Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Davids Daily Dose - Tuesday March 17th

 


1/  When Trump tells you what he's going to do in his next term, believe him!

















Joe Biden tore into Donald Trump’s mental stability at a dinner in Washington DC on Saturday – just as the former president was making verbal gaffes at a campaign rally in Ohio as well as, during remarks on the economy and auto industry, predicting a “bloodbath” for the country if he met defeat in November’s election.

Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, confused the crowd at an appearance in Vandalia by insisting that Biden had beaten “Barack Hussein Obama” in elections nationally that never took place.

Freewheeling during a speech in which his teleprompters were seemingly disabled by high winds, Trump – a frequent critic of the 81-year-old Biden’s age and mental acuity – struggled to pronounce the words “bite” and “largest”. And he left the crowd scratching their heads over the reference to Obama, whom Biden served as vice-president from 2009 to 2017 before taking the Oval Office from Trump in 2020.



2/  Tom Tomorrow and Dr. Who......


3/  Hmmmm.......this could be a really big deal when you're buying/selling property!

American homeowners could see a significant drop in the cost of selling their homes after a real estate trade group agreed to a landmark deal that will eliminate a bedrock of the industry, the standard 6 percent sales commission.

The National Association of Realtors, a powerful organization that has set the guidelines for home sales for decades, has agreed to settle a series of lawsuits by paying $418 million in damages and by eliminating its rules on commissions. Legal counsel for N.A.R. approved the agreement early Friday morning, and The New York Times obtained a copy of the signed document. 

The deal, which lawyers anticipate will be filed within weeks and still needs a federal court’s approval, would end a multitude of legal claims from home sellers who argued that the rules forced them to pay excessive fees. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/realestate/national-association-realtors-commission-settlement.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare



5/  I will never, ever buy a Tesla.....



5/  If you scan the headlines and see Haiti mentioned, you might wonder how Haiti got to be so ungovernable......well we [the Western nations] did it and 
have ruthlessly exploited this poor country for 200 years, and now it has collapsed......
Most interesting story from the Guardian....

In December 1914, the USS Machias dropped anchor in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Eight US marines disembarked, sauntered to the Banque National de la République d’Haïti (BNRH), removed $500,000 worth of gold belonging to the Haitian government – $15m in today’s money – packed it in wooden crates to carry back to the ship and thence to New York, where it was deposited in the vaults of the investment bank, Hallgarten & Co.

The BNRH was Haiti’s central bank. It was also a foreign private corporation. Originally set up in 1880 through a concession granted to a French bank, pressure from America brought in US investors. By 1920, the BNRH was wholly owned by the American National City Bank. Haiti’s central bank it may have been but the Haitian government was charged for every transaction and the eye-popping profits spirited off to Paris or New York.




6/  If you are on Medicare you don't have to deal with this monstrous process called "prior authorization", but everyone under 65 does....
About a 10 minute podcast....informative and frankly infuriating.....



7/  Jordan Klepper with the best Trump rally moments from 2023....



8/  Sea temperatures are rising sharply, and scientists don't know why......a little disturbing to say the least.....

In early 2023, climate scientists—and anyone else paying attention to the data—started to notice something strange. At the beginning of March, sea-surface temperatures began to rise. By April, they’d set a new record: the average temperature at the surface of the world’s oceans, excluding those at the poles, was just a shade under seventy degrees. Typically, the highest sea-surface temperatures of the year are observed in March, toward the end of the Southern Hemisphere’s summer. Last year, temperatures remained abnormally high through the Southern Hemisphere’s autumn and beyond, breaking the monthly records for May, June, July, and other months. The North Atlantic was particularly bathtub-like; in the words of Copernicus, an arm of the European Union’s space service, temperatures in the basin were “off the charts.”



9/  Boy is this true [or could be] - the Times is pathetic when it comes to reporting on Trump.....



10/  A classic Kimmel "man on the street"......Geography!



11/  Just another Floriduh story.....corruption and money.....


Kristen Burke and her husband, Harold, moved into their home in Russell Landing, a rural suburb just outside of Jacksonville, Florida, nearly 15 years ago. The quiet and tight-knit neighborhood sits next to a shaggy pine forest and a blackwater canal. “This was our dream home,” said Burke.

It wasn’t until 2018 that she realized the extent of the pollution lurking next door: according to Burke, who recently became part of a local watchdog effort, an industrial plant that once operated nearby left barrels of toxic waste buried in the ground and never came back to clean up.




12/  Some really interesting movies in this list.......Movies on Max....

When HBO Max debuted in May 2020, subscribers rightfully expected (and got) the formidable catalog of prestige television associated with the HBO brand. But its movie library drew from a much deeper well. Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns HBO, is a huge conglomerate, and its premiere streaming service comprises decades of titles from Warner Bros., Turner Classic Movies, Studio Ghibli and more. Viewed in that light, its recent rebranding as Max seems fitting.

That means a lot of large-scale fantasy series and selections from the DC extended universe. Max is also an education in Golden Age Hollywood classics and in independent and foreign auteurs like Federico Fellini, Satyajit Ray and John Cassavetes. The list below is an effort to recommend a diverse range of movies — old and new, foreign and domestic, all-ages and adults-only — that cross genres and cultures while appealing to casual and serious movie-watchers alike. 



Todays really unfair joke

HOW TO SHOWER LIKE A WOMAN:
Take off clothing and place it in a sectioned laundry hamper according to lights and darks. 
Walk to bathroom wearing long robe. 
If you see husband along the way, cover up any exposed areas. 
Look at your womanly physique in the mirror -- make mental note to do more sit-ups/leg-lifts, etc. 
Get in the shower. Use wash cloth , long loofah, wide loofah and pumice stone......
Wash your hair once with cucumber and sage shampoo with 43 added vitamins. 
Wash your hair again to make sure it's clean. 
Condition your hair with grapefruit mint conditioner. 
Wash your face with crushed apricot facial scrub for 10 minutes until red. 
Wash entire rest of body with ginger nut and jaffa cake body wash. 
Rinse conditioner off hair. Shave armpits and legs. Rinse off. Turn off shower. 
Squeegee off all wet surfaces in shower. Spray mold spots with Tilex.. 
Get out of shower. 
Dry with towel the size of a small country. 
Wrap hair in super absorbent towel. 
Return to bedroom wearing long robe and towel on head. 
If you see husband along the way, cover up any exposed areas.

HOW TO SHOWER LIKE A MAN:
Take off clothes while sitting on the edge of the bed and leave them in a pile. 
Walk naked to the bathroom. 
If you see wife along the way, shake wiener at her making the woo-woo sound. 
Look at your manly physique in the mirror. 
Admire the size of your wiener and scratch your butt.
 Get in the shower. Wash your face. Wash your armpits. 
Blow your nose in your hands and let the water rinse them off. 
Fart and laugh at how loud it sounds in the shower. 
Spend majority of time washing privates and surrounding area. 
Wash your butt, leaving those coarse butt hairs stuck on the soap. 
Wash your hair. Make a Shampoo Mohawk. Pee. Rinse off and get out of shower. 
Partially dry off. Fail to notice the water on floor because curtain was hanging out of tub the whole time. 
Admire wiener size in mirror again. 
Leave shower curtain open, wet mat on floor, and light and fan on. 
Return to bedroom with towel around waist. 
If you pass wife, pull off towel, shake wiener at her and make the woo-woo sound again. 
Throw wet towel on bed.




Today's groaner.....
A couple of years ago Barry went hiking across Europe
But as time passed by he never returned home. His many friends tried contacting him in any way they could imagine, but his phone was disconnected, he wasn't active on his social media accounts anymore - it was like he disappeared off the face of the Earth.
Ultimately, everyone had forgotten about him, thinking that he got mugged or that something even worse had happened to him in some dark alley in one of European cities.
Some time later his friend Gary found himself on vacation in Ibiza. As he was walking around the town, looking for a place to stay the night, he came across a quaint little inn, just off the beach. Being tired from the flight and all the walking around, he decided to rent a room.
As soon as he opened the door he was greeted with the sound of children's laughter, traditional Spanish music, and the delicious smell of paella being prepared. But as he walked to the reception counter he was found dumbfounded by the person standing behind it. It was his old, all but forgotten friend Barry! He couldn't believe his eyes!
 Oh my God Barry, is that really you? - he asked, still in disbelief.
Gary? It is really me. - said Barry, walking over from behind the counter and embracing his friend.
 
But what have you been doing all these years? Why haven't you called or written?
You see, just as I was preparing for my trip back home, I came to this inn looking just for one last meal before getting on the plane. Turned out that the waitress who served me that meal was the love of my life, and I just knew that I wasn't ever gonna leave her side again.
But that still doesn't explain why you haven't called, or came to visit us back home!
Well, after deciding to stay here, I asked the inn-owners, lovely old couple if they had any jobs around the inn for me. They took me on as a dishwasher and I started getting closer with my wife as it soon turned out. One thing led to another, she got pregnant and I proposed to her, right on those very steps you walked up just minutes ago. She accepted, and the old couple seeing how happy we were, proposed to sell us the inn, as our love reminded them of the time when they built it. Their only request was to not bring any new technology into their inn, cause they wanted all their future guests to talk and connect with each other. So that's why I haven't called home, I found my place here and I'm happier than I ever was.
Still can't believe you settled here man. And you're even a small business owner now!
What can I say my friend, nobody expects the Spanish inn acquisition.





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