THE MORNING RANT: Buck Shots - Corporate Follies Edition

Creative Accounting: It’s What All the Cool Companies Are Doing Again

The purpose of accounting is to report financial information. When Balance Sheets and Income Statements are manipulated to disguise financial performance, the most meaningful information conveyed is that the executives producing this information are not being honest with investors.

Business Is Slowing, So Companies Are Juicing Profits [WSJ – 6/01/2023]

Reallocate costs. Unwind charges. Delay depreciation. Companies are using nontraditional ways to boost the bottom line.

SEC Is Focusing on Earnings Manipulation by Companies [WSJ – 3/10/2023]

Regulators are scrutinizing whether companies are manipulating financial results to meet Wall Street targets, as a profit-squeeze amps up pressure on executives to “make the numbers.”
This earnings season has been marked by falls in both reported profits and expectations of future returns. With more than 99% of S&P 500 companies having reported, fourth-quarter earnings are down 4.65%, according to FactSet. That is the first year-over-year decline since fall 2020, at the height of the pandemic.

Corporate America is plagued by a morally superior yet fundamentally dishonest class of people in the C-Suites. Their woke moral preening provides cover for mismanagement and ethical shortcomings.

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Does Cracker Barrel Serve Bud Light?

How intense is the ESP pressure that is put on publicly traded companies if Cracker Barrel is now saturating itself in Pride Month imagery?

When I want a catfish dinner and some old time candy, I could not possibly care less about the sexual behaviors of the restaurant’s staff or patrons. I’d be grossed out if Cracker Barrel was devoting a month to celebrating heterosexual sex.

It may not just be ESG pressure, there is every possibility that Cracker Barrel hired an Ivy League MBA to work some magic on its brand image, just like Bud Light did.

Whatever the case, Cracker Barrel stock is now in free fall.

At the beginning of ~~June~~ Pride Month, Cracker Barrel stock (CBRL) was trading at $102 per share. It is now down to $91 per share, losing $4 per share on Friday alone.

Like Target and Anheuser Busch, Cracker Barrel is committing stock market seppuku. In barely a week (during which the stock market rose) Cracker Barrel lost 11% of its value.

Oh well, even if heartland American stop going to Cracker Barrel, maybe those lost customers can be replaced by coastal leftists who are all wrapped up in sexual identities. So long as Cracker Barrel pivots to serving sustainable, organic, locally sourced, GMO-free fare in hip, urban settings, there should be no problem replacing the customer base that is being run off.

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2008 Is Calling

Mortgage lenders are rolling out mortgages again that require negligible downpayments from those whose income is lower than the median for its area. So far Rocket Mortgage and United Wholesale Mortgage have rolled out such products.

What could possibly go wrong?

Rocket Rolls Out Conventional 1% Down Home Loan Program [5/22/2023]

A buyer using this program who’s purchasing a single-family home, and whose income is equal to or less than 80% of their area median income (AMI), is only required to make a down payment of 1% of the purchase price. The Detroit-headquartered lender will cover the remaining 2% needed to reach the required threshold for conventional loans, Rocket Mortgage said Monday.

Rocket “will cover the remaining 2%” which means it intends to collect the other 2% elsewhere, presumably in higher interest rates, or in fees built into the financing. That would have the effect of making the mortgage have a loan balance exceeding 100% of value.

Those fees and interest do not get collected when the loan defaults.

The great power of a meaningful downpayment is that it not only ensures that the borrower has skin in the game, but the equity allows the customer to sell the collateral if he finds himself unable to make payments. A borrower who only puts up a negligible downpayment and who has no equity will likely just surrender the property, allowing it to be foreclosed.

I sure hope Rocket knows what it’s doing…

In the first quarter of 2023, Rocket reported a $111 million adjusted net income loss, following a $197 million loss in the fourth quarter of 2022.

Don’t worry. I’m sure this will all work out better than in 2008. And if it doesn’t, you taxpayers will just have to cover all the loans that go bad. And you taxpayers will also have to pay billions of dollars to a Wall Street mega bank to assume the loans that haven’t (yet) gone bad.

The masters of the universe who will enrich themselves from this debacle, using your tax dollars, have the audacity to call it “capitalism.”

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Airlines and the Carbon Offsets Fraud

With corporate America and its awful class of executives fully embracing the climate hoax, it’s only natural that they are scamming their customers with fraudulent “climate saving” products.

Have you ever bought “carbon offsets” when you bought airline tickets?

If you’re reading this blog, you’re probably wise enough not to fall for that gimmick. But a lot of people have been scammed by airlines selling this fraudulent product. Some of the marks are finally wising up.

Delta Air Lines Hit with Lawsuit Over Claims of Carbon Neutrality [US News – 5/30/2023]

A consumer class action lawsuit filed Tuesday claims Delta Air Lines inaccurately billed itself as the world's “first carbon-neutral airline” and should pay damages. The complaint in federal court in California alleges the airline relied on carbon offsets that were largely bogus.

“Largely” bogus? Heh. Carbon offsets are completely bogus.

Companies around the world buy carbon credits to cancel out their carbon releases with projects that promise to absorb carbon dioxide out of the air, or prevent pollution that would've happened. But they've been under the spotlight in recent months with claims their benefits are exaggerated.

One of the most despicable things about the climate hoax is the existential fear it has caused in people. I almost feel sorry for this plaintiff, as her belief in the climate apocalypse has caused her great stress and allowed her to be exploited by those who financially profit from the climate scam:

A writer for Nickelodeon, Berrin told The AP she is about to enter her thirties and climate anxiety is pronounced in people her age.
“I felt comfortable paying more because I was neutralizing when I needed to travel for work or to see my family,” she said. She said she felt frustration and regret when she began having doubts about Delta’s offsets.

On the other hand, if you know any true believers who are genuinely compelled to be scammed by the carbon offset industry, please have them contact the Throckmorton Carbon Offset Company. We are accepting payments.

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Carbon Offsets Are A Fraud – continued

In that piece I wrote about the Throckmorton Carbon Offset Company, I linked to a story about the world’s largest carbon offset company facing criticism for selling “phantom credits,” and I gave an example of how the scam works.

The funny part of the scam is that the “offset” is payment for rain forest that isn’t cleared in a given year. So if I own 10,000 acres of rain forest and plan to clear 1,000 acres this year, I can sell a “carbon offset” for the 9,000 acres of land I wasn’t going to clear anyway. After I clear the 1,000 acres, the suckers who paid me get to claim that they somehow offset their own carbon production.

The CEO of that company has now resigned. If he had any honor, he resigned out of shame.

But I know better. There is no honor in those profiting from the climate scare.

CEO of Biggest Carbon Credit Certifier to Resign After Claims That Offsets Are Worthless [The Guardian – 5/23/2023]

The head of the world’s leading carbon credit certifier has announced he will step down as CEO next month.
It comes amid concerns that Verra, a Washington-based nonprofit, approved tens of millions of worthless offsets that are used by major companies for climate and biodiversity commitments, according to a joint Guardian investigation earlier this year.
In a statement on LinkedIn on Monday, Verra’s CEO, David Antonioli, said he would leave his role after 15 years leading the organisation that dominates the $2bn voluntary carbon market, which has certified more than 1bn credits through its verified carbon standard (VCS).

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The Incredible Shrinking Local Paper

In the cities I have lived in over the past two decades, the announcement of job cuts at the local dying newspaper has been a recurring event.

There is always great consternation about the civic importance of the paper, and how the staff reductions will have a deleterious effect on local news coverage, and on the paper’s vital role in holding local officials accountable to the citizenry, etc.

Yet no matter how many cuts are made, there remain local editors writing about national politics, and the local reporters are still obsessed about national political figures and national political stories.

L.A. Times to Cut 13% of Newsroom Jobs, Union ‘Outraged’ Over Layoffs

The Los Angeles Times, facing declining ad revenue and readership, is eliminating 74 editorial jobs, representing about 13% of the total newsroom staff.

“Declining readership…” Heh.

Why would anyone read a local paper to find out what its hyper-partisan journalists think about national politics. We already know.

Until the LA Times eliminates every writer and editor who scribbles about national politics, the cuts have not gone far enough.

I genuinely miss 20th Century local newspapers. Mine were always left-leaning, but they still had many journalists and reporters who proudly tried to maintain a professional level of non-partisanship, their focus was on state and local news, and they didn’t apply a political context to every story.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

Comments

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1 On a roll

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2023 11:00 AM (MjOAG)

2 sponge!!!!

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at June 12, 2023 11:01 AM (OgrpQ)

3 Buy one of Cracker Barrel's "rainbow" rockers, put it in the parking lot and light it on fire.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 12, 2023 11:02 AM (Q4IgG)

4 Most local papers aren't worth saving, they've become so marinated in progressive bias.

Sad

Posted by: Lizzy at June 12, 2023 11:02 AM (mo/0F)

5 Seems like the ESG brigade is, uh, targeting traditionally right-serving businesses/brands. Maybe it's because that's all that is left to conquer?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 12, 2023 11:05 AM (mo/0F)

6 The SEC should talk to those guys over at BLS who have been spicing up the unemployment number with hot peppers.

Posted by: SMOD at June 12, 2023 11:06 AM (RHGPo)

7 Carbon "offsets" = Indulgences in the church of Mother Gaia.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 12, 2023 11:06 AM (N3zMI)

8 Airlines and the Carbon Offsets Fraud

Selling indulgences.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at June 12, 2023 11:06 AM (2tUFv)

9
Reallocate costs. Unwind charges. Delay depreciation. Companies are using nontraditional ways to boost the bottom line.

Eliminate R&D. Chop 401K matches. Reduce benefits. You know, the traditional ways too.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 12, 2023 11:06 AM (MoZTd)

10 I consider the really tall Cracker Barrel sign along I-95 in Fredericksburg to be the southern boundary marker for Northern Virginia.

I have no other use for Cracker Barrel.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2023 11:06 AM (5VgIq)

11

FORT WAYNE, Ind. — General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) announced today plans to invest $632 million in Fort Wayne Assembly to prepare the plant for production of the next-generation internal combustion engine (ICE) full-size light-duty trucks. This investment will enable the company to strengthen its industry-leading full-size truck business.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 12, 2023 11:06 AM (63Dwl)

12 Sodomy Month has made it much easier for me to filter out any company I normally would apply for a job at

BTW if you're wondering about Cracker Barrel's idiocy, it's probably the same issue that plagues most companies due to following these steps:

1. Hire AWFLs straight out of college

2. Give them executive level decisions on marketing

3. Watch your business burn down to the ground

4. Profit!!!!

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at June 12, 2023 11:07 AM (VTu1l)

13 A newly hired employee at Elon Musk's SpaceX is the youngest person ever to join the company's workforce.

Meet 14-year-old software engineer Kairan Quazi who cleared SpaceX's "technically challenging, fun" interview process.

In a LinkedIn post, Quazi said, "I will be joining the coolest company on the planet as a software engineer on the Starlink engineering team. One of the rare companies that did not use my age as an arbitrary and outdated proxy for maturity and ability."

Quazi's post came shortly before he graduated from Santa Clara University's School of Engineering

Posted by: SMOD at June 12, 2023 11:08 AM (RHGPo)

14 Martini Farmer that would probably be a H8 Crime

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2023 11:08 AM (MjOAG)

15 Hey, look, I wish I'd thought up the scam of selling carbon offsets for forests that weren't cleared but (wink wink nudge nudge) were being targeted to be cleared in the future. Kind of like jobs "saved" during the Obama stimulus.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 12, 2023 11:08 AM (7B5FA)

16 FORT WAYNE, Ind. — General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) announced today plans to invest $632 million in Fort Wayne Assembly to prepare the plant for production of the next-generation internal combustion engine (ICE) full-size light-duty trucks. This investment will enable the company to strengthen its industry-leading full-size truck business.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

What happened to the EV market?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2023 11:08 AM (G8h7g)

17 Great rant Buck.

What, you thought accounting was too straight to get corrupted?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 12, 2023 11:08 AM (RIvkX)

18 >>A writer for Nickelodeon, Berrin told The AP she is about to enter her thirties and climate anxiety is pronounced in people her age.

Her employer, Nickelodeon, has been sowing that anxiety and fear for decades, injecting climate alarmism into kiddie cartoon storylines, PSAs, Linda Ellerby's kiddie news bits, etc..

Posted by: Lizzy at June 12, 2023 11:09 AM (mo/0F)

19 Rocket “will cover the remaining 2%” which means it intends to collect the other 2% elsewhere, presumably in higher interest rates, or in fees built into the financing. That would have the effect of making the mortgage have a loan balance exceeding 100% of value.

They are assuming the government, i.e. you the taxpayer, will come to the rescue again. They've probably already been assured that will happen.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 12, 2023 11:09 AM (eOEVl)

20 I saw a heavy chain and lock on a telephone pole outside the 7-11. Then I remembered, at one time, there was a newspaper dispenser there. Yeah, who the fuck reads newspapers?

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 12, 2023 11:09 AM (Hudry)

21 Serious question -- are Cracker Barrels company-owned or franchises?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 12, 2023 11:09 AM (7B5FA)

22 NINJA Loans 2: Seppuku Boogaloo.

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at June 12, 2023 11:09 AM (oW4+i)

23 Exxon Says Reaching Net Zero Global Emissions by 2050 ‘Highly Unlikely’

World currently is not on IEA’s net zero emissions pathway
People would not accept drop in living standards, Exxon says

Posted by: SMOD at June 12, 2023 11:09 AM (RHGPo)

24 BTW last time I went to Cracker Barrel their food was noticably shit. Bye.

Instead I go to a Mexican themed breakfast restaurant filled to the brim with MAGA customers and Mexican Weathergirl type waitresses who literally keep an item on their menu that was made just for me, if ya know what i izz sezzin

If only their coffee was better, but it's getting there

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at June 12, 2023 11:09 AM (VTu1l)

25 What happened to the EV market?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2023 11:08 AM (G8h7g)

They're all in DC?

Posted by: BignJames at June 12, 2023 11:10 AM (AwYPR)

26 10 I consider the really tall Cracker Barrel sign along I-95 in Fredericksburg to be the southern boundary marker for Northern Virginia.

I have no other use for Cracker Barrel.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2023 11:06 AM (5VgIq)

It is no accident that the Virginia Welcome Center is on the south bank of the Rappahanock.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 12, 2023 11:10 AM (N3zMI)

27 Bud Light and Cracker Barell are both garbage companies that serve garbage products. I wish I could boycott them, but I have been all my life already.

Posted by: Montec at June 12, 2023 11:10 AM (OalnH)

28 LOL!

*goes back to soldering a circuit board*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at June 12, 2023 11:10 AM (v0mat)

29 This is opportunity calling for Stuckey's big win.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 12, 2023 11:10 AM (Hudry)

30 Selling indulgences.

During the worst of the Catholic Church's indulgence selling, at least they were using the funds to build Saint Peter's, one of the world's great architectural and artistic creations.

Now, selling carbon indulgences just goes into the pockets of the hucksters.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at June 12, 2023 11:11 AM (2tUFv)

31 You know it is bogus when the only solution is to enrich Al Gore

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 12, 2023 11:11 AM (fAsMH)

32 NVidia is doing really well, because they're heavily invested in the AI business. Just a couple of years ago, AMD was eating their lunch, because they had better CPUs and GPUs.

https://tinyurl.com/4jprnuvk

Posted by: Archimedes at June 12, 2023 11:11 AM (eOEVl)

33 26 10 I consider the really tall Cracker Barrel sign along I-95 in Fredericksburg to be the southern boundary marker for Northern Virginia.
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That used to be true. It is no longer true. The alien blob known as NOVA continues to slither south.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 12, 2023 11:12 AM (Hudry)

34 Also happening in real estate these days:

Sellers giving massive concessions on closing fees. Like $10K, which buyers then use to massively buy down interest rates on mortgages.

Posted by: Montec at June 12, 2023 11:12 AM (OalnH)

35 Cracker Barrel has gone off their rocker.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 12, 2023 11:12 AM (e6UQI)

36 A writer for Nickelodeon, Berrin told The AP she is about to enter her thirties and climate anxiety is pronounced in people her age.

Her employer, Nickelodeon, has been sowing that anxiety and fear for decades, injecting climate alarmism into kiddie cartoon storylines, PSAs, Linda Ellerby's kiddie news bits, etc..
Posted by: Lizzy

Looks out home office window at back yard that was just mowed, pasture that was eaten down by cows and trees leafy and green...just not seeing it.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2023 11:12 AM (G8h7g)

37 Creative accounting.......cooking the books.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 12, 2023 11:12 AM (ncXxy)

38 Good news for those trying to fluff up those sagging profits ...

Canadian Officials Warn Wildfires Could "Last All Summer"

.. Blame Canada

Posted by: SMOD at June 12, 2023 11:12 AM (RHGPo)

39 Barrons reports Citigroup's Jon Tower warned that more underperformance may come, given "broader retail challenges starting to percolate through the business, an older customer base, and outsized macro sensitivity among lower-income customers."
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By "outsized macro sensitivity", he is obliquely referring to customers objecting to Cracker Barrel's gay pride ads.

Their management performance has been worse the market overall, worse than their peer group in restaurants, and expected not to improve. But at least the pride mob has been appeased.

Posted by: Bob Ross at June 12, 2023 11:12 AM (x0Rg/)

40 I just don't see cracker Barrels clientele as being big on the Alphabet groups....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 12, 2023 11:12 AM (bs+z0)

41 Buy one of Cracker Barrel's "rainbow" rockers, put it in the parking lot and light it on fire.

Or visit after hours and loosen the screws on their Virtue Signal rainbow chair and let the Woke Lunatics sue when the chairs collapse on them.

Win/Win

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 12, 2023 11:12 AM (YXHzG)

42 This is opportunity calling for Stuckey's big win. Posted by: Pudinhead at June 12, 2023 11:10 AM (Hudry)

Unfortunately, no. The woman who owns Stuckey's is a left-wing loon. She was a Democrat in Georgia's legislature for years, was the Director of Sustainability for the City of Atlanta, and was Executive Director of GreenLaw.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Stuckey

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 12, 2023 11:14 AM (7B5FA)

43 Cracker Barrel has always been one of my go-to places for food on road trips. I have an old (printed) brochure in my car that lists their locations as of that time in every state. I have two CBs within reach, one about thirty minutes away and one about an hour away. Their food and (because of their semi-rural locations) their prices made them always worth seeking out.

I may not stop going if I'm on the open road -- which I doubt I'll be any time soon -- but I'll consider closer and more local options for dining out. Or I'll cook at home.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2023 11:14 AM (J2vNu)

44 Prediction: Not a single additional member of the LGBTQABC123XYZ+ "community" will dine at Cracker Barrell after this ad campaign.

Posted by: Montec at June 12, 2023 11:14 AM (OalnH)

45 Ford Cuts Chargers From New Mustang Mach-E Purchases, Must Buy Charger Separately

Posted by: SMOD at June 12, 2023 11:14 AM (RHGPo)

46 >>Bud Light and Cracker Barell are both garbage companies that serve garbage products. I wish I could boycott them, but I have been all my life already.

Same, nothing to boycott.
What these ESG moves indicate is that it is high time to get back to patronizing local businesses. I'd rather go to a local coffee shop, local pizza place, etc.. It's harder to do with groceries because prices are so crazy.

I know, Biden's team is trying to destroy small businesses at the same time we are being openly insulted by the big businesses that have mostly replaced them. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at June 12, 2023 11:14 AM (mo/0F)

47 Willowed:

My plan is to build a house in a free state. Then build a range on it. And the only time I want to hear from my neighbors is when they stop by and ask to use my range.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Wherever you move, check the laws. In Texas, unincorporated areas of counties, 10 or more acres are unregulated. You need 11 acres for ag exemptions. 10 acres exempted plus 1 to live on.
(Which is why we were given 12)

Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2023 11:14 AM (G8h7g)

48 "Carbon offsets are a fraud" shouldn't really worry the young, because carbon pollution is a fraud too. Those things kind of equal out.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2023 11:15 AM (x0Rg/)

49 The masters of the universe who will enrich themselves from this debacle, using your tax dollars, have the audacity to call it “capitalism.”

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Too Big To Fail & Jail "Capitalist" Oligarchs.

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at June 12, 2023 11:15 AM (oW4+i)

50 20 I saw a heavy chain and lock on a telephone pole outside the 7-11. Then I remembered, at one time, there was a newspaper dispenser there.

for years there was a mysterious post right outside the entrance to the grocery store i patronize. it had odd holes in it in various places. puzzled me for a while, until i realized that it was all that remained of a phone booth that had been there.

Posted by: anachronda at June 12, 2023 11:15 AM (v3pYe)

51 Ford Cuts Chargers From New Mustang Mach-E Purchases, Must Buy Charger Separately
Posted by: SMOD at June 12, 2023 11:14 AM (RHGPo)
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That's how they getcha! The car is free! But the charger is not...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 12, 2023 11:15 AM (YIVH2)

52 Cracker Barrel serves one purpose for me - a place to buy Chow Chow.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 12, 2023 11:15 AM (Hudry)

53 This is opportunity calling for Stuckey's big win. Posted by: Pudinhead at June 12, 2023 11:10 AM (Hudry)

Bring back Sambo's

Heads explode.

Posted by: Archer at June 12, 2023 11:16 AM (gmo/4)

54 So being like ENRON is cool again.

Where is the Kurgtron?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 12, 2023 11:16 AM (ZJ3HM)

55 The SEC should talk to those guys over at BLS who have been spicing up the unemployment number with hot peppers.

This started during the Obama Administration, but under Burisma Biden, official economic statistics have become completely corrupted.

Now every month and every quarter, the various government statistical agencies announce good economic news, and then quietly adjust the numbers downwards a few weeks later.

Ranks right up with the Census Bureau deliberately juicing the numbers in the 2020 Census to hand a few extra electoral votes and House seats to blue states.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at June 12, 2023 11:16 AM (2tUFv)

56 I sure hope Rocket knows what it’s doing…

Narrator: They don't.

Posted by: Catherine at June 12, 2023 11:16 AM (ZSsrh)

57 Bring back Sambo's

Heads explode.

Posted by: Archer at June 12, 2023 11:16 AM (gmo/4)

Ummmm Tiger butter

Posted by: It's me donna at June 12, 2023 11:16 AM (bs+z0)

58 10 years ago we were mocking the campus SJW, "Wait until they get out into the real world-- that shit won't fly there."

They have.
And it is.
And now they are deeply embedded in every HR department.
And this won't stop.

Not until you hear of a company firing the whole HR and outsourcing it.
And the truth is, that's the only way to survive them--because the SJW are the New Red Guard

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 12, 2023 11:16 AM (0QVEQ)

59 Canadian Officials Warn Wildfires Could "Last All Summer"

Grass doesn't burn under 10' of snow.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2023 11:17 AM (G8h7g)

60 for years there was a mysterious post right outside the entrance to the grocery store i patronize. it had odd holes in it in various places. puzzled me for a while, until i realized that it was all that remained of a phone booth that had been there.

I doubt today's yoots would see a phone booth and understand its function.

Why did Superman carry a glass box around so he could change his clothes?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 12, 2023 11:17 AM (eOEVl)

61 Four amonths. Buta you gotta leavea a da car.

Posted by: Archer at June 12, 2023 11:17 AM (gmo/4)

62 Put the Indian back on the Land O'Lakes stuff

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 12, 2023 11:17 AM (ZJ3HM)

63 Ford Cuts Chargers From New Mustang Mach-E Purchases, Must Buy Charger Separately
Posted by: SMOD at June 12, 2023

***
Next Up: Ford ICE Customers Must Buy Tires and Gas Tank Separately Before Leaving Dealer Lot

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2023 11:17 AM (J2vNu)

64 How many homo crackers do you think swish into the Cracker Barrel? Wouldn't it be wise NOT to insult the people who keep you in business?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at June 12, 2023 11:17 AM (flINI)

65 there is not one whit of difference between selling "Carbon Credits" and the medieval sale of Indulgences.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 12, 2023 11:18 AM (i9ffA)

66 I just contacted Cracker barrel through their website.

I am curious whether they will respond.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 12, 2023 11:18 AM (ZCCyW)

67 A newly hired employee at Elon Musk's SpaceX is the youngest person ever to join the company's workforce.

Meet 14-year-old software engineer Kairan Quazi who cleared SpaceX's "technically challenging, fun" interview process.

In a LinkedIn post, Quazi said, "I will be joining the coolest company on the planet as a software engineer on the Starlink engineering team. One of the rare companies that did not use my age as an arbitrary and outdated proxy for maturity and ability."

Quazi's post came shortly before he graduated from Santa Clara University's School of Engineering
Posted by: SMOD at June 12, 2023 11:08 AM (RHGPo)

His name isn't Sheldon?

Posted by: Leonard Hofstadter at June 12, 2023 11:18 AM (Zvtjl)

68 One of my kids wanted to buy some shorts this weekend and the default place is Target. I said nope, not going there, let's go somewhere else and I explained the reason. Kid didn't agree with me and said what's the big deal if Target wants to sell trans clothes. So I explained, they have the right to do that, I have the right to not give them my money. Kid rolls eyes at me. This is the leftist kid in the family. The other one's attitude is fuck Target and fuck Bud Light!

Nurture? Nature? Neither. It's all a crapshoot. LOL

Posted by: Montec at June 12, 2023 11:18 AM (OalnH)

69 62 Put the Indian back on the Land O'Lakes stuff
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 12, 2023 11:17 AM (ZJ3HM)

And Aunt Jemima

Posted by: It's me donna at June 12, 2023 11:18 AM (bs+z0)

70 42 This is opportunity calling for Stuckey's big win. Posted by: Pudinhead at June 12, 2023 11:10 AM (Hudry)

Unfortunately, no. The woman who owns Stuckey's is a left-wing loon. She was a Democrat in Georgia's legislature for years, was the Director of Sustainability for the City of Atlanta, and was Executive Director of GreenLaw.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Stuckey
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I haven't seen an operating Stuckey's in ten to twenty years. Waffle House, yes. Stuckey's, no.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 12, 2023 11:18 AM (Hudry)

71 Reallocate costs. Unwind charges. Delay depreciation. Companies are using nontraditional ways to boost the bottom line.
++++
"non-traditional ways to fool superficial analysis into missing that things aren't so good."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:18 AM (t0OGg)

72 The Ft Worth Star-Telegram and the Dallas Morning News used to be great. Now the startlegram is a thin gannet propaganda rag, and the Dallas paper has gone woke now as well. Sad, sad, sad.

Posted by: Happy at June 12, 2023 11:18 AM (8wFql)

73 Indulgences were sold for many worthwhile projects. Bridges, hospitals, etc.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 12, 2023 11:18 AM (vg8N1)

74 Canadian Officials Warn Wildfires Could "Last All Summer"

After all, we're going to be the ones setting them.

Posted by: Canadian Officials! at June 12, 2023 11:19 AM (2tUFv)

75 Well the concept of an Electric Mustang was stupid from the start.

Yeah FORD thinks they have a captive market.

First you must have a market.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 12, 2023 11:19 AM (ZJ3HM)

76 I just don't see cracker Barrels clientele as being big on the Alphabet groups....

Three reasons I don't go to Cracker Barrel anymore.

• found better restaurants that are cheaper. (eg. Kitchen's Hardware in Mineola, Lumberyard Café in Edgewood, City Diner in Longview, Jimmy's Egg in Tyler, First Watch in Austin/Dallas/Arlington, Up For Brunch in Shreveport)
• I need to dial back on carbs and the pancakes are too tempting everything else tastes "corporate"
• I avoid the interstates when possible and that is where most Cracker Barrels are located.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 12, 2023 11:19 AM (YXHzG)

77 I feel bad for these prodigy kids. They're losing out on childhood and that can't be good. That job would have been there in 3 or 4 years just as well.

Posted by: Montec at June 12, 2023 11:19 AM (OalnH)

78 Morning.

Posted by: Robert at June 12, 2023 11:19 AM (S/iQu)

79 Buy one of Cracker Barrel's "rainbow" rockers, put it in the parking lot and light it on fire.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 12, 2023 11:02 AM

I was thinking about getting one and having a tannerite blow up party with it. 5 pounds of tannerite and film it being reduced to splinters and put it on youtube. Take bets on how long it stays there before they pull it for being a hate crime.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 12, 2023 11:20 AM (ncXxy)

80 Not until you hear of a company firing the whole HR and outsourcing it.
And the truth is, that's the only way to survive them--because the SJW are the New Red Guard Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 12, 2023 11:16 AM (0QVEQ)

I vaguely recall that BP did that a couple of decades ago, part of a drive to get the corporate center down to 300 people. I'm sure it's crept back in over the years.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 12, 2023 11:20 AM (7B5FA)

81 "Bring the front porch to Pride" is a particularly despicable thing. It's saying through implication, "you traditional types with your front porch sittin' and old ideas need to wise up and modernize."

I know they probably don't mean this - it's part of Cracker Barrel's faux countrified shtick - but it sure is an easy interpretation. These people have no clue.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:20 AM (t0OGg)

82
A newly hired employee at Elon Musk's SpaceX is the youngest person ever to join the company's workforce.

Meet 14-year-old software engineer Kairan Quazi who cleared SpaceX's "technically challenging, fun" interview process.

Is it legal to hire 14 years olds for full time employment?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 12, 2023 11:20 AM (63Dwl)

83 I have never been to a Cracker Barrel. I was surprised when I saw billboards advertising fried chicken. "Huh? Weren't they selling that before?"

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 12, 2023 11:21 AM (vg8N1)

84 The Times UK: What really went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted

https://archive.ph/zPSnP

Via Instapundit and Powerline.

https://tinyurl.com/4ksrk2p5

Powerline excerpts if you don't have the time for a long read.

Posted by: Robert at June 12, 2023 11:21 AM (S/iQu)

85 I hope Bob Evans never goes woke.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2023 11:21 AM (5VgIq)

86 I haven't seen an operating Stuckey's in ten to twenty years. Waffle House, yes. Stuckey's, no. Posted by: Pudinhead at June 12, 2023 11:18 AM (Hudry)

I think they're down to a handful of restaurants and more kiosks inside truck stops.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 12, 2023 11:21 AM (7B5FA)

87 Cracker Barrel...
Isn't that where all of the dungaree clad, ball cap wearing, trisomic flyover country folk consume deep fried food?

Posted by: George Will at June 12, 2023 11:21 AM (flINI)

88 We should start a petition to force CB to change its name. Cracker? I mean really? In 2023? For shame.

Posted by: Montec at June 12, 2023 11:22 AM (OalnH)

89 I just contacted Cracker barrel through their website.

*************

I did as well starting with the salutation:

Dear Useless Fuckfaces of Fail

Not sure they'll respond though

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at June 12, 2023 11:22 AM (VTu1l)

90 I have never been to a Cracker Barrel. I was surprised when I saw billboards advertising fried chicken. "Huh? Weren't they selling that before?"
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 12, 2023 11:21 AM (vg8N1)

Cracker Barrel is only good for the desserts, the smallest of which is no less than 10,000 calories.

Posted by: Robert at June 12, 2023 11:22 AM (S/iQu)

91 Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon can no longer hear the falconer.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy Ammo, food, water at June 12, 2023 11:22 AM (xcxpd)

92 It may not just be ESG pressure, there is every possibility that Cracker Barrel hired an Ivy League MBA to work some magic on its brand image, just like Bud Light did.
++++
Probably.

Anyone hiring for a marketing position - no matter how high or low, be it a production artist or a CMO - need to be careful in interviews. They need to ask something I suspect doesn't get asked much, if at all. They should tell each candidate, "Please describe, with your own words and perceptions, the {product/brand/etc. X} customer."

The answer to that will be pretty important. Because I doubt "front porch rainbow army" comes up.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:22 AM (t0OGg)

93 A 10,000 calorie desert?

That good sirrah is a Deathsert

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 12, 2023 11:23 AM (ZJ3HM)

94 Put the Indian back on the Land O'Lakes stuff
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 12, 2023 11:17 AM (ZJ3HM)

And Aunt Jemima
Posted by: It's me donna at June 12, 2023 11:18 AM (bs+z0)

***

Uncle Ben enters that chat

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at June 12, 2023 11:23 AM (flINI)

95 Is it legal to hire 14 years olds for full time employment?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 12, 2023 11:20 AM (63Dwl)
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Are you kidding? By the time most of our employees reach that age, they're eligible for retirement benefits...

Posted by: Congolese Cobalt Mining Guild at June 12, 2023 11:23 AM (YIVH2)

96 Why not super glue a pink dildo on the rocker to please their new market?

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 12, 2023 11:23 AM (Hudry)

97 82
A newly hired employee at Elon Musk's SpaceX is the youngest person ever to join the company's workforce.

Meet 14-year-old software engineer Kairan Quazi who cleared SpaceX's "technically challenging, fun" interview process.

Is it legal to hire 14 years olds for full time employment?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 12, 2023 11:20 AM (63Dwl)

He identifies as an adult

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy Ammo, food, water at June 12, 2023 11:24 AM (xcxpd)

98 A 10,000 calorie desert?

That good sirrah is a Deathsert
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 12, 2023 11:23 AM (ZJ3HM)

It's like lambas bread. One bite will fill the belly of a grown man for an entire day.

Posted by: Robert at June 12, 2023 11:24 AM (S/iQu)

99 The 2 largest institutional owners of Cracker Barrel are"

1. BlackRock - 14.74%

2. Vanguard - 11.69%

Posted by: JackStraw at June 12, 2023 11:24 AM (ZLI7S)

100 88 We should start a petition to force CB to change its name. Cracker? I mean really? In 2023? For shame.
----------------
How about Cuck Barrel?

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 12, 2023 11:24 AM (Hudry)

101 Buy one of Cracker Barrel's "rainbow" rockers, put it in the parking lot and light it on fire.
---
Bad idea.
Even if you buy it, burn it on your own property, you're going to get a visit from the feds or police.

The unconstitutional terrorism statutes define terrorism as intending to cause fear. No, not that you intended fear-- that you intended to do something that could cause anyone, anywhere, at any time to be afraid.
No actual terrorists have been arrested. But plenty of citizens saying things the state doesn't like have been.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 12, 2023 11:25 AM (0QVEQ)

102 This time last year there were signs that people had had enough of this pride stuff.

In indigo blue MA, small town of Wenham, there's a classic colonial white church ion the main street through town that proudly hung an oversized pride flag. Across the street, in front on the town museum likewise hoisted a huge pride flags. A few days later, both were stolen. Musch local new gabbing blah blah blah and eventually replaced. But still, a lot of people were not upset this happened.

Another MA incident happened with an org called Trustees of the Reservation. It buys up old farms, mansions and open space and makes it available for hiking, etc.. They posted social media pics of various property entrance signs with a pride flag waving atop them at the beginning of June, announcing their enthusiasm. A few days later there was a very long, detailed letter posted from it's CEO responding to what was obviously an outcry from Trustees members. He doubled down, but it was glorious to see them scrambling, caught off-guard that even in MA, people were fed up with the pride stuff being pushed EVERYWHERE.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 12, 2023 11:25 AM (mo/0F)

103 Rocket “will cover the remaining 2%” which means it intends to collect the other 2% elsewhere, presumably in higher interest rates, or in fees built into the financing. That would have the effect of making the mortgage have a loan balance exceeding 100% of value.
++++
During the early phases of Housing Bubble 1.0 (1998, maybe), I remember seeing a TV commercial for some outfit offering mortgage refinancing for up to 110% of value. I - a kid - turned to my dad and asked, "How does that work?" My dad replied, "I don't know. I suspect it doesn't."

Same question today, and same answer.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:25 AM (t0OGg)

104 75 Well the concept of an Electric Mustang was stupid from the start.

Yeah FORD thinks they have a captive market.

First you must have a market.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 12, 2023 11:19 AM (ZJ3HM)

My policy of only buying Japanese vehicles is paying off.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy Ammo, food, water at June 12, 2023 11:25 AM (xcxpd)

105 81 "Bring the front porch to Pride" is a particularly despicable thing. It's saying through implication, "you traditional types with your front porch sittin' and old ideas need to wise up and modernize."

I know they probably don't mean this - it's part of Cracker Barrel's faux countrified shtick - but it sure is an easy interpretation. These people have no clue.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:20 AM (t0OGg)

The "pride" folks know plenty about the back porch; the front porch is new to them.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 12, 2023 11:25 AM (ynpvh)

106 99 The 2 largest institutional owners of Cracker Barrel are"

1. BlackRock - 14.74%

2. Vanguard - 11.69%
---------------------
Well, there it is.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 12, 2023 11:25 AM (Hudry)

107 Fuck Cracker Barrel.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 12, 2023 11:25 AM (XGZoL)

108 I haven't seen an operating Stuckey's in ten to twenty years. Waffle House, yes. Stuckey's, no. Posted by: Pudinhead at June 12, 2023 11:18 AM (Hudry)

I think they're down to a handful of restaurants and more kiosks inside truck stops.

But...but...but where will I go for all my pecan log needs?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 12, 2023 11:25 AM (eOEVl)

109 The great power of a meaningful downpayment is that it not only ensures that the borrower has skin in the game, but the equity allows the customer to sell the collateral if he finds himself unable to make payments. A borrower who only puts up a negligible downpayment and who has no equity will likely just surrender the property, allowing it to be foreclosed.
++++
Down payments are white supremacy!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:25 AM (t0OGg)

110 The Ft Worth Star-Telegram and the Dallas Morning News used to be great. Now the startlegram is a thin gannet propaganda rag, and the Dallas paper has gone woke now as well. Sad, sad, sad.

Those two newspapers used to have the best sports sections on the globe. They would compete against each other and had the top sports writer talent that a person could find. I think the only competitor in quality may have been the Philadelphia paper.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 12, 2023 11:26 AM (YXHzG)

111 106 99 The 2 largest institutional owners of Cracker Barrel are"

1. BlackRock - 14.74%

2. Vanguard - 11.69%
---------------------
Well, there it is.
Posted by: Pudinhead at June 12, 2023 11:25 AM (Hudry)

Yup

Posted by: It's me donna at June 12, 2023 11:26 AM (bs+z0)

112 106 99 The 2 largest institutional owners of Cracker Barrel are"

1. BlackRock - 14.74%

2. Vanguard - 11.69%
---------------------
Well, there it is.
Posted by: Pudinhead at June 12, 2023 11:25 AM (Hudry)

*nods*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy Ammo, food, water at June 12, 2023 11:26 AM (xcxpd)

113 Why is it necessary to say all are welcome to sit at our table? Isn't that to be assumed? It reminds me of car salesmen who say they're telling the truth.

Posted by: NL at June 12, 2023 11:26 AM (eGTCV)

114 Theremin began to perform to wide acclaim. Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin was so impressed by a 1922 demonstration, in fact, that he sent the inventor on a tour of Russia, Europe and the United States to share his modern, Soviet sound with the world (and surreptitiously engage in industrial espionage).
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff

I was listening to Miklos Rozsa's Spellbound Concerto the other day which features the Theremin and quite enjoyed it (even if it isn't really a concerto).

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at June 12, 2023 11:27 AM (FVME7)

115 107 Fuck Cracker Barrel.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 12, 2023 11:25 AM (XGZoL)

The Barrel > Cracker Barrel?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 12, 2023 11:27 AM (ynpvh)

116 Anyone hiring for a marketing position - no matter how high or low, be it a production artist or a CMO - need to be careful in interviews.

Just check for pronouns in the resume.

Posted by: Canadian A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at June 12, 2023 11:27 AM (2tUFv)

117 MONKEY TIME
Posted by: Skip

I don't see no monkeys !

Posted by: JT at June 12, 2023 11:28 AM (T4tVD)

118 The Barrel vs Cracker Barrel

Two barrels enter the Octagon, one will leave.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 12, 2023 11:28 AM (ZJ3HM)

119 ‍California Receives Failing Grade on Non-Partisan Election Integrity Scorecard After Audit Finds Evidence of Voter Fraud, Inaccurate Voter Lists, Inadequate Signature Reviews, and Voter Suppression

The audit found 56% of ballot signatures rejected as mismatched remained “uncured” or unclaimed by voters that supposedly cast them – despite repeated attempts by county officials to get these voters to confirm their identity and their attempt to vote in the election.

Even worse, of the 388 individuals with rejected and uncured ballots that were located by investigators and submitted to interviews, the audit uncovered a 14.17% likely fraud rate where the voter denied ever attempting to vote – and some individuals claimed to not even live in California.‍

Posted by: SMOD at June 12, 2023 11:28 AM (RHGPo)

120 Why is it necessary to say all are welcome to sit at our table? Isn't that to be assumed? It reminds me of car salesmen who say they're telling the truth.
Posted by: NL at June 12, 2023 11:26 AM (eGTCV)
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That's a good point. Just by operating a commercial business, there is a social implication--backed up by laws against discrimination--that all ARE welcome at their table.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 12, 2023 11:28 AM (YIVH2)

121 117 MONKEY TIME
Posted by: Skip

I don't see no monkeys !

Posted by: JT at June 12, 2023 11:28 AM (T4tVD)

Bring your band-aides; it's pride month.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 12, 2023 11:28 AM (ynpvh)

122 MONKEY TIME
Posted by: Skip

I don't see no monkeys !
Posted by: JT at June 12, 2023 11:28 AM (T4tVD)

Why is that little guy lassoing a giant erection?

Posted by: Robert at June 12, 2023 11:28 AM (S/iQu)

123 84 The Times UK: What really went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted

https://archive.ph/zPSnP

Via Instapundit and Powerline.

https://tinyurl.com/4ksrk2p5

Powerline excerpts if you don't have the time for a long read.
Posted by: Robert at June 12, 2023 11:21 AM (S/iQu)

I suspect Ace will do a full post on this later day. Everything we suspected was true, and more.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 12, 2023 11:29 AM (i9ffA)

124 While they are welcoming sodomites Cracker Barrel seems to imply people who are uncomfortable with the sodomy movement are not welcome.

Posted by: NL at June 12, 2023 11:29 AM (eGTCV)

125 Yet no matter how many cuts are made, there remain local editors writing about national politics, and the local reporters are still obsessed about national political figures and national political stories.
++++
For the small percentage of their articles that aren't printed right off the wire services. A few years back, I forgot my book when I went out to breakfast and so I read the diner's copy of the Denver Post. It's a big paper for a big city.

Almost all of it was just AP and Reuters wire stories. The stuff actually produced by the paper was a decided minority and at least half of it was retreading national or international ground. The amount of locally-produced, locally-focused stuff in that paper was maybe 10% of the total. Pointless. The radical prog free rag I would pick up for concert announcements had a greater volume - in nominal terms, not even relatively - of local journalism in it. It was all insane, but it *was* local.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:29 AM (t0OGg)

126 Or would that be "bring your hand-aids, its pride month."

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 12, 2023 11:29 AM (ZJ3HM)

127 During the early phases of Housing Bubble 1.0 (1998, maybe), I remember seeing a TV commercial for some outfit offering mortgage refinancing for up to 110% of value. I - a kid - turned to my dad and asked, "How does that work?" My dad replied, "I don't know. I suspect it doesn't."

I assume that just means you're getting a home equity line and mortgage in one, and it's assumed the house will appreciate in value.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 12, 2023 11:29 AM (eOEVl)

128 Even worse, of the 388 individuals with rejected and uncured ballots that were located by investigators and submitted to interviews, the audit uncovered a 14.17% likely fraud rate where the voter denied ever attempting to vote – and some individuals claimed to not even live in California.‍
Posted by: SMOD at June 12, 2023 11:28 AM (RHGPo)

_____

Shrug.
- GOP

Posted by: Montec at June 12, 2023 11:29 AM (OalnH)

129 119 ‍California Receives Failing Grade on Non-Partisan Election Integrity Scorecard After Audit Finds Evidence of Voter Fraud, Inaccurate Voter Lists, Inadequate Signature Reviews, and Voter Suppression

The audit found 56% of ballot signatures rejected as mismatched remained “uncured” or unclaimed by voters that supposedly cast them – despite repeated attempts by county officials to get these voters to confirm their identity and their attempt to vote in the election.

Even worse, of the 388 individuals with rejected and uncured ballots that were located by investigators and submitted to interviews, the audit uncovered a 14.17% likely fraud rate where the voter denied ever attempting to vote – and some individuals claimed to not even live in California.‍

Posted by: SMOD at June 12, 2023 11:28 AM (RHGPo)

Surprised the #s aren't worse.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 12, 2023 11:29 AM (ynpvh)

130 Take your Happy Pride and shove it in your Cracker Barrel.

Posted by: fd at June 12, 2023 11:29 AM (PLXMa)

131 How intense is the ESP pressure

Not sure. Although I read Blackrock and Vanguard are putting on a lot of ESG pressure.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 12, 2023 11:29 AM (ViCCR)

132 The US and Canada are their own "carbon offset." We've had so much net reforestation since the end of the War that North America is often a net carbon sink.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:30 AM (t0OGg)

133 92
'The answer to that will be pretty important. Because I doubt "front porch rainbow army" comes up.'

I think Cracker Barrel hired a PR person and told them "keep the rainbow army from burning our front porch."

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 12, 2023 11:30 AM (qVln6)

134 A 10,000 calorie desert?

That good sirrah is a Deathsert
Posted by: Anna Puma

Charles Barkley Reveals the Blunt Words His Doctor Gave Him to Inspire His Weight Loss: “There’s No Fat Old People”

-
This is good news. Means I'm not old.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at June 12, 2023 11:30 AM (FVME7)

135 Just check for pronouns in the resume.

*****************

Dont hire c*nts and soys, easy

every marketing asshole I had to deal with was either a c*nt or had soyface

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at June 12, 2023 11:30 AM (VTu1l)

136 I suspect Ace will do a full post on this later day. Everything we suspected was true, and more.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 12, 2023 11:29 AM (i9ffA)

Conspiracy theories really are spoiler alerts.

Posted by: Robert at June 12, 2023 11:30 AM (S/iQu)

137 What are homosexuals so proud of?

Posted by: I gotta ask at June 12, 2023 11:30 AM (DhOHl)

138 "While they are welcoming sodomites Cracker Barrel seems to imply people who are uncomfortable with the sodomy movement are not welcome.
Posted by: NL"

I'm happy to oblige.

Posted by: fd at June 12, 2023 11:30 AM (PLXMa)

139 Okay... Just when I think I've seen it all, Ca. is on the verge of passing a bill that would require Insurance companies and firms to cover in-vitro and surrogacy ... For Males... Calling it a Infertility "status" instead of a medical condition

Posted by: It's me donna at June 12, 2023 11:30 AM (bs+z0)

140 120 Why is it necessary to say all are welcome to sit at our table? Isn't that to be assumed? It reminds me of car salesmen who say they're telling the truth.
Posted by: NL at June 12, 2023 11:26 AM (eGTCV)

Everyone is welcome to sit at my table - except YOU! YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!!! AND YOU KNOW WHY!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 12, 2023 11:30 AM (i9ffA)

141 “Masking Guidance: Fully vaccinated guests are not required to wear a mask on the White House grounds,” the email states [bold font in original email]. “Guests who are not fully vaccinated must wear a mask at all times and maintain at least 6 feet distance from others while on the White House grounds.“

Posted by: SMOD at June 12, 2023 11:30 AM (RHGPo)

142 Posted by: JackStraw at June 12, 2023 11:24 AM (ZLI7S)

Ah...all is now clear.

I just put that on the sidebar.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 12, 2023 11:31 AM (ZCCyW)

143 137 What are homosexuals so proud of?

Posted by: I gotta ask at June 12, 2023 11:30 AM (DhOHl)

Making the rest of us kowtow.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 12, 2023 11:31 AM (ynpvh)

144 I assume that just means you're getting a home equity line and mortgage in one, and it's assumed the house will appreciate in value.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 12, 2023 11:29 AM (eOEVl)

___

Because real estate ONLY goes up. This is science.

Posted by: Montec at June 12, 2023 11:31 AM (OalnH)

145 Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon can no longer hear the falconer.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy Ammo, food, water at June 12, 2023

***
He's deliberately ignoring the falconer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2023 11:31 AM (J2vNu)

146 The US and Canada are their own "carbon offset." We've had so much net reforestation since the end of the War that North America is often a net carbon sink.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:30 AM (t0OGg)
---
That's gonna change again when they finally outlaw all fossil fuels and we have to cut down our forests for energy to stay warm in winter and cook our food.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 12, 2023 11:31 AM (YIVH2)

147 I assume that just means you're getting a home equity line and mortgage in one, and it's assumed the house will appreciate in value.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 12, 2023 11:29 AM (eOEVl)
++++
Yes, of course. Or it's just a first mortgage that's too big. Either way, it's a very dangerous game. It probably worked well for them - this was during the early phases of the bubble when it wasn't really clear yet what was going on. But it's a stupid thing to offer, and a stupider thing to buy. It's a sign of a bubbly market.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:31 AM (t0OGg)

148
Color me totally sick and tired of the entire climate change, woke, transgender perverted shit that is the current rage.

The pushback I notice is growing though, maybe it will escalate to the extent that the narrative will collapse, rendering the movent ineffective, and sanity will break out.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 12, 2023 11:31 AM (KATBx)

149 Not sure. Although I read Blackrock and Vanguard are putting on a lot of ESG pressure.
Posted by: olddog

I'm sure some of the board meetings are like hostage stand-offs.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 12, 2023 11:31 AM (XGZoL)

150 Everyone is welcome to sit at my table - except YOU! YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!!! AND YOU KNOW WHY!!!

Typical.

Posted by: The Irish at June 12, 2023 11:31 AM (eOEVl)

151 BabylonBee: Report: Sandbag That Tripped Biden On Stage Also Participated In Jan 6 Capitol Riot.

Posted by: SMOD at June 12, 2023 11:31 AM (RHGPo)

152 Kracker Barrel is thaw, heat and serve crap.

Avoid them, stay home and cook real food.

Your Welcome!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 12, 2023 11:32 AM (dQWfI)

153 Dylan Mulvaney is a Cracker Barrel 2.

Well, somebody had to say it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at June 12, 2023 11:32 AM (FVME7)

154 What are homosexuals so proud of?
Posted by: I gotta ask at June 12, 2023 11:30 AM (DhOHl)
++++
Sticking it to the man.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:32 AM (t0OGg)

155 139 Okay... Just when I think I've seen it all, Ca. is on the verge of passing a bill that would require Insurance companies and firms to cover in-vitro and surrogacy ... For Males... Calling it a Infertility "status" instead of a medical condition

Posted by: It's me donna at June 12, 2023 11:30 AM (bs+z0)

That Chinese farmer would fit; he married a woman and for a decade, she was unable to conceive. He took her to the doctors, who said she was still a virgin
:::cue joke punchline: "That's the WRoNG HOLE!":::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 12, 2023 11:32 AM (ynpvh)

156 "What are homosexuals so proud of?
Posted by: I gotta ask"

Their deviant behavior.

Posted by: fd at June 12, 2023 11:32 AM (PLXMa)

157 While they are welcoming sodomites Cracker Barrel seems to imply people who are uncomfortable with the sodomy movement are not welcome.
Posted by: NL

Like wiping yer ass with a cracker ?

Posted by: JT at June 12, 2023 11:33 AM (T4tVD)

158 “Masking Guidance: Fully vaccinated guests are not required to wear a mask on the White House grounds,” the email states [bold font in original email]. “Guests who are not fully vaccinated must wear a mask at all times and maintain at least 6 feet distance from others while on the White House grounds.“
Posted by: SMOD at June 12, 2023 11:30 AM (RHGPo)
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What does "fully vaccinated" mean anymore? A dozen? Two dozen? Do I get a free soda if my punch card is full?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 12, 2023 11:33 AM (YIVH2)

159 Well this is going to be interesting.

Trumpeter's 1/48 F-100F Super Sabre has an interesting omission. Well besides the Mad Riveter having the week off when the molds were made.

There is no canopy mechanism to raise the canopy. Just like a 1950s kit, glue it open with nothing to support it. Yeah will have to fix that.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 12, 2023 11:33 AM (ZJ3HM)

160 "Bring the front porch to Pride" is a particularly despicable thing. It's saying through implication, "you traditional types with your front porch sittin' and old ideas need to wise up and modernize."

Clearly its cultural appropriation, and like profiling, cultural appropriation is wrong.

Be better, CBRL

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 12, 2023 11:33 AM (YXHzG)

161 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2023 11:34 AM (vf0Uk)

162 What does "fully vaccinated" mean anymore? A dozen? Two dozen? Do I get a free soda if my punch card is full?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 12, 2023 11:33 AM (YIVH2)
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LOL. I have no idea. It's all preposterous. Not even Crazy Canada requires masks or shots to enter anymore.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:34 AM (t0OGg)

163 144 I assume that just means you're getting a home equity line and mortgage in one, and it's assumed the house will appreciate in value.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 12, 2023 11:29 AM (eOEVl)

___

Because real estate ONLY goes up. This is science.

Posted by: Montec at June 12, 2023 11:31 AM (OalnH)

On average. Also due to inflation, and in some areas, the prevention of building new homes, like in areas of Kalifornia

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 12, 2023 11:34 AM (ynpvh)

164 C'mon Buck, journalists are the real heroes. And teachers.

Posted by: clownworld loves to sip journalist tears at June 12, 2023 11:34 AM (sh1GZ)

165 Does Cracker Barrel serve Tennessee Pride sausages?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 12, 2023 11:34 AM (63Dwl)

166 I'm sick of this shit. The White House gay flag thing is disgusting. You people have made me hate you.

Posted by: fd at June 12, 2023 11:34 AM (PLXMa)

167 146 The US and Canada are their own "carbon offset." We've had so much net reforestation since the end of the War that North America is often a net carbon sink.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:30 AM (t0OGg)
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That's gonna change again when they finally outlaw all fossil fuels and we have to cut down our forests for energy to stay warm in winter and cook our food.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 12, 2023 11:31 AM (YIVH2)

Yeah, solar cookers are great, as long as the sun is shining brightly enough...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 12, 2023 11:35 AM (ynpvh)

168 We should start a petition to force CB to change its name. Cracker? I mean really? In 2023? For shame.
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How about Cuck Barrel?
Posted by: Pudinhead at June 12, 2023

***
Cucker Barrel

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2023 11:35 AM (J2vNu)

169 I won't miss Cracker Barrel all that much. Always found their food to be mediocre at best and really don't need cheap chinese crap shilled as 'Americana.'

Good bye.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2023 11:35 AM (vf0Uk)

170 Corporate boardrooms as examples of Stockholm Syndrome?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 12, 2023 11:35 AM (ZJ3HM)

171 Man made climate change is bs, carbon offsets are bs, DEI is bs, CRT is bs, ESG is bs. I'm sensing a trend.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 12, 2023 11:35 AM (OhpJy)

172 161 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2023 11:34 AM (vf0Uk)

:fistbump:

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy Ammo, food, water at June 12, 2023 11:35 AM (xcxpd)

173 166 I'm sick of this shit. The White House gay flag thing is disgusting. You people have made me hate you.
Posted by: fd at June 12, 2023 11:34 AM (PLXMa)

And that Gay fest at the WH with 2 giant flags...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 12, 2023 11:35 AM (bs+z0)

174 154 What are homosexuals so proud of?
Posted by: I gotta ask at June 12, 2023 11:30 AM (DhOHl)
++++
Sticking it to the man.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:32 AM (t0OGg)

Heh, ISWYDT.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 12, 2023 11:35 AM (ynpvh)

175 158 “Masking Guidance: Fully vaccinated guests are not required to wear a mask on the White House grounds,” the email states [bold font in original email]. “Guests who are not fully vaccinated must wear a mask at all times and maintain at least 6 feet distance from others while on the White House grounds.“
Posted by: SMOD at June 12, 2023 11:30 AM (RHGPo)
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To be fair the White House is a frail old man.

Posted by: NL at June 12, 2023 11:36 AM (eGTCV)

176 154 What are homosexuals so proud of?
Posted by: I gotta ask at June 12, 2023 11:30 AM (DhOHl)
++++
Sticking it to the man.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:32 AM (t0OGg)

ISWYDT

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy Ammo, food, water at June 12, 2023 11:36 AM (xcxpd)

177 157 While they are welcoming sodomites Cracker Barrel seems to imply people who are uncomfortable with the sodomy movement are not welcome.
Posted by: NL

Like wiping yer ass with a cracker ?

Posted by: JT at June 12, 2023 11:33 AM (T4tVD)

Punchline: "Well, you don't want to know how I make the donuts"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 12, 2023 11:36 AM (ynpvh)

178 That frail old man they selected king.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 12, 2023 11:36 AM (ZJ3HM)

179 Like many cities, we used to have two papers. In our case, a morning liberal rag and an evening conservative paper. These were, of course, eventually bought out and merged with only the AP/Commie content surviving.

I wouldn't take that paper now if they paid me to.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 12, 2023 11:36 AM (aD39U)

180 Al Gayeda.

I just wanted to type that out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 12, 2023 11:37 AM (zZu0s)

181 FORT WAYNE, Ind. — General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) announced today plans to invest $632 million in Fort Wayne Assembly to prepare the plant for production of the next-generation internal combustion engine (ICE) full-size light-duty trucks. This investment will enable the company to strengthen its industry-leading full-size truck business.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 12, 2023 11:06 AM (63Dwl)

They're supposedly sinking another Billion in the Arlington, TX plant for the same reason.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2023 11:37 AM (vf0Uk)

182 Heh, ISWYDT.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 12, 2023 11:35 AM (ynpvh)
++++
:: doffs cap ::

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:37 AM (t0OGg)

183 145 Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon can no longer hear the falconer.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy Ammo, food, water at June 12, 2023

***
He's deliberately ignoring the falconer.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2023 11:31 AM (J2vNu)

He knows what he did.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy Ammo, food, water at June 12, 2023 11:37 AM (xcxpd)

184 MONKEY TIME
Posted by: Skip

For your listening and viewing pleasure, Tranny and the Aborigines.

https://tinyurl.com/mrx7jxun

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at June 12, 2023 11:37 AM (FVME7)

185 Al Gayeda.

I just wanted to type that out.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 12, 2023 11:37 AM (zZu0s)

i like that and will do what I can, albeit infinitesimal, to make it go viral.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2023 11:37 AM (vf0Uk)

186 They're supposedly sinking another Billion in the Arlington, TX plant for the same reason.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2023 11:37 AM (vf0Uk)
++++
Hmmmmm. With gas engines to be outlawed in about 15 years?

They're making a big bet on that not happening, it seems. For the first time in a long time, I hope GM is right about something.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:38 AM (t0OGg)

187 Saw a funny meme yesterday. Normal guy talking to NPC : Land O Lakes got rid of the Indian, kept the land. NPC's head explodes

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 12, 2023 11:38 AM (OhpJy)

188 178 That frail old man they selected king.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 12, 2023 11:36 AM (ZJ3HM)

I saw someone bandying about the Platonic model earlier this morning. The problem being- absolute power should not rest in the hands of a single man. You can have good people occasionally, but most of the species is shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 12, 2023 11:38 AM (zZu0s)

189 What are homosexuals so proud of?

Ezek 16:49-51
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it.
ESV

Just fulfilling prophecy.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 12, 2023 11:38 AM (YXHzG)

190 I will say that Cracker Barrel delivers smaller portions than you think they should be, and smaller than they were ten or so years back. A big breakfast platter is good-sized -- but something small like eggs, bacon, and biscuits doesn't even fill the plate. So even if it's a decent meal, you're left with this subliminal image that "There wasn't much on that plate for $10.99."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2023 11:38 AM (J2vNu)

191 I went to a fight and a fight broke out!

A massive brawl broke out in the ring at the Floyd Mayweather vs. John Gotti III fight 😬

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at June 12, 2023 11:38 AM (FVME7)

192
:fistbump:

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy Ammo, food, water at June 12, 2023 11:35 AM (xcxpd)

*bows head in acknowledgement*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2023 11:39 AM (vf0Uk)

193 Al Gayeda.

I just wanted to type that out.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 12, 2023 11:37 AM (zZu0s)

They're gonna go crash some planes...IN YOUR ASS!!!

Posted by: Robert at June 12, 2023 11:39 AM (S/iQu)

194 >>Corporate boardrooms as examples of Stockholm Syndrome?

More like victims of a shakedown.

Real nice company you got there. Be a shame if you lose access to capital for not complying with ESG demands.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 12, 2023 11:39 AM (ZLI7S)

195 Faggotry at the Cracker Barrel. Way to go, dipshits. The middle-America and older nostalgia-driven patrons that are your core customer base were just clamoring for you to festoon yourselves in ghey, tranny, and pedo groomer pride shit.

Posted by: Their food quality's been sliding for years anyway at June 12, 2023 11:39 AM (fE1zA)

196 Bring back Sambo's
Heads explode.

Posted by: Archer at June 12, 2023 11:16 AM (gmo/4)

There is still a Sambo's open in all places, Santa Barbara.

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at June 12, 2023 11:39 AM (OgrpQ)

197 i like that and will do what I can, albeit infinitesimal, to make it go viral.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2023 11:37 AM (vf0Uk)

That was actually the commenter, NR Pax. Just for the attribution.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 12, 2023 11:39 AM (zZu0s)

198 "Bring the front porch to Pride"

Shouldn't "Bring the back door to pride" be more apropos?

Posted by: Archer at June 12, 2023 11:39 AM (gmo/4)

199 188 178 That frail old man they selected king.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 12, 2023 11:36 AM (ZJ3HM)

I saw someone bandying about the Platonic model earlier this morning. The problem being- absolute power should not rest in the hands of a single man. You can have good people occasionally, but most of the species is shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 12, 2023 11:38 AM (zZu0s)

Platonic models are very regular and repetitive.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 12, 2023 11:39 AM (ynpvh)

200 The problem being- absolute power should not rest in the hands of a single man. You can have good people occasionally, but most of the species is shit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 12, 2023 11:38 AM (zZu0s)

Indeed, you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 12, 2023 11:40 AM (aD39U)

201
They're making a big bet on that not happening, it seems. For the first time in a long time, I hope GM is right about something.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:38 AM (t0OGg)

Agreed. Toyota, I believe, has been the only major manufacturer to tell the battery mafia to pound sand and isn't making 100% EVs at all.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2023 11:40 AM (vf0Uk)

202 169 I won't miss Cracker Barrel all that much. Always found their food to be mediocre at best and really don't need cheap chinese crap shilled as 'Americana.'

Good bye.
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At one time they did, in fact, serve country ham. Now they serve picnic ham fried. Waffle House is the same. I am a man of constant sorrow.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 12, 2023 11:40 AM (Hudry)

203 A massive brawl broke out in the ring at the Floyd Mayweather vs. John Gotti III fight 😬
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at June 12, 2023 11:38 AM (FVME7)
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They turned a boxing match into the Royal Rumble? That's a new twist on boxing...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 12, 2023 11:40 AM (YIVH2)

204 "A writer for Nickelodeon, Berrin told The AP she is about to enter her thirties and climate anxiety is pronounced in people her age"

And she will pass this anxiety down to future generations, through her work with Nickelodeon.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 12, 2023 11:40 AM (d0WCb)

205 Willowed:

"New York City has lost 5.3% of its population — nearly 475,000 people — since the start of COVID. And most of them are hunkering down in the South."

--

Oh goodness yes, don't we know it.

They've invaded the rural areas, too. It's a conquest. They're going to fix everything.
--

I realize that this is standard POV here, but why would you think that the majority of people coming from another state are automatically going to vote for Democrats? We have several people on this site who have moved from the Northeast to the Midwest and South. They're not going to vote for Republicans.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke
--

You'll notice that at no point did I say anything about voting for Democrats.

Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness and Uke Hating Month! It's a bash! at June 12, 2023 11:40 AM (60b0Y)

206 193 Al Gayeda.

I just wanted to type that out.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 12, 2023 11:37 AM (zZu0s)

They're gonna go crash some planes...IN YOUR ASS!!!

Posted by: Robert at June 12, 2023 11:39 AM (S/iQu)

Those are more like rockets...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 12, 2023 11:40 AM (ynpvh)

207 This busty brunette with a kitty is long since tired of the "Pride" crap, doesn't buy the climate alarmist crap in the slightest, and is pretty sure that big-time corporate accounting is an exercise in complex forms of deceit:
https://is.gd/UkF805

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:41 AM (t0OGg)

208 45 Ford Cuts Chargers From New Mustang Mach-E Purchases, Must Buy Charger Separately

Posted by: SMOD at June 12, 2023 11:14 AM (RHGPo)
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Can't one use the 5 volt USB port on the laptop?
Next thing will be the EU mandating all chargers to be universal and fit all EVs.

Posted by: Ciampino --- Do not look at laser beam with remaining eye at June 12, 2023 11:41 AM (qfLjt)

209 CrackBarrel is now off the list. They're making it easy.

Posted by: Eromero at June 12, 2023 11:41 AM (Uv0D2)

210 Al Gayeda.

I just wanted to type that out.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

As I said earlier, it's just the difference in perception of intensity.

Gaystapo - just wants the danegeld paid
Al Gayeda - willing to kill

Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2023 11:41 AM (G8h7g)

211 195 Faggotry at the Cracker Barrel. Way to go, dipshits. The middle-America and older nostalgia-driven patrons that are your core customer base were just clamoring for you to festoon yourselves in ghey, tranny, and pedo groomer pride shit.
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Do you think Larry Fink is fapping off to all this and giggling?

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 12, 2023 11:42 AM (Hudry)

212 100 88 We should start a petition to force CB to change its name. Cracker? I mean really? In 2023? For shame.
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How about Cuck Barrel?
Posted by: Pudinhead at June 12, 2023 11:24 AM (Hudry)

Cock Barrel

Posted by: Their food quality's been sliding for years anyway at June 12, 2023 11:42 AM (fE1zA)

213 It's currently 66° here in Oklahoma. In June.

I think the climate is actually cooling.

Posted by: creeper at June 12, 2023 11:42 AM (cTCuP)

214 About the only remaining non-woke eat-out places are Chinese restaurants

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 12, 2023 11:42 AM (ZJ3HM)

215 CrackBarrel is now off the list. They're making it easy.
Posted by: Eromero at June 12, 2023 11:41 AM (Uv0D2)

The "gravy" is now a bit suspect.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 12, 2023 11:42 AM (aD39U)

216
If you want to pull off an interstate and get railed out by a gay trucker, there are rest areas from sea to shining sea.

Nobody's lookin' for that at Cracker Barrel.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 12, 2023 11:42 AM (oINRc)

217 Posted by: Lizzy at June 12, 2023 11:09 AM (mo/0F)

Oops, just saw your earlier post on this topic. Apologies.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 12, 2023 11:42 AM (d0WCb)

218 It's currently 66° here in Oklahoma. In June.

I think the climate is actually cooling.

Posted by: creeper at June 12, 2023 11:42 AM (cTCuP)

Currently 65 F here in South Dakota and sunny.

Posted by: Archer at June 12, 2023 11:43 AM (gmo/4)

219 Well yeah that white gravy on the biscuits was always suspicious.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 12, 2023 11:43 AM (ZJ3HM)

220 "This busty brunette with a kitty is long since tired of the "Pride" crap,"

Well, I certainly hope no one wears my pussy on their shoulder.

Posted by: Mrs Slocumbe at June 12, 2023 11:43 AM (PLXMa)

221 Faggotry at the Cracker Barrel. Way to go, dipshits. The middle-America and older nostalgia-driven patrons that are your core customer base were just clamoring for you to festoon yourselves in ghey, tranny, and pedo groomer pride shit.
Posted by: Their food quality's been sliding for years anyway at June 12, 2023 11:39 AM (fE1zA)
++++
"Customers are irrelevant." That is the attitude of most businesses. Even worse, "Our customers suck" is pretty common, too.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:43 AM (t0OGg)

222 Now we can joke that it is your day in the cracker barrel.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 12, 2023 11:43 AM (aD39U)

223 This busty brunette with a kitty is long since tired of the "Pride" crap

****************

Id ride that like a stolen bike

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at June 12, 2023 11:43 AM (VTu1l)

224 The Cracker Barrel board chair formerly was head of marketing at Starbucks and another director is the former President of Disney World (and later, the CEO of all Parks at Disney), and another is the former COO of Sam's Clubs (and president of "International People Of Walmart", whatever that is). Alongside several "multicultural retailing experts", the CB board is a natural future home for Alissa Heinersheid and very Bud Light-ish.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2023 11:43 AM (S2qS6)

225 Faggotry at the Cracker Barrel. Way to go, dipshits. The middle-America and older nostalgia-driven patrons that are your core customer base were just clamoring for you to festoon yourselves in ghey, tranny, and pedo groomer pride shit.
Posted by: Their food quality's been sliding for years anyway at June 12, 2023 11:39 AM (fE1zA)
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Yep. It used to be you'd market to the 90% or so of folks who *could* be your target audience. And if the other 10% didn't want to participate, that was their choice.

Now they cater to the 10% who are apparently their core demographic, and the other 90% *must* participate against their will.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 12, 2023 11:43 AM (YIVH2)

226 Agreed. Toyota, I believe, has been the only major manufacturer to tell the battery mafia to pound sand and isn't making 100% EVs at all.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2023

***
If something were to happen to kill my Buick LaCrosse, and I couldn't find another of the same or the later model, I'd look at a Toyota Avalon or Camry. Toyota has for decades thought of itself as something more special than they are, and their dealers would sometimes refuse to dicker on a sale. But some of us who prefer ICE sedans may have little choice.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2023 11:43 AM (J2vNu)

227 CrackBarrel is now off the list. They're making it easy.
Posted by: Eromero at June 12, 2023 11:41 AM (Uv0D2)

Waffle House singularity

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at June 12, 2023 11:43 AM (OgrpQ)

228 ***
He's deliberately ignoring the falconer.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2023 11:31 AM (J2vNu)

He knows what he did.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy Ammo, food, water at June 12, 2023 11:37 AM (xcxpd)

The falcon's a female?

Posted by: If you don't already know there's no point explaining it to you! at June 12, 2023 11:44 AM (fE1zA)

229 With corporate America and its awful class of executives fully embracing the climate hoax, it’s only natural that they are scamming their customers with fraudulent “climate saving” products.

----------

Marc Andreessen recently wrote at his Substack "Why AI Will Save The World" -- including saving humanity from "climate change."

He argues that the concerns over AI are an irrational "moral panic" and "social contagion" -- and that its development should proceed unregulated and with wild abandon.

[My comment at Niccolo Soldo's Substack (which referenced it):]

Mark Andreessen is right on in his "Baptists" vs. "Bootleggers" analogy.

But we're supposed to take seriously a man warning us about ""moral panic" who has succumbed to the the "climate change" "crisis" social contagion?

And is he also cheering on the benefits of "Gain of Function" research a la Fauci, Big Pharma, and the Chinese?

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at June 12, 2023 11:44 AM (tYETB)

230 She probably had the white kitty declawed...

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 12, 2023 11:44 AM (ZJ3HM)

231 Al Gayeda.
I just wanted to type that out.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 12, 2023 11:37 AM (zZu0s)
i like that and will do what I can, albeit infinitesimal, to make it go viral.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2023 11:37 AM (vf0Uk)

Al Gayeda > Jack Meoff

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 12, 2023 11:44 AM (dQWfI)

232 CB is 10 minutes from my house, too.

Posted by: Eromero at June 12, 2023 11:44 AM (Uv0D2)

233 Someone in the breakroom is listening to Alex Jones' dulcet tones (on Robert Barnes... podcast?)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 12, 2023 11:45 AM (zZu0s)

234 The Cracker Barrel board chair formerly was head of marketing at Starbucks and another director is the former President of Disney World (and later, the CEO of all Parks at Disney), and another is the former COO of Sam's Clubs (and president of "International People Of Walmart", whatever that is). Alongside several "multicultural retailing experts", the CB board is a natural future home for Alissa Heinersheid and very Bud Light-ish.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2023 11:43 AM (S2qS6)
++++
So it is on many boards of directors around the land. It's a fairly incestuous club.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:45 AM (t0OGg)

235 >>>Oh well, even if heartland American stop going to Cracker Barrel, maybe those lost customers can be replaced by coastal leftists

Does Cracker Barrel sell avocado toast?

Posted by: m at June 12, 2023 11:45 AM (LodBx)

236 Now they cater to the 10% who are apparently their core demographic, and the other 90% *must* participate against their will.
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Trannies are not even 1% of the population. Fags are 1.5% at best. This is Manhattan fucking with you and enjoying watching you smell the glove.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 12, 2023 11:45 AM (Hudry)

237 "Customers are irrelevant." That is the attitude of most businesses. Even worse, "Our customers suck" is pretty common, too.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:43 AM (t0OGg)

Consumer vs customer mentality.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 12, 2023 11:45 AM (zZu0s)

238 This busty brunette with a kitty is long since tired of the "Pride" crap, doesn't buy the climate alarmist crap in the slightest, and is pretty sure that big-time corporate accounting is an exercise in complex forms of deceit:
https://is.gd/UkF805
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023

***
I hope that cat is declawed. It'd be a shame to deface such national treasures as the brunette carries with her in her travels.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2023 11:45 AM (J2vNu)

239 Non GMO gluten free avocado toast

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 12, 2023 11:46 AM (ZJ3HM)

240 @205 a lot of those NYC refugees have moved north into the Hudson Valley. My home city is overrun with them and they all vote leftist. Our state assembly woman is a Democratic Socialist. They think that leftism will finally work here. Idiots

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 12, 2023 11:46 AM (OhpJy)

241 Why is it necessary to say all are welcome to sit at our table? Isn't that to be assumed? It reminds me of car salesmen who say they're telling the truth.
Posted by: NL

Ain't none of you faggots sitting at my table and if any of you homo's touch my stuff, I'll kill you.

Posted by: Francis at June 12, 2023 11:46 AM (G8h7g)

242 CB is 10 minutes from my house, too.

Posted by: Eromero at June 12, 2023 11:44 AM (Uv0D2)

Any mom and pop places in the area?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 12, 2023 11:46 AM (ZCCyW)

243 Trannies are not even 1% of the population. Fags are 1.5% at best. This is Manhattan fucking with you and enjoying watching you smell the glove.

--

Trannies are probably 1% of the 1.5% gay population.

They are statistically zero in the population of the U.S.

Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness and Uke Hating Month! It's a bash! at June 12, 2023 11:46 AM (60b0Y)

244 > Faggotry at the Cracker Barrel
__________

Not the type of western I'd go see.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 12, 2023 11:46 AM (Q4IgG)

245 185 Al Gayeda.

I just wanted to type that out.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 12, 2023 11:37 AM (zZu0s)
----
Is packing goat shit involved with this group?

Posted by: Ciampino - Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity! at June 12, 2023 11:46 AM (qfLjt)

246 the mortgage won't have a balance in excess of 100% loan to value. the 2% lender contribution comes from yield spread premium paid by Fannie/Freddie in exchange for accepting a higher interest rate.

Posted by: x at June 12, 2023 11:46 AM (ZBPE2)

247 This busty brunette with a kitty is long since tired of the "Pride" crap, doesn't buy the climate alarmist crap in the slightest, and is pretty sure that big-time corporate accounting is an exercise in complex forms of deceit:
https://is.gd/UkF805
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:41 AM (t0OGg)

I'd like to make that kitty purr.

Posted by: Robert at June 12, 2023 11:46 AM (EA9U6)

248 My opinion from the beginning is Carbon Credit is a scam

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2023 11:46 AM (MjOAG)

249 About the only remaining non-woke eat-out places are Chinese restaurants

I dunno. I have my doubts about the nature of General Tso's Chicken.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 12, 2023 11:47 AM (eOEVl)

250 Gaystapo - just wants the danegeld paid
Al Gayeda - willing to kill
Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2023 11:41 AM (G8h7g)

Indeed. I think Al Gayeda fit better because they do not just want a 'piece of the action' of a healthy business/culture. They want to destroy their enemies.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 12, 2023 11:47 AM (zZu0s)

251 Trannies are not even 1% of the population.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 12, 2023 11:45 AM (Hudry)

More like 0.01%

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 12, 2023 11:47 AM (ZCCyW)

252 76 and cloudy with rain in the area for North Texas. We had popup storms and hail (some baseball size) in my area yesterday. We suffered no damage, but people around me had windshields and skylights broke out.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2023 11:47 AM (vf0Uk)

253 In case the usually sharp-eyed and equally sharp-tongued Horde missed it, Buttwiser the Beer Maker is now showing adds with Folds of Honor. So Lizzy at comment #5 is absolutely correct. They target traditionally "conservative" venues and ruin them. Because they can, and they're pulling the same scam they pull with the yearly ridiculousness taht is the Defense Authorization Bill. Give us gay marriage or NO TANKS FOR YOU!

Posted by: Erik In Texas at June 12, 2023 11:47 AM (z0DEK)

254 166 I'm sick of this shit. The White House gay flag thing is disgusting. You people have made me hate you.
Posted by: fd at June 12, 2023 11:34 AM (PLXMa)

Isn't the White House flag thing also illegal?

Posted by: m at June 12, 2023 11:47 AM (LodBx)

255 The press is reporting that "DeSantis supporters" are waving the Nazi flag at the entrance to Disney World.

So, are they Disney employees, or The Man-Boy Lincoln Project?

Posted by: Rusty Nail at June 12, 2023 11:47 AM (p0Mx9)

256 Is packing goat shit involved with this group?
Posted by: Ciampino - Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity! at June 12, 2023 11:46 AM (qfLjt)

Monkey Pox came from somewhere.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 12, 2023 11:48 AM (zZu0s)

257 You're a blood thirsty devil, General Tso, but your chicken is so good.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 12, 2023 11:48 AM (aD39U)

258
Ain't none of you faggots sitting at my table and if any of you homo's touch my stuff, I'll kill you.
Posted by: Francis at June 12, 2023 11:46 AM (G8h7g)

Lighten up Francis

Posted by: It's me donna at June 12, 2023 11:48 AM (bs+z0)

259 255 The press is reporting that "DeSantis supporters" are waving the Nazi flag at the entrance to Disney World.

So, are they Disney employees, or The Man-Boy Lincoln Project?
Posted by: Rusty Nail at June 12, 2023 11:47 AM (p0Mx9)

Patriot Front

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy Ammo, food, water at June 12, 2023 11:48 AM (xcxpd)

260 CrackBarrel is now off the list. They're making it easy.
Posted by: Eromero at June 12, 2023 11:41 AM (Uv0D2)
*
Waffle House singularity
Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at June 12, 2023

***
If you drive your EV too close to a Waffle House, it and you vanish into hyperspace.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2023 11:48 AM (J2vNu)

261 Yeah selling those sweet lucrative carbon credits to countries and such.

Nice scam business. Meanwhile places in Africa have been converting farmland into forests because those carbon credits pay more than selling the food.

So once again Leftists are killing the poor brown folk with their policies.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 12, 2023 11:48 AM (ZJ3HM)

262 The Cracker Barrel board chair formerly was head of marketing at Starbucks and another director is the former President of Disney World…

We knew all along that the “down home” thing was a schtick but the satisfaction derived from spitting in our faces about it was just too much for them to resist.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 12, 2023 11:48 AM (nfrXX)

263 173 And that Gay fest at the WH with 2 giant flags...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 12, 2023 11:35 AM (bs+z0)

Flags? Or

Posted by: m at June 12, 2023 11:49 AM (LodBx)

264 Silvio Berlusconi tits up.

https://tinyurl.com/yuf2882u

Posted by: Robert at June 12, 2023 11:49 AM (EA9U6)

265 Companies have always tried to juice the numbers. Some went out of bounds. Bit they've always juiced the numbers.

People always amazed assets = liabilities + equity and the P&L ties to the balance sheet. It's ALAWYS true.

The notes/footnotes to F/S is where the information is, when investing.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at June 12, 2023 11:49 AM (WmF8p)

266 I hope that cat is declawed. It'd be a shame to deface such national treasures as the brunette carries with her in her travels.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2023 11:45 AM (J2vNu)

*ponders joke about popping an implant like a balloon.*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 12, 2023 11:49 AM (zZu0s)

267 If the protestors are all dressed the same...

Its an op.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 12, 2023 11:49 AM (ZJ3HM)

268 Ain't none of you faggots sitting at my table and if any of you homo's touch my stuff, I'll kill you.

Posted by: Francis at June 12, 2023 11:46 AM

Lighten up, Francis.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at June 12, 2023 11:49 AM (p0Mx9)

269 Late 1990s I recall GE was infamous for always "beating expectations" by A Penny.

Now the huge conglomerate is exposed for the funny accounting. They are worth about a third of their peak back in 2000, and in 2021 did a 8-1 reverse stock split. ... Maybe they are a buy now, idk. Better to invest in yourself, or invest locally if possible.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 12, 2023 11:49 AM (Cus5s)

270 More like 0.01%
----------------
Add a couple moar zeros.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 12, 2023 11:49 AM (Hudry)

271 Flags? Or
Posted by: m at June 12, 2023 11:49 AM (LodBx)

Fag flags... I denounce myself

Posted by: It's me donna at June 12, 2023 11:49 AM (bs+z0)

272 The heads of major corporations didn't all just go gay and global warming at once for no reason. It is part of the globalist's strategy which they openly talk about at places like Davos.

This from KPMG in Canada. I'm not saying that companies are blameless but they are being forced to chose between going with the globalist game plan or losing access to funding which is a death sentence.

>>Companies that fail to meaningfully address ESG with actionable strategies and clear reporting will face increased challenges accessing funding,” says Doron Telem, national leader for ESG at KPMG in Canada. “Part of what’s driving this shift is that Canada’s biggest lenders and investors are adopting well-defined ESG mandates and targets, and the compensation of their executives is increasingly tied to delivering on them.”

https://tinyurl.com/bdfez2bt

Posted by: JackStraw at June 12, 2023 11:49 AM (ZLI7S)

273 And I have no problem telling a guy with a beard wearing a dress and trying to sit next to my kids that he's not welcome at our table.

Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness and Uke Hating Month! It's a bash! at June 12, 2023 11:49 AM (60b0Y)

274 "The masters of the universe who will enrich themselves from this debacle, using your tax dollars, have the audacity to call it “capitalism.”"

well, not altogether out of line when you consider that the very word "capitalism" was coined by Karl Marx ...

tells you just how long we have been letting the narrative be formed by the enemy, imho ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at June 12, 2023 11:50 AM (v0mat)

275 Oregon Republicans continue to block all legislation by denying the legislature a quorum.

The R's say that they will return to the legislature if the D's drop a bill that would allow children younger than 14 to get abortions and "gender-affirming care" without parental permission.

The D's have now started a propaganda campaign saying that OREGON IS GOING TO LOSE FREE FEDERAL MONEY if the legislature doesn't start passing bills.

The D's aren't compromising on the child mutilation bill, though.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at June 12, 2023 11:50 AM (2tUFv)

276 107 Fuck Cracker Barrel.

Fucker Barrel

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 12, 2023 11:50 AM (qVln6)

277 239 Non GMO gluten free avocado toast
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 12, 2023 11:46 AM (ZJ3HM)

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: m at June 12, 2023 11:50 AM (LodBx)

278 267 If the protestors are all dressed the same...

Its an op.
-----------------
Printed posters are a tell as well.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 12, 2023 11:50 AM (Hudry)

279 the mortgage won't have a balance in excess of 100% loan to value. the 2% lender contribution comes from yield spread premium paid by Fannie/Freddie in exchange for accepting a higher interest rate.
Posted by: x at June 12, 2023 11:46 AM (ZBPE2)
++++
Is this related to the new Fannie/Freddie mortgage purchase rules that penalize good borrowers, or is this just a side deal that their scale lets them achieve?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:51 AM (t0OGg)

280 When is Juneteenth?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2023 11:51 AM (5VgIq)

281 Does Cracker Barrel have dancing waitresses on TikTok?

Posted by: I don't wanna look at June 12, 2023 11:51 AM (DhOHl)

282 The heads of major corporations didn't all just go gay and global warming at once for no reason. It is part of the globalist's strategy which they openly talk about at places like Davos.

--

Someone - maybe you - posted an article from 2017 or so where the head of Blackrock is openly stating that companies have to be forced to do the things that Blackrock / the WEF wants them to do.

Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness and Uke Hating Month! It's a bash! at June 12, 2023 11:51 AM (60b0Y)

283 278 267 If the protestors are all dressed the same...

Its an op.
-----------------
Printed posters are a tell as well.
Posted by: Pudinhead at June 12, 2023 11:50 AM (Hudry)

Are these protestors strangely diverse?

Posted by: Robert at June 12, 2023 11:51 AM (EA9U6)

284 It's funny Buck puts an image of a dude lassoing a cock then has a thread about Cracker Barrel sucking the al gayda cock.

Fitting.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2023 11:51 AM (vf0Uk)

285 207 This busty brunette with a kitty is long since tired of the "Pride" crap, doesn't buy the climate alarmist crap in the slightest, and is pretty sure that big-time corporate accounting is an exercise in complex forms of deceit:
https://is.gd/UkF805
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:41 AM (t0OGg)

Busty indeed...you could land a small jet on that rack...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy Ammo, food, water at June 12, 2023 11:51 AM (xcxpd)

286 I think restaurants are pretty much off the table for me. went to the local ETEX outback and pretty much the entire wait staff is overweight women with shaved heads and tattoos, so they are creating a specific employment niche - along with teaching school - for themselves. I'm a decent cook, and so is the missus.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at June 12, 2023 11:52 AM (aGGj6)

287 When is Juneteenth?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2023 11:51 AM (5VgIq)

Next Monday.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2023 11:52 AM (vf0Uk)

288 When is Juneteenth?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2023 11:51 AM (5VgIq)

In June.

Posted by: Robert at June 12, 2023 11:52 AM (EA9U6)

289 273 And I have no problem telling a guy with a beard wearing a dress and trying to sit next to my kids that he's not welcome at our table.

Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness and Uke Hating Month! It's a bash! at June 12, 2023 11:49 AM (60b0Y)

Tis a Kilt, lady, a KILT!

Posted by: Scotsman in America at June 12, 2023 11:52 AM (ynpvh)

290 ... Companies that fail to meaningfully address ESG with actionable strategies and clear reporting will face increased challenges accessing funding,” says Doron Telem, national leader for ESG at KPMG in Canada. “Part of what’s driving this shift is that Canada’s biggest lenders and investors are adopting well-defined ESG mandates and targets, and the compensation of their executives is increasingly tied to delivering on them.” ...
Posted by: JackStraw at June 12, 2023 11:49 AM (ZLI7S)
++++
There's a word for what the lenders, investors, underwriters, etc. are doing with ESG. That word is "cartel." They've formed a cartel and coordinate activity in restraint of trade.

Remember when that was illegal?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:52 AM (t0OGg)

291 ++++
"Customers are irrelevant." That is the attitude of most businesses. Even worse, "Our customers suck" is pretty common, too.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:43 AM (t0OGg)

Ah the unofficial H&K motto.

Posted by: Maybe a master race thing? at June 12, 2023 11:52 AM (fE1zA)

292 The D's have now started a propaganda campaign saying that OREGON IS GOING TO LOSE FREE FEDERAL MONEY if the legislature doesn't start passing bills.

The D's aren't compromising on the child mutilation bill, though.
Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at June 12, 2023 11:50 AM (2tUFv)
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Uh, it's not exactly "free" federal money. It comes from the pockets of other taxpayers...like me. Or it's paid for by inflation or some other tricky mechanisms.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 12, 2023 11:52 AM (YIVH2)

293 280 When is Juneteenth?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2023 11:51 AM (5VgIq)

Thursday? Dunno, I'm funemployed, so I'm not getting it crammed down my neck anymore.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy Ammo, food, water at June 12, 2023 11:52 AM (xcxpd)

294 283 278 267 If the protestors are all dressed the same...

Its an op.
-----------------
Printed posters are a tell as well.
Posted by: Pudinhead at June 12, 2023 11:50 AM (Hudry)

Khakis, polo shirts Ray Bans and Buzz cuts ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 12, 2023 11:52 AM (bs+z0)

295 242 CB is 10 minutes from my house, too.

Posted by: Eromero at June 12, 2023 11:44 AM (Uv0D2)

Any mom and pop places in the area?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 12, 2023 11:46 AM
Mama's on 5th Street. Breakfast, dinner, and supper. More than a few of what used to be called soul food (really just what all colors of folks used to eat) joints. Chicken, ribs, vegetables etc. But sadly a lot of mom/pop eateries went toes up during chinaflu.

Posted by: Eromero at June 12, 2023 11:53 AM (Uv0D2)

296 And I have no problem telling a guy with a beard wearing a dress and trying to sit next to my kids that he's not welcome at our table.
Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness and Uke Hating Month! It's a bash! at June 12, 2023

***
I recall a little breakfast-and-lunch place in Morrison, CO, outside of Denver and Golden, where the tables were small, and we had to sit with several other patrons. It was like eating in the wardroom on a warship. 'Twas a nice experience.

Of course, that was in 1998. I'm not sure I'd want to do that now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2023 11:53 AM (J2vNu)

297 Next Monday.

Will it be a manic Monday?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 12, 2023 11:53 AM (ZJ3HM)

298 "Customers are irrelevant." That is the attitude of most businesses. Even worse, "Our customers suck" is pretty common, too.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:43 AM (t0OGg)

Ah the unofficial H&K motto.
Posted by: Maybe a master race thing? at June 12, 2023 11:52 AM (fE1zA)

Unoffical?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy Ammo, food, water at June 12, 2023 11:53 AM (xcxpd)

299 A writer for Nickelodeon, Berrin told The AP she is about to enter her thirties and climate anxiety is pronounced in people her age.

=====

Not with my kid, it isn't.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 12, 2023 11:53 AM (DRSnL)

300 The last time I was at a Cracker Barrel the place was overrun with flamboyant homosexuals. They were everywhere.
Oh wait...
No, that was at a Broadway musical...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 12, 2023 11:53 AM (MeG8a)

301 209 CrackBarrel
Posted by: Eromero at June 12, 2023 11:41 AM (Uv0D2)

LOL

Posted by: m at June 12, 2023 11:53 AM (LodBx)

302
Busty indeed...you could land a small jet on that rack...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy Ammo, food, water at June 12, 2023 11:51 AM (xcxpd)

"Pilot to bombardier.....pilot to bombardier. Prepare to drop your load...."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2023 11:53 AM (vf0Uk)

303 "The masters of the universe who will enrich themselves from this debacle, using your tax dollars, have the audacity to call it “capitalism.”"

--

They've been kneading the ingredients together to bake up this way for decades. The bread was resting for the last few years, and now it's time to take it out of the oven after the 2020-2022 or so baking cycle.

Government is industry and vice versa. That's capitalism.

Same way you're a fascist.

Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness and Uke Hating Month! It's a bash! at June 12, 2023 11:53 AM (60b0Y)

304 281 Does Cracker Barrel have dancing waitresses on TikTok?

Posted by: I don't wanna look at June 12, 2023 11:51 AM (DhOHl)

Old one from a few years back:
Hooters missed a great opportunity with a home-delivery service called Knockers.

Posted by: Scotsman in America at June 12, 2023 11:53 AM (ynpvh)

305 Ah the unofficial H&K motto.
Posted by: Maybe a master race thing? at June 12, 2023 11:52 AM (fE1zA)
++++
H&K handled that fairly well. They took down the posts, fired the person (or at least claimed to have fired the person) and put up a "we don't identity politics here" mea culpa.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 12, 2023 11:54 AM (t0OGg)

306 264 Silvio Berlusconi tits up.

https://tinyurl.com/yuf2882u

::
That's a shame.

Posted by: In Seinfeld voice while eating popcorn at June 12, 2023 11:54 AM (DhOHl)

307 Busty indeed...you could land a small jet on that rack...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy Ammo, food, water at June 12, 2023 11:51 AM (xcxpd)

"Pilot to bombardier.....pilot to bombardier. Prepare to drop your load...."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2023 11:53 AM (vf0Uk)

lol

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy Ammo, food, water at June 12, 2023 11:54 AM (xcxpd)

308 Off kilt sock

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 12, 2023 11:54 AM (ynpvh)

309 When is Juneteenth?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2023 11:51 AM (5VgIq)

Thursday? Dunno, I'm funemployed, so I'm not getting it crammed down my neck anymore.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy Ammo, food, water at June 12, 2023

***
Monday, a week from today. I have it off. In an odd coincidence, last year my employer took Good Friday off the long-established list of worker holidays. Ain't that odd. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2023 11:54 AM (J2vNu)

310 If I invest in the Thockmorton Climate Offset program, do I still get a Platinum User Account on this site or did that offer go away?

Posted by: NR Pax at June 12, 2023 11:55 AM (4olE8)

311 264 Silvio Berlusconi tits up.

https://tinyurl.com/yuf2882u
Posted by: Robert at June 12, 2023 11:49 AM (EA9U6)

Oh sure Silvio, quit now before it gets really bad...some guys...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy Ammo, food, water at June 12, 2023 11:55 AM (xcxpd)

312
Thursday? Dunno, I'm funemployed, so I'm not getting it crammed down my neck anymore.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy Ammo, food, water at June 12, 2023 11:52 AM (xcxpd)

Have you tried putting your resume on Indeed? I hear they're a player in the job interview marketplace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2023 11:55 AM (vf0Uk)

313 Uh, it's not exactly "free" federal money. It comes from the pockets of other taxpayers...like me. Or it's paid for by inflation or some other tricky mechanisms.

Of course.

The D's are arguing simultaneously that "child mutilation never happens" and "it is imperative that child mutilation be made unambiguously legal".

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at June 12, 2023 11:55 AM (2tUFv)

314 >>Someone - maybe you - posted an article from 2017 or so where the head of Blackrock is openly stating that companies have to be forced to do the things that Blackrock / the WEF wants them to do.

Larry Fink is on video saying this more than once.

Did it ever really make sense that a company like AB would knowingly piss off it's longtime customer base for a group of mentally ill people that make up less than 1% of the US population and probably don't drink all that much beer?

Posted by: JackStraw at June 12, 2023 11:55 AM (ZLI7S)

315 I threw the Houston Chronicle when I was about 12 and worked for a distributor when I got a little older. Houston had two vibrant papers back then. The Jesse Jones Foundation owned that paper and was the more conservative leaning one. The Houston Post was owned by the Hobby Family and tended slightly left.

The Chronicle acquired the Post and soon after sold out to the Hearst Corporation. It is a ridiculous source of pabulum now that is not worth reading.

Posted by: DanMan at June 12, 2023 11:55 AM (DB6tu)

316 Monday, a week from today. I have it off. In an odd coincidence, last year my employer took Good Friday off the long-established list of worker holidays. Ain't that odd. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2023 11:54 AM (J2vNu)

I thought it was the 15th? Dunno. I'm not from East Texas.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy Ammo, food, water at June 12, 2023 11:55 AM (xcxpd)

317 310 If I invest in the Thockmorton
Posted by: NR Pax at June 12, 2023 11:55 AM (4olE

Would you like to buy an R?

Posted by: m at June 12, 2023 11:56 AM (LodBx)

318 Trannies are but a fraction of a fraction now, but that percentage is going to grow substantially as long as Cultural Marxists are running the schools pushing it. Look at California stealing children if you don't go along with Trannies kids

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2023 11:56 AM (MjOAG)

319 We don't care because we don't have to.

Posted by: Most banks at June 12, 2023 11:56 AM (DhOHl)

320 Have you tried putting your resume on Indeed? I hear they're a player in the job interview marketplace.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2023 11:55 AM (vf0Uk)

*gets the hose*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy Ammo, food, water at June 12, 2023 11:56 AM (xcxpd)

321 I recall a little breakfast-and-lunch place in Morrison, CO, outside of Denver and Golden, where the tables were small, and we had to sit with several other patrons. It was like eating in the wardroom on a warship. 'Twas a nice experience.

Of course, that was in 1998. I'm not sure I'd want to do that now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

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Yeah, we've got a few BBQ restaurants and one mom and pop country restaurant around here that are still set up that way. You come in and sit beside people you don't know, and many people near you will stop eating while you say the blessing over your food because they remember something from their childhood. It's fantastic.

I can only imagine a Transweiser type coming in. It would probably be ignored for the most part, right up until he started rubbing on the little kids.

Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness and Uke Hating Month! It's a bash! at June 12, 2023 11:56 AM (60b0Y)

322 Is this related to the new Fannie/Freddie mortgage purchase rules that penalize good borrowers, or is this just a side deal that their scale lets them achieve?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

it's a different program.

btw, the new Fannie/Freddie credit score rules won't do anything because PMI, private mortgage insurance, charges borrowers with low FICO score 5 times as much as FHA mortgage insurance. those borrowers will choose the FHA loan because the payment is hundreds of dollars less.

Posted by: x at June 12, 2023 11:56 AM (ZBPE2)

323 Of course.

The D's are arguing simultaneously that "child mutilation never happens" and "it is imperative that child mutilation be made unambiguously legal".
Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at June 12, 2023 11:55 AM (2tUFv)
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"...and paid for by taxpayer dollars." You left off that last part...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 12, 2023 11:56 AM (YIVH2)

324 3 And I have no problem telling a guy with a beard wearing a dress and trying to sit next to my kids that he's not welcome at our table.

Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness and Uke Hating Month! It's a bash! at June 12, 2023
*
Tis a Kilt, lady, a KILT!
Posted by: Scotsman in America at June 12, 2023

***
If you don't look and sound like Sean Connery, buddy, you're not sitting with us.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2023 11:56 AM (J2vNu)

325 So, are they Disney employees, or The Man-Boy Lincoln Project?
Posted by: Rusty Nail at June 12, 2023 11:47 AM (p0Mx9)

Patriot Front
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy Ammo, food, water at June 12, 2023 11:48 AM (xcxpd)

The creases in their starched khakis are PERFECT!

Posted by: David Brooks at June 12, 2023 11:56 AM (fE1zA)

326
I thought it was the 15th? Dunno. I'm not from East Texas.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy Ammo, food, water at June 12, 2023 11:55 AM (xcxpd)

June 19th every year. Stinkfinger McShitpants made it a 'national' holiday, yet not too many companies give it as a day off that I'm aware of.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2023 11:57 AM (vf0Uk)

327 Have you tried putting your resume on Indeed? I hear they're a player in the job interview marketplace.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2023 11:55 AM (vf0Uk)

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That's just mean.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 12, 2023 11:57 AM (DRSnL)

328 I was thinking about the family in Las Vegas who said they had aliens in their back yard.

If they were SAs illegals who crossed the southern border, I believe them.

Posted by: Archer at June 12, 2023 11:57 AM (gmo/4)

329 Tis a Kilt, lady, a KILT!
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No, I reject that and definitely don't think it has to go that far. Just stop abusing kids.

Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness and Uke Hating Month! It's a bash! at June 12, 2023 11:57 AM (60b0Y)

330 Work at Wal-Mart, many customers do svck...

No I am not going outside to your car to tote your old auto battery in.

Mental thought, "why are you even here if you left your glasses at home and have to squint?"

The aisles are not a race way or place to practice your ball control techniques.

And don't say, "I've been waiting here for fifteen minutes" when I know you are lying because I was at the counter fifteen minutes ago.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 12, 2023 11:58 AM (ZJ3HM)

331 Monday, a week from today.

When will it be next year? Is it one of those Monday holidays or is it always on the calendar date?

Posted by: Oddbob at June 12, 2023 11:58 AM (nfrXX)

332 June 19th every year. Stinkfinger McShitpants made it a 'national' holiday, yet not too many companies give it as a day off that I'm aware of.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2023 11:57 AM (vf0Uk)
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*sigh* The university where I work decided to do so last year and this year. Of course, they are also going through the process of revising time off in general, so we may "gain" a holiday, but the end result is losing up to 10 vacation days overall.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 12, 2023 11:59 AM (YIVH2)

333 Being naive, I tried Indeed last year. Absolutely worthless, even though I tailored my resume for each job, just as the conventional wisdom says you should.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2023 11:59 AM (J2vNu)

334 317
Would you like to buy an R?
Posted by: m at June 12, 2023 11:56 AM (LodBx)

Well, I did invest in a consonant offset program so...

Posted by: NR Pax at June 12, 2023 11:59 AM (4olE8)

335 June 19th every year. Stinkfinger McShitpants made it a 'national' holiday, yet not too many companies give it as a day off that I'm aware of.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2023 11:57 AM (vf0Uk)

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I think it's like a mandatory holiday in WA now.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 12, 2023 11:59 AM (DRSnL)

336 It's hilarious that we have an official federal holiday recognizing black people being ignorant and white people teaching them something to set them free.

Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness and Uke Hating Month! It's a bash! at June 12, 2023 11:59 AM (60b0Y)

337
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That's just mean.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 12, 2023 11:57 AM (DRSnL)

What? I have only the purest of intentions.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2023 11:59 AM (vf0Uk)

338 America IS Walmart. Most people are lucky that breathing in an involuntary muscle movement... it's the only thing that is keeping them alive

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at June 12, 2023 12:00 PM (flINI)

339 but the end result is losing up to 10 vacation days overall.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 12, 2023 11:59 AM (YIVH2)

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Wow, that sucks.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 12, 2023 12:00 PM (DRSnL)

340 Have you tried putting your resume on Indeed? I hear they're a player in the job interview marketplace.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2023 11:55 AM (vf0Uk)

And then the murders happened.

Posted by: This is gonna be GREAT! at June 12, 2023 12:00 PM (fE1zA)

341 That's not cheese...

Posted by: Veritas at June 12, 2023 12:00 PM (XUb30)

342 If you don't look and sound like Sean Connery, buddy, you're not sitting with us.

I don't think that Sean Connery looks (or smells) all that good right now.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 12, 2023 12:00 PM (YXHzG)

343 Monday, a week from today.

When will it be next year? Is it one of those Monday holidays or is it always on the calendar date?
Posted by: Oddbob at June 12, 2023

***
I think all the federal holidays are set up to give a three-day weekend, i.e., Monday or Friday. Of course, now that I've said that, I recall that July 4th this year is a Tuesday. I don't know if my employer will give us both days off. But 7/4 predated the current regime, so maybe it doesn't follow the same rules.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2023 12:01 PM (J2vNu)

344 If you don't look and sound like Sean Connery, buddy, you're not sitting with us.

How about grounds keeper Willie?

Posted by: Archer at June 12, 2023 12:01 PM (gmo/4)

345 I got rid of the Milwaukee journal Sentinel years ago. The wife kept the sunday version for coupons until the front page headline leading article about a local artist that made a likeness of the pope out of condoms. She even conceded that she wasn't against it being covered somewhere in the newspaper but front page?
The newspapers died a partison death years ago, it's just the nerves ticking now.

Posted by: Gomjabber at June 12, 2023 12:01 PM (gx8aE)

346 224 The Cracker Barrel board chair formerly was head of marketing at Starbucks and another director is the former President of Disney World (and later, the CEO of all Parks at Disney), and another is the former COO of Sam's Clubs (and president of "International People Of Walmart", whatever that is). Alongside several "multicultural retailing experts", the CB board is a natural future home for Alissa Heinersheid and very Bud Light-ish.

Posted by: Huck Follywood
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These MBAs will get hired again somewhere else when CB is destroyed. They are like locusts in that way.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 12, 2023 12:01 PM (fs1hN)

347 but the end result is losing up to 10 vacation days overall.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 12, 2023 11:59 AM (YIVH2)

I assume that you'll only have to work half-time during Pride Month.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at June 12, 2023 12:01 PM (2tUFv)

348 but the end result is losing up to 10 vacation days overall.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 12, 2023 11:59 AM (YIVH2)

I want the Euro holiday schedule. They get 18+ days off every year for government mandated holidays. That doesn't include the 4+ weeks they get for vacation days.

And Europe wonders why they can't get anything done.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2023 12:02 PM (vf0Uk)

349 Off Stripes sock.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2023 12:02 PM (G8h7g)

350 I think all the federal holidays are set up to give a three-day weekend, i.e., Monday or Friday. Of course, now that I've said that, I recall that July 4th this year is a Tuesday. I don't know if my employer will give us both days off. But 7/4 predated the current regime, so maybe it doesn't follow the same rules.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2023 12:01 PM (J2vNu)

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I'm only off for the 4th itself. But, my employer gives us Fridays off with pay during the summer, so I'm not complaining.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 12, 2023 12:02 PM (DRSnL)

351 June 19th every year. Stinkfinger McShitpants made it a 'national' holiday, yet not too many companies give it as a day off that I'm aware of.

My Austin HQed company couldn’t wait to make it a company holiday. Oddly, MLK’s birthday is not.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 12, 2023 12:02 PM (nfrXX)

352 On the job counting the beans, taxing the beans.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 12, 2023 12:02 PM (4I/2K)

353
I'm okay with the bearded guy wearing the dress sitting at the table with my kids until the ambulance gets here, but no longer.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 12, 2023 12:02 PM (KATBx)

354 342 If you don't look and sound like Sean Connery, buddy, you're not sitting with us.

I don't think that Sean Connery looks (or smells) all that good right now.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 12, 2023 12:00 PM (YXHzG)

He should be well saponified by now...

Unless he went full boss and was mummified. He was supposed to be Egyptian in Highlander.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 12, 2023 12:03 PM (zZu0s)

355 345 I got rid of the Milwaukee journal Sentinel years ago. The wife kept the sunday version for coupons until the front page headline leading article about a local artist that made a likeness of the pope out of condoms. She even conceded that she wasn't against it being covered somewhere in the newspaper but front page?
The newspapers died a partison death years ago, it's just the nerves ticking now.
Posted by: Gomjabber at June 12, 2023 12:01 PM (gx8aE)

FRONT PAGE of a newspaper?
I am nearly speechless.

Posted by: m at June 12, 2023 12:03 PM (LodBx)

356 As far as the loss of access to loans is concerned, I have a strong suspicion that in a few years, when the woke companies are struggling to regain solvency, nobody will have been on board with the ESG stuff. Nobody was a Nazi.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 12, 2023 12:03 PM (eOEVl)

357 Nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 12, 2023 12:03 PM (zZu0s)

358 "A borrower who only puts up a negligible downpayment and who has no equity will likely just surrender the property, allowing it to be foreclosed.

I sure hope Rocket knows what it’s doing…"

Wellll there you go, you just answered your question in the following sentence. That's the whole point here - it's a scheme to pile housing inventory onto the bank balance sheet without drawing the attention of just buying it outright.

Posted by: somedood at June 12, 2023 12:03 PM (BaGvt)

359 The aisles are not a race way or place to practice your ball control techniques.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 12, 2023 11:58 AM (ZJ3HM)

Concur. Folks in the stores push their carts like they drive.

Too fast, oblivious to others and can't understand why I tell them to watch where the fuck their going.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 12, 2023 12:03 PM (dQWfI)

360 I want the Euro holiday schedule. They get 18+ days off every year for government mandated holidays. That doesn't include the 4+ weeks they get for vacation days.

And Europe wonders why they can't get anything done.

If you work for the government or a large company.

The guys working the falafel shop in Frankfurt don't get that deal.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at June 12, 2023 12:04 PM (2tUFv)

361 but the end result is losing up to 10 vacation days overall.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 12, 2023 11:59 AM (YIVH2)

Wow, that sucks.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 12, 2023 12:00 PM (DRSnL)
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They combine all leave (sick, vacation, personal) into one single category (paid time off or PTO). And then have a couple of other categories for extreme use cases that will hardly ever be used by someone like me. So yeah, it kind of sucks, but I hardly use vacation time as it is.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 12, 2023 12:04 PM (YIVH2)

362 I want the Euro holiday schedule. They get 18+ days off every year for government mandated holidays. That doesn't include the 4+ weeks they get for vacation days.

And Europe wonders why they can't get anything done.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2023 12:02 PM (vf0Uk)

We aren't getting much done over here either thanks to DEI, ESG, and FAG. At least they get time off.

Posted by: We ain't looking too good ourselves at June 12, 2023 12:04 PM (fE1zA)

363 96 Why not super glue a pink dildo on the rocker to please their new market?

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 12, 2023 11:23 AM (Hudry)
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Pink?
You are obviously a racyss white supremacist.
Shame on you.

Posted by: Ciampino -- Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity! at June 12, 2023 12:04 PM (qfLjt)

364 Nood

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at June 12, 2023 12:04 PM (gf7Ez)

365 the head of Blackrock is openly stating that companies have to be forced to do the things that Blackrock / the WEF wants them to do.

Apparently this isn't the case because it would be a very clear RICO extortion case, and there isn't a single AG anywhere even thinking about pursuing it.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 12, 2023 12:05 PM (YXHzG)

366
When is Juneteenth?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2023 11:51 AM

that's my rabbit's birfday

mucho fiesta around the casa

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 12, 2023 12:05 PM (ENBF0)

367 How woke is Fidelity?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 12, 2023 12:09 PM (G0guF)

368 "A writer for Nickelodeon, Berrin told The AP she is about to enter her thirties and climate anxiety is pronounced in people her age.
“I felt comfortable paying more because I was neutralizing when I needed to travel for work or to see my family,” she said. She said she felt frustration and regret when she began having doubts about Delta’s offsets."

A clear majority of those under 35, along with ... well probably most of those over 35 in the current office worker class, are just plain fucking stupid. There really isn't any way around this conclusion. They are trainable for any narrow range of tasks but not not well educated enough to be able to identify when that training is bullshit, and not smart enough to make the leap themselves.

The younger group can be fully blamed on public education. The older office worker group is simply the earlier partial success of the same who have self-selected for the inability or unwillingness to detect bullshit. My employer basically leads the world in a given field; and I still have to deal with my peers being fucking retarded on a daily basis - spouting lefty nonsense or applying the same lack of rigor to their work.

Posted by: somedood at June 12, 2023 12:10 PM (BaGvt)

369 A writer for Nickelodeon, Berrin told The AP she is about to enter her thirties and climate anxiety is pronounced in people her age.

**************

Dear cunty talentless AWFL Karen scruntbot,

You are a mentally damaged narcissistic fuckface.

love,

problematic super straight male

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at June 12, 2023 12:11 PM (VTu1l)

370 Or better q - is there a big investment company that is not woke and just cares about making money for its clients?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 12, 2023 12:11 PM (G0guF)

371 201
If the Fort Wayne and Arlington plants are producing an IC engine, they aren't producing an EV. They a re probably producing a hybrid.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 12, 2023 12:12 PM (qVln6)

372 143 137 What are homosexuals so proud of?

Posted by: I gotta ask at June 12, 2023 11:30 AM (DhOHl)

Their pretty pink socks?

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at June 12, 2023 12:13 PM (ZlKnD)

373
When is Juneteenth?

Was the dark of the moon on the teenth of June
In a Kenworth pullin' logs
Cab-over Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 12, 2023 12:16 PM (63Dwl)

374 The Chronicle acquired the Post and soon after sold out to the Hearst Corporation. It is a ridiculous source of pabulum now that is not worth reading. Posted by: DanMan at June 12, 2023 11:55 AM (DB6tu)

For a long time I got the Chronicle just for baseball coverage and then I even stopped that. But they delivered the paper to me free for years. I think it kept their circulation numbers up for advertising purposes.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 12, 2023 12:24 PM (7B5FA)

375 My carbon credit company is dedicated to purchasing bourbon to keep it away from the general masses

Posted by: Chicago Vota at June 12, 2023 12:29 PM (mbH6j)

376 Seems like restaurants courting boycotts during inflation is solid way to get people to not eat at restaurants

Posted by: Oofin and Goofin at June 12, 2023 12:51 PM (KfeB1)

377 I spent 35 years in the newspaper biz as a reporter and an editor. At the time, I was proud of my career and the industry as a whole.

When people now ask me what I did before I retired, I say I was a ditch digger. These days, it's a far more honorable profession.

Posted by: Michigan Mick at June 12, 2023 01:56 PM (Qoa6L)

378 Remember how bad it was when Enron went down? That recession was followed by George W. Bush's jobless recovery where National Review assured me that 160,000 low wage jobs a monthwas a good thing because our companies were cutting costs and increasing productivity.

That was one big company cooking the books. Blackrock and Vanguard are forcing Enron behavior across several large companies. It's going to be a bumpy ride when the bill comes due.

Posted by: Eric at June 12, 2023 02:16 PM (6DOQe)

379 Can an arsonist sell carbon offset for any amount of California that he decides not to burn? Asking for a commie...

Posted by: Mitch in the kitchen at June 12, 2023 03:11 PM (zMYGS)

380 Cracker Barrel's decline has been slow but steady since 2020, starting with their customer service. It became obvious they were in trouble when Cracker Barrell started selling beer, wine and mimosas. How do you square liquor with grandma's Sunday chicken dinner? Idiot marketers and chief executives not understanding their core customer base. Glad you posted their gay pandering so I don't have to waste my money on them again. Time to fail.

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Posted by: Sean Wilkes at June 13, 2023 07:07 AM (Re9MM)

383 There really is little need for local papers anymore. The money could be better spent in a targeted website, that offers local businesses affordable ads (NOT hundreds or even thousands of dollars, but small ones that count the clicks, and adjust based on that indicator).
Local people could add in their own comments, opinions, or news to the site.
City government could upload FULL coverage of meetings and reports.
During election and primary seasons, candidates could be given a set amount of space for free. They could pay for more, should they desire.
But as hard-copy news, the industry is gone.
Supplement the above with advertised video channels, and you have an operation that replaces the newspaper.

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