out and changed their names to the Cubs, you know the Glibs official team would have been the Chicago Orphans.
Wahoo!!! 😃
Just Another Happy Face in Cleveland
Though the decision was made to avoid alienating Native American fans
Sure it was.
There are dozens of them!
DOZENS!
Dozens of white stupid people for every actual offended NA.
Are you saying that the NAGAs are being outfoxed by the RIGGERS?
La Merveille | Miami Swim Week 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UACwiW86_rg
Land of the free. Home of the brave.
Hawaii’s governor vowed “to keep the land in local people’s hands” when Maui rebuilds from a deadly wildfire that incinerated a historic island community, as local schools began reopening.
Gov. Josh Green said Wednesday that he had instructed the state attorney general to work toward a moratorium on land transactions in Lahaina. He acknowledged the move will likely face legal challenges.
“My intention from start to finish is to make sure that no one is victimized from a land grab,” Green said at a news conference. “People are right now traumatized. Please do not approach them with an offer to buy their land. Do not approach their families saying they’ll be much better off if they make a deal. Because we’re not going to allow it.”
These are simple people, who cannot understand what is best for them. We must control the choices available to them and guide their decisions.
Otherwise… chaos.
Daily Quordle 570
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It started out well.
#waffle573 2/5
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🔥 streak: 187
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Meh. At least the streak continues.
Green pledged to announce details of the moratorium by Friday. He added that he also wants to see a long-term moratorium on sales of land that won’t “benefit local people.”
Green made affordable housing a priority when he entered office in January, appointing a czar for the issue and seeking $1 billion for housing programs. Since the fires, he’s also suggested acquiring land in Lahaina for the state to build workforce housing as well as a memorial.
He should team up with Disney to turn the place into a giant theme park, complete with authentic grass shack native housing.
Disney already has a resort in Hawaii. I’m sure they wouldn’t mind expanding.
Because everybody knows that throwing money at shit makes it cheaper.
You’re angling for a job in the Biden Administration, hmm?
St Paul has changed since lived there, 30 years ago. Not sure why child care is necessary, other than the government employees that only have time to tell other people what’s good for them
Sacred Hearts School in Lahaina was destroyed, and Principal Tonata Lolesio said lessons would resume in the coming weeks at another Catholic school. She said it was important for students to be with their friends, teachers and books, and not constantly thinking about the tragedy.
“I’m hoping to at least try to get some normalcy or get them in a room where they can continue to learn or just be in another environment where they can take their minds off of that,” she said.
What? They need grief counselors to help them focus on feeling helpless and distraught. The last thing in the world they need is to “move forward”.
Red Line Revolutionary Popular Revolt ☭ 🚩📕
@SocRevolt
The shameful Berlin Wall was not built by communists. At that time, the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in the GDR, like the remaining parties under Khrushchevite control, had already abandoned Marxism-Leninism as an ideology and had become revisionist, liberal and capitalist.
https://twitter.com/SocRevolt/status/1691918651686088770
I’m sure Honecker would agree.
Just hundreds of miles of Siberian wasteland surrounding the gulag.
“No True Gulag!”
Communist Totalitarianism is Liberal Capitalism. Seems legit.
What do these taste like?
https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1691780026721538129
Stale cigarette smoke.
Jane is a genius.
https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1691937183542771956
Rot and decay
A Texas woman was arrested and has been charged with threatening to kill the federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former President Donald Trump in Washington and a member of Congress.
Abigail Jo Shry of Alvin, Texas, called the federal courthouse in Washington and left the threatening message — using a racist term for U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan — on Aug. 5, court records show. Investigators traced her phone number and she later admitted to making the threatening call, according to a criminal complaint.
It’s almost as if people no longer have faith in the process. What is this country coming to?
Also- using a racial slur, in furtherance of a conspiracy? She’s hosed.
hanging’s too good for the likes of her
using a racist term for U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan
The real crime here, obviously.
A young Jeremy Clarkson looking like someone’s nan.
https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1691881207653412979
LOL!
More fun with Javier Milei
Caution: furriner language.
I love that guy. I hope he makes it.
Arfarfarf
Donald Trump continues to come under fire for his use of the term “riggers” in a Truth Social rant, with his former aide Alyssa Farah saying that it is “not a racial dogwhistle” – it’s actually a racist “bullhorn”.
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Following the announcement, Mr Trump claimed in a Truth Social rant that he would share an “irrefutable” report on his baseless claims of election fraud at a press conference on Monday morning.
In the post, he also used what appears to be a racist dog whistle – “RIGGERS” – while discussing Black litigators and political opponents.
“The fact that he’s introducing race into this prosecution surprises me, it’s disgusting, it’s textbook Donald Trump, but it comes as no surprise,” Ms Farah told CNN of his comments.
Niggler, please.
Dirk.
Dirk Diggler.
So, “riggers”, as in people who rig an election, is racist? Because it rhymes with a word that actually is racist?
Stupidly dishonest, or dishonestly stupid?
As I said last night — don’t cross the naggers.
Let’s just eliminate the letters n, i, and g from the alphabet so no one can form any word that can be misconstrued as “the N word.”
Negroni hardest hit.
Night can be replaced with unsun.
doubleplus good newspeaking!
An “n,” an “i,” and a “g”!!! RAAAAY-CYST!!!
Listen, Jack. You only have to change the ‘r’ to an ‘n’ to make it racist. And we all know Drumpfler is a big time, meanie bigot who is just trying to call someone “nigger”.
As I said last night — don’t cross the naggers.
Nagger, please.
This is them imagining the cartoon Trump that lives in their heads.
The real Trump isn’t language-savvy enough to do things like hints or double entendres.
He’s coarse and blunt and dull, which is exactly how you get “riggers”.
Anything can be a racist dog whistle when you are a racist dog.
Ding ding ding
Rigger, please.
It’s getting to the point where nearly everything I see and read in the news translates in my head as, “ACK! ACK ACK! ACKACKACKACK!” from Mars Attacks.
Or Orwell’s “duckspeak”. Language that automatically issues from the larynx in long streams but doesn’t actually mean anything.
Then my job is done here.
The government is just as honest as the Martians.
Stupidly dishonest, or dishonestly stupid?
Retarded.
Have they scrubbed the movie Major League of all references to the Indians yet?
Pixilated all the logos and overdubbed the dialog?
Maui didn’t have a chance.
Government is us.
Or something.
“trained in political science and law”
Sounds about right.
Related to or friends with the right people counts for a lot more, especially there. I can only imagine the amount of graft and bullshit that is going to make the rebuild there a total and complete clusterfuck.
But, but, but no doubt had the right credentials (party affiliation, education, diversity-status).
It does appear that (fear of) climate change was a big factor in the Lahaina debacle. From the Wall Street Journal today:
| Between 2019 and 2022, it invested less than $245,000 on wildfire-specific projects on the island, regulatory filings show. . . Former regulators and energy company officials said the utility was focused at that time on procuring renewable energy. . .
“You have to look at the scope and scale of the transformation within [Hawaiian Electric] that was occurring throughout the system,” said Mina Morita, who chaired the state utilities commission from 2011 to 2015. “While there was concern for wildfire risk, politically the focus was on electricity generation.”
The drive to reach the renewable goals also preoccupied private energy companies working with Hawaiian Electric and state energy officials, said Doug McLeod, a consultant who served for several years as the Maui county energy commissioner.
“Looking back with hindsight, the business opportunities were on the generation side, and the utility was going out for bid with all these big renewable-energy projects,” he said. “But in retrospect, it seems clear, we weren’t as focused on these fire risks as we should have been.”
with hindsight
is my favorite flavor of looking back
especially if I have a little retrospect to add to the recipe
As long as we are at it we might as well Monday morning quarterback our hindsight while looking back in retrospect.
Let me refer back to my notes.
Shades of PG&E and the California wildfires
“Target says ‘negative reaction’ to ‘Pride’ merch contributed to first quarterly sales decline in years”
Target deserves better customers.
Brit Tabloid:
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/man-accused-being-somerset-gimp-30718075
Hey man, stop doing that.
@ABC BREAKING: Former Pres. Trump’s promised press conference to refute the allegations in the indictment handed up by the Fulton County DA’s Office is now very much in doubt, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell @ABC News.
the Four Seasons probably wasn’t available
Speakiung of gimps…
So, he can do all of that if he’s naked?
Shocking revelation
The 1,000-foot string of buoys that the state of Texas placed in the Rio Grande to deter migrants began as a Trump administration idea and may be a precursor of policies to come if Trump or another immigration hardliner is elected president, three former Trump officials said.
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The Biden administration recently sued Texas over its use of a buoy system near Eagle Pass, saying it raises humanitarian concerns, poses a risk to public safety and is in violation of the federal Rivers and Harbors Act. The government of Mexico said Texas is violating its sovereignty by placing the buoys in a river that borders both countries.
Mexico will need that barrier to stop all the southbound refugees when Trump wins the election from a prison cell.
At that point Mexico’s supply of blue and purple hair dye will be quickly exhausted.