Hope you’re having a good week. Work is dragging by with meetings and more meetings.
Hope you’re hanging in there…
Ukraine Updates:
Russia-Ukraine war latest: Biden accuses Russia of genocide; Putin ally captured in Ukraine – live
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/apr/12/russia-ukraine-war-latest-mariupol-mayor-says-more-than-10000-civilians-killed-zelenskiy-taking-chemical-weapons-threat-seriously
Brooklyn subway station shooter injured at least 29, and wore gas mask
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/04/12/brooklyn-subway-shooting/
The number of people injured in Tuesday’s shooting at a subway station in New York has risen to 29, according to officials at three hospitals in Brooklyn.
Sprots! Bring on the Dan Snyder hate!
Stonks!
Stock futures inch higher following highest inflation data in decades
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/12/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html
#RIP
Comedian Gilbert Gottfried dead at 67 after ‘long illness’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/04/12/gilbert-gottfried-dead-muscular-dystrophy/
This is pretty funny, if only for the contestants who keep missing the answers that are pretty obvious.
I’ve always loved her!
Drew Barrymore finally found her perfect role: Herself
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/04/07/drew-barrymore-show-interview/
Have a great day!
Even I know that Dan Snyder is an asshole, but he’s no Jack Kent Cooke, who bought the Chrysler Building, let it fall to ruin, and it fell in bankruptcy after his death in the late 90s. That was actually pretty tough for him to do, since NYC was experiencing one of its biggest commercial real estate booms in history.
Meanwhile, so our crooked Lt. Governor has resigned. So what, you say? In Illinois Governors are led off in handcuffs all the time, and he’s not even the Governor. Ah yes, but New York is special. Due to our Byzantine election laws, it is almost certain that he’ll appear on the primary ballot in August as Kathy Hochul’s LG running mate, even though he’s not running.
https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2022/04/there-arent-any-good-options-getting-brian-benjamin-primary-ballot/365565/
She’s got two challengers, one to the left and one to the right, and they have their own LG running mates. The two posts are elected separately, so she may win the primary but have a LG she disagrees with as a running mate in the general. Or, after the Buffalo Billion 2.0 stunt and the sleazily, secretly negotiated, wallet busting budget that was just passed, along with all the “unmarked bills in a pain brown envelope” Super PAC cash she’s hoovered up, voters may decide she’s just a little too Cuomo-esque for their liking, and she’ll lose the primary. Her picking Benjamin to be LG, despite all his well-reported “ethical flaws” (corruption that rises to the level of criminality), and then her staunch defense of him as more ethical flaws piled up, is not a good look. Yesterday was not a good day for Kath the suburban Buffalo girl made good.
Andrew Cuomo may have his revenge yet.
I wouldn’t be surprised if several of the NFL owners have been pulling the same kind of shit. These billionaire assholes (redundant, I know) didn’t get that way by following the rules.
Wisdom.
I mean, it’s the first play in the playbook for a team owner!
I will say that Snyder might actually be in trouble because you can do all the sexual harassing you want as an owner but if you short a billionaire a nickel they will come for you. Goodell wouldn’t dare do anything like what happened to Donald Sterling in the NBA, but the other owners might not feel the need to defend Snyder quite so much. If he doesn’t have them holding the line for him, the wolves are already at his door on several fronts.
Yeah, moral turpitude is irrelevant to billionaires, but keeping two sets of books? They will crucify him.
It’s hard for me to tell, but the IRS may be interested in this as well. I’m assuming licensing fees are taxed the same as ticket sales, but that may not be correct. It also would seem to me to artificially depress the income of the other owners, meaning they will almost certainly get a tax bill on that restated income. So not only has he robbed them, he’s fucked up their tax returns, which is going to mean some big checks to their accounting firms to sort out.
And seriously, the dude probably makes 100x what I make already. Why in the hell would you do that to yourself? Greed is amazing.
Yeah, the fact that he’s ripping off the other owners, THAT might get him a few kicks in the nuts.
Apparently @LemmyKilminster is in charge of Bear Friday, because Bear Friday is today.
Bear famous for Italian bakery break-in reappears after attempt to rewild him
Koala IVF could help save species from extinction
The two things I remember about Cooke are how he annexed his neighbor’s property for a driveway, and his young-ish wife was arrested for riding on the hood of a car drunk or some shit like that. I probably got those both wrong ‘cause it was like 30 years ago.
Follow-up from earlier. This is still disturbing as fuck:
Case of duped Secret Service agents called an alarming agency breach
And, as it turns out, one Secret Service agent (which means “tip of the iceberg”) was investigated for being a MAGA asshole last year, and I somehow missed it:
Secret Service officer under scrutiny over comments on Facebook accusing lawmakers of ‘treason’
So, to sum up, I would argue that the Secret Service is significantly compromised. Right along with police and military, which has already been documented.
Gilbert was one of my favorite Howard Stern guests. So damn funny.
Hs podcast was worth a listen — he interviewed a lot of interesting guests and was a much better listener and asker of questions than most podcast hosts.
https://www.gilbertpodcast.com
I loved Gilbert, one of my favorite comedians. We must never forget…
That was a gem and belongs in the Broadcasting Hall of Fame.
Also, there’s apparently a British law prohibiting the rebroadcast of footage from Parliament even for satirical purposes, so, if memory serves, Last Week Tonight would replace the footage for airing in the UK with clips of Gilbert reading something like three-star Yelp reviews from restaurants in the Boise area. (I may be wrong about the number of stars in the reviews, but I’m pretty sure that all the other details stand.)
Warmongers gotta monger?
https://www.levernews.com/the-defense-industrys-ukraine-pundits/
and politicians gotta make that cash!
https://www.levernews.com/democrats-bail-on-promise-to-shed-light-on-corporate-political-spending/
Anyone wanna be my neighbor? Russell Wilson’s modest home just went up for sale…
https://www.redfin.com/WA/Bellevue/905-SE-Shoreland-Dr-98004/home/253569
Russell Wilson’s home looks cozy and would be a perfect starter home for a young family, as the Wilsons are.
He bought it for 6.7 million in 2015. That is some serious appreciation if he gets what he is asking!
Flood factor 9/10! In this climate? Hard pass on that McMansion™.
It is kind of a ways off the lake, I’m pretty sure I will be dead before the water gets up to his backyard. If you check out the video you can tell that it is a hike down to the waterline. It has one of those trams to take your crap down to the boat dock.
If you click on on the Flood Factor link it shows how the house is on a plateau but the water will actually reach a portion of the house from behind. It also states a 94% chance of flooding in 15 years and 100% chance in 30 years. Loss of land and potentially road access makes it a risky investment. But I’m not a realtor, cartographer or a climate change scientist. More of a doomsday prepper minus the prepping.
Missed that! Thanks for saving me, I’ll withdraw my offer!
This just in! The third and final season/series of “Derry Girls” just started broadcasting on UK’s Channel 4. Alas, there is no release date for the US. I hope it comes soon: it is hilariously funny and perfectly charming and much more intelligent than most of these kinds of sitcoms. The reviews I read of the first episode promise that it’s still as good as ever. I can’t wait.
For those who have a VPN, Derry Girls is on Canadian Netflix.
i am struggling to compute some missus logix here today
missus and daughter went to england today…and when i came home there was a ten euro bill with a note saying cat food on it on my desk
which..you know…great…ill use it for cat food
but i always buy the cat food with my money when she is here as i figure its part of the food expenses for the family
its a little odd to suddenly get an allowance for cat food when she isnt here
its not like i was going to forget to feed them….i kinda like my fluffy family
…huh…that is a little curious…though I’m guessing next time you need cat food when she’s home asking for a tenner might not be a route to a peaceful existence?
…yeah…not sure I can come up with a working hypothetical for that one…but I hope you & the cats (it is cats, plural…right?) enjoy your home alone time
yeah…ill buy a couple bags of cat food tomorow, take a picture and whatsapp it to her with a comment i spent the catfood money on drugs and hookers
and yep its plural…the three floofs and me will be having a quiet week of r&r
cheers mate 🙂
FINALLY. Why has it taken this long for this argument to be made in court?
Capitol riot defendant blames actions on Trump and false election claims
Let the games begin.