I was going to say “No Other Qualifications Necessary,” but some of them do actually have meteorology degrees. The ugly ones have been weeded out, though. I love me some weather girls.
I do find it amusing when your find yourself in a state or even a country you’ve never been to before, and you turn on the TV only to find an anchor team that could have been recruited from your own broadcasting area. Mutatis mute handy.
JFK’s Grandson Rants About Restaurants: ‘You Have to Read to Get Your Food?’
New York Post | 7/7/23Jack Schlossberg, the only grandson of the late President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Onassis, is going viral for claiming eating at restaurants is “purely corrupt.”
The 30-year-old Yale and Harvard grad’s “Resta-rant” was posted Monday to his Instagram Story and remains on his account as a Highlight.
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“We have to wait there to eat something that we don’t get to choose, really, what it is,” Schlossberg said to the giggling camera operator. “We only get a few choices, and you don’t know what any of them are gonna taste like or what’s good … and we’re gonna sit there and wait for some guy to ask us a question. And we’re gonna have to talk to some guy about what we wanna eat.” He continued: “You spend hours and hours eating in restaurants when you could spend a minute-and-a-half eating something good for you.”
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“You have to read to get your food? Why?” Schlossberg asked. “You don’t actually need to do that, and that’s why I’m never, ever going to a restaurant again.”
Pro tip: don’t order a berliner and claim to be one at the same time.
Why do I see this as throttling only Republican campaign robocalls?
Nationwide Crackdown on Illegal Robocalls, Telemarketing Scams Begins
NY Post | 07/18/2023 | ReutersUS regulators on Tuesday announced a nationwide crackdown to stop companies from inundating people with billions of unwanted and illegal robocalls and telemarketing calls.
The crackdown, known as Operation Stop Scam Calls, involves the Federal Trade Commission and 101 other federal and state law enforcement authorities, including the attorneys general of all 50 states and Washington, DC.
More than 180 enforcement actions and initiatives are part of the initiative, including five that the FTC formally announced on Tuesday.
“We don’t know too many people out there who enjoy getting scam calls,” Samuel Levine, director of the FTC consumer protection bureau, told reporters. “A single unwanted call is one too many.”
I also see this as creating a Telephone Security Administration which will harass little old grandmothers in wheelchairs just trying to visit with their grandchildren.
American Woman Detained And Charged In Dubai For Screaming In Public, Faces Jail Time
Blavity | 7/17/2023 | Kui MwaiScreaming in public may be common in the U.S., but it’s a much different story in Dubai. Unfortunately, Tierra Young Allen learned that the hard way. After attempting to retrieve personal items left in a rental car, the San Diego native was detained and charged with “screaming in public.” She’s been stuck in the United Arab Emirates for two months, and her family is terrified about her future.
According to Fox 26, Allen was in a friend’s rental car when they got into an accident in Dubai. Allen’s mother, Tina Baxter, said her daughter went to the rental car company to get her ID, credit card and other items left in the rental after the accident. That’s when things escalated.
“She found out she could only receive those items if she paid an undisclosed amount of money. She dealt with a very aggressive individual a young man there who was screaming at her,” she told Fox 26, adding that led her 29-year-old daughter to raise her voice.
Authorities in Dubai have taken Allen’s passport and placed her under a travel ban while investigating the incident.
Baxter said the situation is “frightening,” and as time goes on, Allen is beginning to realize the severity of her situation.
“The longer she’s been there the more reality has started to kick in,” she told Fox 26.
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Allen has an attorney in Dubai, who has notified her she may be sentenced to jail time thanks to a video of the incident.
Leave our Britneys alone!
“Ahhh, Miss Munro, you are here yet again.”
“Yes sir, but I am afraid I bring bad news.”
“Say it ain’t so!”
“Yes sir, I am afraid no Far Side today, just some cartoons.”
“Well that’s not that bad, is it?”
“Could be worse, could be worse.”
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If you like electric vehicles, well and good. But see last sentence quoted.
Electric Vehicles: Costly Virtue Signaling Forced on America by Left
Daily Signal | July 14, 2023 | David HarsanyiThe Left likes to treat skeptics of electrical cars as if they were Luddites. Truth is, making an existing product less efficient, but more expensive, doesn’t really meet the definition of innovation.
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Which is why there is no real “emerging market” for EVs in the United States as much as there’s an industrial policy in place that props up EVs with government purchases, propaganda, state subsidies, cronyism, taxpayer-backed loans, and edicts. The green “revolution” is an elite-driven, top-down technocratic project.
And it’s increasingly clear that the only reason giant rent-seeking carmakers are so heavily invested in EV development is that government is promising to artificially limit the production of gas-powered cars.
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In today’s real-world economy, Ford projects it’s going to lose $3 billion on electric vehicles in 2023, bringing its EV losses to $5.1 billion over two years. In 2021, Ford reportedly lost $34,000 on every EV it made. This year, it was losing more than $58,000 on every EV. In a normal world, Ford would be dramatically scaling back EV production, not expanding it.
Remember that next time we need to bail out Detroit.
Then again, we’re already bailing them out, I suppose. Last week, the U.S. Energy Department lent Ford—again, a company that loses tens of thousands of dollars on every EV it sells—another $9.2 billion in taxpayer dollars for a South Korean battery project. One imagines no sane bank would do it. The cost of EV batteries has gone up, not down, over the past few years.
Ford says these upfront losses are part of a “start-up mentality.” We’re still pretending EVs are a new idea, rather than an inferior one. But scaremongering about climate and a misplaced romanticizing of “manufacturing” jobs have softened up the public for this kind of waste.
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Without massive state help, EVs are a niche market for rich virtue-signalers. And, come to think of it, that’s sort of what they are now, even with the help. A recent University of California at Berkeley study found that 90% of tax credits for EVs go to people in the top income strata. Most EVs are bought by high earners who like the look and feel of a Tesla. And that’s fine. I don’t want to stop anyone from owning the car they prefer. I just don’t want to help pay for it.
“The modern world rules! Ancient world drools!”
“Let’s ruin ruins!”
17-Year-Old Swiss Girl Becomes Second Tourist To Deface Rome’s Colosseum in a Month
NY Post | 7/17/2023 | Yaron SteinbuchWhen in Rome … another tourist has defaced the Colosseum.
A Swiss girl carved her initials into the iconic amphitheater — less than a month after another tourist stunningly defaced the ancient landmark with his and his fiancée’s names
Police have launched an investigation after Italian tour guide David Battaglino captured video of the unidentified 17-year-old girl carving the letter “N” into the wall, La Repubblica reported.
The footage posted on Twitter by Italian news agency ANSA shows the blond girl, whose face is blurred, using an object to carve the letter before she backs off amid the attention.
“It is the first time I have managed to film an act of vandalism at the Colosseum but in six years I have seen dozens,” he told the local news outlet.
If this story is true, it’s sad.
Canadian man is fired from job for SAVING adorable baby moose from being mauled by a black bear – because he let it sit in front seat of his work truck
daily mail | 7/15/23Mark Skage rescued a baby moose from the side of a busy highway in British Columbia, Canada. He was consequentially fired by his employer, AFD Petroleum Inc., who let him go for breaking wildlife protocols.
‘I just couldn’t do it, in my heart … Black bears are the number one predator for those calves,’ Skage said to CBC. ‘So I just thought, ‘Well, I can’t take care of the predator, but I guess maybe I can try and help out this little calf.’
Skage told CBC News that he noticed the calf alone on the side of the road, with no mother in sight. After witnessing the calf nearly get hit by multiple vehicles on the road, he pulled over and attempted to scare the animal off the side of the highway
But as the car door swung open, the calf quickly trotted over, attempting to climb into the pickup truck and Skage could not resist giving the young moose a ride.
‘Her and I kind of bonded on the ride home. I mean, shucks, we had like five and a half hours in the pickup truck together,’ Skage said to CBC News.
Skage then happened to notice a black bear in the area. He felt compelled to help the moose calf
‘After the second time she tried to get in, I looked up across the road, I just happened to glance over there — and halfway across the ditch, maybe like 50 yards, there was a black bear standing there,’ Skage said.
He waited for a while, hoping the calf’s mother would scare off the bear, but when that didn’t happen, he decided to take matters into his own hands.
He called the B.C. Conservation Officer Service while driving to find a safe place for the calf to stay.
