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That ("The Oops screen much more prevalent today...") and DirecTV is crapping out on me..
Try getting a hold of a rep.
It's called an exercise in futility.
The world should have this as its biggest problem.
Hang in there and take care.
Thanks, Dave. Good luck.
Guess I'll know when it's fixed when I don't get that screen anymore. < g >
omg I'm having trouble with DirecTV too.
Can't get channels 2-43 and assorted others.
What was going on at your end.
I tried calling earlier and was just about to try again.
My experience was the same as yours.
Hi Dave. Just got the OOPS screen for the second time this morning.
Been getting this message off and on since the weekend.
Morning, Bull. I confess. I often skip most of Kunstler to get to his closing paragaph.
Today I read it all and must say... good one. Thanks and keep 'em coming.
We'll see what happens, eh?
Hope all is well in your lovely corner of the planet.
Oxymoron (emphasis on moron) of the day...
"Pan-Africanist intellectual"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Africanism
Pan-Africanism
Pan-Africanism is a worldwide movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all indigenous peoples and diasporas of African ancestry. Based on a common goal dating back to the Atlantic slave trade, the movement extends beyond continental Africans with a substantial support base among the African diaspora in the Americas and Europe.
Pan-Africanism can be said to have its origins in the struggles of the African people against enslavement and colonization and this struggle may be traced back to the first resistance on slave ships—rebellions and suicides—through the constant plantation and colonial uprisings and the "Back to Africa" movements of the 19th century. Based on the belief that unity is vital to economic, social, and political progress, it aims to "unify and uplift" people of African ancestry.
At its core, pan-Africanism is a belief that "African people, both on the continent and in the diaspora, share not merely a common history, but a common destiny." Pan-Africanist intellectual, cultural, and political movements tend to view all Africans and descendants of Africans as belonging to a single "race" or otherwise sharing cultural unity.[citation needed] Pan-Africanism posits a sense of a shared historical fate for Africans in the Americas, the West Indies, and on the continent, itself centered on the Atlantic trade in slaves, African slavery, and European imperialism.
Pan-African thought influenced the establishment of the Organisation of African Unity (since succeeded by the African Union) in 1963. The African Union Commission has its seat in Addis Ababa and the Pan-African Parliament has its seat in Midrand, Johannesburg...
Read on if you can stand it...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Africanism
I'm moving to CO. < g >
Thanks, eastunder.
You folks lucked out.
P.S. Re the GS cookie price:
YW. It is not intuitive.
When you're looking at the main page for the board, look up to the right for the "Customize" button.
Click on it.
You can close the iBox by clicking on 'Board Info." The green circle will go from green to red.
@IH Geek [Dave]
Is anyone surprised? Trump wins SC primary moments after polls close, deals Haley crushing blow in her own state: ‘Bigger win than we expected’
By Diana Glebova Published Feb. 24, 2024 Updated Feb. 24, 2024, 9:13 p.m. ET
(He will need the independents in the general election. We'll see what happens.)
COLUMBIA, South Carolina — Donald Trump defeated GOP rival Nikki Haley in the South Carolina primary Saturday night, securing yet another win for the former president.
The race was called almost immediately after the polls closed at 7 p.m., with Trump securing all 29 winner-take-all state delegates. With some 65 percent of the vote in, Trump was up by roughly 20 points.
“This was a little sooner than we anticipated. And even a bigger win than we anticipated,” Trump said to applause on stage at the state fairgrounds in Columbia moments after the victory.
“I have never seen the Republican Party as United as it is right now,” he said...
The rest is here:
https://nypost.com/2024/02/24/us-news/donald-trump-wins-south-carolina-primary-defeating-nikki-haley-in-her-own-state/
Me either.
Howdy, possh. Wonder how well their sales will go?
The kids don't set the prices.
And they were really cute and polite.
What the hell? The cookies still taste good.
lol Just call it a charitable contribution.
I doubt you would have been able to resist either.
Especially, if you like GS cookies as much as I do.
I've already eaten 5 of each. Oink. Oink.
No one is safe from Bidenflation...
Not even the venerable Girl Scouts and their iconic cookies.
When I exited the Acme this morning, the table was set.
Girl Scout cookies galore and two little cuties there to serve.
The price... $6/box and fewer cookies per than in the past.
The cookies seemed smaller, too.
There's a sucker born every minute and I am one of them.
Two boxes later (1 thin mints and 1 tagalongs).
My wallet was $12 lighter.
And I was on my way.
TG they only do this once a year.
Great line and Good Morning, Bull.
AT&T reveals possible cause of massive cellular outage in US which also hit T-Mobile, Verizon users
By Melissa Koenig and Katherine Donlevy Published Feb. 22, 2024 Updated Feb. 22, 2024, 9:25 p.m. ET
A major cellphone outage affected users across the US early Thursday — even stopping some police departments from being able to receive 911 calls.
AT&T seemed to have experienced the largest number of issues, with nearly 32,000 reports at around 4:30 a.m., according to data from DownDetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.
More than 800 service outages were also reported on T-Mobile and Verizon, although a spokesperson for the latter put it down to users reporting problems trying to call people with other services.
It took more than 13 hours for AT&T to resolve the issue, which the company chalked up to a system overwhelm.
“Based on our initial review, we believe that today’s outage was caused by the application and execution of an incorrect process used as we were expanding our network, not a cyberattack,” the company said in a statement.
“We are continuing our assessment of today’s outage to ensure we keep delivering the service that our customers deserve.”
Others reported issues on smaller carriers, including Boost Mobile, Consumer Cellular, Straight Talk Wireless and Cricket Wireless, the latter of which is owned by AT&T.
The problems extended from New York, Boston, and Atlanta on the East Coast to Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, Seattle and San Francisco — and even to Montreal in Canada.
Several police stations throughout the country even warned that people might be unable to call to report emergencies.
However, many AT&T users said they were stuck in “SOS Mode” in which they could only reach emergency services.
A spokeswoman for AT&T encouraged users to rely on Wi-Fi calling as it worked “urgently to restore service.”
A spokeswoman for AT&T said the company is working “urgently to restore service.”
By 11:30 a.m., the company announced that three-quarters of its network had been restored.
Full service was restored by 2:15 p.m.
“We sincerely apologize to them. Keeping our customers connected remains our top priority, and we are taking steps to ensure our customers do not experience this again in the future,” AT&T said.
The Federal Communications Commission said it was investigating the incident, while the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said it was working with AT&T to understand the cause.
White House spokesman John Kirby said the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security were looking into the AT&T outage, but had no reason to believe it was connected to a cyberattack.
On Verizon and T-Mobile, spokespersons told The Post their networks are operating normally.
They suggested that the issues only arose when customers tried to call or text those using AT&T, with a spokesperson from T-Mobile claiming: “Down Detector is likely reflecting challenges our customers were having attempting to connect to users on other networks.”
The spokesperson from Verizon added that its customers “experienced issues this morning when calling or texting with customers served by another carrier.
“We are continuing to monitor the situation,” the Verizon spokesperson said in a statement.
Yet many online have expressed their frustrations with the cellphone companies amid the ongoing outages.
“AT&T is literally one of the most expensive phone companies, and y’all have the audacity to have a service outage for hours with zero updates being given to your customers?” one customer wrote on X.
“Y’all got one hour to wrap this s–t up! Fix it and fix it now.”
Another called it “crazy.”
“It’s a whole outage going [on] in the US and a lot of people can’t text or call anybody, only number you can call is 911 … this is unusual and scary,” he wrote.
Some feared the widespread outages could be a cyberattack, with one techie saying he “can’t imagine this is incompetence or a single node failure.”
With Post wires
Charts and other info with links at the link:
https://nypost.com/2024/02/22/business/atampt-t-mobile-and-verizon-users-hit-by-cellular-outage-in-us/
Morning, Larry. First time since '72.
The space race continues.
Sure hope the first military base armed with nukes aimed at the planet
is built l o n g after I am gone.
Trump can’t postpone paying $355M judgment in NY fraud case, judge rules
By Priscilla DeGregory Published Feb. 22, 2024, 7:40 p.m. ET
(Banana Republic NYC USA.)
Former President Donald Trump lost a bid Thursday to postpone the New York court ruling forcing him to cough up $355 million and banning him from doing business in the state for three years.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron said Trump’s attorneys hadn’t provided a good reason as to why he should delay his judgement from last week in the civil fraud case against the ex-president, the Trump Organization and others.
“You have failed to explain, much less justify, any basis for a stay,” Engoron wrote in a Thursday email filed in the case. “I am confident that the Appellate Division will protect your appellate rights.
Former President Donald Trump lost his bid to postpone the court ruling against him in his New York fraud trial.
On Tuesday, the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James — which prosecuted the case against the real estate tycoon — submitted to the court a proposed judgment order based on Engoron’s Friday ruling.
But Trump lawyer Clifford Robert responded Wednesday claiming the AG’s Office didn’t follow proper court procedure and made errors in the proposed judgment.
He also argued that the defense side should have time to submit a “proposed counter-judgment.”
Engoron signed the judgment Thursday.
The court clerk will then sign off on it, after which Trump and co-defendants — including his two eldest sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr. — will have 30 days to file an appeal.
Trump’s side has said they plan to fight Engoron’s ruling.
In order to appeal, the 2024 GOP presidential frontrunner — who has insisted he did nothing wrong and blasted the case as a politically-motivated “witch hunt” — will need to turn over the $355 million, plus 9% interest, as collateral.
James has said that if Trump doesn’t come up with the cash he’s been ordered to pay, she’s ready to seize his assets, including some of his most prized Big Apple properties to cover the cost.
https://nypost.com/2024/02/22/us-news/trump-cant-postpone-paying-355m-judgment-in-ny-fraud-case-judge-rules/
Private US lunar lander Odysseus touches down on the moon for first time since 1972
By Patrick Reilly Published Feb. 22, 2024 Updated Feb. 22, 2024, 8:13 p.m. ET
A private robotic rover touched down on the moon Thursday, becoming the first US spacecraft in more than 50 years to land on the lunar surface.
The landing of the vehicle, built by Intuitive Machines, also marked the first time in history a private company successfully pulled off the incredible feat.
The craft – dubbed Odysseus – landed some 250,000 miles away near the south pole of the moon around 6:23 p.m. ET — although communication between the rover and crews on the ground were weak, officials said...
Full story and pictures at the link:
https://nypost.com/2024/02/22/us-news/private-us-lunar-lander-touches-down-on-the-moon-first-time-since-1972/
Howdy, possh. So far the only thing I use wifi for is my printer.
My old Lenovo laptop is wired to the modem.
My mouse is wired to the machine.
The landline is wired to the outlet AND
the handset is wired to the phone.
Doing my best to stay wired to the 20th century.
YW, Larry. This also mentions smaller providers.
Illegal Alien Accused of Causing Sgt. Michael Kunovich’s Death Files Civil Rights Lawsuit Claiming Limited English Skills Make Him Disabled
JOHN BINDER 21 Feb 2024 3:16
(Hard to type as I am seeing RED! This should be thrown out of court and this rat bastard sent packing. This country has gone nuts.)
An illegal alien, accused of causing St. Johns County, Florida, sheriff’s office Sgt. Michael Kunovich’s death, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit claiming his limited English-speaking skills make him disabled.
As Breitbart News reported, 19-year-old illegal alien Virgilio Aguilar-Mendez of Guatemala was arrested in May 2023 and has been charged with resisting an officer with violence and manslaughter in connection with Kunovich’s death.
This week, Aguilar-Mendez’s defense attorneys filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Kunovich’s estate, Lt. Jose Jimenez, who also responded to the incident, and St. Johns County, claiming that their client is disabled because he does not speak English or Spanish and was thus denied his rights under the “Americans with Disabilities Act” and the “Rehabilitation Act.”
The Florida Times-Union reports:
Aguilar Mendez’s native language is Mam, not Spanish or English, according to the filing. His limited understanding of English and Spanish is his disability, and he was denied an interpreter at the scene and at the Sheriff’s Office to allow him to understand his Miranda rights before Jimenez interrogated him. [Emphasis added]
The lawsuit does not note that Jimenez questioned him in Spanish, which is referenced in arrest documents, but states Mam “translation into other languages, such as Spanish or English, can take on a different structure.” [Emphasis added]
Aguilar-Mendez’s attorneys have said he is a victim of racism and police brutality at the hands of Kunovich.
“Mr. Virgilio was a victim of police brutality. He was a victim of racial profiling,” his attorney said. “He was a victim of violation of his fourth, fifth, and sixth amendment constitutional rights. Those who are responsible for this abuse will be held accountable.”
According to police, on May 19, Kunovich lawfully attempted to pat down Aguilar-Mendez while he was sitting outside of a closed business. Aguilar-Mendez, instead of complying, tried to flee from Kunovich.
When other officers got involved, Aguilar-Mendez continued resisting. Eventually, Kunovich was on the ground in a struggle with Aguilar-Mendez, who attempted to grab the officer’s taser off his person. The struggle lasted for more than six minutes.
Afterward, Aguilar-Mendez was handcuffed but pulled out a pocketknife, which was quickly taken from him. Following the struggle with Aguilar-Mendez, Kunovich collapsed on the ground. First responders administered lifesaving measures, but he was pronounced dead after being rushed to a nearby hospital.
Aguilar-Mendez is an illegal alien from Guatemala. He arrived at the United States-Mexico border in 2023 and was subsequently released into the United States. According to his attorney, Aguilar-Mendez had been working on a farm and sending money back to Guatemala.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/21/illegal-alien-accused-causing-sgt-michael-kunovich-s-death-files-civil-rights-lawsuit-claiming-limited-english-skills-make-him-disabled/
Anybody having cell phone problems???
(I did not read these but the headlines caught my eye.)
AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users hit by massive cellular outage in US
https://nypost.com/2024/02/22/business/atampt-t-mobile-and-verizon-users-hit-by-cellular-outage-in-us/
Here’s how to fix your iPhone if it’s stuck in SOS mode amid major cellular network outages
https://nypost.com/2024/02/22/business/how-to-fix-your-iphone-if-its-stuck-in-sos-mode-amid-major-cell-outages/
lol I cannot begin to imagine having access to that many zeroes.
The news changes with the wind.
I am completely exhausted trying to ride the wave.
SEC Clears Trump's $10 Billion Social Media Deal
Friday, 16 February 2024 05:56 AM EST
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allowed Donald Trump's media and technology company to merge with a blank-check acquisition vehicle in a deal that currently values the parent of his social media app Truth Social at as much as $10 billion.
The valuation is about half that of Elon Musk's much more popular social media company X and follows two years of setbacks in the Trump company's quest to complete a stock market listing.
TRUMP SUPPORTERS
It underscores how some investors, many of them fans of the former U.S. president, are ignoring Truth Social's losses and limited user base because of Trump's involvement.
The value assigned to the deal by the stock market has jumped more than threefold since January, as Trump tightened his grip on the Republication nomination for president. Trump will own between 58.1% and 69.4% of the combined company, depending on the extent to which investors back the deal.
Trump may divest his stake in Truth Social and cease any involvement in its management based on how his bid for president goes, Digital World Acquisition Corp, the shell vehicle merging with Trump's company, said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday.
The filing, which disclosed new information about the business of Truth Social parent Trump Media & Technology Group, was greenlighted by the SEC, allowing Digital World to set a vote for its shareholders to back and complete the merger.
Since Digital World inked its merger agreement with TMTG in October 2021, it has been the target of investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice, ousted its chief executive, and shook up its board. It also reached an $18 million settlement with the SEC over inaccurate disclosures.
Digital World shares rose 16% to $50.49 in afternoon trading in New York on Thursday. At this stock price, and assuming no Digital World shareholders exercised the right to redeem their shares, the combined company would be worth about $10 billion and Trump would own a 58.1% stake worth about $4 billion.
To be sure, Digital World also disclosed new obstacles to the deal being completed. One of them is former Digital World CEO Patrick Orlando, who helped create Digital World in its current form and controls the sponsoring entity behind it. Digital World said in the filing that Orlando may hold up the deal because he wants to receive additional compensation.
Orlando could not be immediately reached for comment.
Digital World also said that TMTG spent $38.5 million between its inception in February 2021 and September 2023, funded through borrowings, and that it may issue up to $65 million in convertible notes to avoid a liquidity crunch.
TMTG posted total revenue of $3.4 million in the first nine months of 2023, up from $237,000 a year earlier, according to the Digital World filing. Its operational loss was $10.6 million, down from $19.3 million a year earlier.
TMTG said that among its board directors once the deal is completed will be Trump's former National Security Council adviser Kash Patel, attorney and former Louisiana prosecutor W. Kyle Green, World Wrestling Entertainment co-creator Linda McMahon, Trump's former U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, and Trump's son Don Jr. TMTG's chief executive is former U.S. lawmaker Devin Nunes.
FRACTION OF X
TMTG was launched to connect Trump with his followers after he was cut off from major social media platforms following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.
Trump has 6.61 million followers on Truth Social, compared to the more than 88 million followers he had on X when the platform permanently suspended him, and the 87.4 million followers he currently has on that platform.
Digital World says Truth Social has so far had 8.9 million signups. X, by comparison, has more than half a billion monthly users, according to Musk.
On Nov. 19, the San Francisco-based app reversed its position under Musk, the self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” who bought Twitter on Oct. 2.
In August, Trump broke a pledge to stick exclusively with Truth Social and posted on X his mug shot from his booking at Fulton County Jail in Georgia. He has not posted on X since, using Truth Social as his primary platform to reach voters.
© 2024 Thomson/Reuters. All rights reserved.
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/trump-media-social/2024/02/16/id/1153841/
Interesting idea. Honestly... at this point, I don't know what to think.
My seatbelt is securely fastened. Wild ride ahead.
Letitia James Says She’ll Seize Trump’s Assets If He Can’t Pay $354M Fine
KRISTINA WONG 21 Feb 2024
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/21/letitia-james-says-shell-seize-trumps-assets-if-he-cant-pay-354m-fine/
This whole prosecution/persecution is an outrage.
I cannot put into writing what I want to happen to this flippin' c-word... and the judge she rode in on.
Your comment about Trump's list might be longer than those listed in the article has me thinking (always dangerous).
Good point. I appreciate the feedback. Thanks.
Here’s Trump’s shortlist for vice president — some potential running mates may surprise you
By Victor Nava Published Feb. 20, 2024, 11:52 p.m. ET
(Any thoughts, Trump fans? I'll keep my opinions to myself.)
Former President Donald Trump acknowledged Tuesday that at least five high-profile Republicans and one former Democrat are on his shortlist for potential running mates in the general election — including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and onetime Democratic presidential primary candidate Tulsi Gabbard.
The GOP presidential front-runner confirmed his shortlist after Fox News host Laura Ingraham rattled off a list of names at a town hall event in Greenville, SC, which she said audience members deemed good choices for him to tap for the vice presidency.
The names included Gabbard, DeSantis, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem.
“Are they all on your shortlist?” Ingraham asked Trump.
To which he responded, “They are.”
“They’re all solid,” Trump said moments later. “And I always say I want people with common sense because there’s so many things happening in this country that don’t make sense.”
Trump, 77, explained that the “first quality” he’s looking for in any potential running mate is their ability to be “a good president because if something should happen, you have to have somebody that’s going to be a great president.”
He added that voters primarily care about who’s on the top of the ticket rather than who the running mate is.
“The one thing that always surprises me is that the VP choice has absolutely no impact,” Trump said. “It’s whoever the president is, it just seems.”
However, he acknowledged that “you would like to get somebody that could help you from the voters’ standpoint.”
As for the former president’s last remaining GOP primary opponent — former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley — Trump said he “settled it about three months ago” that she wouldn’t be on his 2024 general election ticket.
In January, Trump teased that he’s already decided on a running mate if he were to win the Republican nomination for president but refused to say who it is when asked during a town hall in Des Moines, Iowa.
“Well, I can’t tell you that, really,” Trump told Fox News hosts Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, the event moderators, at the time.
“I mean, I know who it’s going to be,” he added.
Similarly, Trump didn’t provide a time frame Tuesday for when he would name his running mate.
https://nypost.com/2024/02/20/us-news/trump-vice-president-short-list-incudes-desantis-gabbard-scott-noem/
Up to 32° here. Just got back from the Acme.
Saw a man in our age bracket wearing shorts.
Spring is here.
Morning, possh. I try.
Cold out there but the sun is doing its best to warm things up.
Beautiful day. Don't let it slip away. < g >
lol No argument with that, Mr. G.
Another chilly morning.
So much so, I'm postponing my Sr. Discount trip to the Acme until the afternoon.
Stay safe and warm. Have fun.
Oh, you tease. Morning, Bull.
Edit: I know you know but for those who don't...
When you advise someone, you give them advice.
If something affects you, it has an effect on you.
Simple.
Good one. However, in fairness to Dementia Joe...
#22 would stump a lot of internet posters.
Same as if they asked him the difference between advice and advise.
Morning, Bull.
You're on a roll, Mr. G.
Abbott for President...
Good for them...