#6
It’s dine and dash. It is not dine, beat down, get on video and dash. Also, committing felonious assault in a purple Lexus while wearing matching attire is another mistake. Take advantage of cross cultural anonymity by not committing serious crime in a customized vehicle. Also, do some work on the speed and heavy bags with some coaching. Jose Ramirez got totally lucky with his haymaker. Don’t copy his style. Finally, annunciate your order very well if your server speaks English only as a second language. Maybe you expected a hard shell taco or double guacamole as part of your stolen entree, but be clear in your order and you can save the hot sauce spray to spice your food.
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. Finally, annunciate your order very well if your server speaks English only as a second language.
Superhose, how do you know she could speak co herant english and not ebonics?
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#9
She should have downloaded Google Translate before her theft and assault spree and she would still be holding down her temp assignment where she hides in the bathroom purchasing purple items from Amazon all day.
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#10
Hey, I have dreams about street food I've bought from lovely people who wouldn't even be legal in Tijuana, but without the whole megillah on everyone involved in that taco stand, I'm not taking sides.
Our intake could not have been meagerer
Nor our new volunteer any eagerer.
"Hermanos, it's war!"
Purple car, purple star.
"Mierda! Cheese it, Miguel! Es la n----!"
[NYP] A Bosnian bodybuilder live-streamed the brutal murder of his ex-wife on Instagram Friday — before going on a shooting rampage that ended with his suicide.
Nermin Sulejmanovic, 35, filmed at least three videos documenting the violent spree that left three innocent people dead and three more injured in the northeastern town of Gradacac.
The horror started Friday morning when Sulejmanovic posted a video on Instagram, telling his followers that they would witness a live execution.
I know it's a longshot, but was there any D-Bal by CrazyBulk (Dianabol) in his system.
[Breitbart] American gun maker Sig Sauer responded to the millions of women who purchased their first gun over the last three and a half years by creating the Rose community, centered entirely on the female gun owner.
In 2020, when COVID-related shutdowns began and civil unrest was prominent around the country, women across the country flocked into gun stores to find a means to protect themselves. In fact, on September 17, 2021, Breitbart News reported that during the COVID shutdowns, nearly half of all first-time gun buyers were women.
The Wall Street Journal reported a National Firearms Study which showed that 3.5 million women bought their first gun between January 2019 and April 2021.
Sig’s Rose community is designed to be a haven for the millions of women who purchased their first gun during the COVID shutdowns, as well as for those who may be purchasing their first gun now.
The community is Facebook-based and private, allowing women who may be timid in their approach to their first firearm to learn from other women who have been shooting for years. Women can exchange shooting tips with other women, and women who grew up in homes where firearms were always present can hear the stories of those who did not and vice versa.
On top of the personal exchange, Sig’s Rose community gives women the opportunity to learn from championship shooter Lena Miculek.
Lena is an 8-time World Champion, skilled in the use of a variety of firearms, who takes joy in working with women from all skill levels.
All these aspects of the Rose community come together in a program that literally provides a step-by-step guide that spans from holding a gun for the first time to going to the range to shoot for the first time and beyond. The goal is to demystify the firearm so women who are first-time gun buyers can feel confident when they pick up the gun, load it and manipulate its controls, and finally raise it up on target and pull the trigger.
Another aspect of Sig’s Rose community is the Sig P365 Rose. The P365 is one of the most popular handguns in the world, and for the Rose community, Sig released it in a .380 chambering, which means less recoil.
The lower recoil makes the gun a better fit for many women, especially those of smaller stature.
Sig also makes the P365 Rose in 9mm, for women who are well-versed in that round, but the .380 is their nod to the ever-expanding demographic of women who are buying a gun for the first time.
Had to happen sometime.
Took everybody's temp.
Wonder what disease?
[Breitbart] A 3-year-old child riding one of Texas´ migrant buses died while on the way to Chicago, officials said Friday, the first time the state has announced a death since it began shuttling thousands of migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border last year.
Texas authorities confirmed a child´s death in a statement Friday but did not say where the child was from or why they became ill. The Illinois Department of Public Health said the child was three years old and died Thursday in Marion County, in the southern part of that state. His identity has not been released.
'Every loss of life is a tragedy,' the Texas Division of Emergency Management said in a statement. 'Once the child presented with health concerns, the bus pulled over and security personnel on board called 9-1-1 for emergency attention.'
Texas has bused more than 30,000 migrants to Democratic-controlled cities across the U.S. since last year as part of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott´s sprawling mission on the border, called Operation Lone Star. The operation has come under a burst of new scrutiny in recent months over additional hard-line measures the governor has authorized in the name of deterring migrants from crossing from Mexico.
The Biden administration is suing Texas over wrecking ball-sized buoys placed on the Rio Grande this summer, saying the water barrier poses environmental and humanitarian concerns. Texas has also begun separating some migrant families on the border in what marks a shift by state police, who have previously said that families should stay together.
Abbott spokesperson Renae Eze referred questions Friday night about the child's death to the state's emergency management agency, which has operated the bus program since it launched in 2022.
The child received treatment from paramedics and later died at a hospital, according to the agency. The bus departed from the Texas border city of Brownsville. All passengers had their temperature taken and were asked if they had any medical conditions, according to Texas' emergency management agency, which did not immediately respond to requests for more details Friday night.
Besides Chicago, Texas has also sent buses to Washington, New York, Philadelphia, Denver and Los Angeles. On Thursday, Abbott freshly touted the bus program on Twitter, posting, 'We will continue busing migrants to sanctuary cities until Biden does his job & secures the border.'
Under Texas' bus program, the state says migrants sign consent waivers and agree on the destinations where they're headed. Texas officials say the buses are stocked with food and water and that migrants are allowed to get off early at stops before the destination city.
[MAIL] The Energy Department is awarding up to $1.2 billion to two projects to directly remove carbon dioxide from the air in what officials are calling the largest investment in 'engineered carbon removal' in history.
The process, known as direct air capture, does not yet exist on a meaningful scale and could be a game changer — if it did and were economical.
A Crazy Eddie idea if ever there was one, on par with putting a sun shade in space to reduce global boiling.
'If we deploy this at scale, this technology can help us make serious headway toward our net zero emissions goals while we are still focused on deploying more clean energy at the same time,' Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in a press conference call.
The first direct air capture venture, Project Cypress, will be built in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. The second, South Texas DAC, is planned for Kleberg County, Texas.
Each claims it will capture up to one million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year initially. A representative of the Texas project said it will scale up to remove 30 million metric tons per year once fully operational. Or one Kerry Equivalent™
#1
Much smaller residential AI units will soon available at Lowes and Home Depot. Tax deductible energy credits will come with the Chinese manufactured models.
#9
Mankind will never be safe from the Threat of Global Warming(tm) until every last trace of CO2 is removed from our atmosphere. Sure, the plants will hate it, but what have those green bastages ever done for us?
#13
I presume into the trees they plant. That would be an increase of about 0.2% of the total tree planting for each of the projects. Not trivial. There's some space north of Virginia that might be cleared to make room for trees.
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#14
It will be filters for refrigerator ice machines.
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[GEO.TV] Lahaina, a historic resort town on Maui island, has been plunged into chaos and sorrow as ferocious Hawaii wildfires continue to engulf the picturesque landscape.
The corpse count has surged in the wake of the devastating Maui fires, with officials fearing that the number of casualties will climb even higher.
The tranquil beauty of Lahaina has been replaced by scenes of destruction, as the unrelenting Hawaii wildfires tear through the town, leaving behind a trail of devastation. The once-thriving community has been shattered by the flames, with homes and businesses reduced to charred ruins.
Despite efforts to combat the inferno, the Maui fires have proven relentless, with firefighters battling the blazes around the clock. Residents and emergency responders alike have been grappling with the rapidly spreading flames, which have posed formidable challenges to containment efforts.
The heartache of Lahaina's residents is palpable as they come to terms with the harrowing reality of the Hawaii wildfires. The flames have shown little mercy, consuming everything in their path, and leaving a trail of destruction that will take years to rebuild.
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[Shafaq News] An investigative American website revealed on Friday that the US has trained at least five members of the military council that recently assumed power in Niger.
"The Intercept" reported that despite two weeks passing since the coup in Niger, the US Department of State has not provided a list of military personnel associated with the US involved in this uprising. However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... an American official, who preferred anonymity, confirmed that the department has information that "five participants in the coup received American military training."
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#2
Oh, bollocks, this again! A 'Training in the US' assignment for a third world military officer is a cushy, paid vacation for some 'well-connected' officer. Well, not as 'well-connected' as to be staying at home raking in the graft near the halls of power, but someone trusted by the military establishment. They come over and get some courses on 'interoperability™ with US forces' and maybe a seminar or two on what the US considers 'war crimes' and other icky behavior (which I bet they promptly forget!).
[SUN via MAIL] The Russian henchman who is wanted for poisoning Alexander Litvinenko has advanced cancer from the radioactive substance used in the attack.
Andrey Lugovoy, who is wanted for murder by British police, has reportedly developed prostate cancer following the hit in 2006.
Litvinenko, a former Russian federal security services and KGB officer and outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, died in hospital after ingesting Polonium-210, a rare radioactive substance.
Ukrainska Pravda newspaper reported that investigators believe Lugovoy's tumour is related to the radioactive substance and cited findings from his medical reports that were leaked by Ukrainian cyber resistance group Inform-Napalm.
The documents also reveal that he 'refused surgery and radiation therapy' after doctors recommended 'radical treatment' for the disease, the Sun reported. He's already getting radiation therapy....
That 170k is salary and benefits. No UPS driver is going to bring home that much in cash.
Mike
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$170K less the Teamster Union Dues (which will go up), Teamster Medical Dues (which will...), Teamster Retirement ...LOL... Fund (ditto) and the US/State/Local taxes will munch on the rest of the 'raise'. So the big winner is Organized Crime the Union.
#4
$170K less the Teamster Union Dues (which will go up), Teamster M*dical Dues (which will...), Teamster Retirement ...LOL... Fund (ditto) and the US/State/Local taxes will munch on the rest of the 'raise'. So the big winner is Organized Crime the Union.
#7
I worked for GM from 2000 until 2007. There was worry, at the time, that the UAW would eventually slather on so many wage and benefit demands that it would crash the company. I left just in time.
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$170 k, probably half cash and half benefits, so $85 k after 10-20 years work. So $40+ per hour? Sounds like good pay for the work required. Now if they are doing roofing in Texas in the summer…
[WSJ via the MAIL] Wealthy Americans have revealed how they've managed to accrue healthy-figure savings accounts for their retirements - and how they spend their cash.
To be a retiree in the top 0.1 percent wealth bracket, you need to have about $5 million in the bank.
And now a fascinating Wall Street Journal profile has detailed six such retirees, who've shared tips on building a huge retirement war chest, even if you're on a humble salary - and how they make economies despite being flush with cash.
Pilot, $6.1M: Says 13 years in US Air Force helped him strategize for retirement
A financial methodology which can work with or without $6.1M in savings.
[ET via ZERO] The 2024 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increase for Social Security recipients is likely to be a fraction of what it was in 2023 and a disappointment to many seniors, according to a nonpartisan seniors group, which found that some eight in 10 retirees report they're still reeling from inflation. But they vote Dem so it's not Bidenflation?
The latest COLA estimate from The Senior Citizens League (SCL) is around 3 percent, which amounts to a roughly $54 increase in the current average monthly benefit check of $1,789.
The estimate could still change, however, with SCL saying it will release its final projection for the 2024 COLA on Sept. 13.
The Social Security Administration (SSA) is expected to announce the actual COLA for 2024 sometime in mid-October.
To arrive at its official calculation, the SSA takes the average of the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) during the third quarter of 2023 (which includes July, August, and September). This figure is then compared to the corresponding data from the previous year.
#2
...Keeping an eye on this because I am three years and six months out from Social Security myself. My understanding is that the rate increase is tied to inflation...so the Biden Administration will lie, cheat and steal by saying, "See? You got a lower raise because inflation's not that bad - yay, us."
Mike
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CRFB says that any 2024 presidential candidate who "pledges not to touch Social Security is implicitly endorsing a 23 percent across-the-board benefit cut for the 70 million retirees" when the fund runs out of money within 10 years.
Had the dollars from Social Security fund been used for Social Security only, there would be plenty of resources today. Some years ago, the gov't began putting those dollars in the general treasury. Therein lies the problem.
Allowing politicians access to Other People's Money (OPM) was simply too tempting.
#5
Had the dollars from Social Security fund been used for Social Security only, there would be plenty of resources today. Some years ago, the gov't began putting those dollars in the general treasury. Therein lies the problem.
Only if the US had invested in some Real World™ tangible and fungible commodity. Gold, silver, oil, or Cabbage Patch™ dolls and not imaginary 'electronic money' that is in the fantasy Social Security Lockbox. Of course as soon as the US Treasury started buying and selling commodities the 'market disruptions' would quickly follow ...and the corruption would soon stink to the heavens.
#6
Well, if the Fauci Flu vaccine polishes off SSA recipients over the next few years (about the time SSA goes really broke), then it might all work itself out.
#7
Not to worry - the corresponding Medicare increase will zero out the government payments.
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Bobby, 100% right.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
08/12/2023 10:14 Comments ||
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Not to worry!
The government will announce the 'Retirement Affordability Act' which will pool everyone's 401K's, Pensions, and IRA's into a national pool which will be paid out to everyone equally!
Even Illegals [as long as they vote right] and Imaginary Friends [of the right people].
#1
This is why we keep copies of everything we sent them for a decade thereafter. There has long been a problem of the IRS misplacing records — this time they admit that the problem is wholesale rather than retail.
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[Regnum] “Gift to Putin : The Grand Canyon will have no uranium mining. The new land grab by the government makes the US more dependent on Russia, ” under this heading, the influential American publication The Wall Street Journal released an article on President Joe Biden’s decision to ban the development of uranium deposits in Arizona.
#1
There is a long and complicated context to this situation. Including but not limited to the fact that there is more than one commercial uranium location in America and the government's historic management of tribal resources.
Based on what the EPA did with the Gold King mine alone their answer would have to be 'No' in spades.
[BenarNews] Indonesia’s religiously conservative Aceh region has forbidden men and women not related or married to one another from being together in public places or vehicles, by issuing new tightened rules for keeping the opposite sexes apart.
The new regulations, which were made public this week, are intended to reduce sinful behavior, says the government of Aceh, the only Indonesian province that practices Sharia, or Islamic law. But critics say they are a smokescreen to distract from rampant government corruption.
"Men and women who are not married or related cannot sit together in public places, secluded places or in vehicles," one of the points in the official notice said. But if she's your sister or cousin, you can bang her in public?
Concurrently, the province’s main form of entertainment, its 24-hour coffee shops, have been ordered to limit their hours of operation, and shut at midnight.
And to ensure the new provincial rules are more convenient to follow, the mayor of the Acehnese capital Banda Aceh said he had forbidden women altogether from public areas beyond 11 p.m.
The new rules were issued to strengthen sharia law and as an effort to reduce immorality, Aceh government front man Muhammad MTA said on Friday. They are also intended "to mold a generation of people who faithfully comply with Islamic values in their daily lives," he said.
The Aceh government’s notice does not specify whether authorities would punish anyone who violates the rules, although under the province’s Sharia, caning is the punishment for alcohol consumption, gambling, adultery, and dress-code violations.
In Banda Aceh, Mayor Amiruddin, who goes by one name, said he would deploy the Sharia Police — known as the Wilayatul Hisbah — to ensure compliance with the new rules. He didn’t say what, if any, punishment would be imposed for violations. He merely spoke about taking measures "to reduce the space for violations of Islamic law," such as forbidding women from lingering in public spaces after 11 p.m.
Aceh, at the northwestern end of Sumatra island, gained special autonomy in 2005 after a peace agreement ended the war with GAM, a separatist group.
In 2002, Indonesia, the world’s most populous Moslem-majority country, allowed Aceh to use Sharia as its legal code when it granted the province limited autonomy to pacify the clamor for independence.
’ISLAMIC LAW AS A SHIELD’
A women’s rights activist, Syarifah Rahmatillah, said the new rules would end up being discriminatory towards women.
"Again, women become victims of government policies. There is no acceptable reason and we do not agree with this policy that harms women," she said.
Small business owners of coffee houses are also up in arms, calling the new restrictions extremely worrisome. Al Agusna, who owns the Sagoe coffee shop in Banda Aceh, said the reason for the restriction on operating hours was unacceptable. Neither he nor the government notice specified the reason, but some locals who spoke on the condition of anonymity for security reasons said the authorities believed that some coffee shops were venues for prostitution deals.
"Our coffee shop has been open 24 hours for a long time and so far, there has been no Sharia violation as it is located in the city center and an open area," he told BenarNews.
Samsul Rizal, manager at Banda Aceh’s renowned Rex culinary center, a top tourist destination in Peunayong, said many street food vendors relied on being open until 2 a.m. for their living.
"This could harm the business owners and affect their income. We are really worried that many traders will be in debt as a result of this restriction," Samsul told BenarNews.
Aceh has received nearly 96 trillion rupiah (U.S. $6.2 billion) in special autonomy funds from the central government between 2008 and 2022. Yet, it is the poorest province in Sumatra, with nearly 15% of its population living in poverty as of September 2022.
#4
An old Muslim john lay on ice
Awaiting a fatwa. The price
Was refunded. He'd died,
And his family all cried,
For he'd said "I divorce thee" but twice.
[BBC] Zurzuvae, the first ever pill to treat postpartum depression is here. It’s faster, less invasive and has milder side effects than brexanolone, the only other FDA-approved treatment before it. How exactly does it work? And does it have side effects or risks? Sanjana Bhambhani interviewed the Chief of Columbia University's Division of Women’s Mental Health, Dr. Catherine Monk, to explore the concerns around this new drug.
[ZERO] Doctors are free to prescribe ivermectin to treat COVID-19, a lawyer representing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said this week.
"FDA explicitly recognizes that doctors do have the authority to prescribe ivermectin to treat COVID," Ashley Cheung Honold, a Department of Justice lawyer representing the FDA, said during oral arguments on Aug. 8 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.
The government is defending the FDA’s repeated exhortations to people to not take ivermectin for COVID-19, including a post that said "Stop it."
Dysautonomia occurs when there's a malfunction in the autonomic nervous system (ANS). That's the part of the nervous system that controls heart rate, blood pressure, digestion and other automatic processes in the body. In other words, things you do without having to think about them.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] It is not exactly the fastest method of travel.
A Concorde plane was seen aboard a barge floating down the Hudson River on route to its latest destination.
The plane – once the fastest commercial jet in the world – was moved from its display at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, in New York City, to undergo a three-month-long restoration.
#1
According to Martin Caidin the prototype Zero fighter (Mitsubishi A6M Rei-sen) was hauled in an ox cart the fifteen odd miles from the factory to the Naval base for testing ...well, whatever works, I guess.
#3
In a world where Chief Engineer Jiro
Needs oxen to transport his Zero
And has to make way
For Shimizu at play...
[honk honk honk]
"Arigatooo!"
"My hero!"
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.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[ZERO] Doctors are free to prescribe ivermectin to treat COVID-19, a lawyer representing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said this week.
