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AUGUSTA GA: In what many are calling an "election miracle," the face of Former U.S. Representative John Lewis appeared on the side of a Big Mac dipped in McCheddar at a local McDonald's today, urging patrons to, according to witnesses, "flip that shit blue."
https://twitter.com/darrcass/status/1338946408137728000?s=20
Living in Bassville CA is cool... except for the sketchy neighbors... My Xmas song:
Flea's Naughty Dog.
Flea's Naughty Dog.
Flea's Naughty Dog...
That Lhasa Apso smoked all my pot!
She stole the clicker for my garage door
Tracks that funk across my kitchen floor
I'm quarantined and I am cash poor
Add a squirt gun to my cart!
GRIFTBOT 2020: How Kelly Loeffler's Firm Facilitated an Enron-Like Scandal
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/12/how-kelly-loefflers-firm-facilitated-an-enron-like-scandalIn August of that year, NYMEX, concerned about Amaranths trading, directed the fund to reduce its natural gas positions. Amaranth did so on NYMEX, but it increased its natural gas holdings on an unregulated energy exchange run by ICESprecher and Loefflers firm. NYMEXs instructions to Amaranth did nothing to reduce Amaranths size, but simply caused Amaranths trading to move from a regulated market to an unregulated one, according to the Senate report. And the hedge fund kept on trading its natural gas holdings.
Amaranth was able to resort to this maneuver because of the so-called Enron loophole in the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000. This loophole, which had been inserted into the law at the request of Enron (the energy giant that would collapse spectacularly in 2001) and other energy-trading firms, exempted electronic energy exchanges, such as the one owned by ICE, from the oversight and regulation conducted by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). There were no trading limits on ICEs exchange, and no routine government oversight. The Senate report pointed out that this loophole and the ability of an investor to shift to the market run by ICE impeded regulators authority to detect, prevent, and punish market manipulation and excessive speculation.
But operating an unregulated exchange was good business for ICE. As CFTC commissioner Bart Chilton noted in 2007, the Enron loophole helped foster the incredible growth of the Intercontinental Exchange.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/12/how-kelly-loefflers-firm-facilitated-an-enron-like-scandal
Openings of famous novels -- with "Four Seasons Total Landscaping" added.
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of Four Seasons Total Landscaping."
Kids in the Hall predicted Putin in 1994
Katie Porter!! My Congresswoman!!
The Freshman Democrat Whos Making Conservatives Squirm
Its also why her videos keep going viral; her ability to demystify technical, often esoteric financial concepts is a boon to those who understand that nitty-gritty details, all the minutiae of government work, are important, but arent sure how to connect the dots. Its not all that different from what she used to do as a professor, and as a textbook author; now, she just has a much larger audience.
More at link
https://newrepublic.com/article/155268/house-representative-katie-porter-schools-ben-carson-orea-jamie-dimon
Best Late-Night music ever: Talk Talk's last 2 albums...
Closer to "In a Silent Way" than to the 80's synth-pop classics they are known for ("It's My Life, etc...) "Spirit of Eden" and "Laughing Stock" are albums you have to turn the lights off for... and prepare to be amazed.
I could find only "Spirit of Eden" in its entirety on YouTube
You'll have to piece "Laughing Stock" together yourself, but...
Asked my mailman how he is going to cast his vote. Got more than I asked in return
He seemed to have faith in vote-by-mail. Then, in a "I shouldn't tell you this, but..." moment...
HE TOLD ME THAT THE GOVERNMENT COVID-19 UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS HAVE BEEN PAID FOR BY TAKING $$$ FROM THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE'S FUNDING!
WTF??? They raided the USPS to pay for the stimulus? He says yes.
Talk to your mail carrier if you get a chance and see if you can corroborate this.
Personal assistant arrested in grisly killing of tech CEO Fahim Saleh
Source: Boston Globe
The personal assistant of a young tech entrepreneur who was found decapitated and dismembered in his Manhattan apartment this week was arrested early Friday and is expected to be charged in the grisly killing, according to two officials briefed on the matter.
The entrepreneur, Fahim Saleh, 33, was discovered dead Tuesday afternoon by his sister inside his $2.25 million condo in a luxury building on the Lower East Side, police said. She had gone to check in on him after not hearing from him for about a day.
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Detectives believe that the motive for the killing stemmed from Saleh having discovered that the assistant had stolen tens of thousands of dollars from him, despite the fact that Saleh had not reported the man and had set up what amounted to a repayment plan for him to return the money, one of the officials said.
Read more: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/17/nation/personal-assistant-arrested-grisly-killing-tech-ceo/?et_rid=760917736&s_campaign=fastforward:newsletter
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