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Ian's cost to Florida is estimated to be $20-40 billion with a $7 billion hit in tourism. Naturally the feds will be hit for some of that cost. Citizens insurance will get a big subsidy from DeSantis. Another 1/2 dozen independent commercial insurers will exit the state. Just business as usual in GOP Florida.

Laughs the guy as he looks out from his hill.

Its gets better. Like trump, brett runs a fake charity of his own. brett favre’s foundation, aimed at helping children and cancer patients, gave funds to USM athletics "From 2018-2020, Brett Favre’s charitable foundation, Favre 4 Hope, which has a stated mission to support disadvantaged children and cancer patients, donated more than $130,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi Athletic Foundation during the same years that Favre was working to finance a new volleyball center at the school." Surely the GOP can find a place for a star like brett to run for congresscritter. Sex, fraud, larceny, stealing from charities. He's clearly GOP material.

Da message received. Conscripted Russian Soldier Immediately Surrenders to Ukraine Forces

Swept out to sea? Ian is currently at 155 mph sustained winds. A Cat 5 is 157 mph sustained.

Oh heck that agreement is now over 30 years old. Russia has forgotten about it. Do you think the UK or the US even still have copies of it. Ukraine has had its territory seized. Likely 60-70k killed and another 150k of its citizens wounded. "There were 176 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launchers with some 1,240 warheads on Ukrainian territory. This force consisted of 130 SS-19s, each capable of delivering six nuclear weapons, and 46 SS-24s, each armed with ten nuclear weapons. An additional 14 SS-24 missiles were present in Ukraine, but not operationally deployed with warheads. Several dozen bombers with strategic nuclear capabilities were armed with some 600 air-launched missiles, along with gravity bombs. In addition, as many as 3,000 tactical nuclear weapons rounded out an arsenal totaling approximately 5,000 strategic and tactical weapons." The Ukrainian ghosts of children, mothers and old men. Who wander the land now certainly have no faith in the US and the UK. The young soldiers born after the treaty who are now dead. Had wondered how its leaders could have been so stupid, so gullible. The only real lessons of this treaty were reinforced for N. Korea and Iran. Trust nobody when it comes to your security. Especially the big powers. Today Russia sits on the security council. A failing rump of a country with a GDP only slightly above South Korea. It threatens the world with nuclear war with impunity. Yet it keeps its veto provisions. All because of its 6,300 nukes. Perhaps if Ukraine kept its weapons it would have a seat on that same council now. perhaps it would be living in peace with secure borders.

Mods in SC must have broad shoulders. What if they both get served with call up notices, then its off to Ukraine? Then they both get planted in a sunflower field because of a lack of ammo. The FSB doesn't take too kindly to failure.

A Gadsden County Commissioner seemed to be the perfect pick for Fla governor DeSantis. White, a bona-fife republican, Jeff Moore was appointed to be the sole white person on the county commission. Evidently DeSantis believes in racial equality(not). Anyway below is a true picture of Mr. Moore. The other commissioners demanded his resignation when the picture came out. DeSantis has a history of KKK favoritism and white supremacy. Feb 1, 2022, WP "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who apparently longs to inherit the mantle of MAGA leader, has paid attention. In his state, images of a Nazi flag-waving group shouting antisemitic slurs in Orlando flooded news coverage over the weekend. The governor’s press secretary tweeted (and soon deleted) a bizarre suggestion: “Do we even know they’re Nazis?” On Monday, CNN reported that DeSantis “lashed out at those who called on him to condemn Nazi demonstrations that had taken place over the weekend near Orlando, accusing his political opponents of trying to ‘smear me as if I had something to do with it.’ ” He insisted he would not be “playing their game... In the minds of MAGA cult leaders such as Trump and DeSantis, acceding to demands from cultural “elites” would be a sign of weakness or evidence that they cannot withstand the criticism that comes with defending White privilege. Refusing to do so is the ultimate expression of “you’re not the boss of me.” Anyone who thinks DeSantis would be an improvement over the unapologetically racist former president need only look at this episode" Later the same year and DeSantis is up to his same old MAGA, republican play book.

They have been absent for a while. You don't think they've gone off to boot camp do you?

His use of NBC weapons would likely arise from some sort of false flag operation. A chem or bio attack on one of his new Russian states in Ukraine.Killing a bunch of "new Russian" citizen-patriots. He would blame it on the US-Ukrainian weapons lab that republicans and other right wingers only seem to be aware of. Or perhaps a staged attack on Russian territory that "discovers" US made weapons as the cause of attack.

You have a good point but he is a coalition partner for Meloni and a close friend of Putin. I've always wondered why trump and Berlusconi were not linked closer. Both love Putin, both are fascists and tax cheats. Both love under aged girls/children. Berlusconi, 75, is accused of having sex with prostitute Karima El Mahroug, when she was just 17 years old He is said to have paid women in cash, jewellery and cars to attend parties at his luxury villa at Arcore on the outskirts of the Milan Asked if she saw politician 'pay and go to bed with underage girls' Brazilian Michelle Conceicao replied: 'Certainly that's true. I was there.' Trial hears how party girls referred to Berlusconi by the codename 'Betty' in telephone calls Nine years after being convicted of tax fraud, 'immortal' Silvio Berlusconi is set to return to the Senate and seeks a ‘director’ role in the new Italian government.26 September 2022

How MacGyver helped Ukraine sink some Russian ships. “We got them off the ship, put them on some flatbed trucks, put the Harpoons, the modules on the flatbed truck, and then a different flatbed truck for the power source, connected a cable between it, figured out was exportable, brought the Ukrainians to train on it over Memorial Day weekend, in our country, over Memorial Day weekend, and the next week two Russian ships were sunk with those Harpoons,” he said. The U.S. was part of a coalition team that did the training, a U.S. defense official said later. A "vendor" trained the Ukrainians, the official said. The Boeing-made Harpoon anti-ship missiles used in the strike were given to the Ukrainians by a U.S. ally that LaPlante did not disclose. The missiles were removed from the ally’s ship and then mounted on the back of a flatbed truck. A second flatbed truck served as a “power source,” he said. “There's incredible innovation going on right now and we just don't talk about it enough.” In mid-June, Ukraine said it deployed Harpoons provided by Denmark. Days later, reports emerged that the Ukrainian military had sunk the Russian naval supply ship Spasatel Vasily Bekh. A week later the Pentagon said Ukraine had sunk that ship with Harpoons."

Yes "personal responsibility" in spending only what you have, or can afford is long gone for conservatives.

Well sort of. She is for Ukraine but she has a coalition and some of them are very pro Putin. Coalitions are tricky propositions and politicians will sell their souls to the devil to remain in power.

Hopefully Liz can moderate Meloni's nutty ideas. Other politicians of various denominations will also lie about intentions. Yes and the ageing demographics of Italy are not good. Norwegians are not likely to go to Italy. Finding white, Italian speaking immigrants might be tough.

Well Meloni stated she is just like Liz, they are both leaders of European countries, both women. According to the statement of Meloni they have the same political ideology. Seems pretty straight forward. Oh! and the British pound was trading at 1.03 to the US dollar today.

Giorgia Meloni, newly elected as Italy’s next prime minister, has rejected claims that a government led by her far-right party could herald a fascist revival, instead likening her tribe to Britain’s ruling Conservatives. Italians have elected a female version of trump. “There’s a leftist ideology, so-called globalist,” ...Meloni’s enemies list is familiar: “LGBT lobbies” that are out to harm women and the family by destroying “gender identity”; George Soros, an “international speculator,” she has said, who finances global “mass immigration” that threatens a Great Replacement of white, native-born Italians. Meloni shows affinity for authoritarian strongmen: Like Marine Le Pen, until recently the leader of the National Rally party in France, Meloni has expressed support for Russian President Vladimir Putin... Meloni, though, has never fully disavowed her connection to Italy’s neofascist tradition...“I think Mussolini was a good politician,” she told a TV interviewer. “Everything he did, he did for Italy.”...Since 2017, she has tweeted repeatedly that Italian identity is being deliberately erased by globalists such as Soros and European Union officials, who have conspired to unleash “uncontrolled mass immigration.” Now Italy has a female match for Hungary's Orban. Someone for Liz Truss to look up to. The danger of right wing extremists is growing steadily.

I'll agree that its difficult to have a completely different line of drivel in each paragraph. But then Slim showed up and now there are two.

Like a infamous US president. President Putin has decided that he knows more than his generals. He is now directing the battle plan according to US officials. He has ordered that there will be no retreat from Kherson even though Russian troops have been largely cut off. Stalin was famous in the first several years of WW ll for ordering Soviet forces to stand their ground or be shot. The Germans regularly encircled them. Cut them off from resupply. Then either took hundreds of thousands prisoner. Or just shot them. Perhaps Putin is not as great a historian as he thinks he is.

Think of all the new Rolls Royce cars that will be sold. Britain's auto industry will be reborn. ...Oh Yeah.... I guess the Germans already own RR. Well with the cheap pound Russians will buy whats left of the UK that they don't already own.

What? Engineers like beer? Sounds like fun.

Kevin’s Plan After all Republicans play by the rules.

Well it will encourage local DZ loyalty. Think positive.

Tax cuts, the largest in decades have driven down the pound. UK equities have fallen and interest rates are up. So the markets are calling it all a "F". trump's economic policies have landed in England. God save the King....er... Ah well he'll come out OK along with the rich.

US conservative culture vilifies welfare recipients. So many conservatives will view Brett's conduct as no big deal. Just a part of the natural selection and survival of the fittest nature of America. On the flip side is that NFL quarterbacks are akin to British royalty. Just look at Deshaun Watson. Habitual sexual predator. If he helps the Browns have a winning season. I know, I know control your belly splitting laughter. Its all good and forgotten.