#highway 211

[jmpphoto]

Autumn Canopy by James Marvin Phelps Via Flickr: Autumn Canopy Highway 211 Canyonlands National Park San Juan County Utah

[gvan42]

Virtual Journey: Lost Coast, California - Highway 211 - From Victorian Ferndale to The Beach, the Mountains of Mateel and the Avenue of the Giants. Humboldt County. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/03/a-virtual-drive-thru-remote-humboldt.html

[offender42085]

Post 1273

Before and After....

Rhett Nelson Boheler, South Carolina inmate 376666, born 1998, incarceration intake June 2018 at age 19, scheduled for release October 2029

Felony DUI resulting in Death

In October 2017, a teenager who killed two of his best friends and seriously injured another in a horrible crash, faced a judge. Rhett Boheler, 19, was high on meth and marijuana when he wrecked his car on February 5, 2016.

Prosecutors said all four teens were life-long friends and knew each other from Gaffney High School. Boheler picked them up that day and drove into York County on Highway 211.

Blood tests later showed Boheler was under the influence of meth and marijuana.

The SUV swerved off Irene Bridge Road into a large pine tree. Two Gaffney High School students, Dominick Galosi and Shemar Byers, died at the scene when the force of the crash pushed the car's engine into the passenger compartment.

Boheler and a back seat passenger, Brooke Blanton, were air-lifted to a Spartanburg hospital with life-threatening injuries. They survived. Boheler suffered serious injuries and has had facial reconstruction.

Boheler had posted on Snapchat a short video that showed him smoking what appeared to be a joint, just miles away from where the accident occurred.

Later in 2016 after the accident when Boheler was out of jail on bond, the bond was revoked after he was accused of using drugs again, and traveling out of the state to attend a concert.

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[mwcowan]

A Whole New Chapter

Road Trip!

Day 10, Banaue, Ifugao Province

It's a 211 km, 6-hour drive from Tuguegarao to Banaue. The first half of the drive was fine, a pretty straight but rather bumpy road through the Cagayan valley into the foothills. The last half was the curviest road ever. Nonstop turns as we ascended into the highest mountains on Luzon. And I mean nonstop. I think if you put all the straight sections in the last 100 km together you’d have maybe 1 km total of straight road. Think Lombard Street. 100 km of Lombard Street. To make things worse, we were confronted at least once every kilometer with earth and rock slides, and possibly cleanup crews trying to keep ahead of the mess. Constantly down to one lane. Waterfalls coming down the sides of the mountains, onto or under the roadway, sometimes washing out a lane.

The 2-lane road clings to the mountainsides, with one side going vertically upwards, and the other, well you just don’t want to look. Numerous villages, people, and animals also cling to the steep mountains, making the drive even more exciting. With no place to park other than the shoulder-less roadway, it’s pretty much down to taking turns at uncontrolled one-way traffic through the villages. Somehow you make it through. By the time we got here my arms hurt from all the turns. Oh wait… I wasn’t even driving. I pity our driver!

Farmers utilize the land as they can. Can you imagine working this field?

Why make this arduous trek to Banaue? Banaue is considered a must-see heritage site in the Philippines, for its ancient rice terraces. As much as 2000 years ago, the ancestors of the indigenous Igorot people began carving terraces into the steep hillsides to grow rice; they also built an elaborate irrigation system to collect water coming from the mountains and distribute it among the terraces. The terraces are still maintained and used for rice and vegetable cultivation today. Below are views from our hotel room.

An aside - Road Hazards

Spending so much time on the rural roads you see some interesting (i.e., dangerous) sights. Here are a few of my favorite road hazards from this trip.

Two in one. Trikes are a hazard in themselves, turning in front of you with no warning, driving at night with no lights, going 20 km/h and never pulling over. That’s compounded in a rice-growing region. Newly-harvested rice needs to be dried, right? What better place to do that than right on the highway!

Landslides. These were frequent on the road to Banaue. Not sure if these, or the crews trying to clean them up, posed more of a hazard.

And just not sure what to say about this jeepney...

Days 11-12, Baguio, Benguet Province

During Spanish rule, the area now known as Baguio was organized as a “rancheria” consisting of about 20 houses, populated by Ibaloi people. Their name for the area was “Bag-iw”, their term for the moss that grows abundantly in the cool climate. The Spanish corrupted the name into “Baguio”. Following the Spanish-American war, the area was ‘expropriated’ from the Ibaloi who were forced to move, when the American governor of the Philippines territory wanted a cooler place than Manila to locate the capital during the hot summer months. In 1903 President Theodore Roosevelt signed an executive order setting aside the area as a military reservation, and by 1904 a master design for the city by architect Daniel Burnham was completed. The army “hill base” Camp John Hay was established, and soon features such as a mansion for the governor and a manor to be used for U.S. Army officer’s R&R were built. The mansion today is a museum; the Manor is still used as an upscale hotel (pulling up an old one, see “Mark and Georgia’s 2018 Philippines Trip”, days 20-22). Baguio is one of the most popular vacation spots in the Philippines for Filipinos and many international travelers. It’s just a 5-hour drive or a short flight from Manila so makes a feasible weekend escape from the heat – at over 1500 meters (5000 feet) elevation, we saw daytime highs of 22°C (72°F), pleasant indeed!

The drive from Banaue was another 7-hour, 200+ kilometers, pretty easy at first as we descended back into the Cagayan Valley (rice, rice, more rice, and lots of moo moo cows which Max liked). Rice is planted by hand here, one seedling at a time.

At the head of the valley we again drove on twisty 2-lane roads up into the misty pine-covered mountains, once again a 100 km Lombard Street. Did I say “pine-covered”? Have we been mysteriously transported back to California? No, the area around Baguio is noted for its pine trees (Pinus Kesiya, the most common pine species found in Asia). They are rather tall too, though not quite as tall as those around Graeagle.

We wanted a nice end to our road trip, so booked a couple days in a very nice and Max-friendly hotel. Within walking distance of our hotel is Mines View Park. There are no mines to view any more, but it does offer nice views of Baguio. Here’s Max and Georgia getting to know some elderly Igorot ladies in their colorful dress.

We took Max for a walk in Burnham park (remember the architect Burnham), a large mid-city park with a lake full of swan boats. The park was packed with holiday crowds; it was the Philippines Independence Day!

 With its cool climate, Baguio is known for growing cool-weather crops, including lettuce, cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, and strawberries. Nearby Burnham Park is the Baguio Public Market, a huge venue, easy to get lost in, with hundreds of stalls selling local produce. We bought various fresh veggies to bring back home with us, and Georgia also wanted to get some local red rice. Unless you’re Filipino you probably think there are maybe 3-4 kinds of rice… guess again. Even “Dog Rice”!

That wraps up our 2024 road trip, 13 days and a lot of miles. I haven’t added up how many miles – I’ll do that and also find a good map onto which I can plot our course.

Max (have Wubba will travel) is ready to hit the road again!

[superman-the-secret-third-thing]

Timeline

Alright, so, the difficulty I first ran into, is that I could not find an exact timeline for releases of Superman content, so through intensive googling, I managed to make a list of releases up to 1960.

1938 (Comics) Action Comics #1-8

1939 (Comics) Action Comics #9-19 | Superman #1-3

1940 (Comics) Action Comics #20-31 | Superman #4-7 (Radio) The Adventures of Superman "The Baby From Krypton" - "The Nitrate Shipment"

1941 (Comics) Action Comics #32-43 | Superman #7-13 | World's Finest Comics #1-4 (Radio) "Black Pearl of Osiris" - "The Pan-Am Highway" (Film) Fleischer Animated Series 1-2

1942 (Comics) Action Comics #44-55 | Superman #14-19 | World's Finest Comics #5-8 (Film) Fleischer Animated Series 3-13 (Radio) "The Mechanical Man" - The Mystery Ship" (Novel) Adventures of Superman by George Lowther

1943 (Comics) Action Comics #56-67 | Superman #20-25 | World's Finest Comics #9-12 (Film) Fleischer Animated Series 14-17 (Radio) ""The Tin Men" - "Stolen War Information"

1944 (Comics) Action Comics #56-79 | Superman #26-31 | World's Finest Comics #13-16 (Radio) "Lois and Jimmy Disappear" - "The Man in the Velvet Shoes"

1945 (Comics) Action Comics #80-91 | Superman #32-37 | More Fun Comics #101 | World's Finest Comics #17-20 (Radio) "The Mystery of the Sleeping Beauty" - "Looking for Kryptonite"

1946 (Comics) Action Comics #92-103 | Superman #38-43 | World's Finest Comics #21-24 (Radio) "The Talking Cat" - "The Phony Restaurant Racket" "Clan of the Fiery Cross"

1947 (Comics) Action Comics #104-115 | Superman #44-49 | World's Finest Comics #25-28 (Radio) "The Phony Inheritance Racket" - "Pennies for Plunder"

1948 (Comics) Action Comics #116-127 | Superman #50-55 | World's Finest Comics #29-32 (Film) Superman Serial (Columbia Pictures starring Kirk Alyn) (Radio) "Hunger Inc." - Superman's Secret"

1949 (Comics) Action Comics #128-139 | Superman #56-61 | Superboy #1-5 | World's Finest Comics #33-37 (Film) Keep Your School All-American (Radio) "The Return of the Octopus" - "Diamond of Death"

1950 (Comics) Action Comics #140-151 | Superman #62-67 | Superboy #6-11 | World's Finest Comics #38-49 (Film) Atom Man vs. Superman (Kirk Alyn)

1951 (Comics) Action Comics #152-163 | Superman #68-73 | Superboy #12-17 | World's Finest Comics #50- (Film) Superman and the Mole Men (George Reeves)

1952 (Comics) Action Comics #163-175 | Superman #74-79 | Superboy #18-23 | World's Finest Comics # (TV) Adventures of Superman (George Reeves) Season 1

1953 (Comics) Action Comics #176-187 | Superman #80-85 | Superboy #24-29 | World's Finest Comics # (Film) Adventures of Superman (George Reeves) Season 2

1954 (Comics) Action Comics #187-199 | Superman #86-93 | Superboy #30-37 | World's Finest Comics (Film) Stamp Day for Superman

1955 (Comics) Action Comics #200-211 | Superman #94-101 | Superboy #38-45 (Film) Adventures of Superman (George Reeves) Season 3

1956 (Comics) Action Comics #212-223 | Superman #102-109 | Superboy #46-53 (Film) Adventures of Superman (George Reeves) Season 4

1957 (Comics) Action Comics #224-235 | Superman #110-117 | Superboy #54-61 (Film) Adventures of Superman (George Reeves) Season 5

1958 (Comics) Action Comics #236-247 | Superman #118-125 | Superboy #62-69 (Film) Adventures of Superman (George Reeves) Season 6

1959 (Comics) Action Comics #248-259 | Superman #126-133 | Superboy #70-77 (Film) George Reeve's death.

1960 (Comics) Action Comics #260-271 | Superman #134-141 | Superboy #78-85 (Film) Superman (Mohammed Hussain)

However, upon joining the Superman subreddit Discord, I was kindly referred to this link on the Superman Supersite:

Which, heh, could have saved me some time. tbh.

[wtficedance]

what do you think of the 2003 controversy about the Israeli team of Galit Chait and her partner winning bronze at Worlds and 20 of the 24 dance teams signing a petition saying judging was unfairly biased by politicking from her father Boris, the head of the Israeli fed? And that the Lithuanian team should have been on the podium instead? Galit is a tech specialist now, and her father still runs the Israeli skating fed, so nearly the entire field of a competition could speak up and call foul and be dismissed anyway, no repercussions

Q #211:

Hi anon,

I think you mean 2002 Worlds but yes another strike against the 6.0 system after a very contentious Olympics. I do think it’s a very unique circumstance because there are very few times in ice dance (or skating as a whole) where a weak, non-traditional skating federation controls the narrative and is influencing the formation of judging blocks. Normally in ice dance it’s highly influenced by coach even more so than fed. The whole incident was emblematic of all of the issues with 6.0 (blind block judging and alliances, politics entirely dictating scores in face of errors, a complete and utter lack of movement in standings except in block realignment, smaller federation teams like Drobiazko/Vanagas repetitively getting screwed and being unable to build momentum) but it was only because of a few reasons that it actually resulted in change:

D/V were VERY well-liked in ice dance

Chait/Sakhnovski were not and her father was essentially widely despised

Americans Lang/Tchernyshev took point on organizing the petition

all of the traditional powers in ice dance (Linichuk, Zhulin, Tchaikovskaia, Dubova, Zazoui, Gorshkov, etc.) had teams who were being slowed down by the Israelis

Anissina/Peizerat & Fusar-Poli/Margaglio didn’t compete at Worlds and would’ve been on the podium otherwise, it wouldn’t have generated nearly as much controversy if D/V and C/S were fighting over 5th

North American media were able to leverage the fact that D/V were getting f*cked over by the Eastern Block to apply that logic to Bourne/Kraatz

C/S only won ONE segment: FD

So yes, I do believe that D/V were deserving of bronze at that worlds but I don’t think it was a highway robbery, more of just a boiling over point.

My hot 6.0 ice dance take is that there was so little actual criteria when it comes to the free dances that it is hard to actively differentiate teams beyond a certain point. And a lot of the “well X was clearly better than Y” is truly just preference unlike the CD and OD where there was a clear emphasis on footwork, linking movements, edge quality, crispness, etc. That’s why it’s a little frustrating when commentary under IJS is like “well these teams are evenly matched in everything so its really just down to PCS” because while that was basically true for 6.0 it SHOULDN’T be true under IJS. Especially because all of the top teams since the inception have had very different strengths and weaknesses with their respective rivals. A lot of the things that we value in modern, IJS ice dance are completely different than under 6.0. For example, you’ll here commentators talking about the amazing quality and speed of a dance spin and in a 6.0 FD it will literally be 4 rotations max, where in modern programs they’re at minimum 9 and almost always closer to 20. Lifts are another animal as well beyond just “this is not aesthetically pleasing / this is aesthetically pleasing.”

I don’t think we will ever see something like this replicated because of (1) the Gadbois monopoly means that MF would largely have control over results and it’s more likely that Gadbois teams would be screwed over internally and you would lose all camp backing if you tried to petition, (2) there’s now a lot more money going into each result, and money trumps uniquely intimidating personalities, (3) it was riding the wave of the biggest scandal in skating history at the time and basically everyone in ice dance was sick of 6.0.

So yes it’s not the most ethical that Chait is so involved in sport but as Israel’s whole skater development program is C-list Jewish Canadians, Americans, and Russians, I highly doubt they’re going to be relevant in the next few decades that Chait will be involved. Hope this helps!

[denis-florist-flower-delivery]

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[duchesslovecraft]

Off The 412; THE POOR MAN’S LAMENT.

DEAD DOVE. CHECK BEFORE EATING.

POVERTY; VIOLENCE / BLOOD; SWEARING; BODILY FLUIDS.

You’re headed west out of Tulsa, with your big dream bags all packed and in search of something bigger than you. You had a bad habit of biting off more than you could chew. I’m sitting on the side of the 412, my truck upside down with your picture on the dashboard. There’s too much blood to be plausibly cleaned and I’m slurring my words in a voicemail to you. This is my last call. The ambulance will not come, and I will die in the tall weeds off the highway. I love you.

211 S Lake Dr, Sand Springs, OK 74063

Red duvets, lazily washed bedsheets, and yellowing, smoke-stained walls. That was our reality. Living in that fucking inn off of 412. Bullet holes lined the walls; the story of each shot unbeknownst to us. A blanket of Psalm 23 unceremoniously nailed to the wall to act as a makeshift curtain.

Having learnt to cope with the unchangeable, you lit yourself a cigarette in an impersonal episode. It was so habitual, you had cuts on your thumb from that trashy lighter. Watching you exhale that plume of smoke, I begged for God to save you. Be careful what you fucking wish for, I guess.

From a lover’s point of view, this whole thing was hard to watch at best. I wanted to take you from this place; I wanted to buy you a diamond ring and change the world. The evil ways of it. But I am just one piece of a person. One fragment of a sinner running off of pure survival instinct. There is no change in this world I could make to make your time worthwhile. I can only give you my heart and hope that it is enough to keep you here.

“Delicate dove, go inside. You’re inhaling too much smoke.” You tell me. This is how I know you love me. But I am angry regardless. Do not order me to leave because you think I can’t handle the consequences. If my lungs are drying and closing inside of me because of secondhand smoke inhalation, I have damned myself to that fate. I am not just your delicate dove, I am a living, breathing woman who is made of all the things that you think make me weak. My unforgivable past, my foreboding future, my inescapable present. I love you.

“I’m okay.” I say, and you shake your head at me. I can tell you’re tired of fighting me about this, and I am glad you have given up. I want to stay with you forever, despite the consequences. Despite myself.

“Your lungs are going to give out. You’re stupid.” You never saw the irony, cigarettes perched between poorly painted fingernails.

“I promise I’m fine. The wind is blowing it away anyhow.” I say. I think you get so angry because you feel guilty. You feel like it’s your fault that your addiction might transfigure into something deeper. Something more serious. Maybe it is. But I would never tell you that.

You scoff again. You’re sick of me, I know. Sick of the fight, and the place and the facts of our reality. But I’m all you have. How could you bite at the hand that feeds? At the lips that kiss? I think that’s what I am most afraid of: the fact that you’re only staying here because you have nowhere else to go. The 412 is such a lonely highway, and the distance from here to hoping is immeasurable. Paradise is on the horizon, and you’re running ninety trying to escape me— but guilt hits you tenfold harder than logic, and you’re turning around in a Circle K parking lot. I know this is what happens because you always come home with a red, puffy face. I feel bad, but I cannot leave you. And you cannot leave me.

“Why are you so damn stubborn?” You ask, and I can hear the exhaustion behind the confusion. I can hear the visceral pain that you carry on your shoulders behind the upwards inflection in that question, and I shrug. This is not a satisfactory answer, I can see it on your face.

“I just want to sit with you, whether you’re smoking or not.” You flick some ash onto the concrete, and admire the view of the parking lot as some people fornicate in a car across the way. You’ve gotten used to sights like those, but that doesn’t make it any easier to digest. You smoke down to the filter, you always have. The sunset casts your face in an orange glow. I love you.

You had this way about you— this air— that drew people to you. In a sick and twisted sense. You would draw them in with the way your breath stank of cigarettes, and the way your hair was never brushed well enough. You drew them in and then they’d back away, seeing all the details that had been saved for getting up close. You had this pitiful essence to you. Mix-matched socks on a good day, and every pair of jeans seemed to be coated in unidentifiable stains. Blood, ash, piss, jizz? It was all the same to you. All cleanable, and yet uncleaned. It’s like you thrived off of being impure. Your skin was too boring and too pale, so you took your cigarette to it and made marks there. Your natural hair color didn’t serve your street-walker look too well, so you bleached it an ugly blonde. Not the kind of honey blonde that beautiful women are born with, but the tragic kind of blonde that only comes from a box.

But I adored you nonetheless. My mother always told me I was too easily impressed. I felt like Shakespeare, sitting at his desk and writhing in anguish as he wrote his one-hundred-and-forty-first sonnet. In faith, I do not love thee with mine own eyes! Wrote Shakespeare. And I’m sure his lover was pissed to read this, but this part is not applicable to you. You are gorgeous, despite yourself. Your ugly blonde hair mixes with your blue eyes, and you are Cinderella to me. But I know that Cinderella would’ve never looked like you if she was sober. But my five wits nor my five senses can dissuade one foolish heart from loving thee. So, even if you grow weak and tired in your body and your skin melts off your bones like sticky moss to an aged pillar, I will love you. I have never not loved you. But I am aware enough to recognise that beauty is only in the eye of the motherfucking beholder.

“What do you want to eat for dinner?” This was a rhetorical question. You were really good at asking those. How do you feel? I try not to. What are you doing on your day off? Nothing.

You knew we were too poor to afford anything but cup Mac ‘N’ Cheese. And even that was expensive to us. We put our weekly paycheques, after setting funds aside for bills and gas, together and conjured a meaningless scarcity of seven dollars. You looked at me, fighting between anger and fear. I’m sorry. I love you.

You were angry because you knew that deep down that you’d still sacrifice anything for me— even if you’d wish to see this goddamn place in your rear-view. You sighed, and licked your bottom teeth— trying to think of something, literally anything.

“We can just eat here again. And save this for dinner on Friday.” Oh, God, if we’d even make it that far. It was Tuesday, baby. These weeks kept coming and coming, and they never got any easier. Not for people like us.

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

Black Mountain is currently largely underwater, and the river has yet to crest, meaning continued flooding is imminent, and water levels may continue to rise. Many on the mountains, like in Katrina, are sheltering in second and third stories or on rooves to stay out of the deadly water. 130 water rescues have been conducted in the past 48 hours in Buncombe County alone, and the 1-40 highway was washed out by a mudslide Saturday morning, trapping even those willing and able to evacuate inside the floodzone.

If you have loved ones in the area you have been unable to contact, the local EMS first responders, red cross team, and trained emergency aid volunteers from all over, are coordinating forms and call lines for people who need to be found. Additionally, services advise that you may be able to call 211 to seek reporting options for those you haven't been able to contact. It is recommended to contact county offices like the deed of registrar or city hall or the county website contact forms rather than reaching out to EMS directly, as EMS are not necessarily staffing their phones normally and cannot afford to be deluged by non-emergency calls given the severity and scale of the situation. If you are unable to find locally based missing persons reporting options, it is recommended you reach out to the red cross, as they can coordinate with their teams and EMS on the ground across appalachia to search for and reconnect missing loved ones.

we go through this every hurricane season but the way people will find any excuse to point the finger at the victims of natural disasters and say cruel shit like "fuck around and find out" like it's not horrifying having to leave behind your home and all your belongings and potentially your pets with the full knowledge that there might not be anything to come back to after... ignoring that there are people that don't have a car or the money to evacuate, ignoring disabled people who have no way to get out, ignoring people that can't find places for their pets to shelter, ignoring people that have medical equipment that can't be moved or replaced, etc... and even if someone stays behind solely because they want to, they still don't deserve to suffer.

as someone who worked extensively in disaster response previously, it is not easy to "just" evacuate, and the relief that comes afterwards is intentionally difficult to obtain. and already the forces that be are trying to spin this narrative that the victims are at fault, to put the blame on them so that if (probably when) people are forced to resort to looting (because the aid never comes) everyone will nod and agree that they're all bad people and deserved it... rather than acknowledging the fact that there was no attempt to make the evacuation accessible and safe for everyone, no guarantee that aid will be waiting for them when they return to a home that has been swept away... no empathy for the fact that these people's entire lives are potentially destroyed with no safety net to catch them.

[jmpphoto]

Utah Highway 211 by James Marvin Phelps Via Flickr: Utah Highway 211 Canyonlands National Park San Juan County Utah September 2023

[punkbooyahbomber2227]

an extensive review of getting shot out of a big shot cannon

i recently took up an offer from a salmonid in the west anarchy bay area named The Shining Light of Sēfti-Besto, or simply big shot bess, to be shot out of her cannon for recreational purposes. this is a record of my experience.

before i got anywhere near the cannon, big shot bess had me sit through a thorough speech about all the safety precautions we needed to take in preparation of the launch. she's a bit of a slow talker and i can see that being tedious if you're an impatient sort of person, but i can't deny that i love listening to a handsome woman give a passionate lecture about her field of expertise. i also learned a lot about how the cannons work, and that they even have detachable parts to be able to fire shots of different gauges! the points that she stressed the most in her speech are:

⚠️ DO NOT CLIMB INTO AN UNATTENDED CANNON ⚠️ ⚠️ ALWAYS ASK PERMISSION FROM A CANNON'S OPERATOR FIRST ⚠️

so before i was put into the cannon, i had to take off my glasses and remove any metal jewelry such as piercings, pins, and bracelets, and i was warned that any loose-fitting clothes like an unbuttoned shirt might end up flying off during the launch. i was instructed to stay in walk form inside the cannon as being in swim form would risk me passing through some of the inner machinery. i was also told to keep my legs tucked up to my chest and my head down until i was launched out of the cannon. personally, i felt very cozy inside of the cannon's chamber and it felt like it had more space than the standard spawner used in turf wars, but i'd understand if it would trigger anybody's sense of claustophobia. once i was shot out and in the air, i could release my limbs or go into swim mode if i wanted to. sticking the landing as safely as possible is the same technique as landing from a super jump. in general, being launched felt like a fast super jump, and you could definitely feel the weight of the landing in your legs a lot more than you would from landing from a usual super jump.

this was an excellent experience overall, and a great way to de-stress myself after this particularly exhausting week that i've had. i'm very grateful for big shot bess for being so diligent with our safety as well.

now i asked big shot bess if she'd be willing to let others come along to be shot out of her cannon, and she says that she doesn't want to be overwhelmed with requests so she'll only be around with her cannon at the field north of the squaretail shipyard from friday evenings until saturdays at noon. there are a couple of bus routes you can take from splatsville to get out here if anybody else wants to try it out. the quicker route is to take the 113 until you get to brinewater station and then get on the 211. the 217 actually takes longer on average but since there's no transfers you save on bus fare. also the highway most of the 217 route goes along is a popular spot for doomsday conspiracy guys to buy out billboard space and hold out signs while yelling specifically at buses that pass by, just ignore them

[myindustrialspecialist]

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Continuing my review and summarization of Project 2025, Chapter 16 covers the Dept of the Interior.

1. Increase leasing of federal lands for oil and gas production, including fracking

2. Reverse Biden’s placing of federal lands as off-limits to economic and recreational usage and his climate initiatives such as increased solar and wind energy

3. Reinstate offshore oil drilling to the maximum extent

4. Abandon withdrawals of lands from leasing in the Thompson Divide of the White River National Forest, Colorado; the 10-mile buffer around Chaco Cultural Historic National Park in New Mexico; and the Boundary Waters area in northern Minnesota 

5. Approve the 2020 Willow EIS, the largest pending oil and gas projection in the United States in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, and expand approval from three to five drilling pads

6. Construct a new 211-mile roadway on the south side of the Brooks Range, west from the Dalton Highway to the south bank of the Ambler River, and open the area only to mining-related industrial uses

7. Repeal of the Antiquities Act of 1906 and reduce the number of national monuments 

8. Remove grizzly bears and gray wolves from the endangered species list

9. End federal mandates and subsidies of electric vehicles

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[its-suanneschafer-author]

Continuing my review and summarization of Project 2025, Chapter 16 covers the Dept of the Interior.

1. Increase leasing of federal lands for oil and gas production, including fracking

2. Reverse Biden’s placing of federal lands as off-limits to economic and recreational usage and his climate initiatives such as increased solar and wind energy

3. Reinstate offshore oil drilling to the maximum extent

4. Abandon withdrawals of lands from leasing in the Thompson Divide of the White River National Forest, Colorado; the 10-mile buffer around Chaco Cultural Historic National Park in New Mexico; and the Boundary Waters area in northern Minnesota 

5. Approve the 2020 Willow EIS, the largest pending oil and gas projection in the United States in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, and expand approval from three to five drilling pads

6. Construct a new 211-mile roadway on the south side of the Brooks Range, west from the Dalton Highway to the south bank of the Ambler River, and open the area only to mining-related industrial uses

7. Repeal of the Antiquities Act of 1906 and reduce the number of national monuments 

8. Remove grizzly bears and gray wolves from the endangered species list

9. End federal mandates and subsidies of electric vehicles

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