Record Heat Wave Greets GOP Climate Deniers In Illinois Primary - The planet is putting the lie to the climate deniers vying for the Republican presidential nomination today in the Illinois primary. Today may mark the seventh straight day of 80 degree temperatures at O’Hare, something that’s never happened before in March,” writes Bill McKibben. “Or in April, for that matter. For 25 years climatologists have been telling us to expect exactly this kind of weather — such extremes become ever more likely as we warm the planet.”
In fact, the last time Chicago had an 80-degree temperature during the month of March prior to this year was over 22 years ago back on March 12, 1990. The high temperature that day was 81.
[...] Keep in mind, average daily high temperatures this time of year are in the upper 40s. Overnight lows the past several nights looked more like Chicago’s normal daily highs.
With the current pattern setup across the eastern United States, it is likely that the Windy City will shatter their current record warmest Marches.
Super Tuesday elections in 10 states will determine or start the selection process for 419 of the 437 delegates the states will send to the Aug. 27 convention in Tampa.
1) Michigan and Arizona voters choose a new oligarchy over a new theocracy! - Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, had 41 percent to Santorum’s 38 percent, with 99 percent of the vote counted, according to the Associated Press. Romney won Arizona with 47 percent to Santorum’s 27 percent, with 89 percent of the vote counted.
2) Too late Santorum: we already know you’re a religious nut || After big primary loss, Santorum retools message for must-win Ohio - In a speech on Tuesday after results were known, Santorum moved his message away from the social issues for which he is known and tightened his focus on themes dear to blue-collar voters who will have a big say when the race moves to Super Tuesday next week, which includes what is now the must-win state of Ohio. [...] Usually happy to speak for about 45 minutes about topics ranging from abortion to radical Islam, Santorum kept his speech brief after losing, making rising gas prices and revitalizing the manufacturing sector the core elements of his comments, saying “bureaucrats in Washington don’t care about flyover country.” “Are we a country that believes in big government, do we believe in the smart and elite in this country to manage us or do you believe in free people and a free economy and building a great America from the bottom up?” Santorum said.
3) Obama forcefully rebuts Mitt Romney in speech to auto workers union – “Because I’ve got to admit, it’s been funny to watch some of these politicians completely rewrite history now that you’re back on your feet. These are the folks who said if we went forward with our plan to rescue Detroit, “you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye.” Now they’re saying they were right all along. Or worse, they’re saying that the problem is that you, the workers, made out like bandits in all of this; that saving the American auto industry was just about paying back unions. Really? Even by the standards of this town, that’s a load of you-know-what. About 700,000 retirees saw a reduction in the health care benefits they had earned. Many of you saw hours reduced, or pay and wages scaled back. You gave up some of your rights as workers. Promises were made to you over the years that you gave up for the sake and survival of this industry, its workers, and their families. You want to talk about values? Hard work – that’s a value. Looking out for one another – that’s a value. The idea that we’re all in it together – that I am my brother’s keeper; I am my sister’s keeper – that is a value.” Watch:
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4) Don’t worry fringe-right bigots who hate President Obama for apologizing for soldiers burning Korans in Afghanistan: your hero George W. Bush also hates America and freedom and liberty and the troops and Jesus — 05/21/2008: President Bush has apologized to Iraq’s prime minister for an American sniper’s shooting of a Quran, and the Iraqi government called on U.S. military commanders to educate their soldiers to respect local religious beliefs. Bush’s spokeswoman said Tuesday that the president apologized during a videoconference Monday with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who told the president that the shooting of Islam’s holy book had disappointed and angered both the Iraqi people and their leaders. “He apologized for that in the sense that he said that we take it very seriously,” White House press secretary Dana Perino said. “We are concerned about the reaction. We wanted them to know that the president knew that this was wrong.” Oh Dana, shitting on Muslims is never wrong.
5) Gingrich: Santorum ‘Strongly Overreacted’ To JFK’s Religion Speech- Newt Gingrich chided fellow GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum today for saying he wanted to “throw up” when he heard a speech by President John Kennedy about the need for a separation of church and state. Santorum has walked back the comments a bit, but Gingrich told conservative radio host Laura Ingraham that Santorum “strongly overreacted” to JFK’s speech (he also misrepresented it, as Salon’s Joan Walsh pointed out). “At the time it was seen as a brilliant and effective speech, and I think it was,” Gingrich said, comparing Kennedy to GOP icon Ronald Reagan.
6) Union of Concerned Scientists: U.S. nuclear oversight too lax – A study of safety lapses at nuclear power facilities in the United States found that owners of atomic plants too often either close an eye to problems or fail to adequately address them, a watchdog group said Tuesday. The report by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) in its study found 15 cases of safety equipment problems and security shortcomings at 13 nuclear plants last year, calling that number “high.” [...] The group said that lax NRC oversight has allowed some problems to fester for decades, and found that 47 nuclear reactors — nearly half of the 104 nuclear plants operating in the United States today — still do not comply with fire regulations established by the NRC in 1980 and amended in 2004. It also said that there are 27 reactors with inadequate protection against earthquakes.
7) Fukushima contamination ‘chronic and lasting’ – Radioactive contamination levels from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have fallen sharply since the accident but will be “chronic and lasting” for many years, a French watchdog said Tuesday. “The initial contamination linked to the accident has greatly declined,” Didier Champion, crisis manager at the Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN), told reporters almost a year after the disaster. “That doesn’t mean that there won’t be any more, far from it. Today, and for many years to come, we will have a situation of chronic and lasting contamination of the environment.”
8) Panetta: Iran Hasn’t ‘Made The Decision To Develop A Nuclear Weapon’- LINDSEY GRAHAM: Do you believe the Iranians are trying to develop a nuclear weapon? LEON PANETTA: I think they’re developing a nuclear capability [but] our intelligence makes clear that they haven’t made the decision to develop a nuclear weapon. Graham moved on and chose not to publicly disagree with the Secretary of Defense but the message from Panetta was clear. U.S. intelligence, at this time, does not conclude that Iran is in the process of building a nuclear weapon. These views are echoed by the the IAEA — the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency — which, just last week, reiterated its “serious concerns regarding possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear programme,” but came short of concluding that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapon.
It seemed like the DC Republicans were all so in favor of not talking about any economic issues, or solutions, or jobs. They all were quite happy to piss away the day, arguing about various social issues when it suited them. And now they have Santorum: a raging, holier-than-thou, modern Crusader to talk about nothing else but social issues – every social issue under the sun! What could go wrong?
What Happens if Rick Santorum Wins Michigan? - “If Rick Santorum wins tonight it’s the equivalent of a 9.0 on a Richter scale. I mean it is going to shake Washington, it’s going to shake Republican establishment it’s just going to shake things to their very core,” Dowd told me. “And I think what you’re going to see are the conversations that have been going on behind quiet doors saying we need another candidate in this race.”
During his Florida swan song, Gingrich calls Romney a Massachusetts moderate and promises to sign a repeal of Obamacare on his first day in office (snicker). Meanwhile, a tape has surfaced of him stating on a conference call that Obamacare is a “model we will be advocating.” Newt loved Obamacare in 2009.
Newt Gingrich takes the stage, giving his rally speech after a decisive loss to Mitt Romney in the Florida primaries: “Florida did something very important… it is now clear that this will be a two person race between the conservative leader, Newt Gingrich, and the Massachusetts moderate.”
Newt Gingrich has made a number of policy promises in his speech tonight, signing a repeal of Obamacare on his first day in office, and re-instituting Ronald Reagan’s “Mexico City” policy, banning U.S. funding for abortion in any country.
Blogger Morgen Richmond unearthed a May 2009 conference call today, that was hosted by Siemens Healthcare, in which Gingrich comes out unequivocally in support of the individual mandate, the most hotly-contested provision of Obamacare, which requires every American to buy health insurance.
“We believe…that everyone must have health-insurance,” Gingrich says. “Or if you are an absolute libertarian, we would allow you to post a bond, but we would not allow people to be free-riders, failing to insure themselves and then show up at the emergency room with no means of payment.”
Even more damning is Gingrich’s praise for Obama’s healthcare reform legislation, which he says is a “model we will be advocating.”
“These (GOP) debates… they have jumped the shark. Because last night — I swear to God — the Republicans talked about three things: deporting Mexican grandmothers; building a colony on the Moon that could become the 51st state; and how Obama is out of touch.” — BILL MAHER, Real Time | via: inothernews
The polls open at 7 a.m. across Florida [...] GOP officials in Florida were anticipating a big turnout, more than 2 million voters, up from a record 1.9 million in the Republican primary in 2008. More than 605,000 Floridians had already voted as of Monday, either by visiting early voting stations or by mailing in absentee ballots, ahead of the total combined early vote in the GOP primary four years ago.
Nate Silver projects The Plutocrat will be victorious over The Adulterer:
The shift away from Newt Gingrich in the Florida polls has been as significant as the one toward him in South Carolina. The first two polls released after South Carolina showed Mr. Gingrich with a lead of 8 and 9 points, respectively. But the news has gotten worse for him almost every day, and he trails Mitt Romney by nearly 15 points in the final FiveThirtyEight forecast of the Florida primary.
Neither Santorum nor Paul will be in Florida today. They’re attending to the crazy in other states.
1)Satire: Santorum thinks ‘it’s never polite to look a rape horse in the mouth’ - From the satirists that brought you comedian Andy Cobb as “a godless heathen” mocking Rick Perry’s bizarre anti-gay political ad comes a tidal wave of sarcasm cresting off Rick Santorum’s odd statement that women who are the victims of rape should “make the best of a bad situation” and go through with the pregnancy. Watch video:
2) Dems Say Romney Outspends Newt 5 -1 In Florida - The narrative that Team Romney is pushing is that of a new-and-improved candidate, battle-hardened after his South Carolina woes, and sharpened as a candidate by having had to outsmart Newt Gingrich. The Dems think these figures suggest something else: that it’s not Romney who’s winning votes in Florida, but the size of his wallet.
3)Gingrich sued over use of “Rocky III” theme song - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich faces a lawsuit over his use of “Eye of the Tiger,” the theme song to the movie “Rocky III,” court documents show. || Seriously, Newt? Eye of the Tiger? Maybe it would be best if Republicans stick to music that suits them. Remember when Heart wouldn’t let McCain/Palin use Barracuda?
4)Putting Romney’s wealth in context- For most working families, this is a level of wealth that’s hard to relate to. Romney took in more wealth in a day in 2010 — without actually having a job — than most Americans earn in a year. Romney would be in the top 1% based solely on the income he receives in one week. [...] The problem isn’t that Romney is extremely wealthy. It’s hard to imagine a significant number of voters saying, “I’m uncomfortable voting for a rich guy.” The problem is how Romney acquired his vast wealth (a vulture-capitalist firm), his frequent gaffes on the subject, and his policy agenda (which includes more tax breaks for the wealthy).
5)Scamming his herd: Rick Warren is an ass, but he’s right - Rick Warren, mega-church grifter, uses some of his tax-exempt time to promote the asinine Republican attack on President Obama’s use of the teleprompter: “Leaders speak from conviction. Actors speak from telepromters.” — @RickWarren Of course Warren is right. Actors do use teleprompters:
6)Majority Of Americans Support Taxing Investment Income The Same As Wage Income - …a CBC News/New York Times poll shows that a majority of Americans favor taxing investment income the same as wage income. The disparity between the 15 percent top rate for investment income and the 35 percent top rate for wage income is what enables wealthy investors like Warren Buffett to drive their tax rate down to or below the rate at which many middle class families pay.
7)‘Socialist’ Obama has conservatives seeing red - “I am for the Declaration of Independence,” Newt Gingrich proudly proclaimed. “I am for the Constitution.” Obama, by contrast, “is for European Socialism.” (i.e. Obama’s black) [...] Another Gingrich supporter, John, who only gave his first name, said he was convinced Obama’s upbringing overseas — he spent part of his childhood in Indonesia — explains his alleged estrangement from centrist American values. “Mom, baseball and apple pie… He doesn’t understand us,” said John. (i.e. Obama’s black)
8) Santorum pushed to limit malpractice awards but sought larger payout for wife- On the campaign trail, GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum says he will push to limit payments to victims in medical malpractice lawsuits, which he blames for unnecessarily driving up health-care costs. And over the course of his two decades in politics, he repeatedly spoke in favor of capping such awards. But Santorum testified in support of his wife when she filed a medical malpractice suit in 1999 that sought $500,000, twice the cap in his 1994 legislative proposal. Karen Santorum claimed that a Fairfax chiropractor had left her with a permanent back injury that probably would result in a lifetime of pain medication and restricted mobility.
9)Jan Brewer Expecting Treat Now for Shaking Finger at Barack Obama - From the “JAN PAC” website: “Friends, I need your help! When I met President Obama this week, I really wasn’t pointing at him. I was telling him, “You have ONE more year!” The President needs to be reminded that he is the President of the FEDERAL REPUBLIC and not a KING lording over state governors. While I wanted to talk to him about jobs, our economy and visiting our border, President Obama criticized my book, Scorpions for Breakfast, and then walked away from me…”
10)Matt Taibi | Rolling Stone | The Odd Couple: Romney Vs. Gingrich - Less than a week after New Hampshire, Romney committed a series of gaffes that revealed his crucial character flaw: He’s a hypernervous control freak who flips out if you try digging around below the paper-thin veneer of his schlock patriotic presentation. The robotic Mormon financier looks like a walking OCD diagnosis, a trim coil of tightly wound energy with perfect coif and tie, seemingly living in permanent terror of a single hair falling out of place. For this type of anal-retentive personality, the messy chaos of South Carolina was a phobic horror. Faced with actual opposition, he lost his grip on everything. At a time when a quarter of the population has zero or negative net worth, when outrage against the financial elite is at an all-time high on both sides of the political aisle, Romney, it turns out, is so weirdly tone-deaf about his status as a one-percenter and bloodsucking corporate raider that any question in that direction sends his eyes pinwheeling. As his electably boring-mannequin act began to crumble, his carefully concealed true self – a deluded gazillionaire nitwit – was suddenly thrust naked onstage for all of America to gape at…
1) “In the debate the other day, Mitt Romney (made) the claim that he never did business with the government, which is absolutely false,” Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) said in a conference call with reporters Friday. “In fact, Mitt Romney served on the board and personally pocketed $500,000 from the Damon Corp., a company that was fraudulently bilking Medicare out of millions of dollars.” – Gingrich, Democrats criticize Romney links to Medicare fraud
2) “Can I give you the facts?” Maher asked Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA). “So far every budget Obama has had has increased military spending,” he said. “This year they’re asking a reduction from $531 billion to $525 billion, 1.6 percent. You mean our freedom is in trouble because of that 1.6 percent?” Maher later added, “How paranoid do you have to be to say that this guy is gutting our military?” – Real Time Panel Embarrasses Dana Rohrabacher After He Claims Obama Wants ‘To Gut The Military’ Watch the clip:
3) A number of trends are coinciding to make U.S. manufacturing increasingly competitive globally. Wages and benefits are growing rapidly in China—as Obama noted in his speech—at the same time that U.S. manufacturing wages are falling. The risks of operating a supply chain that stretches halfway around the world are growing: rising transportation costs, the threat of import duties, less product flexibility, slower time to market, intellectual property theft, and product safety/reputation risks are growing concerns when moving manufacturing offshore. All of these factors are translating into making U.S. manufacturing more appealing. – Picking up the $500 Billion Bill on The Ground: Driving the Next Industrial Revolution Through Efficiency
4)“If they do this for real, if they do this like a real, Enron-style investigation, you know, you could have half the luminaries on Wall Street doing prison time. I believe that they have gotten the political message that is what people want. The question is, ‘Will they really follow through? ‘Will it be a cosmetic investigation or will it be a real cleaning of the markets?’ But I think that they might. There’s a slight possibility that they’ve really gotten the message.” — Matt Taibbi: Obama might have gotten the ’99 percent’ message
5) Numerous sources have reported on the rash of suicides and threatened suicides by workers protesting working conditions at the factories that supply Apple. The company contends it has to use Chinese labor because Americans don’t have the skills to get the job done. [...] Apple executives have also belittled the idea that they have any community responsibility, with an executive saying: “We [Apple] don’t have an obligation to solve America’s problems.” The reality, of course, is that the reason Apple doesn’t care about American workers and exploits Chinese workers is profit, of which the company has excelled at making in recent years. Profits on the backs of exploited Chinese workers and disappearing American jobs. – Apple CEO Defends Against Reports of Poor Work Conditions in Company’s Factories
6) “I wikipedia’ed the guy. Instantly, I discovered the problem: he liked black people. Way back in the 30s, he started organizing the civil rights movement. And as a historian like Newt Gingrich would tell you, the civil rights movement turned out to be a huge burden on white people.” – Maher: ‘Who the f–k is Saul Alinsky?’
7) Add up the wealth of the last eight presidents, from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama. Then double that number. Now you’re in Romney territory. – How rich is Mitt Romney?
9) Mitt Romney may be on his way to a decisive victory in the Florida GOP primary Tuesday, according to a new NBC/Marist poll. Romney leads Newt Gingrich by 15 points, 42 percent to 27 percent in the crucial state. Rick Santorum is third with 16 percent, followed by Ron Paul with 11 percent. Just 4 percent said they were undecided. – NBC/Marist poll: Romney up 15 over Gingrich in Florida
10)The Republican primary campaign has become so clownish that Newt Gingrich, the most inside-Washington candidate in the field, is the grassroots tea party favorite. And why? It’s my theory that it’s less about any sort of perceived conservatism and more about a process of elimination. They’re settling with that guy because no one else on their list worked out — oh, and he can throw red meat bombs. That’s important. The tea party is all about throwing crazy at the president with as much volume as possible. – Gingrich is the Tea Party Candidate?
10c — “Well, here’s a little newsflash to the establishment: without the Tea Party there would have been no historic 2010 victory at all.” – Sarah Palin Shouts Into The Great GOP Divide
[...] “I said when we got — I think the number is 13,000 — when we have 13,000 Americans living on the moon, they can petition to become a state.”
“By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American,” the candidate insisted. “We will have commercial near-Earth activities that included science, tourism and manufacturing.”
“I accept the charge that I am an American and Americans are instinctively grandiose because we believe in a bigger future!” he exclaimed. “I want you to help me both in Florida and across the country so that you can someday say you were here the day it was announce that of course we’d have commercial space and near space. Of course we’d have a man colony on the moon that flew an American flag.”
Newt intends to set up an open marriage type of society for his moon colony, because a bigger future should also mean bigger vows and bigger families — grandiose personal lives!
Newt Gingrich’s campaign admitted Wednesday that the former Speaker had not provided ABC News “witnesses” that would undermine his former wife Marianne’s claims that he had requested an open relationship, despite Gingrich having claimed to have done so in his widely praised debate performance last Thursday. — Gingrich campaign admits it provided no ‘witnesses’ to refute ex-wife’s claims
First corporations are people and now banks are people — and not bad people at that. They’re just overwhelmed and scared to death — like all of us! If you cut them, will they not bleed?
Actually, no they won’t bleed. Because corporations and banks are NOT people. They’re companies, they’re ideas, drawn up on paper with lots of legal language. And as Jed Lewison says (emphasis added),
…They don’t stay awake at night worried about how to pay the mortgage. They aren’t worried about being forced to spend the night in their car because they’ve just lost their home. In fact, they aren’t feeling a damn thing. Because they aren’t human. They aren’t even robots. They are companies. And the last thing we need is a president who can’t tell the difference!
January 23, 2012: 9pm ET/8pm CT and 9pm PT on NBC – Live Stream (Live stream from 9pm to 10:30pm ET only) Location: University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida Sponsor: The Tampa Bay Times, NBC News, the National Journal and the Florida Council of 100 Participants: Romney, Gingrich, Santorum, Paul
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Likely national reaction: ZzzzzzZZzzzzzzzzzz….. zzz…
[T]he big problem with Mitt Romney’s “Romneyness” is that he seems like a manager rather than a leader. To put it very crudely, he just doesn’t seem like an alpha male. Gingrich, by contrast, is a walking catalog of everything that is wrong with alpha-maleness. But for better or worse, Americans want to believe that their President is a leader, captain of his own ship, commander of his own destiny. Romney is an organization man. Having the organization come in and try to muscle him to the top will only provoke a greater rebellion, which in turn will damage the organization more than it will help Romney.
That may be the entire problem: Mitt can’t win without the organization, the organization is what programs the Mittbot.
This video is worth watching — a Romneyness mashup:
It’s no secret that Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich has had a soft spot for climate change in the past. He sat on a couch with Nancy Pelosi talking about how we can all work together to solve global warming. He even wrote a book about our collective obligation to care for the planet, the sequel to which is currently in the works. But now that he’s running for the GOP nomination, Gingrich has cooled on global warming—and cut a chapter about the topic by a distinguished climate scientist from his new book. – Mother Jones
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And Newt’s sycophants will GLADLY help him argue his hypocritical and all-too-common flip-flopping. Here’s the first, and very amusing, comment from a Miami Herald article, counselling Newt on how to respond to his constantly changing beliefs – Rasmussen Poll: Gingrich 41%, Romney 32% in Florida:
Rather than give his detractors the upper hand and placing him on the defensive over a myriad of issues, Mr. Gingrich must diffuse them up front and say simply “I have evolved, and here’s why:…….” Rather than defend the indefensible, Mr. Gingrich must say simply “I was wrong and here’s why:………….”
1) Be proactive about being in Nancy Pelosi’s camp regarding Climate Change. “At the time, I believe one way regarding climate change based upon the available evidence. Additional evidence has caused me to rethink that position.” Simple as that.
2) Be proactive about the Debt Ceiling debate. “Who knew that 60 years of policy could get us to this point. But I can see the forest for the trees and recognize what we’re facing, and we must do an about face to bring us back from the brink.” Anyone who can’t see that is blinded by their own agenda.
3) Be proactive about Freddie and Fannie. “Who could know it was so corrupt?” Anyone who doesn’t recognize corruption when they see it is blinded by their own agenda.
4) Our country’s evolved. Our party has evolved. Our voters have evolved. In the information age, anyone who’s objective is going to have changes of heart, changes of mind. That what makes Mr. Gingrich an authentic conservative. When debating Obama, Mr. Gingrich can say “I have evolved in this information age Mr. President, but you are the same radical you were in college.”
If Mr. Gingrich comes clean about these so called skeletons by admitting he’s evolved, the entire campaign to discredit him is diffused. I urge you Mr. Gingrich, you have my vote as a fellow Georgia, but to win the undecided voters in Florida, you must be proactive about these past issues rather than let them bring the fight to you. The attack ads in Obama’s arsenal are already planned. Diffuse them yourself, and you’ll take Florida!
Racial dog whistling? You bet! That’s a winner with the Republican base. Climate change? Sounds too socialist or French… and definitely not as important as NASCAR.
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Rather than give his detractors the upper hand and placing him on the defensive over a myriad of issues, Mr. Gingrich must diffuse them up front and say simply “I have evolved, and here’s why:…….” Rather than defend the indefensible, Mr. Gingrich must say simply “I was wrong and here’s why:………….”
1) Be proactive about being in Nancy Pelosi’s camp regarding Climate Change. “At the time, I believe one way regarding climate change based upon the available evidence. Additional evidence has caused me to rethink that position.” Simple as that.
2) Be proactive about the Debt Ceiling debate. “Who knew that 60 years of policy could get us to this point. But I can see the forest for the trees and recognize what we’re facing, and we must do an about face to bring us back from the brink.” Anyone who can’t see that is blinded by their own agenda.
3) Be proactive about Freddie and Fannie. “Who could know it was so corrupt?” Anyone who doesn’t recognize corruption when they see it is blinded by their own agenda.
4) Our country’s evolved. Our party has evolved. Our voters have evolved. In the information age, anyone who’s objective is going to have changes of heart, changes of mind. That what makes Mr. Gingrich an authentic conservative. When debating Obama, Mr. Gingrich can say “I have evolved in this information age Mr. President, but you are the same radical you were in college.”
If Mr. Gingrich comes clean about these so called skeletons by admitting he’s evolved, the entire campaign to discredit him is diffused. I urge you Mr. Gingrich, you have my vote as a fellow Georgia, but to win the undecided voters in Florida, you must be proactive about these past issues rather than let them bring the fight to you. The attack ads in Obama’s arsenal are already planned. Diffuse them yourself, and you’ll take Florida!