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Monday, December 4. 2023

Feeding the Birds in England is 'Anti-Social Behavior'

UK: Bans on festive markets and vegans up in arms about pigs in blankets jokes mean I’m dreaming of a woke free Christmas

Not getting dressed is a disaster for mood and self-esteem, and productivity

Nostalgia for what?

"Since college, I have had an 'obese' to 'morbidly obese' body mass index — a measure that is at best inaccurate and at worst racist."

Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital Declares War on Juror #1

Easy A’s in Ivy League Women and Gender Studies

Yale Awards 80 Percent Of Grades In The A Range

If you have nothing better to do with your mind, you might try torturing it with the question of why so many of today’s American marriages end up in divorce.

CDC is slammed for confusing and woke new guidance for winter vaccines that describes women as 'pregnant people'

Climatism Has Gone From Virtue-Signaling To Vice-Signaling

EPAs Own Data Shows Only 19% of All Climate Stations Reported Warming Since 1948

Elon Musk has a big X on his back as Bob Iger pulls ads from platform

Woke Disney’s New Kids’ Christmas Film Features Homosexual Parents, Sexually Charged Dialogue

The Scariest SCOTUS Case This Term - Moore v. United States will determine if the IRS can tax income you have never received.

FBI Tells Newsweek that Trump Supporters are Enemies of the State and Must be Secretly Tracked, Monitored, Investigated

Has anything changed in Cuba?

Maine Town Removed a Star of David From its Holiday Display - Called "Offensive"

Israel: Peace in our time

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Elon Musk has a big X on his back as Bob Iger pulls ads from platform

So in the future the cyberworld will have fewer garbage deliveries?

#1 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2023-12-04 08:09 (Reply)

Story of two CEOs:

QUOTE:

Disney's Bob Iger: By him taking the position that he took in quite a public manner, we just felt that the association with that position and Elon Musk and X was not necessarily a positive one for us. And we decided we would pull our advertising.

QUOTE:

Twitter's X's Elon Musk: go f–k yourself. Go. F–k. Yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is . . . Hey, Bob, if you’re here in the audience. That’s how I feel.

Previously on Worst Scandals in Presidential History

#1.1 Zachriel on 2023-12-04 09:18 (Reply)

Musk is willing to sacrifice his own money to help preserve basic western values and the civilization they undergird.
Iger, OTOH, is losing the money of a lot of other people, including working class and middle-class pensioners and investors to further an anti-western civilization, anti-human progressive political agenda.
It is very obvious which of the two occupies the high moral ground. And it isn't the one you're trying to suggest.

#1.1.1 James on 2023-12-04 09:28 (Reply)

James: Musk is willing to sacrifice his own money to help preserve basic western values and the civilization they undergird.

It seems more a matter of preserving Musk's ego. Providing an open town square is commendable, but town squares have historically been regulated; otherwise, mobs rule.

James: Iger, OTOH, is losing the money of a lot of other people, including working class and middle-class pensioners and investors . . .

Disney just declared a dividend after a three year suspension. Revenues for parks and streaming have increased. Most analysts are recommending a buy on Disney stock with an average target of $103.

James: It is very obvious which of the two occupies the high moral ground.

It's the story of two CEOs. Musk's ego must be defended at all costs.

#1.1.2 Zachriel on 2023-12-04 09:56 (Reply)

As a hobbyist dividend investor, I fart in the general direction of DISney's 0.65% dividend. No sale, as long as the ownership battle continues.

#1.1.2.1 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2023-12-04 10:15 (Reply)

Mike Anderson: I fart in the general direction of DISney's 0.65% dividend.

It's an annualized dividend yield of 1.3%, similar in yield to previous dividends. Disney is primarily purchased as a growth stock, though the dividend certainly helps and indicates confidence in their growth in streaming, continued strength in the parks, and their cost-cutting plans. Only time will tell, of course.

#1.1.2.1.1 Zachriel on 2023-12-04 10:25 (Reply)

Zach is like a weathervane. He points towards the NWO and communism. If Zach is defending it than it is corrupt left wing communist BS. If Zach is criticizing it than it must be anti-communist. Zach is a communist bot.

#1.1.2.1.1.1 JustMe on 2023-12-04 10:37 (Reply)

Z: It's an annualized dividend yield of 1.3%, similar in yield to previous dividends.

JustMe: it is corrupt left wing communist BS

Huh? Dividend yields are all about capitalism, not communism.

#1.1.2.1.1.2 Zachriel on 2023-12-04 10:43 (Reply)

Zachriel: What doesn't it know?

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#1.1.2.1.1.2.1 eeyore on 2023-12-04 11:28 (Reply)

"Dividend yields are all about capitalism, not communism."

Capitalism and communism are not opposite ends of the political spectrum. Communism is socialism through force of violence. Communism is a violent left wing ideology. Comparing the two are like comparing apples and dead fish.

Capitalism just is. It exists like a law of nature. In a Democracy or most forms of government the citizens are allowed to use capitalism to prosper. Even the government uses capitalism. But in a communist style of government they restrict the citizens use of capitalism and expand the government's use. Capitalism is too impowering to allow the Kulaks to use it.

So simply because there is a capitalist component to the Disney corporation does not mean that the company does not lean towards and even embrace socialism and even communism. AND it does not mean that the communist do not use Disney as they use our news outlets and social media to spread their ideology. Socialism fascism and communism are all variations of the same left wing ideology and they all embrace capitalism for themselves and to achieve their agenda.

#1.1.2.1.1.2.2 JustMe on 2023-12-04 12:25 (Reply)

JustMe: So simply because there is a capitalist component to the Disney corporation does not mean that the company does not lean towards and even embrace socialism and even communism.

Disney is acting just like any other corporation responding to market pressures. Many people want to patronize businesses that exhibit what they see as social responsibility, including environmental and diversity goals. Some react very negatively to this. (For instance, there was great resentment in some people to having an African American as the lead in the The Little Mermaid.) Like most businesses, Disney needs to navigate this minefield.

Don't worry. Most of Disney's "socially responsible" behavior is just superficial to please a significant element of their customer and worker base. For instance, Disney didn't choose the whole brouhaha over the "Don't Say Gay" bill. It was pushed on them by their workers.

#1.1.2.1.1.2.2.1 Zachriel on 2023-12-04 12:55 (Reply)

Disney is acting just like Bud Light.

#1.1.2.1.1.2.2.1.1 Zachinoff on 2023-12-04 20:56 (Reply)

To reiterate the point: Musk has every right to FU his advertisers and make a home for anti-Semites and kick people out of his forum because they made him look bad. Disney has every right to make movies that makes heroes out of gay frogs or talking teapots or mermaids with a tan. You have the right to criticize Disney or Musk or those who criticize Musk or those who criticize you for criticizing Musk. That's how free speech works.

#1.1.2.1.1.3 Zachriel on 2023-12-04 11:05 (Reply)

A home for anti-semites? Now you’re speaking about antisemitism? You’re talking about college campuses, right? All the examples of antisemitism in the past month, and you say X is the home of antisemitism. You’re such a tool. Ignorant as the day is long.

Musk didn’t FU all his advertising clients, just the ones that are trying to blackmail him into doing their bidding; the communist ones. But little sniveling mindless twats of Marxist thought, think that is a okay. By any means necessary!

#1.1.2.1.1.3.1 B. Hammer on 2023-12-04 11:45 (Reply)

B. Hammer: You’re talking about college campuses, right?

Granted that there is plenty of antisemitic activity elsewhere, the topic was Elon Musk and his Tweets Xs seen as anti-Semitic.

B. Hammer: Musk didn’t FU all his advertising clients, just the ones that are trying to blackmail him into doing their bidding; the communist ones.

Winning hearts and minds! In any case, Walmart and IBM are capitalist enterprises. Regardless, it turns out that not advertising on Twitter X is just as much protected free speech as is Musk amplifying the trope about Jewish communities pushing hatred of whites.

#1.1.2.1.1.3.1.1 Zachriel on 2023-12-04 12:34 (Reply)

Disney stock is about half of what it was 3 years ago and at about the same price it was in 2015. Not exactly a growth stock. As stocks decline for a period of time, companies tend to provide a dividend hoping to keep investors. That dividend scarcely covers the stock losses over that time period. I suspect investors are going to sue Disney over their 'politicized' woke content to recover some of their losses. 'Woke' is killing Disney and Iger put Disney on that course.

#1.1.2.1.1.3.1.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-12-04 13:29 (Reply)

Hum. The Dow overall is up over 6% in the last year. Disney stock is down over 6% over the same time period. In the US, Disney park attendance this year has been down significantly compared to '22, which wasn't a great year either. Streaming numbers are usually global, and the fare that Disney offers in much of the world is vastly different from what it shows in the US, so the global numbers don't tell one anything about what consumers think of Iger's woke agenda. Disney+ subscriptions are on the decline in the US.

Neither you or I know what role Musk's ego plays in his decision making, nor in Iger's. But that isn't relevant to their decisions and performance. Results, not motives matter. But it really is absurd to accuse Musk of antisemitism. But I clearly recall you making antisemitic remarks over at Bookroom Worm's comment section a few years ago.

#1.1.2.2 James on 2023-12-05 18:18 (Reply)

James: The Dow overall is up over 6% in the last year. Disney stock is down over 6% over the same time period.

Disney was 92.29 on December 6, 2022. The current price is $90.79. Not a drop of 6%, but certainly not a good performance. If you mean year to date, then Disney stock has grown 2%.

Regardless, the latest report shows revenues are up 5%, the number of subscribers to Disney+ increased, and earnings per share exceeded expectations. By the way, if you bought Disney in 2009, and held those shares through thick and thin, your holdings would have averaged 10% per year growth (plus dividends).

James: the global numbers don't tell one anything about what consumers think of Iger's woke agenda.

Huh? People in France or South Korea aren't consumers? They don't like The Mandalorian or Guardians of the Galaxy?

If your point is that Disney has had a bad couple of years, that was never in dispute. Disney was among the types of businesses hit hardest by the pandemic. In addition, some people on the political right avoid Disney as DeSantis attacks them, while some people on the political left avoid Florida because of DeSantis. Nevertheless, Disney's fundamentals are still strong, and they continue to earn a profit. Again, most analysts see Disney as a buy. Time will tell.

James: Neither you or I know what role Musk's ego plays in his decision making, nor in Iger's.

That returns us to the Tale of Two CEOs:

QUOTE:

Twitter's X's Elon Musk: go f–k yourself. Go. F–k. Yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is . . . Hey, Bob, if you’re here in the audience. That’s how I feel.

James: But I clearly recall you making antisemitic remarks over at Bookroom Worm's comment section a few years ago.

Please provide a link so that we can make amends. If not, then please refrain from making unsupported accusations.

#1.1.2.2.1 Zachriel on 2023-12-06 09:03 (Reply)

Not getting dressed is a disaster for mood and self-esteem, and productivity

Not getting dressed? WHAT? And miss a chance to show off my latest ridiculous/comical/bizarre/provocative t-shirt or ballcap to my fellow Zoom victims? Some folks have no idea of how to have WFH fun.

#2 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2023-12-04 08:14 (Reply)

My experience is that, generally speaking, men tend to get dressed when they get up while women tend to prefer to wear their jammies while having breakfast/morning coffee.

#2.1 feeblemind on 2023-12-04 10:31 (Reply)

I think that the point the obese article was trying to make is that black women and other women of color are genetically more obese than white women. And yet that kind of conclusion based on facts is exactly what got the authors of Bell Curve in trouble. Seems like a double standard to me.

#3 OneGuy on 2023-12-04 09:01 (Reply)

Asian women tend not to be obese, so are they no longer "women of colour"?

#3.1 Frances on 2023-12-04 22:06 (Reply)

Since the many links are about woke Marxists this morning, let me share something that put a smile on my face.

Watching the Los Angeles feed for the Kings Avalanche hockey game last night, during intermission I noticed something that was rather hopeful. The talking heads have their intermission report in the corridor of the stadium somewhere. The background to the two guy talking is the many fans walking by. Of course the fans stop and wave, for a chance to be on tv can’t be bypassed. One man had a rather remarkable t-shirt on. This is one of the suburbs of commie California. The t-shirt read: Don’t let the NHL go woke.

I know that quite a few NHL players have objected to wearing the rainbow on their uniforms. So many players objected that the league said, okay, no patches of causes of any kind. Find hope where you can.

#4 B. Hammer on 2023-12-04 09:31 (Reply)

Oh. I forgot to point out that the fan was Hispanic. Sí, sí podemos.

#4.1 B. Hammer on 2023-12-04 09:37 (Reply)

Too late. I was watching the Bruins game with my Dad last night and nearly all of the players' sticks were covered in rainbow tape.

Granted, it's Take-it-up-the-assachusetts, but still.

#4.2 Maniac on 2023-12-04 10:49 (Reply)

Well thanks for popping my balloon.

#4.2.1 B. Hammer on 2023-12-04 11:31 (Reply)

QUOTE:

EPAs Own Data Shows Only 19% of All Climate Stations Reported Warming Since 1948

Climate Change Indicators: High and Low Temperatures

#5 Zachriel on 2023-12-04 10:11 (Reply)

Zachriel: What doesn't it know?

Leveling up!

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#5.1 eeyore on 2023-12-04 11:29 (Reply)

Pretty obvious that [ì]Quibble-DickZ[/i] do not maintain a stock portfolio.

#5.1.1 Zachinoff on 2023-12-04 13:57 (Reply)

re EPAs Own Data Shows Only 19% of All Climate Stations Reported Warming Since 1948

How many reported cooling since 1948?

#6 feeblemind on 2023-12-04 10:33 (Reply)

.... and still no connection between CO2 and temperature. The climate hoax is getting embarrassing for the grifter class.
I think the embarrassment and disappointment is why we have all the looting, burning, and mayhem in the streets. They are finding all their propaganda creed is only anchored in narrative and the taxpayer trough.

#6.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-12-04 13:40 (Reply)

feeblemind: How many reported cooling since 1948?

You may have missed it. This was posted above: Climate Change Indicators: High and Low Temperatures: "record-setting daily high temperatures have become more common than record lows across the United States."

#6.2 Zachriel on 2023-12-04 13:50 (Reply)

The World's Temperature:

Real-time Global Temperature
(updated every 1-2 minutes)
57.56°F / 14.2°C
Deviation: 0.36°F / 0.2°C
Stations processed last hour: 45951
Last station processed: Port Au Prince, Haiti

https://temperature.global/

#6.2.1 Zachinoff on 2023-12-04 14:06 (Reply)

re FBI Tells Newsweek that Trump Supporters are Enemies of the State and Must be Secretly Tracked, Monitored, Investigated

The Founders would be aghast at the idea of a national police force, let alone one that is investigating people for Wrong Think.

#7 feeblemind on 2023-12-04 10:37 (Reply)

feeblemind: The Founders would be aghast at the idea of a national police force

The Office of the Attorney General and the federal Marshal's Service were established in 1789 with the Judiciary Act, signed into law by President George Washington. The Marshals Service's primary function was explicitly set to "execute throughout the district, all lawful precepts directed to him, and issued under the authority of the United States, and he shall have the power to command all necessary assistance in the execution of his duty, and to appoint as shall be occasion, one or more deputies".

feeblemind: let alone one that is investigating people for Wrong Think.

A federal investigation requires reasonable suspicion of criminal activity. Wrong think is not a criminal activity. However, it's also clear that there are elements within 'MAGA' supporters that believe that criminal activities are justified and will take action based on that justification. An investigation is normally meant to be done in secret so as to protect both the investigation and the person under suspicion.

#7.1 Zachriel on 2023-12-04 10:57 (Reply)

#7.1.1 eeyore on 2023-12-04 11:37 (Reply)

All that is required for an investigation now is a 'narrative' that is echoed by the media. By now, even the brain dead media aren't trying to sell the Russia, Russia, Russia bullshit narrative. And that disappoints Hillary.
But the Fibbies and DOJ are busy running down speakers at school board meetings, Orthodox Catholics at Latin masses, and nooses hanging on NASCAR doors.
And still nothing on Biden jrs gun charge after all these years. But we are finally getting the Seth Rich laptop. Where is the Weiner laptop? Years and years and years to pry the data out of the FBI hands.

#7.1.2 indyjonesouthere on 2023-12-04 13:53 (Reply)

Decades ago the left took over unions, colleges, courts, NAACP and other minority organizations. In the last 20 years or so they took over religions, grade schools and school boards. But in the last 4-6 years they took over the medical and science fields and the military. I don't trust the medical advice I hear any more and I believe our military has been so weakened that we are set up to lose if war were to break out.

In the near future what I said in the previous paragraph will be considered hate speech and will likely get me put in jail.

#8 Anon on 2023-12-04 10:51 (Reply)

Anon
Go out and raise a little hell, have some fun,. Do this before they come to get you,

#8.1 RL on 2023-12-04 18:05 (Reply)

"Maine Town Removed a Star of David"

Dear Israel, I hope that your flag - blue, white, Star of David and all, waving beside our Cross flag from our carport roof will make up for that a little.

We need a movement in this country of decent people flying Israeli flags - full-sized or garden.

"He is sifting out the hearts of men before His Judgment seat."

#9 Codfanglers on 2023-12-04 11:39 (Reply)

New Green Goals Would Force You to Be Vegan and Eliminate Cows

https://mishtalk.com/economics/new-green-goals-would-force-you-to-be-vegan-and-eliminate-cows/

#10 feeblemind on 2023-12-04 13:06 (Reply)

When Does US Federal Debt Reach an Unsustainable Level?

QUOTE:

Key Points

The U.S. “public debt outstanding” of $33.2 trillion often cited by media is largely misleading, as it includes $6.8 trillion that the federal government “owes itself” due to trust fund and other accounting. The economics profession has long focused on “debt held by the public”, currently equal to about 98 percent of GDP at $26.3 trillion, for assessing its effects on the economy.

We estimate that the U.S. debt held by the public cannot exceed about 200 percent of GDP even under today’s generally favorable market conditions. Larger ratios in countries like Japan, for example, are not relevant for the United States, because Japan has a much larger household saving rate, which more-than absorbs the larger government debt.

Under current policy, the United States has about 20 years for corrective action after which no amount of future tax increases or spending cuts could avoid the government defaulting on its debt whether explicitly or implicitly (i.e., debt monetization producing significant inflation). Unlike technical defaults where payments are merely delayed, this default would be much larger and would reverberate across the U.S. and world economies.

This time frame is the “best case” scenario for the United States, under markets conditions where participants believe that corrective fiscal actions will happen ahead of time. If, instead, they started to believe otherwise, debt dynamics would make the time window for corrective action even shorter.

https://mishtalk.com/economics/when-does-us-federal-debt-reach-an-unsustainable-level/

#11 feeblemind on 2023-12-04 13:12 (Reply)

feeblemind: Under current policy, the United States has about 20 years for corrective action after which no amount of future tax increases or spending cuts could avoid the government defaulting on its debt whether explicitly or implicitly

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now." — Proverb

#11.1 Zachriel on 2023-12-04 13:19 (Reply)

The unsustainable level is already here. Interest rates run on an 80 year cycle. The low rate was 4-5 years ago. We will stair step up in rates for the next 30-40 years. Consumer spending is decreasing as governments share of spending increases. Government spending satisfies professional government but what the money is spent on does not satisfy the taxpayers priorities. The nanny state spending is on utopian projects for which the government has little knowledge. We now have 5, 10, and 20 year plans similar to the old Russian/Chinese communist plans. It serves the oligarchs well... the rest of us, not so well. Prepare accordingly.

#11.2 indyjonesouthere on 2023-12-04 14:47 (Reply)

Found at Gates of Vienna website... 12/3/2023
pfizer knew the vax was poison

Pfizer classifies its own C19 modRNA product as "highly dangerous"

It did not announce this finding publicly, nor did it endeavor to make potential recipients of the treatment aware of the risk.
Small wonder that tech and .gov worked hand in hand to censor data for fear the public would reject the vaxx.

...accountability or jail... oh hell No.

#12 indyjonesouthere on 2023-12-04 15:19 (Reply)

Has anything changed in Cuba?

SNAFU, thanks to late and unlamented fearless leader and his heirs and their penchant for wanting to control everything.

Perhaps the most egregious example is milk production.
From 1961 to 2021,l Cuban milk production increased from 350,000 metric tons 384,299 metric tons. The ratio of 2021 to 1961 milk production for Cuba is 1.10.

From 1961 to 2021, Latin America's milk production increased from 18,561,645 metric tons to 86,442,027 metric tons. The ratio of 2021 to 1961 milk production for Latin America is 4.66.

4.66 for Latin America versus 1.10 for Cuba.

In 1989, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, milk production in Cuba was 1.13 million metric tons. This was enabled mostly by massive imports of corn from the Soviet Union. With the fall of the Soviet Union, and Cuba's inability to replace its sugar sales to the Soviet Union with sales on the free market, millions of acres once producing sugar went fallow. It would have made sense for that fallow sugar land to change over to produce corn or pasture to feed milk cows. But the all knowing, all powerful Cuban government let the sugar land lay fallow for several years. Result: the fallow sugar land got invaded by the Marabu bush. Useless for anything.

Socialism, ain't it grand?

FAO Stats:Crops and livestock products

#13 Gringo on 2023-12-04 16:26 (Reply)

OT but hot!
https://x.com/CartlandDavid/status/1731842247157534831?s=20

#14 Foodog on 2023-12-04 21:15 (Reply)

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