A truck would come within a day to take the sly “Ensign” for intense questioning in Berlin, he could leave the “Captain” with Klink, whose pleas for mention in this affair faded as the car pulled away.
And Hogan, Hochstetter didn’t know what was more satisfying, the knowledge that his attempt to grab the fallen glasses led him to the hidden microdot within, his protests that gave the vital clue to the 2nd in Parker’s hat or his dejection as Schultz led him to the cooler.
…folks on the left have no issue with lying to our faces. Once you abandon the idea of Christianity and that false witness is a mortal sin to be worried about all that’s left is utilitarianism. So if a lie is useful it will be used.
…we have reached a point where the federal bureaucracy acts like the Chicago machine. We lionized a cheap Chicago pol and put him in charge and he and his crowd did their best to remake government in their own image to serve their agenda. The big difference is they didn’t advertise their “Make the US Chicago to the world.
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…pro athletes tend to ease off after the big contract. In the old days when being a pro athlete didn’t mean generational wealth the winners share of an all star game or a championship might be the difference between sending a kid to college or getting ahead of a mortgage or not and if you were dropped you have to go back to a regular job. Generational wealth ends all this. It’s that wealth that is the ends, championships are just gravy.
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…so many people feel entitled to their own reality along with everything else. What did you expect would happen to a generation that was constantly told they were special, were given participation trophies rather then being told to strive t win, and were brought up by parents who were more interested in being friends and thus never disciplined their kids? Why on earth did you expect them to turn out any other way?
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…that Disney et/al still don’t care about the bottom line. Once you have generational wealth the incentive to produce profit for your shareholders is less a priority than keeping in the good graces of the “right” people. The affirmation of the smart set, basically the modern version of being “presented at court” is all that matters when that’s what you base your self worth on.
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….that the “Never Trump” conservatives who once talked boldly about their values suddenly hate DeSantis as much as Trump seems to these day. When they became “nevertrump” the income stream from the right disappeared and the income stream from the left replaced it. Once they realized that the income stream from the right was not coming back suddenly “principled conservatism” became supporting the left, even against conservatives not named Trump.
I work as an instructor for a few companies, none of which reside in my local area. Whenever I finish a teaching gig, the company I taught for pays me, sometimes electronically, sometimes with a check. So naturally I was curious when I saw this headline the other day:
Now, reading a bit further (because I don’t trust any headline, and you shouldn’t either), I realized its NOT the Postal Service saying this, its instead a member of the Better Business Bureau. That person had good reason to say this, because she noted that check fraud jumped from 300,000 incidents to 680,000 incidents in 2021, despite Americans writing less checks every year.
The issue doesn’t seem to be with residential mailboxes, but rather with the large, outdoor blue post boxes. Post boxes are being broken into at an alarming rate. In some cases, the criminals rob the postal worker to get the key to open the blue boxes. In other cases, they simple beat the boxes open with some blunt instrument. Once they get the checks, it’s not hard to erase the amount with a chemical solution and re-write the check for significantly more than was originally intended.
Checks are probably one of the few items to still be regularly mailed, and the post office was quick to note that its still safe (in their words) to mail checks:
“The Postal Service delivers about 130 billion pieces of mail over a year to 163 million customers,” said Paul Shade with the U.S.P.S. “It still remains the most secure way to transmit anything from any type of mailing.”
Paul Shade, USPS
The Post Office also noted it was installing high security boxes that are more difficult to break into.
There is a trend in the statistics. Going city by city, each “bubble” lists the incidents and arrests. Take a look at California:
Los Angeles: 54 incidents, 1 arrest Oakland: 51 incidents, 4 arrests San Francisco: 20 incidents, 2 arrests
Although I didn’t have full access to the data to calculate an arrest to incident ratio, I suspect that California would come out on the losing end of that calculation. Florida’s numbers are significantly lower than expected, and I’d reason its the fact that they make arrests and actually prosecute crimes. If you knew you could simply steal a bag of mail, cash a bunch of washed checks and face little to no chance of repercussion, well, why wouldn’t you?
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Posted: June 24, 2023 by datechguy in war
Tags: putin, russia
Under the 24 hour rule (and because I was distracted by burial of my Godfather) I paid little attention to the situation in Russia but it appears to be VERY serious to say the least. Revolution in a nuclear power is always inherently dangerous but Wretched the Cat on Twitter who always has excellent insights noted the most serious international aspect of what is going on which leads to what I think is the key question in this situation.
The Key question:
Given the situation in Russia what is to stop China from deciding that instead of risking a confrontation with the west on Taiwan they'd rather decide to gobble up parts of resource heavy Russia since there is a 0% chance of any NATO power moving to stop them?
Or think of it this way, if you think the anarchy in Libya post Gaddafi is bad, picture it repeated in a nuclear armed Russia? How badly is something like that going to end?
And if Putin thinks the entire state is going down and taking him with it what makes anyone think he won’t decide to Nuke Ukraine or even the west to go out in a blaze of glory?
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