Hope you had a great weekend. Mine was pretty uneventful. It was rainy and gross here. I did some shopping, cleaning, etc. I also had Book Club, which is always fun.
Brazil election:
Brazil election 2022: live results from the presidential race
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2022/oct/02/brazil-election-2022-live-results-bolsonaro-lula-da-silva
Ukraine updates:
Ukraine live briefing: U.S., U.K. say Russia’s retreat from Lyman ‘significant,’ hurts its ability to resupply troops
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/02/russia-ukraine-war-latest-updates/
This is interesting!
This 100% solar community endured Hurricane Ian with no loss of power and minimal damage
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/02/us/solar-babcock-ranch-florida-hurricane-ian-climate/index.html
Stonks!
Crypto Exchange Coinbase Temporarily Halts Payments and Withdrawals From US Bank Accounts
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/10/02/crypto-exchange-coinbase-temporarily-halts-payments-and-withdrawals-from-us-bank-accounts/
Little MegMeg had just moved to Maryland a few years before this happened…It was terrifying!
The D.C. snipers terrorized a region. Here’s what it was like.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/10/01/dc-snipers-terrorized-region-heres-what-it-was-like/
#RIP to an impressive lady!
Madame Wu, famed California restaurateur, dies at 106
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/oct/03/madame-wu-famed-california-restaurateur-dies-at-106
Today in cuteness:
Have a great day!
Madame Wu’s original location on Wilshire in Santa Monica was fabulous. While it was still at that location I had a friend who lived nearby in Venice and was just starting out in The Industry and he took me there two or three times.
I found this article about LA “tiki culture” and there’s an image of the Wilshire location. By the time I got there they had updated but this is what it looked like in its heyday (scroll down; it’s the third image.)
I was gonna make a crack that I bet Matthew Crawley has been there…
Steven Seagul is no longer with us, which, is a good thing.
Sadly or fortunately no.
https://en.mediamass.net/people/steven-seagal/deathhoax.html
This isn’t the first time he’s been pronounced dead in the media. He also “died” in 2015. Did you know he had seven children? Imagine him as your Dad.
Damn it, I should have known, long weekend and I didn’t do the due diligence, my apologies.
I fell for one too, but in reverse. I can’t remember who the celebrity was. In this case the celeb actually was dead but someone created a phony twitter account for the celeb and sent out tweets saying “I am very much alive” and “I appreciate all the condolences but I’m still here.” Major news organizations started issuing retractions, but then had to retract the retractions…I wish I could remember who it was, because it wasn’t some icon.
Meanwhile, Jimmy Carter started trending recently and everyone thought, “Oh, it happened at last” but what happened was he celebrated his 98th birthday.
I literally bumped into Steven Segal one time. It was like walking into a tree.
Career dead only. Unless you count straight to Amazon Prime movies.
Career dead, *and* “Against us” in the sense that he was purportedly made a Russian Citizen by ‘ol Pooty-Poot, a few years back!😉
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/03/500535943/steven-seagal-is-now-a-citizen-of-russia-courtesy-of-putin
This part of the canon looks like a winner.
https://1900hotdog.com/2022/03/punching-day-the-fashion-of-marked-for-death-%f0%9f%8c%ad/
That was hilarious.
The remnants if Ian are scheduled to leave my area today, so I may see sun for the first time in 4 days.
“temporary” halt… yeah right.
All these Coinbase are belong to us.
I learned a very good vocabulary word yesterday. Would anyone care to guess what a truckle is? Hint: You probably don’t have one in your house but a nearby store or restaurant might.
Another reason we can’t let the house fall to these morons!
https://www.thebulwark.com/kevin-mccarthys-plan-to-benghazi-the-bidens/
Interesting info on Florida…
https://popular.info/p/what-happened-while-ron-desantis
WE know how to handle a little water on the road!
Hurricane Ian follow-up.
If true, this is unbelievable. Apparently Lee County (home of Naples and Ft. Myers) chose to not order evacuations. CNN is citing anecdotal reports of “hundreds of bodies.”
https://www.rawstory.com/hurricane-ian-toll/
Remember what I told you yesterday about storm surge?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/03/rescue-mother-flood-hurricane-ian/
Sanibel Island was basically wiped out. Literally, like a big hand just scraped almost everything off the island.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/02/hurricane-ian-sanibel/
And yes, Rhonda Santis was fucking off, spending his time shipping Texas immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard instead of doing his job, and the Florida home insurance market will collapse. Thank you all in advance for your tax dollars that will get sucked up by Florida to rebuild this mess. You think rebuilding Puerto Rico was expensive? Wait until you pay for those coastal condos. And thanks for the link, Loveshaq. I should have known Rhonda was on the take from insurance companies.
Lee County is 60% Republican, so look for Rhonda Santis to waive all his fucked-up voter suppression laws to let the survivors vote for him by mail-in ballots and dropboxes. But only for Lee County for white people.
Oh, look. Another bunch of right wing bullshit runs into a brick wall called Reality.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/03/liz-truss-abandon-plan-scrap-45p-top-rate-income-tax-tory-revolt-kwasi-kwarteng-chancellor
Big scandal in Cleveland!!
Fishermen nearly won a tournament. Then weights were found in the fish.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/03/fishing-tournament-cheating-weights-walleye/
Those walleyes ate those weights! And filleted and ate other walleyes! You can’t prove otherwise!
And you just know those guys are MAGAts.
They shoulda let them get their asses kicked.
Bigger than Ohio, my cousin’s and friends were pissed and following it, they fish Oneida on the NY side (along with Ontario).
me thinks im going to be seeing a lot of empty shelves in the supermarkets over here soon
https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/10/hak-chops-apple-sauce-production-schedule-due-to-high-energy-prices/
seems our food industry is collapsing under the weight of gas prices
https://nltimes.nl/2022/10/03/dutch-food-industry-buckling-high-energy-costs-trade-association
gonna be an interesting winter me thinks
I watched a story on Vice the other day about Bolsonaro pulling a Trump and refusing to leave. I can’t find it on their site but he is NOT going to go and much of the military is on his side. I predict things getting really ugly in Brazil!
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-bolsonaro-says-he-wont-hand-over-presidency-if-there-is-vote-fraud-2021-07-01/