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Oh, it's legit all right, and yes these people are (evil) morons. https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/apr/23/washington-state-republican-party-endorses-6-candi/

Sue Kuehl Pederson picked up 86% of the convention votes and secured the party’s nomination for commissioner of public lands.

Kuehl Pederson wants to make logging a more prominent part of the state’s economy.

“Unfortunately, our timber industry, which was the backbone of our economy for at least a century … it went down the tubes,” Kuehl Pederson said in a speech Friday.

Kuel Pederson, a former senior environmental analyst at Seattle City Light, said the state needs to get its power from a mix of resources. She said the state will experience power blackouts if it transitions completely away from hydroelectric power produced by dams.

“You know, wind and solar are fine,” she said. “They make you feel good about, you know, clean air, but you can’t live off of it.”

How in hell can your 10-14yo not go to school and nobody lifts a finger? School's not mandatory in W. VA? Somebody's been watching closely enough that they know how many times the girl left the house in four years, but nobody thought intervention was called for?

You can be sure that these jailed homeless people will end up being forced into labor - enslaved - because you can't let dirt-cheap labor go to waste, and you can't let a poor person look like they're getting something for nothing - mooching, free-riding - even if it's not their choice. Handouts are legitimately only for the rich and their corporations after all. If someone's fined+jailed and won't work for some capitalist exploiter, what will be done? I would guess some kind of torture will be employed to change their minds, but wouldn't be surprised if they're simply executed, especially if they're non-white.

Those same Republicans have almost succeeded in ruining one public college in N. ID.

https://www.columbian.com/news/2024/apr/02/north-idaho-college-has-one-last-shot-to-fix-accreditation/

The Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities has required NIC to make teach-out agreements for all of its academic programs by the end of August. These agreements would be signed by nearby institutions that would allow students to transfer if NIC loses accreditation.

Swayne said it still could be a hardship for some NIC students to transfer to another school. There isn’t another Idaho community college nearby, and even transferring to University of Idaho in Moscow would bring higher tuition and would require moving. Transferring to a college in the Spokane area would mean out-of-state tuition and a commute.

This is maddening. It's not just Big Food that's in on the "fat is fine" bandwagon. My gym, a YMCA, likely once upon a time had "fitness" instructors who would help you craft a workout plan. Now that's all gone, and they have "wellness" instructors instead, who happen to be, at my gym, two very obese people clad every single day in 100% stretch-wear. Of the TVs in the weight/cardio area, half are tuned to professional sports and the other half are tuned to "cooking" shows - Chef Fatso hawking his/her wares to all the "food" addicts in the room and sending the message loud and clear: "eat whatever tastes good, eat as much of it as you want (the more the better), and don't let anyone make you feel bad/weird for doing so". There's no question that today investors are backing fat and overeating whereas there was a time in the not-too-distant past that they were backing fitness and controlling (meaning, restricting in some way) dietary intake instead.

That is annoying as hell.

Bad site, no clicks.

NPR is steaming down the "condescending" path now too, with their daily headlines of the form "XYZ, what you need to know" and "what to know about ABC" .... as in (today) "What to know as jury selection begins ..." . I'm just like, "FU NPR, I don't need you to dictate to me the things that are important or not important to me, I'll make that call, your job is simply to fill in the blanks when and if asked, no more and no less."

I live right under the approach/departure path for the main runway at our airport, a couple of miles away. Probably around 100 flights/day total in/out, many of them B737s, flying around 2000' overhead. I'm wondering if I should expect to find pieces of Boeing's Finest in the back yard or coming through the ceiling soon. So far there's been no "blue ice" but there has also been no door plugs or tires, so could just be a matter of time. Fortunately the busiest carrier uses Embraers for many if not most of their traffic so that's probably a good thing for me.

Key phrase: "Boeing-made"

The bridge can be rebuilt "whenever" as far as I'm concerned. That's irrelevant. All that I'm saying here is that I want the private parties responsible to foot the bill ultimately. That doesn't mean work can't start tomorrow, or next week, or next year, whatever. I'm pretty tired of the BigCorp "socialism for me, not for thee" attitude and don't want them to get away with it once again.

While I'm not against the feds working on this, I would much rather see the company that owned the ship and/or its insurance companies foot the bill for the whole mess. "Personal Responsibility", that was supposed to be a virtue of some sort I've heard. That and "anti-socialism". Let's see BigShip corporate types walk the walk here, preferably right off the plank.

Nice outfit. She looks like she just took off her D. Vader helmet.

Archive link: https://archive.is/Qsioy

Insurance companies still do many versions of this with a byzantine coding system, complex “out of network” exclusions, etc. Anything to deny a claim.

Yep. My criminal insurance company (CIC) marketing docs trumpeted how my ER costs were "fully covered" (which they're required to be by law, I think). That's obviously bad for profits, so the solution? Well just interpret any ER line-item (pick some expensive ones) as non-ER, even when they pertain to an ER visit, then charge the whole slew of separate copays/deductibles that go with the new interpretation. Profit! The hospital, which has a contract with the insurer, will cooperate and code all these line-item services with ambiguous language and codes, making them ripe for the picking by the screw-you insurance dweebs.

Oh, I can appeal the insurance decisions? Great. Appeal #1 is decided by the insurance company itself! 100% internal. Appeal #2 is done by a third party company, selected by the insurance company and paid by the insurance company. Think your state insurance commissioner is going to step in when foul play occurs? Think again. If they pay attention to you at all, they'll claim to have no "authority" to make "medical decisions" about the abuse the insurance companies subject you to, and if they do anything at all, it might be to write a mildly-stern email to the insurance company reminding it of your complaint and their supposed obligations. That's it, the commissioner's office is not on "your side" and even if it were to some extent, they'll claim to be "too overloaded" to do anything, anything like actually regulate the insurance companies, on your behalf or on behalf of the other millions of insurance customers.

Northern ID is a cultural shit-hole. The original home of the American Nazi, now occupied by racists, Jew-haters, Xian nationalists, and other hate-cults, and of course by American Nazis still. Oh and it's been discovered by the wealthy elite and sold to them as a get-away where they can sit by the lake, recuperate from their hard labors of screwing the masses, network, and write checks to the Fascist orgs that exist to serve them (ex. Trump cult). N. ID can't even keep their local state colleges functioning and accredited, but don't worry, the CdA-area airports are in good shape and bustling with corpo jets, you'll have no problems landing yours there.

This is what he'll be trying to put together this year, inspired by his historical hero, Benito:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackshirts

I doubt he'll be able to find many Trump Intellectuals to lead it all, but maybe Vlad will lend a hand.

Don't forget to publicly insult the judges and prosecutors while you're on there. Class act.

Re: Fascism, Mussolini's full explanation/description is a very good read. Here's a version that a search turned up:

https://sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/2B-HUM/Readings/The-Doctrine-of-Fascism.pdf .

Another: http://media.wix.com/ugd/927b40_c1ee26114a4d480cb048f5f96a4cc68f.pdf (Soames).

Got to hand it to the guy, he was well-educated and could write, which is more than you can say for his modern-day imitators, especially the loud, orange one.

blood-letting and incantations

Won't work for me. My illnesses are always due to possession by evil demons. Isn't this true for all patients? I read, today I think, that the UK royals subscribe to some kind of "chemo" nonsense to banish the cancer demons. I guess we know who didn't have the benefit of an Indiana college education.

Also, imagine you're

• an American history prof who, assuming you're allowed to teach about slavery at all, has to give class time to "diverse" opinions as to whether slavery was actually a Good Thing for the slaves, that slaves were actually a happy, healthy, grateful bunch.
• a physics or astronomy prof who has to teach "diverse" theories about how the universe was magic'd into existence just a few thousand years ago.
• a chemistry, geology, ecology, or atmospheric science prof who has to give credence, in class or via grades, to "diverse" viewpoints denying any connection between burning fossil fuels and anthropogenic global warming, not that the latter is a Real Thing, of course, I diversely protest!

I do wonder if Indiana religion-aligned "higher-ed" (either schools teaching religion only, or teaching a general curriculum and just aligned with some particular religious sect) faculty will have to welcome students who present "diverse" viewpoints regarding religious truths - viewpoints like atheism or (gasp) satanism or Native spiritualities or "Christian Science" or occultism or ancient Greek/Roman beliefs, to name a few. Probably not, eh?

Archived version: https://archive.is/3QRjZ

Divine rage.

I worked a breakfast grill at a restaurant as a teen and got pretty good at it. I'll make that kid the most perfect breakfast omelette they've ever eaten. And I'll bring the ingredients if we're short.

Also worked @a food pantry not long ago, warehouse work mostly but I got to see some of the parents and kids who showed up, long lines out into the northern cold, every day we were open, just to get a day or two's worth of something to eat.

Anyone who would means-test a kid out of a free school meal, or deny them altogether, is some kind of sociopath monster.