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‘Political Opportunity’: After Weakening Critical Rail Safety Rules, Trump Heads To East Palestine A wave of Republican criticism of the Biden administration’s handling of a train derailment that launched toxic chemicals into the air in East Palestine, Ohio, is set to culminate on Wednesday when former President Donald Trump visits the disaster-stricken village of 4,000. So far, however, the broadsides have not turned into anything resembling action that could prevent crashes or break the GOP’s arm-in-arm embrace of the railroad industry, which relentlessly and successfully pushed to cut costs and roll back regulations during Trump’s four years in office. “A lot of the folks who seem to find political opportunity there are among those who sided with the industry time and time again,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on a conference call with reporters Monday night when asked about Trump’s visit. “They have fought safety regulations on trains and hazmat tooth and nail.” (Buttigieg did not mention Trump by name, which would violate the Hatch Act limits on what federal employees can say about politics.)

To be the devil's advocate: quarterbacks have a lot more tactile control over the ball when they release it, yet most good QBs have a completion rate a bit above 60%. Kickers much less so, so cut Liegghio some slack. He will get better or he will be gone- the Mafia will see to that.

Correct. A couple of months ago, I was driving home around 11:00PM and the radio host was trying to slag the global climate change consensus by complaining that the terms being used by climatologists were inflammatory. Specifically- "river of storms" affecting California and "severe storms".

The arid areas of Australia, due to the prolonged droughts they have suffered, embarked on a somewhat expensive program of forcing "grey water" from their cities and towns into their aquifers. As a result, the aquifers water levels have been rising. But that's environmental socialism. Abhorrent to Americans and many Canadians.

Sooo....now we know that Ellingson has had one too many concussions:

Fixed that for you.

But that would cost money and mean higher (gasp) taxes.

Damn that Brodbeck for becoming a left-wing radical.

The Riders are trying to become competitive overnight but they have so many problems from the GM on down to, well everything that they are likely just delaying the inevitable housecleaning for one more year after flubbing the playoffs again.

Trump Begs CNN To Become The New Fox News Trump showed that he knows that he needs free media coverage, so while attacking Fox News, he asked CNN to go, ‘all Trump all of the time.’ The former president wrote on Truth Social: "So interesting to watch FoxNews cover the small and unenthusiastic 139 person crowd in Staten Island for DeSantis, but stay as far away as possible from coverage of the thousands of people, many unable to get in, at the Club 47 event in West Palm Beach, Florida. I call FoxNews the RINO Network, and their DOWN BIG Ratings accurately reflect the name. If FAKE NEWS CNN was smart, which they’re not, they’d go Conservative & “All Trump, All the Time,” like in 2016, and become a Ratings Juggernaut.”

Worse than that- it is mediocre with occasional "sort of okays".

Foreperson Lifts The Lid On Trump Grand Jury That Probed Election Meddling ATLANTA (AP) — They were led down a staircase into a garage beneath a downtown Atlanta courthouse, where officers with big guns were waiting. From there, they were ushered into vans with heavily tinted windows and driven to their cars under police escort. For Emily Kohrs, these were the moments last May when she realized she wasn’t participating in just any grand jury. “That was the first indication that this was a big freaking deal,” Kohrs told The Associated Press. The 30-year-old Fulton County resident who was between jobs suddenly found herself at the center of one of the nation’s most significant legal proceedings. She would become foreperson of the special grand jury selected to investigate whether then-President Donald Trump and his Republican associates illegally meddled in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election. The case has emerged as one of Trump’s most glaring legal vulnerabilities as he mounts a third presidential campaign, in part because he was recorded asking state election officials to “find 11,780 votes” for him. For the next eight months, Kohrs and her fellow jurors would hear testimony from 75 witnesses, ranging from some of Trump’s most prominent allies to local election workers. Portions of the panel’s final report released last Thursday said jurors believed that “one or more witnesses” committed perjury and urged local prosecutors to bring charges. The report’s recommendations for charges on other issues, including potential attempts to influence the election, remain secret for now.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Demands Biden Be Impeached For Going To Ukraine Greene tweeted: Marjorie Taylor Greene Demands Biden Be Impeached For Going To Ukraine Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Print Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) made her support for Putin and Russia very clear by demanding Biden be impeached for going to Ukraine. Greene tweeted:

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was trying to say that she is not racist, but she ended up sounding really racist. Greene said, “Anybody’s unemployment has to do with bad choices and personal responsibility, and again that has nothing to do with skin color. I know a ton of white people who are as lazy and sorry and probably worse than black people I know, and I would not hire them because they’re lazy. They’re sorry, and they’re pathetic, and that has everything to do with their bad choices.”

Is there a butt or are you just trying to keep abreast of things. Not sure if I can stomach this just to look hip.

Beat me to it.

At Least 102 Kids Were Working In U.S. Meatpacking Plants, Labor Investigation Finds The Labor Department says Packers Sanitation had children cleaning "back saws, brisket saws and head splitters." The Labor Department said Friday that investigators found Packers Sanitation Services Inc. had employed more than 100 minors at meat processing facilities where they were cleaning dangerous industrial equipment using hazardous chemicals. The investigation revealed that minors had worked at 13 facilities across eight states. Officials said they found at least three children had been injured while working for the company. The equipment they were cleaning included “back saws, brisket saws and head splitters,” according to the Labor Department. Packers Sanitation Services agreed to pay $1.5 million in civil penalties as a result of the investigation, the agency said. Well, it ought to be entertaining.

Shock and Awe.

If Fox loses the case, the potential award to Dominion could be 1.4 billion dollars. That ought to smart.

Dominion Completely Destroys The Fox ‘News’ Façade In a 192-page legal filing, Dominion Voter Systems shattered any journalistic claims that Fox News had with messages revealing that Fox News is a political organization. In a November 16 email, Rupert Murdoch told Scott to read a Wall Street Journal piece about Newsmax, telling her: "These people should be watched, if skeptically. Trump will concede eventually, and we should concentrate on Georgia, helping in any way we can. We don’t want to antagonize Trump further, but Giuliani is taken with a large grain of salt. Everything at stake here.” Everything at stake here. Journalists and news organizations that are legitimate don’t work in service of an outcome regarding who wins and loses elections. The job of a journalist is to gather and report information, and journalism does not help “in any way” it can. Fox News has been caught admitting its motivation internally that it isn’t in the journalism business. Fox News is a political organization pretending to be a news organization to help Republicans win elections. The main goal of Fox News is to help Republicans win.

Top Russian Military Official Dead After Fall From 16th Floor A Russian military official in charge of financial provisions for the military district blamed for the Kremlin’s worst losses in Ukraine has been found dead after a nasty fall from a St. Petersburg high-rise. Marina Yankina, head of the department of financial provisions for the Western Military District, was found dead on a sidewalk on Wednesday morning, according to multiple local reports. She is just the latest in a growing list of Russian military officials, defense industry figures, war critics, and gas and oil execs to die suddenly and mysteriously since the start of the full-scale invasion last year.