"FEMA Administrator Criswell said today that she acknowledge concerns that Florida's laxxed response to the storm so far..." the reporter began to ask. "Woah, woah, woah. Give me a break! That is nonsense. Stop politicalizing it," DeSantis interjected... What Administrator Criswell was referring to during an appearance at a White House press briefing was how the Gulf region of Florida has not experienced a direct hit by such a strong hurricane in a very long time. It was not about the state's response."
Philosopher George Santayana’s line has become cliché, but it’s so damn true: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
"Well, perhaps if more Americans today read Plato (like they used to), then our country wouldn’t be repeating the same mistakes he warned us about 2,400 years ago. In Book VIII of his Republic, Plato uses a fictitious conversation between his teacher Socrates and Adeimantus to explain how democracies—when they become too radical—devolve into tyrannies. I have included M. James Ziccardi’s apt summary of this conversation below.
The parallels between the “tyranny” Plato describes and America today are chilling...
An entitled population that makes increasing demands of their leaders? Check.
Contempt for law-abiding citizens who pay their taxes? Check.
An incoherent immigration policy? Check.
“Adults” living in perpetual adolescence? Check.
Parents who have lost control of their children? Check.
Teachers who have lost their authority in the classroom? Check.
As Europe battles soaring energy prices amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Truss began pushing for higher fossil fuel production and established the goal of becoming a net exporter of energy by 2040. The new Conservative Party government headed by Truss also canceled a rise in the corporate tax rate, slashed the basic income tax rate to 19%, and started discussions about special economic zones in multiple regions.
In an industry first, 12 broadcasters and streamers have signed up to The Climate Content Pledge, which has been convened by albert.
The signatories – who represent over 70% of time UK audiences spend watching TV and film – are committing to using their content to help audiences understand what tackling climate change might mean for them, as well as inspire and inform sustainable choices.
The Climate Content Pledge signatories include: BBC, BBC Studios, Britbox International, Channel 4, Channel 5 / ViacomCBS, Discovery UK and Eire, ITV, RTE, S4C, Sky, STV, UKTV
Surging food prices due to historic inflation are forcing American families to adjust their eating habits by choosing cheaper options.
Cutting back on buying meats, shopping at high-end grocery stores, and dining out are among the many ways consumers are trying to save extra cash to avoid financial instability.
"Russia's nuclear doctrine is called "escalate to deescalate" or, more appropriately, "escalate to win," which means threatening or using nukes early in a conventional conflict...
Why, then, doesn't the United States have what it needs at this crucial moment: nuclear-tipped cruise missiles like Putin's? The arms-control community, arguing that such low-yield weapons would make nuclear war more likely, persuaded American presidents not to build them. President Trump authorized their development, but Biden cancelled the program.
Unfortunately, arms-control advocates got it backwards. As evident from today's developments, America lacking low-yield nuclear warheads on cruise missiles is making nuclear war more likely, not less.
"The United States will need to reduce its nuclear arsenal to encourage Russia to do the same," wrote Tom Collina and Angela Kellett on the 21st of this month on the Defense One site.
Entice Russia into disarmament? Been there. Tried that. Failed miserably.
Moreover, it is bad enough to argue for disarmament in peacetime, but it is the height of folly to do so during war — and when China and North Korea are making first-strike nuclear threats of their own.
America's arms-control advocates have always been naïve. Now, they are delusional.
North Dakota State University scholars study ‘unintended consequences’ of grading
"Two North Dakota State University biologists are exploring alternative grading practices in an effort to research and advance equitable grading concepts. Part of the research for one of the scholars is funded through a grant handed out as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, passed as a COVID stimulus relief package..."
Irene Montero, the 34-year-old minister of equality in Spain, recently said in Spanish at a recent legislative meeting: "All girls, boys, childrenx in this country have the right to know their own body, to know that no adult can touch their body if they don't want to and that is a form of violence, they have the right to know that they can love or have sexual relations with whoever they want, based on consent."
"LONDON — The Bank of England will suspend the planned start of its gilt selling next week and begin temporarily buying long-dated bonds in order to calm the market chaos unleashed by the new government’s so-called “mini-budget.” U.K. gilt yields were on course for their sharpest monthly rise since at least 1957 as investors fled British fixed income markets following the new fiscal policy announcements..."
"WITH A HURRICANE APPROACHING FLORIDA, A FRIEND WRITES:
Hurricane prediction: Whatever happens to Florida between now and November 2024, it’ll be [treated as] the worst disaster response since Katrina and Maria.
Literally Hurricane Hitler.
Federal response will be reported as having been hamstrung by local ineptitude and corruption.”
1787 - The U.S. Congress voted to send the new Constitution of the United States to the state legislatures for their approval.
1789 - In the U.S., the first Federal Congress passed a resolution that asked President George Washington to recommend to the nation a day of thanksgiving. Several days later Washington issued a proclamation that named Thursday, November 26, 1789 as a "Day of Publick Thanksgivin." The fixed-date for Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday of November, was established on December 26, 1941.
1850 - The U.S. Navy abolished flogging as a form of punishment.
1961 - "Dr. Kildare" premiered on NBC-TV.
1974 - First Lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy to remove a lump in her breast.
As part of a new initiative aimed at bolstering the force and its crime-fighting response, the New Orleans Police Department will re-deploy officers to the streets who were previously working in administrative, specialty, and detective capacities. Extra to dispatching trained police and prompting previously rejected applicants to reapply, the NOPD will also be enrolling 50 to 75 civilians in support roles.
"The same FBI that can’t seem to get to the bottom of who’s been bombing
pregnancy clinics for the past few months reportedly sent a couple dozen armed agents over to a pro-lifer’s house and hauled him out at gunpoint in front of his wife and seven screaming kids, and you won’t believe what for."
"Monthly benefits for Americans to buy food and promoting exercise and healthy eating included in ambitious White House project to requires MORE money from Congress
The Biden administration is laying out its plan to meet an ambitious goal of ending hunger in the U.S. by 2030
The plan includes expanding monthly benefits that help low-income Americans buy food
The administration also seeks to increase healthy eating and physical activity so that fewer people are afflicted with diabetes, obesity and hypertension
It said it would work to expand Medicaid and Medicare access to obesity counseling and nutrition...
Opportunities for virtue signaling, graft, prostituting science, and burning down capitalism have never been so vast.
...It’s such a wonderful moment, that a particularly dim fellow set himself on fire Friday at the Laver Cup tennis tournament in London to protest the use of private jets in the United Kingdom. The Sun reported that “it’s believed the yob” who was momentarily aflame “was a climate change protester.” ...The climate activist club is also filled with grifters.
Think first of Al Gore, who, says Fox News host Jesse Watters, “makes money like a stick-up artist,” telling “the American people give me all your cash or you are going to die. And the climate business pays big bucks. He’s worth something like $300 million.”...
President Joe Biden confused his supporters on Friday when he made a bizarre statement during a speech at the National Education Association headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Biden was trying to rebut Republican messaging ahead of the pivotal midterm elections when he stopped mid-speech to make a joke.
The governor basically shuts down whatever his schools were doing for a day to have a day of remembrance for Cayler Ellingson, and all the victims of "NOT JUST LEFT-wing violence, but for all the victims of political violence". Every classroom every gets a picture of young Cayler Ellingson. Have the students ask questions such as "Did the speech Joe Biden gave encourage political violence?" "Does the exceptionally low bail encourage others to commit political violence?"...
Do this on a Thursday so the students then organically walk-out on Friday...
The media can try to bury it but that's pretty hard to do when students from Florida and Texas all "Walk out in protest"."
"LONDON — The Bank of England will suspend the planned start of its gilt selling next week and begin temporarily buying long-dated bonds in order to calm the market chaos unleashed by the new government’s so-called “mini-budget.”
"WITH A HURRICANE APPROACHING FLORIDA, A FRIEND WRITES:
"Cayler Ellingson’s alleged killer not under house arrest, no curfew after posting ‘very low’ bond: court docs.--Posted by Glenn Reynolds