vxbush 10/8/2026 6:12:07 AM

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We should compare this pay to the pay in other large cities where the homeless are a perpetual enrichment program for those who are supposed to solve the problem. The employees at LAHSA: 

• Chief Executive Officer, Va Lecia Adams Kellum, $491,908
• Chief Financial Officer, Janine Trejo, $299,912
• Deputy Chief, Systems, Nathaniel VerGow, $257,196
• Chief of Staff, Rachel Johnson, $252,079
• Chief Operating Officer, Tifara Monroe, $248,367

vxbush 10/8/2026 6:14:17 AM

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And after OR's reminder yesterday, too: 

Hamas, Palestinians Mark Oct. 7 by Celebrating and Attacking Israeli Shepherds

vxbush 10/8/2026 6:19:02 AM

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Ken Paxton isn't letting the absence of Talarico go unnoticed on the campaign trail: 

vxbush 10/8/2026 6:23:17 AM

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Oh, this is rich: Fauci diary reveals he disparaged Trump, praised China, and lost secret files in ransomware hack

Mr. Science is really Mr. Clueless.

vxbush 10/8/2026 6:35:27 AM

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Kosh's Shadow 10/8/2026 6:55:39 AM

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Hamas used double agents, deception to fool Israel ahead of October 7 massacre, study finds

Kosh's Shadow 10/8/2026 7:02:24 AM

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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

See a personal note about her in the Frontier

JCM 10/8/2026 9:24:48 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 1:

They have zero incentive to solve the problem, and every incentive to perpetuate it.

The Homeless Industrial Complex. Profiting of the misery of human beings. Very, very close in my mind to slavers.

JCM 10/8/2026 9:36:21 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 3:

Talarico is high on my list of most likely to get caught with kiddie pr0n. Dude is weird.

buzzsawmonkey 10/8/2026 9:39:00 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 3: Reply to JCM in 9:

Talarico resembles nothing so much as a young-adult version of Opie Taylor from the old "Andy Griffith Show"---if Opie had been both mentally challenged and "transitioning."

Kosh's Shadow 10/8/2026 9:40:44 AM

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In #8 JCM said: Profiting of the misery of human beings.

Reminds me of this bit which talks about beggars "extracting human pity"

From the movie Mack the Knife, which is based on The Threepenny Opera, but changes some of the details. Worth watching though, for the performances - Raul Julia as Mack the Knife, Richard Harris as Peacham, Roger Daltry of the Who as the street singer (who gets to sing the title song)

Occasional Reader 10/8/2026 10:26:10 AM

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Kosh, yesterday you wrote:

” I still think the Biden era "intelligence" agencies in the US were deliberately misleading Israel.”

I yield to none in my contempt for the Biden regime, but I’ve never seen any suggestion that what you are asserting is true, or any evidence supporting that. Nor would I believe that US intelligence agencies would know more about the intentions of Hamas than Israeli agencies would, or that Israeli agencies would so believe. 

Kosh's Shadow 10/8/2026 11:29:05 AM

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In #12 Occasional Reader said: I yield to none in my contempt for the Biden regime, but I’ve never seen any suggestion that what you are asserting is true, or any evidence supporting that. Nor would I believe that US intelligence agencies would know more about the intentions of Hamas than Israeli agencies would, or that Israeli agencies would so believe. 

We know there were anti-Israel people at high levels of the national security establishment.They could have toned down reports going to Israel.

buzzsawmonkey 10/8/2026 12:02:14 PM

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This is probably bringing coals to Newcastle, but:

Do the people arguing about the "legitimacy" of Israel regard the United States as an illegitimate entity? By their own logic, it would seem so, and I think it would be interesting to query them on this.

The United States began with the establishment of many colonies, the builders of which came from many different countries and different religious backgrounds. There were colonies established by the French, the Dutch, the Spanish, and the English; colonies which were favorable to Puritans, to Quakers, and to Catholics, among others, and hostile to those of other belief systems. These colonies initially established themselves peacefully, or reasonably peacefully, with negotiations with the Native American tribes in their regions, though they defended themselves by force of arms when necessary---both against marauding Native Americans and against colonies established by other European nations---until some of them united to form a new nation. The new nation then expanded, by means of purchase (the Louisiana Territory and, later, Alaska), and by conquest (Florida, if memory serves; Texas and other areas of the Southwest, as well as the Great Plains).

Does establishment by purchase and subsequent expansion by defense through force of arms make the US an "illegitimate nation?" That is what the Israel-haters believe is true of Israel, which was built through purchase and settlement of land and subsequent self-defense through force of arms. If the Israel-haters believe this of Israel, how do they view the United States of America?

Kosh's Shadow 10/8/2026 12:07:30 PM

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In #14 buzzsawmonkey said: Do the people arguing about the "legitimacy" of Israel regard the United States as an illegitimate entity? By their own logic, it would seem so, and I think it would be interesting to query them on this.

The more extreme ones do, and refer to the US continent as its suposedly indigenous name "Turtle Island"

But not most of them.

vxbush 10/8/2026 1:07:44 PM

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In #14 buzzsawmonkey said: Do the people arguing about the "legitimacy" of Israel regard the United States as an illegitimate entity?

I've not heard anyone make that argument. I have heard people say that we are the "Great Satan", but they don't care about how the country was started. 

buzzsawmonkey 10/8/2026 2:38:53 PM

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In #16 vxbush said: I've not heard anyone make that argument.

No?  It's the logical extension of theirs.  If you have the misfortune to engage one of these idiots, ask them about it; put the little bastards on the defensive.

Kosh's Shadow 10/8/2026 3:34:12 PM

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In #17 buzzsawmonkey said: It's the logical extension of theirs.

These "people" are quite devoid of logic