Biden asked to react to the assassination of Shinzo Abe:
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July 8, 2022
“This is the first use of a weapon to murder someone in Japan. I think we have thus far have—I think—3,000. Don’t hold me to the number, 688 or between 3 and 4 thousand cases. They have 1. 1. 1.”pic.twitter.com/8EohfQ9lci
A group of deranged teenagers were caught on camera laughing and taking videos as they beat an elderly man to death with a traffic cone in Philadelphia last month, according to police.
Since the race of the teenagers is not mentioned, the answer is obvious.
A dumb, fragile system crashes and millions are impacted:
Rogers services appear to be coming back online, after a daylong outage at the telecom giant that left millions of Canadians without internet and cellular service, while also disrupting government services and payment systems.
It's logical that Rogers customers couldn't use their telephone or internet services. However, Canadians who have nothing to do with Rogers couldn't use their bank debit cards in grocery stores, restaurants, taxis, etc.
It gets worse:
Rogers-owned flanker brands like Fido and Chatr also went offline, as did services not directly controlled by Rogers, such as emergency services, travel and financial networks. [...]
Government services including already bottlenecked passport offices, Service Canada, Public Services and Procurement Canada and the Canada Revenue Agency are also affected.
It would be easier to list services that weren't affected. The Internet traffic in Canada declined by 25% because of this outage. Rogers has been making sweet profits for decades thanks to their market power in Canada. Yet, they couldn't build a robust system. It's time for the fat cats to lose weight.
— elle “craves human blood” nash (@saderotica) July 8, 2022
Hilarious. pic.twitter.com/pO49VwF1jZ
— RAMZPAUL (@ramzpaul) July 8, 2022
My passport expired late last year. I waited and went to the post office to mail my application in February. I got the passport a month later. Too many people didn't bother in the winter and now we've got long queues.
As passport processing delays and long lineups persist at Service Canada offices, the federal government is looking to buy 801 chairs for people standing in line by the end of this week.
That precise number made me laugh. Of course, Prime Minister Zoolander is doing his very best to get to the root of this problem:
The request for the additional seating was posted just days after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the formation of a special cabinet committee "task force to improve government services."
The 10 ministers on the committee have been tasked with tackling the "unacceptable" backlogs with immigration and passport applications, though with no clear timelines attached to this task.
The geezers are on it!
It's a simple supply issue. The government didn't forecast the spike in demand and so they didn't bother hiring and training sufficient numbers of workers. At least, it's still possible to apply and get a new passport in 48 hours. There are certain federal government applications where the response time is not measured in hours, days, weeks, or months! It takes years for a bureaucrat to even look at your documents. Why doesn't the government charge higher fees and employ more people to speed up that process? Can't even think of an answer.
Honestly we are reliving the 70’s. Gas shortages, high interest rates, crime out of control. Democrats were in charge back then, too.
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) July 7, 2022
If history repeats, then the Democrats will lose big in 2024.
— Jonny T (@hair_summer) July 6, 2022
Citi says oil will collapse to $65 per barrel.
— Ari Ozick (@ariozick) July 5, 2022
JPM says oil could go up to $380 per barrel.
I think that's everything you need to know about market forecasting.
¿Causa o Correlación? 🤭🤫 pic.twitter.com/QKtYchLhsW
— Albert ツ (@dw3l) July 5, 2022
Competitive skateboarder Taylor Silverman said in a new interview that the 29-year-old transgender competitor who won a recent tournament against girls as young as 10 should not be allowed in the women’s division. Ricci Tres, a transgender woman, captured The Boardr Open after vanquishing second-place finisher Shiloh Catori, 13, of Florida, last weekend.
An adult man competes against teenage girls and thrashes them.
“I’m not going to go and be easy on them because they’re kids,” the Navy veteran said.
She also downplayed the possibility that she enjoyed any inherent advantages.
Of course.
Silverman noted that an increasing number of transgender competitors have been entering — and winning — skateboarding events.
“This happened to me on three separate occasions, two of which I placed second,” she said. “There are several skaters doing this in skateboarding.”
A 50-year home loan might sound depressing to some, but perhaps not if the alternative is never being able to buy a property. Long-term fixed-rate mortgages are an emerging financial product that should in theory allow first-time buyers who are currently priced out of the market to get on the housing ladder.
By spreading the repayments over longer – the average for mortgages taken out this year is 29 years – buyers should be able to borrow up to eight times their income, rather than the current average of 3.2 times, say potential providers.
50 years? Those are rookie numbers. Go for 100-year mortgages! The boomers racked up huge budget deficits and exploded the public debt. Might as well add mortgages for the grandchildren. It's not like all that debt will be paid back.
lol there’s no margin in gasoline. They make their money on the sodas and junk food. This is Franchise 101 level knowledge, which the leader of the free world is lacking. https://t.co/9rhAyk51sp
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) July 2, 2022
I would have expected people to move a few hundred thousand dollars of cash in luggage since it would be easy to conceal. This girl went all in: suitcases filled with cash.
— johnny gatto🌴 (@mcafeecionado) July 1, 2022
If only you were in a position to make those Congressional directives...
— Deanna (@RopeDropLife) June 30, 2022
Action: The federal government is restricted from doing something!
Reaction: FASCISM, says the crazy woman.
The Democrats control the other two branches of government. What exactly is stopping them from making these new, clear directives?
Notice how the hoaxes are becoming less believable:
— Election Wizard 🇺🇸 (@ElectionWiz) June 29, 2022
2016: Russia collusion
2017: Trump calls Nazis "fine people"
2020: Trump says drink bleach to stop COVID
2020: Hunter's laptop is Russian disinformation
2021: J6 is an "insurrection"
2022: Trump tried carjacking the POTUS limo
We went from You'll Own Nothing and Be Happy to You'll Eat Shit and Love It!
“NEWBrew” is no ordinary beer. The new Singapore blond ale is made with recycled sewage.
The first review:
“I seriously couldn’t tell this was made of toilet water,” said Chew Wei Lian, 58, who had purchased the beer from a supermarket to try after hearing about it. “I don’t mind having it if it was in the fridge. I mean, it tastes just like beer, and I like beer.”
That says a lot about beer.