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Another 1800 Companies Leave California

Most of them moved to Texas.

Gosh, why would they do that, do you suppose? Moonbeam and unicorn farts don't seem to be working out so well.

But hey! "High-speed" rail!

 

Sorry, Their Bad

The King Soopers on 35th Avenue near Greeley West High School will no longer stock its Tide Pods near the colorful candy following recent concern.

Store management on Sunday removed an aisle end cap stocked with the bright, aromatic detergent packs and other laundry items that was connected to an aisle filled with popcorn, chocolate bars, M&M’s, Reese’s and other delicious goodies — which Tide Pods are not supposed to be.

King Soopers is a supermarket brand of Kroger in the Rocky Mountains; it has its headquarters in Denver, Colorado. Apparently, some people had a problem with product placement in the store. Most likely because they've bred stupid kids. Maybe they should consider doing, I dunno - actually parenting?

I'm increasingly of the opinion that compulsory sterilization may not be such a bad idea.

 

Disruption, E-Scooter Style

"This is disruptive technology," said Dr. Christopher Ziebell, emergency room medical director at Austin's Dell Seton Medical Center. "But this time the disruption is disrupting forearms, elbows and heads."

Among other things, like ankles and legs.

And trauma surgeons are reporting daily occurrences in hospitals from San Diego to Denver to Austin. Some of these injuries have been life-threatening; others have left people permanently disabled.

A large part of the problem is that these e-scooter renters don't use helmets or other protective gear; the whole idea behind the things is spur-of-the-moment: "Hey, scooter! Cool!" So their concept is to dump these things onto city streets with no regard for human safety. An added bonus: their "user agreements" embedded into the apps place all responsibility for any issues entirely on the rider. Got an $8000 hospital bill for surgeries, plates, and pins after the brakes failed when rolling downhill? Sorry about your luck.

After Brogan's crash, her husband rushed her to the local urgent care. While waiting to be seen by doctors, she got several in-app messages from Lime saying she hadn't ended her ride and was still accruing charges.

"Scooter unsafe no brakes now in emergency room multiple fractures," Brogan wrote back.

Once out of the hospital, she emailed Lime to fully recount what happened. They had a brief back-and-forth in which Lime told her to file a claim for review. Brogan wrote back saying her out-of-pocket expenses totaled about $8,000 and asked if Lime would repay those losses. She said she never heard from the company again.

Lime declined to comment. Some municipalities are now finally moving to eliminate riders from the equation entirely - they just ban the scooters completely. Many others, however, such as Painfully Regressive Portland, take the opposite approach: "Anything goes, folks; no rules, no protective gear, no problem!"

But hey, let's have a conversation about "common-sense gun control".

 

We Know A Thing Or Two Because We've Seen A Thing Or Two

Hm. It looks as though PG&E's liabilities, should they be found to have in fact burned down half of California, significantly exceeds their insurance coverage.

"While the cause of the Camp Fire is still under investigation, if the Utility’s equipment is determined to be the cause, the Utility could be subject to significant liability in excess of insurance coverage that would be expected to have a material impact on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows," the company disclosed in an SEC filing on Wednesday.

Oh, what the heck - a few dozen dead people, a few thousand torched structures, and a few thousand acres of property burned to the ground does have its positive aspects, after all: it's a great reason to jack up rates yet again. PG&E has to appease their shareholders, y'know.

 

 

Makin' Bacon

Durham, N.C. — A Durham man who has been missing since January may have been killed and fed to some hogs as retribution for stealing cocaine from a local drug dealer, according to a new search warrant.

Charleston Prentice Goodman, 26, was last seen on Jan. 28, when several people saw him arguing in the 800 block of East Woodcroft Parkway with a group of men, who then shoved him into a minivan and drove off.

It doesn't seem like an effective means of retrieving stolen drugs, but on the other hand, Charlie made good BLT sandwiches.

 

Cable And Satellite Companies Are Stealing Your Cash

Arris International is the world’s largest supplier of set-top boxes to pay-TV companies. They charge providers between $150 and $200 per unit. When you rent from the provider, you pay over $230 per year, on average.

You might want to consider buying your own box, though it'll cost a bit more up front: the Arris units run about $280 for consumers. But you save in the long run.

 

PeTa: Cow Milk Drinkers = White Supremacists

Yep, that's their latest loony pitch.

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) - Cow's milk is allegedly a symbol used by white supremacists, according to PETA. 

In a recent statement, the animal advocate organization explains that dairy milk has been the drink of choice for supremacists because "the dairy industry inflicts extreme violence on other living beings."

Aside from “lactose-tolerant” white supremacists, cow’s milk really is the perfect drink of choice for all (even unwitting) supremacists, since the dairy industry inflicts extreme violence on other living beings. PETA is trying to wake people up to the implications of choosing this white beverage and suggesting that they choose something else pronto.

Every cow abused by the farming industry has a unique personality. Think about WHO is making your milk.

PeTA exists for only one purpose: to rake in money from well-intentioned but oblivious donors. And they do it very well; they rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars every year, mostly by posting garbage. But people buy it, and they send PeTA money.

Lots of money. As Barnum observed, there's one born every minute.

 

Been There

A good look at the farrier business. He ought to try it on elephants, sometime - that's a lot of work. It'll put a real hitch in your git-along.

Colby Smith is a farrier, a shoer of horses. Accompanied by his wife, Jess, who is also his assistant, he circuits far West Texas every four to six weeks, trimming hooves and nailing shoes onto his clients’ horses, ponies, mules, and donkeys. “When I was fourteen, I started working with farriers to see if I could do it,” he said as the couple drove from their Alpine home to a job in Fort Stockton. “I wanted to learn because I didn’t want to have to pay someone else to do it.”

 

So Much For The Mask

Consider what just happened to Rep. Marsha Blackburn, who is running for Senate in Tennessee. She recently booked a meeting place at a family-style diner in suburban Mt. Juliet, about 20 minutes east of Nashville. The owner, a man named Tom Courtney, didn’t think twice about renting the dining room — that is, until he and his staff started getting death threats.

Death threats for daring to rent a meeting space to a Republican.

The Left is completely insane. Heck, I don't like most Leftists, and I really didn't like Barky OBummer, but I've tolerated them all. Never once felt the need to threaten them. But given the destructive antics of the far Left here in Portland of late, my tolerance level is diminishing.

If there's anything good to be said about the idiocy, it's that they've mounted a long-running campaign that will inevitably benefit anyone who's not a Democrat. Sane people are plumb out of rationales for supporting Democratics.

 

Florida Funzies

A Florida gas station owner has placed a sign in his store asking customers not to warm urine in the microwave.

Parul Patel says he’s become “sick and tired” of people walking into his BP gas station and On the Fly convenience store in Jacksonville to warm their containers of urine. The store is within walking distance of two labs that offer drug testing services and collect urine samples.

You might say he's become a little pissy.

Yet another reason to avoid Florida at all costs.