Sunday Overnight Open Thread (8/27/23)

Quote I

“The decision was incredibly difficult for us to make, and we appreciate consumers allowing us into their homes over the decades, and to our retail partners for their support,”

“We have been operating in a highly constrained supply environment, and despite our best efforts we have been faced with some unique complexities on the Kleenex business.” Todd Fisher, Kimberly-Clark Canadian vice-president and general manager

Quote II

“Why the Biden administration cares about it is they think people are going to vote for them as a result of this,” Mark Curtis, an associate professor of economics at Wake Forest University

Quote III

“You look very smart when times are good, and when times get challenging is when you get challenged as a leader and a CEO and I don't think he's navigated that well. His arrogance caught up with him.” Current investor in Better, who requested anonymity

Grifting in Ukraine? Da Fuq?

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly purchased a luxury mansion in Egypt through his mother-in-law, with evidence showing Western aid money given to Ukraine was used to buy the property.
Egyptian investigative journalist Mohammed Al-Alawi initially broke the news following his in-depth research and interviews with sources familiar with the matter. He disclosed that the Zelensky family acquired a luxury property valued at around $5 million in the Egyptian city of El Gouna.

Located in Egypt's coastal zone next to the Red Sea, the tourist city is famous for having many opulent properties owned by millionaires. In fact, right next to Zelensky's newly acquired property is an estate owned by actress Angelina Jolie – making the comedian-turned-president and movie star of "Tomb Raider" fame neighbors.

Be careful. Be very careful when the next Arab Spring hits.

Snark time with Mark Dice. Will the Tater be coming back to TV?

No word if the captains involved were drinking heavily.

P&O Britannia cruise ship carrying thousands of British passengers crashes into another vessel in Mallorca
A Welsh woman on board said: 'We were up browsing on our phones in bed and heard the big horn after the bang. It was panic stations, I was bawling my eyes out

P&O Britannia cruise ship carrying thousands of British passengers crashes into another vessel in Mallorca
A Welsh woman on board said: 'We were up browsing on our phones in bed and heard the big horn after the bang. It was panic stations, I was bawling my eyes out

If it were not so frightening on what is happening to Donald Trump the following would be downright funny.

Former President Donald Trump’s arrest and mugshot at the Fulton County Jail helped to fuel a $7 million fundraising push, according to a report from Politico.

Immediately after the mugshot was released, the Trump campaign immediately capitalized on the image. The campaign sold t-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers and more that featured the already iconic image.

Good on him. Defense attorneys are not cheap.

I look forward to the days of electricity provided by wind, solar, fairy dust and unicorn farts. But even after that happens power companies will still need to maintain their lines and power corridors.

The court filings allege that Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) and its subsidiaries failed to properly power down live electrical equipment amid a red flag windstorm earlier this month.

Due to this failure, downed power lines operated by the utility company sparked a series of deadly fires on the island, the lawsuit claimed.

“The lawsuit alleges that the Defendants acted negligently by failing to power down their electrical equipment despite a National Weather Service Red Flag Warning on August 7th,” Maui County said in a release announcing its lawsuit.

Housing. Everybody requires it unless you are an urban outdoorsman/woman/thing/it. What is going on at the moment?

BidenomicsDangerously high mortgage rates under Resident MushHead. What will be the latest spin? Home purchasing privilege should be punished and punished hard?

Bidenomics is going great for you and me.

Home mortgage rates just hit 7.23%, the highest rate in decades.
CNN tells us that this is somehow good news, showing that the economy is roaring and happy days are here again. Sure, housing has never been this unaffordable in US history, but that is only because Biden has done such great things for the economy.

No, really. That is the explanation. It has nothing to do with all that money printing, inflation, government spending, or gross overregulation. It is the great economic times we have been having.

Higher interest rates? No problem, we are too big too fail and we have a remedy for those high interest rates.

Real estate marketplace Zillow has launched a new program to help people who want to buy homes but are being squeezed out of the market by a surge in interest rates.

Zillow Home Loans is offering mortgages with a 1% down payment option for eligible homebuyers looking to own property in Arizona, and will contribute an additional 2% at closing, the company said Thursday. It also plans to expand the program to other markets.

Basic Spying 101: Course 1, Spying with dignity and respect

NSA ORDERS EMPLOYEES TO SPY ON THE WORLD “WITH DIGNITY AND RESPECT”
A digital rights advocate said, “This is like the CIA putting out a statement saying that going forward they’ll only waterboard people with dignity and respect.”

I'm so fvcking shocked!

Mask study published by NIH suggests N95 Covid masks may expose wearers to dangerous level of toxic compounds linked to seizures and cancer
A study published in April found disposable masks can have toxic chemicals
Experts said this could make newly instated mask mandates ineffective
READ MORE: Mask mania sweeps America...AGAIN

The Kinder, Gentler Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

After an open-air museum took in an orphaned fallow deer, the little thing fell head over hooves for the owner’s 11-month-old daughter.

The deer, named Ziggy, was rescued and taken in by Jeremy Goldsmith who runs Mountfitchet Castle, a Norman castle and museum.

Goldsmith and the staff at Mountfitchet care for a variety of orphaned animals, and it took just a few hours for Ziggy to settle into her new environment.

Well we now know where her heart is. Genius Award Winner. And definitely off of Hrothgar's Christmas Card list.

Cops: Nurse Abandoned Dog At Airport
Woman, 44, dumped her pooch, then took flight to Mexico resort

AUGUST 24--Pennsylvania police have filed criminal charges against a woman who, unable to take her dog on a flight, allegedly abandoned the pooch at the Pittsburgh airport before boarding a plane to a Mexico vacation resort, according to court records.

Allison Lyn Gaiser, a 44-year-old nurse, is facing cruelty to animals, neglect of animals, and animal abandonment counts, according to a criminal complaint detailing the bizarre August 4 incident at Pittsburgh International Airport.

I don't want that bitch anywhere near me when I need medical care.

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