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I'll be 70 this year. Yeah, I know - hard to believe a young-looking handsome motherfucker like me couldn't possibly be that old and yet, here I am. But I digress once again. There reason I put it here, more than anything else, is that days of the week just don't mean fuckall anymore. I think it's something that really does come to us later in life and/or those of us who haven't been to Sunday mass in 50+ years. Aside from TV listings and garbage collection days, what day of the week it is just doesn't mean shit anymore. I just don't have to wait until Friday to have fish, and that's okay with me.
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Another one drives the bus. Loved the music, hated their politics. How this guy lived as long as he did is a modern miracle of sorts. RIP Dave.
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Dazed and abused by high taxes and rising crime, more New Yorkers fled to Florida in 2022 than any year in history. A staggering 64,577 Empire staters exchanged their driver’s licenses for the Sunshine State version last year, according to figures from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. “They come in every day,” a staffer at a Jacksonville DMV office said this week with a weary laugh. “I hear all the complaints. I feel like a therapist sometimes.” The worker said the venting refugees harbor a long list of grievances - with taxes and eroding quality of life at the top of the list. “It’s slowed down a little bit,” she said of the stampede. “But not by a whole lot, I can tell you that.”
There were 64,577 NYers who exchanged their driver’s licenses for the Sunshine State version last year. Last year’s record-shattering number comfortably eclipsed the prior mark of 61,728 New Yorkers who made the Florida switch in 2021.
So maybe now we'll have a chance of having resonably
good bread and pizza down here? One can only hope.
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This just in from the 'Nothing is safe or sacred Department':
The hackers accessed the user information not by breaching PayPal’s internal systems, but by successfully guessing login passwords. Specifically, the hackers resorted to a “credential stuffing” attack, which involves automatically injecting login credentials uncovered in past data breaches.
The login attempts occurred last month between Dec. 6-8, before PayPal began eliminating the hackers’ access. Fortunately, the attackers refrained from making any fraudulent transactions over the affected accounts. Nevertheless, the culprits were able to access sensitive personal information from thousands of users, which could be exploited to conduct identity theft schemes and other scams. “The personal information that was exposed could have included your name, address, Social Security number, individual tax identification number, and/or date of birth,” PayPal wrote in the data breach notice it’s been sending to affected consumers.
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Attempts to smuggle eggs from Mexico or Canada can result in fines of up to $10,000. And yet, soaring egg prices in the US have tempted many to cross the border, where they can be bought for half the price, to bring back the delicate cargo. Seizures at border posts have spiked by more than 100%.
US egg prices were up 60% in December compared to the previous year. Between 1 October and 31 December alone, egg and poultry seizures rose 108%, according to Department of Agriculture statistics. Earlier this week, Jennifer De La O, the director of Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) San Diego Field Operations, tweeted that her office has "recently noticed an increase in the number of eggs intercepted at our ports of entry". For some local residents, attempts to purchase eggs in Mexico come as no surprise.
CBS reported that a carton of a dozen eggs costs nearly $8 at some mini-markets in border communities, compared to less than $3 across the border in Tijuana, Mexico. I guess there's no 'Bird Flu' down there.
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Two off-duty NYPD cops were apparently caught having sex inside a car at a Brooklyn precinct after the woman’s “hot and heavy” cries from the police parking lot caused a startled resident to call 911.
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oil-field workers could just 'learn to write code'?
How's that working out you smug cocksucker?
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Looks like the blush faded off of his rose pretty fuckin' quick - even though Prince Harry's memoir 'Spare' is the 'fastest-selling non-fiction book ever' according to its publisher - it's already being marked down all over the world, so it appears that initial rush for his gibberish was just that, and nothing more.
Just another guy who should sadly suffer soem kind of fatal brake failure...
I love my movies, and I hate using "best" because of the different genres. But the Godfather and #2 for that matter definitely top my list of films to take to a deserted desert island
ReplyDeleteI'm 61, been off the employment hamster wheel for 12 years. Every day is a Saturday for me and It's a very satisfying feeling.
ReplyDeleteOn the movie question, while "Citizen Kane" is good I think it's held the title long enough. "The Godfather" is a nearly perfect movie and should now be considered the GOAT. Kubrick's 2001 is a close second, IMHO.
ReplyDeleteI put the Godfather trilogy near the top of my list of favorite movies. Gangster movie aside, it was a very interesting look into family dynamics and the patriarchal duty of protecting one's family; want to or not.
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