I Was Wrong - on something important

Image shows the three men accused of rape by Crystal Magnum. She has now admitted that she completely made up the story. The article that goes with the story is at: https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024/12/duke-mens-lacrosse-scandal-2006-crystal-mangum-admits-fabrication-rape-18-years-later-apologizes-kat-depasquale-evans-finnerty-seligmann-brodhead-pressler-nifong ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Crystal Magnum herself is currently in prison serving a sentence for second degree murder having killed her then boyfriend in 2011 and was convicted in 2013.

Angela Alioto is an elected supervisor in San Francisco and the daughter of a former mayor (he was mayor when I lived there is 1975). Supervisor Alioto has been a proponent of many progressive social policies, e.g., needle exchanges, sanctuary city and decriminizing theft. She also supported major increases in programs that deal with the homeless. She now admits her policies were wrong.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Not only that. She also suspects that there is massive corruption and fraud in these programs, particularly the programs dealing with the homeless. This is per her statement in a video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDHPgZyKNPA.

I have been trying for several years to make a tasty moussaka using a ground chicken/beef blend and without the bechamel on top and without all the spices that recipes require. I use the chicken/beef blend because with my gout I am not supposed to eat a lot of beef. I don't do the bechamel on top because a good bechamel requires butter and milk. I also dont use a lot of tomato sauce because Ann has problems with that. One of the main fundamental problems is that ground beef these days doesn't come with much fat (and ground chicken with almost no fat) and that means the flavoring is more difficult. For this past weekend, I used a lot of MSG while cooking the beef and this seemed to do the trick of having a good flavor. I had read that MSG was on the 'bad' list years ago but has been rethought and is now not on the bad list (not that it made the good list).

A long chain of tweets in response to some from Alexandria Brown, an instagram influencer, on this. Points include: Didn't think drug abuse would get so bad. Thought treatment would work better. Didn't realize drug abuse would destroy people like it does. https://twitter.com/alexthechick/status/1691422798411894785

Back shortly after the turn of the millenium I attended several transportation conferences and made a point of asking speakers if 'There are too many ports". I also, made some comments on various papers, presentations, etc. to that effect. I specifically used the example of Florida, which had 10 seaports and the Mississippi river, which had a number of River ports. It seems I was wrong on the Florida issue, although maybe right on the Mississippi river issue. The reason I was wrong about Florida is that I did not foresee that extent to which the 10 ports could specialize so each would contribute enough economic benefit to justify the landside investment that Florida and the USA would have to make. Also, I did not foresee the extent to which the capacity of the west coast ports, specifically LA and Long Beach would be constrained by various policies that limited their operational efficiency. This capacity problem on the west coast has made the east coast ports more impor...

Naomi Wolf is a writer and generally accepted to be a public intellectual. She is a lifelong Democrat and advisor to Bill Clinton and Al Gore and has written extensively for The Nation and The New Republic. She wrote an apology and published it on her substack account. She apologizes for believing in the Steele Dosier, the 'Hunter Biden Laptop was a Russian Plant' and the 'Officer Sicknick was killed by Jan 6 Rioters', and a few other things. Her article at substack is: https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/dear-conservatives-i-am-sorry. Below is this article:................................................................................................................ Dear Conservatives, I Apologize My "Team" was Taken in By Full-Spectrum Propaganda Dr Naomi Wolf 22 hr ago There is no way to avoid this moment. The formal letter of apology. From me. To Conservatives and to those who “put America first” everywhere. It’s tempting to sweep this confrontation w...