Fires are not new to SOCAL. I lived in SD when I was younger. I remember driving up to LA one night, and the hills on both sides of I-5 were burning.

I know! It can be Biden's Fault(tm).

Biden had four years to deal with the volcano problem and did nothing. Nothing!

#3 Mississippi is right behind Germany in terms of GDPPC, and Germany is the 4th or 5th largest economy in the world.

I can't speak to Mississippi or anywhere else in the US, but here in Germany, doctors (at least the USGOV doctors) quit seeing patients unless it was an emergency. So from about March 2020 through Jan 2022, there were no checkups or cancer screenings or anything like that. It would make sense that mortality rates would increase as a result of these services being unavailable.

"If you can legally tattoo a child, you can provide gender affirming care to them."

Or get them a ---- job.

I know everyone's circumstances are different, but if you are sick, can't most people just work from home?

Shirts at the Gap aren't going to fold themselves, but unless you're doing shift work why does it matter if you go into the office or not.

I go into the office when I need to. Otherwise, I just stay home. Same with my co-workers. I prefer it when they don't come in. I get more done.

Any time Danforth starts talking finances I realize how much I need to get an accountant.

Maybe I am a weirdo, but I would have thought the Olympic Peninsula in WA would be on this list. It seems to me like a very remote prehistoric place that isn't all that remote or inaccessible.

#13

Florida is a much more forgiving environment. You can get hypothermic there, but you really need to be trying. It actually happened to me once. Thanks, Air Force.

Drunk and stupid in the mountains of Oregon will kill you.

Ukraine might be the only country ever at war to have a surplus of food...

You know they were ---------...

Just for fun, I went and looked up properties for sale in the area where I was born. It is a very remote, boring, agricultural section of Idaho.

The cheapest thing I found was a 924 square foot trailer home for $199k.

This is in a town that I thought would be a ghost town by now.

EVs are a terrible rental option. Unless you're into walking to wherever you need to go.

And don't get me started on Hertz. Pretty much every time I land at Harry McCarran, I end up having to cancel my Hertz reservation because they don't have any cars.

Wouldn't that make Mike Johnson the acting president?

"So they're going to wipe their a&^ with the Constitution."

It can't happen. the language in the 14th amendment is very clear. There is no ambiguity.

Their only real way forward would be to amend the constitution. It could be done, but it would be a huge lift. I don't know how much support it would get.

LIKUD is antisemitic?

I mean, if he's right-wing, he may be a "from the river to the sea" type of guy.

There is little gray space between the right-wing European antisemites and their Muslim counterparts.

"99.9% of all terrorist acts in Germany over the past 100 years that have led to the deaths of millions of innocent people have been perpetrated by far-right, anti-immigrant German nationalists, so this guy fits that profile."

100% of attacks on Christmas markets have been conducted by Muslims.

Who knows, maybe their right-wing cousins have recognized the effectiveness of the strategy.

"Especially for those so eager to pin it on some Islamic fundamentalist nutter-"

Well, when has it not been a Muslim that attacked a Christmas market.

The dude was a Saudi. By law, he was required to be a Muslim.

It is a very strange situation. A non-Islamic Saudi, maybe the only one ever, praises anti-immigration policies and commits terrorism using well documented Islamist tactics. And he's a psychiatrist. Who probably should have been talking to a psychiatrist.

I'm a bit surprised the UAE and the Saudis have not renewed their offensive against the Houthis. Thier sponsor, Iran, is on the ropes. It would seem like a good time for them to defeat the Houthis permanently.

"He is correct. Going full-bore in 2014 while they were invading Crimea, before the Ukrainians had a chance to build up their defensive capability, would have been the way to go. Not like the Western nations would have done anything about it."

He also ceded Ukraine eight years of time in which they were able to develop a seething hatred of Russians. In 2014, Ukraine may not have cared about being a Russian puppet state.

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That's partially true. As a contractor working in TS/SAR programs, I am required to report foreign affections (friends who are not US citizens), foreign travel, foreign bank accounts and investments, legal issues, financial issues, and any interactions with non-US government officials and authorities. Any sort of drug use, to include the use of marijuana, is prohibited. If I get a DUI, the clearances and accesses would almost certainly be pulled.

Were I an elected official though, I could be snorting coke off a Russian hooker's ass in my office. It literally takes an act of congress to revoke the security clearance for an elected official. I don't know if it is the same for officials appointed by the president. I'm guessing not, since technically every military officer is a presidential appointee.

The suspected terrorist is a Saudi who has been living in Germany since 2006.

New numbers are now four dead and at least 200 injured.

Just curious why the restaurants don't just demand a stiff deposit at the time of reservation...I am also curious as to whether or not the restaurants actually care.