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Benford is out. Didn’t look good

Wonderful. Trump picks only the best alcoholic to a nice low stress position as being in charge of our military and nuclear arms. I’m sure there is no one more qualified to lead the largest agency in the world deciding how to respond to the daily threats US interests face. Now we all have to hope that the pressure and stress of life or death consequences from his decisions don’t make him return to the bottle. On the bright side, his manly features look like he came out of central casting for the position. I guess this is what winning looks like. Let’s hope this ends well.

The orange idiot will solve all problems when he issues his executive order to open the valves and send unlimited water from the Pacific Northwest and Canada down to SoCal. What an idiot!

Another example of I’d rather have a great offense than a great defense, though the Bills D was great tonight, and the offense did just enough.

Amazing D game plan by McDermott. The best of the season so far.

Lamar is amazing. I don’t think he deserved the MVP last year, but that’s not his fault. He fits Baltimore. Josh fits Buffalo. I’m thrilled we have Josh. Josh has to deal with the small market anti media bias against him but F em all. The vote calling Josh the most overrated player was ridiculous. If we can win just one, the entire narrative will change.

That was a real KC style win. I’ll take it

Football gods are with us today

Needed to tush push with a heavy package there

I don’t feel great about that even though we got the 3

Crap offense coming out of half killing us now

Brady needs to adjust. They are stuffing our runs and screens aren’t working now.

MVP!

Well that was a win just giving them 3

Now that is some beautiful complimentary football!

Millions of Americans??? God help us. Donald the great savior of tik tok. Time to make a new Mt Rushmore for him.

La Porta with amazing one-handed catch. Well done.

For the record…. I was not reporting official information from the state but discussion from reporters. I made no claims and certainly hope there is nothing to it. I am just always skeptical about the response of insurance companies. They have a reputation for denying claims based on the details of policy wording, all being legal. Just see reports from the people in FL trying to rebuild after hurricanes. Time will tell…

I’m sure it all depends on the fine print details of the policy purchased by the home owner.

Wait… I thought the government controlled the weather and that’s why they were sending hurricanes into Republican states. And can someone tell me about all the failure of leadership in Republican North Carolina that led to so much damage and death there after Helene? On a serious note, now they are saying that if the fire investigators determine arson to be the cause, that may limit or negate compensation paid to homeowners from their insurance companies. That would absolutely suck.

Absolutely not. It does not happen everywhere. Different states and locations have different levels of risk for different events. The take home lesson is for leaders of other states and insurance companies to reassess risk, adapt infrastructure, review building codes and requirements to retrofit older buildings, zoning to allow or prohibit development, emergency response preparedness, etc. Hopefully, the costs of people living in high risk areas will not be passed on to those living in lower risk areas.

The mistake that many are making here on PPP is thinking that this disaster is unique to the Dem politicians in CA. The mismatch of infrastructure to needs to respond to a disaster is not unique to CA. CA is under the microscope just because this time, the disaster happened there. In North Carolina, 104 people died from the floods caused by hurricane Helene with 54 billion $ in damage. All over America, in red and blue states, people are living in places of high risk, with emergency response capabilities inadequate to the increasing severity of potential disasters. Infrastructure everywhere needs upgrading to be adequate for the changing climate. Building high density housing with flammable materials and landscape vegetation in fire prone ecosystems is a dumb idea. New homes and buildings in CA survived the fires due to use of more fire proof materials.

The facts are that we are in a changing climate. Infrastructure designed 20 or 30 or 50 years ago isn’t adequate. If there are 20 hydrants on a line and 5 of them have hoses hooked up to them spraying water, the hydrants on the uphill, end of the line are going to be dry. The system isn’t designed to deal with this level of catastrophe. Same with the roads leading in and out of these hills and canyons. They can’t accommodate fire trucks going in while masses of people are going out. Changing infrastructure is damn hard to do and expensive. No one can predict where the next disaster will happen, but it will, somewhere, so we roll the dice and say, hope it’s not here. People live in ignorance or denial about climate change affecting them. No one anywhere wants to make changes until the sh_it hits the fan and now that has happened. Fire pushed by 60-90 mph wind is impossible to stop. Government at all levels is at fault, people living there are at fault. Maybe moving forward, better building codes will help prevent another one from happening.

So true. There’s not even time anymore for “thoughts and prayers”. Social media has pushed people directly into the blame game of outrage even while the disaster is still happening. Thank you tech billionaires. You are contributing so much to our society.