John Drake

"Distance" is what we got with George W. Bush's Katrina flyover. A president needs to exhibit leadership in a disaster like this . . . or Maui . . . or East Palestine.

Supplies don't matter when they and your house are either under six feet of water or completely washed away.

What times are those? Just wondering if people post mostly late in the morning, as I do, and then some in the afternoon (rarely at night), or do they get plastered and drunk post in the early morning hours?

In his case, individually, I think he's okay. He's helping out elderly relatives and friends who lived in nearby towns. Everybody from the area is saying this was beyond imagination. And it had rained already for three or four days before the hurricane hit. I can cut these folks some slack, because I wouldn't have expected a hurricane to wipe out two inland areas either. It's the coastal residencies I don't understand. They just keep rebuilding and repeating the same old mistakes year after year--because insurance pays for it. Beach homes and beach businesses I think should be prohibited. In the past, that's why you had shacks for homes and businesses along the coast instead of multimillion dollar beach mansions.

Or tungsten???

A former colleague of mine at Mahidol just moved to Asheville about four months ago. Only this morning did he manage to get out a message on FB. Says the area does look like a hurricane hit it. No power, no food, no water. Says it will be a couple of weeks before everything is minimally functioning. Went out in the pickup truck he just bought to go to a nearby town to try and find food, water, and cigarettes. If you live in rural or even near rural areas, trucks are a necessity in case of emergencies like this. My wife keeps a Ford Ranger at her family house in Chaiyaphum, and it's already been used to keep supplies of water and food coming in during the floods there when things were cut off for a few days. Definitely don't want to be relying on EVs in that situation.

Should read "how he (Walz) has misrepresented his military service."

From my twitter/x feed, apparently the line on this woman from the Labour Party bunker is: She was elected on the party manifesto, not as an individual candidate and so should call for a by-election. Starmer and the rest of the greedy gift gobblers didn't break any rules, so it's okay. The Conservatives were worse--although they don't detail how so. Starmer and his benefits plunderers did it for their kids, so if it was for the kids, it's okay. What they took wasn't worth very much, so it's okay. Government should pay for their clothes anyway, so it's okay. Lammy looks better in Air Jordans.

Term limits on all federal offices, agencies, and bureaus. People get 10 years maximum to work as public "servants" and then can go pay their own way.

Neuter the dogs, their owners, and/or those feeding them on the streets.

Alex Jones is paying $1 billion. The Roman church got off easy.

The US will be better off when it finally looks and acts like Haiti.

From my Twitter feed, it looks like western North Carolina, around Ashville, is the hardest hit. Now time to see if the Federal government is as indifferent as it was in East Palestine, OH, and Maui, where it mobilized lots of agencies, made lots of proclamations, activated emergency services, and still managed to leave people homeless, wiped out, and without sufficient compensation.

Yea, this is just sleazy as all get out. Shameless hucksterism.

Yes, I remember that, too.

I thought yahoo mail sent an otp message to your phone.

Shins were in charge in 2011. There was flooding after that, of course, but nothing on the scale of 2011 or what we see today, when the Shins are once again back in charge of flood prevention.

Is this for US Citizen Services? It says "visa scheduling" on the website. That's for non-citizens.

Easily done. The crosswalk on Phutthamonthon 3 which is constantly ignored is five meters from the police station.

Once again, the Shins have mismanaged flood prevention.

Well, I'm just going to set up a camera at a couple of pedestrian crosswalks and see how much I get.

I don't remember this program being promised as something to inject public stimulus money into the hands of banks

Would this explain the shift from digital wallet to cash deposit? It allows the banks to come in and take the money promised to the indigent?

Unless you're Japanese. Then, they kill you.

Who?