Along our California Coast, the value of thousands of multi-million properties will go into negative territory (under water, if you will), because if not demolished, their fragments will end up in the Ocean, making things even worse .
Former MSNBC host Keith Oberman simply couldn’t contain himself during the departure of NBC’s popular TV host Chuck Todd.
As Chuck Todd was leaving, he told his audience that his experience at the network allowed him to explain Washington, DC to America, and America to Washington, DC.
Olbermann lashed out by saying, “The amazing thing is, [Todd] really thinks he did that, rather than set back journalism and democracy by 100 years.”
I’ll have to go back and check but I seem to recall an inflation adjustment was indicated. Anyway I doubt that it would make much difference. Many of this years disasters have exceeded 10 bil.
Ignatius’s coverage of the CIA has been criticized as being defensive and overly positive. Melvin A. Goodman, a 42-year CIA veteran, Johns Hopkins professor, and senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, has called Ignatius “the mainstream media’s apologist for the Central Intelligence Agency,” citing as examples Ignatius’s criticism of the Obama administration for investigating the CIA’s role in the use of torture in interrogations during the Iraq War and his charitable defense of the agency’s motivations for outsourcing such activities to private contractors.[9][10][11] Columnist Glenn Greenwald has leveled similar criticism against Ignatius.[12]
On March 12, 2014, he wrote a two-page descriptive opinion on Putin’s strengths and weaknesses that was published in the Journal and Courier soon after
I give it five minutes after the “free market” insurance companies jack up rates on coastal properties before the dopes who worship the free market start blaming the “deep state” for manipulating the “fake climate crisis.” But, no matter. People need to start feeling the pain of the damage they’re causing and feel it hard. I actually would like to see an overnight collapse in coastal property values. That’d wake people the fuck up in a hurry.
I’d say Kurtz is Ishmael in the story, except that would be getting your Melville mixed with my Conrad. No wait, you’re getting my Conrad mixed with your Melville! It’s TPM Conrad-Melville Cups!
You understand that you have nothing on Scandinavians. Much of our cuisine is out of White Watchers, you know Lutefisk, cauliflower, mashed potatoes with a pat of butter for color.