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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Still not letting people access their burned homes in Maui
[Twitter] Maui County is REFUSING to let residents who lost their homes in the fire to clear their own property—let alone rebuild.

The government is only letting THEIR contractors into the burn zone to clean up.

The biggest problem is, at the rate they’re working, it will take SEVERAL YEARS for them to finish cleanup. And that’s BEFORE rebuilding even starts.

THEY’RE INTENTIONALLY STALLING AT THIS POINT, FORCING PEOPLE TO LEAVE.

Let me break this down:

➡️ Cleanup literally just started roughly two weeks ago (WHY?)
➡️ There are at least 2100 properties charred from the fire
➡️ They’re only clearing an average of 2 lots per weekday so far
➡️ Only seven trucks are running cleanup

And to top it off, even if your lot is cleared, you’re STILL not allowed to start rebuilding.

There needs to be a literal ARMY of people out here clearing lots. Not just a handful.

WHY IS MAINSTREAM MEDIA IGNORING MAUI?
Posted by: 3dc || 02/07/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [47 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  ...My personal conspiracy theory on this is that there's some SERIOUS builders and developers who want to build there, and as soon as they can run those pesky residents out of there they can get started.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 02/07/2024 6:35 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ You, Sir, are a very cynical man.

And probably right
Posted by: Frank G || 02/07/2024 6:49 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ I'm looking for another reason for the delay. I cannot find one. Perhaps the origins of the fire should be examined a bit more closely.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/07/2024 7:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Governor Newsome and CA State legislative leaders to visit on a fact finding mission to solve their Proposition 13 dilemma.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/07/2024 8:00 Comments || Top||

#5  So, pretty much was predicted from Day 1 when the 1st reports from this cockup were coming in.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/07/2024 10:18 Comments || Top||

#6  IIRC at Greensburg and Starbuck Fire, residents were not allowed access to federal emergency funding and services until after their property was cleared of debris.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/07/2024 10:58 Comments || Top||

#7  After burning the town down, residents are not allowed in. I think it is time for the residents to have a "pig roast".
Posted by: Beldar Uneter3543 || 02/07/2024 11:07 Comments || Top||

#8  MOST corrupt state gov in the country, highest rate of welfare, and the most corrupt cops, what could go wrong...
Posted by: 746 || 02/07/2024 11:36 Comments || Top||

#9  We were burned out in Tubb's Fire. Much bigger fire n we were able to get back in to pick through the rubble in a matter of weeks.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/07/2024 13:35 Comments || Top||

#10  Don't forget - they still are expected to pay their mortgage and taxes.

I'd say they are being setup so they will have to sell for pennies on the dollar and then wealthy neighbors can buy them up.
Posted by: CrazyFool in Texas || 02/07/2024 17:07 Comments || Top||

#11  I would have thought even the most corrupt government would have allowed specific contractors (who could be sworn to silence) to move peoples stuff (safely) into pods that could then be moved to a safe site. Then the insurance companies pay off the homes entirely and people can move on with their lives and nefarious schemes can progress.

What they are doing now baffles. It's like they are corrupt, stupid, and evil all at the same time.
Posted by: Ruprecht || 02/07/2024 18:08 Comments || Top||

#12  ^ Democrats
Posted by: Frank G || 02/07/2024 19:13 Comments || Top||

#13  I don't think there's any doubt that the "powers that be" realize most people can't wait forever and will have to take whatever deal they get no matter how crooked it is.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/07/2024 19:36 Comments || Top||

#14  Whatever they are doing won’t withstand the scrutiny of discovery.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/07/2024 19:46 Comments || Top||

#15  it already is
Posted by: Chris || 02/07/2024 21:20 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Ronna McDaniel - OUT!
[All News channels]
Posted by: 3dc || 02/07/2024 00:40 || Comments || Link || [34 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1  So overdue it's ridiculous.

But, really, what's going to change when the GOP has (and people vote for "just because" they are not Democrats) people like this?

GOP 'NO' VOTES:

- Tom McClintock (CA)
- Ken Buck (CO)
- Mike Gallagher (WI) [all from the Mayorkas vote]

And...
McConnell
Romney
Murkowski (AK rules aside)
Chaney (gone but not forgotten)
Sununu (Gov. of NH)
et al., ad nauseam

Meanwhile, just keep voting GOP and send them your money. They'll change America all right.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 02/07/2024 4:49 Comments || Top||

#2  I'd say that Vivek fella is pretty smart.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/07/2024 8:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Vote MAGA, not Pub.
Posted by: Cleared Cookies Lost Nic || 02/07/2024 9:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Ramascamy says a lot of stuff that sounds note perfect. So did most of the RINOs who turned their backs on the people who elected them as fast as they could.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/07/2024 9:08 Comments || Top||

#5  It's Feb 2024. Damage is done. Tag it and bag it.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/07/2024 10:21 Comments || Top||

#6  REPORT: Ronna McDaniel May Not Be Resigning As RNC Chair After All
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/07/2024 16:45 Comments || Top||

#7  I remember in 2022 when she was fundraising for election lawyers. She failed to do anything that she fundraiser for. The audit will be interesting. She looks well fed, but I don’t think you can blow that much money on McNuggets.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/07/2024 19:59 Comments || Top||

#8  Ronna McDaniel Denies Reports She’s Agreed to Step Down as RNC Chairwoman in Desperate Email to Members
Posted by: Woodrow || 02/07/2024 20:38 Comments || Top||

#9  Just hit the bitch over the head and throw her out the door.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/07/2024 22:04 Comments || Top||


Ted Cruz Calls For Mitch McConnell To Go
[Twitter with video]
Posted by: 3dc || 02/07/2024 00:37 || Comments || Link || [24 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1  Bipartisan border, foreign aid bill blocked in US Senate
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/07/2024 15:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Wish I remember where I saw this, paraphrased:

"Biden travels to Ukraine to beg $15Billion from Zelenksy for war on Texas."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/07/2024 18:11 Comments || Top||


Britain
UK man convicted of saying that it is okay to white...
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 02/07/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [30 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Rights of Englishmen
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/07/2024 2:34 Comments || Top||

#2  What, wait!
Posted by: Itsoktobewhite || 02/07/2024 10:03 Comments || Top||

#3  This is unwritten law in US, but soon to be codified here as well.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/07/2024 10:20 Comments || Top||

#4  What happened to that Runnymede thing?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 02/07/2024 10:24 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Joe Biden coasts to victory, Nikki Haley upended by ‘None of these candidates' in thinly contested Nevada primary
[NY Post] GOP Caucuses are Thursday and those come with delegates. Trump wasn't on the ballot
President Biden emerged victorious in Nevada’s Democratic primary Tuesday, while former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley suffered a humiliating defeat in the Republican contest, where former President Donald Trump’s name wasn’t even on the ballot.

"None of these candidates" was the top vote-getter on the GOP side of the bill, with the option receiving more than 60% of the vote when the race was called by the Associated Press.

Haley was the only major GOP candidate that who signed up for the Nevada primary, which has no delegates at stake, over the state GOP-run caucus, which will be held Thursday and has 26 delegates up for grabs.

Facing virtually no competition, Haley only amassed 33.2% of the vote in a contest marked by low turnout.

Only 11,802 total ballots had been cast in person as of 2 p.m. local time, according to the Nevada Secretary of State’s Office.
Posted by: Frank G || 02/07/2024 10:02 || Comments || Link || [33 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You'd need a heart of stone not to laugh at this.
Posted by: EMSArtifact || 02/07/2024 11:56 Comments || Top||

#2  So, she came in second again, which is her idea of victory. On to SC!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/07/2024 11:59 Comments || Top||

#3  So what were the results on the Republican side?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/07/2024 13:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Joe Biden coasts to victory, Nikki Haley upended by ‘None of these candidates' in thinly contested Nevada primary

Coasting is about all he can do.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/07/2024 13:34 Comments || Top||

#5  I have held the belief for many years that "None of the above" should be a candidate in all elections. Then, if "None of the above" wins, a new election must be held within a month in which all of the candidates who lost to "None of the above" would be ineligible and prohibited from running.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/07/2024 13:38 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Agreed. Losing to "none of the above" should result in a lifetime ban from elective office.

Three reversed decisions should result in judges being cashiered.

Serving on a jury that wrongfully convicts should result in banishment from jury duty and ineligibility to be tried before a jury.

Prosecuting a wrongful conviction should get a prosecutor similarly banned.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/07/2024 14:03 Comments || Top||

#7  My fave headline regarding Ms. Haley's showing:

SECOND TO NONE
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/07/2024 14:56 Comments || Top||

#8  Ouch.

Second Abu's proposal.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/07/2024 18:05 Comments || Top||

#9  Haley apparently cannot take a hint!

Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 02/07/2024 18:32 Comments || Top||

#10  I think at this point anyone sending her money in the hope she can knock Trump out of the race should send more.

Because, as Riverboat Slim said, "Suckers aren't supposed to have money."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/07/2024 18:47 Comments || Top||

#11  Haley is in the race until her Democrat donor money runs out.
Posted by: Sninemble Flaviting1731 || 02/07/2024 19:36 Comments || Top||

#12  You can do the same thing by undervoting a contest. I like the explicit “these choices suck,” option as then everyone knows you did it on purpose.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/07/2024 20:05 Comments || Top||


No criminal charges expected in Biden classified documents probe: NBC
[CNBC] Now explain why Trump is guilty of...something?
  • Neither President Joe Biden nor anyone else is expected to be criminally charged in an investigation into how classified documents ended up in locations associated with Biden, NBC News reported.

  • A senior law enforcement official told NBC a report on that probe by Department of Justice special counsel Robert Hur will be made public in the coming days.

  • Former President Donald Trump was indicted in 2022 on criminal charges related to retaining hundreds of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago Club after leaving the White House, and to his efforts to prevent government officials from recovering that material.
Posted by: Frank G || 02/07/2024 07:32 || Comments || Link || [37 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Now explain why Trump is guilty of...something?

Because he's not a member of the Inner Party and icky.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/07/2024 8:03 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ And that's the "technical" explanation...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/07/2024 8:05 Comments || Top||

#3  "Criminal charges" against Biden? No, I wasn't expecting any either.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/07/2024 8:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Classified document handling rules and criminal penalties are only for the "little people". Our elite leftist politicians and their protected servants are immune based on nothing but raw political power and their ability to destroy careers and lives of any who question their prerogatives. The farce of this Biden investigation outcome confirms it.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/07/2024 10:47 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Spot on! I have seen the careers of promising young soldiers ruined due to the careless handling of classified documents.

Different standards indeed.

Posted by: Besoeker || 02/07/2024 11:08 Comments || Top||

#6  "What difference, at this point, does it make?" This is how it's been for decades.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/07/2024 11:48 Comments || Top||

#7  But....my documents were inside a locked garage with my Corvette.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 02/07/2024 14:45 Comments || Top||

#8  The Biden family is making a huge mistake. Joe looks bad. If he doesn’t wake up tomorrow, all the family pardons are not going to happen.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/07/2024 20:02 Comments || Top||


House FAILS to impeach Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas over border crisis
[X]
Posted by: DooDahMan || 02/07/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [40 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And he was impeached, what would change border policy?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/07/2024 2:21 Comments || Top||

#2  ...And IF he was impeached, what would change border policy?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/07/2024 2:22 Comments || Top||

#3  So essentially what we have is a televised congressional endorsement of the migrant invasion.

I didn't think my opinion of these people could sink any lower, but it certainly has.

The open-border "Republicans" who voted against impeachment are:

  • Ken Buck (CO)
  • Tom McClintonck (CA)
  • Mike Gallagher (WI)


  • Posted by: Besoeker || 02/07/2024 2:42 Comments || Top||

    #4  ^That's what you get for ignoring the classics, Besoeker (see Mark Twain on congress).
    Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/07/2024 2:48 Comments || Top||

    #5  I suppose we might as well forget about the Biden impeachment and go on to more pressing matters.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 02/07/2024 8:40 Comments || Top||

    #6  Uhmm...
    There were four no votes. Who is the 4th?
    Posted by: Cleared Cookies Lost Nic || 02/07/2024 8:58 Comments || Top||

    #7  The 4th "No" was a procedural "No". Something about that one allowed the motion to be brought back at a another time.
    Posted by: Crusader || 02/07/2024 9:37 Comments || Top||

    #8  ^ Yep
    But House GOP Conference Vice Chair Blake Moore brought the drama to an end by flipping his vote from “yea” to “nay”, drawing cheers from the Democratic side of the aisle, though the Utah Republican had made the switch to join the majority and offer a motion to reconsider, which has postponed until a future date
    Posted by: Frank G || 02/07/2024 9:59 Comments || Top||

    #9  I am seriously disappointed by Tom McClintock.
    Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/07/2024 13:41 Comments || Top||

    #10  McClintock must feel very safe in his congressional district but if he ever runs for statewide office in California I will be sure to vote against him. All this time I thought he was a conservative. Damn RINO, I think I'd just as soon vote for a Democrat.
    Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/07/2024 13:44 Comments || Top||

    #11  I think there were more than for that are against us. McClintock has been bad for a while. McClintock is considered safe so the other trailers can stay under cover. It is the same 50 or so bozos who hung with Ryan and McCarthy.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 02/07/2024 19:52 Comments || Top||



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