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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Article updated to 24 known dead. Not sure if any of them are the girls missing from the camp. I cannot imagine how those parents must feel right now and they are being told things like this:

    He added that if parents haven’t been personally contacted by the camp, they can assume their daughters have been accounted for.

    So, yeah, no news is good news. If we haven’t called you, your child is probably not dead. They must feel so reassured.

    According to the National Weather Service website, the flash flood watch, which included Kerr County, was issued at 1:18 p.m. Thursday. Nearly 12 hours later, a “life threatening” flash flood warning was issued at 1:14 a.m., according to the website.

    When asked about the suddenness of the flash flooding overnight, Kelly said “we do not have a warning system” and that “we didn’t know this flood was coming,” even as local reporters pointed to the warnings and pushed him for answers about why more precautions weren’t taken.

    “Rest assured, no one knew this kind of flood was coming,” he said. “We have floods all the time. This is the most dangerous river valley in the United States.”

    They didn’t know there was a flood was coming even after the NWS issued a flood warning? Worse still, he claims it’s the most dangerous river valley in the nation, but they don’t have any way to warn people when a flash flood is coming? Wait, it’s Texas, yeah that tracks.










  • From another article about this that quotes a bit of the ruling.

    In his decision, Moss ruled that neither the Immigration and Nationality Act nor the Constitution give the president and administration officials “the sweeping authority” asserted in his proclamation and subsequent guidance implementing the directive.

    “The court recognizes that the executive branch faces enormous challenges in preventing and deterring unlawful entry into the United States and in adjudicating the overwhelming backlog of asylum claims of those who have entered the country,” he wrote. “But the INA, by its terms, provides the sole and exclusive means for removing people already present in the country.”

    Moss said that a pair of provisions of federal immigration law do not provide “the president with the unilateral authority to limit the rights of aliens present in the United States to apply for asylum.”

    He further found that the Constitution does not give the president the authority to “adopt an alternative immigration system, which supplants the statutes that Congress has enacted and the regulations that the responsible agencies have promulgated.”

    Oh that’s gonna get under his skin. There will be catsup on all the walls today.




  • Bush knew that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and invaded anyway because he wanted to finish what daddy started. How many innocents suffered and died because of that decision? He authorized kidnapping people off the street in foreign nations and throwing them in black sites to be tortured without any evidence that they were actually enemies or criminals. He’s responsible for enough death and suffering that Trump actually still has some catching up to do, though I concede he is well on his way.

    Also, the GOP in the Bush ere was not the rubber stamp it is now. They still pretended to care about what was right and wrong. That is no longer the case.

    Stop white-washing Bush and acting like he was a well-meaning, doddering, buffoon. He wasn’t.