Stupid World

[pritch]

Y'all might remember the fuss bout litter boxes being provided in schools for kids identifying as animals - furries. This was a hoax of course, but was adopted enthusiastically by some of the more inbred state and local politicians in the US.

An Oklahoma state representative has introduced a bill banning litter boxes in schools. If the parents don't come and get their kid, he wants animal control to do it.

The Yanks really do need to take more care over who they are electing to office.

https://nypost.com/2024/01/17/news/l...ahoma-schools/

[R650R]

Haven't read this up so my details are sparse. Texas installed traps in the river comprised of drums and razor wire with the intention of seriously damaging or drowning people trying to cross the border. This was appealed to the Supreme Court. That Republican super majority Supreme Court, which has now ruled the traps are illegal.

Republicans are feeling utterly betrayed and are crying in their beer. It's a good day.

I thought this was ai fake news at first but Yexas as deployed troops to secure the border.

In any society about 10% have the qualities at various levels of thugs/bullues/narcissistic traits etc. About 1% may be or have sociopathic traits that is they are capable or nasty stuff or even being serial killers etc. The border problem has progressed to 4.8million unchecked people arriving illegally every year now, that’s nearly the population of NZ. And even here we prob have several thousand people that we’d say yeah nah to if they were t actually born and raised here.
So America is being invaded by at least 48,000 people capable of causing serious harm. It is known that Hamas has a presence in Mexico and after the Middle East incident the picture of cheap labour via slack borders has changed with the prospect of terrorist sleeper cells walking into the country.

BTW you won’t see any mantraps in this video looks like a well practised art

[pritch]

It is known that Hamas has a presence in Mexico

It is? By whom? And how much electric puha had been consumed prior to this knowledge occurring.

Governor Abbott is, to use the words of one of his cronies, a sick son of a bitch.

Recently the Mexican border people notified the US Border Patrol that there was a woman with two children in trouble in the river. The Border Patrol attended the location but Abbotts National Guard would not let them access the river and the three people died.

It would pay Abbott to remember that he has control of the Texas National Guard only as long as Biden permits it. Biden can take control at any time and presidents have used this power previously.

[Grumph]

It would pay Abbott to remember that he has control of the Texas National Guard only as long as Biden permits it. Biden can take control at any time and presidents have used this power previously.

Interestingly, there's a bill being worked on in the Senate which would take some of the President's power to use the Guard away. It's being done as a potential stopper to Trump sending the Guard to democrat controlled cities as he has threatened previously. It's actually either the second or third attempt to get something similar through.
What has gone through is a bill requiring a majority in the Senate and Congress before the US can withdraw from NATO.
There are some guardrails being put in place.

[neels]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/350157756/why-us-target-workers-were-fired-buying-stanley-cups

Seriously, people 'swarming stores' and losing their jobs over buying a cup....

It's a cup....

Have we actually reached the point where people are driven into a fear of missing out frenzy to get the latest fashionable...cup....just because they've seen it on the interwebs

[pritch]

Seriously, people 'swarming stores' and losing their jobs over buying a cup....

It's a cup....

Beats me. That cup was US$50.00 retail apparently and flippers were advertising them online for US$299. A fool and his money?

[pritch]

At a meeting of Colorado Republican Congressional candidates they were asked if they'd been arrested. Six held up their hands. A seventh was not at the meeting because he has current problems with law enforcement. So that's seven out of ten have arrest records - and they call themselves the party of law and order.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN-5-AK9fO8

[R650R]

Typical govt trying to get more blood out of a stone….

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3501...lost-gabrielle

I can see their argument, after all no one is ever supposed to profit from an insurance payout. But it ignores being kicked off/bought out from your own bit of land(no matter what culture) and the trauma from the floods and drawn out compensation process.
Can anyone say if they did this after quakes???
Its even worse when some of the flooding is due to years of neglect in planning and maintenance of flood control works and ignorance of history.

[pritch]

Can anyone say if they did this after quakes???

Can't answer that, but I was told to allow for clearing the section in my home insurance valuation.

[neels]

Can't answer that, but I was told to allow for clearing the section in my home insurance valuation.

Post Chch earthquakes, the insurance payouts were for full rebuild cost, so therefore in many cases far exceeded the value of the existing house.

The amount paid when red zoned and land sold to the govt was less the demo cost, as ownership of the structure passed to the insurance company and it was their responsibility to get rid of it.

Have the insurance people now found a way to get out of it being their problem by paying the full amount to the owners and leaving responsibility with them, in which case it's their cost not the councils?

Many people have objections to spending their insurance money on what it was intended for.

[Laava]

Heaven forbid people would take their insurance payout and then just sell as is! That would never happen!

[Grumph]

Heaven forbid people would take their insurance payout and then just sell as is! That would never happen!

It's not the deed itself that is the problem. It's the subsequent lying about what happened and what was done to the property.

I struck an example where a relative of my wife died and in the course of sorting the estate it became apparent that another family member had ripped her off when doing quake repairs. The paperwork had vanished in the short time following the death but looking at the payout and what she'd paid for out of it, something didn't add up.

Buying a house here where the owner has taken a payout and sorted it themselves is Russian roulette played with properties.

[Laava]

It's not the deed itself that is the problem. It's the subsequent lying about what happened and what was done to the property.

I struck an example where a relative of my wife died and in the course of sorting the estate it became apparent that another family member had ripped her off when doing quake repairs. The paperwork had vanished in the short time following the death but looking at the payout and what she'd paid for out of it, something didn't add up.

Buying a house here where the owner has taken a payout and sorted it themselves is Russian roulette played with properties.

Yeah, I have family members that moved to Chch from Wanaka into rental accom. It was all freshly painted, all white, and looked good but black mould started growing everywhere within weeks. They had signed a longish term lease and so had to break it when it turned out that the liquifaction was still hard up underneath the floorboards. The house had been through an insurance claim, but it was sold without having the full remedial works done. I know that there were and prob still are a lot of stories…

[pritch]

Here we have the moment FOX decided global warming wasn't a hoax. Climate change is indeed a threat. And Taylor Swift is responsible.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/touchdown...-c02-emissions

[R650R]

The Green Party has announced today what they will announce tommorow. Priceless.

“Chlöe Swarbrick to announce co-leadership bid

At 11am tomorrow Chlöe Swarbrick will announce her intention to run for the Green Party co-leadership.

Nominations opened yesterday to fill the role of outgoing co-leader James Shaw who resigned on Tuesday.

Any Green Party member can put themselves forward to lead the party but even if others do, Swarbrick is the obvious choice and clear front-runner.

The candidates can be any gender thanks to a change in 2022 which shifted the co-leadership model from ‘one man, one woman’ to one woman plus one leader of any gender - and one of the leaders must be Māori. ”