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  1. I have done my best to keep up with this thread, so it's possible I have missed some of the discussions. I have a couple of questions though: 1) I am assuming there are people from both sides of the aisle listed, so did Biden's admin slow roll the investigation and exposure of those on the right (including Trump) to cover for those in his camp? Has anyone seen anything that credibly links Biden to enjoying any of Epstein's offerings, either from the trafficking or money laundering? Or was the slow roll due to DOJ needing time to build a solid case, knowing they'd only have one chance? 2) Figure Trump is up to his neck in this from both the financial angle, as well as trafficking. Which is more likely to trip him up? I keep thinking about Al Capone and tax evasion charges. 3) With as many people privy to these files, regardless of NDAs and other legal constraints, I think Trump knows that if they release compromised copies of the files (ones that redact him) that will be his undoing when the coverup becomes the story, since you know someone will leak the real items. So best to just bury it all now? If someone were to release even excerpts of the files, the administration would have to rebutt that with actual documents? 4) I get the idea that this will be used to get Trump to gracefully step down, or be exposed as the fraud he is. A move most likely brought on by the uber wealthy and tech bros in order to get him out and someone less problematic into office. What is the probability that that power cluster has no more use for Trump and has been looking for a way to usher him out, a way that the MAGA will not rise up and make him a martyr over?
  2. Time for another CSPD and ATM athletics BBQ. Last one was what? 10 years ago?
  3. The biography of Jayne Mansfield done by her daughter Mariska Hagerty is good. I had watched JM in The Wayward Bus and enjoyed it, so gravitated to the doc. It's always interesting how many very talented and intelligent women were keyholed into their personas by the men in Hollywood and NYC. Hedy Lamarr always stood out, but also Monroe and now Mansfield. How frustrating it must have been for them to be seen only for their body or looks.
  4. Kendall Scudder acknowledges flooding, but talks about redistricting and why it's so important to Abbott. Standing up, throwing down.
  5. There is a correlation between these two.
  6. I would think kids who can command NIL type money are just as much looking to land somewhere that has the staff and facilities to develop them into high draft choices. It's a two part exam, and I don't see Sanders as having the chops or staff to pass the second part, even if CU had funds to match UT and other NIL leaders.
  7. Not to derail the thread, but who exactly are the State Police? What jurisdiction do they serve and how much power do they hold? I sure have been seeing a lot of cars and trucks lately marked as police but with no indication of what city they serve. Might be better in the ICE thread. But this is one of the trucks sent to respond in Kerr Co.
  8. Sorry, I have searched CBS News several times now with no luck. It was on the revolving one that comes through the internet several times a day, not of the actual airwaves or like CBS morning or evening news.
  9. Amidst all of this sometimes I have to stop and think about those poor teens who were acting as counselors at Mystic and the nightmares and guilt they are going to carry forever. And while I do imagine they come from privileged and affluent backgrounds, still to be placed in a position of life or death for people who trust them is not a place to put those kids. There are a thousand ways that could have been different, but there is no reason for a camp that charges that much would not have a trained adult assigned to those cabins. To have to live with the questions about whether you did something wrong, or missed some announcement, or ignored some part of a lecture on emergency response is a lot to ask those kids. Those who survived, that is. I saw a segment on CBS online Tuesday which called out the commissioner's court hard. They had quotes from Buster and his picture, explaining how he has since passed. But there was no doubt they had done their research and were casting blame on that group. I have also seen other media reports that stop just short of accusing, but lead the viewer to answer the hanging questions. Unfortunately, that just isn't enough for lots of people. They have no critical thought process.
  10. Every school in our county has an emergency response plan that covers pretty much any potential situation from fire, planes crashing into bldgs, WMDs, active shooters and even nuclear accidents. Each school has the same outline for their plan. Once the outline is laid out, then each plan is customized for each school system. For example: layouts of buildings, who is responding from where, how long it will take, etc. This way if their is ever a need for the plan, each responding group will know exactly where to look for pertinent info on just about anything. Saves time and confusion. I can imagine going to a school for a fire and the section for where to shut off electrical power is buried in some obscure bldg description section. So yes, each camp should have a plan that is customized to them, but also follows a standard layout and format, much like an MSDS sheet. Texas is so large that it is quite possible a big catastrophe can strike and the rest of the state can muster what it needs to deal with the response. To what effectiveness I can't guess. But smaller states can get hit and the whole state is now limping along and needs neighbors to come help in times of needs. That state's emergency reserves could have been wiped out or made inaccessible, while their neighbors can get to their own supply, leaving the challenge of transporting it to the areas of need as the biggest impediment. Every town has a fire/EMS department, even the really small ones. And they can handle the day to day, but they can't handle the big ones alone. That is where the idea of other states stepping up through FEMA makes sense. How many Texas firefighters went to California the last go around of wildfires? Hell, we even had Mexico come in and help us in Kerrville and they aren't even a state. WIthout FEMA the smaller and less populated states are at real risk, especially with extreme weather becoming the norm instead of the outlier.
  11. Yes, from what I have read the camps were responsible for having their own plans. That's ridiculous, because it's akin to each student writing their own test questions. How do you judge the strength of a plan without a standard to hold it to? Just more passing responsibility along. Having served as a first responder in rural Texas I have to say the radio communications suck in most counties, particularly ones with hills or mountains. Then add in that the government about 20 years ago sold off a huge chunk of bandwidth of our airwaves to private vendors like cell phone companies. That forced departments to start moving away from analog radios to digital systems, which are way more expensive. So I really can't fault them for going that route. Where I can fault them is for not upgrading their flood warning system earlier when they had the chance for Obama money. I disagee, stupidity and complacency broke it. The internet sped it up. Yep, you'd think he'd tell himself first thing to call the guy in charge of monitoring to get some idea on what's headed their way? Please no. I avoid DT like I avoid FB these days. To go in there does me no good. To me this makes me think of roaches scrurrying about in the middle of the night when the kitchen light comes on. Can hear them screaming "Politicization! Politicization!" Or however the fuck you spell it.
  12. I read somewhere yesterday that she was on a committee under the Whitmire regime in Houston on Food Insecurity. She has been removed from that committee because of her comments. The difference to me between the events is the gun lobby. It keeps gun regulation at bay. I would guess that it will when it comes to the locals and state officials. Same as tort protected the Board of Regents and everyone after the Bonfire tragedy. I gotta go with Hagbard on this. These people are affluent and their way of life is bouyed by a system that MAGA makes possible. They will choose the money every time. It is all they know. It is their whole valuation system for living.
  13. Newsweek has a decent article if you want to fight your way through the ads. https://www.newsweek.com/flash-flood-alley-has-history-deadly-camp-floods-meteorologist-2095170
  14. If you are looking for a very good movie about love, life, kids, parenting and interactions with assholes in your life, I suggest When Life Gives You Tangerines. It is Korean, and dubbed, and the dubbing is actually pretty good. It's definitely a series to watch with your spouse and hopefully family. There are parts it gets real dusty. I can't find a way to give you a trailer in English dubbing, but here's one with english subtitles. I've always enjoyed UI (who plays several characters). Gives you a pretty good sense of South Korea from the rural parts all the way into Seoul.
  15. I went to MO several times in the mid 70s. Brisket can correct me, but I remember it being a retreat for Marathon Oil? Some oil company or another. It was a great camp compared to the scout camps I attended. They have this old water slide there that was super fun. There's a video of it attached. But when we used it, there were no walls on either side. The pain in the ass was hauling that wooden luge thing back up, so the second year we brought some rope, a pulley and some barbell weights. We used that to pull the cart back up the track instead of lugging it. worked pretty well. That was a really fun and clean camp. All presbyterian run, and they were even laxer than the methodists at that time. Always made sure I went along on those trips if i could.
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