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Hurricane Helene reveals a rudderless White House — and an inept Harris' flaws The failure of the Biden-Harris administration to take charge of urgently needed rescue and recovery efforts after Hurricane Helene underscores a key question: Who is really running this White House? Right now, we have no clear answer. President Biden's and Vice President Kamala Harris' cavalier indifference to the Americans fighting to survive in the disaster zone has left us — both longtime Democrats — speechless. [...] https://nypost.com/2024/10/07/opinion/helene-reveals-a-rudderless-white-house-and-harris-flaws/

Artless Dodger: Harris Flustered in Substance-Free 60 Minutes Interview Vice President Kamala Harris went on 60 Minutes and attempted to answer some of the toughest questions she's faced—a low bar—since taking over the Democratic nomination from 81-year-old Joe Biden, who is technically still the president. She was meandering and evasive throughout the interview with Bill Whitaker of CBS News, who had to politely repeat the question on several occasions. There's no telling how confounding Harris's answers must have been in real time. The network's producers saw fit to liberally (and sloppily) edit the conversation. They included a considerable amount of overdubbed editorializing from Whitaker, as if he were translating Harris's remarks into basic English. They made clear at the outset that Harris's opponent, Donald Trump, declined to participate. [...] https://freebeacon.com/author/stiles/biden-harris-administration/artless-dodger-harris-flustered-in-substance-free-60-minutes-interview/

This is something else... ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Video shows nearly 100 raccoons swarm woman's yard, prompting 911 call in Washington Video shows nearly 100 hungry raccoons − some allegedly aggressive – swarm a Washington state woman's home last week in broad daylight looking for their next meal. The animals were captured on film after the resident from Kitsap County, across Puget Sound from Seattle, called 911 when the mammals surrounded her rural home preventing her from leaving the property, officials said. In footage shared by the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office, a deputy is heard speaking to the unidentified woman who says the large numbers of raccoons began gathering in her wooded backyard about six weeks ago. [...] https://www.yahoo.com/news/video-shows-nearly-100-raccoons-204532016.html

Comments? ~~~~~~~~~ Nigeria town celebrates after hunting down 'killer hippo' Residents of a town in north-western Nigeria are celebrating after a rare but feared hippo - along with its calf - was killed by rice farmers and fishermen in a hunt lasting several weeks. People in Yauri, in Kebbi state, have been terrified of the hippo after she killed a fisherman who worked for the local traditional leader. It prompted the Kebbi state government to order that the animal be killed for the safety of the community living along the River Niger. [...] https://www.yahoo.com/news/nigeria-town-celebrates-hunting-down-155537310.html

Scintillating Tuesday repartee, yawn man. ----- Thrilling Tuesday report, see man: We gained no weight to speak of despite having out-pigged on Monday, mirabile dictu man. Uncle T-B.'s brief doc caucus took Many (2+1) hours total, undue waiting man. After, we went to get him his flu, Covid-Many, and RSV shots, don't drink beer or spring a leak man. We got our RSV shot, no adverse reaction man. Breakfast/lunch (at half-past 1 p.m.) was 2 turkey sandwiches, ingest we man. A much-needed siesta was taken thereafter, zzz we man. Din-din was a chicken/rice/vegetable combination from Costco, ingest happily Two Guys man. We may go back for more while it's on sale, opportunity knocks man. Mini-B. had a giant chocolate/nut cookie for dessert, ingest wee man. We have no specific Wednesday plans, no man. It is non-Two Guys eve, man. Party with the rubias tonight after Mini-B. is embedded, cavort we man. And that was/is our thrilling Tuesday, report we man.

Milton is shaping up to be an absolute illegitimate male child. Prayers.

10 Clever Ways To Smuggle Humanitarian Supplies Past FEMA [...] The Babylon Bee has conducted extensive research to come up with the following list of surefire ways to smuggle humanitarian aid past FEMA: [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/10-clever-ways-to-smuggle-humanitarian-supplies-past-fema

Oct. 7 Anniversary: Hamas Leader Wants 'New Fronts' of Jihad To all those delusional individuals who still think that Hamas and its Gazan supporters will ever agree to peaceful arbitration, think again. In characteristic form, a Hamas leader just called for an expansion of Jihad at the international level. Hamas, with the financial incentivizing of the Palestinian Authority and the support of the majority of Gazans, plans to wage terrorism on Israel until it is completely wiped off the map. Oct. 7, as horrific and deadly as it was, presents a preview of what Hamas would like to do to all Israelis. As the latest refutation of idiotic Westerners' claims that giving Palestinians more land and money will make them stop fighting, Memri reported that a Hamas leader has ambitious plans for expanding jihad ("holy war" in Islam) on the international level as the "duty of Jihad." [...] https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/10/07/oct-7-anniversary-hamas-leader-wants-new-fronts-of-jihad-n4933138

Scintillating Monday repartee, yawn man. ----- Thrilling Monday report, see man: Got Mini-B. to Band at o'dark-Many, groggy Two Guys man. Despite 2 coffees, went back to bed, dozed for an hour-plus we man. Lunch was a nuked single-serve Velveeta meat lasagna*, ingest we man. *bought long ago from a supermarket closeout bin, financially savvy we man Spent an hour on phone with casa-insurer, try to lower rates man. Ultimately agreed to even higher rate because casa grossly underinsured, man. After retrieving Mini-B. from skool, napped for another hour, highly necessary zzz man. Din-din was pre-cooked bacon and scalloped potatoes, ingest with satisfaction Two Guys man. We do NOT want to weigh ourself tonight, fearful we man. Got through perhaps one-Many'rd of Driver Safety online course, insurance discount man. Must take Uncle T-B. to doctor on Tuesday, routine caucus for senior he man man. Party with the rubias imminent, cavort we man. And that was/is our thrilling Monday, report we man.

Here, FINALLY, are some truths and details about what actually happened. Read it if you can handle it, and watch the 4-minute video of one of the mildest actions by those 7th-century savages. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'Not one girl could be shown to her parents': The horrors of Oct 7 – as told by the survivors [...] an awkward question: how can a country so smart, so Q from James Bond it can set up a factory to manufacture pagers, fit them with mini explosives, have Hezbollah distribute those pagers to all its members and get them to blow up at the same time, have failed to prevent thousands of barbarians breaching its border security and raping, burning and butchering 1,200 of its citizens? So many questions still unanswered from October 7. I put those queries to scores of Israelis – survivors, soldiers, politicians, bereaved parents, mothers of hostages and just regular people who had to step up for their nation on that dark day. Some of what follows is horrifying and hard to bear, I know. I am warning you in case you'd rather not read on. But it is important to write it down. We know how important it is because on the BBC news on Thursday, Hamas's deputy leader told international editor Jeremy Bowen that Hamas didn't set out to kill any Israeli women or children on October 7. Hamas "resistance fighters" were ordered only to kill "occupation fighters", although he did concede that "there were certainly personal mistakes" and the fighters, who just popped into family homes on kibbutzim to have a chat and a bite to eat, "may have felt they were in danger". The accounts told to me by the individuals below, and many others who shared their insights, paint a very different picture. As always, the Devil is in the detail. [...] https://news.yahoo.com/news/saw-holocaust-many-dead-bodies-070000915.html

One year after 10/7 attacks and Democrat-run states have let antisemitism fester [...] It seemed like antisemitism was festering all over the country. But a closer look showed that it wasn't, actually, happening everywhere, it was very specifically happening in places primarily run by Democrats. It's not that antisemitism can't exist in red areas. It can, it does. Vandalism, verbal harassment, even physical assault can happen in Republican-led places. But the occurrence is far rarer and the real difference is the consequences. According to the Anti Defamation League (ADL) "The states with the highest number of incidents were California (1,266), New York (1,218), New Jersey (830), Florida (463) and Massachusetts (440)." Four of those states are blue states. In my red home state of Florida, we had approximately the same number of incidents as Massachusetts while having about three times the population and a third of the incidents of New York despite having over 2 million more people. [...] https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/one-year-after-10-7-attacks-democrat-run-states-have-let-antisemitism-fester

It's far better to have more than they ask for than to not have something that they do ask for. Treat it as the most serious interview that you'll ever have at any time in the process.

The second case is interesting, but let's please avoid derailing the OP's thread. The OP is sure to return when the posting limit for new members is lifted.

SLIMMMMMMMMMM! Du-u-de! A reminder of when the RUB forum was wild.

Many will appreciate this information. Thanks for your thoughtfulness in posting it.

Here's the chart that I was looking for! https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastint.shtml See if any 'canes that have affected you are listed here. Of all U.S. 'canes from 1851 through 2004, the second Indianola 'cane still ranks 4th.

I was wrong -- the 1886 Indianola 'cane was a Category 4 at 925 mbar, 130-mph winds. Only a few later 'canes had lower pressure, two of them Camille (1969, and not by much) and Michael (2018). Interesting chart: https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/All_U.S._Hurricanes.html Narrative summary, with photos of Indianola before: https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/es/hurricane_blog/130th-anniversary-of-indianola-hurricane/ The 1875 'cane was Cat 3, 955 mbar. I hate hurricanes.

Can't immediately find the NOAA site about the Indianola 'cane. Here's an article (mostly) about the first 'cane there, in 1875: http://alvyray.com/Family/Stories/Indianola.htm Back then, Indianola was rivaling Galveston as Texas' chief port -- the former chiefly for immigration, the latter for commerce. Today, Indianola consists of only a few fishermen's casas and a statue of LaSalle, gazing 400 yards over Matagorda Bay where the old townsite remains submerged.

Holy mackerel, plus whatever other sea life is tossed onshore. This is even lower than the (?) 942 mbar of the unnamed hurricane that turned Indianola, TX into matchsticks in 1886.

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Dad Decides It's Time To Have 'The Talk' With Son About Rigged Elections GARDEN CITY, UT — Local dad Dave Myers decided it was finally time to pull his teenage son aside this weekend and have "The Talk" with his son about the reality of rigged elections. "Son, I need to talk to you about something serious and important. Do you…do you know where Presidents come from?" Myers asked his son Jordan. "Well, when a political party loves their candidate very much and wants to make that candidate the President of the United States, [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/dad-decides-its-time-to-have-father-son-talk-about-the-facts-of-rigged-elections

Better, and better, and better! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Diabolical! As More Details of Israel's Pager Attack Emerge, Tweeps are Impressed by the Planning More information is being released on that awesome 'blowing terrorists up with their own pagers' plot and it is epic. [...] https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2024/10/05/pagers-more-information-israel-n2401822

Blind and callous. ~~~~~~~~~ 'Joe, That YOU'? Scott Jennings ENDS Kamala for Post PROVING She Doesn't Give a DAMN About Helene Victims Is it our imagination or does it seem like the Biden/Harris administration not only doesn't care about the American people, but they even resent us? Surely there is no politician on this plant that is so out-of-touch and ignorant to accidentally post about sending hundreds of millions to Lebanon while there are thousands and thousands of Americans suffering after Helene ravaged the southeast portion of our country. This is worse than just thoughtless, this is cruel: [...] https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/10/06/kamala-harris-lebanon-post-n2401815

This is beyond belief. Comments? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'Buckle UP': Volunteer on the Ground in NC Shares DAMNING Thread of His First Direct Encounter with FEMA There has been a good bit of back and forth between people who are actually ON the ground in North Carolina claiming FEMA is doing a lot of not great things and the leftist media and some pundits insisting that's not true and even scolding those of us for reporting it. Thinking this thread from a man literally on the ground in North Carolina describing his actual encounter with FEMA should put the lies the MEDIA are telling to rest. Take a look: [...] https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/10/06/mike-vansteuben-thread-fema-n2401831