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There has been over 1,000 shipments of weapons to Israel to genocide Gaza. 1 million starving children due to our bombs and Israel's medieval siege on that population, and we can't even send them meals that we are going to destroy??
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Rubber biscuit?
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concordtom said:

Trump Administration will spend money to destroy emergency food supplies, rather than distribute it.


Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people abroad who need it. Nearly 500 metric tons of emergency foodenough to feed about 1.5 million children for a weekare set to expire tomorrow, according to current and former government employees with direct knowledge of the rations. Within weeks, two of those sources told me, the food, meant for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan, will be ash. (The sources I spoke with for this story requested anonymity for fear of professional repercussions.)

Sometime near the end of the Biden administration, USAID spent about $800,000 on the high-energy biscuits, one current and one former employee at the agency told me. The biscuits, which cram in the nutritional needs of a child under 5, are a stopgap measure, often used in scenarios where people have lost their homes in a natural disaster or fled a war faster than aid groups could set up a kitchen to receive them. They were stored in a Dubai warehouse and intended to go to the children this year.

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Since January, when the Trump administration issued an executive order that halted virtually all American foreign assistance, federal workers have sent the new political leaders of USAID repeated requests to ship the biscuits while they were useful, according to the two USAID employees. USAID bought the biscuits intending to have the World Food Programme distribute them, and under previous circumstances, career staff could have handed off the biscuits to the United Nations agency on their own. But since Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency disbanded USAID and the State Department subsumed the agency, no money or aid items can move without the approval of the new heads of American foreign assistance, several current and former USAID employees told me. From January to mid-April, the responsibility rested with Pete Marocco, who worked across multiple agencies during the first Trump administration; then it passed to Jeremy Lewin, a law-school graduate in his 20s who was originally installed by DOGE and now has appointments at both USAID and State. Two of the USAID employees told me that staffers who sent the memos requesting approval to move the food never got a response and did not know whether Marocco or Lewin ever received them. (The State Department did not answer my questions about why the food was never distributed.)

In May, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told representatives on the House Appropriations Committee that he would ensure that food aid would reach its intended recipients before spoiling. But by then, the order to incinerate the biscuits (which I later reviewed) had already been sent. Rubio has insisted that the administration embraces America's responsibility to continue saving foreign lives, including through food aid. But in April, according to NPR, the U.S. government eliminated all humanitarian aid to Afghanistan and Yemen, where, the State Department said at the time, providing food risks benefiting terrorists. (The State Department has offered no similar justification for pulling aid to Pakistan.) Even if the administration was unwilling to send the biscuits to the originally intended countries, other placesSudan, say, where war is fueling the world's worst famine in decadescould have benefited. Instead, the biscuits in the Dubai warehouse continue to approach their expiration date, after which their vitamin and fat content will begin to deteriorate rapidly. At this point, United Arab Emirates policy prevents the biscuits from even being repurposed as animal feed.

Over the coming weeks, the food will be destroyed at a cost of $130,000 to American taxpayers (on top of the $800,000 used to purchase the biscuits), according to current and former federal aid workers I spoke with. One current USAID staffer told me he'd never seen anywhere near this many biscuits trashed over his decades working in American foreign aid. Sometimes food isn't stored properly in warehouses, or a flood or a terrorist group complicates deliveries; that might result in, at most, a few dozen tons of fortified foods being lost in a given year. But several of the aid workers I spoke with reiterated that they have never before seen the U.S. government simply give up on food that could have been put to good use.

The emergency biscuits slated for destruction represent only a small fraction of America's typical annual investment in food aid. In fiscal year 2023, USAID purchased more than 1 million metric tons of food from U.S. producers. But the collapse of American foreign aid raises the stakes of every loss. Typically, the biscuits are the first thing that World Food Programme workers hand to Afghan families who are being forced out of Pakistan and back to their home country, which has been plagued by severe child malnutrition for years. Now the WFP can support only one of every 10 Afghans who are in urgent need of food assistance. The WFP projects that, globally, 58 million people are at risk for extreme hunger or starvation because this year, it lacks the money to feed them. Based on calculations from one of the current USAID employees I spoke with, the food marked for destruction could have met the nutritional needs of every child facing acute food insecurity in Gaza for a week.

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Despite the administration's repeated promises to continue food aid, and Rubio's testimony that he would not allow existing food to go to waste, even more food could soon expire. Hundreds of thousands of boxes of emergency food pastes, also already purchased, are currently collecting dust in American warehouses. According to USAID inventory lists from January, more than 60,000 metric tons of foodmuch of it grown in America, and all already purchased by the U.S. governmentwere then sitting in warehouses across the world. That included 36,000 pounds of peas, oil, and cereal, which were stored in Djibouti and intended for distribution in Sudan and other countries in the Horn of Africa. A former senior official at USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance told me that, by the time she'd left her job earlier this month, very little of the food seemed to have moved; one of the current USAID employees I spoke with confirmed her impression, though he noted that, in recent weeks, small shipments have begun leaving the Djibouti warehouse.

[Read: 'In three months, half of them will be dead']

Such operations are more difficult for USAID to manage today than they were last year because many of the humanitarian workers and supply-chain experts who once coordinated the movement of American-grown food to hungry people around the world no longer have their jobs. Last month, the CEOs of the two American companies that make another kind of emergency food for malnourished children both told The New York Times that the government seemed unsure of how to ship the food it had already purchased. Nor, they told me, have they received any new orders. (A State Department spokesperson told me that the department had recently approved additional purchases, but both CEOs told me they have yet to receive the orders. The State Department has not responded to further questions about these purchases.) But even if the Trump administration decides tomorrow to buy more food aidor simply distribute what the government already owns while the food is still usefulit may no longer have the capacity to make sure anyone receives it.
Those kidnapped and locked in cages in Alligator Alcatraz say they aren't being fed properly and are going hungry. We have nutritional food about to be destroyed. It seems to me that we have a problem and a no cost solution staring us in the face.
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tequila4kapp said:

Thank you for sharing. That is wrong. The admin says only 12 cents of every dollar reach aid recipients, they are staying true to the mission and aid will reach recipients, delivery mechanisms are moving (eg, to State), etc. That is all fine and good - as is eliminating the ridiculous programs. But the admin should be called out where it falls short.

I'm betting the vast majority of this aid never reaches the recipients.
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We now know a large percentage goes to Democrat NGOs, just like the drug bazaars.
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THIS IS HOW YOU MAGA!

500 TONS OF FOOD TO BE INCINERATED.

COULD HAVE FED 1.5 MILLION CHILDREN FOR A WEEK!

FU DONALD.



The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
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movielover said:

We now know a large percentage goes to Democrat NGOs, just like the drug bazaars.

Yes but now that Republicans have full control of the government they can easily send that aid money directly to the people who need it and don't have to involve those NGOs, right? So that's going to happen soon?
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Same for POTUS.
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movielover said:

Same for POTUS.

Trump deserves as much respect as he gives to others.
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Chelsea Clinton got an $82 million grant from USAID?

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concordtom said:

SFCityBear said:

concordtom said:

SFCityBear said:

bearister said:

I did 5 consecutive dunks to beat him in HORSE at the Rossmoor gym. He was in too foul of a mood to socialize after that.

That was a tad unfair. I mean, can any 80 year old white man dunk?



More like 70.

In what year do you think this event took place?


Bearister said he dunked 5 times.
You asked, can an 80 year old white man dunk?
I pointed out that Bearister is more like 70 at the time of HTP's death.

Doesn't matter when this figurative dunking event happened, because Bearister is not as old as you seemed to suggest.

concordtom,
You are confused, and that is my fault, for assuming readers would understand my post. I aplologize.

My post was about the age of Helltopay1, when the alleged game of horse took place, not about Bearister's age when the game took place.

You know the rules for a game of Horse, right? Player A takes a shot. If he makes it, then player B has to make the same type of shot, shooting from the same spot on the floor. If player B misses the shot, then he earns an "H" on his record. Player A takes another shot. If he makes it, then Player B must try and make the same shot. If he misses it, then he earns another letter, the letter "O". If he earns all five letters in the word, "HORSE", he loses the game.

So in Bearister's game, he must have been shooting first, and he made 5 dunks, and claimed to have won the game, then I assume Helltopay missed all the dunk attempts. I implied the game was unfair, because Helltopay was likely an 80 year old white man, and likely could no longer dunk (if he ever could), and Bearister a much younger man.

As to age, my post after that one talked about Helltopay playing against my cousin Jim back in high school. Jim was born in 1937. When they played against each other, it would likely have been in 1953 or 1954. Helltopay had transferred from St Ignatius to Lowell, and Jim played for Lincoln. Jim is 4.5 years older than me. I am several years older than Bearister, judging from when his interest in rock music started, my interest in rock and roll was about 5 or six years old already. So when these two gentleman played this alleged game of Horse, Helltopay was well into his 80s. I should also mention that HelltoPay used to hang out with St Marys and Warrior great, Tom Meschery, when Tom was just a youngster. He said he beat Tom at hunch, and then they would go to gyms and the Marin Town and Country Club to challenge other two man teams to games of hunch. Tom is currently 86. I was unable to find obits of Helltopay or my cousin Jim to verify the ages


I'd say it was bad form for a young man in his 70s to challenge an old geezer in his 80s to a game of HORSE with dunks allowed. On the other hand it would have been foolish for the old man to challenge man that much younger.

I apologize for the confusion.

SFCB












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TM was only 6'6"? Just learned he played in Wilt's legendary 100-point game. Years ago he read some of his poems at St. Mary's Colllege, and remarked about their college watering hole The Barn.

An audience member noted it was still there, so TM and others adjourned for a cold frosty.
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***?

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One of my college roommates and fellow Haas classmates at Cal was from Moraga.
Played Varsity Basketball as a starter.

I went to The Barn with him once and I remember that the ceiling was barely over 6' feet tall at the door and you had to duck when you walked in. Not sure how Tom Meschery navigated that.

State law restricted the use of the word BAR during the Prohibition era.
So they added an "N" to the word "BAR".

Closed in 1997.

Nowadays all the St. Mary's kids head into Lafayette to pile into The Roundup.


https://moragabarn.com/

https://moragahistory.org/moraga-history/historical-sites/historical-sites-the_moraga_barn/





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Funny, SMC used to have an on-campus little pub. Last time I was in Moraga I stopped at Safeway and saw a place next door... the Ranch House... while looking out for the Barn, which I didn't locate. The RH is a low key, western, needs-paint breakfast place, no frills. Nearby Canyon Club looks popular. TM still writing.
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What happened to the LA Fire thread?

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Incompetent is one thing. Claiming it was purposeful is irresponsible.
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SFCityBear said:

concordtom said:

SFCityBear said:

concordtom said:

SFCityBear said:

bearister said:

I did 5 consecutive dunks to beat him in HORSE at the Rossmoor gym. He was in too foul of a mood to socialize after that.

That was a tad unfair. I mean, can any 80 year old white man dunk?



More like 70.

In what year do you think this event took place?


Bearister said he dunked 5 times.
You asked, can an 80 year old white man dunk?
I pointed out that Bearister is more like 70 at the time of HTP's death.

Doesn't matter when this figurative dunking event happened, because Bearister is not as old as you seemed to suggest.

concordtom,
You are confused, and that is my fault, for assuming readers would understand my post. I aplologize.

My post was about the age of Helltopay1, when the alleged game of horse took place, not about Bearister's age when the game took place.

You know the rules for a game of Horse, right? Player A takes a shot. If he makes it, then player B has to make the same type of shot, shooting from the same spot on the floor. If player B misses the shot, then he earns an "H" on his record. Player A takes another shot. If he makes it, then Player B must try and make the same shot. If he misses it, then he earns another letter, the letter "O". If he earns all five letters in the word, "HORSE", he loses the game.

So in Bearister's game, he must have been shooting first, and he made 5 dunks, and claimed to have won the game, then I assume Helltopay missed all the dunk attempts. I implied the game was unfair, because Helltopay was likely an 80 year old white man, and likely could no longer dunk (if he ever could), and Bearister a much younger man.

As to age, my post after that one talked about Helltopay playing against my cousin Jim back in high school. Jim was born in 1937. When they played against each other, it would likely have been in 1953 or 1954. Helltopay had transferred from St Ignatius to Lowell, and Jim played for Lincoln. Jim is 4.5 years older than me. I am several years older than Bearister, judging from when his interest in rock music started, my interest in rock and roll was about 5 or six years old already. So when these two gentleman played this alleged game of Horse, Helltopay was well into his 80s. I should also mention that HelltoPay used to hang out with St Marys and Warrior great, Tom Meschery, when Tom was just a youngster. He said he beat Tom at hunch, and then they would go to gyms and the Marin Town and Country Club to challenge other two man teams to games of hunch. Tom is currently 86. I was unable to find obits of Helltopay or my cousin Jim to verify the ages


I'd say it was bad form for a young man in his 70s to challenge an old geezer in his 80s to a game of HORSE with dunks allowed. On the other hand it would have been foolish for the old man to challenge man that much younger.

I apologize for the confusion.

SFCB















SFCB, my last dunk looked a lot like this:



I HAVE SERIOUS UPS FOR A MID BABY BOOMER.

I wish Cal had a better hoop team to analyze because I have always considered you the best analyst. Take care.
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movielover said:

Funny, SMC used to have an on-campus little pub. Last time I was in Moraga I stopped at Safeway and saw a place next door... the Ranch House... while looking out for the Barn, which I didn't locate. The RH is a low key, western, needs-paint breakfast place, no frills. Nearby Canyon Club looks popular. TM still writing.


A Wealth Management guy by the name of Greg Gaskin bought The Barn in 2015 and remodeled it for his office space. - - - Can 't really recognize it from its Old Glory Days.

It's also available to rent for events and occasions.

Here is a virtual tour:

https://tours.montereybayvirtualtours.com/idx/846734
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Eastern Oregon Bear said:

concordtom said:

Trump Administration will spend money to destroy emergency food supplies, rather than distribute it.


Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people abroad who need it. Nearly 500 metric tons of emergency foodenough to feed about 1.5 million children for a weekare set to expire tomorrow, according to current and former government employees with direct knowledge of the rations. Within weeks, two of those sources told me, the food, meant for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan, will be ash. (The sources I spoke with for this story requested anonymity for fear of professional repercussions.)

Sometime near the end of the Biden administration, USAID spent about $800,000 on the high-energy biscuits, one current and one former employee at the agency told me. The biscuits, which cram in the nutritional needs of a child under 5, are a stopgap measure, often used in scenarios where people have lost their homes in a natural disaster or fled a war faster than aid groups could set up a kitchen to receive them. They were stored in a Dubai warehouse and intended to go to the children this year.

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Since January, when the Trump administration issued an executive order that halted virtually all American foreign assistance, federal workers have sent the new political leaders of USAID repeated requests to ship the biscuits while they were useful, according to the two USAID employees. USAID bought the biscuits intending to have the World Food Programme distribute them, and under previous circumstances, career staff could have handed off the biscuits to the United Nations agency on their own. But since Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency disbanded USAID and the State Department subsumed the agency, no money or aid items can move without the approval of the new heads of American foreign assistance, several current and former USAID employees told me. From January to mid-April, the responsibility rested with Pete Marocco, who worked across multiple agencies during the first Trump administration; then it passed to Jeremy Lewin, a law-school graduate in his 20s who was originally installed by DOGE and now has appointments at both USAID and State. Two of the USAID employees told me that staffers who sent the memos requesting approval to move the food never got a response and did not know whether Marocco or Lewin ever received them. (The State Department did not answer my questions about why the food was never distributed.)

In May, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told representatives on the House Appropriations Committee that he would ensure that food aid would reach its intended recipients before spoiling. But by then, the order to incinerate the biscuits (which I later reviewed) had already been sent. Rubio has insisted that the administration embraces America's responsibility to continue saving foreign lives, including through food aid. But in April, according to NPR, the U.S. government eliminated all humanitarian aid to Afghanistan and Yemen, where, the State Department said at the time, providing food risks benefiting terrorists. (The State Department has offered no similar justification for pulling aid to Pakistan.) Even if the administration was unwilling to send the biscuits to the originally intended countries, other placesSudan, say, where war is fueling the world's worst famine in decadescould have benefited. Instead, the biscuits in the Dubai warehouse continue to approach their expiration date, after which their vitamin and fat content will begin to deteriorate rapidly. At this point, United Arab Emirates policy prevents the biscuits from even being repurposed as animal feed.

Over the coming weeks, the food will be destroyed at a cost of $130,000 to American taxpayers (on top of the $800,000 used to purchase the biscuits), according to current and former federal aid workers I spoke with. One current USAID staffer told me he'd never seen anywhere near this many biscuits trashed over his decades working in American foreign aid. Sometimes food isn't stored properly in warehouses, or a flood or a terrorist group complicates deliveries; that might result in, at most, a few dozen tons of fortified foods being lost in a given year. But several of the aid workers I spoke with reiterated that they have never before seen the U.S. government simply give up on food that could have been put to good use.

The emergency biscuits slated for destruction represent only a small fraction of America's typical annual investment in food aid. In fiscal year 2023, USAID purchased more than 1 million metric tons of food from U.S. producers. But the collapse of American foreign aid raises the stakes of every loss. Typically, the biscuits are the first thing that World Food Programme workers hand to Afghan families who are being forced out of Pakistan and back to their home country, which has been plagued by severe child malnutrition for years. Now the WFP can support only one of every 10 Afghans who are in urgent need of food assistance. The WFP projects that, globally, 58 million people are at risk for extreme hunger or starvation because this year, it lacks the money to feed them. Based on calculations from one of the current USAID employees I spoke with, the food marked for destruction could have met the nutritional needs of every child facing acute food insecurity in Gaza for a week.

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Despite the administration's repeated promises to continue food aid, and Rubio's testimony that he would not allow existing food to go to waste, even more food could soon expire. Hundreds of thousands of boxes of emergency food pastes, also already purchased, are currently collecting dust in American warehouses. According to USAID inventory lists from January, more than 60,000 metric tons of foodmuch of it grown in America, and all already purchased by the U.S. governmentwere then sitting in warehouses across the world. That included 36,000 pounds of peas, oil, and cereal, which were stored in Djibouti and intended for distribution in Sudan and other countries in the Horn of Africa. A former senior official at USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance told me that, by the time she'd left her job earlier this month, very little of the food seemed to have moved; one of the current USAID employees I spoke with confirmed her impression, though he noted that, in recent weeks, small shipments have begun leaving the Djibouti warehouse.

[Read: 'In three months, half of them will be dead']

Such operations are more difficult for USAID to manage today than they were last year because many of the humanitarian workers and supply-chain experts who once coordinated the movement of American-grown food to hungry people around the world no longer have their jobs. Last month, the CEOs of the two American companies that make another kind of emergency food for malnourished children both told The New York Times that the government seemed unsure of how to ship the food it had already purchased. Nor, they told me, have they received any new orders. (A State Department spokesperson told me that the department had recently approved additional purchases, but both CEOs told me they have yet to receive the orders. The State Department has not responded to further questions about these purchases.) But even if the Trump administration decides tomorrow to buy more food aidor simply distribute what the government already owns while the food is still usefulit may no longer have the capacity to make sure anyone receives it.
Those kidnapped and locked in cages in Alligator Alcatraz say they aren't being fed properly and are going hungry. We have nutritional food about to be destroyed. It seems to me that we have a problem and a no cost solution staring us in the face.


MAGA is more interested in making life difficult for their perceived opponents than actually doing anything productive.
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movielover said:



What happened to the LA Fire thread?




Pretty cool that James Woods parades around his insanity so publicly for us all to see.
You are right to do so hidden behind your "username" - about the only thing you are right about.
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concordtom said:

Eastern Oregon Bear said:

concordtom said:

Trump Administration will spend money to destroy emergency food supplies, rather than distribute it.


Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people abroad who need it. Nearly 500 metric tons of emergency foodenough to feed about 1.5 million children for a weekare set to expire tomorrow, according to current and former government employees with direct knowledge of the rations. Within weeks, two of those sources told me, the food, meant for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan, will be ash. (The sources I spoke with for this story requested anonymity for fear of professional repercussions.)

Sometime near the end of the Biden administration, USAID spent about $800,000 on the high-energy biscuits, one current and one former employee at the agency told me. The biscuits, which cram in the nutritional needs of a child under 5, are a stopgap measure, often used in scenarios where people have lost their homes in a natural disaster or fled a war faster than aid groups could set up a kitchen to receive them. They were stored in a Dubai warehouse and intended to go to the children this year.

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Since January, when the Trump administration issued an executive order that halted virtually all American foreign assistance, federal workers have sent the new political leaders of USAID repeated requests to ship the biscuits while they were useful, according to the two USAID employees. USAID bought the biscuits intending to have the World Food Programme distribute them, and under previous circumstances, career staff could have handed off the biscuits to the United Nations agency on their own. But since Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency disbanded USAID and the State Department subsumed the agency, no money or aid items can move without the approval of the new heads of American foreign assistance, several current and former USAID employees told me. From January to mid-April, the responsibility rested with Pete Marocco, who worked across multiple agencies during the first Trump administration; then it passed to Jeremy Lewin, a law-school graduate in his 20s who was originally installed by DOGE and now has appointments at both USAID and State. Two of the USAID employees told me that staffers who sent the memos requesting approval to move the food never got a response and did not know whether Marocco or Lewin ever received them. (The State Department did not answer my questions about why the food was never distributed.)

In May, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told representatives on the House Appropriations Committee that he would ensure that food aid would reach its intended recipients before spoiling. But by then, the order to incinerate the biscuits (which I later reviewed) had already been sent. Rubio has insisted that the administration embraces America's responsibility to continue saving foreign lives, including through food aid. But in April, according to NPR, the U.S. government eliminated all humanitarian aid to Afghanistan and Yemen, where, the State Department said at the time, providing food risks benefiting terrorists. (The State Department has offered no similar justification for pulling aid to Pakistan.) Even if the administration was unwilling to send the biscuits to the originally intended countries, other placesSudan, say, where war is fueling the world's worst famine in decadescould have benefited. Instead, the biscuits in the Dubai warehouse continue to approach their expiration date, after which their vitamin and fat content will begin to deteriorate rapidly. At this point, United Arab Emirates policy prevents the biscuits from even being repurposed as animal feed.

Over the coming weeks, the food will be destroyed at a cost of $130,000 to American taxpayers (on top of the $800,000 used to purchase the biscuits), according to current and former federal aid workers I spoke with. One current USAID staffer told me he'd never seen anywhere near this many biscuits trashed over his decades working in American foreign aid. Sometimes food isn't stored properly in warehouses, or a flood or a terrorist group complicates deliveries; that might result in, at most, a few dozen tons of fortified foods being lost in a given year. But several of the aid workers I spoke with reiterated that they have never before seen the U.S. government simply give up on food that could have been put to good use.

The emergency biscuits slated for destruction represent only a small fraction of America's typical annual investment in food aid. In fiscal year 2023, USAID purchased more than 1 million metric tons of food from U.S. producers. But the collapse of American foreign aid raises the stakes of every loss. Typically, the biscuits are the first thing that World Food Programme workers hand to Afghan families who are being forced out of Pakistan and back to their home country, which has been plagued by severe child malnutrition for years. Now the WFP can support only one of every 10 Afghans who are in urgent need of food assistance. The WFP projects that, globally, 58 million people are at risk for extreme hunger or starvation because this year, it lacks the money to feed them. Based on calculations from one of the current USAID employees I spoke with, the food marked for destruction could have met the nutritional needs of every child facing acute food insecurity in Gaza for a week.

ADVERTISEMENT

Despite the administration's repeated promises to continue food aid, and Rubio's testimony that he would not allow existing food to go to waste, even more food could soon expire. Hundreds of thousands of boxes of emergency food pastes, also already purchased, are currently collecting dust in American warehouses. According to USAID inventory lists from January, more than 60,000 metric tons of foodmuch of it grown in America, and all already purchased by the U.S. governmentwere then sitting in warehouses across the world. That included 36,000 pounds of peas, oil, and cereal, which were stored in Djibouti and intended for distribution in Sudan and other countries in the Horn of Africa. A former senior official at USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance told me that, by the time she'd left her job earlier this month, very little of the food seemed to have moved; one of the current USAID employees I spoke with confirmed her impression, though he noted that, in recent weeks, small shipments have begun leaving the Djibouti warehouse.

[Read: 'In three months, half of them will be dead']

Such operations are more difficult for USAID to manage today than they were last year because many of the humanitarian workers and supply-chain experts who once coordinated the movement of American-grown food to hungry people around the world no longer have their jobs. Last month, the CEOs of the two American companies that make another kind of emergency food for malnourished children both told The New York Times that the government seemed unsure of how to ship the food it had already purchased. Nor, they told me, have they received any new orders. (A State Department spokesperson told me that the department had recently approved additional purchases, but both CEOs told me they have yet to receive the orders. The State Department has not responded to further questions about these purchases.) But even if the Trump administration decides tomorrow to buy more food aidor simply distribute what the government already owns while the food is still usefulit may no longer have the capacity to make sure anyone receives it.
Those kidnapped and locked in cages in Alligator Alcatraz say they aren't being fed properly and are going hungry. We have nutritional food about to be destroyed. It seems to me that we have a problem and a no cost solution staring us in the face.


MAGA is more interested in making life difficult for their perceived opponents than actually doing anything productive.
Oh, I never expected the Trump administration to do anything sensible. Punishing the people they hate is completely predictable for them.
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concordtom said:

movielover said:



What happened to the LA Fire thread?




Pretty cool that James Woods parades around his insanity so publicly for us all to see.
You are right to do so hidden behind your "username" - about the only thing you are right about.
As much time as movielover spends posting tweets and memes here and interacting with endless imaginary friends that just happen to support his world view, I figure he has no time to actually watch movies, let alone love them.
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bearister said:

SFCityBear said:

concordtom said:

SFCityBear said:

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bearister said:

I did 5 consecutive dunks to beat him in HORSE at the Rossmoor gym. He was in too foul of a mood to socialize after that.

That was a tad unfair. I mean, can any 80 year old white man dunk?



More like 70.

In what year do you think this event took place?


Bearister said he dunked 5 times.
You asked, can an 80 year old white man dunk?
I pointed out that Bearister is more like 70 at the time of HTP's death.

Doesn't matter when this figurative dunking event happened, because Bearister is not as old as you seemed to suggest.

concordtom,
You are confused, and that is my fault, for assuming readers would understand my post. I aplologize.

My post was about the age of Helltopay1, when the alleged game of horse took place, not about Bearister's age when the game took place.

You know the rules for a game of Horse, right? Player A takes a shot. If he makes it, then player B has to make the same type of shot, shooting from the same spot on the floor. If player B misses the shot, then he earns an "H" on his record. Player A takes another shot. If he makes it, then Player B must try and make the same shot. If he misses it, then he earns another letter, the letter "O". If he earns all five letters in the word, "HORSE", he loses the game.

So in Bearister's game, he must have been shooting first, and he made 5 dunks, and claimed to have won the game, then I assume Helltopay missed all the dunk attempts. I implied the game was unfair, because Helltopay was likely an 80 year old white man, and likely could no longer dunk (if he ever could), and Bearister a much younger man.

As to age, my post after that one talked about Helltopay playing against my cousin Jim back in high school. Jim was born in 1937. When they played against each other, it would likely have been in 1953 or 1954. Helltopay had transferred from St Ignatius to Lowell, and Jim played for Lincoln. Jim is 4.5 years older than me. I am several years older than Bearister, judging from when his interest in rock music started, my interest in rock and roll was about 5 or six years old already. So when these two gentleman played this alleged game of Horse, Helltopay was well into his 80s. I should also mention that HelltoPay used to hang out with St Marys and Warrior great, Tom Meschery, when Tom was just a youngster. He said he beat Tom at hunch, and then they would go to gyms and the Marin Town and Country Club to challenge other two man teams to games of hunch. Tom is currently 86. I was unable to find obits of Helltopay or my cousin Jim to verify the ages


I'd say it was bad form for a young man in his 70s to challenge an old geezer in his 80s to a game of HORSE with dunks allowed. On the other hand it would have been foolish for the old man to challenge man that much younger.

I apologize for the confusion.

SFCB















SFCB, my last dunk looked a lot like this:



I HAVE SERIOUS UPS FOR A MID BABY BOOMER.

I wish Cal had a better hoop team to analyze because I have always considered you the best analyst. Take care.

Wow! That is some serious hang time. I was also impressed with the defender. He took your perfect knee to the jugular and he didn't go down!

For analysis. I go to HoopDreams now. Or the players. Maybe they can give us an idea of what the heck is happening out there on the floor.




































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movielover said:

TM was only 6'6"? Just learned he played in Wilt's legendary 100-point game. Years ago he read some of his poems at St. Mary's Colllege, and remarked about their college watering hole The Barn.

An audience member noted it was still there, so TM and others adjourned for a cold frosty.

Tom was not "only 6-6". He was much more than that.

He was a very good player at every level, high school, college, and pro. In High school, he was named to the 5 man All-American team, along with Oscar Robertson. He won the "Mr Basketball" award given to the best high school player in California for 1957.

Tom was born to Russian parents, who had escaped from Russia and made it to Manchuria, where Tom was born. His parents eventually made it to San Francisco. He played for Lowell high under coach Ben Neff. I once asked Neff who was the best player he ever coached. Neff said it was Eddie Conroy. I asked Neff "Why not Meschery?" Neff replied, "I had Meschery for 4 years, and when he graduated, he still thought he could throw a pass through a brick wall."

Tom went on to play for St. Marys, which was run by the Christian Brothers, whose missionaries had raised him as a young boy in Manchuria. Tom was named an All-American at St Marys. In 1958, Cal played St Marys, and won by a point. They would meet in the NCAA tournament in 1959, and Cal won easily, with Cal's Bill McClintock (3 years older than Meschery) dominating much of the game and Meschery. Meschery went on to be drafted by the Philadelphia Warriors 7th in the first round of the 1961 NBA Draft. He would play 6 years for the Warriors, in Philly and then in San Francisco. He played 4 more years in Seattle.

He was a teammate of Wilt Chamberlain as you said. Outstanding rebounder, defender, and he could drop 20 points on you. He made the NBA All Star Team one year. He was always ready to help a young player with advice or instruction in the game.

Tom had a strong interest in language and literature. He taught poetry and writing at junior colleges, and had his own bookstore in Truckee. He has written and published a lot of poetry, and now is writing books. He had a blog on sports, especially the NBA, called "Meschery's Musings". If you want basketball analysis, that is the place to go. A Bay Area Legend.

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Send my credentials to the House of Detention

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Ex-wife of Cal Business Professor and 5 others arrested in PJ's murder.

Greek police arrest five people in murder case of UC Berkeley professor, including his ex-wife | CNN

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tequila4kapp
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That is just terrible.
concordtom
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tequila4kapp said:

That is just terrible.

….that it didn't happen to the Orange Coup d'Etat artist.
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concordtom said:

tequila4kapp said:

That is just terrible.

….that it didn't happen to the Orange Coup d'Etat artist.
Jesus. Give it a rest already.
DiabloWags
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The MAGA halo isn't helping much in the stock market.

GrabAGun, the online marketplace for firearms and ammunitions started trading on the NYSE under the ticker PEW.
The stock promptly plunged 24%

Don Jr. sits on the company's board and was at the NYSE yesterday to ring the opening bell.
Oooops!


https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/shares-of-gun-seller-grabagun-backed-by-donald-trump-jr-tank-after-nyse-trading-debut/ar-AA1IJCme

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DiabloWags said:

Ex-wife of Cal Business Professor and 5 others arrested in PJ's murder.

Greek police arrest five people in murder case of UC Berkeley professor, including his ex-wife | CNN

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It sounds like she hired Albanian hitmen to off her ex, conspiring with her current partner.

From her LinkedIn page:

Nadia (Konstantina) Michelidaki
Entrepreneur & CEO @ Keybee | Entrepreneurship | Businesses Consultant

Honoured to have won the Greek Hospitality award for the Best Greek Travel Innovation category, for a second year in a row! Grateful to everyone who has been a part of this journey and a special praise to the Keybee team for their devotion. We would also like to thank Ethos Media for this beautiful event.

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Personal Medicaid Recipient Data for 79 million Americans to be handed over to ICE.
Including addresses.

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-medicaid-trump-ice-ab9c2267ce596089410387bfcb40eeb7
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Excellent.
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