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stopdiggin's JournalI am completely flummoxed by the stock market - and in particular today's giddy highes
Can someone explain to me (preferably in simple terms - and at least somewhat seriously) What .. ? How .. ? Underpinnings .. ? Rationale .. ?
(does it have something to do with punching through an imaginary barrier/high .. ?)
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Nicolette Larson delivering a classic
hadn't seen this one before myself ..
pretty hard not to like - just about everything here.
another weekend - and another seemingly endless 'dump' of posts by a single contributor
by my (last) count there have been approximately 23 OPs submitted in just a minute or so over an hour.
I'm not going to say any more than that for fear of running afoul of administration and site standards. But - somebody might want to be looking into this?
(count is now 28 posts - in 70 minutes .... )
I really need a, "THESE PEOPLE WEIRD !" T-shirt
surely someone is selling by now?
direct me ...
Biden has once again acted the decent and honorable man
that we have valued so much through the years.
Now we will come to see whether that really represents a service - - to either party or country.
I will support ANY candidate that the party puts forward. In my heart, I will always believe that Joe was the best candidate - and our best opportunity.
I have read several of these 'Schiff helps Garvey' articles recently. Please stop.
In fact, Garvey was (by some margin) the acknowledged closest contender for Schiff in this election. Schiff ran against that competition. And money was spent in the process. (Amazing!) What reason allows us to spin this off as some sort of dodgy ploy - wherein Schiff was actually aiding the Republican candidate? This kind of convoluted 'spin' is complete misrepresentation and misinformation. Pisses me off!
Unconventional tactics in California Senate race
Calif. Rep. Adam Schiff became a Democratic star during the Trump presidency as he led the impeachment effort against the Republican president.
In his run for U.S. Senate, Schiff sought to eliminate his top Democratic opponent for the seat, Rep. Katie Porter, by elevating a Republican.
California’s election rules dictate that the primary is open to candidates of all parties but that only two candidates advance to the fall election. So Schiff’s play was to help Republican Steve Garvey, a former star player for the Los Angeles Dodgers, to beat Porter.
Because California almost never elects Republicans to statewide office, Schiff wanted to run against Garvey, not Porter. And so his campaign spent $25 million to frame the race as one between himself and Garvey only, sidelining Porter.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-big-election-news-this-week-that-didnt-involve-trump-or-biden-201303607.html
So - Schiff is suppose to spend money against Porter - in order to help Porter?
Y'all making my head hurt!
Sierra Hull (I got to see her a couple times this year. my good luck.)
One of the things that I like about the 'youngsters' representing the bluegrass scene today ..
Is that they are just so grounded, and versatile - as much or more than being flat out talented.
One moment they can be just kicking down the walls and tearing the house apart with a standard (that would put a smile on any of the 'old boys') ..
And the next they give you something like an exquisite ... Well listen ...
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and now - to prove my words about 'holding their own' (and then some) with the real stuff ...
Pepper Expert Scorches His Own Guinness Book Heat Record
Pepper X was publicly named the hottest pepper in the world on Oct. 9 by the Guinness Book of World Records, beating out the Reaper in Currie’s decade long hunt to perfect a pepper that he says provides “immediate, brutal heat.”
Heat in peppers is measured in Scoville Heat Units. Zero is bland, and a regular jalapeno pepper registers about 5,000 units. A habanero, the record-holder about 25 years ago, typically tops 100,000. The Guinness Book of World Records lists the Carolina Reaper at 1.64 million units.
Pepper X’s record is an average of 2.69 million units. By comparison, pepper spray commonly holstered by police is around 1.6 million units. Bear spray advertises at 2.2 million units.
Pepper X has been in the works since Currie last set the hottest pepper record in 2013 with the Carolina Reaper, a bright red knobby fruit with what aficionados call a scorpion tail. The goal was to offer an extremely hot pepper flavored with sweetness.
Pepper X is greenish-yellow, doesn’t have the same shelf appeal and carries an earthy flavor once its heat is delivered. It’s a crossbreed of a Carolina Reaper and what Currie mysteriously classifies as a “pepper that a friend of mine sent me from Michigan that was brutally hot.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-worlds-hottest-pepper_n_652ea5ffe4b00565b6219bfd
(and for the 'record' - terrible pun - I think anyone that is within 20 yards of this kind of insane heat - is utterly and completely out of their tree!)
general question on tipping
Been wondering this for some period of time now ..
When the server at the coffee house spins the little screen around to me - to either add a percentage tip to total, or conversely decline ... Is that 'tip' handled in the same way as the the dollar bill(s) I stuff in the jar on the counter?
Basic question/concern is obviously - is that money actually getting to the servers and wait staff? (when and how) And then, further, if someone has a real answer - are there other implications involved - taxes, withholding, reporting - fair splits and distribution? And - is anybody, beyond perhaps owner and site manager, in possession of those figures and (purported) distributions?
Documents reveal Eric Adams sent migrants to Florida, Texas and China
This is where Politico (along with a few others) really drops the ball and loses my respect. Read halfway through the article to find that the 'obvious comparison' being drawn here - doesn't hold up at all. And yet, that is the headline and slant that we are intent on 'getting out there.'
And Adams didn’t stop at the nation’s borders.
Between April 2022 and April 2023, New York City spent around $50,000 to resettle 114 migrant households in cities around the U.S. and the globe, according to information obtained exclusively by POLITICO through a public information request. Some were sent to countries in South America — and one all the way to China.
Texas has been chartering whole buses to New York City whereas the Adams administration has been purchasing individual tickets for migrants who want to leave the state, she said. New York officials found that some asylum-seekers who arrived from Texas did not want to come in the first place and were dehydrated and malnourished when they got to Manhattan. She pointed to reports that asylum-seekers leaving Texas were wearing barcoded bracelets, were prevented from getting off the bus mid-journey and signed waivers many did not understand.
“In contrast, New York City has, as we have discussed very publicly for months, worked to connect individuals with friends, family, and networks whether in New York City or outside of it,” Smart said in a statement. “We are not coercing people to leave, we are not suggesting or recommending locations, and we are not presenting any kind of false choice. We are helping people who want to reconnect with loved ones or communities do so.”
Because the country’s largest population of Venezuelans live in Florida, for example, most Venezuelan asylum-seekers said they wanted to head south, according to Manuel Castro, head of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs.
“It really is up to the individuals,” he said at the October press briefing. “We want to make sure that we support people [getting] to where they wish to go themselves.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/23/eric-adams-hammered-florida-and-texas-over-migrants-but-he-sent-asylum-seekers-to-both-00103447
It would seem that these efforts regarding the immigrant influx, and needs, are quite, quite dissimilar. So why the effort to draw analogy?
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