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I'm not sure I'd bet money on that. A lot of the dem leadership is a monolithic good-old-boys club that always seems to have each other's backs.

Democrats are not saints, either. Clinton (Bill), for example, was a buddy of Epstein too, remember. It's entirely possible that there is dirt on him or other higher up among the dems that don't want it released. There are also leaders and/or ministers of foreign nations in the file. The USA releasing it could impact relationships with allies.

Chances are it will never be fully released unless hackers manage to get it and do it.

They love fancy words written on parchment. It doesn't seem to matter too much what the specific words are, as long as the words mean that they are special. But you're right, they never read, or at least understand, the documents they worship.

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward. But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you - Matthew 6:5-6

They are truly hypocrites. Also,

Other commentators have said that the rhetoric calling for physical violence is anti-biblical and should be denounced.

Physical violence is anti-Biblical? More proof they haven't read the thing or understood it if they have.

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I witnessed what the Amalekites did to the Israelites when they ambushed them on their way up from Egypt. Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’” - Samuel 15:2-3

Yeah, sure, the Bible is anti-violence. 🙄

Me'thinks the lady doth protest too much.

Good luck, and I mean that sincerely. I hope they can force it.

From a 1949 book cover distributed to schools by DC.

MAGA is basically opposed to truth, justice, and the American way, aren't they?

One thing I wonder is how seriously people take the flood warnings.

Most of the time if it is raining at all, I get the various flood warnings. I could imagine people underestimating those.

You have a point. But the issue is probably that some people don't differentiate between the different watches and warnings. There are different levels of alerts. Most flood alerts are not of the immediately life threatening variety, and often focus on informing people that they shouldn't drive across flooded road ways. This article about the Texas floods details what alerts were sent out and when as this disaster unfolded.

Initially, the NWS issued flash flood watches on Thursday, the day before the floods, which indicated that conditions in the watch time frame suggested flash floods were going to be possible. Later in the evening, they issued a second watch highlighting the slow moving nature of the storm which suggested even heavier rainfall which increased to risk of flooding. Friday morning, shortly after midnight, they issued a flash flood warning which which is different than a watch.

A weather warning means that there is immediate danger in the highlighted area, not just a possibility of danger. A flash flood watch equals there may be a flash flood, a flash flood warning means there is a flash flood happening. A tornado watch means a tornado could form. A tornado warning means a tornado has formed.

The initial flash flood warning issued after midnight Friday also included the "considerable" tag which triggers the wireless emergency alerts to go out to cell phones and NOAA radios. That warning was upgraded 2 hours later with instructions to "Move to higher ground now. Act quickly to protect your life." A half hour after later, that warning was upgraded to a flash flood emergency which again set off the wireless emergency alert system. Sadly, the region has spotty cell service so it's unclear how effective the wireless emergency alert system was in this incident.

It's possible that people not realizing that each alert represented an increase in the immediacy of the threat to their lives which led them to fail to take action. The solution to that is education, of course. Teach them the meanings of the alerts so they are not confused in the future. But that requires increased funding which is the one thing we can be sure Texas and the Trump administration will not do.

Nah, Trump isn't the cause, he's just a symptom, probably the worst symptom of the decades long efforts of the GOP to undermine campaign finance. education, ethics laws, and any other law or rule that impeded their efforts towards fascism. They've been working on this since Reagan and we are at the culmination. They have taken control of every branch of government and with Trump as a figurehead, they are tearing down the last planks of democracy.

In the 18th century, the Italian criminologist Cesare Beccaria devised the deterrence theory that criminal justice systems worldwide have depended on since. He cited three primary principles to deterrence: the severity of a punishment, the speed at which someone is captured and the certainty he or she will be found.

American policy often focuses on severity. In recent decades, lawmakers responded to spikes in crime by increasing the length of prison sentences. They paid less attention to the certainty and swiftness of punishment. Yet those two other factors may matter more to deterrence, some experts say.

America pays attention only to the severity of punishment. Certainty and swiftness of punishment is always just glossed over by the typical tough-on-crime types. And cops don't generally care if they get the right person either. They care about conviction rates, but accuracy never seems to come up at all. Nobody in power seems to care that when you convict the wrong person, not only are you doing a great injustice to that person, you are leaving the actual murderer out on the streets to kill again! What fraction of that 58% clearance rate were not actually the real murderer and had just been beaten or otherwise coerced into confessing? I wouldn't be surprised if that number dropped close to or even below 50% if that were to somehow be taken into account.

Hell, even when a person in the USA is shown to have been wrongfully convicted of a crime and imprisoned, the state will fight tooth and nail to keep them in prison, particularly if it's an election year.

It remains unclear why the early warning system failed to result in the timely evacuation of Camp Mystic, where 700 girls were camped on a known flood plain on the Guadalupe River

That is not unclear at all. The reason they did not get evacuated is because there are no sirens that sound when flood alerts are issued. The area relies on cell net alerts and posts on Facebook and Twitter. People in the region have very spotty cell service so many phones did not get the alerts and, at Camp Mystic, the children at least were not allowed to have phones with them. So, in summary, there was no early warning system in place to alert these campers to flee to higher ground.

The client list hubbub began when Bondi was asked in a Fox News interview whether the department would release such a document.

She replied: “It’s sitting on my desk right now to review.”

"There is not Epstein client list... now." _ Bondi probably.

Don't tell me; MAGAt who thought it was part of the Democrat Weather Control Machine?

Oh look, a Trump appointee putting politics ahead of science and the general welfare of the people. Must be a day that ends in a Y.

There is no way for meteorologists to know exactly where along a storm's path that the rain will fall. That storm's path as it moves from west to east could be hundreds of miles long and hundreds of miles wide to the north and south. That's why your local forecast will say something like 50% chance of rain on Thursday. Meteorologists can estimate where the rain will most likely fall, but they cannot pinpoint exactly when or where it will fall.

The rain from a storm over a region 50 or 100 miles across can generally run off to a variety of different rivers. Sure, all those rivers are likely to find their way to the same waterways somewhere down stream, but it will take the water from different areas different amounts of time to get there depending on the geometry of the rivers. Just like when you drive from home to work, it'll take you a different amount of time depending on which route you take, the runoff from a storm will take a different amount of time to reach a given point down stream. That means that the runoff from a large storm will not all generally reach the same down stream point at the same and those rivers will not be so likely to reach flood stage.

Yes, rain falling miles and miles away upstream will certainly make its way towards the camp. But if that rain falls miles and miles away downstream, then the flooding will be downriver from the camp. If the rain falls earlier than expected during the storm, then it will fall farther west and will runoff to the south of the camp as well. Same if the rain falls later and comes down to the east of the camp. But, again, meteorologists have no way to precisely predict either the path of a storm, nor where along that path that the precipitation will fall. They can give odds, but that's it.

This case was a worst case scenario. A very large amount of rain fell in a very short amount of time along a relatively narrow path. That means a huge amount of water fell over a small area that all drained into a pair of rivers that both ran into the Guadeloupe river at the same point. This raised the river almost 10 meters in 45 minutes. Forecasters could not possibly have predicted that this weather system would dump all that water in such a short time over such a small area.

They did accurately predict that there would likely be flooding and they issued alerts for large areas where it was likely to occur. As the event proceeded and the odds narrowed, increasing the chances of flooding in particular areas they issues further alerts warning communities of the increasing danger in those areas. Sadly, there were no sirens or other mechanisms in place to make sure that the people living in those areas would get those alerts in the middle of the night.

There is and the national weather service alerts that night for the area should have triggered such alerts twice, according to another article I read.

It was around midnight on Friday, July 4, when the first few thunderstorms began dumping heavy rainfall in central Texas. About an hour later, the first Flash Flood Warning was issued by the National Weather Service at around 1:14 a.m. This warning also included the "considerable" tag, which should have triggered wireless emergency alerts to go out to cell phones and NOAA Weather Radios.

Then at 3:35 a.m., the original warning was upgraded and included the verbiage, "Move to higher ground now. Act quickly to protect your life." Less than 30 minutes later, the warning was upgraded again to a Flash Flood Emergency and would have triggered the wireless emergency alerts once again.

The problem seems to have been that the region where the floods were most dangerous has very spotty cell service. That combined with the fact that some people apparently turn their phones off at night prevented those alerts from reaching a lot of people. Also, the kids at Camp Mystic were not allowed to have phones with them during their stay.

Dog breeders stocking pet stores were never the heroes. If you want a dog, adopt from animal control or a reputable rescue, or pay a responsible breeder directly. Don't go to a pet store.

Yeah, I think they always expect to be out of office by the time the next big disaster hits. They're coming faster and faster now, though. I don't think that strategy will work anymore.

No warning at all, eh? Well, the NWS did their jobs but if you have to count on podunk county officials to alert you, then I suggest you invest in a NOAA weather radio. They're not expensive and could save your life.

• Thursday, June 3. A Flood Watch for Central Texas was issued by the local National Weather Service Office in Austin/San Antonio. The watch was in effect through Friday morning and warned of the chance for rainfall totals upwards of 5 to 7 inches, which would lead to excessive runoff and flooding along rivers, creeks, and streams.
• Later Thursday evening, the Weather Prediction Center highlighted the same region with an increasing threat for slow-moving thunderstorms that could dump rainfall rates of 3 inches an hour.
• It was around midnight on Friday, June 4, when the first few thunderstorms began dumping heavy rainfall in central Texas. About an hour later, the first Flash Flood Warning was issued by the National Weather Service at around 1:14 a.m. This warning also included the "considerable" tag, which should have triggered wireless emergency alerts to go out to cell phones and NOAA Weather Radios.
• Then at 3:35 a.m., the original warning was upgraded and included the verbiage, "Move to higher ground now. Act quickly to protect your life." Less than 30 minutes later, the warning was upgraded again to a Flash Flood Emergency and would have triggered the wireless emergency alerts once again.
• Finally, at 5:34 a.m., a Flash Flood Warning for the Guadalupe River mentioned the "large and deadly flood wave" that was observed and moving down the river. Dozens of weather alerts were issued thereafter as the flood event unfolded across central Texas.

There was plenty of warning but the incompetent emergency managers in these communities dropped the ball. Every emergency vehicle in the flood area should have been running with lights and sirens ahead of he flood and giving warning over loudspeakers. They could have woke up everyone and given them a chance to flee to high ground. Instead, the managers mostly just counted on the cell phone alert system which works very poorly in the area because there are few cell towers.

Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice said that it was unclear whether there was any communication between law enforcement and Camp Mystic after the initial flood watch alert went out but that the lack of proper cell service and limited communications towers in the Hill Country remain “very challenging.”

Oh, and the kids at Camp Mystic were not allowed to have cell phones.

The city of McAllen identified the suspect as Ryan Louis Mosqueda. His last known address was in Michigan, and he is about 27 years old, McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez said at a news briefing Monday afternoon.

Rodriguez was unable to respond to further questions from reporters because ICE agents tackled and detained him moments after he introduced himself. Okay, I made that up, but that's what I expected to read. I'm honestly surprised it didn't play out this way.

Yeah, where are all the preachers claiming that this is God's punishment for Texas' communal sins?