2/. Do you live in Florida? Who is your home insurance carrier? If it's not one of the majors, you need to read this horrifying story
about what has happened to homeowners with claims after Hurricane Ian devastated the Ft. Myers area...and the insurance companies are getting away with it.
A must read if you live in corrupt Florida.....
FORT MYERS, Fla. — When insurance adjuster Jordan Lee entered the
cream-colored house battered by Hurricane Ian, the smell from the
rain-soaked carpet made it hard to breathe. Piles of pink insulation
covered the worn, white couches, he recalled, and poured from the collapsed ceiling, left gaping from the storm’s 150 mph winds. He photographed debris flecked on the carpet and walls, chunks of roof in the yard, and broken screens and gutters around a pool filled with
palm fronds.
3/. Tom Tomorrow nails Tucker......
4/. Bob Lefsetz has a reaction to the Silicon Valley Bank bailout they just announced, and it's why the
country hates the elites.
One law for the rich, and screw the poor. This is a must read.......
US regulators bail out SVB customers, who can access all their money Monday”: https://cnn.it/3ZI4b6m
This is why people have no faith in the government.
This is why Trump got elected. The rank and file were pissed, and they wanted to upset the
apple cart. Meanwhile, the GOP brass has ceded the entire party to Trump to its detriment, proving that nobody is home, at least nobody with balls.
The bottom line is nobody ever pays a price. Nobody ever goes to jail. You might be caught
with a small amount of dope and go to prison, but you were represented by an overworked
public defender who doesn’t really care about you, never mind your outcome. They probably
advise you to plead, so they have less work. This is how innocent people end up in jail.
They’re told if they lose at trial the penalty could be much worse, is it worth the risk?
Better to do a couple of years. Meanwhile, everybody with money gets a high-priced
lawyer and gets off with probation. Fair I ask you?
5/. Hope they're sweating.....
6/. Elizabeth Warren has the same reaction as Lefsetz - just politer.....
No one should be mistaken about what unfolded over the past few days in the U.S. banking system: These recent bank failures are the direct result of leaders in Washington weakening the financial rules.
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act to protect consumers and ensure that big banks could never again take down the economy and destroy millions of lives. Wall Street chief executives and their armies of lawyers and lobbyists hated this law. They spent millions trying to defeat it, and, when they lost, spent millions more trying to weaken it.
7/. John Oliver's main story was about TANF, an acronym you [of course] knew was Temporary
Assistance to Needy Families.....22 minutes of excellent comedic reporting....
8/. This is a good one, basically a summary of Florida news happening in Government that you
probably haven't heard of anywhere......boy is this state corrupt.....
Blue Origin and SpaceX, the billionaire-backed private space companies, could get
protections from wrongful-death lawsuits following an explosion that kills their
crew — even if their own carelessness contributed to the accident.
The Florida House of Representatives’ Civil Justice Subcommittee advanced a bill
last week (House Bill 839) that would shield private spaceflight companies from
civil lawsuits brought by or on behalf of any crew members injured or killed in an
accident. The far-reaching liability protections would also insulate the companies
against lawsuits from any other employees, contractors or subcontractors who work
on launch or reentry operations. All the companies would have to do is make their
employees sign a waiver
9/. Did you watch the Oscars? I didn't either, but you might like Jimmy Kimmel's monologue.....
14 minutes and you've covered it all - celebs, movies and jokes.........
10/. Bob Lefsetz didn't watch the Oscars either, and he explains why.....
The stars aren’t sexy. I’m not talking about physical appearance, I’m talking in advertising
terms. They’re no longer special.
They’ve been demoted image-wise. And traditional media doesn’t want to admit this.
Want to know who’s a star? Greta Thunberg. Because she believes what she says, irrelevant
of whether you agree or not.
You see the generations have changed and this is unfathomable to boomers and Gen-X’ers.
Because they remember when.
Call it the internet. Sly Stone had it right, everybody is a star. Actors in momentary pictures
can’t compete. Even Kim Kardashian
is being eclipsed. Because the paradigm changed. TikTok is all about being real, testifying,
and the movie stars were never real,
they were built by the studios for the audience to adore.
11/. The SNL Please Don't Destroy lads take a road trip with Jenna Ortega .....quite amusing.....4 minutes....
12/. Umair on the latest signs that the UK is in social collapse.......just read the first half of this which
is really
interesting, but he does have a tendency to ramble in the last half.....
You might be a little baffled right about now, if you’re not British.
Why did Britain just erupt in a a firestorm? I’m going to tell you, in detail,
and then we’re going to discuss the meaning of it — because here we have
probably the world’s pre-eminent example of something truly disturbing.
Self-inflicted social collapse. I’m going to prove that, factually, too — the
collapse part. What’s happening in — to — Britain?
What Britain did to itself? It’s jaw-dropping. And yet….well, I’ll come to that.
13/. Stephen Colbert on Ron DeSantis's new book.....very funny, Colbert's on form in this clip....
14/. A chilling article from the Times on the AI industry, and how they are ploughing ahead with no
regard for the
consequences, which nobody can predict .....except sci fi writers, and who knows they may be right.....
In 2018, Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google — and not one of the tech executives known for overstatement — said, “A.I. is probably the most important thing humanity has ever worked on. I think of it as something more profound than electricity or fire.”
Try to live, for a few minutes, in the possibility that he’s right. There is no more profound human bias than the expectation that tomorrow will be like today. It is a powerful heuristic tool because it is almost always correct. Tomorrow probably will be like today. Next year probably will be like this year. But cast your gaze 10 or 20 years out. Typically, that has been possible in human history. I don’t think it is now.
15/. Weekend Update #1 - not their best....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIELh--2brc
Weekend Update #2 - better...
WE #3 - James Austin Johnson - very amusing indeed.....
WE #4 - Lt Governor of Tennessee explaining his foibles as he was caught posting on gay Instagram
photos.....
Molly Kearny is quite good, some funny lines.....
16/. Most interesting story about whales and the whaling industry.....and how it almost decimated these I
ntelligent and
gentle creatures....
What is it with humans and the destruction of our environment?
Humpback whales can rhyme. Their songs are made up of individual
themes, phrases and sounds – many of them ending similarly. These a
re repeated in patterns that create rhythms and structures. To human
ears, the songs are a series of grunts, groans, sighs, burps and squeaks. But they are
arranged by the whale in a highly elaborate manner.
The songs change over time, too: themes develop and are replaced, and phrases shift
whales – like a pop hit that everyone starts singing.
17/. These are really good - "Born To Create Drama".....2 minutes....
18/. A fascinating look at a politician you have never heard of, and you will agree with strongly
about 50% of
is beliefs......the rest you will hate.....
Thomas Massie.....who is this guy?
The self-proclaimed “greenest member” of Congress is a Republican from
rural Kentucky. He lives in an off-the-grid home he built himself, using
timbers cut and rock quarried from his family cattle farm. He pipes in
water from a nearby pond, and powers the home with solar panels and a
battery from a wrecked Tesla that he salvaged and retrofitted.
20/ Peggy Noonan in the WSJ.......she has the best description of the Florida fascist ever written......
The first GOP presidential debate is five months away, in August. Primaries begin about six
months after. This thing is on. Some observations on Ron DeSantis.
The Florida governor is definitely running. Every sign is there: donors, a growing and increasingly
professional organization, a book that is part memoir, part platform and debuted this week at
No. 1 on the New York Times list. A few days ago he gave a big, packed-house speech at the
Reagan Library.
21/. Looks like an amazing movie.....
Gorgeously rich and fluent, visually breathtaking and exquisitely refined,
Martin Scorsese’s adaptation (with screenwriter Jay Cocks) of the 1920
novel by Edith Wharton is now re-released for its 30th anniversary and
looks even more magnificent than ever. It is a tragedy of manners set in
New York society’s own belle époque of the 1870s, an age, not of innocence, but
Today's video - Isenbeck beer commercial.....1 minute....
Another video - Dirty Harry vs Police Squad....1 minute....
Today's literary jokes....
These insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to
4-letter words.
Insults had some class then!
1. "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play;
Bring a friend, if you have one."
George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill.
"Cannot possibly attend first night, I will attend the second...If there is one."
- Winston Churchill, in response.
2. A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows,
or of some unspeakable disease."
· "That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your
mistress."
3. "He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr
4. "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
- Clarence Darrow
5. "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the
dictionary."
- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).
6."Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
- Moses Hadas
7. "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
- Mark Twain
8. "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.."
- Oscar Wilde
9. "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."
- Stephen Bishop
10."He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
- John Bright
11. "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
- Irvin S. Cobb
12. "He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."
- Samuel Johnson
13. "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
- Paul Keating
14. "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
- Charles, Count Talleyrand
15. "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
- Forrest Tucker
16. "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
- Mark Twain
17. "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
- Mae West
18. "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde
19. "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... For support rather
than illumination."
- Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
20. "He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
- Billy Wilder
21. "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx.
22."He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
- Winston Churchill
Today's Hillbilly Joke
An old hillbilly farmer had a wife who nagged him unmercifully. From morning till
night (and sometimes later), she was always complaining about something.
The only time he got any relief was when he was out plowing with his old mule.
He tried to plow a lot.
One day, when he was out plowing, his wife brought him lunch in the field.
He drove the old mule into the shade, sat down on a stump, and began to eat his
lunch.
Immediately, his wife began haranguing him again.
Complain, nag, nag; it just went on and on. All of a sudden, the old mule lashed out with both hind feet; caught her smack in
the back of the head. Killed her dead on the spot.
At the funeral several days later, the minister noticed something rather odd. When
a woman mourner would approach the old farmer, he would listen for a minute,
then nod his head in agreement; but when a man mourner approached him, he
would listen for a minute, then shake his head in disagreement. This was so
consistent, the minister decided to ask the old farmer about it.
So after the funeral, the minister spoke to the old farmer and asked him why he
nodded his head and agreed with the women, but always shook his head and
disagreed with all the men.
The old farmer said: "Well, the women would come up and say something about
how nice my wife looked, or how pretty her dress was, so I'd nod my head in
agreement."
"And what about the men?" the minister asked.
"They wanted to know if the mule was for sale."
Today's British joke....
A young Geordie lad moved to London and went to Harrods looking for a job.
The manager asked "Do you have any sales experience?"
The young man answered "Aye, hods, I was a canny salesman back in Newcastle."
The manager liked the Geordie so he gave him the job.
His first day on the job was challenging and busy, but he got through it.
After the store was locked up, the manager came down and asked "OK,...... so how
many sales did you make today?"
The Geordie said "Just the one, Marra." The manager groaned and continued "Just one? Our sales people average 20 or
30 sales a day. How much was the sale for?
£124,237.64" replied the Geordie.
The manager choked and exclaimed £124,237.64, what the hell did you sell him?"
"Well, forst I selt him a smaal fish hook, then a medium fish hook, and then I selt
him a new fishing rod. Then I asked him where he was gannin' fishing and he said
doon at the coast, so I telt him he would need a boat, so we went doon tiv the boat
department and I selt him that twin-engined Power Cat. Then he said he didn't
think his Honda Civic would pull it, so I took him doon tiv the car sales and I selt
him the 4 x 4 Suzuki".
The manager, incredulous, said "You mean to tell me....a guy came in here to buy a
fish hook and you sold him a boat and 4x4?"
"Nah, nah......he came in here to buy a box of tampons for his ladyfriend and I
said......... 'Well, since ya weekend's fucked, you might as well gan fishing."
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