It’s possible that you don’t fully understand what Sam Bankman-Fried did or what transpired at his company, FTX. This may help.
2/. Tom Tomorrow and Elon.....
3/. Ron DeSantis and the "Stop Woke" act has been struck down by a federal judge as "dystopian"....
Republicans talk a big game about free speech and the First Amendment. But when it comes down to it, they actually believe people should only be “free” to discuss topics they’ve approved. No elected official better epitomizes this hypocrisy than Florida governor Ron DeSantis who, in the last year alone, has signed a law effectively banning teachers from saying the word “gay” in grades K–3; punished one of the largest employers in the state for having the temerity to criticize the “Don’t Say Gay” law; and signed into law a bill—eye-rollingly named “Stop WOKE Act”—that restricts conversations about race in schools and businesses, in a patently obvious attempt to prevent real discussions about the role white people have played in the long history of systemic racism in America. And on Thursday, a federal judge called him on his bullshit.
4/. Governor Ron - owning the libs....
5/. Fascinating - one of the Times's excellent photo journalistic looks at the devastation caused by climate events....best on your computer....
6/. Bill Maher with a New Rule - "Revenge of the Normies".....amusing....
7/. A small shift in the real estate market, but retirees are rethinking where to go, factoring in climate change.....
For a decade, Melissa and Guy Hoagland, both retired physicians in their 60s, had split their time between their homes on a barrier island in Florida and in Half Moon Bay, a small coastal city in the San Francisco Bay Area.
But the intensifying drought and wildfires in Northern California and escalating hurricanes and storm surges along the Southeastern coastline drove the couple to sell both houses.
8/. Kevin McCarthy is a servile, pathetic joke......but can and will do real damage to us all.....
9/. Umair with an unusually restrained story [for him] about Trump, and who can replace him.....actually very
interesting, he makes some good points.....
Everybody has weeks from hell. Some people deserve them. Meet Donald Trump. He’s having a…bad, bad week. First came the woeful underperformance of his chosen candidates at the polls, as America repudiated them. Then came his announcement that he’ll run for President again…to general indifference, and groans even from his own party. And finally…
10/. Wonderful real commercial from Chevron....
11/. Bob Lefsetz is happy Elizabeth Holmes got 11 years in prison.....because it's very rare a rich person ever gets jail in our "justice" system....
Am I the only one thrilled that she got eleven and a quarter years (135 months)?
I feel defeated. I was brought up in a world where you were told to jump through the hoops, work hard and you’ll end up with a modicum of accoutrements, more than satisfied. As for the rich, they were people who did something extraordinary, like entertainers. And rich was relative. It’s one thing to be a millionaire, quite another to be a BILLIONAIRE! How is the average person supposed to earn a billion dollars? Rob a bank?
Well, that’s one way, you can work on Wall Street, employing financial shenanigans that the average person cannot comprehend, that paid-off elected officials keep trying to remove the guardrails from. Yes, we’ve been told to let the market be free, that it will police itself. HUH? It colludes with itself!
12/. They are now selling Poo-Pourri at Ace Hardware, which reminded me of this hilarious commercial from the Obama years.....
13/. Excellent column from Jonah Goldberg on the Republicans Trump problem....
FYI this week he began threatening anyone who doesn't endorse him.....
14/. I hesitate to include this story because it's written so sympathetically to this despicable couple, but here it is anyway.
If you read it, make sure you have a barf bag....
It was that point in the day when dinner was done and all three kids were tucked into their beds in rooms down the hall, presumably asleep, and they just looked at each other and said, “Are you ready?” before collapsing into their white sofa on the third of three floors in their mostly white rental apartment overlooking the ocean. Jared Kushner picked up the remote and turned on the television. He and his wife were rewatching the first season of Game of Thrones. There was time to do things like this now that they were settled into their new life as Florida residents and semi-private citizens.
15/. One of our alert readers sent me this music video - Lawrence, "Don't Lose Sight".....
Boy can she sing!
16/. Matt Taibbi blasts the New York Times.....interesting....
Among the predictably enormous quantity of horrified responses to Donald Trump’s campaign announcement this week, the New York Times editorial board handed down a beauty: “America Deserves Better Than Donald Trump.”
Is that true? If the question is if Donald Trump should be president, even I’ve beenclear from the start the answer is no. But deserve? When the Times reaches for a word like that, they complicate what should be a simple question. Does the Times editorial board deserve President Trump? As William Munny put it with a bullet in Unforgiven, deserve’s got nothing to do with it.
17/. At last, a school for billionaires kids...
18/. There's a playbook.....
19/. The headline says it all - "Trump is weak, but the Republicans are weaker"......
Great column from Paul Krugman....
After their party’s disappointing performance in the midterms, Republican elites seem to have decided that Donald Trump is their big problem. The Murdoch media empire has been trashing the former president. Many donors and operatives are reportedlyrallying around Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida. But Trump, who is widely expected to announce his 2024 presidential campaign on Tuesday, won’t go quietly.
Today's romantic joke....
During lunch at work, I ate 3 plates of beans (which I know I shouldn't). When I got home, my husband seemed excited to see me and exclaimed delightedly, "Darling I have a surprise for dinner tonight." He then blindfolded me and led me to my chair at the dinner table. I took a seat and just as he was about to remove my blindfold, the telephone rang. He made me promise not to touch the blindfold until he returned and went to answer the call. The beans I had consumed were still affecting me and the pressure was becoming unbearable, so while my husband was out of the room I seized the opportunity, shifted my weight to one leg and let one go.
It was not only loud, but it smelled like a fertilizer truck running over a skunk in front of a garbage dump! I took my napkin from my lap and fanned the air around me vigorously. Then, shifting to the other leg, I ripped off three more. The stink was worse than cooked cabbage. Keeping my ears carefully tuned to the conversation in the other room, I went on releasing atomic bombs like this for another few minutes. The pleasure was indescribable!
Eventually the telephone farewells signaled the end of my freedom, so I quickly fanned the air a few more times with my napkin, placed it on my lap and folded my hands back on it feeling very relieved and pleased with myself.
My face must have been the picture of innocence when my husband returned, apologizing for taking so long.
He asked me if I had peeked through the blindfold, and I assured him I had not.
At this point, he removed the blindfold, and twelve dinner guests seated around the table, with their hands to their noses, chorused, "Happy Birthday!"
Today's high school joke
Boy: The principal is so dumb!
Girl: Do you know who I am?
Boy: No...
Girl: I am the principal's daughter!
Boy: Do you know who I am?
Girl: No...
Boy: Good! *Walks away*
Today's thinking person's jokes
To start your day off in an intellectual way, here are a few of life’s
mysteries to ponder over coffee.
1. Ever wonder about those people who spend $5.00 each on those little bottles of Evian water?
Try spelling Evian backwards: NAIVE
2 . If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea does that mean that one
person enjoys it?
3 . There are three religious truths:
a. Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah.
b. Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian faith.
c. Baptists do not recognize each other in the liquor store or Hooters.
4 . If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
5 . Why do croutons come in airtight packages? Aren't they just stale
bread to begin with?
6 . If Fed Ex and U.P.S. were to merge, would they call it Fed UP?
7 . Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks?
8 . What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?
9 . I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole
lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me ... they're cramming for their final exam.
10 . If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly
are the others here for?
11 . Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?
12 . Whatever happened to Preparations A through G?
13 . At income tax time, did you ever notice: When you put the two words 'The' and 'IRS' together it spells ... 'THEIRS'?
Today's blond joke
While her husband was at work, a blonde decided to paint their living room.
After her husband arrives home, he finds his wife lying on the floor in a pool of sweat while wearing a parka and a mink. He asked her what she was doing.
She said, "I wanted to prove to you that not all blonde women are dumb, and I wanted to do it by painting the living room."
He says that he was impressed at the good job she had done, but asked, "Why are you wearing two coats?
She replied, "I read the directions on the paint can, and they said, ''For best results, put on two coats!'"
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