‘Nice work if you can get it.
Provided you live long enough to see results. “Instead of 60-year-olds giving to 30-year-olds, it’s going to be 90-year-olds giving to 60-year-olds,” says Chuck Collins of the Institute for Policy Studies.
My heart bleeds for the late-middle-aged children of healthy old rich people, it really does.
It’s a problem for all of us: baby boomers now account for half the combined net worth of the US.
Is this another one of those stories about boomers ruining everything?
I’m afraid it is, yes.’
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Amusing back and forth in the Guardian.
Hungary’s new National Core Curriculum
pointedly excludes the work of Imre Kertész, Hungary’s only Nobel Prize winner for literature, surrendering a national point of pride in order to erase the contributions of a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust. And it adds to the core curriculum Ferenc Herczeg, a minor right-wing nationalist playwright who was celebrated and praised by Miklós Horthy, the World War II Hungarian leader who brought about an alliance between Hungary and Nazi Germany. Previous revisions of the core curriculum in prior Orbán administrations had already elevated similar minor writers into the pantheon on an obvious political basis, such as József Nyírő, a member of Parliament for the fascist Hungarian Arrow Cross Party, who harbored a passionate hatred of Jews. The new curriculum presents far-right Hungarian nationalist leaders of the past as heroes.
LOL unnamed goat.
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‘At the Conservative Political Action Conference in February, she tied with Vivek Ramaswamy for first place in a poll of whom attendees wanted to see Mr. Trump select as a running mate.‘
In what is regarded as a desperate bid to overtake Noem, Ramaswamy was quick to claim a dog named Juno, an unnamed goat, and a local skateboarder.
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Shelley’s “To a Skylark,” rendered by Kristi Noem.
Hail to thee, blithe Cricket!
Dog thou never wert,
That from heaven, or near it,
Pourest thy full heart
In profuse strains of unpremeditated bark.
Higher still and higher
From the earth thou springest
Like a cloud of fire;
Dead birds to me thou bringest
And bringing bringest more, and yet more thou bringest.
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Chorus canineal
Your triumphal chaunt
Now seems to me of a sudden
But an empty vaunt,
A thing wherein I feel there is some hidden want.
Yea now thy clear keen joyance
Doth put me in a snit
Shadow of annoyance
O’ertakes me for a bit…
And so I killed you in a gravel pit.
“Donald Trump is facing 91 felony charges. If Republicans want to name something after him, I’d suggest they find a federal prison,” Fairfax-area Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) said in a statement to POLITICO.
… Asked if he had any response to the legislation, an aide to Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) replied: “lol.”
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Apparently a breakaway group of SuperMAGAs in the House proposes the Vladimir Putin International Airport.
[Maxwell] Berry graduated in May from Ohio Wesleyan University, where he received a values in action award from the Greek life community for being a “perfect role model” and for leading “the fight to dismantle fraternity stereotypes.”
BWAHAHAHAH
‘Secret Service May Recruit Ivanka to
Help Remove Trump from White House,
According to Expert‘
Sing it!
The last time I saw Gorka
My limerick flowed free;
A bearded Trumper with a past
That some might call Nazi.
Just yesterday he surfaced
A Duce in the sun:
“Attend to me, my Proud Boys all!
We won! We won! We won!”
Rudolph the Big Attorney
Had a very shiny chode
And if you ever saw it
You would even say it glowed
All of the other lawyers
Used to laugh and call him names
They wouldn’t let poor Rudolph
Join in any lawyer games
Then one dark and stormy night
Borat came to say
“Rudolph with your chode so bright
Won’t you join my film tonight?”
Then all the lawyers loved him
As they shouted out with glee
“Rudolph the Red-Chode Trumper
You’ll go down in history”
Just… read it. Just work your way through it. I promise it will bring a smile – and maybe even laughter! – to your face.
Excerpts:
‘Merchants Hospitality has filed an explosive lawsuit against former partner Adam Hochfelder, accusing him of running a Ponzi scheme, embezzling investor money and retaliating against his former associates after he was fired in June.
In a complaint filed in New York State Supreme Court last week, Merchants claims it went out on a limb to help Hochfelder get back on his feet after a two-year prison stint, only to catch him stealing from the firm and using its name and assets to defraud unsuspecting investors and partners…
Hochfelder went to prison in 2010 after pleading guilty to 15 counts of grand larceny and three counts of scheming to defraud his uncle, in-laws and other investors out of more than $18 million. He left prison and was hired by Merchants in 2012.
Now, eight years later, Merchants accuses Hochfelder of embezzling funds from its West 42nd Street hotel project — the site of a failed effort to run a high-priced Playboy Club in New York — and using his affiliation with the firm to run a $400,000 Ponzi scheme through his company email…
[Hochfelder] accused Merchants of fabricating the scheme by breaking into his computer and creating false documents…
Merchants brought Hochfelder on board during his prison stint to spearhead acquisitions and development for the firm…
In 2014, Merchant, the firm’s CEO, called hiring Hochfelder “one of the best decisions we ever made.” And in 2017, after allegations of sexual harassment against Hochfelder surfaced, [the CEO] defended Hochfelder, saying, “It’s easy for him to be a pinata because of his past. But I think everybody deserves a second chance.”…
Merchants claims it conducted an investigation into [one particular] embezzlement … and Hochfelder ultimately admitted to the scheme and begged his partners to let him repay the money, citing “his own psychological issues and problems with drugs,” according to the September lawsuit…
Hochfelder [allegedly] collected $125,000 for an investment in the Bryant Park Hotel, which Merchants does not own. The complaint also alleges that Hochfelder offered an interest in Merchants’ Z Hotel in Long Island City but had the investor wire $75,000 to an LLC owned by his wife.
On top of those accusations and the alleged $4 million payment withheld by Roche, Merchants says Hochfelder has left the firm with months of overdue car payments, traffic violations and an ongoing eviction proceeding at his Midtown apartment…’
A French government official’s attempts to ban an essay entitled I Hate Men over its “incitement to hatred on the grounds of gender” have backfired, sending sales of the feminist pamphlet skyrocketing.
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Perhaps you don’t share UD’s sense of humor. I haven’t gotten past that first paragraph and I’m already laughing. Let’s read the rest of the article. Here’s hoping for more laughs…
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Yes!
[The 25-year-old author] criticised [the gender equality advisor’s] response to her work. “A state official who has a power crisis facing an 80-page book released in 400 copies, I find that very problematic,” she said.
[The small publisher] did initially set out to print just 400 copies when the essay was published in August, but after [Ralph] Zurmély’s attacks, the first three editions of the book have sold out, with almost 2,500 copies sold just two weeks after its release. A larger publisher, who has yet to be named, is now set to take the title on.
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And, as faithful readers know, UD always finds a way to sing it.