Right now? Right now, floods are everywhere
George W. was U.S. president and he push-started 'The Patriot Act' through the Congress. There were very, VERY few dissenters but this is one.
Opinion
LESSONS LEARNED: Ron Paul's warnings against the War on Terror stand true.
... Many of the "sacrifices" our politicians told us would be necessary have been turned against us: the Patriot Act, NSA surveillance, and detention without due process, to name just a few. Mainstream pundits have even called for January 6 protesters to be sent to Guantanamo Bay, a place designated exclusively for the most dangerous terrorists. How long until our government starts turning its critics right here at home into political prisoners?
https://humanevents.com/2022/09/09/lessons-learned-ron-pauls-warnings-against-the-war-on-terror-stand-true/
SUNDAY AFTERNOON READ
Queen Elizabeth: The Last Great Briton
https://amgreatness.com/2022/09/08/the-last-great-briton/
Something Different
The Star Spangled Banner played at Buckingham Palace.
Latest Update
Charles III is officially the King of the United Kingdom and 14 countries, aka Commonwealth realms:
Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu.
REMINDER: Queen Elizabeth II visited Thailand twice. https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thai-royal-family-send-letters-of-condolence-for-the-passing-of-britains-queen-elizabeth-ii/
UKRAINE RUSSIA WAR THAILAND NEUTRALITY
The foreign minister of Russia, Sergey Lavrov, was in Thailand for a couple of days.
He spent most of his official time with Thailand's foreign minister Don Pramudwinai.
And during that time, according to an official Thailand junta spokesman, Lavrov was effusive about Thailand. Including, according to the Tass news agency:
 Russia is grateful to Thailand for an objective assessment of the events in Ukraine and understanding of the true causes of the situation in the international arena.
 We are grateful to our Thai colleagues for a balanced, objective and responsible position on what is happening in and around Ukraine...
 and we've confirmed our willingness to share in detail our assessments of everything that is happening.
Thailand read that, and informed the Thai media that what Lavros really meant was that Russia is delighted with Thailand's "neutrality" in the war.
PHOTO: Lavrov (right) and Don
https://tass.com/politics/1503459
U.S.A. POLITICS CHINA CLINTON
John Podesta is everything but an official, card-carrying member of the Communist Party of China. And now...
 "Biden's appointment of veteran Democratic campaign operative [and Hillary shill] John Podesta to oversee hundreds of billions in federal environmental funding" is a delight to Beijing.
Warning Number 12 is issued: Fifty-six of Thailand's 77 provinces are going to flood
Thailand's junta's 'Water Command Centre' (cq) has Telexed and otherwise warned the nation: Brace for river overflows and flooding from the daily, heavy rain.
Including Bangkok (below), which is (yes!) a province.
https://www.thaipbsworld.com/56-provinces-warned-of-waterway-overflows-following-heavy-rain/
Do the vastly overpaid bureaucrats of the Washington subway think we need permission or instructions on masking-up?
It's a valid question, because in 2021 the same deficient functionaries were paid to make and post blatantly erroneous signs ordering customers to, "Wear a Mask and Get Your Life Back" whatever the hell that meant.
The same regime that once tried to gaslight us into thinking mask-wearing was normal now wants us to forget that we were ever free to rubbish a mask at all. Or wear one, if we chose.
Worse than Portland? Example...
Overdose deaths hit 1,700 since 2020 as users run rampant across the city.
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If you're going/
To San Francisco......
 Then cancel the trip. Really. Have a look here at the Daily Mail's photo essay of the place.
EXAMPLE: A homeless man injects fentanyl into his friend's armpit, due to a lack of usable veins, as people walk by near City Hall on Saturday.
CAUTION: This photo/video collection is very nasty, and it goes on and on...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11192227/Soft-touch-San-Francisco-leaders-call-IDEAS-end-open-air-drug-markets.html
Well, Florida...
America's rarest snakes chokes to death on a large centipede
Its beady tiny eyes were bigger than its stomach.
Researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History  said in a study published Saturday in the journal Ecology, a hiker found the snake on the side of a trail at a park in Key Largo, Florida, in February. What was even more astonishing to researchers was that the snake appeared to have choked on its last meal – a giant centipede about a third of the snake's length.
According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the rim rock crowned snake is a tiny reptile, growing to less than a foot in length, that is only found in a very small part of southeast Florida and the Florida Keys. The head, also known as the crown, is black to light brown, while the belly ranges from yellow to red with black spots.
https://tinyurl.com/55n6vrr3
Tell me he's wrong.
No. Wait! Tell me WHY he is wrong.
 Former Agent: A Law Enforcement 'Shift' Is Needed to End the Opioid Crisis.
In 2021, as 'the pandemic raged' more than 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses. Where by "drug overdoses" we mean, of course, Chinese fentanyl.
https://pjmedia.com/columns/johnligato/2022/09/08/former-fbi-agent-a-law-enforcement-shift-is-needed-to-end-the-opioid-crisis-n1627679
Interesting essay
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:
 'I am telling you people that the situation in Europe is much worse than many understand.'
DRAMA QUEEN? OR STILL ONLY A SOAP OPERA PRINCESS?
This is notable especially, because Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (CCCP-Mars) claims she is a woman, something the political party she aspires to lead will not recognize. And she claims that many Many MANY young Americans are female "little girls". She comes right out and says that.
 AOC Is Afraid She Won't Live Through September Because You Hate Women.
https://tinyurl.com/55pc62x3
Geeks, Nerds, their supporters and sympathizers: This is quite a thread.
For one thing, I'd never even heard of a Loab.
