La tua musica.
SIR, DOES THIS MEAN THAT ANN-MARGRET ISN’T COMING? The watermelons promised threatened us a bright, new future where all cars are electric and are powered by batteries. Well, it turns out they didn’t think that through very well. China is the world’s top producer of Lithium. The US has some lithium deposits, but it turns out those are all on land which is either claimed to be sacred to Native Americans, or is the home of super-important “fragile ecosystems and wildlife.”
DON’T DARE CALL IT A SHITHOLE: Since 1990, at least 82 people have been murdered over alleged blasphemy in Pakistan, according to an Al Jazeera tally. Five of those killings took place last year alone, including mobs stoning and burning victims to death. And the evidentiary standards are pretty low, apparently all someone has to do is have a dream that someone committed blasphemy, and that’s justification for slitting the throat of the alleged blasphemer.
PA JUDGE REMOVES SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS FROM OFFICE OVER MASK MANDATE: The order is a result of a parent-filed petition to the West Chester Area School District back in February, according to public media organization WHYY. One of the parents, Beth Ann Rosica, argued that under the Pennsylvania school code districts have no authority to require students to wear masks. Other ways to remove school board members, without recourse to the woodchipper.
WHEN HELL FROZE OVER: The ACLU opposed a California bill requiring parents to tell school officials if they keep guns at home. The bill failed its first committee vote. Bill sponsor Sen. Anthony Portantino and supporters said it could help prevent mass shootings. Yeah, right. But expect to see this nonsense crop up again, and spread to other states.
A SLAP ON THE WRIST: FEC fines Hillary and Dems for “misreporting” Steele dossier. At least it’s something.
NASA CHANGES UP, DELAYS MARS SAMPLE RETURN MISSION: Mars Rover Perseverance, currently on Mars, collects mineral samples, seals them up in numbered tubes, and drops those tubes on the Martian surface for later retrieval by another robot which will collect them, then load them into a rocket which will return the samples to earth. Originally the sample-retrieving robot and sample-return rocket were going to land together as one unit; now they will land separately and sample return will be delayed until 2033.
NASA late on a project?
Well, at least they’ll come in under budget.
They would have had to design a whole new entry, descent, and landing (EDL) system had they gone with a single lander. This new, two-lander plan lets them re-use the EDL system they designed for Curiosity and Perseverance.
Seems it would have been better to keep all the samples with perseverance and just pick that up?
My thoughts, too. IANARocketScientist, but the empty tubes were stored on the lander, so I’d guess there’d already be a home for them once filled.
Transporting the entire rover would require a much bigger return rocket. Perseverance is pretty big and heavy what with its radioisotope thermal generator and all.
This strategy maximizes recovery potential. If Perseverance becomes stuck, or falls off a cliff, or whatever, you lose all the samples. If the sample caddy becomes jammed so the other robot can’t extract it, you lose all the samples. Shitting them out in sealed tubes gives you more oppos and flexibility for recovery.
*searches for NERD! sign*
Also a big western fan, The Good , the Bad and the Ugly is my ringtone. Best 99 cents I’ve ever spent.
More Westerns. Check.
Check out El Topo RJ if you want to see a Western drenched in LSD.
+ 1 Yojimbo / A Fistfull of Dollars
whaddup doh’
What’s up? I’ll tell ya what’s up. Gas prices…
No, she’s just breathing heavily.
But what watermelons!
I’ll tell you later.
Some something “Middle Aged Crazy” and “Carnal Knowledge”…
Mmmmm. Ann Margaret.
Thanks, Tonio, because the lynx make me pray for nukes.
Thanks Tonio, a redhead my age. Your efforts will be rewarded one day.
The question of guns at home would never be asked in MN, the answer is pretty well known
What is it with you people and redheads? Im trying to quit.
Because Red heads are Hawt?
So is meth, but it’s also toxic.
I need to make a meme: “Heroin- the redhead of drugs”
I’d say redheads are more like meth-laced-crack.
“Blondes from Hell.”
I dated a coupla reds back in the day. Memorable.
” …but it turns out those are all on land which is either claimed to be sacred to Native Americans, or is the home of super-important “fragile ecosystems and wildlife.”
Fun fact- a client of mine makes talcum powder that they source either from Jamaica or China. Seems its cheaper $/ton to buy chinese talc, across the Pacific, through Panama, to New Orleans, then put on a barge and sent up-river to Evansville, IN than to buy it from our Talc mines in Wyoming.
Funner fact- only about 15% of the talc they make is for cosmetics (talcum powders). The rest is uses industrially, primarily polymers and plastics.
I’m sure the Chinese are aware of this and are pricing their talc to undercut domestic production. They also effectively have no environmental regulations which makes this easier for them.
Apparently there is some asbestos in talc and the body powder industry has mostly switched to cornstarch.
But asbestos is all-natural, organic, non-GMO, gluten free, …
Akshuwally, asbestos, being a silicate, would not be organic.
False advertising at the grocery store.
Something tells me China isn’t paying much attention to sacred lands and fragile ecosystems.
I try to explain that to people that think we’re the largest polluter on the planet. China & India are taking up the slack.
The Chinese government controls info. You rarely see pictures of pollution there.
I’ve been to China. The pollution was unbelievable.
There has been some discussion about making Wyoming’s mines competitive with China, but as we all know, talc is cheap.
They tried to compete in strip mining, but ended up losing all their clothes.
Maybe the poles could do it cheaper.
If only we had some resources which could be used as energy storage. Like some kind of liquid or gas.
Pfft. 82 times what? It’s gotta be way more than that.
Yeah. In Chicago they call the Friday.
The Faux Latino never disappoints.
I’m sure that will help your campaign in Texas…
Get that tooth fixed for God’s sake.
Yeah, that made me wince.
A TW would have been nice.
He should cishet-up and impregnate Stacey, the ruler of Earth.
Their offspring would break open the final seal.
#9?
Hell yeah we’re coming for your guns, and your children!
Latinx you bigot!
Apparently it’s OK to mess with kids, as long as they are not trans.
He needs to become an artist, there where the money is these days
Ironically, he does want to mess with transkids by subjecting them to irreversible surgeries.
Why would you want this guy running anything, let alone a large state.
Someone explain to me how are they different from the woke crowd?
Their women are better behaved?
The what?
In a video released on social media Thursday, President Biden released a message of support on Transgender Day of Visibility.
The world cannot possibly take us seriously anymore.
Apropos
Classic
Look, I had a lovely supper and all I said to my wife was, “That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah.”
https://youtu.be/bDe9msExUK8?t=98
*dials 9 digit number on Teams*
*”connecting…” , never gets to the ring tone, crashes*
*dials +1 number on Teams*
*”connecting…”, 40 seconds later it finally begins ring tone*
Who designs this crap?
Microsoft?
Committees?
Telecom people?
Try working for a Linux shop that gets bought by a Windows shop.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6u8E_fvTeL8
“DON’T DARE CALL IT A SHITHOLE”
Well sure, but lynching wasn’t a federal crime until yesterday and you’ll be thrown in jail for saying “gay” in FL, so who’s the shithole country?
I dreamt that shit swastikas were smeared on my office door!
/conversation starter
Needs moar DEI training.
Clearly it was weaponized incontinence.
Sir, there is no business allowed on the grounds of the Incontinental.
Don’t worry, it will all be over soon
No ruling class has ever hated its own country and people in the least, much less to the fanatic degree of our ruling class. No elite has, in Anton’s words, ever been “determined to make [their country’s] population fat, weak, ugly, lethargic, drug-addled, screen-addicted, and hyper-sexualized, the men effeminate and the women masculine.” No elite has exalted ugliness over beauty, or criminal behavior over lawful behavior, or rejected education as a goal, instead substituting lies about history and science, when there is any education at all.
Ouch.
I’m ok with not being a contributor to a world empire, anyway.
Without the greatness of
RomeAmerica to believe in, whatever shall the plebs do?Everything about this makes my blood boil.
Biden delivers remarks on efforts to reduce the impact of Putin’s price hike on energy prices and lower gas prices at the pump for American families.
I’ll say it again: I can’t think of anything I would be doing differently than this administration if I was actively trying to bring about the social and economic destruction of the United States.
*chuckles in collapsatarian*
Meanwhile…
Remember when Strawberry told us the ruble had crashed?
Yeah, not so much.
V-shaped recovery, baby!
And the cuntes in charge will probably opt for war with Russia as the petro-dollar gets nuked.
I assume you are aware of the scale?
Yes. Still interesting.
There’s that “Putin’s price hike” again. I swear someone is slipping me crazy pills because I (echoing everyone here) was telling everyone who would listen two years ago all our dumbassery in response to COVID would cause this. A few friends and family heard and believe, but NOBODY CARES. Otherwise intelligent people just give blank stares. I feel like the crazy guy on the street corner with “The End Is Near” signs.
People at work looked at me like a wizard when I told them we had been making financial decisions with high inflation in mind since Jan 2021.
.’Putin’s price hike on energy prices’
Why doesn’t he just set it to eleven billion a barrel, since he controls it? Ridiculous.
There is. It’s the same bill.
Meanwhile on @TODAYshow: “If there’s a don’t say gay bill, there should be a don’t say straight bill”
What are the chances that she actually read the bill?
Who needs to read for themselves, she has all the right people telling her what to think!
sacred to Native Americans, or is the home of super-important “fragile ecosystems and wildlife.”
So one bullshit religion or another. Hoffer was so, so right.
OFFS we have an informal policy to keep Fridays relatively open so people can get some actual work done.
Guess where everyone dumped a whole bunch of meetings this week?
I made it formal. I have a tentative meeting on my calendar for 4 hours every Friday.
Meanwhile Ukrainian drivers near Borodyanka of Kyiv region
If people just respected princess Di’s wishes. The world would be a better place.
Must have been really important to keep going.
We do that, but with potholes.
Meanwhile in Russia is out. Meanwhile in Ukraine is in.
Finns showed up with their push poles and cleared the road in a couple minutes.
Right after they finished the sauna…
I’d be more impressed if they started playing shuffleboard.
This is pretty funny, since the headline has NOTHING TO DO with the first eight paragraphs of bilge.
So important, that I won’t even talk about until paragraph 9.
Starts off with my god-awful rep.
I despise that carpetbagging Pelosi acolyte piece of shit.
For the past year, I’ve looked and looked, and in every news outlet I’ve seen ZERO coverage of Jan. 6. Meanwhile, it’s been total, wall-to-wall coverage of the Hunter laptop. Total double standard.
I skimmed that this morning and laughed it was all about Trump.
“Well, it turns out they didn’t think that through very well. ”
The left never thinks things through. They just assume some greedy rednecks in flyover country will figure it out.
I’m even more cynical. There is a large segment of the left that hates privately-owned automobiles. This dovetails nicely with the aims of the national security state. If people can move about freely they can meet in person; if they are forced to communicate electronically the government can monitor that.
We’re going to do what we’ve been doing and we’re going to do it every day.
Kamala Harris delivered another word salad during her bilateral meeting with the Jamaican Prime Minister.
“For Jamaica, one of the issues that has been presented as an issue that is economic in the way its impact has been the pandemic. So to that end we are announcing today also that we will assist Jamaica in Covid recovery by assisting in terms of the recovery efforts in Jamaica that have been essential to I believe what is necessary to strengthen not only the issue of public health but also the economy,” Harris said.
To her credit, it’s not like she can come out and say “we are going to begin laundering money through Jamaica.”
argleblargleboo
Tim Benzadrine?
She must be an amazing lay.
All the talent between her ears is below the nose.
A golf ball thru 100′ of garden hose.
Chrome off a trailer hitch ball.
I like the analogy that all her speeches are like the kid that does a book report without reading the book.
Just the inside cover blurb.
She’s like Teen Miss South Carolina talking about why kids in foreign countries can’t have maps, but less coherent.
Even Biden is more coherent.
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2022/03/about-face-army-expects-shrink-next-year/363878/
I can’t imagine why.
Gee, I can’t imagine why.
Weird, huh?
I am glad I got out when I did because I would have received an less than honorable discharge
lol
Purging wrongthinkers ain’t easy.
Wait until this goes from shrinks to plummets.
Being as I live this every day, nah.
When the economy finishes imploding, the bonus of ‘three meals a day, and medical’ will start to work like a frickin’ charm.
Recruiters will be able to just drag an MRE thru the neighborhood and make mission for the month.
3 hots and a flop caught me. Instead of my mother telling me to make my bed The Ol’ Sarge was there
Military kids are very comfortable going into the military
and we are engaged in a mighty struggle to change that.
Their appeal has become more selective.
Where the hell else are people going to get guns? I find it hard to believe that 30% of school shootings apparently involved, what, guns found lying on the roadside?
As is typical of gang shootings. I wonder how many school shootings weren’t gang-related?
Over 90% of school shootings involved bullets!
This reminds me of those, “The number 1 cause of death in children is…” Would you sleep better at night if more children were run over by tanks?
In this scenario, do I get a tank?
No, What do you need military hardware for? I mean did the founding father’s allow people to own cannons or warships?
No, the 30% were purchased at Wal-Mart.
You could probably convince these assholes that there are gun-seller trucks that cruise neighborhoods like old fashioned ice cream trucks used to.
Interesting business model. Reminds me of the MMJ dispensary trucks I saw in California a couple years back.
Where the hell else are people going to get guns? I find it hard to believe that 30% of school shootings apparently involved, what, guns found lying on the roadside?
Bought on the black market. I’m guessing those 30%, at least, are gang-related that just happened to be on school property.
I thought it was easier to buy a gun on the street than to borrow a book from the library.
They grow on trees. I get tired of raking them all up every fall.
Damn, I need one of those trees. Concealed lemons are rather less effective when mugged.
Have you tried squirting the lemon juice into the eyes of your attacker?
Damn it! I was just throwing them! Should’ve taken a class at my local citrus range.
Better hope it’s not this guy attacking you.
::Makes note to dig some seedlings from RJ’s yard::
I’ve got a rake.
Fuck yeah!
Pushback, finally!
Go Strong Woman, Go
Fuck that. The haters need to get woke and take their lumps.
Everyone is dunking on Sunset now.
“Milk is cheap if you just buy a farm and a bunch of cows.”
These people are breathtakingly retarded.
If everyone magically had an electric car, they’d push a per mile tax to make up for the lost gas tax money.
Our POS governor in WA just signed a ban on new vehicles built after 2030 that are not electric. He vetoed it last year because is didn’t require a per mile tax on driving.
And that motherfucker will still get the votes of the same idiots.
And most of Washington State is country side! There are entire areas an electric car would have no chance of reaching.
I was talking to our SAIA (trucking) rep the other day and he said the company purchased an electric tractor. It can go about 76 miles between charges. Not quite enough to do local deliveries.
My brother lives in Twisp. It’s a hell of a drive to get there in the winter. No electric bullshit car would survive.
Come on man, you only loose 30% of the EV’s rated range at 25 degrees. Just put on a sweater.
“A typical driver will save about $80 a month from not having to pay gas at the pump” if they just buy an electric car.”
That more than makes up for the car payment. It’s so easy!
Remember when they hammered Bush as being out of touch because he had never seen a supermarket bar code scanner before? If only we had a press that did more than “Democrats good! Republicans bad!”
And you can buy one from any dealer and they have plenty of supply!
Obviously they have never talked to a dairy farmer but did manage to load up on bullshit nonetheless
My Ma went to college w/Ann-Margret. I should have asked her for gossip when I had the chance.
Would you like me to seduce you?
Ann Bancroft.
With tan lines!
Drat. I always conflate those two for some reason.
Who cares?!?
Tan lines!!
Vladimir Putin’s fans are happier than you are
Research indicates that people with authoritarian tendencies find life easier and more fulfilling. What does it take to counter the emotional appeal of absolutist ideas?
Down with Zelensky! Join Putin’s fan club. We’re so much happier here.
Who doesn’t enjoy putting a boot to a neck?
It’s all that awesome communist sex!
Join the dark side, we have cookies.
I remember one of the best bits of the LotR cast commentary from the DVD was John-Rhys Davies basically delivering an ode to Ann-Margaret. I don’t remember the context at all, but he goes off about how she’s the most beautiful woman in the world, etc.
Excellent song. And thanks for the picture of Ann-Margaret.
“Nobody really foresaw this huge spike in demand,” said Tim Crowley, vice president of government affairs for Lithium Nevada
Really? Really? No one could have foreseen this?
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has fined Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee for not properly disclosing the money they used to fund opposition research that led to a controversial dossier on President Trump’s links to Russia.
My amateur Kremlinology says this means Clinton won’t replace Biden.
Not necessarily. It could clear the way for the media to pass it off as “old news”
See: What difference at this point does it make?
This is an interesting take on the sexualizing of kids.
Splitting kids from their families – now where have I seen that before?
I think this is much more in line with what is happening in the average classroom.. I’ll say that I’ve encountered more than a few teachers who weren’t motivated by compassion or Empathy, but by a desire to receive affirmation from their peers. Yes, it’s fucking sad that they see a class of 8 year olds as their peers. Yes, they lash out in exactly the same way as an 8 year old when they’re scorned.
My MIL was teacher, and she said that the number of teachers who would fall into that trap was rather large. Among male teachers it leads to sleeping with the students. Women? Well, I think we are starting to see where it goes.
DAILY QUORDLE ROUNDUP*
#66
Champ(s)
Teds’ 18
Ghostpatzer 19
The Hyperbole 19
kinnath 21
Plisade 23
Trshmnstr the terrible 23
Tundra 23
Sean 24
Grummun 26
Raven Nation 26
Grumbletarian 28
TARDis 30
Chump(s)
MikeS 35
*total score (X=11pts)
Adds a new dimension. Nice.
If something can’t be used to ridicule sub-Canadians is it really worth doing?
First time I’ve tried
86
75
I assume that means 27 in this scoring?
26, but I’ve been drinking so my maths may be wrong. 8+6+7+5. I’m making failures count as 11, one might argue that it should be 10 but there should be some penalty for failing so spectacularly. Now that I think of it a second failure will count as 13, but I doubt anyone will ever miss two words.
Is that a challenge? I am terrible at word games
I was hungover!
It’s a competition?
Fine, I’m in
I’m sure it’s purely coincidental that you didn’t start this yesterday when I got a
5️⃣3️⃣
4️⃣7️⃣
Sounds about right.
lol
2️⃣9️⃣
6️⃣8️⃣
Was really lucky on that top right.
Other right?
Well….both I guess. I was lucky to get that 9. COINS on my first guess helped a lot but the answer didn’t on anything else.
As I said in the midday thread, I specifically went with RATED and SONIC to use a bunch of letters, which made the other three words fairly obvious.
I’ve been using AUDIO and CHEST with mixed results.
EERIE and then AREAR
I’ve been using DAILY. Creative, huh?
I’ve been using RADIO and TRUCE, also with mixed results. I’d like a with with U and E that doesn’t repeat the R.
Grummun: How about “Rheum”?
Could go with UNCLE you lose the T, but N and L are common letters.
Damn you all for getting me involved with this.
Grummun: Ah, sorry, you may have meant “repeat the ‘R’ from the previous word.”
Okay, how about “spume”?
Because when you buy a $20 Chinese made IoT camera you expect top level security!
I’m done with Wyze
I am not a tech (or any other kind of) nerd but doesn’t this update exonerate Wyze?
If someone has access to your local network they are going to have access to anything that uses your local network, no?
It’s like crossing the moat of a castle. There’s still a wall to contend with (unless you know of a weakness)
Exonerate, no. That access to the local network is “likely” necessary mitigates the risk, but wifi routers have a rocky security history, and that assumes that the owner actually configured it correctly.
Wyze’s failure to be completely clear about the vulnerability and relative risk is a shitty move.
Says the nerd who makes up word games for fun.
I use one as my aquarium camera. I guess if someone wants to break in and look at my fish it’s ok.
My grandfather used the term “ugly” when he meant “angry.” Also, the phrase “things are going to get ugly” doesn’t mean “things are going to be unpleasant to look at.”
So I have always figured that “The Good, The Bad, and The Angry” was a better title than the English translation on the original Italian. Tuco wasn’t unpleasant to look at, he was angry with his lot in life. See, for example, the argument that he has with his brother; “Your was was hard, mine was harder!”
I often get asked by my fans what my favorite First is. Which one sticks out above all the rest. The question, frankly, offends me. Would you ask a parent which child is their favorite?
Fans? The next fan you get will be your first.
Sir, I do not come down to your place of work and insult you while you clean jizz off the floors. I am a professional. This is what puts food on my table. I will kindly leave it at that. !!
I use your mom to clean the jizz off the floor. She’s a professional too.
I haz the ‘V1D. What prize do I win?
(literally common cold symptoms – not even a fever)
You get to go to happy fun camp! Wait, it’s isn’t Australia…
It has been a pleasure knowing you.
Can I have your CDs?
A tube of horse paste?
You’ll be fine.
Speaking of which… I haven’t had time to do a deep dive into the methodology yet.
TL:DR — New England Journal of Medicine publishes a study saying ivermectin had no effect on COVID outcomes.
Get well soon!
I haven’t read your cruise review yet. Work has been kinda busy.
Liked the cruise review, looking forward to more.
My wife would like to go on one, but there is no way in hell I can see myself doing that.
I do like watching the Smithsonian channel’s shows about cruise ships, but other than the river cruises, I don’t see the appeal.
Maybe your stories will change my mind, but I doubt it.
Try a narrow boat in England. Fantastic! I want to do it again.
I wanna do that too!
That did look like a good time when you wrote about it.
Actually TOK’s article about the DR has us considering that.
That did look most excellent. Any of those river cruises look neat.
Thirded. That looked like a good time.
I took a ‘hotel barge’ cruise down the Thames from Oxford to Windsor in 98. 60 miles, 6 nights. It was wonderful. I highly recommend it if anything similar is still going. This boat has relocated to France; they used to alternate France & England, but seem to have dropped England.
I’ve always wanted to do the various canal journeys throughout Western Europe. France’s Canal du Midi fascinates me.
‘Course, I also wanna walk across Southwest France in a month (shortest distance is approx. 550km). Talking the Spousal Unit into it will be, um, challenging…
I’m sorry you’re terminally ill.
If you lose your sense of smell, don’t operate LP powered machines.
But a great time to start eating ass amirte?
^ this guy gets it ^
It came in handy when I had to clean up some dog shit one morning.
Modern science needs to come up with pill that causes short term loss of smell. Thousands of uses!
Party on the aft deck!
The Libertarian Party is powering machines?
WW3 could break out tomorrow and demand the domestic mining of these resources, and the Democrats would probably still oppose it.
Depends who the president is
Are the Native Americans not allowed to mine on their own land? Seems like a shrewd business opportunity for a group of disenfranchised Americans who tend to be way more likely to fall below the poverty line.
I work in the casino gaming business, and I assure you quite a few Native Americans are excellent businessmen and women.
She woulda if I’da been there. Woof woof!
Great rant(s) by Carolla on minimum wage, etc. – more March Madness Madness.
https://youtu.be/vQzLvurEH1U?t=1535
Free market is awesome. Met with the son of the landscaper yesterday, gave him the idea of what we want and agreed on price over vodka. Today the backyard was prepped with tearing out all the fake grass. Soon to have new firepit and seating area, larger amount of fake grass (I want real but Nevada…) and a nice flat area for grill, smoker and an above ground pool if we want.
Nice! Yeah, we had a larger area in the back “yard” paved so we’d have a place for a picnic table and a couple of large umbrellas. Looks good; the guys did it properly with rebar etc so it will last.
I hear you about the grass. Just not a good use of water out here. I do have several shrubs, trees, and flowering plants in pots. They are living off the dribbler type sprinkler system.
Judge rejects NYS redistricting plan
*falls out of chair*
Wow!
I assume the Court of Appeals will say it’s hunky-dory.
Yeah, but in Penna. the Supreme Court would 1)reject the map, and then 2) draw the new map and unconstitutionally foist it on the Commonwealth.
https://www.nj.com/education/2022/03/centenary-university-now-offers-a-masters-degree-in-happiness-studies.html
Isn’t $17,000 a bit steep for a private massage?
My Mom went to Centenary and still gets the alumni stuff. I can’t wait to bring this up over Easter dinner…
Anyone want to Beta test the Razer Hypersense Suit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cBSFFKXfr0
No.
Kinda yes.
There wouldn’t happen to be a black latex model, would there?
I think that was only for the STEVE SMITH game.
It’s a nice April Fools bit.
my first guess in Worldle was 9000 miles away. There’s wrong and there’s completely opposite side of the world wrong. lol
That was asshoe. I got to 101km away on my third guess and then just played crapshoot until I lost. I don’t think any human could get that one.
Worldle and Globle have taught me there are WAY TOO MANY islands on planet Earth.
Yeah, I had to resort to a map too.
I won’t use a map. But even my geography skillz are useless in that area.
Pretty please?
Last week, the leaders of the G-7 major economies called on OPEC to raise oil production amid fears of supply shortages.
“We call on oil and gas producing countries to act in a responsible manner and to increase deliveries to international markets, noting that OPEC has a key role to play. We will work with them and all partners to ensure stable and sustainable global energy supplies,” the group said in a statement.
The G-7 group of major economies is comprised of the U.K., U.S., Canada, Japan, Germany, France and Italy.
It’s almost as if some rhetorical chickens have come home to roost.
The FU-5 group of not-so-major-but-still-kind-of-influential economies comprised of Russia, China, India, Iran and Saudi Arabia think those G-7 calls are cute.