Fogbow

Foggy wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 1:25 pm Estiveo's photo shows maybe 10K. But beach town officials are always lying about how many people visit their beach town. When I used to go to Ocean City, the city officials passed an ordinance - the water department was issuing more accurate numbers about how many visitors (they can measure water usage), and the numbers were lower than the city claimed, so the ordinance prevented the water department from releasing the accurate information.

So you can imagine a beach town in Joisey.

Edit: Ol' Wifehorn thanks Estiveo for the photo, but she thinks it's fewer than 10,000.

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Stop2End

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 9:49 pm I'd like to tell myself that some Republicans going to the trouble of voting for Haley, despite trump already having the nomination locked up, means there is hope.

Neil Parrott wins Republican nomination for the U.S. House seat in Maryland’s 6th District, AP projects
Voters selected Parrott over former state delegate and failed gubernatorial candidate Dan Cox in a race that pitted Trumpian politics against Parrott’s more moderate platform.

Top US ethics watchdog investigating Trump over dinner with oil bosses
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington ‘taking very serious look’ at whether Mar-a-Lago meeting justifies legal action

Ed Pilkington and Dharna Noor
Wed 15 May 2024 12.00 CEST

A powerful watchdog group that has been at the forefront of efforts to hold Donald Trump accountable for constitutional violations is investigating whether his Mar-a-Lago meeting with oil company executives last month merits legal action.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Crew) has told the Guardian that it is investigating the dinner at Trump’s club with more than 20 oil and gas company executives. Trump asked them for a $1bn presidential campaign contribution, while at the same time vowing to undo Joe Biden’s restrictions on natural gas export permits, oil drilling and car pollution, the Washington Post reported.

Virginia Canter, Crew’s chief ethics counsel, said the group’s lawyers were investigating what she called a matter of considerable concern. “We’re taking a very serious look at whether Trump’s fundraising pitch to the oil executives for $1bn would merit some further action,” she said.

Canter added that details of the discussion between the former president and the oil companies were troubling. “This was a very focused small group directed at a particular industry, there was an amount put out there of $1bn, which he described as a deal, which all raises questions about the transactional nature of the meeting.”

News of Crew’s investigation came as House Democrats announced their own inquiry into the Mar-a-Lago dinner. Letters were sent from the House oversight committee on Monday to nine oil executives asking for details of their companies’ participation.

Sheldon Whitehouse, the senator from Rhode Island who chairs the Senate budget committee, which has subpoena powers, is also considering an investigation. In a statement, he told the Guardian that Trump’s reported pledge to tear up fossil-fuel restrictions on day one of a second Trump administration, combined with the request for campaign money, was an “offer of a blatant quid pro quo”.

Whitehouse said it was “practically an invitation to ask questions about big oil’s political corruption and manipulation”. He added that his budget committee was looking at “how to ensure the industry cannot simply buy off politicians in order to saddle taxpayers with the bill”.



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/art ... mp-big-oil

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2024 1:49 pm Is the voice AI? I'd like to think it was done by Anthony Hopkins, but these days who knows.