@#16 ... Blocking the sewer of the "Nooner" likely just made the --- back up into the house. ...
[my asterisk]

It seems that way.

And, having to call the local Arc-O-Rooter service recently, well I will say I agree.

Fortunately, the house monitoring system I have flagged the unexpected appearance of water on the basement floor.

So, a minute or two after I flushed the toilet that morning, I know I had a problem to resolve. I got text messages and emails.

Long story short (too late for that?)

The Arc-O-Rooter tech told me that the camera showed tree roots 78 feet into my sewer line, and that he had cleared that blockage.

I do give major credit to that Arc-O-Rooter tech. Yeah, he could have just cleared the blockage, but his talking with me, taking the time to explain things was some I did not expect to occur.

OK, I have digressed, big time. Apologies.

@#23 ...The difference is that Biden and Harris supplied the questions in their townhalls. ...

Got a link?

A cutting OpEd from what Pres-elect Trump wants to be our 51st State.

More from the OpEd ....

... Lack of water isn't helping. LA like most of the southwest has had water problems for decades. Those problems are now coming back to bite.

Power outages also aren't helping. The numbers reported for power outages are chaotic, and increasing with time.

Something else isn't helping, either. America's spectator politics are as destructive as ever in a crisis. In a classic American political stupor, not much seems to be happening.

LA needed help 2 days ago.

Where is it?

Why wasn't it in the air 24 hours ago?

They need support on the ground.

Use the air force, engineers, spitballs, whatever.

They do NOT need smug little press releases.

Canada has already sent help with water bombers. Pretty nice of them, given somebody's brainless recent comments....

@#9 ... Which makes me want to ask, what, exactly, is the GOP goal for healthcare? ...

Anyone?

So, it seems that the new ~ethics~ plan allows foreign companies, but not foreign countries, to purchase influence in the upcoming Trump Oval office.

Did I summarize that correctly?

More from the article...

... The plan, released Friday, lacks any restriction on pursuing new business transactions with private foreign companies, though entering deals with foreign governments is prohibited. The development comes against the backdrop of recent Trump Organization tie-ups in Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, the United Arab Emirates and India. ...

More from the article...

... When agents questioned him, Praliev said "he was a citizen and national of Kazakhstan," according to a criminal complaint against him.

Praliev was carrying a Russian passport, a passport from Kazakhstan, $4,000 and 60,000 pesos.

In his backpack, agents discovered a drone.

Praliev said he'd worked for the Wagner Group, a paramilitary organization affiliated with the Russian government.

"Wagner has played a key role in Russia's war in Ukraine and operates in multiple countries, particularly across Africa," according to a report published by the Congressional Research Service.

The U.S. Treasury Department considers the Wagner Group a criminal organization. ...

@#12 ... Beverly the ------- MAGAT bitch ...

So... I am not the only one here who has noticed a significant change in the nature of the posts here by that, what I now call a, current alias?

Looking back, in the past I had lauded eberly (and, yes, all lower-case seems to be how that alias presented itself to this most august site) for the comments it had posted.

But now, it just seems to be focused more upon disruption than contribution.

imo, of course.

@#9 ... What's not going to happen to those regions if the last election goes the other way? ...

So, your current alias seems to openly admit it has not a clue about climate change.

If the last election had gone the other way, then the US would likely have gone on a path towards a better future regarding climate change.

For example, instead of Pres-elect trump saying, "drill baby drill" to apparently promote fossil fuels, allowing better sources of energy, such as, e.g., wind turbines.

I could go on, but at this point, yer current alias is up ...

What's it got?

@#4 ... I'm beginning to notice a pattern here ... ...

What the CEOs of the financial community (seems now to be to be called the Mag7 (~magnificent 7, as opposed to the prior FAANG? (Facebook, Alphabet, Amazon, Netflix, Google), compliments of Mr Cramer on CNBC ) seem to be doing?

Trekking to Mar-A-Lago to, I'll be kind, Kiss the Ring?

@#43 ... That's exactly it. Obama is a decent man. ...

Yup.

And, imo, Miranda7's comment nailed it in that regard.

... "In the spirit of this great country, we must not politicize human tragedy or spread disinformation from the sidelines," the letter said. ...

100% agreement with that statement.

Also, he has also lost the right to say that he is not the first President of the United States who is a convicted criminal.

@#147 ... I made a perfectly valid reply to your Doge thinking, ...

OK, I may have missed that.

Maybe, as a suggestion, do try to include URL references in your current alias' comments?

thx.

That aside ...

... But this is what I notice with your alisas, it asks questions get answers and instead of responding to the answers the alias asks more non-sequiter questions. ...

Yeah, your current alias seems to overlook the part that the answers I get do not seem to answer the question I asked.

So I then ask a follow-up question.

Stated differently, why the apparent deflection attempts of your current alias?

@#3

My first question ... who?

From the cited blog ...

... Lynda and Stewart Resnick -- the oligarch pistachio farmers of Beverly Hills -- are currently going viral. Influencers are out making tiktoks, tweets, and reels. They're outraged at finding out that one Los Angeles billionaire family controls more water than Los Angeles uses in an entire year. ...

Wait, what?

Taking a step back ...

More from the article...

... According to the Kenya Space Agency, the object weighed 1,100 pounds (500 kg) and had a diameter of more than 8 feet (2.4 meters) when measured after it landed on December 30. A couple of days later, the space agency confidently reported that the object was a piece of space debris, saying it was a ring that separated from a rocket. "Such objects are usually designed to burn up as they re-enter the Earth's atmosphere or to fall over unoccupied areas, such as the oceans," the space agency told The New York Times.

Since those initial reports were published in Western media, a small band of dedicated space trackers have been using open source data to try to identify precisely which space object fell into Kenya. So far, they have not been able to identify the rocket launch to which the large ring can be attributed. ...

@#145 ... So it's a tie ...

Not really.

But if that is how your current alias wants to bow out of this conversation, go for it.

@#41 ... One of the things I have always admired about Obama was his willingness to talk to our enemies. Some insight: ....

Yes.

... I'd like to think that Obama has the wisdom to recognize that if he leaves that door of communication open, Trump will pick up the phone when he calls and may just listen to what Barack has to say at some critical moment for America. ...

Yeah, I would like to think tat also.

But given Pres-elect Trump's prior interactions (I'm being kind) with fmr Pres Obama, I have to ask, will Pres-elect Trump rise to that occasion?

@#140your current alias has framed it in that ... My alias is taken. ...

Interesting admission.

So, another person could not take that alias.

Yeah, no surprise.

But curious that aspect.

Hmmmm .

:)

@#138 ... You desperately want to-------- his alias. ...

Ya got nothing.

Good to know.

@#135, 136

(I tie your two current aliases together in this reply because they seem to be workig together of late. Desperation or coordination? I do not know.)

So, your current aliases have nothing to counter what I have said besides attempted insults.

And those attempted insults seem to endeavor to justify their viewpoints, how?

@#20 ... It burned up in LA ...

Relevance?

Side question: what has happened to the eberly alias of late?

The person behind it used to be a good contributor, but something seems to have changed of late.

Oh well. Time moves on ...

@#15 ... And nothing in that article was "fact free". ...

For starters, it read more like an OpEd to me than a news article.

It's in the "Daily Memo" part of the site, not the "News" part of the site.