FEMA is Out of Money for U.S. Hurricane Victims After Its $640 Million in Migrant Funding Shore News Network| 10/3/24
While FEMA scrambles to find funding for hurricane survivors, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has just allocated over $640 million to assist with the arrival of noncitizen migrants. Yes, you read that right. Of that amount, $300 million will be distributed through the State and Local Assistance Program (SSP-A), while $340.9 million is set aside for competitive funding.
What does “competitive funding” mean? Competing with whom or what?
… While Congress did recently approve a $20 billion boost to FEMA’s disaster relief fund, it’s clear that this won’t be enough to cover the costs of recovery, especially with more storms on the horizon. Mayorkas was blunt: “We do not have the funds to make it through the season, and another hurricane is imminent.”
Just wanted to warn everyone that the displays of the votes in our contests are lagging a bit. All votes are being tabulated but what is being displayed are incorrect current totals. Don’t worry, your votes are being counted and will be there in the final totals. Probably another artifact of our recent troubles with the site. Please excuse the inconvenience.
Yes friends, The. Emu. is going on Holiday for awhile. But not to worry, security around here will now fall to some of his “Southern” cousins. Ladies and Gents, the Cassies.
“Good morning Mr. Walrus. What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on?”
“Looks like WordPress is going bonkers. Slow at times, sometimes just not working.”
“Any idea why?”
“I’m blaming Russian hackers trying to give cover to the FBI to make them think this is to help Trump get elected when it is really a psyop to help Harris, Putin’s prefered choice.”
“That is devious.”
“That’s the Russians for you.”
That’s it for today. WordPress just keeps cycling and won’t let me load anything more. Hope they fix it soon. Help us Basil, not Basil, you’re our only hope!
Rosie Carver was an inept and incompetent double agent, working for the CIA and for heroin baron Dr. Kananga. She checked into Bond’s hotel room as Mrs. Bond, and said she would take him to the spot where Bains, another MI6 agent, was killed. While picnicking near the area, Bond confronts Rosie, revealing that he knows she is working for Kanaga. Bond threatens to kill her, and Rosie runs away, only to be killed by a hidden gun in one of Kanaga’s scarecrows.
Miss Caruso was an agent of the Italian Secret Service. She was asleep with Bond at his home when, just before 6am, the doorbell rang. Bond answered the door to find M, who announced an urgent mission. He also casually mentioned that the Italian’s were complaining about their missing agent, Miss Caruso. In a scene lit with humour, Bond continually distracts M to avoid him finding Caruso, with a little help from Miss Moneypenny, who had accompanied M.
Madeline Smith
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Maud Adams (Octopussy / Andrea Anders) vs Britt Ekland (Mary Goodnight)
Octopussy ran an all-women floating island, the girls of which were acrobats for a circus that was a front for a jewellery smuggling operation. She was a partner in crime with Kamal Khan, who stole the jewellery for himself and tried to kill Octopussy. Octopussy saved Bond’s life, and Bond repaid the debt by saving hers. After killing Khan, Bond and Octopussy sail into the sunset, with the acrobat girls rowing for them.
Miss Anders was the girlfriend of Francisco Scaramanga, the $1 million a shot assassin, the man with the golden gun. She sent a golden bullet to MI6 with 007 engraved on the side, so that it would be thought that Scaramanga had Bond on his hit list. Miss Anders was hoping that Bond would respond to the threat and kill Scaramanga, freeing her from his possession. However, Scaramanga learnt of her betrayal and shot her through the heart.
Mary Goodnight was Bond’s assistant in Hong Kong, and previously his secretary in London. She helps Bond to locate Miss Anders, the girlfriend of hitman Scaramanga. The two almost spend the night together on multiple occasions, and at one point Goodnight is embarrassingly shoved into a cupboard when Miss Anders pays Bond a surprise visit. Goodnight is eventually kidnapped by Scaramanga, but after Bond kills him, Goodnight helps Bond escape his Island.
Hi guys. It looks like Mr. Walrus has chosen me to host the new feature, Bond Girlathon. I think I would have made a good Bond girl, don’t you think? Hehe.
Here is the format for the matches. There will be two a week until every girl has played every girl once. There are 81 girls broken into 2 divisions. The top 16 in each division will then play in the Championship tournament which will be single elimination.
The voting for these matches wil be ranked preference with you choosing how strongly you prefer either contestant. It will be on a scale of 1 to 4. Also, for you men who can’t choose, there will also be a no preference option. Let’s see how that works out.
So here we have our opening two matches.
Diana Rigg (Teresa di Vicenzo) VS Anegla Scoular (Ruby Bartlett)
Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo was the most important girl in Bond’s life, becoming Mrs Tracy Bond by the end of the film. Starting out troubled and suicidal, Tracy was rescued by Bond, who gradually fell in love with her. At their wedding, Bond vowed that they would have all the time in the world together. In a tragic twist of irony, Tracy was assassinated by Ernst Stavro Blofeld as the pair were stopped at a roadside to remove the flowers from their car.
Ruby Bartlett was one of the “angels of death” at Blofeld’s swiss clinic. She had been brought there to cure a chicken allergy, but was in fact being hypnotized by Blofeld as part of a plot to spread a crop virus around the country. When she first met Bond, disguised as Sir Hillary Bray, she discreetly wrote her room number in lipstick on his thigh, so that he could meet her later that night.
Angela Scoular
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Jane Seymour (Solitaire) vs Catherine Schell (Nancy)
Solitaire was a psychic tarot card reader working for heroin baron Dr. Kananga. She predicted the movements of James Bond and other men who posed a threat to their operations. Solitaire was practically imprisoned by Kananga as he knew that, like her mother, she would lose her psychic gift if she were to make love. When first meeting Bond, Solitaire drew the lovers card, predicting the fate of her and Bond. Indeed, Solitaire soon lost her powers, and became a target of Kananga’s wrath.
After sneaking into Ruby Bartlett’s room in the swiss clinic, Bond had returned to his own room. He said to himself in the mirror, “Hilly, you old devil”, before noticing that another patient, Nancy, had snook into his room. Being the only man in the clinic, Bond had attracted the fancy of several of the girls.
Well this is it, two more matches to go. This week we will determine the winner of the one loss bracket who will then go on to match up against the winner of the Winner’s bracket, Kate Upton next week. Will either win a rematch? tay tuned.
