... It didn't look like that happened under Noem." ...

Sec Noem was not the problem. She was just following the orders she was given.

Sen Tillis seems to be trying to make her a scapegoat for the evil that Pres Trump has done and is doing.

@#21 ... Anything "could be"....

I do not disagree.

So, I have to ask, which is worse ...

Being prepared?

- or -

Not being prepared?

Just because something "may not occur" is no reason, imo, to not be able to mitigate its possible occurrence.

Stated differently, e.g., why does NORAD exist?

@#11 ... Not this time. ...

My current situation ....

I visited my PCP (primary care provider) medical person.

I was informed that I may have an issue.

So I was referred to a specialist.

I was also told that it may be a couple of weeks before I hear back from that specialist because the specialist needs to get insurance company approval before they will see me.

Healthcare for profit. Ya gotta love it. /s

So, according to Pres Trump ...

The war is no longer about Iran's nuclear arsenal.

Which, fwiw, Pres Trump has said was obliterated. But now, it suddenly seems to be a problem?

Then there was not any mention about regime change.

Then the war did seem to be about regime change.

Skipping ahead, now the war seems to be about changing the borders of Iran?

I have a comment.

And that comment is summarized quite well ...

WTF!?!?!?

More from the article ...

... Why It Matters

The war in Iran widened again on Thursday as Israeli evacuation orders sent residents scrambling in Beirut, European governments rushed additional military assets into the Middle East, and global markets braced for further instability.

A week into the U.S. -- Israeli bombing campaign, the war is spilling rapidly across borders, reshaping regional politics and alarming world leaders. Meanwhile, the U.S. continues to work to evacuate citizens in the region.

U.S. officials have said the goal of the operations against Iran has been to diminish the country's nuclear program and Navy, not regime change. When asked by reporters about who he would like to see rule Iran on Tuesday, President Donald Trump said, "Most of the people we had in mind are dead." ...

@#17 ... Are they hiding under your bed? ...

Not my bed.

@#51 ... American singer Nanci Griffith ...

OK, the reference to her surfaces many tunes ...

Among them ...

@#49 ... Takes a lot to cover John Prine and improve on it. ...

Yup.

@#49 ... Alabama 3, or as they were known on the local college station, A3.

They had to go by A3 on this side of the pond because the country act Alabama couldn't deal with any possible confusion on the names. ...

Yeah, the local (area?) college station (fwiw, wxci.org) went into that explanation back in the day.

Updated local news, as of a couple hours ago ...

@#47

Oops, forgot to add ... the comment was in response to #45's mention of Alabama 3.

Pres Trump seems to have taken the United States from an avid supporter of the world order and rules it created as a result of WWII to a "might makes right" states of affairs.

Effectively, tossing away eight decades of international order, not a perfect international order, but one that has lead to discussion rather than war.

More from the article ...

... It found global heating accelerated from a steady rate of less than 0.2C per decade between 1970 and 2015 to about 0.35C per decade over the past 10 years. The rate is higher than scientists have seen since they started systematically taking the Earth's temperature in 1880.

"If the warming rate of the past 10 years continues, it would lead to a long-term exceedance of the 1.5C (2.7F) limit of the Paris agreement before 2030," said Stefan Rahmstorf, a scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and co-author of the study.

Extreme heat in recent years has been pushed higher by natural fluctuations -- such as solar cycles, volcanic eruptions, and the weather pattern El Nio -- that have led scientists to question whether startling temperature readings are outliers or the result of an increase in global heating. ...

#40 ... Sergio Mendes & Brasil'66 ...

What ever happened to them?

I remember ...

@#37 ... James Gang. Take A Look Around. ...

Yeah.

@#12 ... Lmao you people are idiots. ...

Why?

Because I post a news article that shows what has occurred?

Would your current trolling alias prefer if I did not post such articles that give it the opportunity to criticize and demean what I post?

Why am I an idiot for posting #5?

@#5 ... never had the mumps ...

I had the mumps when I was in my late 20's.

When I received my childhood vaccines, mumps was not yet included.

So, in my late 20's I got the mumps from a neighborhood kid when I attended heir family BBQ.

Fortunately, my testes remained good during that episode. I was fortunate.

But wow, having to call in sick for work because, "I have the mumps."

I will say, that was an interesting conversation I had with my manager.

I distinctly remember his closing comment of the conversation ... stay home. We don't want what you have. So just stay home, you will be paid. Just stay home until you have recovered.

@#9 ... C'mon man get Real. ...

Look in the mirror.

Jus' sayin'

:)

@#8 ... A phobia is an irrational fear. ...

What is the phobia?

Please explain.

thx.

@#33 ... Country Dick Montana ...

imo, he's an interesting one ...

@#31 ... James Gang ...

Yeah, joe walsh before he became JOE WALSH! I have their vinyl. Among the first vinyl I have digitized.

That aside, a fave tune of the James Gang for me is ...

More from the article ...

... Until 1970, the US dumped an estimated 17,000 tons of unspent chemical weapons from World War I and II off the coast of the Atlantic Ocean -- and that disposal decision continues to haunt commercial fishing operations.

In an article published this week in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, health officials from New Jersey and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that there were at least three incidents of commercial fishing crews dredging up dangerous chemical warfare munitions (CWMs) off the coast of New Jersey between 2016 and 2023. ...

@#25 ... Really loud.
Wishbone Ash. ...

A little less loud, and a fave of mine ...