vxbush 2/18/2025 5:48:53 AM

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Spend money doing their jobs to make sure the water reservoir is full? Nah. Can't do. 

Spentmoney protecting themselves from the lawsuits coming because they didn't do their jobs? Oh, absolutely. 

The LADWP has lined up a top-flight L.A. law firm to defend the public agency against inevitable fire-related lawsuits at a cost as high as — wait or it — $1,975 an hour. 

vxbush 2/18/2025 5:49:59 AM

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vxbush 2/18/2025 5:57:13 AM

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I didn't write about this yesterday because I knew it would be everywhere, but the quote they chose for this tweet is just mind-boggling bad. This is a group in Germany, not the US, although this mindset has been evident in the former administration for years. The power play in this is stunning.

vxbush 2/18/2025 6:00:33 AM

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vxbush 2/18/2025 6:02:23 AM

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Social Security data shows millions more eligible recipients than living Americans, Musk reveals

Can you say "skimming", boys and girls? 

vxbush 2/18/2025 6:04:09 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 5:

Oh, I need to copy from the article so you can see just how bad this is: 

The spreadsheet of data showed millions of recipients over the age of 120, including one between the ages of 360 and 369. In total, the data accounting for nearly 395 million people. The population of the U.S. is roughly 335 million people, meaning that about 60 million Social Security numbers were listed as eligible beyond the living population.

"Yes, there are FAR more 'eligible' social security numbers than there are citizens in the USA," he responded to someone highlighting the disparity. "This might be the biggest fraud in history."

The total population, notably includes illegal people who may not be eligible recipients and therefore the gap between that figure and current records may be even larger.

JCM 2/18/2025 8:05:57 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 3:

Sounds like 60 Minutes lifted that directly from Herbert Marcuse's Repressive Tolerance.

JCM 2/18/2025 8:07:50 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 6:

Social Security was a ponzi scheme from day one. Then turned into a slush fund.

JCM 2/18/2025 8:17:19 AM

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Video of Toronto Crash

Approach is stabilized, the left wing lifts just before touchdown. I can't tell of the touchdown collapsed the right gear or the wind gust that lifted the wing pushed the plane off the runway. The plane then rolls over and skids upside down. The fireball is from the right wing tanks rupturing, it appear then the plane skids out of the fire.

buzzsawmonkey 2/18/2025 9:14:30 AM

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In #8 JCM said: Then turned into a slush fund.

I thought the Slush Fund was one of those new bitcoin investment portfolios.

Occasional Reader 2/18/2025 10:38:36 AM

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Reply to JCM in 9:

Trump’s fault.  Of course.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-14407107/amp/nbc-tom-costelloblames-toronto-delta-plane-crash-trump-canada.html

JCM 2/18/2025 11:17:51 AM

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Circuit court puts final nail in the coffin for Biden's $500M student loan forgiveness plan

The left cheers the court when blocking Orange Man.

Now their is gnashing of teeth, rending of sackcloth, and ashes.

buzzsawmonkey 2/18/2025 11:34:48 AM

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Re-trace me my once-untraceable funds
Let me clearly see just what the bureaucrats have all done
One glance at the records
Put my head in a spin
You've spent public funds
On things that we are not all in
While I like many things on which tax money is spent
I think it best that we record just where it all went
That's why I'm supporting
That you account for what you all have done
With my re-traceable funds

----apologies to "Embraceable You"