TreasonousBastard
TreasonousBastard's JournalCan someone explain to me why a jar of strawberry jam had to be imported from Egypt and a box...
of oranges from Morrocco?
BASTIDS! Stupid, ignorant, useless bastards. Did the last guy fire EVERYONE who knew...
what they were doing?
Waiting patiently for my stimmie payment, I get a letter from the IRS today. Mailed 3/19. GREAT! Now I at least get some news, if not money.
So, I opens it up and it informs me that my $600 payment was direct deposited. Not a word about the latest one except that I should get it eventually.
If I paid taxes, I'd be glad to see my tax dollars were being put to even better use than the F-35.
Remember Sabine Schmitz, Queen of Nrburgring? One of her fun moments...
And for more fun...
https://jalopnik.com/sabine-schmitzs-finest-moments-1846519005
Anybody else not get stimulus direct deposit? I get SS deposits right on time and got...
the last two stimulus deposits.
But not a hint of this one.
Going to ask the bank later. They might know something. Or they might not.
Should Cuomo step down, meet Kathy Hochul...
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/03/who-is-andrew-cuomos-lieutenant-governor-kathy-hochul.html...
Before running for lieutenant governor, Hochul had a reputation as a moderate Democrat which was arguably a political necessity where she had run for office upstate. In local and county races, she regularly ran on the Conservative Party line. In 2007, when she was Erie County clerk, she gained some notoriety downstate for opposing then-Governor Eliot Spitzers effort to issue drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants vowing to arrest any immigrant who tried to apply for one at county offices. In 2011, she ran for Congress as an independent Democrat, and earned an endorsement from the National Rifle Association.
As with other upstate Democrats, like Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Hochuls politics have shifted in statewide office. She reversed her position on drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants, for instance, and has been in ideological lockstep with the Cuomo administration. Hochul has described her evolution, and past positions, as a matter of trying to best represent her constituents and their views.
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The Buffalo News editorial board, in its endorsement of Hochul for lieutenant governor in 2018, emphasized her solid record of public service for western New York, her economic-development efforts, and her advocacy for women, noting that she sees the governor-lieutenant governor relationship as akin to that of Barack Obama and Joe Biden someone in sync with the chiefs priorities She is the face of the initiatives, making appearances, leading task forces, and rallying support in the community and with legislators.
$69 million for a jpeg? (There's just too much money out there in the wrong places)
?quality=90&auto=webphttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/arts/design/nft-auction-christies-beeple.html
With seconds remaining, the work was set to sell for less than $30 million, but a last-moment cascade of bids prompted a two-minute extension of the auction and pushed the final price over $60 million. Rebecca Riegelhaupt, a Christies spokeswoman, said 33 active bidders had contested the work, adding that the result was the third-highest auction price achieved for a living artist, after Jeff Koons and David Hockney.
Father outraged, heartbroken after 10-year-old son beaten to death by ex's new boyfriend...
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-boy-killed-20210309-sfw7pzmxunhg7cauypojpyz3o4-story.htmlIn a nutshell, guy and girl break up and she and kid move in with new guy. New guy beats the kid to death. Worse, neighbors hear the screams and call cops, but cops can't find apt.
(Also on that page are two other equally horrifying stories-- it's been a bad weekend in the city)
Still True? The Klan can adopt-a-highway?
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-adopt-a-highway-sign-goes-up3-D printing organs for transplant in our lifetimes?
https://www.reviewgeek.com/73200/high-speed-3d-printing-method-could-produce-human-organs-in-under-an-hour/
Why don't we make things here? Why buy stuff from China?
Howcum we export pork and soy beans and import televisions? Isn't that what third-world counties do? Well, of course we do make things here. But, sometimes that invisible hand gets stuck. Take N95 masks...
This article basically says that we have a number of companies making N95 masks, but they can't sell them. They are perfectly good masks, but got stuck in the incredible web of purchasing mysteries.
Northwell Health, one of the biggest, maybe the biggest, hospital chains uses millions of these a year, but runs short. Problem is that if DemeTech goes to a local hospital, they are sent to "Purchasing" which already has contracts lined up and is loathe to pay an extra buck a mask. Distributers the same way. Amazon and Google have banned mask selling because fraudulent sellers can outnumber legitimate ones. Meanwhile, DemeTech has warehouses full of them. That containers full of masks and other stuff are tied up in salt-water "traffic jams" trying to get into port is only the tip of the iceberg.
We don't have any sort of a national policy to deal with this, and localities too often have hands out.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/health/covid-masks-china-united-states.html
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