Caution…may just p*** you off

Is there anything more revealing than same party protection of a pol who is obviously guilty as sin, but their party rallies around them. Hey, they may be guilty as sin and for all we know may have sexually molested babies, but – they are in our party, so we’re gonna give them a free ride. Sound familiar? Pretty much covers both parties, almost all of the time. Occasionally someone REALLY EGREGIOUS gets abandoned to twist in the wind, but in general – the enemy of my enemy is my friend, no matter how odious.

This week’s example is Ilhan Omar – we could go into the ways and numbers she has offended the average American, but the only thing that matters is that a) her Somali-dominated district reliably keeps electing her and b) she is, after all, a D. And in Minnesota, being a D makes you invulnerable. (Hell, look at Walz.)

The Minnesota House Fraud and Oversight Committee set May 5 as the deadline for Omar to provide documents in the probe, which is focused on emails dating back five years and related to the MEALS Act. Ethics investigators believe the MEALS Act, which Omar co-sponsored in 2020 and was meant to provide free school lunches during the pandemic, was exploited for fraud.

Feeding Our Future, an ostensible nonprofit that took federal funds made available by the MEALS Act to pay for free school lunches. But federal investigators say the nonprofit’s leaders instead used the $250 million of taxpayer dollars to fund their lavish lifestyles instead.

U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota won’t face a subpoena — at least for now — after Democrats in the State House voted unanimously against an oversight committee effort to compel the congresswoman to testify after she missed a deadline to provide documents in the committee’s fraud investigation.  Dave Rubin

Usually a pol says “I been framed”, “It’s just a political hit” – maybe normally. In this care, though, she just flips the investigation a strongly upraised Moslem middle finger and all the Democrats in sight don’t even make a pretense of chasing the truth. Just  no, no need for her to answer any allegation. Oh, and up yours, America. Dunno about you, but I really regret never going into politics – dealing fentanyl seems so much cleaner in retrospect. No wonder Harry T. compared it with playing piano in a whore house.  Rant over.

Y’all might remember an incident where a container ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge outside of Bal’imur. (Yes, live near there a while, and know it is not pronounced Balt-i-more.) Here is an update.

The Dali, bound for Sri Lanka, lost power twice in a four-minute span as it moved to sea from the Port of Baltimore, causing it to crash into the Key Bridge in the early hours of March 26, 2024. Investigators say a loose wire in a switchboard likely caused the first power loss that led to its steering failure.

After regaining power, the ship found itself in trouble again. The Dali turned to a certain pump to supply fuel to two generators but the pump was not designed to automatically restart after the first blackout, so a second blackout occurred, the indictment says.

If the Dali had used the proper fuel pumps, according to the indictment, the vessel would have regained power in time to safely get under the bridge. Instead, it crashed into a supporting column of the bridge, killing six construction workers who had been filling potholes. AP

Federal prosecutors allege the defendants improperly used a “flushing pump” to supply diesel to two of the Dali’s generators, rather than normal fuel supply pumps that have redundancies and can automatically restart. That pump’s failure has been blamed for the second of two power outages in the moments leading up to the collision.

Kelly Hayes, the U.S. attorney for the District of Maryland, said that “the indictment alleges that if the Dali had been using the proper fuel supply pumps, then the vessel would have regained power in time to safely navigate under the Key Bridge.”  CBS News

Cheaping out and killing six people – I have a strong feeling  this should get expensive. Sadly, I see a few overseas companies declaring bankruptcy (probably via Ferrari car phones) and little satisfaction in the US. Really hope I am wrong.

The indictment names Synergy Marine Pte Ltd., based in Singapore, and Synergy Maritime Pte Ltd., based in Chennai, India. Radhakrishnan Karthik Nair, 47, an Indian national who was technical superintendent for the Dali container ship, was also charged.

Synergy Marine expressed disappointment and accused the U.S. Justice Department of turning an accident into a crime.

I’m breathlessly waiting to see how  THEY think it should be described.

Category: Crime