[NYPost] Jonathan Allen, a defensive tackle for the Washington Commanders, listed Adolf Hitler among a trio of people he’d like to have dinner with.
Allen, 27, was doing an “ask me anything” on his Twitter account, and answered a query regarding which three guests he’d invite for dinner.
“My grandad, hitler, and micheal [sic] Jackson,” Allen answered.
Why Hitler?
"He’s a military genius and I love military tactics but honestly I would want to pick his brain as to why he did what he did," Allen tweeted.
"I’m also assuming that the people I’ve chosen have to answer my questions honestly.”
Jonathan Allen wrote on Twitter he’d want to get dinner with Hitler because, Allen said, “he’s a military genius.”
Allen has since deleted his tweets referencing Hitler and apologized.
"Early I tweeted something that probably hurt people and I apologize about what I said," Allen wrote.
"I didn’t express properly what I was trying to say and I realize it was dumb! I tweeted Mr. Allen with links to books by John Erickson and by David Glantz
[AlAhram] gypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on Tuesday issued a decree appointing the first ever Coptic Christian as president of the country's Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC).
Judge Bolis Fahmy Eskandar Bolis, 65,will take over from Said Maree Mohammed Gad starting Wednesday, according to the official gazette.
Bolis is set to take the oath before the president shortly.
Gad, 67, was sent to retirment under a presidential decree reportdely over health issues
Bolis served as the vice president of the SCC in 2010 and then as president of the Cairo Court of Cassation until he was reappointed as the vice president of the SCC in 2014.
The SCC is the country’s autonomous and independent judicial authority in charge of ensuring that the domestic laws and regulations are in line with the constitution.
You are very welcome indeed, Tom. I’ve been very happy to watch the the series of reports on the subject over the past several years — not at all what I expected from any Egyptian government, let alone one led by a man known for Muslim piety.
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[KP] "WE SMILE ONLY WITH EMILIES"
If we judge the affairs in the Donbass on Russian television, then the life here turns out to be completely unhappy, one might say - apocalyptic. As my Donetsk friend noted: "We smile only on the Internet, with emoticons."
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[KTLA-75] Two of America’s biggest carmakers have a message for their dealers: Stop ripping off customers.
Ford and General Motors are warning money-hungry dealers to stop exploiting supply issues — and shortages — by charging more than the sticker price for vehicles.
Automakers don’t set prices for their cars. Instead, they offer a "manufacturer’s suggested retail price," or MSRP.
While that’s understood in the industry to reflect the fair value of a new car or truck, dealers are free to ignore the MSRP if they so choose, setting prices at higher levels.
Ford’s chief executive, Jim Farley, warned dealers that they could be pushed to the rear of the line for delivery of new models if they persist in playing fast and loose with the MSRP.
"We have very good knowledge of who they are," Farley told financial analysts while unveiling the company’s latest quarterly results.
Ford estimates that about 10% of the company’s nearly 3,000 dealers are charging above the sticker price — a practice that grew more widespread during the pandemic.
GM, meanwhile, told its dealers that it will clamp down on "a small minority of bad actors" hitting customers with prices "far in excess" of what’s on the sticker. It too said deliveries of new models could be withheld if things didn’t change.
COVID-related supply shortages, including for the microchips that are now commonplace in new vehicles, have created a seller’s market. With demand outstripping supply, some dealers have embraced this as an opportunity to pad their pockets after months of pandemic setbacks.
#1
...The dealers are apparently digging in, blinded to their own best interest. Ford, on the other hand, has a nuclear weapon in the form of a huge unsold inventory of cars nobody wants. If a dealer wants to thumb their nose at corporate, then he'll get a surprise on transport day: one - EXACTLY ONE - F-150E Lightning, and four base Escorts.
And he won't get anything else until he sells those damned Escorts.
Mike
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OPEN COMMENT TO US AUTOMAKERS
Given the New Vehicle price tags, we have already purchased our last NEW vehicle back in 2018.
Seriously our days of paying these Union wage prices for more than likely a NAFTA made vehicle, made in Mexico with parts from CCP are over.
Now that you are faced with assembly line part shortages, labor issues, production numbers, hyper-inflation issues, and limited buyers in this Liberal mismanaged pandemic economy. Your answer to making the stockholder promised numbers, to keep your chossy jobs and $$ million salaries is to stick it to the buyers.
As it stands the lately produced vehicles are lucky to last the length of the loan needed to get a monthly payment to afford it.
So unless things change, you had better start wheeling and dealing in the BKGRD with Congressional types for a bailout... IF the Liberal idiots have not already bankrupted the US economy and Gov.
#3
The generation has forgotten the 70s (even though Brandon and crew are trying as hard as possible to bring it back).
Oil Embargo and Americans discovered the Japanese cars.
Fuel Efficient.
Made right the first time.
One sticker price that wasn't halfway down the door with 'extras'.
#4
Wouldn't buy a new or used car at this time. Once shortages and price gouging is over, I am considering buying a US made foreign car for the first time.
Chrysler is already foreign owned. GM is more Chinese than American and Ford builds cars and trucks in Mexico and pretends they are American made.
#10
#8 - I just heard about BMW doing a yearly subscription for the heated seats option. If true, that is some really stoopid shit.
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Somebody from the online gaming community needs to sit down with the board members and cautiously, slowly explain what happens with the 'Pay to Win' products and developers' reputation.
[FOX] Energy bills for a swath of New Yorkers surged in January, prompting an outcry from customers who say their bills have doubled in the latest wrinkle to red-hot inflation.
Consolidated Edison Inc., commonly known as Con Edison or ConEd, operates one of the "world’s largest energy delivery systems" providing energy for roughly 10 million people who live in New York City and Westchester County.
The price increases last month were due to an uptick in the supply cost of the energy commodity, not the cost for ConEd's services, otherwise known as "transmission and distribution charges," ConEd spokesman Allan Drury told FOX Business.
"Natural gas is a driver of electricity costs as it is used by generation plants to create electricity. Con Edison does not make a profit on the commodity," Drury said in a statement to FOX Business. "We buy the energy on the wholesale market and provide it to customers at the same price we paid."
NYMEX natural gas futures have jumped over 49% from 12 months ago.
The company has roughly 3.5 million electric customers and 1.1 million natural gas customers.
#4
It really is too bad we can't devise a system where only the people who vote for a particular politician / political party get to suffer / enjoy the fallout from their policies.
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I hope it triples after you last "bomb cyclone" or whatever non sense they are calling a winter storm now.
Posted by: Chris ||
02/10/2022 9:34 Comments ||
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Economics, the dismal science.
Maybe Milton Friedman is really in charge. Or he just knew economics better than NY politicians.
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[REGNUM] Former U.S. First Lady Melania Trump will use the Parler social network for exclusive communication, making the platform her "home in the Internet space," Reuters reported Feb. 9, citing a statement from the company.
Parler positions itself as a social network free from censorship. Many people began to use its services, whose accounts were previously blocked by Twitter, YouTube and other popular services due to political statements. The network quickly gained popularity among supporters of former US President Donald Trump and now has more than 16 million users.
The leadership of the social network has previously supported Melania's initiative to create personal tokens (NFT) and blockchain technology.
[IsraelTimes] Routine ultrasound scans during the second trimester can spot early indications of autism spectrum disorder, enabling early intervention, according to a new study by researchers at Ben Gurion University and Soroka Medical Center.
Researchers from the Azrieli National Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment Research spotted anomalies in the heart, kidneys, and head in 30 percent of cases where the child later developed ASD, the university said in a statement Wednesday.
That’s a figure three times higher than typically found in fetuses in the general population.
The study was published last month in the peer-reviewed journal Brain, and will be discussed at the annual Israeli Meeting for Autism Research, scheduled for later this month.
Links have been found between fetal abnormalities and subsequent diagnosis with ASD, though data on the matter is still lacking. Whereas previous studies have shown that children born with congenital diseases, in particular those involving the heart and kidneys, had a higher chance of developing ASD, the current research showed it was possible to see the signs even before birth.
"Prenatal ultrasound is an excellent tool to study abnormal fetal development as it is frequently used to monitor fetal growth and identify fetal anomalies throughout pregnancy," the researchers wrote.
"Doctors can use these signs, discernable during a routine ultrasound, to evaluate the probability of the child being born with ASD," researcher Prof. Idan Menashe said in the university statement.
"Our findings suggest that certain types of ASD that involve other organ anomalies begin and can be detected in utero."
A prenatal diagnosis of autism could mean that treatment begins at birth rather than waiting until age two, three, or even later as is the usual case, the statement said.
The Center has previously found that early diagnosis and treatment can significantly increase social ability in autistic children.
The team reviewed data from hundreds of prenatal ultrasound scans from a fetal anatomy survey conducted in mid-gestation drawn from the National Autism Database, which is supported by the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology and the Azrieli Foundation.
Anomalies were found more often in boys than in girls, the severity of the anomalies was found to be linked to the severity of the subsequent ASD.
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.
