Flare-up, lithium can do that.

Posted on June 24, 2023 by On the North River

NYC e-bike store fire ‘rekindles’ three days after claiming lives of four elderly residents

A Lower Manhattan e-bike store caught fire for the second time this week, just three days after it sparked an inferno that claimed four lives.

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Tucker Carlson on Hunter Biden “slap on wrist”.

Posted on June 21, 2023 by On the North River

Tucker Carlson’s 5th Twitter ‘broadcast’.

 

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New York Post agrees on Hunter Biden’s sweet deal.

Posted on June 20, 2023 by On the North River

Hunter Biden plea deal called ‘slap on wrist’ after similar tax, gun cases ended with prison terms

WASHINGTON — First son Hunter Biden’s likely probation-only plea deal copping to two misdemeanor tax crimes and one gun-purchase crime is being called a “slap on the wrist” compared to substantial prison sentences imposed in similar cases.

It’s unclear why the first son was not charged with working as an unregistered foreign agent after the evidence on his abandoned laptop showed he helped foreign associates meet US officials, including his then-vice president father and various other Obama-Biden administration figures.

  • In a similar gun-charge case, rapper Kodak Black, then 22 years old, was sentenced in 2019 to 46 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to providing an incorrect Social Security number on a federal gun purchase form in order to buy three guns from a Miami-area shop.
  • “Jersey Shore” star Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino was sentenced in 2018 to eight months in federal prison for failing to pay $2.3 million in taxes over five years. His older brother, Marc Sorrentino, was sentenced to 24 months for keeping $8.9 million for himself. Both Sorrentinos admitted to single counts in their indictment (tax evasion and preparing a false return, respectively).
  • In 2008, actor Wesley Snipes was convicted by a jury of three misdemeanor counts of failing to file tax returns worth a total of $15 million. He was sentenced to three years in prison, despite being acquitted of felony charges of conspiracy to defraud the government and filing a false claim.
  • Former President Donald Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen, who later became a critic of the 45th president, was sentenced in 2018 to three years in federal prison in a case that dealt primarily with tax fraud.
  • Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg in January was sentenced to five months in prison in New York on charges for not paying about $2 million in taxes on non-salary compensation such as work-provided cars and tuition for relatives.

    The 75-year-old was released from Rikers Island in April after serving about four months.

  • Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort, then 69, was sentenced in 2018 to 60 months in prison specifically for violating FARA by repping a Ukrainian political party without first registering with the Justice Department.

When I first read the joke about Elon Musk was offering to buy the Department of  Justice from the Clintons I laughed,  but it’s not funny anymore.  John

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No equal justice under the law.

Posted on June 20, 2023 by On the North River

The Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney for Delaware has reached a plea agreement with Hunter Biden, in which he is expected to plead guilty to two federal misdemeanor counts of failing to pay his taxes. Biden also faces a separate felony gun possession charge that will likely be dismissed if he meets certain conditions, according to court documents filed on Tuesday.

Two sources familiar with the agreement told NBC News that it includes a provision in which the U.S. attorney has agreed to recommend probation for Biden for his tax violations. Legal experts also said that the tax and gun charges will most likely not result in any jail time for President Joe Biden’s son.

Favored son… of… a.. bitch.

Posted in 2023, Biden Crime Family | 2 Comments

For Disney, the end is in sight… I’m happy to say.

Posted on June 19, 2023 by On the North River

The Flash (They/Them) Bombs; Disney/Pixar’s Elemental Also Crashes

—Ace

The Flash, starring home-breaking, woman-choking, child-grooming “non-binary” they/them Ezra Miller has bombed even worse than expected.

It had been projected to open at $140 million domestic a few weeks ago. Just before release, that was chopped in half to $70 million domestic, which itself would have been a failure for a movie costing $250 million or more.

Actual first weekend take? 55 million.

A Disney news analyst, WDW_Pro, said the film will be one of the costliest failures of all time, and may lose $300 million.

Disney Pixar released the cartoon Elemental as counter-programming. It failed to counter-program. People largely just decided to sit out this stinker of a movie weekend. Disney Pixar’s latest disaster made only $29 million, not even reaching the very low $31-41 million opening that had been projected.

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And on the horizon: the coming disaster, Indiana Jones and the Kathleen Kennedy Self-Insert.

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If Disney were to sell Lucasfilm, which would have to be at a loss, suddenly they would have actual proof that Disney had run Lucasfilm into the ground. …Pixar, bought for $7.4 billion, has also been run into the ground, the MCU, bought for $4 billion, is also producing very “meh” movies too.

So the moment Disney confirms that LucasFilm is now worth less than half than what they paid for it, investors begin figuring that these other pricey purchases are also probably worth less than half of what Disney paid for them, and Disney’s share value plummets on this new information.

So selling LucasFilm for $1.5 billion would probably wipe out $10 billion of Disney’s share value.

That means that Disney has to hold on to all of these purchases just to hide their real (greatly diminished) value from the market.

Posted in 2023, Guest, World's smallest violin | 5 Comments

Juneteenth.

Posted on June 19, 2023 by On the North River

Still a stupid excuse for a holiday.

Posted in Can't fix Stupid, Holiday | 1 Comment

Down memory lane.

Posted on June 17, 2023 by On the North River

 

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Movie deaths from around the world.

Posted on June 16, 2023 by On the North River

Cool.   Click for sound.

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Here’s a new thought on the homeless.

Posted on June 16, 2023 by On the North River

Minimum Wages and Homelessness

Abstract

America’s cities continue to struggle with homelessness.

Here I offer a factor, the minimum wage, that adds to existing individual and structural explanations. If there are negative distributional consequences of minimum wages, they most likely harm the lowest-skill workers many of whom already face housing insecurity.

To evaluate this argument, I study minimum wage changes in American cities and states 2006 to 2019. Using difference-in-differences methods for staggered treatments I find that minimum wage increases lead to increased point-in-time homeless population counts.

Further analysis suggests disemployment and rental housing prices, but not migration, as mechanisms. Scholars and policymakers who aim to understand and combat homelessness should consider labor market opportunities. Distributional consequences of minimum wage laws also merit further inquiry.

Posted in All the News not fit to print., Blogbits, Economy | 5 Comments

Flag Day (Repost)

Posted on June 14, 2023 by On the North River

Flag Day in United States

Flag Day is annually held on June 14 to honor the United States flag.

Local names

Name Language
Flag Day English
Día de la Bandera Spanish

Flag Day 2012

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Flag Day 2013

Friday, June 14, 2013
List of dates for other years

People across the United States celebrate Flag Day on June 14 each year to honor the United States flag and to commemorate the flag’s adoption.

 

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