Hey just because we’re cutting jobs and laying off people doesn’t mean that the economy isn’t the envy of the world. All you plebs who think otherwise just because your companies are laying off or closing warehouses that were booming in the Trump years just don’t see the big picture. Plenty of people are doing well, look at the NFL, they’re not trying to trim staff, oh wait…
While the NFL’s postseason is days away, it is layoffs, rather than playoffs, that are a principal concern within the league’s Park Avenue, Manhattan headquarters. Industry sources say that 200-plus tenured league employees across departments were emailed a voluntary buyout package Monday. When adding age and years of service, any employee with a total of 70 or above qualified for the package, sources said.
Among the benefits offered in the package: three weeks salary for every year served, plus bonuses. Employees have until late February to take the buyout, sources said. The Super Bowl is Feb. 11.
I’ll give myself the last word:
Pro tip to @SpeakerPelosi & @joenbc If you have to "get the message out to voters" that the economy is the "envy of the world" that means it's not
The first of the three David Tennant Doctor Who specials meant to try to get the views they chased away to tune back in prepare for the 60th anniversary of the show is due out this week but for the Red Nose day children in need business in England there was a short special that came out yesterday:
It was not only hilarious but had several little things for the folks who have been gone:
Julean Blech as Davros who played him in opposite both Tennant and Capaldi
Reference to the Mark Three travel machine, vs Mark 4 in the premiere Davros episode
Reference to Genesis of the Daleks
The joke about messing up the Canon (in reference to the actions of Chibnall)
It’s a promising start.
Thanksgiving comes very early this year meaning that Advent, the beginning of the church year will not be starting the Saturday after thanksgiving as usual, but the week afterwards. So technically we have a full week between Thanksgiving and the start of the shortened Christmas season but the start of the shopping season still begins on the 24th.
The media and the admin keeps insisting that the economy is doing fine. The events of the next two to six weeks will tell us if they are right or if they are full of it.
In my tabletop baseball league my team which has been overachieving has dropped out of 1st but is still solidly in the playoffs. But no matter how it ends I’m looking good for next year.
Both unanimous winners of the MVP Ohtani in the AL and Acuna Jr. in the NL are currently on my roster so no matter what happens the rest of this year, It going to look pretty good for me next year.
But I think Ohtani would look much better in a Redsox Uniform next year. It would be the best marketing move to bring the Redsox fans back to the stands.
Will they have the balls to do it?
The Celtics with Porzingis and Jrue Holiday have gotten off to an incredible start and it has become apparent that Holiday has more than adequately replaced Marcus Smart both in terms of defense and in terms of intentional fortitude.
At least one writer has suggested that Philadelphia go after Smart to shore up their defense as they chase Boston, but no matter what the situation there is no question that I was completely wrong in terms of the effect of this trade.
The Celtics and the Bruins both with incredible starts are making a serious move to win over the Boston/New England fans who are walking away from the Pats. If they can follow through they might just do so.
Both the media and the Trump campaign have gone all in on the idea that Ron DeSantis is finished both to serve their own purposes as both fear him but despite this DeSantis continues to pull in money and continues to make the fight.
“As a lame duck with poor personnel, and the distractions, it’s going to be hard for him to get this done,” DeSantis said. “My candidacy is lower risk, because we’ll run Biden ragged around this country, but high reward because you get a two-term conservative president who’s going to stand for your values and deliver for you for eight full years.”
And on CBS he played the age card rather effectively:
Trump is still my 2nd choice and if he’s at the top of the GOP ticket next November he’s have my vote no prob but anyone who is discounting DeSantis is deluding themselves
Update: Here is one more
DESANTIS: Trump is only winning in the polls because the Democrats are going so easy on him right now. If he were to be the nominee, they're going to bring up stuff from his pastpic.twitter.com/pCAWzmCTSb
The Susanna Gibson story, the nurse practitioner in Virginia running for state who is apparently selling her live sex shows online is the definition of click bait for media.
And while the censored still pictures are all over the net at the moment there is one aspect of the story that jumps out at me, and that’s the financial one.
The various stories all note that Gibson asked for premium payments for those watching her perform online. If you wanted to see a particular sex act the viewers online had to pay for ahem…services rendered.
And that brings me to Salary.com and the average wage for a Nurse Practitioner in Virginia:
The average Nurse Practitioner salary in Virginia is $121,463 as of August 27, 2023, but the range typically falls between $112,710 and $131,956.
Now I’ll concede Virginia can be an expensive state to live in but it would seem to me that a nurse practitioner in the state just might make enough cash that she doesn’t need to sell premium sex acts displays online to keep the home finances intact.
If I was the GOP I’d be pushing the idea that the Biden economy is so bad that a highly educated nurse practitioner have to pimp themselves out.
Yesterday I endorsed Ron DeSantis for President of the United States, Today Don Surber endorsed him as President of Disney while asking this question
How do you not make money when you can offer just about anyone in the world access to the most storied collection of family-friendly fare in the world? The company has 80 years of high-quality material produced by Disney, plus the Muppets, plus Pixar, plus just about everyone else who wholesome entertainment for kids.
Easy, because the goal of Disney today is to avoid wholesome family fare.
At Instapundit today there is a bit of a quip on a post concerning Assisted suicide in Canada:
All of this can be summed up with one simple sentence:
“Your like sucks so would you care to commit a mortal sin as the last act of your life before you meet your maker?”
That’s the truth in advertising for assisted suicide that nobody wants to say aloud.
Tucker Carlson had the former head of the capital police on his Twitter / X show yesterday redoing an interview that he had done at Fox but was never aired.
People seem shocked that it was never aired, I don’t see why, after all does anybody really think that the folks who gave the signal that the fix was in (the Arizona call) would not do all they can to preserve the narrative?
Oddly the first thought I had when hearing about this was it’s exactly the type of thing that got Drudge started, when the MSM passed on the Clinton Dress story. I guess that means in 2043 Tucker will sell out and go left.
The American Spectator has a piece going over all the lies of the left during this administration. Again I don’t understand the shock. When you’re stealing elections, imprisoning people for prayer and prosecuting your political enemies lying is pretty small potatoes.
What’s more I suspect a lot of folks who support them know that they are lying but consider power more important than truth, just like the left knew Barack Obama was lying about opposing Gay marriage but pretended otherwise for the sake of the narrative.
US paper mills are scaling back production as big-box retailers buy less cardboard, signaling a slowdown in consumer spending.
This tells me the worst is yet to come, I’ve already seen part of the worst as this week my 40 hour week was only 30 hours, last week it was 36, the week before it was 32 and I suspect I won’t see a 40 hour week at my job any time this month and it would not surprise me if that’s true for next month too.
Oh well, it beat getting laid off and I suspect a lot of folks will be seeing that soon.
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