[Daily Caller] GOP Rep. Jeb Hensarling wants U.S. residents living in flood plains to move elsewhere to protect themselves and save taxpayer dollars being spent rebuilding flooded houses, Hensarling told CNBC Thursday.
Two hurricanes hit the southern coast of the United States last month, causing widespread flooding in parts of Texas and Florida. The disasters are draining funds from the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which is already $23 billion in debt.
"We have these repetitive loss properties," Hensarling told CNBC’s Squawk Box. "If all we do is force federal taxpayers to build the same home in the same fashion in the same location and expect a different result, we all know that is the classic definition of insanity."
Hensarling described one Louisiana home that has been flooded more than 40 times, costing taxpayers nearly half a million dollars in repairs.
"At some point, God is telling you to move," Hensarling said.
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If you live on the railroad tracks, you better be prepared for the train, and have a house that can stand up to it. Frankly, you have better lives elsewhere than having this happen to you every 20 years.
All of the Gulf of Mexico was carved using Billions of years of storms just like this.
And most of you are squatters on volcanoes anyway. This does not end well.
Adam Smith made the same point about how much to spend on that house. If you can't afford to buy one, move elsewhere where you can. Drop the mortgage interest write off for income tax and watch some markets tumble.
#5
The Old Shawneetown Bank. No one banks here anymore. The town moved away from the Ohio River, to a slighter higher elevation. Divine inspiration or smart banking practices? Who knows?
#6
Some have bought homes in prestigious water feature neighborhoods by lifestyle choice. Others are forced to rent below sea level (BSL) by life situation.
In either case this guy is a dick(as so many of them are) for making light of the horrible choices forced on catastrophe victims.
Israeli firearms trainer Cherev Gidon has been pushing training on the Ruger Mini 14 lately, as well as the Galil and M4 rifles. Their facilities are located in Pennsylvania, only two hours from New York City. Yes, their marketing is aimed (pun intended) at New York Jews who wish to familiarize themselves with the ownership, use and care of firearms, but Cherev Gidon sells training packages to anyone who applies.
I mention Cherev Gidon every chance I get. I do not receive compensation.
Gidon sells training packages to New Yorkers suffering under the state firearms laws, some of the most stringent in the nation. Among the many restrictions are regulations which ban most types of ARs.
Unlike the AR semiautomatic, the Ruger Mini 14 has none of the characteristics of the AR, and as long as the gun owner doesn't possess a "large capacity magazine", the rifle is legal to own and use in New York state.
I have never fired the Ruger Mini 14, but from what I have heard, it is a fine rifle in its own right. The fella I spoke with about the gun (a welder/coworker) said his father uses it for hunting.
You can see a photo of the Mini 14 in the Gun of the Week link below.
Pistol ammunition prices were mostly steady. Rifle ammunition prices were mostly steady.
Prices for used pistols were higher. Prices for used rifles were mostly higher.
New Lows:
None
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Foundry 35, Silver Bear, FMJ, Steel Casing, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: East Carolina Trading, Own Brand, FMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads, .20 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammomen, Magtech, FNFMJ, Brass Casing, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: AGB Ammo, Own Brand, RNFP, Brass Casing, Reloads, .18 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Extreme Reloading, Own Brand, RN, Brass Casing .14 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Fedarm, Own brand, RN, Brass Casing, Reloads .14 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (10 Weeks))
.38 Special, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Armscor, FMJ, Brass Casing .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Armscor, FMJ, Brass Casing .24 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammo Men, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .19 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .19 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .32 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .32 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3Q, 2017))
7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammo King, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .19 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: True Caliber, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .19 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3Q, 2017))
.30-06 Springfield 145 Grain. From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .54 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: United Nations Ammo, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .54 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (1Q, 2017))
.300 Winchester Magnum 150 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, .80 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammo Liquidator, Winchester, Brass Casing, SP, .82 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.338 Lapua Magnum 250 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Bud's Gun Shop, Federal, Brass Casing, JSP, 2.35 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 200 rounds : Wholesale Hunter, Federal, Brass Casing, JSP, 2.36 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo King, Aguila, RNL, .04 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 5,000 rounds: Ammo King, Aguila, RNL, .04 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017))
#3
Pre-SN 180nnn
Only necessary if you want some improved accuracy when spraying.
Pace yourself between rounds and your knock around carbine will work just fine.
[DAWN] With Finance Minister Ishaq Dar facing legal challenges along with the Sharifs, it is becoming increasingly clear that he will have to tackle some difficult questions in the days to come.
Even though he has not spoken publicly in recent days, it is fair to surmise that the action taken by the National Accountability Bureau is seen by him as a politically motivated witch-hunt. That is, after all, how Maryam Nawaz has described the ongoing proceedings, and there is little reason to believe that Mr Dar disagrees with this view.
Whatever may be one’s take on the political developments, one thing has now become certain: Mr Dar needs to step down as finance minister. This is not only because he is now hobbled by legal entanglements. Even more importantly, it is high time Pakistain had a finance minister who is willing and able to acknowledge that the economy is in a downward spiral and that if urgent corrective action is not undertaken, the country will find itself in a crisis very soon.
Mr Dar has prided himself on his track record of restoring growth and the level of the foreign exchange reserves. To some extent, he is correct. But the positive aspects are limited, and Pakistain now needs a finance minister who is more forward-looking, rather than constantly harking back to a rapidly receding moment of respite.
Whatever turnaround in the fortunes of the economy that we have seen in the past four years is now falling apart, rapidly, as the current account deficit continues to climb, reserves decline, and the growth momentum is increasingly revealed to be highly patchy and thinly layered.
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[Michael Z. Williamson] A simple body count (and in good liberal fashion, I'm going to make you look it up yourself. It's not my job to educate you) shows that Communism is at least five times as bad as its poor cousin, National Socialism.
If we fought a war to utterly exterminate Nazism, and we did, and it was moral and just, we should absolutely be doing the same thing for Communism. We should kill every single one of them for the good of humanity. No one is forced to be a Communist. It's not a race, a gene, an orientation. It is strictly a choice. If you choose to put the body politic so far over the individual that the individual becomes a tool, you deserve to be killed.
I've even had one justify to me that "99% of people won't do the right thing unless they're FORCED to." (Emphasis theirs.)
They were correct, but not the way they meant. Communists won't do the right thing unless you force them, by killing them.
Now, if you just said to yourself, "But Stalin and Mao and Pot and Kim weren't real Communists," and unspoken, you're avoiding mentioning Castro and Chavez, and don't even have a clue who Haitham is, then this is the response:
If your attempts at "real communism" consistently, 100%, decay into "not real Communism" that has killed well over 100 million people in a century, then you need to be killed, too, because you're vector for the virus of Communism. You're either incurably insane or evil, and you need to be dead.
It is the triumph of Western democracy that philosophies are allowed to exist and propagate even if they are ultimate evil. It is the failure of Western democracy that we support this to a fault, of allowing Communists to breathe air needed by human beings.
Then we can get back to killing National Socialists and regular Socialists as well, since their difference is only one of path, not destination.
Michael Z. Williamson is a science fiction and military fiction author. Born in Birkenhead, England, he and his family emigrated to Canada, then the United States in 1978. Williamson frequently utilizes the pen names "Mad Mike" and "Crazy Einar". He is retired from the United States Air Force.
#8
Have you every seen The Gods Must Be Crazy(1980)?
In between all the comedy, there are some moments that intrigued me: the Bushmen (true communists ?) infected by the singular "Evil Thing" soda bottle and the comic opera "communist guerillas" led by a Cuban (?) revolutionary in their pointless terrorism.
It made me consider that Communism, as a system, just doesn't work™ for any group larger than an extended family.
[Daily Caller] President Donald Trump declared at his Alabama rally on Friday night that he would love to see an NFL owner fire anyone who disrespects the U.S. flag and national anthem, declaring, "get that son of a bitch off the field!"
"Luther [Strange] and I, and everyone in this arena tonight, are unified by the same great American values," Trump said at the rally. "We’re proud of our country. We respect our flag."
"Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ’Get that son of a bitch off the field right now, he’s fired!" Trump exclaimed. "He’s fired!"
The crowd erupted into chants of "USA" at Trump’s proclamation.
#6
No complaints about Pres. Trump calling out the anti-trust-exempt NFL.
But, the playing of the national anthem at professional sporting events in [North] America has no place, particularly within Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League. Yes, there is tradition. But there are some horse-and-buggy relics as well.
OT - Meanwhile, Pres. Trump disinvited Stephen Curry from a White House visit. I LOVE IT.
#8
I actually used to be a big 49ers fan, up until the axed Smith and put in Afronick. Stopped caring about the 49ers then. Given what they've done and accomplished since, I can say it was a great decision. Just like I stopped watching NFL last year.
Hell, I didn't watch the "Incredible OT superbowl" that happened. I don't regret that either. That's how far the NFL has fallen, Watching Joe Montana as a toddler yawning about the latest Brady record. They've squandered the League that took half a century to build in a tenth that time.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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