These two morons tried to sail from New Jersey to Florida in a 30 foot sailboat that had no radio, no GPS, no EPRB, and without checking the marine weather forecasts. The sea can be unforgiving. These morons got lucky.
That’s right up there with the family that tried navigating from Florida to the Bahamas using a placemat from a seafood restaurant as a navigational chart.
Since everyone on the Internet has been talking about the cop who claims to have been exposed to Fentanyl, I think it’s appropriate to talk about it. I think it’s a bullshit story. We give Fentanyl in the ED all of the time. We have patients who use it all of the time. I had one patient who was chewing on her Fentanyl patches. She didn’t overdose. Let’s talk about this story:
In opioid overdoses, the pupils look more like this:
Look, I am not hating on the cops here. It’s just that they aren’t trained very well in this. Ever since they began giving Narcan to the cops to carry around, they give it all the time to almost everyone, even people who don’t need it. The cops got a short lecture on naloxone, less than 2 hours of training in some cases, then were turned loose. Now there are tons of companies making money selling “Fentanyl proof” gloves, and the legend grows with every viral, unsupported video.
The odd part is that multiple doctors have stopped in to the local news channel to report that this video looks nothing like an opiate overdose, but the news channel keeps deleting their comments. I wonder why.
Flying Waitress Claims that she can have a passenger put on “no fly list” for wearing FJB hoodie. I don’t think so.
To the people claiming that its a private airline and can do as it pleases: the no fly list is a government list. She is threatening him with arrest for wearing the wrong shirt. That is deprivation of rights under color of authority. I have a real problem with this
Now the feminists are on the warpath and using the Griner case as proof that there is a pay disparity between men and women: the claim is that the WNBA makes less money than the NBA because they are women. You see, Griner wouldn’t have to play in Russia if the WNBA weren’t discriminating against women.
Bullshit.
The two leagues aren’t even close to the same level of talent and revenue. It’s like claiming that the NY Yankees should pay the same to its players as the Hudson Valley Renegades because both are playing baseball.
Buying a ticket to see a WNBA game will cost you an average of $47. On average, attendance at a WNBA game is around 5,600. With a 40 game season, the result is about $63 million in ticket sales, league wide. Contrast that with the $6.4 billion in league revenue for the NBA.
The players in these two leagues aren’t being paid to play basketball. They are being paid to sell tickets to people who want to watch them play basketball. In the only metric that matters, sales, the NBA outpaces the WNBA 100 to 1. They aren’t paid less because they are women. They are paid less because people aren’t as willing to pay to watch them play. It’s simple economics. Most sports fans think that women’s sports are not worth paying to see.
One thing I hate is people who are late for appointments. I just think it’s disrespectful of the other person’s time to be late, it’s like saying that their time isn’t important to you.
That is why I get annoyed when people wait to the last minute to leave for a destination. They look at Google maps, and if the map says 48 minute travel time, they will leave the house at 9:12 for a 10 o’clock meeting. If they are late, they blame traffic and not their own lack of planning for their tardiness.
I was always taught that if you are 5 minutes early, you are already 10 minutes late.
Smith and Wesson reported that its sales returned to the prepandemic normal for the quarter ending in October, which is still profitable for the company. The drop in sales echoed ones reported by Sturm, Ruger, and other manufacturers and is the second consecutive quarter of slumping sales. This caused the company’s stock price to plunge to a 52 week low- from $14.39 a share in August down to $9.49 this morning.
I pulled out of the stock market last October, when it became obvious that things were going south. I resumed buying stock in July, and am picking up anything that looks like a healthy company but whose stock is selling at fire sale prices. Royal Caribbean Cruise lines is one, and now Smith and Wesson is added to that list. The company is still sound and is still turning a profit. When there is blood in the streets, buy oil. So that’s what I did- I picked up 100 shares. Maybe I will get some more before the stock recovers. I am betting that it will bounce back as inflation cools. If inflation DOESN’T cool, then money will be worthless anyhow.
I did the same thing in 2020 and made a shitload of money on Royal Caribbean and on Darden Restaurants. I bought RCL at $21 a share, then sold it 8 months later for $80 a share. I bought DRI at $50 a share then sold at $115. I made almost $50,000 in 8 months on those two deals when I turned $30K into over $75k.
My recommendation? If you have some spare investing money, find a deal on a stock. They are going to bounce back in a year or so, and you will make some decent returns. There are plenty of reputable stock purchasing companies that will let you buy stock direct with no commissions. I use ETrade.
******** As usual, the disclaimer: I don’t advertise, and receive nothing for my reviews or articles. I have no relationship with any products, companies, or vendors that I review here, other than being a customer. I pay what you would pay. I only post these things because I think that my readers would be interested.
Here is a prime example as to why you can’t rely on a TASER in a situation where you are in danger of death or serious bodily injury. The cops hit this guy twice with a TASER, and he still fought with them and with hospital staff, to the point where they had to use restraints.
Now instead of fighting with cops, imagine that you are shooting him with a TASER while he is stabbing your wife.
Even though it’s come about that masks and vaccines accomplished nothing, there are some who still cling to what science has told us was wrong. It’s like masks are MAGA hats for the left.
The San Francisco city council voted to allow police to use robots to kill suspects. Being antigun liberals though, the robots won’t have guns. Instead, they will be armed with explosives.