SDA regular, Denise, has sent in the following:
Years ago I clipped an article with the headline “Man Saws Off Foot to Avoid Work.” Bemused by this commitment to an idle lifestyle, It was the epitome of weird. Not anymore. Bizarre human behaviour has gone mainstream. Basement musician and husband James Frazer penned this quirky song describing the peculiar people who populate this clown world. How are we different from squirrels & birds? Listen to Strange Species here.
I hear there are openings in solar installations.
Famed statistics guru Nate Silver and his website FiveThirtyEight are on the “chopping block,” Confider has learned, as ABC News looks to cut costs.
A decision on the future of the famed politics, economics, and sports analysis website is set to be made by the summer when Silver’s contract is up, multiple people with knowledge of the situation told us.
The oft-combative Silver, who has come under renewed scrutiny for his site’s polling selections, now faces an uncertain future as news division boss Kim Godwin reviews the publication, which has never turned a profit.
A Twitter poll.
Via Instapundit: “The Washington Post, which has lost 500k subscribers in the past year, has announced layoffs are coming to the paper. The meeting didn’t go well.”
Someone got a call – NBC silent after retracting Paul Pelosi report under mysterious circumstances
This is absolutely hilarious:
I spotted this in Park City, Utah the other day. There are not a lot of mask & glove wearing folks in these parts but I’ve seen a few. They’re entitled to be paranoid but is their tribe comfortable with them also being a bunch of litterbugs?
Since Kate frequently adds posts about horse racing, I hope she won’t mind me mentioning that today at 1pm PDT / 4pm EDT the U.S. Open Men’s Final is happening. It features 19 year old phenom, Carlos Alcarez, from Spain, vs. Casper Ruud from Norway.
Here are the highlights of Alcarez’s Friday match victory:
At this point it’s almost cliché to say so, but what Stelter meant when he used words like “misinformation” was right-wing. For all the Reliable Sources anchor’s garment-rending about declining trust in the media, he spent a disproportionate amount of time covering for his industry’s egregiously biased, activist behavior over the course of the past few years. He defended his colleague Chris Cuomo’s unethical role as an adviser to his brother, the disgraced former New York governor Andrew Cuomo. He regularly offered up his show as a platform for Biden officials to repeat White House propaganda. On Jussie Smollett, he argued: “We may never know what happened.” And he himself regularly engaged in “misinformation,” including championing the fraudulent “Steele dossier” narrative. (When new details about the dossier’s fraudulent nature emerged, Stelter protested: “I’m a media reporter, and I’m not a Steele dossier reporter.”)
Via Jon Nicosia: “Once the coming shakeup at @CNN is done, don’t expect John Berman, Alisyn Camerota, Jim Acosta, Brianna Keilar, Jake Tapper, John King, and Don Lemon to still be at the network OR have their current show assignments.” (Sorry, forgot the link)
Steve Krakauer: A change is coming…
In the Trump years, Brian and his show, Reliable Sources, became emblematic of the Jeff Zucker Era of CNN. The office politics subsided, overtaken by the national politics that slowly, then rapidly, became intertwined with the media coverage. Fairly or unfairly – and, in reality, probably somewhere in between – Brian became a stand-in for Zucker himself, both in criticism of the network by places like Fox News, and internally among those who viewed the output as directly from Jeff’s brain.
When Jeff Zucker ran the network, that meant there was no one more untouchable at CNN. But Jeff was fired, and Chris Licht took over. In the new regime, being a stand-in for the old boss was perhaps the worst place to be. Yesterday it was announced Stelter would be leaving CNN, and Reliable Sources was canceled. The last episode airs Sunday, and Stelter’s last newsletter was sent last night. (Longtime media watcher Jon Nicosia’s sources said it was happening back in June.) […]
His exit marks a perception shift at the network, but is also quite obviously a reality check to those still in the building – the rumors about what Chris Licht, and David Zaslav, and John Malone plan to do with CNN are in fact true. The network will not be making small changes. It’s a full-scale overhaul. Jeffrey Toobin was gone last week. Brian Stelter is gone this week. Jim Acosta, Don Lemon, Brianna Keilar, Alisyn Camerota – you are on notice. The changes may have started small and subtle, but then the floodgates open and start coming all at once. (Licht signaled as much in his 9am comments this morning.)
New CEO Tells Employees, ‘You Might Not Like or Understand’ What’s Coming
Let me to give credit where credit is due: Lisa LaFlamme helped convince us to cancel our cable. And we don’t miss it.
I have some news… pic.twitter.com/lTe3Rs0kOA
— Lisa LaFlamme (@LisaLaFlamme_) August 15, 2022
It’s Saturday morning in North America and many of you are waking up. In that spirit, here’s a fun young lady who will teach you a little about harvesting crops.
Here’s a bonus video.
This is such a masterpiece, it ought to be framed.
PolitiFact “Fact Checker” Learns His Employer Is Source Of Claim He’s Trying to Debunk
The most glorious advertisement ever produced:
At the risk of looking foolish, let me present a conspiracy theory to you all, share the “evidence”, and then let you all try to pick it apart.
Early on in the Freedom Protest, there was a single Nazi flag guy. I’ve seen 2 photos and one video of him and it’s clearly the same fellow in all three cases. Here’s the best resource I’ve found so far about him.
A few days ago there was an alleged “arson attempt”, which Matt Christiansen dissected, much like he did with the Jussie Smollett hoax. This article contains the best set of photos of the two culprits that I could find.
So now let’s compare the images from the two incidents (click for the larger versions) :
Question: Is it possible that the Nazi Flag Dude is the same person as the Bald Arsonist?
A groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his burrow this morning. That’s more than Justin Trudeau can say.
Poll Question: Who would do less damage to Canadians?
It’s real, for now.
Dear Abby:
I am a crack dealer in Okotoks Alberta who has a steady flow of customers from the nearby junior high schools. I have recently become engaged to marry a former Cold Lake prostitute who lives in Smokey Lake and is still a part-time “working girl” in a brothel there. My parents live in a suburb of Ponoka, and one of my sisters, who lives in Hobbema (I can’t remember the new name), is married to a Native transvestite.
My father and mother have recently been arrested for growing and selling marijuana in Camrose, and are currently dependent on my other two sisters, who are prostitutes in Calgary. I have two brothers. One is currently serving a non-parole life sentence in Drumheller for the murder of a teenage boy in 1994. The other brother is currently in jail awaiting charges of sexual misconduct with his children in Bowden.
All things considered, my main problem is this: I love my fiance and look forward to bringing her into the family. I certainly want to be totally honest with her. Should I tell her about my cousin who is a member of the Liberal Party???
Signed
Concerned
