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Bragg is doing his own reboot of the KMart Blue Light Special.
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It should not be forgotten, these are enlightened policies. They are supposed to make things better.
Of course, better for who and according to what metrics are debatable.
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This is just not necessarily 'good and hard', it's also moves by big cities to execute slow succession from the Constitutional compact. We don't have to follow 'your' laws.
[Kansas City Star] Paul Powell, the southern Illinois political powerhouse who died and left behind $800,000 in cash in the notorious "Shoebox Scandal," used to say, "The only thing worse than a defeated politician is a broke one." For more than half a century, a Powell-established $250,000 trust sustained his legacy, for better or worse.
But the account that maintained his birthplace as a museum will soon run dry. The fate of the home in Vienna, a town of 1,300 about 140 miles (230 kilometers) southeast of St. Louis, is uncertain, but it likely will be sold. For decades it has been home, according to Powell's wishes, to the Johnson County Genealogical and Historical Society, which has the home looking as it did during the political giant's time in office, with memorabilia cluttering the walls. The upkeep runs about $5,000 annually, while last year the society's income was $4,300, said board member Gary Hacker, 85, whose parents were schoolmates of Powell and mowed his lawn as a teenager in the early 1950s. "We're probably going to be putting it on the market for sale," Hacker said. "The historical society will relocate."
Southern Illinois was Powell's fiefdom for much of the mid-1900s. He brought jobs by expanding the state's prison infrastructure to the region, pumped money and status into Southern Illinois University and promoted county fairs and pari-mutuel betting on horse racing, which served the dual purpose of enriching Powell, who held racetrack stock. While in later years Powell spent more time in Springfield and Chicago, when he was at home, favor-seekers streamed to the house. Sunday afternoons were spent in the sunroom he added in the 1950s, where three televisions were tuned to separate networks carrying sports, Hacker said.
Following President Biden’s six minute visit to East Palestine, one year after their devastating train derailment. Video at the link.
[Breitbart] On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stated that the Department of Transportation has “taken so many steps on rail safety policy” since the East Palestine derailment and is “doing everything we can with the authorities that we already have,” but accidents have gone up despite this because Congress needs to act.
Buttigieg said, “For our department, the process mainly has to do with making sure things like this can’t happen again, which is why we’ve taken so many steps on rail safety policy and are pressing Congress to do more with the power that it has.”
Co-host Geoff Bennett then asked, “Well, despite intense scrutiny from regulatory agencies since that derailment, rail accidents have actually increased over the last year. Why? What accounts for that?”
Buttigieg responded, “Well, I think this demonstrates why we need that Bipartisan Railway Safety Act in Congress. Don’t get me wrong, we’re doing everything we can with the authorities that we already have, focused inspections, a new rule that we recently finalized requiring emergency escape breathing apparatus to protect crewmembers on trains carrying those kind of hazardous materials, audits, and safety advisories, other measures. But the simple reality is, we need a stronger hand. And Congress could and should give that to us with the Bipartisan Railway Safety Act.”
He continued, “I’ll give you just a couple of examples: One thing that that legislation would do is it would lift the statutory cap that prevents my department from fining a railroad anything more than low six figures, even for an egregious violation that leads to a fatality, which is obviously not enough to get multibillion-dollar corporations to change their behavior. It would also accelerate the adoption of safer equipment and standards that, on our own, it would either take too long or we simply lack the authority to do. Now, there was a lot of noise about this a year ago, but now, one year later, I think because of intense lobbying against this by the railroad industry, it has been very difficult to get many members of Congress on the record on whether they’re for or against this Railway Safety Act, even though it had both Republican and Democratic co-sponsors at the time.”
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Buttigieg is emblematic of the Biden Regime’s penchant for ruining something and then demanding that Congress approve his boondoggle to repair what was never broken before.
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02/18/2024 9:33 Comments ||
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"Look what you made me do..."
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
02/18/2024 10:03 Comments ||
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#3
Just what the situation needs - more laws and regulations!
#4
"Positive Train Control" (radio linkage) was mandated by Congress shortly after a texting California engineer ran a red signal and crashed his commuter train into a Union Pacific freight in 2008.
So that $5B unfunded mandate didn't do the trick, Pete? How did that affect the prices of railroad-hauled goods?
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02/18/2024 14:42 Comments ||
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My understanding is a bearing caught fire leading to a derailment. They are able to positively determine this was the result of willful lack of failure to do maintenance to save money? Considering what it cost the railroad that would be short-sighted stupidity, certainly not "greed."
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That Buttgig decided to talk Cleveland Steamers on PBS is a tell.
#1
Installing Joe Biden was always like hiring Flavor Flav to do a toothpaste commercial. Sure he was available, but there were very obvious reasons why Joe should never be president.
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[Red State] We've been talking for some time about how bad Joe Biden's classified documents scandal was compared to former President Donald Trump's situation. Trump had things transported to Mar-a-Lago only from the time he was president, when he was allowed to have access to them, with Secret Service protection. The issue was over what needed to be returned.
But as I've noted in the past, Biden himself admitted there was a document going back to 1974, when he didn't even have any right to have anything from the time he was a Senator. Then after the Hur report dropped, Biden spoke about their investigation spanning "40 years." That set off alarm bells about how bad this was, and the media hasn't really been focusing on that part, so I wanted to make sure everyone saw it.
He had classified documents, including from the 1970s and 80s, all over his house--when as a Senator, he had no right to any documents outside of a SCIF. Read this and imagine what would happen to you if you were anyone else other than Joe Biden.
Agents seized items that fell primarily into two categories: (1) boxes or folders containing documents with classification markings, most of which date to the 1970s and relate to foreign trips Mr. Eiden took as a senator; and (2) notebooks containing his handwritten notes from his time as vice president relating to foreign policy and national security. Two of these notebooks had marked classified documents stored inside them. and several notebooks contained handwritten information that was itself classified.
In Mr. Biden's garage, agents found several documents with classification markings dating from Mr. Biden's time in the Senate in the 1970s and 1980s. Some of those documents relate to foreign trips Mr. Biden took as a senator, some of which he chronicled in his 2007 memoir, Promises to Keep. Agents found those Senate-era documents in a storage closet in Mr. Biden's garage.
In Mr. Biden's main-floor office, basement den, and second-floor office, agents found and seized seventeen notebooks and a stack of notecards, all of which contained Mr. Biden's handwritten notes on foreign policy and national security matters as vice president. Two of the notebooks, found in the main-floor office, had documents with classification markings stored inside them. Elsewhere in the house, agents found one document with classification markings in the third-level den. And in an office attached to the primary bedroom on the second level agents found a binder (similar to a binder previously found in the garage). which contained most of the same marked classified documents as the binder found in the garage.
He had still more classified documents that were found when they searched his Senate papers at the University of Delaware. I don't think we were ever told by the White House that these were found; reports at the time about the search of those documents suggested that no classified documents had been found.
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This may have already been done, but if I were Biden's Press Secretary, I would make the laughable claim that this entire episode was an example that Joe was a workaholic that never ceased striving to serve the interests of the American people.
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02/18/2024 9:53 Comments ||
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/\ My guess as well. The workload was enormous.
Boxes of Black Books, they were destined to one day be properly returned.
#3
The problem with the whole prexident keeping classified stuff is, going forward, anyone can slip damning docs into their personal papers and blow the whistle later.
Of course, if it only carries consequences for pubs...
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[Newser] Foremost Group chief executive was Mitch McConnell's sister-in-law
The Chinese sites are saying she belted herself into her Tesla and backed it into water
Angela Chao, who ran a family shipping company and was a sister of former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, was killed Sunday in a car accident in Texas. She was the chair and chief executive of Foremost Group, an operator of bulk carrier ships with deep ties to China, the New York Times reports. "Angela Chao was a formidable executive and shipping industry leader, as well as a proud and loving daughter, sister, aunt, wife and mother," a company statement said. Chao, who lived in Austin, was 50 and had led the company since 2018.
James SC Chao, who founded Foremost in 1964, will succeed his daughter as chairman. Michael Lee will become president, per CNN. James Chao fled China with the Nationalists in the late 1940s and settled in Taiwan, later moving to the US. He and his daughter, though both US citizens, served on the boards of large enterprises in China. Angela Chao, whose sister Elaine is married to US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, served on the board of the Bank of China, a top lender to Foremost.
She also had been vice chair of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade. "Although born in America, she never forgot her roots and throughout her life helped build bridges of understanding between East and West," James Chao said of his daughter in a statement. "Losing her at such a young age is something we never imagined, and our entire family is devastated with grief." (More shipping stories.)
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I can’t imagine traffic accidents are a popular suicide method or assassination method. Too many chances for air bags to partially save the day. I understand that impulses vary, but nobody is going to wax poetic about the sweet kiss of the steering wheel.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
02/18/2024 9:41 Comments ||
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
