Funny to Me Headlines

[abbey1227]

Under that article about diabetes, there were these other headlines that I feel are clearly pushing the agenda.

Fortune
Only 40% of fully vaccinated Americans have received a booster shot, CDC says

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So it's now not good enough to get a certain percentage of people vaccinated? They've gotta be boostered now, as well? 

Fortune
Inequity in health care made the AIDS crisis worse. Why are we making the same mistake with COVID-19

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Couldn't be because you've got the same Establishment running things? To include Fauci all these years later?

but they did offer this one from the other side of the aisle..........

Fox News
Fauci, Feds tried to quash COVID lab leak origin theory--protecting Chinese interests over American lives 

[ant-mac]

"State population to double by 2040, babies to blame"

[ant-mac]

"Man Accused of Killing Lawyer Receives a New Attorney"

[ant-mac]

"Miracle cure kills fifth patient"

[abbey1227]

Feb 1, 2022 12:09:39 GMT ant-mac said:

"Miracle cure kills fifth patient"

Teacher's marriage to student results in dismissal of charge

[merh]

A homeless man known as ‘Million Dollar’ was the mastermind behind a $500K Beverly Hills credit-card scam that stole goods from Fendi, Gucci, and others
Lukas I. Alpert
Tue, February 1, 2022, 11:15 AM

A homeless man known as ‘Million Dollar’ was the mastermind behind a $500K Beverly Hills credit-card scam that stole goods from Fendi, Gucci, and others
Trace ‘Million Dollar’ Jones will serve four years for an elaborate identity-theft scheme that landed him dozens of American Express cards .

Not funny because you know me.
But homeless?
He couldn't get a place?

That's what gets me.
You steal a million.
That can set you up for years.
But nooooo.
They blow through it & have to do it again.

[abbey1227]

Feb 1, 2022 21:39:27 GMT merh said:

A homeless man known as ‘Million Dollar’ was the mastermind behind a $500K Beverly Hills credit-card scam that stole goods from Fendi, Gucci, and others
Lukas I. Alpert
Tue, February 1, 2022, 11:15 AM

A homeless man known as ‘Million Dollar’ was the mastermind behind a $500K Beverly Hills credit-card scam that stole goods from Fendi, Gucci, and others
Trace ‘Million Dollar’ Jones will serve four years for an elaborate identity-theft scheme that landed him dozens of American Express cards .

Not funny because you know me.
But homeless?
He couldn't get a place?

That's what gets me.
You steal a million.
That can set you up for years.
But nooooo.
They blow through it & have to do it again.

Sometimes you sound very much like me. 

[merh]

You like rich dudes
theworldnews.net/ca-news/former-banking-ceo-says-280-000-spent-at-strip-clubs-a-business-expense

A former Swiss banking CEO who is now on trial for fraud, says the nearly $280,000 he spent making it rain at strip clubs were business expenses.

Pierin Vincenz, who used to head Raiffeisen Switzerland, also claimed in a Swiss court that he spent $760 on dinner with a woman he met on Tinder because he was thinking of hiring her for a real estate job, according to the New York Post.

According to allegations, Vincenz and a stripper were also charged $4,500 by a hotel because of damage to a hotel room after a “massive fight.”

Vincenz is one of seven top bankers and associates on trial in Zurich for alleged enrichment, fraud and mismanagement.

It is alleged that Vincenz used his position to make secret side deals in addition to those made officially between Raiffeisen and other parties between 2006 and 2017.

All seven who have been charged are denying the allegations

Better he get to spend than that money get paid to employees down the rung

[abbey1227]

Feb 3, 2022 1:49:56 GMT merh said:

You like rich dudes
theworldnews.net/ca-news/former-banking-ceo-says-280-000-spent-at-strip-clubs-a-business-expense

A former Swiss banking CEO who is now on trial for fraud, says the nearly $280,000 he spent making it rain at strip clubs were business expenses.

Pierin Vincenz, who used to head Raiffeisen Switzerland, also claimed in a Swiss court that he spent $760 on dinner with a woman he met on Tinder because he was thinking of hiring her for a real estate job, according to the New York Post.

According to allegations, Vincenz and a stripper were also charged $4,500 by a hotel because of damage to a hotel room after a “massive fight.”

Vincenz is one of seven top bankers and associates on trial in Zurich for alleged enrichment, fraud and mismanagement.

It is alleged that Vincenz used his position to make secret side deals in addition to those made officially between Raiffeisen and other parties between 2006 and 2017.

All seven who have been charged are denying the allegations

Better he get to spend than that money get paid to employees down the rung

I saw that one.............did I post it too?  It made me chuckle cuz it reminded me of Kurt Russell in Big Trouble in Little China. 

He could argue it was all business related............and he was helping out a lot of single mothers, no? 

That $760 dinner pales in comparison to what the UN spends, right?

[merh]

Shaquille O'Neal says gorillas freak out when he comes near, and Zoo Miami executive confirms they are intimidated by his large size

Shaquille O'Neal says gorillas always freak out when he is near and that they want to fight him.
Zoo Miami's Ron Magill confirmed they are intimidated by Shaq's large size.
Magill says the male gorilla eventually backs down because "he knows who is boss."

Or he figures he can't get out there.
Damn

They do watch us.
Watched a snow leopard watch every kid outside the cage one day. Obviously looking for the weak ones to separate from the herd.

Add gorillas to the list of creatures intimidated by Shaquille O'Neal's enormous size.

During a recent episode of "The Big Podcast with Shaq," the former NBA big man explained that gorillas freak out when he shows up at zoos and that they want to fight him. Shaq even called an executive from Zoo Miami during the podcast who confirmed the tale.

The conversation came up when Shaq was contemplating whether to let his gray hair grow out, joking that he would be a "silverback" gorilla and not a "silver fox."

This led to Shaq, a huge zoo aficionado, explaining how gorillas react to his size when he shows up.

"True story," Shaq said. "I've been to every zoo in the world, and every time I go to the gorilla section, they look at me like, 'Hey man, where your fur at?' For real. For real. That's how they look at me. They also look at me like, 'What am I doing in here and you out there?' And they always go crazy when they see me."

Shaq, who is 7 feet 1, 325 pounds, then called

Magill not only confirmed the story but also took it a step further by explaining that the male gorillas are intimidated by Shaq.

The gorilla "gets intimated, and he looks at Shaq and thinks that Shaq is going to take away his girls, and he gets tight-lipped and tries to stand up and make himself look as big as possible," Magill said. "But at the end of the day, he backs off. He knows who's boss."

[merh]

Church sues city of Brookings for trying to limit how often it can feed the homeless
Newsroom Staff
Posted by
Newsroom Staff
February 2, 2022

2 days a week is all the city will allow

[abbey1227]

Feb 8, 2022 17:40:34 GMT merh said:

Shaquille O'Neal says gorillas freak out when he comes near, and Zoo Miami executive confirms they are intimidated by his large size

Shaquille O'Neal says gorillas always freak out when he is near and that they want to fight him.
Zoo Miami's Ron Magill confirmed they are intimidated by Shaq's large size.
Magill says the male gorilla eventually backs down because "he knows who is boss."

Or he figures he can't get out there.
Damn

They do watch us.
Watched a snow leopard watch every kid outside the cage one day. Obviously looking for the weak ones to separate from the herd.

Now you know exactly how criminals and predators operate, too.  

[abbey1227]

Feb 8, 2022 17:46:38 GMT merh said:

Church sues city of Brookings for trying to limit how often it can feed the homeless
Newsroom Staff
Posted by
Newsroom Staff
February 2, 2022

2 days a week is all the city will allow

Don't Feed the Animals

[merh]

Feb 11, 2022 3:06:59 GMT abbey1227 said:

Feb 8, 2022 17:46:38 GMT merh said:

2 days a week is all the city will allow

Don't Feed the Animals

There but for the grace of God...

My parents always claimed they trusted us,  yet they said because there were drugs all over the middle schools in San Bernardino, we moved to Utah the summer after my sister graduated 6th grade/me-5th grade. (So no. They didn't trust us). Dad was looking for work. We were staying in a motel & were down to the last $50. We were going to be living in our car, but he stopped to buy some fruit & talked himself into a job working the seller's orchards.

So, yeah, there but for pure luck/grace of God we would have been homeless.

But sure, we were apparently just a week away from being animals.

[abbey1227]

Feb 11, 2022 5:52:19 GMT merh said:

There but for the grace of God...

My parents always claimed they trusted us,  yet they said because there were drugs all over the middle schools in San Bernardino, we moved to Utah the summer after my sister graduated 6th grade/me-5th grade. (So no. They didn't trust us). Dad was looking for work. We were staying in a motel & were down to the last $50. We were going to be living in our car, but he stopped to buy some fruit & talked himself into a job working the seller's orchards.

So, yeah, there but for pure luck/grace of God we would have been homeless.

But sure, we were apparently just a week away from being animals.

Leave 'em to the grace of God then if it makes you feel better.

What does that do to you having your own parents not trust you?

Your father strikes me as someone that could have sought work BEFORE moving everyone with him. Why didn't he?

If the power goes out or the shelves are empty for a few days........you'll see just how animalistic your neighbors get. THEN you'll be maybe regretting not getting a gun for yourself.

[merh]

Feb 11, 2022 13:05:36 GMT abbey1227 said:

Feb 11, 2022 5:52:19 GMT merh said:

There but for the grace of God...

My parents always claimed they trusted us,  yet they said because there were drugs all over the middle schools in San Bernardino, we moved to Utah the summer after my sister graduated 6th grade/me-5th grade. (So no. They didn't trust us). Dad was looking for work. We were staying in a motel & were down to the last $50. We were going to be living in our car, but he stopped to buy some fruit & talked himself into a job working the seller's orchards.

So, yeah, there but for pure luck/grace of God we would have been homeless.

But sure, we were apparently just a week away from being animals.

Leave 'em to the grace of God then if it makes you feel better.

What does that do to you having your own parents not trust you?

Your father strikes me as someone that could have sought work BEFORE moving everyone with him. Why didn't he?

If the power goes out or the shelves are empty for a few days........you'll see just how animalistic your neighbors get. THEN you'll be maybe regretting not getting a gun for yourself.

The school had drugs in it.
Mom taught us to not use drugs but decided we needed to move to Utah to remove us from the temptation of drugs.

There's trust.

And there were drugs at the high school in Utah.
Can't get away from it.

Mom didn't want dad going alone.
Didn't think he could handle himself all that well alone.
Who are you to decide?
Damn

You are paranoid, aren't you.

Waiting for that Zombie apocalypse?

[abbey1227]

Feb 12, 2022 3:04:43 GMT merh said:

Feb 11, 2022 13:05:36 GMT abbey1227 said:

Leave 'em to the grace of God then if it makes you feel better.

What does that do to you having your own parents not trust you?

Your father strikes me as someone that could have sought work BEFORE moving everyone with him. Why didn't he?

If the power goes out or the shelves are empty for a few days........you'll see just how animalistic your neighbors get. THEN you'll be maybe regretting not getting a gun for yourself.

The school had drugs in it.
Mom taught us to not use drugs but decided we needed to move to Utah to remove us from the temptation of drugs.
There's trust.

And there were drugs at the high school in Utah.
Can't get away from it.

Mom didn't want dad going alone.
Didn't think he could handle himself all that well alone.
Who are you to decide?
Damn

You are paranoid, aren't you.
Waiting for that Zombie apocalypse?

The entire world has drugs in it.

Exactly......no matter where you go, if there's people......there's problems.

I'm just wondering about the choices/actions taken. You would have done the exact same yourself given the choice?

Nixon was paranoid. And it turns out they WERE after him. 

No need to wait. Have you seen the typical meth and heroin users these days?

[merh]

Thought you might appreciate this story from kinder

Aug 20, 2020 20:07:28 GMT @thekindercarebear said:

today my mom calls me at 3pm.

she cannot find her keys. i may or may not have been the last one to have seen them.

she needs to run her errands and is kind of frantic.

so i hop in my truck and zoom off to help mom.

i walk into her home and 5 seconds in, i find them on a shelf.

i may or may not have put them there. tbh i cannot remember as i had last had them in my possession 2 days ago.

so i am all happy that my mom is on her way to run her errands. i am pulling out of the driveway when this fit babe goes jogging past behind me from right to left...as i am staring at her hips swing back and forth i think to myself:

'what if this were a trap? and in my coming here to help my mom, i pull out staring at some hot woman's butt just to back into someone.'

so naturally i look over my right shoulder and lo and behold - an amazon truck had pulled right behind me into my blind spot.

HA!

that could have been quite the booby, er booty trap.

[merh]

Feb 12, 2022 12:21:56 GMT abbey1227 said:

Feb 12, 2022 3:04:43 GMT merh said:

The school had drugs in it.
Mom taught us to not use drugs but decided we needed to move to Utah to remove us from the temptation of drugs.
There's trust.

And there were drugs at the high school in Utah.
Can't get away from it.

Mom didn't want dad going alone.
Didn't think he could handle himself all that well alone.
Who are you to decide?
Damn

You are paranoid, aren't you.
Waiting for that Zombie apocalypse?

The entire world has drugs in it.

Exactly......no matter where you go, if there's people......there's problems.

I'm just wondering about the choices/actions taken. You would have done the exact same yourself given the choice?

Nixon was paranoid. And it turns out they WERE after him. 

No need to wait. Have you seen the typical meth and heroin users these days?

My cousin died a few years after this so we left dad behind because he had to work & mom, sis & I took a Greyhound to the funeral in San Bernardino.
Got back to Utah 3-4 days later.
Dad was sick.
Mom had left food for him, but all the junk-ice cream, cake, etc, was eaten.

Like I said. Mom didn't trust dad to take care of himself 

[merh]

Did you ever hear of this?

IKEA Heights is a 2009 comedic melodrama web series created by Dave Seger, Paul Bartunek, Delbert Shoopman, Spencer Strauss, and Tom Kauffman for Channel 101. A spoof of soap operas, the series was filmed covertly inside the IKEA store in Burbank, California. IKEA Heights stars Randall Park, Whitney Avalon, and Matt Braunger.

Entertainment Weekly's Whitney Pastorek wrote that the series "is so brilliant and awesome that its glories can really only be diminished by additional words."[2]

Madeleine Löwenborg-Frick, a spokesperson for IKEA's Canadian branch, said of the series, "Absolutely, we think it's funny. We see the humour in it and we approach our own marketing with a similar tongue-in-cheek humour. But unauthorized filming in our stores isn't a good thing. There's proper channels that people who want to film in our stores can go through

So they filmed it at the store without the store knowing it.