Wednesday, August 09, 2023

Gotta see the comments!-----This picture is from a menswear store called Mike... | Facebook

John F. Di Leo - This picture is from a menswear store called Mike... | Facebook


MuskegonPundit: Why is the cash option for the $1.2B Powerball drawing so low? The answer might surprise you - mlive.com

MuskegonPundit: Why is the cash option for the $1.2B Powerball drawing so low? The answer might surprise you - mlive.com

Why is the cash option for the $1.2B Powerball drawing so low? The answer might surprise you - mlive.com

Why is the cash option for the $1.2B Powerball drawing so low? The answer might surprise you - mlive.com
LANSING, MI – It’s a question that lottery players both casual and hardcore ask themselves and others when talking about winning the multi-million-dollar jackpot.
“Would you take the cash option up front or the annuity for the full prize amount?”
With the annuitized prize valued at $1.2 billion for the drawing on Wednesday, Nov. 2 and the cash option worth an estimated $596.7 million, it’s something players will have to consider if they are lucky enough to win...
  • The cash option is determined by the numbers of tickets actually sold during the run of drawings that haven’t had a winner. 
  • Powerball is also required to have the total value of the cash option on hand to payout immediately if a player selects that option, meaning Powerball estimates that $596.7 million worth of tickets have been sold (or will be sold prior to tonight’s drawing) since the last winner was bought on Aug. 3...

Ohio sees massive voter turnout on GOP ballot question to protect state constitution from liberal activists | Fox News

Ohio sees massive voter turnout on GOP ballot question to protect state constitution from liberal activists | Fox News

Ohio voters on Tuesday will decide on a ballot measure to make it harder to amend the state constitution, a change conservatives say is needed to protect the state from a radical anti-gun, abortion and education agenda that could soon find its way to other states.

It's an issue that has already prompted a massive early vote turnout – one that has some election offices straining to manage the load.

Worth you time!-----Medicine, changes and intimidation


Great to learn from professor Robert Clancy. Every time I learn so much. 
  • Robert is a consultant physician and pioneering immunologist, professor of medicine, emeritus professor of pathology, doctor of medicine, doctor of philosophy and doctor of science, author, teacher and broadcaster. 
Also holder of the Order of Australia.

@DavidW.R.
"I always work on the basis that every patient is smarter than I am." Best quote I've ever heard from a doctor. Wish every doctor practiced with this very attitude.
@francisgriffin1
Robert Clancy is the best person that John Campbell has on his videos.  He is modest, extremely good at explaining complex issues to laypeople and never blames people for their errors.  I could watch/listen to John and Robert all day long.  I think that the guideline process discussed today has been coming for years.  During a relatively recent trip to my GP (4-5  years ago) it was clear that she was looking at the computer screen for proposed medication for my numbers and it was only when I refused to take an additional blood pressure tablet that she even looked at achieving the same effect with different rather than additional medication.  If doctors only respond to guidelines it won't be long before they're replaced by bots.

Social Engineering Is Now The Primary Objective Of Woke Corporations | The Daily Wire

Social Engineering Is Now The Primary Objective Of Woke Corporations | The Daily Wire - By Matt Walsh
"It used to be conventional wisdom in the field of economics that corporations should do everything they can to make a profit and maximize shareholder value. 
That was the whole point of a corporation...there was this idea that, if for some reason a corporation decided to spend a ton of money on social causes, instead of growing the business, then they were doing something wrong. 
They were misusing shareholder funds
They were engaging in a form of social engineering, which is unethical, and maybe even illegal. 
Pretty much everyone agreed with that.
In the last decade or so, though, this reasoning has fallen completely out of favor...

Lunch video-----Judith Curry: How Climate “Science” Got Hijacked by Alarmists

Climate alarmists insist there’s a “scientific consensus” that says climate change is a crisis, and man causes it!   
Researcher Judith Curry tells me, “it’s a manufactured consensus.”

Noon-toon


 

Bid to stop NYC ice cream trucks from using fuel gets chilly reception: 'Can't operate under these conditions' | Fox News

Bid to stop NYC ice cream trucks from using fuel gets chilly reception: 'Can't operate under these conditions' | Fox News

"You can't even have solar in a home if you have trees that are too tall. How are you going to drive around the city and have a solar-powered truck in the concrete jungle?" Lachterman asked. "It's just ridiculous. You're going to have product costs going through the roof trying to convert something is crazy, and if you go battery, I'll need something twice as long to hold the batteries to run it."

Yes. It is a mental pandemic!


 

Ripoff!-----Powerball’s jackpot reaches $1 billion—here’s the after-tax payout in every U.S. state Powerball’s jackpot reaches $1 billion—here’s the after-tax payout in every U.S. state

Ripoff!-----Powerball’s jackpot reaches $1 billion—here’s the after-tax payout in every U.S. state

Ripoff!-----Powerball’s jackpot reaches $1 billion—here’s the after-tax payout in every U.S. state

Powerball’s jackpot reaches $1 billion—here’s the after-tax payout in every U.S. state
"Powerball’s jackpot prize is now $1 billion, the third-highest ever.
But the amount that winners take home will vary by hundreds of millions of dollars, based on the payout they choose and whether their state charges taxes on the winnings...

Yes. Another good news fact the media buries.



A New Day, a New Type of Election Fraud - American Thinker

A New Day, a New Type of Election Fraud - American Thinker - By Jay Valentine
"Seems like every day, someone is finding new, fun types of election fraud. 
This is not accidental -- this is exactly how industrial, at-scale, organized fraud is uncovered. We call it spiraling to accuracy.
  • When our team was hired by State Farm, GEICO, USAA, and other top insurers to stop organized auto fraud rings, we found the easy stuff fast -- the equivalent of phantom voters.
  • When we cracked eBay’s on-line auction fraud -- we were dealing not with organized rings, but individual crime entrepreneurs who sold a computer, took the dough, never delivered, were kicked off eBay, changed every identifier, and rejoined eBay with the same scam..
This is how industrial-scale, organized fraud detection unfolds.
  • That is happening in the election fraud space with new variants -- SMURFS, algorithms, and shape shifters...
Deeper analysis shows tens of millions of dollars in illegal, outside contributions coming in, then being carefully redistributed to leftist candidates all over the country. 
James O’Keefe did a story on it.
Law enforcement’s term-of-art for this criminal endeavor is “SMURF.”...

#1 This day 1966-----Lovin' Spoonful - Summer In The City (1966)

You GO girlz!-----How dare Americans not cheer for a team that hates the country - Don Surber

How dare Americans not cheer for a team that hates the country
"...In girls’ soccer news, the detestable USWNT lost to Sweden on a missed penalty kick by the detestable Megan Rapinoe...
Real Americans cheer the news that these detestable people will no longer represent our great nation on the world stage. 
They are crass, ignorant and disrespectful. 
When one of their players scored a goal against Britain’s team in England a few years ago, she faked drinking a cup of tea.
The team rallied the world against them because they are mean, petty and obnoxious. 
In other words, liberals...

Your media reporting this?

 

Porsche apologizes after viewers notice it erased a historic Christian landmark from its new ad - TheBlaze

Porsche apologizes after viewers notice it erased a historic Christian landmark from its new ad - TheBlaze

Porsche elicited outrage over the weekend after keen observers recognized the company had edited a historic Christian landmark of its new advertisement. Although the German company has issued an apology and taken down the video, questions persist about the motivations behind the company's virtual iconoclasm.

EXCLUSIVE: 'We Are Totally Awash in Pseudoscience': Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist on Climate Agenda | The Epoch Times

EXCLUSIVE: 'We Are Totally Awash in Pseudoscience': Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist on Climate Agenda | The Epoch Times - By Nathan Worcester
  • His speech 'postponed' by the IMF, John Clauser speaks out
"Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Clauser isn't afraid to go against the flow...
  • "I believe that climate change is not a crisis," Mr. Clauser told the audience at Quantum Korea 2023.
  • He also described the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as "one of the worst sources of dangerous misinformation."
  • The physicist said he believes that objective science on climate has been sacrificed to politics
  • The preeminence of politics is all the worse, he said, because so much money has already gone to climate initiatives.
"We're talking about trillions of dollars," he said, adding that powerful people don't want to hear that they've made "trillion-dollar mistakes."...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for August 9

History for August 9 - On-This-Day.com
Rod Laver 1938
  • 1859 - The escalator was patented by Nathan Ames.
  • 1893 - "Gut Holz" was published. It was America's first bowling magazine.
  • 1930 - Betty Boop had her beginning in "Dizzy Dishes" created by Max Fleischer.
  • 1936 - Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics. He was the first American to win four medals in one Olympics.
  • 1944 - The Forest Service and Wartime Advertising Council created "Smokey the Bear."
  • 1945 - The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The bombing came three days after the bombing of Hiroshima. About 74,000 people were killed. Japan surrendered August 14.
  • 2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush announced he would support federal funding for limited medical research on embryonic stem cells.

Tuesday, August 08, 2023

Anheuser-Busch heir makes stunning admission on Bud Light controversy: 'A huge mistake' | Fox News

Anheuser-Busch heir makes stunning admission on Bud Light controversy: 'A huge mistake' | Fox News

Anheuser-Busch heir Billy Busch made a stunning admission on the company's controversial ad campaign with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney, saying the decision "was a huge mistake" as sales continue to suffer.

Democrats Push 1,000 Percent Excise Tax on AR-15s

Democrats Push 1,000 Percent Excise Tax on AR-15s

House Democrats introduced legislation Friday that would place a 1,000 percent excise tax on AR-15s and other firearms they refer to as “assault weapons.”

FOX News reported the tax would also apply to “high capacity” magazines.

The way we were-----Highway Patrol 2023 - Episode 12 - Phony Insurance - Best Classic Crime ...

Ethnicity and achievement; why an Indian spaceship is orbiting the moon ...

"India has a spaceship in orbit around the moon. 
It is interesting to speculate as to why such a feat is unlikely to be accomplished by any nation in Africa or the Caribbean.

IN DEPTH: Banks Take Lead in Establishing Personal Social Credit System, Critics Charge | The Epoch Times

IN DEPTH: Banks Take Lead in Establishing Personal Social Credit System, Critics Charge | The Epoch Times
"Large money-center banks appear to be in the vanguard of a movement to build a system of personal social credit scores.
  • This week, British bank Barclays became the latest to be accused of shutting the accounts of its customers for political or religious reasons. That followed revelations in April that Coutts, a private bank owned by UK bank NatWest, was alleged to have closed the accounts and publicized personal information of conservative politician Nigel Farage, one of the foremost Brexit advocates and a supporter of the policies of former U.S. President Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, British banks aren't alone.
  • Many say that the largest U.S. financial institutions are in lockstep with UK banks in establishing political and social criteria for their customers and punishing those who don’t comply...

Dude, look how much you saved!-----What Happens To Student Loans When You Die? US Has to Write Off Borrowers Debt - Bloomberg

What Happens To Student Loans When You Die? US Has to Write Off Borrowers Debt - Bloomberg
"...Roughly 300,000 student loan borrowers have died since the federal government’s 2020 loan moratorium.
And according to a report Monday (Aug. 7) by Bloomberg News, that means the government will have to write off billions in those borrowers’ loans...
As Bloomberg notes, death is one of the rare ways to get out of student loans...

China, Russia send naval warships near Alaska, triggering forceful US response | Fox News

China, Russia send naval warships near Alaska, triggering forceful US response | Fox News

China and Russia conducted a joint naval operation near U.S. territory earlier this week, triggering a large response from the U.S. Navy, Fox News Digital has learned. The joint operation, conducted by two significant American adversaries, consisted of 11 ships and neared Alaska's southwestern coast, according to Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, who was briefed on the matter earlier this week by U.S. defense officials. Sullivan said the U.S. Navy ultimately mobilized four destroyers to guide the Chinese and Russian ships away from American waters.

HOA Board Arrested

Trump more crooked than Biden Crime Family?!!-----Rethinking Trump 2024

Rethinking Trump 2024
"...The 170-plus suspicious activity reports (SAR) also should raise red flags. 
And if the Bidens were Republicans—they would. 
  • Just two SAR reports blocks most from opening a new bank account. 
The point is that, even if Trump is indicted again in the Georgia election interference case, which is now a RICO probe, it’s likely, the legal drama no longer matters to a certain degree...

Lunch video-----MOST CORRUPT: Lyndon Baines Johnson - Forgotten History

"When it came to subterfuge, lying, intimidation, hypocrisy, bigotry, fraud, and possibly murder, few can touch US President Lyndon Baines Johnson. So, who was the real Lyndon Baines Johnson? 

Noon-toon