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Single Whoopi Goldberg reveals she goes bar-hopping to fulfill her sexual needs

Whoopi Goldberg cheerfully confessed she bar hops as a way to fulfill her sexual needs.

On Wednesday's episode of "The View," Goldberg noted, "A woman wrote an article in Cosmopolitan, admitting that she fantasizes about being single even though she's in a very happy longterm relationship."

"She writes that sometimes, she finds herself missing the days of casual flings and bar-hopping," Goldberg continued as the audience giggled.

The "Ghost" actress then turned to her co-hosts for a reaction, to which Joy Behar responded, "Do you miss those days?"

Goldberg quipped, "I am single," adding, "Yeah, I bar hop, I go hang! And I do hit and runs when I need it."

I envision her working off her crusty undies with e Dremel tool and a chain-cutter.

From last month: Gen Z is officially the first generation in American history to be dumber than the last.

Why post something from last month? Gen Z has been annoying me too.

The generation born between 1997 and 2010 is the very first generation who did worse in school than the generation before them, according to a top neuroscientist.

And shockingly, they are proud of it.

"They're the first generation in modern history to score lower on standardized academic tests than the one before it," Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, 43, told The Post. "And to make matters worse, most of these young people are overconfident about how smart they are. The smarter people think they are, the dumber they actually are.

No way!

"They underperformed on basically every cognitive measure, from basic attention, memory, literacy, numeracy, executive function and general IQ."

Horvath recently testified to the sad facts before Congress, telling a panel of lawmakers that Generation Zers, who followed the Millenial generation, blew up humanity's proud academic record -- the wrong way.

So what happened that caused an entire age group to bomb test scores?

What caused them to become a generation of retards?

Well, the left's covid school shutdowns was part of it.

The other part of it is what's making us all stupid: Constant low-cognitive-demand/high-domamine-spiking scrolling on phones.

Horvath, who studied reams of data from standardized academic tests, told Congress that Z's struggles stem from the fact that they're the first generation to grow up with constant screen time. And it's no substitute for real learning.

"More than half of the time a teenager is awake, half of it is spent staring at a screen," said Horvath, who's taught at universities around the world, including Harvard and the University of Melbourne in Australia. "Humans are biologically programmed to learn from other humans and from deep study, not flipping through screens for bullet point summaries."

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And it's not just happening in the US.

"Across 80 countries, if you look at the data, once countries adopt digital technology widely in schools, performance goes down significantly," said Horvath, who is also founder of LME Global, a Arizona-based group that bridges research and classroom practices to improve academic outcomes.

The Failure of the Sussex: Meghan Markle will soon be unemployed.

So, the same as she is now. Only now she won't be getting megamillion dollar paychecks from Netflix to be unemployed.

From State of the Day, which uses this fact as a jumping off point to discuss how AI is going to put a lot of people out of work, but especially women in corporate make-work jobs.

Far-right Trump News Channel CBS (according to nonpartisan Scott McFarlane of "MeidasTouch"):

State records show 89 hospice companies at one Los Angeles office plaza. We went to look for ourselves.

The Merabi Professional Medical Plaza, a three-story, 32,000 square foot stucco and glass office building in Los Angeles, is home to a salon, a law office, a modeling agency, a realty corporation and, also, 89 licensed hospice companies.

Patient advocate Sheila Clark, who has worked to expose allegations of widespread Medicare fraud in the hospice industry, calls this building "ground zero" for the issue.

"This particular building I noticed, I'm like, 'dang, how can there be that many licensed and certified hospices in this tiny little building?,'" Clark said.

The building is among the most extreme cases of what's known as "clustering" to turn up in a sweeping CBS News investigation -- a grouping of large numbers of hospice offices that state auditors consider a major red flag for potential fraud.

The Van Nuys address for Merabi Plaza appears dozens of times in state records for licensed hospice companies. Inside the building's entry hall, a directory lists numerous hospice agencies that line the long tiled hallways, although the building's owner claims many are no longer there.

Clark said it makes "no sense" to find so many licensed and certified hospice company offices operating inside a single building. Auditors said the clustering of so many firms raised concerns because it suggests that "the number of agencies in these areas likely exceeds the number of patients who need services."

Concerns about clustering appear in a 2022 California State Auditor's report, which found that Los Angeles County had experienced a 1,500% increase in hospice companies countywide since 2010. That's six times more hospice providers than the national average, relative to the county's elderly population.

Auditors said other warning signs for potential fraud included multiple hospices in one building, geographic clustering, low patient counts, high rates of terminally ill patients later discharged alive, excessive billing and staff shared across multiple companies.

CBS News found that 72 of the 89 registered hospices in Merabi Plaza have at least three of those six potential warning signs.

LA Daily News:

15 hospices incorporated in a single day, in a single suite in Van Nuys

'It's not normal. None of this is normal,' said the CEO of a hospice trade association who has warned of fraud risks in LA for years

A group operating out of a Friar Street office building in Van Nuys that advertises "virtual offices" incorporated 22 hospices and home care agencies in one year, including 15 hospices registered in one day to a single suite, according to an investigation by the Southern California News Group.

The 15 hospices, all formed in "Suite 205" at 14545 Friar St., later collected $12.3 million from Medicare and Medi-Cal billings in 2023 and 2024, records showed.

Each had the equivalent of one full-time employee at the time.

While operating out of the same building is permitted, hospices cannot use the same office, according to Sheila Clark, the president and CEO of California Hospice and Palliative Care Association.

"You cannot co-locate with another provider," she said.

However, these hospices seemingly bypassed that limitation by appending letters from "A" to "P" onto the suite number in official documentation. Suites in the building, however, have only one to three rooms and leases specifically prohibit subdivision of those spaces, according to the property owner, Kambiz Merabi.

Yet Merabi's website advertises "virtual offices" that give you a "physical business address and office number for your business cards, website, email and registering a new company." Mentions of that service were scrubbed from his Instagram page as of Friday, but remained on other accounts.

One post specifically advertised to industries needing an address to "obtain licenses."

"For just $99 per month, you receive 2 hours of private office or conference room usage each month; a professional office address with an actual suite number -- not a P.O. Box; mail and package reception; your business listed on our digital directory and within the building's directory," the post read. "For industries needing a California or Los Angeles presence to obtain licenses, a suite at the prestigious Merabi Professional Medical Plaza Building provides more than just an address -- it offers a full-service business center hub with many perks and services for businesses like yours."

Here's a little good news: A foreign pirate who was imprudently granted citizenship, and then defrauded the people of the US for millions, has been denaturalized.

Let him be the first of millions.

Oh, I had not heard about this at all. It happened a couple of days ago, and what a development.

This began as a COVID-era fraud case, but what it ended up as should strike fear in the heart of every Somali Learing Center hustler and every Armenian hospice provider.

That naturalized citizenship is not the shield of steel one might have thought it was, or that it used to be back when no one paid attention to such things.

For the year between April 2020 and the next May, 25-year-old Joff Stenn Wroy Philossaint of Fort Lauderdale, FL, had himself a schweet little scheme going with COVID loan applications and all the various businesses he had registered in his name.

He and his partners in crime came into some serious cha-ching, courtesy of those very forgiving loan programs.

This is where it gets really interesting. Thanks to a quirk in immigration law, if you are in the middle of criminal activity when you apply for your citizenship, you can also be charged with submitting a fraudulent application.

ANYONE COME IMMEDIATELY TO MIND?

Haitian-born Philossaint was definitely up to no good in 2020 when he dropped his citizenship application papers, and, when the feds collared him in 2022 for the loans conspiracy charges, guess what else they hung on him?

Philossaint pled out on the conspiracy charges, and a federal jury nailed him on the fraudulent citizenship application.

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That would have been the end of the story in most administrations, but not in this one. In February of this year, the Justice Department petitioned the court for an order revoking Philossaint's citizenship, and it was formally stripped yesterday.

How 'bout them apples?

See the link for the news stories themselves.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:24 PM

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