D’Annunzio’s assessment of Marinetti applies perfectly to this American idiot: “not just a cretin, but a phosphorescent cretin” and also “un cretino con lampi di imbecillità” — an idiot with flashes of imbecility.
The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Brock Long, said Wednesday he is resigning his post after less than two years on the job. Long’s resignation came after a government auditor found he improperly used government vehicles to travel to and from his home in North Carolina. As FEMA administrator, Brock Long oversaw the Trump administration’s widely criticized response to devastating wildfires in California and other western states, as well as a series of major hurricanes in 2017—Harvey, Irma and Maria. Last year, a George Washington University study commissioned by Puerto Rico’s governor found over 3,000 people died as a direct result of Hurricane Maria. After Donald Trump disputed the findings, Brock Long defended the president. Brock Long: “These studies are all over the place. The Harvard study was done differently, studies a different period of time, versus the George Washington study. There’s a big discrepancy, whether it’s direct deaths or indirect deaths.”
In response to Brock Long’s resignation Wednesday, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz tweeted, “Brock Long was Trump’s hatchet man in the botched Puerto Rican relief effort after hurricanes Irma and María. He should have been fired and held accountable for the loss of lives.” Deputy FEMA chief Peter Gaynor will serve as acting administrator until the Senate confirms a replacement. https://www.democracynow.org/2019/2/14/headlines/fema_administrator_brock_long_resigns
So you acknowledge being a bully? That’s good – admitting you have a problem is the first step towards getting help.
Morrissey
Well, yes, of course.
bully1 (from Middle Dutch boele ‘lover’) Orig. a term of endearment applied to either sex; later a familiar form of address to a male friend;2 (U.S. colloq.) Very good; excellent; 3 (Late 16th cent. ‘admirable, gallant, jolly’)
Then there is the other, nasty, kind of bully. This sort of thing:
What’s with the Lefty Loon vendetta against Eden Park? They’ve got an endless pot for Rail speculation but nothing for one of the best sports venues for spectators, around. It’s so quintessentially Kiwi but the Council seems determined to run it into the ground.
Tall Man
helen doesn’t like it.
stigie
Don’t forget H2 ?
Inandout
TM, Peter’s pikelets go flat with the music sound.
Tall Man
Probably the only thing of peter’s that goes near her mouth…..
dog_eat_dog
Because Helen doesn’t like it, we’re going to get a billion dollar bill for a stadium downtown that can’t hold cricket games, block out harbour views and mean the port needs to be relocated.
Meanwhile, when India/Aus come to NZ for ODIs, we’re going to be faced with playing them at a ground with limited capacity and paying through the nose for ticket prices. And even then it’s just a matter of time before the Grey Lynners decide they don’t like cricket either.
mikenmildagain
According to multiple callers on Radio Sport this morning, the idiots that run Eden Park couldn’t cope with the 20,000 crowd last night for the Phoenix. Long queues to get in, to wait for horrible food, etc, etc.
dog_eat_dog
I can’t help but feel that’s probably a result of massive cost cutting given the state their in. It probably ends up being a giant feedback loop. The Council playing silly buggers with secret reports suggests they are just waiting for time to do the dirty work for them, rather than front on why the cost of a total redevelopment of Eden Park into an indoor stadium is probably far less than their preferred downtown option.
Morrissey
That’s odd, given they cope with much bigger crowds routinely for the Blues.
toby1845
For the same reason that all other non-indegenous aspects of kiwi identity are being attacked and ridiculed.
Because rugby is (still) a male dominated sport, imported from a white country.
JibberJabber
The Government has washed its hands of Eden Park and given the whole stinking shithole to the ratepayers of Auckland. So yeah, fuck Eden Park and the pompous old cunts on the board. Flatten the place and build a highrise ghetto that the socialist scum love so much.
Incredibly, someone out there is cretinous enough to support Brock Long.
Sei un imbecille! Sei un idiota! Sei un fascista! Ascolti quell’idiota di Leighton Smith!
Scemo!
pentwig
morriss ever consider that people would consider themselves cretins to give you an uptick?
Ed Snack
I wonder if Long abused his transport privileges as much as Nancy Pelosi.
DigNap15
The Auckland council should just open up Eden Park to as many game and concerts as it wants to hold! F the nimbies. Its not every day. Then it may be able to pay its way. Then sit down with experts from each sport and entertainment and work out a decent plan for Aucklands stadia for the next 50 years. Then do it!
mikenmildagain
“Then do it!” “Let’s do it!” With your perspicacity and such a snappy slogan, had you thought f running for Mayor of Auckland this year?
No. 2: BROCK LONG
Salacious Crumb
Captain Mainwaring
graham
Morrissey
graham
Morrissey
Monique Watson
Tall Man
stigie
Inandout
Tall Man
dog_eat_dog
mikenmildagain
dog_eat_dog
Morrissey
toby1845
JibberJabber
So yeah, fuck Eden Park and the pompous old cunts on the board.
Flatten the place and build a highrise ghetto that the socialist scum love so much.
Morrissey
pentwig
ever consider that people would consider themselves
cretins to give you an uptick?
Ed Snack
DigNap15
F the nimbies.
Its not every day.
Then it may be able to pay its way.
Then sit down with experts from each sport and entertainment and work out a decent plan for Aucklands stadia for the next 50 years.
Then do it!
mikenmildagain
“Let’s do it!”
With your perspicacity and such a snappy slogan, had you thought f running for Mayor of Auckland this year?
pentwig
stomach cramps today is it?
MCos
Mt Smart is fine for concerts & the Warriors.
The Blues and Auckland rugby teams already play there. Any other rugby games would run at a lose.
It’s barely appropriate for cricket.
https://www.edenpark.co.nz/uploads/images/Eden%20Park%20Annual%20Report%202018.pdf