How did we let that loose...?

It worked. Ignorance of long term effects. Like the Roman era lead pipe. Or coal fired industrial plants.

That's a widespread but inaccurate rumour. Lead pipes were in use until end of 19th century without poisioning people en masse. But what the Romans did back then was to store acidic foods in lead pots and bowls... The acid together with a long time caused the poisoning of those foods.

The year was 1933 and, to a group of industrialists gathered in a New York City lunch club, it seemed like the lead industry was doomed.

The women’s pages of newspapers were filled with stories about children being poisoned by the metal, which had been identified as dangerous as early as the mid-1800s. And cities around America had started banning the use of lead pipes for drinking water.
...
In Chicago, the city code still said in early 1986 that any pipe 2in or less in diameter connecting a home to the water system had to be lead – and plumbers fought to keep that rule in place for decades, news accounts suggest.

I'm sure this will be blamed on Boeing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBQkk4RcidA

And in this case, it appears control of the ship was lost prior to the collision- loss of steering according to some reports.

All that and more.

Lost power, a mayday call and the crash that brought down a Baltimore bridge

All before they recover the "black box" recorder. It was the local pilots who made the mayday call - presumably via their own direct comms to harbor control - with enough time to spare to stop traffic approaching the bridge.

Major incident in Baltimore, Maryland.
Bridge in Baltimore collapses after ship struck it, sending vehicles into water.

Boeing C.E.O. to Step Down in Major Reshuffle at Embattled Plane Maker
Boeing announced Monday that its chief executive, David Calhoun, would step down at the end of 2024 as part of a broad management shake-up, as the aircraft maker grapples with its most significant safety crisis in years.

Stan Deal, the head of commercial airplanes division, will retire immediately and will be replaced by Stephanie Pope, the company’s chief operating officer.

The company also announced that its chairman, Larry Kellner, would not stand for re-election.

The management overhaul comes less than three months after a panel, known as a door plug, blew off a Boeing Max 9 during an Alaska Airlines flight on Jan. 5. The incident plunged the company into crisis five years after crashes in 2018 and 2019 of its Max 8 planes that killed nearly 350 people.

The Alaska incident renewed questions about the safety of Max planes and Boeing’s commitment to quality. Airline chief executives publicly expressed frustration with the manufacturer. The Federal Aviation Administration, which regulates the plane maker, grounded similar planes across the United States. When it cleared the planes to fly again, it also imposed limits on Boeing’s planned production increase of Max planes, foiling the company’s latest attempt to compete with its European rival Airbus.

Britain left a vacuum in 1948, shifted it to UN.

Benji's slaughtering continues as the Palestinian death toll passes 30,000.

March 15 (Reuters) - A United Airlines (UAL.O), 737-800 landed safely in Oregon Friday after it was found to have a missing external panel, officials said.
United Flight 433 landed at Medford Airport around 1:45 p.m. PDT (2045 GMT) on Friday carrying 139 passengers and six crew after departing from San Francisco, the Federal Aviation Administration and airline said.
The FAA said a post-landing airline inspection of the 25-year-old airplane revealed a missing panel and the agency will investigate as will United.

The FAA also conducted 13 product audits for the part of the inquiry that focused on Spirit AeroSystems, which makes the fuselage, or body, of the 737 Max.

The presentation reviewed by The Times, though highly technical, offers a more detailed picture of what the audit turned up. Since the Alaska Airlines episode, Boeing has come under intense scrutiny over its quality-control practices, and the findings add to the body of evidence about manufacturing lapses at the company.

For the portion of the examination focused on Boeing, the F.A.A. conducted 89 product audits, a type of review that looks at aspects of the production process. The plane maker passed 56 of the audits and failed 33 of them, with a total of 97 instances of alleged noncompliance, according to the presentation.

The F.A.A. also conducted 13 product audits for the part of the inquiry that focused on Spirit AeroSystems, which makes the fuselage, or body, of the 737 Max. Six of those audits resulted in passing grades, and seven resulted in failing ones, the presentation said.

Two lorry drivers miraculously escaped unhurt when an avalanche of giant boulders crushed their vehicles as they drove along a mountain road in Peru.
Dashcam footage showed the fast-moving rocks smashing into one of the freight lorries, sending it flying into the air and landing on its side.

And back to instant responses again.

90 days to come up with a plan, but how many more to implement that plan?

Finally the lying scheming religious young punk finally does the right thing.

Former prime minister Scott Morrison has announced he will resign from parliament, ending almost two years of speculation.

It's just a shame that he couldn't do that a long time ago, but I wouldn't be surprised that he's jumped because another bad report on him and his dodgy government is coming.

SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing said Wednesday that the head of its 737 jetliner program is leaving the company in an executive shake-up weeks after a door panel blew out on a flight over Oregon, renewing questions about safety at the company.

Boeing announced that Ed Clark, who had been with the company for nearly 18 years and led the 737 program since early 2021, was leaving immediately.

Clark oversaw the factory in Renton, Washington, where final assembly took place on the Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 involved in last month’s accident. Federal investigators said bolts needed to help keep a panel called a door plug in place were missing after repair work on the plane.

Katie Ringgold, a vice president in charge of delivering 737s to airlines, will succeed Clark as vice president and general manager of the 737 program and the Renton factory, according to an email to employees from Stan Deal, the CEO of Boeing’s commercial airplanes division.

BURNSVILLE, Minn. (AP) — Two police officers and a first responder were shot and killed early Sunday and a third officer was injured at a suburban Minneapolis home in an exchange of gunfire while responding to a call involving an armed man who had barricaded himself inside with family, including seven children. The suspect in the shooting also died, officials said.

And if he wants to appeal that then he's doing to have to front up at least $400+M.

ROFLMFOA!!!!!

Unfortunately not. But he has to find an insurance company willing to sign a bond for that.

Can you name 1 stupid enough too take him on?

Lloyds

WASHINGTON (AP) — An FBI informant has been charged with lying to authorities about a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company, a claim that is central to the Republican impeachment inquiry in Congress.

Alexander Smirnov falsely reported in June 2020 that executives associated with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma paid Hunter and Joe Biden $5 million each in 2015 or 2016, prosecutors said Thursday.

Smirnov said a Burisma executive had claimed to have hired Hunter Biden to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems,” prosecutors said.

The volcano erupted, with plumes rising to 5,000 meters above the summit crater for the first time since 2020. There were no immediate reports of injuries and damage to buildings, the prefectural government said, while the Kagoshima Meteorological Office maintained the volcanic activity alert level at three, urging people not to approach the volcano. The Japan Meteorological Agency forecast volcanic ashes to fall in parts of Kumamoto, Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures.

The explosive eruption occurred at the Minamidake crater around 6:33 p.m. Rocks flew for a distance of 1,000 to 1,300 meters but no pyroclastic flows were generated, according to the local weather office.

Note how Egypt refuses to accept entry of a single Palestinian...


All in our deadly political world?
Martin

The two Israeli hostages freed overnight were held captive in a family home in Rafah, according to reports.

The rescued hostages, Fernando Simon Marman, 60, and Louis Har, 70, told Sheba Medical centre that they were held in a Gaza home, according to the Ynet news site.

The pair were kidnapped from a home in southern Israel along with three other relatives who were freed in the late-November deal. No other family members of theirs remain in Gaza, Israeli media reported.

Crooked Donny is screwed.

The former President had been relying on a legal point to protect him from a crucial upcoming court case – but not any more.

The evidence just keeps piling up:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68220627
The whole Boeing & Spirit quality management system is broken, or at the very least not fit for purpose.

Russia's Woes Continue as Ukraine Reports Taking Out 3 Aircraft in Crimea.

The fatal mistake that caused this misery was made more than a decade ago.

WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - U.S. safety regulators have upgraded their probe into Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab vehicles over power steering loss to an engineering analysis - a required step before the agency could demand a potential recall.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Friday said the investigation covers about 334,000 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles from the 2023 model year.
The agency's upgraded probe follows a December Reuters investigation that found tens of thousands of Tesla owners have experienced premature failures of suspension or steering parts over at least seven years, citing Tesla documents and interviews with customers and former employees.

It doesn't need rocket science to fix it.

20 odd years of being run by bean counters instead of engineers.

I think bean counters are extremely important for each aircraft manufacturer. These ultra-complex products easily get too expensive... fewer sales... insufficient profits (e.g. history of Saab Aircraft, Fairchild, Dornier, ...). Were the bean counters the actual problem, or were it the greedy Boeing CEOs who over a decade pushed Boeing's market value (and their bonus) through extensive share buybacks? Were did they get all the money for this?

Seattle Times, Jan 24 - The fuselage panel that blew off an Alaska Airlines jet earlier this month was removed for repair then reinstalled improperly by Boeing mechanics on the Renton final assembly line, a person familiar with the details of the work told The Seattle Times.

If verified by the National Transportation Safety Board investigation, this would leave Boeing primarily at fault for the accident, rather than its supplier Spirit AeroSystems, which originally installed the panel into the 737 MAX 9 fuselage in Wichita, Kan.

Or could it be every other person was proficient in English, but his guy it wasn't his first language?

Those antivaxers here had better watch out.

A health alert has been issued for measles after a confirmed case of measles in the Australian Capital Territory was infectious while transiting through Sydney.

A traveller infected with measles has travelled into Australia and moved around cities, with a health alert now issued for the highly infectious disease.

The case is an adult who recently returned from Asia, where there has been ongoing outbreaks of measles in several countries including Pakistan and India.

Those who travelled on an Air India flight AI302 from Delhi to Sydney arriving on Saturday January 20 at 8.10am have been told to watch out for symptoms.

Anyone at Sydney Airport Terminal 1 International Arrivals, including baggage claims and customs, and bus and coach bay 9 that morning were also exposed.

Passengers travelling from Sydney to Canberra with on Murrays Bus company, departing the airport at 10.30am on January 20, should also be alert.....

Reuters
January 24, 2024 4:31 AM GMTUpdated 8 hours ago
Jan 23 (Reuters) - The nose wheel of a Boeing 757 passenger jet operated by Delta Air Lines popped off and rolled away as the plane was lining up for takeoff over the weekend from Atlanta's international airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Boeing was not immediately available to comment outside regular business hours.
The nose gear mishap on Saturday came amid heightened scrutiny of the aircraft manufacturer by federal regulators following the mid-air blowout of a fuselage panel that left a gaping hold in an 8-week-old Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet flown by Alaska Airlines.

And yet another 'loose screw':

Unbelievable: Data From Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 Voice Recorder Was Wiped


... At what price are the lives of people?

... How far behind in safety can Boeing go??


Fly safe folks?
Martin

Isn't that Nancy Haley and Nikki Pelosi?

But what gets me most is that my private pension is taxed AGAIN as it was funded by money I had already paid tax on.

Now you know why 1776

Trouble ahead for the Tories, especially if the interest rate is at least 5% or more come September.
After all, Rsiky Sunshine will be a calling an election then instead of May.
Allowances frozen until 2028, so...

Now he's pulling the same stunt with pensioners. Another 650,000 retirees will be at the sharp end of this in April. I wonder who they'll be voting for at the upcoming election. Nine million tax-paying pensioners spells double trouble for the Tories.

You will be relieved to know there are no models of this plane in the UK. They are mainly used for internal domestic flights within the U.S.

Hmmm, Icelandair operates four Max 9 together with their Max 8 fleet. They occasionally fly to London, Manchester and Glasgow, also in previous days. Their Max 9's haven't been grounded. Icelandair has certainly checked doorplugs, if any are installed.

ICELANDAIR

Icelandair said on Monday its aircraft were not affected by the FAA grounding. "It has been confirmed that the issue is related to equipment that is not a part of Icelandair's Boeing 737 MAX 9 configuration," said a spokesperson for the airline, which operates four of the aircraft.

Jan 11 (Reuters) - Rental firm Hertz Global Holdings (HTZ.O) is selling about 20,000 electric vehicles, including Teslas, from its U.S. fleet about two years after a deal with the automaker to offer its vehicles for rent, in another sign that EV demand has cooled.

Hertz will instead opt for gas-powered vehicles, it said on Thursday, citing higher expenses related to collision and damage for EVs even though it had aimed to convert 25% of its fleet to electric by 2024 end.

United Airlines said "installation issues" relating to door plugs would be "remedied" before the aircraft type would return to service.

Some 171 planes of the same type remain grounded by the US regulator.

In its statement, United said: "Since we began preliminary inspections on Saturday, we have found instances that appear to relate to installation issues in the door plug - for example, bolts that needed additional tightening."

WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - The cockpit voice recorder data on the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet which lost a panel mid-flight on Friday was overwritten, U.S. authorities said, renewing attention on an industry call for longer in-flight recordings.
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) chair Jennifer Homendy said on Sunday no data was available on the cockpit voice recorder because it was not retrieved within two hours - when recording restarts, erasing previous data.
The U.S. requires cockpit voice recorders to log two hours of data versus 25 hours in Europe for planes made after 2021.
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has since 2016 called for 25-hour recording on planes manufactured from 2021.

however looking at images of the outside of the aircraft it was a door of some type.

Jan 5 (Reuters) - The National Transportation Safety Board said late Friday it was investigating a depressurization incident that forced an Alaska Airlines (ALK.N) Boeing 737 MAX 9 (BA.N) to make an emergency landing shortly after taking off from Portland, Oregon.

Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, which had been bound for Ontario, California, suffered the depressurization soon after departing at 5:06 p.m. Pacific Time and landed safely back at Portland at 5:26 p.m. with 171 passengers and six crew, according to the airline and Flightradar24 data.

737-9 MAX N704AL Aircraft informationN704AL (MSN 67501) was delivered to Alaska new from Boeing on 31 October 2023. It entered commercial service on 11 November 2023 and has accumulated 145 flights since then (including the incident flight).

One possible solution is by using Cylo boilers, which the Telegraph understands are currently being fitted in four homes at the Duke of Gloucester Barracks in South Cerney, Glos, as part of a pilot project due to start early in 2024.

Cylo is a fridge-sized, emission-free electric boiler that is cheaper to run and more effective than a heat pump.

It is also greener than a gas boiler and requires no major works* to a building before it can be installed.

The boiler uses a pressurised water tank as a thermal battery, using off-peak and cheap electricity to create a “heat reservoir” that then powers radiators when needed.

Standing around 6ft tall and weighing around 250kg before being filled with water, it can be fitted in a ground floor room or on the outside of a building.

OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Multiple people were injured Saturday during what authorities described as “an active shooting” at a shopping mall in central Florida.

The Ocala Police Department said they were responding to “an active shooting” at the Paddock Mall in Ocala, located about 80 miles northwest of Orlando.

The police department later said on social media that the suspect had fled and that the mall was being evacuated.

As we were clearing the rooms, we came across a classroom which I thought at first was an art room because I saw a lot of red paint all over the walls and in the far left corner I thought I observed a pile of dirty laundry. … As I continued to stare at the room not being able to figure out what I was looking at, I realized that the red paint was actually blood and the pile of dirty laundry were actually dead bodies. Carlo Guerra, state trooper. Newtown.

How do we persuade the gods of the situation on all sides

This clown always brings a smile to my face.

House Expels George Santos From Congress

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/12/01/nyregion/george-santos-expulsion-vote

... Or even better, walk!

Except... The walking bit is a big 'dificulty' to be overcome in our slipshod incremental random city design...

Take your bicycle! And convince your local mayor to spend at least 10% of the money to build and maintain roads instead for separate bicycle lanes and pathways. Such a policy, pursued for decades, leads to an infrastructure like that in Copenhagen, Denmark or everywhere in the Netherlands. Cyclist's paradise.

In Germany we have 'usable' cycle paths everywhere in the cities. But when I was in the Netherlands for the first time and saw their bike paths in a large provincial town in Friesland, I was completely overwhelmed. Even after hours, I couldn't believe what they had built there in decades. Bicycle highways, multi-lane, with fast lanes, safely separated from car traffic everywhere, separate roundabouts outside car roundabouts for cyclists only. Not just in Amsterdam... also everywhere in the province.

Tesla, the world’s most valuable carmaker with a $742 billion valuation, is facing a potential roadblock in its plans to sell full self-driving (FSD) technology in Britain. New driverless car laws in the country threaten to bar the sale of Tesla’s advanced automotive technology, creating a significant hurdle to CEO Elon Musk’s ambitious plan of deploying millions of autonomous vehicles.
Understanding Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Technology

Since 2016, Tesla has been selling cars equipped with “full self-driving capability”, charging UK drivers £6,800 for this feature. The technology, however, cannot be activated until approved by regulatory bodies. Despite the highly touted capabilities of FSD, it still requires human monitoring, a stipulation that may not align with Britain’s upcoming legal framework.

But in a bulletin, the Icelandic meteorological office said the probability of a sudden eruption "is decreasing every day and is considered low" due to declining magma flow and seismic activity.

Hamas says three "martyrdom" fighters entered the al-Rantissi hospital to attack an Israeli position.

Looks like one of them may have detonated a suicide vest?

I'm sorry to hear that Graham, but I'm sending you my best wishes.

Cheers.

Anyone else noticed that none of the reporters inside Gaza ever mention the word Hamas?...

... And it takes two to make a shootout...


Stay safe folks?
Martin

You missed an area, the Western United States.

Do you know where Nevada is?

Maybe, some country that has area's of low density population might like to donate a suitably large area.

I can think of three countries that have large areas where few people live.

Antarctica, Russia Siberia, Mongolia, Northern Canada, Alaska interior, Nevada, Brazil, Libya, Chad, Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Algeria, Egypt, Kazakhstan, and Australia. Some of these are likely too ecologically sensitive, others unwilling and others have populated pockets that may strenuously object.

Nov 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force's B-21 "Raider" bomber shaped like a flying wing took its first flight on Friday, the next step in rolling out a new fleet of long-range nuclear-capable stealth bombers built by Northrop Grumman (NOC.N), according to a Reuters witness.

The B-21 left Northrop's facility at the Air Force's Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, at sunrise on Friday offering the first unscripted look at the new bomber which has been developed under strict security.

They’re bringing the humans back.

Should all this not be blamed upon the Roman occupation thousands of years ago?

And yet the Israeli government advocates for the Palestinian removal or extermination as well, "from the river to the sea", and has done for quite some time with the basic approval of the west and still doing so.

So what is the difference?

1:01 AM GMT, October 30, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case in Washington on Sunday reimposed a narrow gag order barring him from making public comments targeting prosecutors, court staff and potential witnesses.

The reinstatement of the gag order was revealed in a brief notation on the online case docket Sunday night, but the order itself was not immediately available, making it impossible to see the judge’s rationale or the precise contours of the restrictions.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is presiding over the federal case charging Trump with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election, had temporarily lifted the gag order as she considered the former president’s request to keep it on hold while he challenges the restrictions on his speech in higher courts.

I do have to agree with the hyphen. Even the Rolls-Royce official website has it hyphenated.

ATLANTA (AP) — Attorney and prominent conservative media figure Jenna Ellis pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a felony charge over efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia, tearfully telling the judge she looks back on that time with “deep remorse.”

Ellis, the fourth defendant in the case to enter into a plea deal, was a vocal part of Trump’s reelection campaign in the last presidential cycle and was charged alongside the Republican former president and 17 others with violating the state’s anti-racketeering law.

I had no intention of starting a discussion about religion. Where I grew up, religion no longer existed in the society. Later, as an adult, I discovered that religions exist and tried to understand them, to fathom their history, or at least understand their principles; in the sense of enlightenment, wanting to understand the here and now. That's all.

I can follow Mr. Kevvy's thoughts that in many autocracies today substitute religions are used for brainwashing. In any case, it's not religion that drives Russia's soldiers to their doom, but pure violence and centuries of servitude. ...off topic.

Such aid is meant to provide drinking water

Former Donald Trump lawyer Sidney Powell has pleaded guilty to six charges in the Georgia election interference case.

Powell, who pushed false claims about the 2020 election results, reached a deal with prosecutors and will now testify at the trial.
...
She has been sentenced to six years of probation and must pay a fine and testify at future trials.

All very suspiciously suggesting a self-inflicted hit...

But was it?

To me and some others this looks like ordinance that was meant to detonate metres above ground level so that most of the blast wasn't meant to create a crater (except for it's tip), but instead create a maximum blast/fire wave around the surrounding area (yes, just like a nuclear bomb).

So now, who has such weaponry?

The BBC are making a valiant effort to make sense of events like this through their new-ish 'BBC Verify' team.

Gaza hospital: What video, pictures and other evidence tell us about Al Ahli hospital blast

They're honest enough to say that they haven't got answers to all the questions yet, but they have promised to keep that page updated as new conclusions are reached.

There is no crater

Why must there be one? What set of assumptions is required for there to be a crater? Or where is the crater in Hiroshima?

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) denied the claims and in turn pointed the finger at Islamic Jihad, a group allied with Hamas terrorists.

Daniel Hagari, an Israeli military spokesman, said the country’s drone footage showed that the rocket used in the attack “doesn’t fit any of the ammunition of the [Israeli] airforce”.

Several independent analysts reviewed footage of the explosion and said their investigations supported the IDF’s denial.

Some said the massive blast appeared to have been caused by a failed projectile from a large barrage of rockets launched from northern Gaza.

As to precision, when you fight an enemy in a civilian area you better use high precision rounds. You better have a stockpile of them. You better be able to make them faster than you use them. You also have to know with certainty what you are aiming at. Shooting at a parking lot that was emptied of the enemy ten minutes before you get your first shot off, is at the least wasteful and at the other end a war crime when your not accurate shell takes out a maternity ward. There is no moral justification for that, just rationalization.

A little-known distributor in London sold thousands of engine components with bogus documentation. Carriers and repair shops are frantically hunting them down.
This spring, engineers at TAP Air Portugal’s maintenance subsidiary huddled around an aircraft engine that had come in for repair. The exposed CFM56 turbine looked like just another routine job for a shop that handles more than 100 engines a year. Only this time, there was cause for alarm.
Workers noticed that a replacement part, a damper to reduce vibration, showed signs of wear, when the accompanying paperwork identified the component as fresh from the production line. On June 21, TAP pointed out the discrepancy to Safran SA, the French aerospace company that makes CFM engines together with General Electric Co.
Safran quickly determined that the paperwork had been forged. The signature wasn’t that of a company employee, and the reference and purchase order numbers on the part also didn’t add up.

BTW what kind of shells is Ukraine using?

The only good thing is that Sunak will soon be facing an election, which he will hopefully be removed from office and loose his seat. He is rapidly becoming (if he hasn't already become) a monstrous liability to the Conservative party.
A summary of his destructive to the environment reads like a Steven King horror story.

At least 21 people including two children have died after a bus crashed off a flyover near the Italian city of Venice and caught fire, officials say.
The bus broke through a barrier and plunged near railway tracks in the district of Mestre, which is connected to Venice by a bridge.
It had been rented to take tourists between Venice and a campsite in the nearby Marghera district, reports say.
Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro said a "huge tragedy" had taken place.
"An apocalyptic scene, there are no words," he said on X, formerly Twitter.
The incident happened at about 19:45 local time (17:45 GMT) as the bus was reportedly taking tourists back to the campsite.

Some reports say the bus was powered by methane gas and fell onto power lines and caught fire.

"The aggravating factor was methane and the fire this spread rapidly," said Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi, warning that the death toll could rise.
Regional governor Luca Zaia said the dead and injured included people of "various nationalities, not just Italians".

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge quickly imposed a limited gag order in Donald Trump’s civil business fraud trial Tuesday after the former president disparaged a key court staffer.

Interrupting a long day of testimony, Judge Arthur Engoron issued the order, which applies to all parties in the case and pertains to verbal attacks on court staff. It came after Trump recirculated a critical social media post about Engoron’s principal law clerk, Allison Greenfield.

Clarence and Sammy won't like those numbers.

Voter support for Supreme Court ethics reform is high amid spate of critical stories.

....But unlike most of the other independent polls, the new POLITICO | Morning Consult survey digs into specific reform proposals, most of which are quite popular, despite dim prospects of them being enacted by Congress or put into place by the justices themselves.

In addition to the 75 percent of voters — a bipartisan consensus of 81 percent of Democrats, 72 percent of Republicans and 69 percent of independents — who support a binding ethics code, roughly two-thirds of voters support term limits for the justices (68 percent). A similar percentage (67 percent) say the court should televise oral arguments, while 66 percent believe there should be an age limit for the justices. A smaller majority, 60 percent, think there should be an equal number of Democrats, Republicans and independents on the high court......

Donny loses his final bid to escape the judge in NY.He has to front on Monday.

Court rejects Donald Trump's bid to delay trial in wake of fraud ruling that threatens his businesses.

Donny's going to need even more donations from the foolish now.

Four lawyers and legal experts consulted by Reuters said Trump's defense in four criminal prosecutions could cost over $50 million, more than all the money raised in the first half of this year by Trump's campaign and its top allied super PAC, Make America Great Again Inc, known as MAGA Inc.
...
In July, after Save America reported its legal expenses to the Federal Election Commission, Cheung said Save America was helping people who had worked for Trump avoid "financial ruin." Asked how legal spending would affect his campaign, Trump told a SiriusXM podcast earlier this month: "Fortunately, I have a lot more money."

Trump has also raised millions of dollars off his legal troubles, including by selling T-shirts and coffee mugs emblazoned with his mug shot.

Legal fees are set to grow as Trump's four criminal trials get underway. Stephen Gillers, a law professor at New York University, estimated Trump's legal fees could top $100 million, which is on the higher end of estimates offered by experts. Save America and the Trump campaign have not responded to requests for comment on the legal fee estimates.

Senseless
Is this what future generations will be like?

Ok, what was Don Quiote's horse?

Rocinante. We just had this two weeks ago in the competing word link game on Einstein. ;-)

Not the welcome you expect when going to the local store.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-nottinghamshire-66881498

I had one run into me while I was driving. On the freeway. Over 70 mph. It was really hard to clean up all the feathers and other parts.

NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani’s former lawyer sued him Monday, alleging the ex-New York City mayor has paid only a fraction of nearly $1.6 million in legal fees he’s racked up from investigations into his efforts to keep Donald Trump in the White House.

Robert Costello and his law firm, Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP, say Giuliani has paid them just $214,000 and still has a $1.36 million tab. Giuliani’s last payment, according to the lawsuit, was $10,000 on Sept. 14 — about a week after Trump hosted a $100,000-a-plate fundraiser for Giuliani at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club.

Donald Trump is facing new blowback from anti-abortion activists for refusing to commit to national abortion restrictions and for calling Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signing of a six-week ban on the procedure a “terrible mistake.”

Speaking Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Trump repeatedly declined to say whether he would support a federal ban on abortion. He said he could “live with” the procedure being banned by individual states or nationwide through federal action, though he said “from a legal standpoint, I think it’s probably better” to be handled at the state level.

Regarding the bill signed by DeSantis, which bans abortions before many women know they are pregnant, Trump said, “I think what he did is a terrible thing and a terrible mistake.”

Across England, just 1,123 miles of roads were resurfaced in 2021-22. This is a 29% fall on the 1,588 miles in 2017-18.

It seems the the people around London arn't happy at all and I take it that most of them are considered poor