Idea courtesy of Gene.
Say what you will about IMAO; at least it seems to break even for FrnakJ, otherwise he’d scrap it.
CBS canned ‘The Late Show’ over tens of millions in financial losses annually — not Stephen Colbert’s politics: sources
NY Post | July 18, 2025 | Charles GasparinoCBS brass say they pulled the plug on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” because of its punishing losses — pegged between $40 million and $50 million a year — and claim politics had nothing to do with it.
To be sure, there is some idle water-cooler chit-chat about the off-the-books losses of between $40 million and $50 million a year on interns, but who among us has ever tracked expenses obsessively?
GOVERNMENT: We’re going to hold hearings on everything!
ME: Uh-huh.
GOVERNMENT: We’re going to subpoena the key players. They’ll appear before our committee.
ME: Uh-huh.
GOVERNMENT: We’ll get to the bottom of the matter, and get to the truth!
ME: Uh-huh.
GOVERNMENT: And no shilly-shallying, this time.
ME: Uh-huh.
GOVERNMENT: There will be accountability and transparency!
ME: Uh-huh.
GOVERNMENT: Those most closely involved will testify fully, clearly, and truthfully.
ME: Uh-huh.
GOVERNMENT: WE WILL ACT!
ME: Uh-huh.
GOVERNMENT: There will be consequences!
ME: Uh-huh.
{Election time approaches. Silence ensues.}
Netherlands RATIONS electricity as country struggles to cope with turning away from gas as part of green policies – as expert warns Britain is also ‘in trouble’
UK Daily Mail | 14 July 2025 | Kevin Adjei-Darko
Re: Author
Excellent try, Darko, but I have a better Witness Protection Program alias. . . . see below.
The Netherlands is rationing electricity as its overloaded power grid buckles under the pressure of rapid electrification and ambitious climate goals.
More than 11,900 businesses are stuck in a queue for access to the network, alongside public buildings including hospitals, schools and fire stations.
Thousands of new homes are also waiting to be connected, with some areas warned they may have to wait until the 2030s.
The crisis has emerged as the country scrambles to cut carbon emissions.
And now experts are warning that Britain, as well as Belgium and Germany, are all ‘in trouble.’
The countries should ‘definitely’ see what is happening in the Netherlands as a warning, says Zsuzsanna Pató, from Brussels-based energy think tank RAP.
My name is Zsuzsanna Pató, from Brussels. I work for RAP.
After shutting down production at the massive Groningen gas field last year, the Dutch government has pushed a fast transition to electric heating, solar power and battery storage.
But the national grid has failed to keep pace, creating widespread bottlenecks and driving up costs.
Tilting towards windmills, Don.
LOS ANGELES – Oppo has been charged in a federal criminal complaint with orchestrating a phony kidnapping — which he blamed on federal agents or people working with federal agents – to generate public sympathy and solicit donations, the Justice Department announced today.
Oppo, of IMAO, is charged with conspiracy and making false statements to federal officers. Like “Pizza is better with pineapples.” Things like that.
Vegas 7-Eleven security guard sentenced to 5 to 14 years in prison for killing customer over COVID-19 protocols
New York Post | July 11, 2025 | Nicholas McEntryeA Las Vegas security guard was sentenced to spend between five and 14 years in prison for fatally shooting a customer outside a 7-Eleven convenience store during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kegia Mitchell tearfully apologized on Thursday after she entered an Alford plea for the August 2020 death of 56-year-old Thomas Martin.
“I didn’t mean to take this man’s life, I did not,” Mitchell cried out in court. “I am truly sorry from the bottom of my heart.”
The deal means she doesn’t plead guilty to the murder of Martin but acknowledges that prosecutors may have enough evidence for a conviction.
Mitchell was tasked with regulating the number of customers permitted into the convenience store in Las Vegas’ northeast section on August 26 when Martin cut the line and attempted to enter.
Martin was blocked and began complaining that Mitchell was refusing to let him in while she had allowed other customers through the checkpoint.
The two began arguing as Martin cursed at the security guard, threatening Mitchell before breaking past and into the store.
Mitchell grabbed the angry customer and the two shoved each other before she took out a handgun and pointed it at Martin’s face, according to security footage of the incident.
The armed security guard led Martin out of the store with her gun inches from his head.
Martin turned around and attempted to swat the gun out of Mitchell’s hands when a shot rang out.
Mitchell, who failed her first firearms safety training, was gifted the gun for Mother’s Day, according to the outlet.
She was arrested and charged with open murder.
A grand jury later indicted her for murder with a deadly weapon.
The charges were changed to involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault when Mitchell signed the Alford plea in April.
Well, I guess you can’t say “ain’t nobody got time for that” — because this one did.
WaPo enlists actual clown to set the record straight in scathing op-ed: Trump is not one of us
NY Post | 7/10/25 | Chris NesiSend in the clowns.
The Washington Post published an opinion piece defending the good name of clowns everywhere — fervently insisting President Trump doesn’t deserve the harlequin moniker his rivals frequently foist upon him.
“Donald Trump is not a clown. I should know,” reads the headline of the missive penned by Tim Cunningham — a self-described professional clown of 24 years and board president of the not-at-all-terrifying-sounding nonprofit Clowns Without Borders.
Like all people, I appreciate a good job title.
Puts me in mind of a bit from the sketch comedy show “A Bit of Fry and Laurie”:
“No, not working for; more like working with. I’m more of an independently-targeted, highly-resourced free-ranging trouble-shooter.”
This one impressed me, in a recent article, and I’ll parse it here:
White House
Principal
Deputy
Press Secretary
Harrison Fields …
I loved him in Raiders!
But is there a Deputy Principal Press Secretary?
… Harrison Fields released a statement on the Bondi-Bongino clash.
“President Trump …
… blah blah blah etc. etc. etc. …
… pursuing justice for all,” Harrison Fields said.
. . . Harrison Fields said.
The author likes the name so much he, she, or it felt it profitable to state it at both the beginning and the end of the statement.
Harrison Fields Forever!
On Friday,
… last week, that is…
Ashley Williams came in for questioning.
… by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, that is.
Williams was Biden’s deputy director of Oval Office operations while in the White House
… Joe Biden, that is, in case you’ve forgotten who he was.
and still works in his post-presidency office. She had — and has — a front-row seat to Biden’s decline and, like [Joe Biden’s White House Physician, Dr. Kevin] O’Connor, had firsthand knowledge of the White House’s coverup.
Williams did not take the Fifth. She did not have to. As luck would have it, Williams doesn’t remember anything about working alongside President Biden for the last five years.
According to a source familiar with Williams’ five-hour interview, the highly accomplished Ivy League-educated lawyer “could not recall”:
…if she spoke with President Biden in the last week,
if teleprompters were used for Cabinet meetings,
if there were discussions about President Biden using a wheelchair,
if there were discussions about a cognitive test,
if she discussed a mental or physical decline of President Biden,
if she ever had to wake President Biden up and
how she got involved with his 2020 campaign.
— The Biden Staff Coup Was The Biggest Conspiracy Against Americans In History
Federalist | July 16, 2025 | Rachel Bovard
I wish our interns were as lawyered-up and forgetful.
Below is a photo.
Former ’16 and Pregnant’ star Whitney Purvis charged in man’s death
ktla | Jul 12, 2025 | Jeremy TannerA woman who appeared on MTV’s “16 and Pregnant” was arrested Monday in Georgia on charges including involuntary manslaughter related to a man’s death by fentanyl poisoning earlier this year.
Whitney Purvis, 33, was being held without bond in the Floyd County Jail in Rome, Georgia, about 65 miles (105 kilometers) northwest of Atlanta, according to online jail records.
The photo was posted by some random commenter.
Supposedly, it shows the perpetrator.
If it is true — if, that is, if — then God help us all.
See the problem, for a guy out at the bar to have a good time?
Can girls really leap from a 2 to a 10 that easily?
Humiliation for Putin as Russia ‘looks set to SCRAP its only aircraft carrier after seven years of failed repairs’
Daily Mail | 7/11/2025 | Olivia Allhusen and Will StewartVladimir Putin’s only aircraft carrier – the hulking Admiral Kuznetsov – is poised to be scrapped after seven failed years of repairs, say reports.
Work on the jinxed ship, the largest in the Russian navy, has now been suspended despite the efforts to get it back in the water.
News outlet Izvestia cites sources saying the vessel is likely destined for the scrapheap.
Putin’s ‘Ship of Shame’ is languishing in dock in grim Arctic port Murmansk, and has played no role in the war against Ukraine.
