"Louise and the Grifting Racketeers" (FTTxJT Fri 102326 hr2)

in portland freedom nine seventy out there what should uh... we do with people who rely on government handouts but are too lazy to work kick them out of congress is a great cartoon thank you uh... for that speaking of people who have decided that working in the government is a pretty good gig for your side hustle attorney

general Ms. Lucas, for the last nearly five years, accumulated nearly $5 million in ill-gotten gains through her criminal enterprise.

Ms. Lucas served in a position of trust for nearly four decades and served as the present pro tempore of the Senate for the Virginia State Senate for these last five, six years.

During that time, as alleged in the indictment, her and her six co-conspirators, instead of serving the public, as was her job, manufactured and created a criminal enterprise to illicitly enrich themselves by procuring sales and stores and divisions through the marijuana and CBD enterprise.

Now, we will continue into the story.

There's plenty more going on, but that has got a lot of folks' attention.

for a couple of reasons, and we'll explain coming up.

But I want to get our first things out there because there is so much afoot.

Severe weather striking the Four Corners region.

Our friends out there in Cortez listening to us this morning.

Flooding, swamping dozens of homes in southern Utah, as well as southern Colorado.

Tornadoes blowing off roofs and knocking down houses and power lines in Arizona.

AI industry, perhaps driven by this hack that took over the Internet, especially in Europe yesterday, pulled the AI stocks lower.

S&P 500 fell 1.2% for its worst day since July, while the Nasdaq fell 2.6%.

Dow Jones... did go up 11 points.

AI-related stocks have been swinging on worries that not only did this hack either come from or was found by AI, could be both, But money is tightening up towards the building of data centers while Chinese advertisements and Chinese managed activist campaigns have created a groundswell of local animus towards the development of those necessary Internet platforms.

pipelines.

PHP.

No, it's not date rape drug.

This is the underpinning software of all websites, or at least most of them.

And it was hacked on, it looks like Tuesday from the stories I've found and the internet managers found out about it on Wednesday and tried to get fixes in there.

Europe especially hit, shut down many internet sites as this hack created spoof websites that looked just like the websites like Amazon you would have gone to and stealing your information and then getting into your computers and using your computers to mine Bitcoin.

Supreme Court cleared the way for New Hampshire to ban the use of student IDs during the midterm elections this year.

Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only justice to publicly dissent.

Russia continues to bombard the Ukrainian capital with ballistic missiles overnight while the Steve Witkoff Brigade is trying to bring Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into the trilateral meetings.