From local media on a current fire in a utility level battery storage center that no one can put out:

San Diego Firefighters have flown in experts to the Otay Mesa Battery Storage to study the fire because they do not know how to put it out
The Battery storage fire has already used 5 million gallons of water
Firefighters say it will take an additional 7-10 days to put out
They estimate it will take a total of 15-20 million gallons of water to put out
LETHAL amounts of Hydrogen Cyanide were in the air for 3 hours after the Otay Mesa Battery Storage fire began
This project does not belong in a residential area.

You can tell a lot by an elected representative by how they respond to the community. When the fire at the Otay Mesa battery storage facility broke out & La Mesa/San Carlos residents expressed concern. Councilwoman Laura Lothian went to the scene to get info for residents.

Quote from: reaps the honest on May 22, 2024, 02:41:57 PMAnd let's not forget the classic " the IRA are freedom fighters.They never killed women and children ".   

Is she on drugs.

Quote from: Conservative Perspective on Today at 06:20:22 AMHunter Biden tax trial postponed to September

The federal judge presiding over Hunter Biden's criminal tax trial in California has sided with the first son's attorneys, moving his trial from June to September.

Source: Hunter Biden tax trial postponed to September

Is that when he gets out of rehab.

Quote from: formosan on Today at 11:23:07 AMI'm making Taiwanese beef noodles tonight for supper.

From the pics I see of that dish, it looks fantastic!!!

Quote from: Herman on May 22, 2024, 09:02:57 PMHappy Meals have become an increasingly unaffordable luxury since Biden took office.
The government uses the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index to measure inflation.

For instance, when President Joe Biden took office, the year-over-year inflation rate was roughly 1.4%. CNN indicated the Biden inflation rate reached a 40-year high of 9.1% in June 2022.

Last week, the Labor Department indicated that the CPI for all urban consumers "increased by 0.3 percent in April on a seasonally adjusted basis, after rising 0.4 percent in March[.] ... Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 3.4 percent before seasonal adjustment."

According to the BLS inflation calculator, prices generally increased by approximately 21.5% between December 2019 and March 2024, according to TheStreet.

Some consumers have apparently turned instead to fast-food prices to gauge just how much purchasing power they have lost in recent years.

FinanceBuzz has made historical price comparisons easier, contrasting fast-food menu prices in 2014 and prices in 2024 on the basis of pricing data sourced from ItsYummi.com, FastFoodMenuPrices.com, and MenuWithPrice.com, cross-referenced with restaurants' official websites.

The breakdown claimed that the price of:

the McChicken increased by 199% over the 10-year stretch, from $1.00 in 2014 to $2.99 in 2024;
the McDouble increased by 168%, from $1.19 to $3.19;
medium fries by 138%, from $1.59 to $3.79;
the Quarter Pounder with Cheese Meal by $122%, from $5.39 to $11.99;
the Oreo McFlurry by 88%, from $2.39 to $4.49;
the 10 Piece McNugget Happy Meal by 83%, from $5.99 to $10.99;
the 4 Piece McNugget Happy Meal by 67%, from $2.99 to $4.99;
the Big Mac by 50%, from $3.99 to $5.99; and
the price of a medium drink increased by 25%, from $1.29 to $1.61.
McDonald's — which has reportedly contested the figures, saying "pricing is set by individual franchisees and varies by restaurant" — is not the only restaurant suffering what some are calling "McFlation."

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen's menu items have, on average, allegedly jumped by 86% in price since 2014. Taco Bell has reportedly seen an 81% average increase. Dining out at Chipotle Mexican Grill now, 10 years later, apparently costs 75% more.

It appears some of the more dramatic price increases have taken place over the past four years.

TheStreet indicated that the price of medium French fries at McDonald's increased by 134.1%, from $1.79 to $4.19 since 2019; the price of the McChicken increased by 201.6%, from $1.29 to $3.89; the price of the Big Mac increased by 87.7%, from $3.99 to $7.49; and price of the cheeseburger increased by 215%, from $1 to $3.15.

McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski told analysts in February, "I think what you're going to see as you head into 2024 is probably more attention to what I would describe as affordability," reported Fortune.

I will find out soon....we buy a DQ cone each to celebrate the start of summer.

Ben Carson is a world renowned neurosurgeon..

Whoopi Goldberg is an entertainer.

I'm making Taiwanese beef noodles tonight for supper.

Hunter Biden tax trial postponed to September

The federal judge presiding over Hunter Biden's criminal tax trial in California has sided with the first son's attorneys, moving his trial from June to September.

Source: Hunter Biden tax trial postponed to September

Quote from: horse sense on May 22, 2024, 06:08:48 PMPeople like Lotus shouldn't be allowed to empty their own dribble cups unsupervised.

She is very ignorant of issues and she likes it that way.

Quote from: horse sense on May 22, 2024, 05:20:12 PMNot as much of an idiot as she is a disingenuous hypocrite

She is both.