What's your grand-daugter's Underwater Basket Weaving degree worth in the free market? Those freebie days are over...

 
And it's about time, too. I know of someone who got a degree in English literature back in the early 80's who strill owes on her college loans having not made a payment in over 30 years. That money is just pissed away, because the Einsteins that 'borrow' it can not and will not ever be able to pay it back. Well, those halcyon days are finally over. Students will no longer be able to take out federal loans to pay for degree programs that fail to provide them a return on investment, thanks to a new federal policy that went into effect on July 1.

It’s a response to a shocking fact: Graduates of more than 800 college programs across the country - including at institutions like the University of South California and New York City’s New School - make less than the average high-school grad four years after getting a degree, despite all that time, effort and tuition money.

 

Now the American government will have no part in propping up degree programs that may not even lead to a livable wage. A provision of the Big Beautiful Bill cuts them off from federal aid access if they can’t break the non-grad salary baseline.

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You cannot negotiate with the hardliners - where ever they are...

Iranians loyal to the regime - meaning those few militants who actually benefit from the terrorist regime - called for the assassination of President Trump during the funeral procession for slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday. Footage from the streets of Tehran showed a group of sycophants honoring Khamenei by hurling stones at a billboard that showed Trump with a bullet aimed at his head - and the loyalists are demanding vengeance. “The US killed our father,” the banner read. “We won’t let you go!”

 

Groups could also be seen marching with long banners that carried the same message against Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Others also held ominous boards depicting Trump, Netanyahu, Vice President JD Vance, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth - all of whom had crosshairs of a gunsight on them with the words, “There will be blood.” Calls for revenge for the slain Khamenei have grown in recent days, with Iran’s most senior clerics calling for the assassinations of both Trump and Netanyahu last week.

 

So - how do you try to work with people this hateful - this demented? You don't. You sure as fuckall can't reason with them and you can't believe anything they say, so what do you do. Ya bring out the big pavers - the heavy equipment - and make their strongholds in to parking lots. It's the only way. We'll see what happens - and hopefully soon...

It's shamefull waste, and no one sees a way out...

I see it myself nearly every day. I go over to my local Circle K gas station pretty much every day at or near the same time - between four and five in  the afternoon. Towards the end of their shifts, one of the employees will throw out all of the leftover prepared breakfast sandwiches and meals - some times as many as two dozen at a pop. Same happens around midnight for all of the other prepared/cooked foods in the cases. They get dumped.

While it may seem wasteful, Circle K and Buc-ee’s aren’t the only chains to toss its scraps. Places like Dunkin’ or McDonald’s are not able to donate any or all leftovers to food banks, as it likely violates food safety policies. According to the FDA, hot foods must be kept at or above 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Anything below that threshold could have bacterial growth and may be unsafe to eat.

Plus, improper packaging could also contaminate wrapped foods, much of what Buc-ee’s sells. So while it seems wasteful, the convenience store hub likely is unable to donate. There's the dilemna. People create laws that try to protect people, but then inadvertantly cause unforeseeable consequences like this. The outlets can't give it away for fear of being sued, and the food banks can't take anything that doesn't come in a sealed container. It's a true CATCH-22 that ends up seeing millions of pounds of perfectl good food being wasted every year. Sad but true...

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What a magnificent city Paris must still be in spite of themselves letting in any and every third-world shithole refugee who are all hell-bent on completely fucking that entire country up and turning it in to the shithole country they ran away from - but that's another story for another day.  

Anyway, this is a Puppet and Marionette store where everything is still hand made. 

That's all they sell. Puppets. Handmade puupets.

35 Rue Saint-Louis en l'Île, 75004 Paris, France

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And, on a totally related subject, Philadelphia's 'Salute to

 Independence' parade canceled due to heat wave.

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Seattle's uber-leftie socialist idiot Mayor Katie Wilson is facing criticism from community leaders and business owners in the city's Chinatown-International District (CID) ahead of the USA vs. Belgium FIFA World Cup match.

Residents and local advocates say ongoing crime, homelessness and open-air drug activity have discouraged visitors from entering the neighborhood, leaving many businesses without the expected economic boost from the tournament. Protesters are calling on the city to improve public safety and revitalize the district.

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Portable Camping Kitchen Utensil Set

27 Piece Cookware Kit

You get it all for $ 39.99

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British troops were constantly under attack - as in this scene on the Falls Road in Belfast back in 1976 during what they called 'The Troubles'. Imagine how hardened that kid's will and personality were that he could stand there so non-chalantly in the midst of it all. My brother's house is one short block off the Falls Road. Now, thankfully, it's a much-improved area of town.

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A pregnant special-education teacher, Lauren Vitale, was violently kicked in the stomach by a student and then fired after being blamed for the incident. 

 Vitale, 31, who was six months pregnant at the time of the attack in January, asserts that the student had a known history of violence and had been placed in her classroom at Staten Island’s PS 84 without any advance warning. 

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Someone must have a birthday 

or anniversary coming up.

Here's a great gift idea...

 

Click on the picture for more information on this lovely bracelet
It's only $ 35.00 - and it comes to you with free shipping!

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When you buy anything on Amazon going from a link

on this blog, I get credit for whatever you buy. 

Granted, it's only pennies, but every penny helps, right?

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Here's another one of Clay Bennett's work that I don't quite get, but it got me thinking about the game of soccer itself instead of politics, so here we are. Could these players be any more of a friggin' bad-actor crybaby sissies when they fall down and go boom? It's almost embarassing to watch. I say 'almost' because, actually, I couldn't almost actually ever give a fuck about soccer. Juss' sayin'...

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Genesius Times is kinda like a poor-man's Babylon Bee, if ya catch my drift. It's actually slightly sophomoric at times but still pretty funny/silly, with stories like this. Google 'em if you haven't seen it.

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Inspired by Marceau...

Omar Z Robles's interest in storytelling began with one man: Marcel Marceau. The legendary mime actor taught him how to interpret the world through subtle, but riveting movements. Those movements that he acquired as a student in Paris, he still employs today in his ongoing photo series of ballet dancers.

he New York City-based photographer loves to juxtapose the clean lines of professional dancers against rugged city landscapes, and not just in the Big Apple either. He's been all over the world capturing dancers leaping, bending, swaying and moving around city streets – and then sharing his latest images on his popular Instagram account with 220,000 happy followers.

Before his obsession with dance photography kicked off, Omar was shooting celebrities, athletes, artists, politicians and city dwellers for The Chicago Tribune’s Hoy, Metro San Juan, Latino Leaders and for his own street photography portfolio.

In New York City, he transformed the aesthetic of his street photography by substituting the New Yorker with the New York dancer. Omar directed the dancers to tell stories with their bodies as he had learned from Marceau. The result is an army of miniature stories as told by the gentle flow of the dancers’ bodies. 

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Handmade gifts are extra special when

they're for someone extra special.

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 It's one-of-a-kind and comes with free shipping.

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Do you like a strong cup of tea?

I found this in Belfast a long time ago.

It's the best tea I've ever tasted.

It's not cheap, but trust me - it's worth it.

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A HillBetty in B&W and colorized. Which do you prefer?

 Our good friend at Twisted Hillbilly has very diverse taste 

in woman at times. This is what he posted this afternoon...

I liked it - the composition, the framing, the babe, but I thought 

the B&W was a little flat - a little lacking something. Here's 

my colorized version. Wuddya think?

Yeah - I've been humiliated like that once or twice...

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Portable high power handheld Vacuum with 

Attachments -  Was $ 22.49 - $ 18.99 today

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Crashin' out in the Oval Office...

 
Aw,c'mon - ya can't tell me that ain't just cute as fuckall. Just goes to show you, kids don't care where they are - when it's time to nap, it's time to nap. The kids flocked to the Oval Office as the president commemorated the launch of Donald Trump’s investment accounts for kids.

As Trump’s speech dragged on, the gaggle of tired kids can be seen slowly sinking into sitting positions on the carpeted floor of the Oval Office in the White House, with one child spotted falling entirely asleep while the president spoke.The little boy nodded off and rested his head on the shoulder of another child as the two sat with their backs resting against the president’s desk.

The accounts, known as “Trump Accounts,” (of course they are - what else would he call them?)are a new type of tax-deferred investment account for children under the age of 18. Eligible US citizens born between 2025 and 2028 qualify to receive $1,000 from the government deposited into their accounts.

 

The accounts officially went live on Saturday, July 4 – the 250th anniversary of the United States – and Trump marked the launch with a speech from the White House on Monday and rang the opening bell for the NYSE. Look at that little Marco Rubio look-alike in front. How cool is that clap? Juss' sayin'...

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Handmade gifts are extra special when

they're for someone extra special.

Click on the picture for more information on this bracelet

 It's one-of-a-kind and comes with free shipping.

 https://www.etsy.com/shop/BjacksonJewelry

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When you buy anything on Amazon going from a link

on this blog, I get credit for whatever you buy. 

Granted, it's only pennies, but every penny helps, right?

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A REALLY bad day at BJ's...

 
How much would this suck? You're in the bakery department at you local BJ's (and their bakery isn't all that great, but anyway) and the flat roof of the building has so much water on it from teorential rains - and it won't drain off - that the friggin' roof collapses in on your head? Ouch...

 

Security camera footage captured the moment the roof of a New Jersey BJ’s Wholesale Club partially caved in - sending torrents of water gushing into the store as vicious storms pounded the area this morning. The video showed an older man browsing the bakery section of the Ocean Township warehouse around 11:16 a.m. when the roof suddenly gave way, unleashing floods of water that shoved multiple displays across the floor, according to the Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office.

The shopper narrowly avoided being crushed by the collapsed roof and was then jostled by the wooden displays, dodging debris as the water poured in.

The guy probably went straight to St. Ursula's and dropped a twenty in the poor box and lit a couple candles for getting out of that one...

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Another HillBetty who might be too pretty to be real...

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And then one day he was shooting at some food...

The Clampett's 'Beverly Hills' Mansion is not for sale, but if it was, what would it go for these days? This limestone clad mansion in Bel Air owned by the late TV executive Jerry Perenchio (he founded Univision amongst other things) took a serious price cut the last time it changed hands. 

The commanding French neoclassical residence, which measures 25,000 square feet, was, for a time, the most expensive listing on the open market in the U.S.

The property, which came up for sale 2017 for a staggering $350 million, has long been the cream of the crop among high-end estates. Lachlan Murdoch - the son of the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. - finally  purchased the property for $150 million in 2019 - $200 million below the original asking price.

Named Chartwell, the residence was built in 1933 by Sumner Spaulding, the architect who also designed the famed Greenacres Estate in Beverly Hills and the Catalina Casino. The 10-acre property includes a 75-foot swimming pool, manicured gardens, and a 12,000-bottle wine cellar.

Chartwell was famously used as the lavish mansion inhabited by the Clampett family on The Beverly Hillbillies in the 1960s, and the main sponsor for the show - through it's entire run - was Kelloggs. 

You can beg and plead...

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If you have to crash in to a river...

 
It helps to be in a plane that floats. Wild video captured the moment a seaplane carrying eight people hit the choppy waters of New York City’s East River in a hard landing that left the aircraft partially submerged. Footage from inside the plane shared with The Post captured the moment the Kodiak 100 hit the East River as it approached the Skyport terminal along 23rd Street and FDR Drive.

 

Think about that. Guy - or a woman - is in a plane that's gonna crash and maybe kill them and they've got their fucking phone camera rolling? What kinda truly demented shit is that? Juss' sayin'...