Politics

[Doug3006]

She laid down her cards before bluffing. Backwards poker.

And no one got out of the Governor race because she entered. Her entire strategy was to hope everyone would step aside and Crown her Governor.

There’s plenty of time for her to run. Someone might drop out just before the election and crown her their successor!

 

[fourfive8]

That earthquake was certainly of large enough magnitude for a big tsunami but apparently didn’t displace enough water to set up the big wave. I was on the phone with the better half when the tsunami warning was issued and people were starting to scramble inland. All the Media milked the news for as long as they could but ran out of steam when the live cam at Waikiki beach didn’t show even a ripple. The news kept running alerts even though tsunami bout sensors scattered everywhere never showed any large wave or swell. Gotta keep the emergency service budgets going and bureaucrats busy I guess. No problem with an operational tsunami alert system but timely and accurate updates are critical to preventing a system that may cry wolf once too often.

 

[Tanks]

She laid down her cards before bluffing. Backwards poker.

And no one got out of the Governor race because she entered. Her entire strategy was to hope everyone would step aside and Crown her Governor.

Actually, a few had stated they’d bow out if she was to run. It would have been her vs another Democrat anyway as CA has jungle primary where top 2 run in general.

Now, if she decides to run in 2028 she will get shellacked in primaries. In 2020 she couldn’t even make it to Iowa before folding. Though now the first one favors black (or black endorsed) candidates.

 

[Doug Hamilton]

There’s plenty of time for her to run. Someone might drop out just before the election and crown her their successor!

Isn't that how she ended up running for president?

 

[Brent in Az]

At least Newsom can't run for governor.
No doubt that greasy sleazebag will make a run at the Presidency. God help us.

Newsom /Harris ticket?

 

[Doug Hamilton]

At least Newsom can't run for governor.
No doubt that greasy sleazebag will make a run at the Presidency. God help us.

Newsom /Harris ticket?

Nooooo!

 

[Brent in Az]

 

[Brent in Az]

 

[Scott CWO]

That earthquake was certainly of large enough magnitude for a big tsunami but apparently didn’t displace enough water to set up the big wave. I was on the phone with the better half when the tsunami warning was issued and people were starting to scramble inland. All the Media milked the news for as long as they could but ran out of steam when the live cam at Waikiki beach didn’t show even a ripple. The news kept running alerts even though tsunami bout sensors scattered everywhere never showed any large wave or swell. Gotta keep the emergency service budgets going and bureaucrats busy I guess. No problem with an operational tsunami alert system but timely and accurate updates are critical to preventing a system that may cry wolf once too often.

My daughter had a stressful last day of her honeymoon on Kauai yesterday. Her flight was set to leave at 7:40pm. United initially cancelled the flight so I told her to get water and food and take their rental car up the highway to higher ground up the mountain. Unbeknownst to me, her husband’s parents booked them a hotel room on the 10th floor of a hotel near the ocean instead. Nice people but city slickers. No respect for the power of nature. They thought being on the top floor of a hotel would be best. I disagreed. There’s an old saying about the sea amongst sailors and coastal residents, “Water always wins.” I didn’t want my daughter anywhere near that bay in a man-made structure, 10 floors up or not. I found the local tsunami evacuation maps online and sent them to her in-laws and my daughter. The map clearly showed the hotel was in the red zone! Experts recommend evacuating to HIGHER GROUND, not a higher FLOOR. On the Alaskan Peninsula, where I guide bear hunts, the native villages all have a “tsunami house” about a half mile up on the mountains above the villages. I’ve also hunted on grass covered dunes that are a half mile inland from the bays on the Pacific side. These giant dunes were formed many years ago by tsunamis.

Just about the time that I had convinced them to drive up the mountain, the United pilot convinced the airline to go ahead with the flight and depart earlier. The airport is above the evacuation zone in the green zone so I told the newlyweds to get to the airport and get on the flight. Luckily, that United pilot pushed the airline to do the flight. The newlyweds got airborne just as the tsunami was starting. As we all know now, it turned out to be a big nothing burger but how were we to know? We were all worried due to the monster size of the earthquake, being 8.8!

My hat is off to that pilot! It was a real relief for my wife and I to know that our baby girl was on that flight. It’s a direct flight to Denver and they landed at 6am, safe and sound.

Luckily, all this tsunami drama happened on their last day of an otherwise great honeymoon.

 

[Rocked and Loaded]

 

[Doug Hamilton]

There’s plenty of time for her to run. Someone might drop out just before the election and crown her their successor!

I think I'll get a bumper sticker for the "push - bar" on the front of my Bronco, "Run Kamala Run!"

That would probably get me arrested if I lived in GB.

 

[Graham Hunter]

My daughter had a stressful last day of her honeymoon on Kauai yesterday. Her flight was set to leave at 7:40pm. United initially cancelled the flight so I told her to get water and food and take their rental car up the highway to higher ground up the mountain. Unbeknownst to me, her husband’s parents booked them a hotel room on the 10th floor of a hotel near the ocean instead. Nice people but city slickers. No respect for the power of nature. They thought being on the top floor of a hotel would be best. I disagreed. There’s an old saying about the sea amongst sailors and coastal residents, “Water always wins.” I didn’t want my daughter anywhere near that bay in a man-made structure, 10 floors up or not. I found the local tsunami evacuation maps online and sent them to her in-laws and my daughter. The map clearly showed the hotel was in the red zone! Experts recommend evacuating to HIGHER GROUND, not a higher FLOOR. On the Alaskan Peninsula, where I guide bear hunts, the native villages all have a “tsunami house” about a half mile up on the mountains above the villages. I’ve also hunted on grass covered dunes that are a half mile inland from the bays on the Pacific side. These giant dunes were formed many years ago by tsunamis.

Just about the time that I had convinced them to drive up the mountain, the United pilot convinced the airline to go ahead with the flight and depart earlier. The airport is above the evacuation zone in the green zone so I told the newlyweds to get to the airport and get on the flight. Luckily, that United pilot pushed the airline to do the flight. The newlyweds got airborne just as the tsunami was starting. As we all know now, it turned out to be a big nothing burger but how were we to know? We were all worried due to the monster size of the earthquake, being 8.8!

My hat is off to that pilot! It was a real relief for my wife and I to know that our baby girl was on that flight. It’s a direct flight to Denver and they landed at 6am, safe and sound.

Luckily, all this tsunami drama happened on their last day of an otherwise great honeymoon.View attachment 703521View attachment 703522y

Glad everything worked out. Now you can rest easy.

 

[Doug Hamilton]

My daughter had a stressful last day of her honeymoon on Kauai yesterday. Her flight was set to leave at 7:40pm. United initially cancelled the flight so I told her to get water and food and take their rental car up the highway to higher ground up the mountain. Unbeknownst to me, her husband’s parents booked them a hotel room on the 10th floor of a hotel near the ocean instead. Nice people but city slickers. No respect for the power of nature. They thought being on the top floor of a hotel would be best. I disagreed. There’s an old saying about the sea amongst sailors and coastal residents, “Water always wins.” I didn’t want my daughter anywhere near that bay in a man-made structure, 10 floors up or not. I found the local tsunami evacuation maps online and sent them to her in-laws and my daughter. The map clearly showed the hotel was in the red zone! Experts recommend evacuating to HIGHER GROUND, not a higher FLOOR. On the Alaskan Peninsula, where I guide bear hunts, the native villages all have a “tsunami house” about a half mile up on the mountains above the villages. I’ve also hunted on grass covered dunes that are a half mile inland from the bays on the Pacific side. These giant dunes were formed many years ago by tsunamis.

Just about the time that I had convinced them to drive up the mountain, the United pilot convinced the airline to go ahead with the flight and depart earlier. The airport is above the evacuation zone in the green zone so I told the newlyweds to get to the airport and get on the flight. Luckily, that United pilot pushed the airline to do the flight. The newlyweds got airborne just as the tsunami was starting. As we all know now, it turned out to be a big nothing burger but how were we to know? We were all worried due to the monster size of the earthquake, being 8.8!

My hat is off to that pilot! It was a real relief for my wife and I to know that our baby girl was on that flight. It’s a direct flight to Denver and they landed at 6am, safe and sound.

Luckily, all this tsunami drama happened on their last day of an otherwise great honeymoon.View attachment 703521View attachment 703522

Glad your daughter and SIL are okay. And tell them we said congratulations!

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

My daughter had a stressful last day of her honeymoon on Kauai yesterday. Her flight was set to leave at 7:40pm. United initially cancelled the flight so I told her to get water and food and take their rental car up the highway to higher ground up the mountain. Unbeknownst to me, her husband’s parents booked them a hotel room on the 10th floor of a hotel near the ocean instead. Nice people but city slickers. No respect for the power of nature. They thought being on the top floor of a hotel would be best. I disagreed. There’s an old saying about the sea amongst sailors and coastal residents, “Water always wins.” I didn’t want my daughter anywhere near that bay in a man-made structure, 10 floors up or not. I found the local tsunami evacuation maps online and sent them to her in-laws and my daughter. The map clearly showed the hotel was in the red zone! Experts recommend evacuating to HIGHER GROUND, not a higher FLOOR. On the Alaskan Peninsula, where I guide bear hunts, the native villages all have a “tsunami house” about a half mile up on the mountains above the villages. I’ve also hunted on grass covered dunes that are a half mile inland from the bays on the Pacific side. These giant dunes were formed many years ago by tsunamis.

Just about the time that I had convinced them to drive up the mountain, the United pilot convinced the airline to go ahead with the flight and depart earlier. The airport is above the evacuation zone in the green zone so I told the newlyweds to get to the airport and get on the flight. Luckily, that United pilot pushed the airline to do the flight. The newlyweds got airborne just as the tsunami was starting. As we all know now, it turned out to be a big nothing burger but how were we to know? We were all worried due to the monster size of the earthquake, being 8.8!

My hat is off to that pilot! It was a real relief for my wife and I to know that our baby girl was on that flight. It’s a direct flight to Denver and they landed at 6am, safe and sound.

Luckily, all this tsunami drama happened on their last day of an otherwise great honeymoon.View attachment 703521View attachment 703522

I was thinking today how I'd have made sure to stay in Princeville where my wife and I stayed 2 years ago. About 100 feet on a cliff above the ocean.

 

[SaintPanzer]

At least Newsom can't run for governor.
No doubt that greasy sleazebag will make a run at the Presidency. God help us.

Newsom /Harris ticket?

Well, there is that pesky Constitution thing...

 

[rigbymauser]

Agreed, hence why I mentioned the Ford custom transit van as one example

My company car is a Ford Transit Custom. They are very popular overhere. They drive well, good milage, good comfort and low maintaince.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Scott, it is amazing how people think during natural disasters. Hopefully yours and your daughters are the more dominant genes if they reproduce.

 

[Rocked and Loaded]

Well, there is that pesky Constitution thing...

Harris has never been president (thankfully) so I don’t think there’s any legal reason she couldn’t run.

I can’t see her agreeing to be second fiddle again after being top of ticket last time. And with the loser stink I doubt anyone would ask her to be running mate anyways.

 

[HuntingGold]

What he is implying is that no 2 from the same state may be on the presidential (and VP) ticket. One of them would have to move.

 

[SaintPanzer]

Harris has never been president (thankfully) so I don’t think there’s any legal reason she couldn’t run.

I can’t see her agreeing to be second fiddle again after being top of ticket last time. And with the loser stink I doubt anyone would ask her to be running mate anyways.

Well, there is that 12th Amendment thing, and electors voting on people not from their same state, etc.

Two candidates from the same state?