Promoted Comment: Nancy and Joe

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Courtesy of rametindallas.

You’ve got to admit, it sounds pretty authentic.

Nancy Pelosi: It’s up to the President to decide if he’s going to run.
Joe Biden: I’ve already decided, I’m running.
Nancy Pelosi: That’s completely up to you.
Joe Biden: I know it is and I’m telling you I’m running.
Nancy Pelosi: Whatever you want to tell me, I will accept.
Joe Biden: I told you! I am running!
Nancy Pelosi: Either option is okay.
Joe Biden: I understand that and I’ve chosen my option!
Nancy Pelosi: When you’re ready to share that option, I’m ready to receive that shared option.
Joe Biden: I’ve already shared it! I feel like you want me to drop out!
Nancy Pelosi: It’s not what I want. It’s what YOU want. And that is to drop out.
Joe Biden: THAT’S NOT WHAT I SAID.
Nancy Pelosi: You’re sure?
Joe Biden: Honestly, no. I can’t remember.

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You Get What You Pay For (2)

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Arkansas Man Ses Las Vegas Dancer for Over $38M | Says he was misled to believe they were exclusive
5News | 07/08/2024 | Logan Begneaud

A Washington County man is filing a lawsuit against a Las Vegas dancer after he says an “extensive, fraudulent scheme” lasting ten years cost him over $35,000,000, according to court documents.

The lawsuit claims in 2014 the plaintiff, Fred Brunner, was going through a divorce and “decided to go to a Las Vegas gentleman’s club to smoke a cigar and have a few cocktails.”

That’s where he met a woman.

The woman, who was reportedly a dancer, “made a significant amount of money from Brunner that night … and learned Brunner was far wealthier than her normal patrons — wealthy enough to change her life,” the lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit claims the woman communicated with him daily while scheming to “form a make-believe relationship” with the ultimate goal of getting as much money out of him as possible.

Over ten years, Brunner claims the “woman hoodwinked him into thinking they were in an exclusive, romantic relationship.” During this time, the lawsuit says she accepted a house and several trips funded by Brunner. Brunner also claims he would send financial support to the woman at “her specific request.”

During the woman’s alleged scheme, the lawsuit says she collected over $3 million from Brunner.

“Contrary to her countless representations to Brunner, the woman was in fact in a romantic relationship with another man in Las Vegas,” the lawsuit says. Additionally, the lawsuit claims the woman gave some of Brunner’s money to the other man. “All along, she had no intention of following through on her representations, doing only what was necessary to keep Brunner from being suspicious,” the lawsuit alleges. Brunner is seeking compensation and punitive fees from the woman amounting to $38,500,000, according to the lawsuit.

The defendant:

 

 

Straight Line of the Day: The Definition of a Crooked Fish: …

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Florida Researchers Find Unusual Crooked Fish in Silver Glen Springs
UPI | July 8, 2024 | Ben Hooper

“… this fish likely got its interesting shape from a spinal injury at some point in its life,” researchers wrote.

The gar, which weighed in at about 10.6 pounds, was returned to the water.

“With their razor-sharp teeth and armor-like scales, longnose gar may look scary, but they are no threat to humans, and they play an important role as an apex predator in many of Florida’s freshwater ecosystems,” the post said.

 

 

 

Your Faithful Reporter

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Well, it’s 8:30 p.m. EST, and I just finished watching creepy whispering rambling Biden finish his press conference — which was scheduled for 5:30 EST, and rescheduled to 6:30 EST, and began at 7:30 EST — and I am confused and depressed, amused, exhausted, and vindicated.

Apart from praising “vice president Trump,” I can’t remember the good zinger he ended up with.

The shame is, when I resort to the White House transcript, it will all read like Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.

ADDITION:

Five-minute version of the event on YouTube — someone compiled a sample of his stupidity, but by no means all of it.

 

She Likes To Cook

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Kamala Harris Lauds ‘Emotion’ Behind Anti-Israel Protests as DNI Admits Iran Pays for Them
Breitbart | 07/09/2024 | Joel B. Pollak

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“They are showing exactly what the human emotion should be, as a response to Gaza. There are things some of the protesters are saying that I absolutely reject, so I don’t mean to wholesale endorse their points. But we have to navigate it. I understand the emotion behind it.”

There are things some of the Nazis said that I absolutely reject, so I don’t mean to wholesale endorse their points. But we have to navigate it. I understand the emotion behind it.

Fox News notes that in the full interview [to The Nation magazine], Harris also expresses concern for the supposed lack of food in Gaza, because “I like to cook.” (The United Nations recently found that there is in fact no famine in Gaza, despite anti-Israel claims.)

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But What If You Want To Outrun a Landslide or Enemy Agents?

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Or an angry boyfriend?

Why Europe’s Mandatory Speed Limiters Mean The End Of Driving As You Know It
The Autopian | 8 July 2024 | Matt Hardigree

Lately, automakers have been applying new technologies to limit exceeding the speed limit. Most new cars will let you know what the car thinks the speed limit is and warn you, one way or another if you are exceeding that limit. Some cars beep. Most cars flash some sort of symbol on the dash. Some new cars can even be set to stop the driver from going any faster, but that’s a choice the driver makes.

If you’re in Europe, it’s now a choice that the government makes. As of July 7th, all new cars sold on the continent or in Northern Ireland have to have a mandatory speed limiter installed. The system is generally known as Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) and it’s probably going to show up on a lot of vehicles in the United Kingdom as well because the country basically shares a car market with the rest of its neighbors.

…“Arguably ISA will mark the beginning of the end of a world in which people choose their cars on the basis of its top speed and the time it takes to accelerate from 0 to 60mph. “It’s a sign of things to come,” he continued. “Increasingly, the car is going to decide what you can and can’t do.”

Increasingly, carmakers are trying to take the role of driving away from the driver. This view sees the driver as an unfortunate necessity, a stand-in for a computer until a computer can do the job. That view is winning. It’s winning in California and it’s winning in other places.

Whether this would work in America is a matter of debate as we’ve already experimented with a national speed limit and it didn’t last long.