In a rare recommendation of denial:

Here’s the recommendation for your reading enjoyment:

The application was filed on July 19, 2024 — it took just a few days shy of TWO YEARS to get to this point.

OAG-RUD’s briefs are always enlightening:

Funding withheld, funding cuts, staff layoffs… what could go wrong? Let’s see… Intense flooding in Texas, in New Mexico too… and all the tornadoes recently, even de Recho wind in northern MN… more flooding anticipated in North Carolina and surrounds from Tropical Storm Chantal.

Texas Flood Live Updates: At Least 59 Dead As Trump Signs Major Disaster Declaration

And after the disaster hits, how to recover?

The Trump administration says it wants to eliminate FEMA. Here’s what we know

Right…

Contact FEMA

Contact DHS Headquarters – Comment Line: 202-282-8495

White House Comment Line (hangs up!)

White House Contact Form

I’d sent a little statement of support after some Trump action, and got a postcard in the mail. That’s one list I’m glad to be on.

Now, back to today’s White House postcard… what on earth to say… maybe I’ll leave today’s blank.

What to say?

Independence Day?!?!

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

I’m running out of printable words to express what I want to say.

Same with phone calls.

Today is Friday, 4-5 pm in Red Wing we can say it with signs and our presence.

Time to crash. Just got this filed. A DAY TO SPARE!!

Xcel Energy and then the Public Utilities Commission always pick at least one spot on every line that really makes no sense. This time, it’s a greenfield crossing of the Mississippi River, at a stretch that’s state Wild & Scenic, and the line in the map above is where they’re going to mow down the eagle’s tree ridge on the bluff for their (#&$*#@^*%&# transmission.

To do it, well, maybe it wasn’t necessary, but they did, they buried the DNR’s comments saying expressly what they preferred — and they’re the natural resources gurus. So yeah, I attached the comments clearly stating their “strong preference” recommendation of routes,, and of course linked… and for your edification, here they are!!!