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So the technology isn't perfect. They missed by a few miles. You won't find me claiming the Dems caused or steered the hurricane, but I have to give them grudging acknowledgement that they don't let a perfectly good catastrophe go to waste. Just like they didn't let Covid go to waste... Kevin McCarthy says Hurricane Helene could lose Trump the 2024 election, asks why no one is doing anything to protect western NC votes. Helene will also allow many voters to circumvent the state’s photo ID requirements. North Carolina law allows voters to fill out a provisional ballot if they are unable to provide an ID due to a “natural disaster” that occurred within 100 days of election day, provided they fill out an affidavit beforehand. Anyone else forecasting a bunch of newcomers flooding in before election day? I'm also forecasting that in-person voting in the affected area will range from a PITA to impossible. Because that's how most Repubs prefer to vote. https://dailycaller.com/2024/10/07/north-carolina-alters-election-rules-after-helene/

If you mean by not attacking Ukraine on Trump's watch, I can live with that. I like peace.

I suspect the story would have a different ending if it was foreigners collecting the fish. And it wouldn't be a happy one. I'm always amused when foreign tourists are banged up just for "disturbing" the same species you'll find for sale in just about any Thai seafood market. Of course, I doubt it's amusing for the divers on holiday, who get fined.

They'd say about the same thing as they did in 1928. And for hundreds of years before that. "That's Florida weather, fer ya."

Rummy explained it. Sleight of hand... To divert attention from $4 Trillion missing Pentagon dollars.

Looking at the WaPo data, and understanding the woefully compacted timescale reminds me of a ScAm article I read on a flight to China in the early 2000's. Their research at the time indicated that the earth was headed into another ice age before agriculture turned that around 2500 years ago. Seems like global warming kept us out of an ice age. Looking at the WaPo graph, it's obvious that climate has changed many times before industrialization. And blaming it on CO2 from industry is just a temporal correlation. The very CO2 that makes modern life possible. Otherwise, billions of us would be freezing in the dark. BTW, ScAm is my new name for Scientific American, since they (for the first time in their 175 year history) came out and endorsed a candidate. That was basement candidate Biden. So much for their scientific powers of deduction, and their credibility.

Hardly rank as conspiracy theories though, do they? There ya go, changing the goalposts again. First you claim there's not many. Then it's well, maybe there's a lot, but they're not serious. Next it'll be, okay they're serious, but they didn't change anything...

OTOH, I love the lefty sheep, believing what they're told.

You mean like Biden's senile, the laptop is Hunter's and there are vaccine side effects? I could rattle off a hundred more, just from the past few years. But you'd have to hold your nose and click on some non-approved sources to get wind of them.

Looks to me like escapees from the Blue states are the ones that will fund Florida rebuilding, by moving to Florida to to escape Blue policies. https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/bay-area-migration-trends-map/ Most of Florida is booming, save for that Dem controlled area around the foreskin.

Are you claiming that strawberries and apples are a bad thing? Meanwhile WaPo said the quiet part out loud: Climate change has been going on for billions of years, long before industry. So I hope you don't mind if I object to fraudsters asking for my money to fix the billion year old process.

Did you miss the part where Adams is demanding $12,000,000,000 of FEDERAL money to help NYC? That's $36,000 a head, each year, for the 110,000 newcomers in NYC.

The guv'ners sitting in their command posts may be happy. Folks on the ground are pissed.

Is that the same Joe Biden who claimed that we've already sent everything we have into Helene recovery? That we have no more to send? That's not going to be a good look when Florida gets hammered in 2 days. Maybe that's the October surprise everyone's talking about.

Sorry if this has been covered, but why would anyone want a re-entry stamp on a visa exempt? Even if you could get a re-entry permit, wouldn't it expire when your VE entry stamp expires? Just enter again on a visa exempt. Get a fresh stamp... My own experience... I've recently flown into BKK 17 or 18 months in a row (I lost count), each one on a visa exempt. Last one was September. Next one is in about 2 weeks. I stay for about a week each entry. (no extensions for a week's stay, obviously) So far, so good. I'll post back if I ever do have an issue with my entry. (US passport, worked in Thailand pre-Covid, nothing but VE's since Covid) Just to be clear, I only stay a few days each visit. My experience has nothing to do with extended stays. YMMV

Meanwhile Mayor Adams of NYC is asking for $12,000 million of our tax dollars to care for illegal immigrants for 3 years. What's 12,000 divided by 137?

That's why it's good to have some kind of relationship with the local well drillers (and the gub'ment groundwater people). They can tell you if the local water table has moved up or down, and how it's trending long term. That's helpful long after they've drilled the well using their expertise to know how deep they need to drill to get to a good water zone, and where to set the pump in anticipation of next year's (or next decade's) dry season. There are tons of good interweb sources explaining all those parameters, in whatever language you're comfortable with. But local knowledge is still required.

Carter and Clinton prove that whopper is absolutely false. Carter had character in spades, and his presidency was a disaster. Clinton's presidency was successful, in between not having sexual relations with that woman. As for the rest of your diatribe, go line by line and ask yourself which lines Biden accomplished. Start with "reducing prescription prices" Of the thousands of drugs out there, Biden claims to have negotiated discounts on 10 of them, starting in a couple of years...

Reading some other sources, it seems that the biggest issue is the permitting and bidding process, where the participating companies are required to meet DEI and Green initiatives that are pretty much impossible. (And stoopid). That's probably why North Carolina doesn't have their 20,000 Starlink stations, which would have been handy during the Helene response. But were defunded by the Biden Admin in 2023, having been approved in 2020. Musk claims that the "performance criteria" they didn't meet were ridiculous and had little to do with "performance" and more to do with wokeness and DEI. And the fact that the current administration is cheezed off at him.

It's possible that he didn't get the diagnosis for many months.

What you're also forgetting is the conspiracy theories that revealed inconvenient facts, even if the conspiracy theory hasn't been confirmed. Yet. A perfect example is the "eating cats" conspiracy theory. The inconvenient fact is that Springfield has been overrun with 20,000 Haitian migrants, straining the town's resources and causing all kinds of problems for the citizens. Problems that would have been (and were) swept under the rug until the conspiracy theory went viral. Even if the cat thing is never proven one way or the other, the controversy revealed huge problems with an open border, that wouldn't have made the MSM. But they were forced to acknowledge it, if only to cast doubt on the high statistical odds that turning loose 20,000 visitors from a culture that eats cats would result in some cats being eaten.

Here's a fascinating (to me, anyway) map of US counties and which ones are gaining population and which are losing population, basically since Covid. Especially interesting to me when I laid it over a map of Red and Blue areas in my home state of Texas. Looks like people are (generally) leaving the Blue areas. I wonder why? I'm also interested in what people see in their home state... Click on the sfchronicle link to get details on every county... The image is just a .JPG. The good stuff is in the linked article, which also 'splains where the data comes from https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/bay-area-migration-trends-map/ https://maxyqconcordia.pages.dev/fyshudr-texas-congressional-elections-2024-lmoxcvj/

Going back to the link in my previous post showing 10x as many registered Dems as registered Repubs in mainstream journalism, it's no surprise to me that it's so much easier to find an "Orange Man Bad" story than a "Biden's Dementia" story. Until the MSM couldn't cover for him any more.

Since that is literally impossible to disprove, I wonder what your sources are? (Unless, of course, you have videos of every resident and every dog and cat in town, and someone watched them all.)

Seriously? HRC is even advocating re-education camps for people who listen to the wrong sources. https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/10/06/hillary-clinton-maga-cult-extremists-donald-trump-house-republicans-amanpour-cnntm-vpx.cnn