[Yahoo] The worlds of rapper Yung Joc and Wheel of Fortune collided on Monday, when WoF contestant Kennise Miller - with nearly $30,000 in prize money and a trip to Maui already in her pocket - faced a Bonus Round puzzle under the category of "person."
With only two of the nine letters showing on the board, even an impressive player like Kennise couldn’t come up with a single guess for the answer, which was "Young Jock."
But that’s when things exploded on Twitter, with many viewers assuming that the show meant for the puzzle to be the name of popular rapper Yung Joc, best known for his 2006 hit single "It's Goin' Down." With some blaming the show’s research department, and saying that Kennise deserves another shot.
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The "person" category often includes generic descriptions, like "fireman", so the properly spelled English words are likely.
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And regardless of the breathless commentary from the fanbois (and fangirlz) I'd imagine the standard contract all contestants sign is an agreement to accept the results the producers decree in these sorts of "situations."
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I hope you are right Rob. About the only thing worth watching these days.
[PJMedia] About 110 days after President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S., who gives the term geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan.... ’s chaotic Afghanistan surrender, his State Department claims fewer than a dozen Americans who want to get out still remain stranded in the country.
Should we believe that?
For weeks after the shambolic retreat that earned opprobrium on both sides of the political aisle, Team Biden claimed it left roughly 100 U.S. citizens behind, yet now says it has "directly assisted" 479 Americans and more than 400 green-card holders in coming to America since the late August military withdrawal. Of course, hundreds more got out without State Department assistance.
That’s because private groups rush to fill the void left by our government.
"No One Left Behind" is tracking more than 10,000 Afghans applying for the Special Immigrant Visas created by Congress, along with nearly 40,000 of their family members.
"Task Force Argo" is another group of private citizens working to get people out. Led by a former Army Ranger, they have a backlog of more than 4,000 people, including family members, still looking to escape. More likely want to get out, but Argo has run out of resources to accept more applications.
Team Antony Blinken says it’s relocated over 2,000 Afghan allies who worked with U.S. forces and are at grave risk of Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... retaliation if they stay. But according to the Wall Street Journal last week, tens of thousands are still stuck.
Washington reports roughly 75,000 Afghans have made it to America since the end of August, with another 3,000 being processed overseas. There is funding to resettle almost 100,000 through the end of next summer.
Regardless of the numbers, it’s all part of a totally unnecessary chapter in the anti-war movement’s sordid history, and it’s still being written. Our national media has also disgraceful itself by ignoring these abandoned Americans and allies, rather than hold a Democrat president accountable for his feckless and immoral decisions.
[REGNUM] The global economic crisis and the fall in world oil and energy prices hit the Middle East and North Africa region seriously, as oil exports are traditionally the main source of income for most of the region's countries. The second challenge for the region's economy was the COVID pandemic, which left the region's beaches and hotels without tourists. And each new month of the crisis further aggravates the economic situation in the region.
But this is only one aspect of the regional crisis. In Morocco, economic problems have exposed many internal political divisions. The government has proven unable to curb the crisis and offer new jobs for the tourism sector. To support the tourist business, direct investments are made from the country's economic reserves, which, alas, are far from unlimited.
Moreover, the voices of supporters of reforms demanding the abolition of the monarchy have increased in the country. The pro-democracy movement in Morocco has received many supporters who believe that the country's economic problems are largely related to the corruption of officials close to the royal family.
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[ColonelCassad] Another pink tide in South America continues.
In the elections in Chile, the moderate left "socialist" defeated the right-wing candidate and Pinochet's supporters with a score of 56 to 44 percent.
The victorious Gabriel Boric rose to prominence during massive protests against pension reform and student protests. He is only 35 years old.
Among his promises are to reverse pension reform, introduce environmental taxes for large industry, and reform education and health care.
Most of the Chilean socialists and the Chilean Communist Party supported Borich. The right has already admitted defeat. De facto, this is Chile's most leftist leader since the assassination of Allende, which clearly demonstrates the historical defeat of the Pinochet movement. Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Argentina have already congratulated Chile on the victory of the progressive forces.
It is noteworthy that in socialist and communist circles Borich is considered "insufficiently socialist and anti-imperialist," while among Pinochet's admirers he is branded as a "left extremist."
In my opinion, Borich is more of a social democrat and left-centrist. I believe that the real essence of Borich will become clear rather quickly when he, not in words, but in deeds shows himself in matters of pension reform, as well as other social transformations. If he screws up on these issues, his popularity will quickly fizzle out, as has happened more than once in South America with some left-wing leaders who could not deliver on their promises. If he can manage and still be able to bury neoliberalism in Chile, then he will be able to stake out a place for himself in history as the man who hammered the last nail into the lid of Pinochet's coffin.
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My Mom had friends that retired to Chile about 20 years ago. They said that, at the time, it was like living in the 1950's and was a great place.
Don't know if that still holds true.
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The economy in Chile took a big hit in 2020 (like the rest of the world). It has recovered nicely in 2021 but the struggle to keep inflation under control has been unpopular at times. This undoubtedly led to the election of Boric.
The pension system that Boric doesn't like is one in which workers must finance at least part of their own pension. Boric will probably want to raise the VAT and use some of that to finance the worker contribution. Since the revenue stream from the VAT rises with inflation this could work for a few years as long as the economy doesn't tank.
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Welcome, Bad Luck™
Posted by: Frank G ||
12/21/2021 10:13 Comments ||
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My next-door neighbor (Bidet voter, on disability, union fanatic, veteran fixation although he never served) is talking about moving to Costa Rica when his wife retires. I said "Well, they're gonna love you down there if you refuse to speak Spanish." He's still butt-hurt.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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That wasn't so bad, possibly because I (honest Injun!) happened to see the desecrated statue scene from The Exorcist last night. Yeah, first time... is that all there is?
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. With this post we are caught up to date. by Oleg Airapetov
[Regnum] The conditions of the Brest Peace were constantly violated by the Germans, but even without that they were monstrously difficult. Losses amounted to 26 percent of the population, four percent of the territory, 37 percent of the harvest, 73 percent of pig iron, up to 75 percent of coal.
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All the "Tribal people try" videos are amusing if a bit similar after a while. For a real hoot, search on "Irish people try" and "Scottish people try" videos. The alcohols ones are often hilarious. So will probably be cancelled soon.
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Bull. 1983 I was in an open air truckstop south of the Kyber. We ate Naan and ground beef patties. The beef was lightly mixed with tomatoes, bone marrow and onions. Darn good.
[EUGYPPIUSsubstack] Everything suggests this variant was leaked from a laboratory engaged in gain-of-function research.
Omicron is not normal. No immediate progenitors are known; its closest relatives are viruses last seen in early- to mid-2020. The orthodox explanation for this awkward fact, is that it has spent the last 18 months lurking "in a geography with poor genomic surveillance ... or ... in a chronically infected individual." The simpler explanation is that it leaked from a laboratory.
[IsraelTimes] CDC data shows some 650,000 Omicron cases across country in last a week, a six-fold increase in the variant’s share of infections to become dominant strain.
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Nothing "normal" about this entire pandemic from its very beginnings to now, and to the future.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 ||
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In a correct world, leftists would be told "you voted for this (COVID). You are free to take whatever measures you wish out of your own pockets and be informed that freaking out about masks or vaccine passports will get you exiled to an iceberg."
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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Endemic. Not pandemic.
The jig's up: the vaccines have failed, and now we're looking at an extremely infectious, relatively benign version of the seasonal flu
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It is game over. Fauxi, Gates and the worldwide leftist cabal look like the guy at the p0ker table who went all in and lost and now refuses to get up and leave. The game goes on around them and they don't get why they are dealt out.
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@warthogswife : The standard PCR tests (which have their issues) are looking for bits of RNA which distinguish SARS-COV-2 from other viruses. They apparently are NOT looking for the other bits that distinguish the variants (alpha, delta, omicron, eieio) from one another. Until and unless such a test is developed, you have to put the sample into an actual gene sequencer to find out what you've got, which is a good deal slower and more expensive. So they are likely only doing that on a limited sample of cases.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...46th president of the U.S., who gives the term geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan....
[EUGYPPIUSsubstack] Everything suggests this variant was leaked from a laboratory engaged in gain-of-function research. 
