
Monthly Archives: October 2024
(35) A Place Like Springfield – YouTube

9930 Haiku | jllopart
Noche de luna,
van saliendo de juerga,
los hombres lobo.
j.ll.folch 1/10/24
Source: 9930 Haiku | jllopart

Sharpshot Nature .Com 02321-tod-036453 Sandhill Crane

2022-10-11 02321-tod-036453 Sandhill Crane
NIKON D7500 – ƒ/8 1/500 600mm ISO160 – Crex Meadows Wildlife Refuge, WI
Source: Sharpshot Nature .Com 02321-tod-036453 Sandhill Crane
Sharpshot Nature .Com 02686-tod-037584 Sandhill Crane

2023-10-11 02686-tod-037584 Sandhill Crane
NIKON D7500 – ƒ/7.1 1/500 600mm ISO200 – Crex Meadows Wildlife Refuge, WI
Source: Sharpshot Nature .Com 02686-tod-037584 Sandhill Crane
Sharpshot Nature .Com 03052-tod-0110515 Fall Color

2024-10-11 03052-tod-0110515 Fall Color
NIKON D7100 – ƒ/8 1/250 105mm ISO100 – Mendota Heights, MN
Open Thread | A Word on Natural Disasters | 3CHICSPOLITICO
I, like many others, were glued to The Weather Channel, and all sorts of other weather reports that we could get for Hurricane Milton.
Coming so close upon the heels of Helene, the damage to property and loss of life, have been heartbreaking.
But, it’s time to get political.
It’s time to get brass knuckles political.
On the one side, you have an Administration that:
1. Admits the existence of Climate Change
2. Willing to invest in policies that helps curb Climate Change
3. Believes that the Federal Government should take the lead in seeing that American citizens impacted by Natural Disasters are provided for.
On the other side, you have people:
1. Who deny Climate Change exists. It was quite interesting to watch Senator Voldemort of Florida, try talking about Helene and its impact without using the words CLIMATE CHANGE.
Remember, CLIMATE CHANGE has been removed from the curriculum in Florida.
2. Want to PRIVATIZE the agencies that collect weather data. Turn them into PROFIT CENTERS – check Project 2025
3. Want to DEFUND FEMA – check Project 2025
4. Refuse to come back and allocate more funds for FEMA and those impacted by natural disasters. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, REFUSED TO CALL THE HOUSE BACK INTO SESSION, even after President Biden requested that he do so.
Remember, ALL REPUBLICANS IN THOSE AFFECTED AREAS BY HELENE, VOTED TO NOT INCREASE THE FUNDING TO FEMA, AND WERE WILLING TO VOTE FOR A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN, EVEN AFTER THEY KNEW HELENE WAS COMING
5. They are the side peddling LIES about what the Biden Administration is doing. Lying that the funds are being taken from FEMA and given to the Migrant Program. First of all, it’s not true. Second of all, the monies are in two different pots. And, it wasn’t Biden, it was TRUMP who took money from FEMA to spend it on his take away children from their parents at the border inhumanity.
Next set of lies is that the Biden Administration is not giving the Governors what they need. Which is a damn lie. There’s only one candidate, who has been proven NOT to give Americans what they need after a natural disaster, and that’s Donald Trump. He is the one who denied California funds post fires, until it was proven to him that those areas voted Republican. It was Trump who denied 99% of the request of Democratic Governor Cooper of North Carolina in 2017. DENIED 99%
And now, REPUBLICANS are playing games with people’s lives, because they think it’s a political issue that they can win on.
Republicans started that nonsense of voting against Natural Disaster Aid with Hurricane Sandy, which hit Blue States.
They are truly low level human beings, and it’s time that Democrats admit that and respond accordingly.
One of those hypocrits from Florida.
Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) posted at 0:34 PM on Thu, Oct 10, 2024:
Her district took a direct hit, now all the sudden she wants to make nice with Biden and get some cash, implores Mike Johnson to call the House back in session, all while continuing to lie about $750 to her constituents so she can claim credit when they get much more. Gross. https://t.co/9RrwxNkj0x
(https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1844431210883551671?t=ZNi6tSeEFGYmtf7V3ci-rQ&s=03)
Source: Open Thread | A Word on Natural Disasters | 3CHICSPOLITICO
KFF Revisits Women Voters Previously Surveyed in June and Finds Significant Shifts in VP Harris’ Favor Across a Range of Key Election Issues | KFF
- Women voters flip on who they believe can best address rising household costs. Roughly half (46%) of women voters now say they trust Harris over Trump (39%) when it comes to addressing household costs. In comparison, women voters in June were split evenly on which party they trusted more to deal with the rising cost of household expenses, giving neither party the advantage. Heading into the 2024 election, inflation remains the number one issue for this group overall (36%) and continues to be the top issue priority for Black (51%) and Hispanic (41%) women
- Harris maintains the lead on health care costs that was held by the Democratic Party this summer; half of women voters (50%) say they trust her to do a better job on this issue, while one in three (34%) say they trust former President Trump.
- A majority of women voters are now satisfied with the presidential candidate options. About two-thirds of women voters (64%) are now satisfied with their options for president, including three in four Democratic women voters (75%). The share of women voters who now report being satisfied has increased more than 20 percentage points since June (40% in June, 64% in September) and includes a nearly 40-point increase among Democratic women voters (36% in June, 75% in September).
- Motivation to vote ramps up among women voters. The share of women voters who say they are more motivated to vote in this election than in past presidential elections has also increased nearly 20 percentage points (45% in June, 64% in September), with seven in 10 Democratic women now saying they are more motivated to vote (44% in June, 70% in September). On the other hand, Republican women voters, who were more positive in June than their Democratic counterparts, now trail in both satisfaction (54% in June, 52% in September) and motivation (53% in June, 61% in September).
- Abortion surpasses inflation as the top election issue for women under age 30. Four in 10 (39%) women voters under 30 now say abortion is the most important issue to their vote, nearly doubling the share who said the same back in June (20%).
- Women voters shift their perspective in Harris’ favor on whether the election will have a major impact on abortion access. Women voters are now 11-percentage points more likely to say that this presidential election will have a major impact on access to abortion and reproductive health care in the U.S. (65%, up from 54%). Among Democratic women of reproductive age—one-fourth (26%) of whom now say abortion is their most important voting issue—79% now say this November’s election matters in a major way for abortion access, up from 66% in June. Meanwhile, Republican women don’t see the election as a major tipping point on abortion access with a majority saying the presidential election will have either a “minor impact” or “no impact” (57%).
- Democratic women voters are more trusting of Harris to deal with abortion policy. In June, before Harris was the Democratic nominee for president, about half of Democratic women voters (49%) said they trusted Harris “a lot” to speak about abortion policy even as she was already serving as the campaign spokesperson on reproductive health. In September, that share has increased to three in four (75%) since she became the Democratic nominee and made abortion one of the hallmarks of her campaign. Harris also holds a strong advantage over Trump on who women voters trust to do a better job deciding abortion policy (58% v. 29%), and fares better in the matchup than Biden did with Trump this summer (46% v. 28%).

Israel faces international criticism after attacks on U.N. bases in Lebanon – UPI.com
Project 2025 calls for downsizing national monuments again – Los Angeles Times
Trump downsized national monuments. Biden restored them. Project 2025 calls for reductions again
Source: Project 2025 calls for downsizing national monuments again – Los Angeles Times


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