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underpants's JournalISIS-X... ISIS-K...whatevs. TRUMP (who ended ISIS) phones in to Fox News.
10 seconds. This person lived in the White House once.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1431072896059850761?s=21
How Government Decisions Left Tennessee Exposed to Deadly Flooding --Flood insurance - building codes
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/climate/tennessee-flood-damage-impact.htmlChoices about building rules, insurance programs, flood maps and more put residents at higher risk, according to climate and disaster experts.
No building codes
As officials in Humphreys County spurned the federal government’s offer of flood insurance, they were shaping the future of the county in another way: by declining to adopt residential building codes.
Those codes govern the way houses must be built, to make them more likely to withstand natural disasters and other dangers. For example, Nashville, where catastrophic flooding in 2010 displaced thousands of people, requires the ground floor of new houses be constructed at least four feet above the expected height of a major flood, one of the toughest requirements in the country.
Flood maps understated the risk
As homes were being constructed in Humphreys County without a building code, the county’s ability to prepare for flooding was also being affected by a decision in Washington.
FEMA produces maps showing which areas are at risk from flooding, so that homeowners, builders and local officials can make informed decisions about where and how to build houses. Federal law requires the agency to review its flood maps at least once every five years and update them if needed.
-hadn't seen this- WaPo 8/15/21. Afghanistan's military collapse - Doha Agreement - Trump
Afghanistan’s military collapse: Illicit deals and mass desertions
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/15/afghanistan-military-collapse-taliban/
Over the next year and a half, the meetings advanced to the district level and then rapidly on to provincial capitals, culminating in a breathtaking series of negotiated surrenders by government forces, according to interviews with more than a dozen Afghan officers, police, special operations troops and other soldiers.
The Taliban capitalized on the uncertainty caused by the February 2020 agreement reached in Doha, Qatar, between the militant group and the United States calling for a full American withdrawal from Afghanistan. Some Afghan forces realized they would soon no longer be able to count on American air power and other crucial battlefield support and grew receptive to the Taliban’s approaches.
The Doha agreement, designed to bring an end to the war in Afghanistan, instead left many Afghan forces demoralized, bringing into stark relief the corrupt impulses of many Afghan officials and their tenuous loyalty to the country’s central government. Some police officers complained that they had not been paid in six months or more.
“They saw that document as the end,” the officer said, referring to the majority of Afghans aligned with the government. “The day the deal was signed we saw the change. Everyone was just looking out for himself. It was like [the United States] left us to fail.”
Who needs a good laugh? 😄 Wayne Manor's Horn Honk Depot
https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/1430603934113038339?s=21Well this about sums it up 😆👍
https://twitter.com/megnumbers/status/1430310911290576902?s=21LSU 🏈 establishes COVID rules for fans. Vax proof or a negative test required.
LSU: Proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 PCR test required to enter Tiger Stadium
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/32077089/proof-vaccination-negative-covid-19-pcr-test-required-enter-tiger-stadium
LSU will require anyone attending Tiger Stadium who is 12 years of age or older to provide proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken within the last 72 hours, the school announced on Tuesday.
LSU, which became the first school in the SEC to outline such a policy, cited a rise in COVID-19 cases and the "highly transmissible" delta variant.
Those younger than 12 will not have to show proof of a negative PCR test. However, masks will be required for children between 5 and 11 years old and encouraged for those younger than 5.
According to the CDC, only 50.3% of adults in the state of Louisiana have been fully vaccinated -- a rate that's among the 10 lowest in the U.S.
CNN, really? Fauci statement and timeline DISASTER for Biden and Dems
Fauci's new 2022 timeline for Covid fight could be a political disaster for Biden and Democratshttps://www.cnn.com/2021/08/24/politics/anthony-fauci-timeline-covid-joe-biden/index.html
President Joe Biden just got some deeply unwelcome news: The pandemic that he was elected to end could drag on deep into a midterm election year, with all the political and economic destruction that could bring.
It also meant that Biden's best-laid plans of triumphing over the pandemic and riding an economic wave into the campaign for congressional election results in November next year now look at risk.
If the emergency does go on that long, it will offer an opening for Republicans who are seeking to brand Biden's presidency as a failure -- and who are seizing on his chaotic evacuation from Afghanistan to paint a broader narrative of political decay.
—second to last paragraph is the elephant in the room this author missed—
Even as conditions worsen, the political frenzy over the virus, vaccines and Covid-19 treatments is escalating. Several Republican governors, including Florida's Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott of Texas, are waging cultural wars over mask mandates in schools ahead of reelection races and possible presidential bids. Trump's lukewarm endorsement of vaccines was booed by his crowd in Alabama on Saturday night, so don't look for the ex-President to drop much political capital on the issue in future. And the FDA just had to warn against a new crank Covid "cure" -- a livestock deworming drug -- pushed on conservative and social media.
Switched over the Fox News to see their take on the vaccine approval
Former Adm Brett Giroir was on. The first words out of his mouth were praising Warp Speed.
He then damned Biden for not having an FDA chief nominated.
Dana Perino (W’s last press secretary) said that on the boosters “What do you say to people who say this is just another way for Pfizer to make more money?”
Giroir blew it off saying it’s only $20 a shot and that this is just like getting other vaccine updates. Perino just had to get that out I guess.
Okay, back to Afghanistan now
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