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  1. I agree with Marge’s initiative. We’ve perfected chemtrails for mind control but trying to manipulate the weather is dangerous and unproven.
  2. I agree that the EAS with silver and amber alerts is overwhelming. But, an NOAA weather radio is pretty damn good and in this case broadcast a life threatening flash flood warning at 0116. The questions are what people did with that info and who had the radios. A weather radio will automatically alert even if its not in use.
  3. We have no idea yet what happened in the camp in those hours and what they knew; it’s far too early to make them the primary point of failure and there will have been multiple points.
  4. The last three feet to the audience are always the most critical and most difficult. If you’re not on Facebook at 2AM, then a Facebook or Twitter post doesn’t help you. Radio is the gold standard.
  5. I have worked in crisis comms before. There will need to be a whole post-mortem so take this for what it’s worth but: all the major work and structure has to be done and in place well before an event. Counties and local governments, depending on the size, are often not staffed and trained on this appropriately. They’ll do a training and prep, get everything in order, and then a few people retire or get new jobs and things just slide. The strong likelihood here is that it was the 4th, it was late. Someone was on leave, someone was sleeping off beers, maybe a couple someones. And they just didn’t get someone with the keys to accounts awake and in the game.
  6. Completely agree. The Udvar-Hazey Center is likely the best flight and space museum in the world and an orbiter belongs there with the rest of America’s treasures. Moving it will simply deprive generations of aviation lovers and future aviators or engineers from marveling at what America can do. The correct answer for what to do was to put a line in a budget a decade ago to install the NY orbiter in Houston properly cared for. To fund NASA to tell its own story. Obama should have asked for it and Congress should have voted for it. This is just sheer idiocy at this point, they don’t like the “woke Smithsonian” and so the shuttle ends as it lived- far underfunded and directed at the wrong mission.
  7. It’s the point. They want Ukrainians to die and surrender so Trump can say he got peace. Peace of the grave.
  8. Calling from burner phones and refusing to ID yourself, then asking for secret information is a famously effective way of getting intelligence officials to talk.
  9. Sure this will be awesome, happy 4th everyone.
  10. Islamophobia is a whack term. It’s usually deployed in one of two ways: 1. As the accepted term for anti-Muslim bigotry (which is a real thing), although “anti-Muslim” would suffice. 2. As a subtle way to try and blend the lines between legitimate criticism of some types of Islamic belief and practice with anti-Muslim bigotry. Among some types of academics and commenters there is a pervasive effort to make people think they are talking about 1) when they mean 2); and to use it to immediately silence any justified scrutiny of Islam. Similar playbook to “Russophobia,” it’s possible to be an anti-Russian bigot who hates Russian people but “Russophobia” as a concept is just a way to try and silence any legitimate criticism of the Russian state, Russian state ideology, and Russian behavior.
  11. Apparently this was his unilateral decision. Blindsided everyone else, no coordination with other agencies. What happens when you have no NSC and stocked the apparatus with amateurs, drunks, and buttlickers.
  12. That’s Uma Thurman my man.
  13. Homeland Security is posting Thomas Kinkade.
  14. Excellent thread by David Frum and the interview with former Ambassador Brink will be worth listening to. He is correct at the core: Every decision to slow-roll aid and belief that the war could be delicately managed to avoid angering Russia too much set up the abandonment of Ukraine.
  15. This is a Bridge Colby special. And the goal is to help Russia win to try and get Ukraine to give up. A lesson for all involved is that you can do everything the admin demands and their word is worthless.
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