WTF-Beta

Yellow journalism masked as real.

I've been to Paris a handful of times. It's said that Parisians hate Americans, but that's not true. Parisians hate everyone. And as for the language ... if I went in to a cafe and tried to order in French, they'd respond in English. Go into the same cafe, the next day, try to order in English ... they'd act as if they don't speak English. Outside of Paris, the people were friendly and lovely. I forget who said it, but the saying goes that Paris is a beautiful city that Parisians don't deserve.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/23/dead-social-security-doge-musk/ Follow-up reporting ... 6000+ supposed "illegal immigrants" have been added to the Social Security "Death Master File," with DOGE pushing to add millions more; while more mistakes and disregards of due diligence are reported.

And on that note.. https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peopleandplaces/the-8-plants-that-kickstarted-agriculture/vi-AA1CWmEV

I am officially at the age where no prices of anything make any sense to me. now, excuse me, it’s time for me to write some birthday cards to relatives and tape a one dollar bill into each of them and send them off…

Once you try Kewpie mayo nothing else will do.

jeezus When given a little power, authorities need restrictions.

I hardly think the narrow range was abusive.

Hungary's ideas: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/trump-fertility-birthrate-sexism.html It included government loans of 10 million Hungarian forints (at the time almost $35,000) to women under 40 when they married, which would be forgiven if they had at least three children. Large families would receive help buying cars and houses, and women who had at least four children would be exempt from personal income taxes for life.

tRump is such a piker.

It's me against the rabbits. Little bastards went after my Virginia bluebells.

More than two months into Donald Trump's term, with details of his “Liberation Day” regimen revealed this week, Forbes reached out to 50 top Wall Street leaders, including billionaire investors, major institutional asset managers and the nation's largest wealth advisors, to gauge their support for the president’s economic strategies. The 50 respondents, chosen for their outsized influence, reinforced the recent market tumult. Among these Wall Street heavyweights – more than half of whom supported Trump’s economic policies as he reentered the White House in January – 72% say the Trump team’s economic plan has been ineffective, and 66% did not support his economic policies. Among those who were Trump supporters as recently as a few weeks ago, more than one-third now no longer back his economic policies, and a majority of them—54%—say he is failing in the execution of his plan. https://archive.is/0Md8b

I am!