Typhus, a flea-borne bacterial disease, is on the rise in Los Angeles County, with the latest localized case reported in the Wilshire Center neighborhood, public health officials said Tuesday. The disease is spread to humans by infected fleas that commonly live on rats, opossums, stray cats and other animals. Common symptoms include headaches, chills, muscle aches and rash. The Wilshire Center case is the second localized typhus outbreak this year, according to the LA County Department of Public Health. read more
A Toronto man has been acquitted of a choking attack on a young girl after a judge ruled that he had been under the influence of marijuana and said that the attack was due to a "psychotic episode." During the attack, he invoked Allah, according to court documents. Ahmed Baig pleaded not guilty to assault causing bodily harm and assault by choking after an August 2023 attack in which he left his home wearing only a towel after vaping cannabis. The towel fell off and he started chasing a family that he encountered in the driveway. "He ran into the driveway and picked up a seven-year-old girl. He threw her to the ground, punched her and strangled her. He then abruptly left the driveway, and a short time later was arrested by police. At the time of arrest, he wore only a T-shirt," Justice Mara Greene wrote, recounting the incident. read more
Data shows small businesses lost hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue during Operation Metro Surge. A Hennepin County program launched to help them ended up shutting down. Nearly half of the applications for taxpayer-funded recovery money were fake. "We caught the fraud before we spent any money," Hennepin County Commissioner Jeffrey Lunde said. Lunde says it was an unfortunate win. In March 2026, Hennepin County Commissioners approved $2 million to help small businesses cover rent or mortgage payments as Operation Metro Surge kept customers away. read more
BURLINGAME: The California Teachers Association, today, filed a lawsuit against the withholding of nearly $6 billion in constitutionally guaranteed Prop. 98 funding from California public schools in the 2025-2026 and 2024-25 school years. These funds were guaranteed to public schools through Prop. 98, enshrined in the California constitution for nearly 40 years. read more
A federal appellate court has upheld a decision allowing Hamtramck to ban Pride flags on city-owned property. The ruling, issued Aug. 21 by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, affirmed the Sept. 2025 dismissal by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan of a challenge to Hamtramck's 2023 ban on flying Pride and other group flags on city-owned flagpoles. The court held that even assuming the poles had previously been a forum for private speech, the city is permitted to change the purpose of that forum and restrict the poles to specified flags, making the display government speech. read more
Incredible live video from ... got screwed over by the Boomer set.
Music video with Swedish rapper Yung Lean and GENER8ION and amazing choreography, created by artist Damien Jalet.
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There's no "nostalgic music" here ...
As we have seen with the Obama measures, some "efficiency regulation" can be gamed.
Need to look at the details to see, perhaps this will drive American cars to be smaller.
Tightening the "Light Truck" Definition: Starting in model year 2030, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is amending the fleet classification system. The rules make it structurally more difficult for automakers to use specific design elements and equipment additions to trick the system into classifying small SUVs and crossovers as light trucks. This forces more of these high-volume vehicles back into the stricter passenger car regulatory bucket.
Elimination of Credit Trading: Historically, automakers who failed to meet efficiency metrics could purchase regulatory credits from cleaner automakers (like Tesla). The new regulation eliminates the inter-manufacturer credit trading system starting in model year 2028. This forces every manufacturer to stand on their own fleet's merits rather than subsidizing non-compliance through competitors
Removal of Compliance Fines: The pressure to forcefully electrify fleets is lowered by rolling back or eliminating standard steep financial penalties for compliance gaps, aiming to give automakers more design freedom to build vehicles based purely on consumer demand rather than regulatory metrics.
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This is actually pretty good list of changes, means the RAV4 isn't an SUV, lowering the fleet MPG but changing the categories is actually pretty good idea. idk who thought of it. But the Obama rules were getting gamed and needed to change.
1Nut is outraged at Cali Lumpers!
My position on guns is well known by posters here.
No-one should be in the possession of one until their hormones settle down, around 25yo.
I would also add, as the owner of the H2D, so long as it doesn't impose on me, I have no issue with this.
How many people are actually printing guns BTW?
Speaking of CAliLumpers.
So I guided my daughter to form a business, all the forms, registration etc. DeflectionDan would be proud. She hired a few friends, they worked and got paid via Intuit. All in the name of education for my soon to be CEO daughter.
Last week she received a CalSavers notification, and given that she hired her friends she now has to form a retirement program for them, they're 14-16.
So driving out to the San Martin Airport to do some flying together, and there's MrBBQChicken on Monterey road grilling about 100 thighs, smoke going everywhere, and my daughter says, "I doubt he's got a retirement plan".
Education..... California losing citizens one at a time.
State is off the HOOK with regulations, just incredible.
Since its Corky, I'll leave you with this gem : "AI's underlying purpose is to let wealth access skill while taking away the skilled person's ability to access wealth."