Hawaii has the highest homeless rate per capita in the nation, according to federal statistics.
The Associated Press reports the state has 487 homeless per 100,000 people.  The number has risen since 2010, even as national rates have fallen.  Officials say the increase is due to rising costs in the islands, low wages, and limited land.
The state coordinator on homelessness says the population of unsheltered families ballooned 46 percent from 2014 to 2015. Scott Morishige says changes in public housing policy and mental health services contributed to the rise.

I was seriously disappointed when I didn't wake up to watersports on national news this morning

Rosenstein: "Americans should exercise caution before accepting as true any stories attributed to anonymous 'officials,' particularly when they do not identify the country -- let alone the branch or agency of government -- with which the alleged sources supposedly are affiliated. Americans should be skeptical about anonymous allegations," said Rosenstein in a late Thursday statement.

"The Department of Justice has a long-established policy to neither confirm nor deny such allegations."

Quote from: Pingu on June 12, 2017, 12:56:53 PM

Whatsup with the ritual obeisance?

Are you talking about this:
Donald Trump just held the weirdest Cabinet meeting ever

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Once Trump finished touting his administration's accomplishments, he turned to several of his newly-minted Cabinet secretaries like Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue. Each of those Cabinet secretaries lavished praise on Trump, which he accepted without comment but with a broad smile.
At first, I thought Trump was just going to have the new members of the Cabinet spend a few minutes praising him. NOPE! It soon became clear that Trump planned to have every Cabinet member speak. And when I say "speak" what I really mean is "praise Trump for his accomplishments, his foresight, his just being awesome."
You think I am exaggerating. I am not. Here's what White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said about Trump: "We thank you for the opportunity and blessing to serve your agenda."

This is the sort of thing to which I can only stammer...
What. The actual. Fuck? ? ? ?

A recently surfaced recording of Donald Trump's appearance on the Charlie Rose show in 1992 shows that Trump has been obsessed with loyalty and revenge for a very long time. [.....]
The 1992 version of Trump is strikingly similar in tone and personality to the present-day iteration.

Transcript from video tape:
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TRUMP: [I would have] treated people differently. I think, that, you know, some of the people that are most loyal to me are people that I didn't think would be. Some of the people that were least loyal to me are people that I think I would have treated them differently. I think I would have treated different groups differently. I would have wiped the floor with the guys who weren't loyal, which I will now do. Which is great. I love getting even with people.

ROSE: Slow up. You love getting even?

TRUMP: Oh absolutely. You don't believe in the eye for an eye? You do. I know you well enough I think you do. But any way, but...

ROSE: [chuckles] But tell me. You're going to get even with some people? Because they...

TRUMP: If given the opportunity, if given the opportunity, I will get even with some people that were disloyal to me. I mean, I had a group of people that were disloyal...

ROSE: But how do you define disloyalty?

TRUMP: They didn't come to my aid.

ROSE: But what did they do? Did they turn their back on you?

TRUMP: No. But they didn't do small things that would have helped. They didn't do larger things...

This video resurfaced at an interesting time, as former FBI Director James Comey's testimony under oath about the multiple meetings he had with the president has brought Trump's fixation on loyalty to the forefront.

Comey noted in a contemporaneous memo written after one such meeting that Trump told him, "I need loyalty. I expect loyalty."