Appropriate music.
INSIDE JOB, SEASON TWO, DROPPING NOV 18!!1! Break out your tinfoil, kids! Inside Job is a Netflix animated series about the employees of a shadowy government contractor in a world in which every conspiracy theory you’ve ever heard is real. The comedy is hilarious, the characters endearing, and the writers do their homework. Fans of Archer will appreciate this show.
ALL YOUR CHILDREN ARE BELONG TO US: An 18-state coalition… has filed a brief in support of parental rights in a lawsuit against an Iowa school district’s policy that withholds information on a child’s gender identity from their parents.
CONGRESSCRITTER MAXINE WATERS DODGES HARD QUESTION (AGAIN): Waters avoided reporter Hillary Vaughn’s question when asked if Democrats who received campaign cash from FTX should give it back, saying, “Well, I don’t want to get into that. As a matter of fact, both sides, Democrats and Republicans, have received donations. So thank you.”
CRYPTO-BRO SAM BANKMAN-FRIED IN A HEAP OF TROUBLE: John Ray III, a veteran insolvency professional who oversaw the liquidation of Enron, said in a court filing on Thursday that FTX was the worst case of corporate failure that he had seen in his more than 40-year career. And SBF keeps running his mouth when he should be STFU.
FREE LUNCH: Feast your eyes upon the Guaranteed Income for Trans People (GIFT) Program Application. Now make a -4 saving throw against sanity.
EYES WIDE SHUT: Obligatory, gratuitous link to tabloid celebrity sex party exposé. Because I had to imagine a naked Bill Maher, now you have to as well.
NOT SURE IF THIS IS REAL: Like everything else coming out of the Russia-Ukraine war, take it with a big pinch of salt. Video appears to show Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy taking time out from defending his country from Russian invasion to make a music video. Sick AT4 solo, Volodya (or actor playing him).
“An 18-state coalition… has filed a brief in support of parental rights in a lawsuit against an Iowa school district’s policy that withholds information on a child’s gender identity from their parents.”
Good.
TL;DR: The suit was brought in federal court by the advocacy group Parents Defending Education on behalf of several parents (because the parents have “standing.”) They requested a stay of the school system policy from the court pending the outcome of the suit. The court refused. The brief was filed in the federal Eighth Circuit, so I assume that PDE appealed the stay to the circuit court. That’s some high-powered, free, legal help they are getting. Definitely a case to watch.
That’s more help than a Manchester, NH parent received in a recent case in NH court over a similar issue.
The Iowa case could potentially to have more impact (affect more people), particularly if it goes to the Eighth circuit. An Eighth Circuit ruling would establish a binding precedent in AR, IA, MN, MO, NE, SD, and ND.
Sometimes you have to pick and choose your battles.
True, this is also in Federal court. That case was in state court.
I’m surprised a court said the parents have standing.
Me, too, since nobody was actually injured by this AFAIK. But let’s take the W, such as it is.
I was more making a joke about how everyone seemed to have standing against the Trump EOs because Trump, but people who really should have standing can’t get it.
I know. And not just in the cases you mention.
But let’s take the W, such as it is.
Not seeing a W, yet. The policy is still in effect.
The children are injured by this, and the parents, as the legal guardians, should always have standing in anything involving their children.
That said, standing is the greatest legal disgrace in this country. That shit needs to be knocked down a peg or three.
Can you imagine the litigious load without standing – terrifying.
Conspicuously absent from the list of state AGs is the one from Iowa — perhaps one reason he was ousted in the recent election after 7 terms as AG.
I noticed NH’s was not on the list.
Sununu vetoed a bill prohibiting public school officials from taking actions like this.
It’s possible that “MAGA” Republicans got money because part of them Dem’s strategy was to boost candidates in the primaries that were more likely to lose.
I’d rate that more as “probable” than “possible”, Herzog Kartoffel.
I didn’t know Graf Kartoffel got a promotion to Herzog.
Gott im himmel… got my German title equivalents messed up in my head… well, he can be a Herzog as far as I’m concerned… ;P
I had to look it up to see whether it was a promotion or a demotion.
GAH!
Isn’t he a health nut? He might not look that bad.
Uh, he’s almost 70.
and you know, a dude.
Since I’m straight — that’s pretty much my default for “imagine any naked man”, sorry.
in a world in which every conspiracy theory you’ve ever heard is real
So, the real world?
Didn’t Pizzagate include cannibalism beyond the child sex ring stuff? If so — rather hoping that particular one isn’t…
Imagine not knowing that the child molesting lizard people are cannibals too, bro.
Long pork! It’s good. Lots of fat to render on those millenials. Low and slow, I always say.
Kind of. Go listen to Martyr Made’s Epstein series and check out the support materials.
As insane as you think it could be? It’s worse.
Pizzagate got the location wrong. Shame on them.
It sounds crazy, and hopefully it is. But then Marc Dutroux seemed to have some pretty high level connections. And if you’re an intelligence service the compromising material could come in handy.
Not sure if this is locked, but:
https://martyrmade.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-a-conspiracy-theory
Both flat earth AND hollow earth, simultaneously. Although those are not actually conspiracy theories, so much as crackpot ideas.
It’s hollowed out roadkill turtles all the way down now?
Conspiracy theory:
Flat earthers are an FBI Psyop designed to create an idea so stupid and crazy that no one could believe it, which is then labeled a “conspiracy theory” despite the fact that it’s nothing of the sort, and then lump “flatearthers” in with the people that think that obviously true conspiracies like Epstein didn’t kill himself or the Hunter laptop cover up.
IOW, poisoning the well.
I’ve spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocaine.
So you’re prepared to go up against a Sicilian, even with death on the line? I heard that iocaine immunity is a psyop to get MAGA people to start consuming large quantities of it.
But no land wars in Asia, it’s a big place.
Also, the worst-looking billionaire girlfriend ever. Melinda Gates is better looking.
50 Shades of Grey lied to us.
Seriously. But maybe she can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch.
Is that what happened to her mouth?
Song choice is one of those “catchier than it should be” ones… which is how I feel about most Manson stuff. And if it applies to the topics of the links, it works… but given the news and my general reaction to it, this is still the only appropriate music for me these days.
Waters avoided reporter Hillary Vaughn’s question when asked if Democrats who received campaign cash from FTX should give it back, saying, “Well, I don’t want to get into that. As a matter of fact, both sides, Democrats and Republicans, have received donations. So thank you.”
As long as none of those folks were in the rumored FTX sex tape.
Yikes.
I’m glad that link doesn’t work.
Works for me, but leads to an article about the alleged tape.
🤢🤢🤮. I’ll pay the ransom myself to make sure that never sees the light of day.
According to SF FTX is a gender.
Female to Xylophone?
Works for me. I use the same mallet for both.
Of course there had to be a sex tape. This saga would be incomplete without one.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy taking time out from defending his country from Russian invasion to make a music video
Not as bad as a deaf, mute trannie singing “I Will Always Love You”.
Re: The GIFT (I suppose throwing in an ‘R’ to make it GRIFT would have been too obvious) application — love that they’re throwing in “Tomboy” as a Trans identity.
Farging iceholes… let tomboys be tomboys — they’re still women, you farging bastiches. And the pronoun section is, of course, its own circle of Hell.
That’s just one of over 90 different gender identifications.
Over. Ninety.
And of course there’s an Other option at the end.
I only recognize three “genders”. Male, female and attention-whore narcissist.
I’ll make an exemption for “attack helicopter”. Just for style points alone.
You know… thinking about it, wouldn’t it be Othering someone to make them select Other as part of who they are?
They want nothing more than to be treated like a unique and beautiful snowflake. The problem is being either ignored or mistreated because of it. Their new mission is to force everyone to bend the knee and worship at their altar of uniqueness. Anything less than total reverence and your full attention is oppression which absolutely will not be tolerated. Second highest priority: advocating communism. Makes total sense.
I’ll accept neuter when appropriate.
Filipinos are not Asian.
They are if they identify that way, bigot.
I like how the races are listed in order the attention you’re going to get from the folks running this scheme.
JFC, that pronoun list. Also, Non-Binary or Gender Non-Conforming isn’t trans.
The gender identity section is more nuts.
I’m switching to Genderfuck. Please respect my new identity.
That seems like more of a verb than a noun.
Are you trying to cringe him?
Bigot!
My bad. I will take this as a learning experience, go to rehab, and do better in future.
Then the gender list goes on for over two pages.
What is “Skoliosexual”? You through you back out fucking?
I think it involves olive oil…
In SF? It probably means they want to boff whole schools.
Like to bend someone over?
“threw your”
I was so flabbergasted I forgot how to English.
Vikings fans
Now you’ve gone too far!
Nobody. But Nobody! want to fuck one of those.
Gee, thanks
No kidding.
Please, this is a family friendly site. It’s humping.
Well shit. Who’s going to break this news to Sugarfree?
Fettering?
GIFT is a financial assistance program for low-income Transgender, NonBinary, Gender Non-Conforming, and Intersex (TGI) people who reside in the City and County of
San Francisco, CA
Well, due to me being retired and living off capital gains, my income this year is negative six figures. Is that “low-income” enough?
I also am male-to-female-to-male trans, which is just being a dude with extra steps, but I think I can fool whatever social worker they have screening me.
Additionally, while my physical body is in Florida, I identify as a San Francisco resident. Who are you to question my lived experience?
Now give me free munniez.
As long as we’re on conspiracy theories, I assume this crypto-genius guy is totally not going to end up killing himself in custody.
I don’t think he ever knew Jeffery Epstein.
https://twitter.com/FBNHistory/status/1592094463069126658
{Keanu Reeves voice}
Whoa.
{/Keanu Reeves voice}
I often wonder if Zelensky is even in the Ukraine. Or is he just making videos in front of a green screen from his Italian villa?
SBF probably has his name on a few hit lists by now.
If he’s the tech genius he’s alleged to be, he’s got a dead man switch.
Not going to help him. He stole customer deposits and I’ll bet that some of those deposits came from people who really don’t take that well.
He’s not a tech genius.
Notes from the bankruptcy.
NH Recount News: Keith Ammon’s race had a recount this morning. Ammon was third in a three person district. He was ahead of the fourth place finisher by three votes. During the recount, Ammon stayed in 3rd place and his lead over the fourth place finisher widened to eight votes. Ammon is both NHLA and ReopenNH endorsed. If I remember correctly, Ammon wrote the anti-CRT bill during the 2020 legislative term.
Yeah, the race is still freaking on for my Congresscritter…
Love the CA SOS website:
It never used to before you jokers screwed up the whole system…. https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/statewide-elections/2022-general/unprocessed-ballots-report.pdf shows that as of 2 days ago, they were probably at 50%. A week after the election. 50%. I hate this stupid state so much.
I can’t imagine the brain trust working on that. Must make the crowd in charge at the post office or DMV look like geniuses.
Wow.
There are still more recounts to go in NH. I’ll be a volunteer to watch the counting for one on Saturday.
Organization Day is early in December. Organization Day is when the NH Legislature meets for its first session of the new term. There’s a little time left for recounts and challenges.
Do I need to buy you some luggage? What is keeping you there?
Hurr hurr, we’re not some backward hick state like Florida!!!
Gotta go find some Zelensky simps in that Tweet
OK cool…it’s not him.
NH Man
A man from Cheshire County is facing multiple charges after New Hampshire Fish and Game officials said he shot a turkey from a car window.
Officials said the man, who was not identified, used a 9mm handgun to shoot the turkey.
“…. since the turkey was in a grocery store shopping cart at the time, it seemed rather odd to everyone else in the parking lot…”
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could drive!
I fail to see the problem.
NOT SURE IF THIS IS REAL
Appears to be a look-alike to me. Has similar features, but doesn’t look to have the right proportions, IMO.
If women had the same rights as guns
Make sure you watch until the end.
I’m sure they’d appreciate going automatic and getting several rounds off in one sitting….
If women had the same rights as guns
To be fair, I’d be alright with keeping women away from polling places, courthouses, and state houses. I’m torn about prohibiting them in bars, though.
My black tank sensor reads Empty!
https://media.giphy.com/media/iOz3p2txHIo4U/giphy.gif
Ever think of getting a cassette toilet?
Nah – this one is fine for now. The big change I want to make is to get rid of the sofa and put a useful sitting/napping/sleeping area there. I’d like to actually build my own sofa/daybed. Maybe since I’m near my dad and his full workshop, I could accomplish that.
Dads like to do things for their daughters, just sayin’. A couple of well-placed hints might pay big dividends!
Did you read this article about the poop incinerator?
https://www.theautopian.com/back-in-the-1970s-an-rv-supplier-wanted-you-to-burn-your-poop-in-your-campers-exhaust-as-you-went-down-the-highway/
That’s the shit!
You can still buy incinerating toilets. Also composting toilets.
I know nothing of Inside Job, but I’m looking forward to Season 11 of Letterkenny on Dec 26th.
I’m probably being dramatically over-optimistic, but I’m probably going to give Wednesday a shot next week. Even if it does scream “Tim Burton really wants to have his own version of Harry Potter!”.
The previews are far better than I had expected.
I watched a season and a half of LK, but just couldn’t get into it for some reason.
Shoresy was also pretty great. It was like Letterkenny with a plot that went through multiple episodes. I’m with people who think either of those are hard to get into, but once you do, they’re some of the funniest shows on TV.
New Headstamp Publishing kickstarter.
New Thomas Sowell book available for pre-order.
Dang – not in time for Xmas or my dad’s birthday
SoHo forum debate: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Sten Vermund debate whether the COVID lockdowns were a deadly mistake.
I’m only linking this because I thought the Taylor Swift joke at the end was pretty good.
Heh… yeah, that was a pretty good one.
I assume Ocasio Cortez is just catering to her voter base: Tweenagers spending their parents’ money on concert tickets.
I think this is last of my grab-bag of links.
Tulsi Gabbard on why she came around on the 2nd Amendment.
Political expediency?
*golf clap*
No, she’s a straight shooter.
That quote you posted below is not new information. She had been aware of the idea of arms being a check on government for years.
I’m just still not on board with her.
Me neither. There’s some “both sides” stuff in there (“it was just a political football”). There’s some stuff I just don’t believe (“the Dems used to support gun rights”). And I’m just not see much of a basis for a real change of heart from signing onto every Dem gun control proposal to where she says she is now. She tries to portray the Dems as only recently becoming extreme on gun rights, but I’m pretty sure that’s BS. She can recite the 2A talking points, which is trivially easy, but you don’t do a 180 on an issue like that for really not much a reason.
Yeah, it comes across as someone feeding her the ideas because she doesn’t quite (yet?) understand the core principle.
Like 86 FOPA restrictions, Brady Act background checks, 68 GCA, the NFA? Those infringements, Tulsi? How about red flag laws.
Note also she repeats the muskets only and sidesteps that too is a lie.
“Our rights shall not be infringed …
… more than is politically expedient.”
When she starts talking about how banning machine guns is an intolerable infringement, then I’ll be convinced she understands the meaning of infringment.
–There’s some stuff I just don’t believe (“the Dems used to support gun rights”).
Some did. The Blue Dogs and etc. Wasn’t there a pretty liberal WI senator with a strong NRA rating for years? I forget his name.
Even back in 2002, there was an interesting fight overheard from the Senate campaign located in the office next to mine. The son of the candidate running about McConnell was a pro-gun, redneck Dem and he got in a loud argument with the DC consultant who was helping them out. The son, rightly, pointed out that if the candidate took a anti-gun position, she had no chance. Of course, she had no chance against McConnell anyway, but whatever.
The son was an idiot, but was right on this one issue. The consultant was a pretty cool guy, had some conversations with him, but he was far left.
Bernie Sanders used to oppose gun control before he decided to move onto the national stage. Before he moved onto the national stage, he opposed gun control because he knew Vermont voters at the time would kick him out. About when he moved onto the national stage is when things started to change with respect to guns in Vermont, so you combine the two to have Bernie “evolve” on guns to turn into a supporter of gun control.
I can definitely understand the hesitancy, but it sure seems nice to me to see a former advocate of Bad Things ™ publicly supporting a freedom-friendly position. While there are certainly hardcore partisans that will dismiss her output because she’s renounced their team, but if she continues to write effectively and persuasively, she could actually sway some peoples’ opinions, and that can’t hurt.
I’m all for people actually changing their minds. My spidey sense is telling me this is a wolf in sheep’s clothing or, like I said, expediency. It’ll take a lot of real actions on her part to convince me, but since she doesn’t actually hold office at this time, there’s no way for her to prove herself, so I’ll just wait and see.
I certainly understand that position, and feel the same way. Just looking at it from a holistic perspective, there are some positives that we shouldn’t overlook.
It’s a nasty dilemma – is this sincere or a skin-suiting? Obviously the former you don’t want to chill because it might be imperfect, and the latter you have to constantly guard against the inevitable subversion.
Definitely political expediency. It’s copypasta 2nd A talking points.
She very briefly blames her previous anti-2nd A on her childhood upbringing and the big bad Democrats in DC. No accountability taken.
This isn’t some joe-schmoe in a bar that thought guns were icky but went shooting with a buddy and is now on board. This is a Congressional leader who proudly boasted for years about an F rating from the NRA. Where is her apology to all of her constituents during all of those years who couldn’t buy firearms. The women who were raped without defense. The innocents assaulted and mugged without a way to fight back. Because of her.
Instead of taking accountability, she does staged “look at me, guns are cool now” photo-ops at the gun range. She’s a snake. Just a marginally better looking one than the others in DC.
Tulsi: Hey, I wanna be a Republican now
RNC: YAS KWEEN
RNC: You kinda have to give lip service to the 2nd Amendment if you want to be a success, tho
Tulsi: * sighs * OK what do I need to say
*Frankenstein voice
“GUNS GOOD! PENIS BAD! GRIFTERS ALSO BAD! RAAAAGH!”
Spot on.
Hear, hear!
ROFL. After the success of the COVID lockdowns, the notion that American gun-owners will prevent dictatorship in America really needs to be thrown on the ash-heap of history. If this fantasy regarding the 2nd amendment were true, Dr Birx, Dr Fauci, Mrs. Dr Fauci, and Trump’s bullet ridden corpses would have been displayed hanging from their feet at a BP station in Washington DC over a year ago.
Thank you for these links, dearest Tonio.
I may have had a martini already. Might be fun tonight for the movie.
Can’t make this shit up – clown world stuff.
https://mobile.twitter.com/PelosiTracker_/status/1593144488255713280?cxt=HHwWgMDTpZSe_pssAAAA
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Reload. It’s there.
Ah, there it is.
Fink, I hope he lost his ass on FTX, that would amuse me to no end.
Unreal.
I’ve been listening to Tom Luongo and another podcast, Hidden Forces, about FTX.
What an incredible shitshow. With any luck it will take down some politicians along with it.
Those politicians will assemble phalanxes of fall-guys all as human shields.
Is there an underground villain lair big enough to hold all those egos while they plot to put the rest of us in the poorhouse?
Fuck ’em FUCK ‘EM FUUUUUUUUUUCK!
Hmm! A couple martinis and I am ready to wring some pencil necks! How about that?
Tomboys are awesome.
-end of message-
Yes, we are
My daughter is a tomboy. She is not a tranny, Leftists can fuck right off.
I was telling my dad – if I were in school these days, some teacher or guidance counselor would be telling me I was a boy in a girl’s body.
And probably doing so relentlessly.
“EXCLUSIVE: Xenogender, gender outlaw and genderf****: San Francisco’s $1,200-a-month handout to low-income trans people tells them to choose from 134 genders and pronouns (and they can pick as many as they want)”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11439455/San-Franciscos-trans-benefits-application-gender-pronoun-options.html
It’s not an exclusive. Tonio just posted about it.
“EXCLUSIVE: Ex-girlfriend blamed by Sam Bankman-Fried for failed FTX wrote about her ‘foray into poly,’ being in a ‘Chinese harem,’ thinks men are ‘cute’ if they ‘controlled most major world governments’ – AND admits crypto is ‘mostly scams and memes'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11439589/Sam-Bankman-Frieds-ex-girlfriend-wrote-polyamorous-said-crypto-scam.html
“Bombshell court filing claims Bahamas GOVERNMENT ordered fallen crypto CEO Sam Bankman-Fried to hack FTX systems and transfer assets to the island nation AFTER he filed for bankruptcy”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11441311/Bombshell-court-filing-suggests-Sam-Bankman-Fried-transferred-digital-assets-Bahamas-government.html
I’m getting tired of this story.
Don’t get tired of this one. It’s epic. And it is far from over. The contagion of the run on FTX is still spreading.
It just seems too much not to be manufactured.
I’ve got to find it, but apparently there’s an interview out there where SBF described crypto as a black box yield generator, which is not much more than a description of a Ponzi scheme.
His idea was to grab enough capital to overhaul the market, but he obviously didn’t care about investors. It was all about him. Pure narcissistic psychopath.
But he cared so much about solving the world’s problems!
“…being in a ‘Chinese harem,’ ”
You go now.
Also, I’m beginning to wonder which is more fake: The crypto Ponzi scheme itself, or the sexual escapades these two fuglies are constantly going on about.
The enemy classes are not composed of impressive people.
Impressively brazen. I wasn’t familiar with SBF, but as I’m learning about him I fail to see how you could possibly think his operation was legit.
I assumed the NFL had vetted him when they let him buy ad space during the Superbowl. Is that not something they do?
Weren’t half the NFL stadiums named after defunct companies when the dot-com bubble burst?
And they are again.
The guy behind We-work is back in the market raising funds for some new business.
Do not underestimate the power of stupid money to find hucksters.
I’m not! Please to take down our overlords!
I am just going to say it; Bankman-Fraud had zero control over the “company”, which was solely a means of money laundering for the D’s. He is a fall guy, plain and simple. And he was completely controlled by whats-her-name. She was his handler.
Yep. Money stolen from good people to fund the democrats. To hell with them all.
If women had the same rights as guns
Keep them locked in a closet when you’re not using them?
Dude…
Individualists not wanted
“You cannot be pro-LGTBQ, pro-BLM, pro-sustainability, and anti-union,” Michelle Eisen, a barista at a Starbucks store in Buffalo who participated in one of those sessions, said in a statement from the union. “This Red Cup Day, we’re organizing for a voice on the job and a true seat at the table.”
At least 111 stores are participating in the strike, the union representing Starbucks workers said, and the union is even handing out their own branded red cups on the picket line.
No justice, no liquid candy.
Everybody knows the union members are pro-bestiality
Local news picked up on the strike since two CLE area stores were striking.
In other news, Caribou coffee has re-entered the outskirts of Cleveland by opening a new location in Warren.
Oh no. Please don’t close.
Of course the cups are red. Commies.
Maybe she’s right. I’m anti all those things, at least as she probably interprets it.
Me too.
“Hey everybody! Free helicopter rides for everyone!”
Impressively brazen. I wasn’t familiar with SBF, but as I’m learning about him I fail to see how you could possibly think his operation was legit.
Like that WeWork idiot (who now has a new gig, apparently). Why wold anybody fund that buffoon?
You’re shitting me.
I must be subconsciously Amish or something because all of those guys set off my alarms.
Knock on wood, but I seem to be immune from these slick investment products. A lot of them have me tilting my head and thinking, “Now how is that supposed to generate revenue again?”
Also, I suppose I don’t run with a bunch of high-rolling “friends” who graciously invite me to invest heavily in their crooked schemes.
Clint at Liberty Lockdown agrees with you.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/22IICWOMjIWlOuqcKsZcrc?si=26f41f051b824275
Decent episode. Especially for those of us who, despite decades of business experience, are struggling to make sense of this shit.
When I grew up, my mother told me the safest investment was a savings account. Keep in mind, this was the 70s and 80s so those actually paid interest. There is not a goddamn thing you can invest in nowadays that is safe. Other than your self. So I work hard to make my own goddamn money, and screw anyone’s investment ideas.
You know… I’ve got this idea that will guarantee returns, but you need to act quickly before the opportunity window closes…
Seriously, I’ve been trying to figure out where to park extra cash for the past two years. So far, the leading options seem to be metals, land, and experiences (since the memories remain, and the inflation will eat the money bit by bit).
We need to start a brewery.
The real money is going to be in quaaludes.
Paging robc…
Yeah…no.
Food and medical supplies.
I’m guessing these VCs don’t want to look stupid and ask, “Hold on. I don’t understand WTF you are doing. Explain it to me again.”
You dig the Emperors new coat, don’t you?
Reading that article about how understaffed and poorly managed all those Starbucks stores are, my reaction is it’s time to consolidate. Shut down about a third of them.
Oh yeah. It’s like Allstate offices. There are ones every other block. Serious over saturation.
It’s a goose, and it lays golden eggs; let’s eat it!
The UK government is hiking a windfall tax on oil and gas companies and extending the levy to electricity generators, as it scrambles to balance its budget amid an economic downturn. It is also investing in nuclear power for the first time in decades.
UK finance minister Jeremy Hunt announced the measures on Thursday while delivering the government’s medium-term budget, which laid out plans for higher taxes and cuts to public spending.
Beginning January 1, the Energy Profits Levy on oil and gas companies will increase from 25% to 35% and remain in place until the end of March 2028. That takes the total tax on the sector to 75%, according to the Treasury.
Fucking incentives- how do they work?
And those are the Conservatives?
Based on that:
Here is “The Giving Tree” as read by Shel Silverstein.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1TZCP6OqRlE
Seems very appropriate.
Yeah, stick it to the kkkorporations!
Tax exiles leaving the UK have been memory holes. History begins today.
Paging U2, The Rolling Stones, The Who …
From the EA article someone linked to this morning, I thought this was the best bit:
That seems to be a universal lesson for the world.
That was a great read.
Gewehr 88 conservation and repair.
I am not a gun guy but this was pretty fascinating to watch.