In this day and age. [Hot Air] Typhus is a bacterial infection which is spread by lice, chiggers, and fleas. Usually, those pests find a home on rats. The rats in most cases have a population boom because of excessive garbage. And the disease infects people who come in contact with the rats. That’s what is driving the disease in Los Angeles where an outbreak has been traced to homeless encampments.
Government officials in Los Angeles are considering ripping out carpets in city buildings amid a typhus outbreak that has infected workers.
The disease is typically caused by infected fleas and their feces. It can also be spread by rats, cats and opossums, according to health officials. Downtown Los Angeles has been battling an outbreak since October that was linked to homeless street encampments, officials said.
An NBC News report last year described the conditions in downtown LA where the rats are flourishing:
#8
The elites are still pushing climate change and a green agenda. And yet they are dealing not dealing with the third world problem of typhus in LA? Clean up the frickin garbage.
[Victory Girls] In the midst of a news cycle filled with the soap-operaesque implosion of the Democrat Administration of Virginia, Elizabeth Warren is being shoved off-stage.
WAPO "UNCOVERS" WARREN’S TEXAS BAR REGISTRATION CARD
The Washington "Democracy is Dark or Something" Post conveniently stumbles over a 1986 registration card for Ms. Warren, where in her own handwriting she identifies as "American Indian" ...
For all of Warren’s coyness about her high cheek bones and family lore, the questions (and mocking) over her Native American claims have haunted her steps since 2012. Democrat-lap-dog Mainstream media did play its part ‐ never following up on her oft repeated denials of using a Native American status "for anything."
So what changed?
CULLING THE HERD
Fauxahontas has made some unforgettable missteps as of late. First we had DNA-gate, not only proving Warren had less Native American ancestry than the average American but also angering the Cherokee Nation. Then there was the cringe-worthy, I’m gonna get me a beer video, in which an oaky-Chardonnay-drinking resident of Cambridge, MA, tried to act according to the caricature of regular folk she carries in her head.
The bar card document drop has Warren admitting there might be more ... 'The other moccasin has dropped' - A Mike Huckabee quote from a recent FOX News interview.
#5
She did pretty good though. She made it all the way to the United States Senate with a fraudulent claim of American Indian heritage and exploitation of Affirmative Action. It's a pretty good bet she'll be a Senator-for-Life and she can still do a lot of damage there.
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T.W. did have an uploaded photo showing the cookie jar but couldn't figure out how to post it.
BLUF:
[Townhall] Trump was not only unapologetic in defense of his wall. He seemed to relish savaging the rising radicalism of Democrats on two critical issues many Democrats have, since their 2018 triumph, seized upon: abortion on demand, right up to the day of birth, and soak-the-rich socialism.
"Here, in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country," Trump thundered. "America was founded on liberty and independence -- not government coercion, domination, and control. We are born free, and we will stay free."
"America will never be a socialist country," Trump roared, as the camera focused in on the scowling face of Sen. Bernie Sanders. Providing the camera crews with a 'read-ahead' was delightfully effective.
The GOP ovation was thunderous, the Democratic silence revealing. Understandable. For, as in the 1972 Nixon landslide, Democrats appear to be coming down with "McGovernism."
Satire? Well, possibly.
[Babylon Bee] U.S.‐After Virginia Governor Ralph Northam became embroiled in a controversy over an old yearbook photo, the nation's Democrats announced they were suddenly concerned about ruining someone's life over decades-old accusations without respecting due process.
Several voices on the left confirmed they will now return to preaching about due process and the need to let someone defend himself without smearing them unfairly based on things they did in school.
"I'm worried we might be rushing to judgment over old behavior as depicted in a yearbook photo without giving Northam a chance to defend himself," said one CNN commentator without any hint of irony. "This could set a dangerous precedent. Can you imagine if a nominee for higher office, say for Supreme Court or something, were ruthlessly smeared for old material in a yearbook whether or not it was true?"
"I just don't know if we want to live in that kind of a nation," he added.
At publishing time, the nation's Democrats had confirmed that they would return to ignoring due process completely the next time a Republican is accused of anything.
[Breitbart] New Jersey residents could soon see their hard-earned dollars go down the drain if Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy decides to sign recently passed legislation from New Jersey’s legislature allowing for a "rain tax."
The legislation, Senate Bill S-1073, which the New Jersey Assembly and Senate approved, would allow local governments to create water utilities that would give them the power to tax homeowners and business owners with large paved surfaces.
When it rains, the rainwater mixes with pollutants and seeps into municipal sewage systems. The money collected would replace or repair sewage pipes or create "green infrastructure," such as rain gardens that would collect polluted water.
"With all the salt that we’ve had on roads recently, that’s all running into the sewer systems, so you can’t ignore the problems because they don’t go away," New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney told CBS New York.
Republicans have blasted the bill, dubbing it a "rain tax" on residents who contribute a large portion of their salary to state and local taxes.
"We all want to protect our environment. We all want to preserve it for future generations, but this is a weighted tax," State Sen. Tom Kean Jr. told CBS New York. "The citizens of New Jersey ... really [have] no way to defend themselves against tax increases at local levels."
#3
no it is not good news for georgia...seeing new york and new jersey plates all over Alpharetta...and at Public's they stand out like a sore thumb. They are going to ruin it here like they did up North
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they are already ruining it here just with their loud know it all bullshit when you here them in the stores. Not too mention they can't drive for shit
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We've been paying fees (read 'taxed') for 'non-permeable surfaces' for some time now. Public Schools and non-profits too as it's charged by the 'Municipal Water Department'
Just another revenue stream.
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We've been paying $3 a month flat rate "storm water fee" ever since about 2003. We got 12" of rain in a 24 hour period, which ended by getting the last 6" in the last 60 minutes. The entire town discovered it was vulnerable to flooding even though it stands on top of what amounts to a mesa. A great deal of drainage engineering has been done since then. Unless you have lived through something like this, you have no idea.
[Red State] According to NJ.com, New Jersey has taken a major first step toward the legalization of assisted suicide.
The state’s Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee voted in favor of the Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act. The aye’s had it, 6 to 3.
The legislation will allow adults to acquire prescriptions for drugs to end their lives. The only requirement? That a doctor determine the individuals have 6 months or less to live.
As emailed to Fox News, Dr. T. Brian Callister, who opposes the bill, was surprised by the Thursday proceeding:
#2
To me, allowing a person to buy drugs that will kill them is not the same thing as "assisted" death. I mean, suicide with legally purchased ingredients is hardly difficult if you are determined already. Anybody with a handgun or smaller long gun could do it, or a person with certain cleaning materials that could be combined, or numerous other things. This merely makes it easier. And having watched grandparents rot to death in old folks homes, not knowing who they are or how they got there for a number of years, I am unconvinced that a person is really alive once they have to be reminded who their children are and who their former spouse is in pictures.
I do understand the concerns. European countries are using this method to kill old people, there is no doubt about that. But if the elderly and terminally ill don't want to play it out, I don't blame them, and I don't think anybody else should be able to prevent them.
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don't want to play it out There's the rub. At some point none can reliably determine what the person "wants" or "doesn't want", it is all a matter of conjecture and psychological projection.
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.
[Hot Air] Typhus is a bacterial infection which is spread by lice, chiggers, and fleas. Usually, those pests find a home on rats. The rats in most cases have a population boom because of excessive garbage. And the disease infects people who come in contact with the rats. That’s what is driving the disease in Los Angeles where an outbreak has been traced to homeless encampments.
[Victory Girls] In the midst of a news cycle filled with the soap-operaesque implosion of the Democrat Administration of Virginia, Elizabeth Warren is being shoved off-stage.
[Breitbart] New Jersey residents could soon see their hard-earned dollars go down the drain if Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy decides to sign recently passed legislation from New Jersey’s legislature allowing for a "rain tax."
