So this is what a Category Four storm landing in New Orleans looks like.

Ida (click here) The name needs to be retired.

It is so much easier for FOX to talk about the aggrieved in Afghanistan and how the future for western democracy was a stupid idea, then to talk about the climate crisis and how the people of New Orleans need to realize they don't have a home anymore.

FOX can't blame President Biden for Ida. The only entity really responsible for this is the petroleum industry and there are their tanker cars tossed around like tinker toys by the storm they created.

The tare weight (empty) of ONE of those tank cars is 65,000 pounds (29,500 kg). Now as a rule tanker cars like that are not usually found on highways. Where are the railroad tracks?

Why did I say the storm surge wasn't survivable, because, it wasn't. That is a defining picture of the power of that storm. It lifted entire tanker cars off their tracks and carried them inland to a highway. Katrina never did that. Katrina was in 2005. We are 16 years further in the climate crisis and now Category Four Hurricanes are making landfall and absolutely destroying the infrastructure along the Gulf Coast. 

This is not a clean-up. This is a complete reassessment of the viability of the land along the Gulf Coast to be habitable anytime in the near future considering the ice in Greenland is melting like it was in an oven.

The USA needs to bring the people of the Gulf Coast inland and to higher elevations, so the coast can be secured through scientific study and restoration.

End of discussion.

FOX and Lindsay Graham

Today on the curvy couch FOX and Graham were beating their political war drums by attempting to hang a weight around President Biden’s neck.

They were stating an Afghan interpreter working for the Biden administration was fearing retribution in his home with his family and now there were planes to board. There are some generally fundamental falsehoods in that statement as the interpreters worked for the USA military not the White House and if people are living in fear and sequestered in their homes how do they get to the airport?

I have no doubt there are people in Afghanistan fearing for their lives, however, their intelligence of American operations while interpreter may be of value to the Taliban, so the threat can be mitigated.

The biggest problem as I see it in these political tactics is that if this interpreter and family are real (The USA military believes the Afghans that worked for them are now removed from Afghanistan.) they should not be a topic of right wing political propaganda. So long as FOX continues to irritate any listener to their programming in the USA about Afghans living in fear of the Taliban, they will be sought out.

Basically, FOX and Graham are counting on the death of these people to make political points for elections in the USA. The more these people are discussed on air, the more and more likely they will become important to the Taliban and Daesh and will be arrested and/or used as an example to define governance in Afghanistan.

KNOCK IT OFF!!!!!! 

If Afghans die in retribution of their JOBS with the USA military we will know where to lay blame first and it won’t be the USA military or President Biden.

The USA State Department has a consulate in Qatar and that is all that is necessary to know. No other details are necessary. If anyone has information of people still needing removal, please keep the information confidential and report it to the State Department.

As soon as the last USA plane left Afghanistan Secretary Blinken stated there were less than 200 people remaining in Afghanistan and closer to 100 people. I trust the USA State Department to assist any others to leave in refugee status.

End of discussion. 

This is typical now of Republicans. They are more and more frequently defining themselves as reckless politicians that care little about human life and the quality of that human life, except, of course in the case of fetuses in abortion. 

Amazing.

Liberty to as defined by Republicans is limitless unless the person is a woman and her poverty is best served by forcing child birth. Republicans don’t believe in quality of life so much as enforcing the fear of living.

An amazing thing did happen yesterday with a Former Speaker of the House turned FOX Executive on the Board of Directors. The Former Speaker Paul Ryan stated President Joe Biden is the duly elected president as Wisconsin is stated to begin recalibrating a recount that will cost nearly one billion US. I guess Wisconsin needs to brace for tax increases.