In 1779 a woman by the name of Betsy Flanagan owned a tavern near Yorktown, New York. Men from Washington's army used to hang out at this establishment to relax their worries and energize themselves with concoctions of alcohol known as bracers. Many of the officers used to tease old Betsy about the chickens that one of her close neighbors. Seems the neighbor was a Tory. Well, one day she decided to make them all eat their words.



Back in those days, no true patriot would buy anything from a Tory. It just wasn't done. Political correctness and all. So, Betsy arranged a wonderful chicken dinner for them. When they finished feasting on the delicious birds they continued their celebrations at the bar with more bracers. To their merriment they found each bottle or 'bracer' festooned with a cock's tail from the Tory chicken farmers coop. They laughed and laughed and a toast was called for and one of the men (I think he was French) exclaimed:



"Vive le cock tail"



Betsy was a popular gal it seems. Since that day forward all of Betsy's concoctions were known as cocktails, a name that we still use today to describe the inebriating drinks we so love to imbibe from time to time.

Get ready! We're filling the tanks with something new. Gonna run it with a different spread over the grid. Are you happy?

 

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Ever work at a church that feeds the homeless. Well, it ain't all it's cracked up to be. I go and do my good work for the hungry sometimes, but it just gets frustrating. At our church we give away free clothes and extra cans and bread to go along with whatever is served that day. We get a lot of people coming in too. I notice that most people are overweight. I keep asking myself how the hell any of these people are starving. I'm not talking about the real homeless people who come in for help. I'm talking about the fat blubberbutts who come and suck down everything in site. 
 
Some of these fat fuckers grab 5 or 6 loaves of bread and leave nothing for anyone else. I've seen fights for pies and cakes that are unbelievable. The greed of some of these lard asses is unbelievable. Some shovel the food in so fast and grab seconds even before anyone has a chance to stop them. They come in with their fat kids and gobble cupcakes and pies like they deserve them. I always get ready beforehand. I keep the good stuff behind the counter and pass it out to those who look more deserving than a 300 pound porker looking for extra to fill their mighty gullets.
 
Why the fuck should my hard earned taxes go to pay for any kind of medical care for these overweight pests sucking the life out of society. If they can't control themselves I see no reason why hard earned dollars should go in providing any kind of care whatsoever. 
 

A central bank digital currency (CBDC) is a digital form of cash issued by a nation's central bank. Digital forms of currency are already widely used today. When you swipe your debit or credit card instead of using cash, or when you are paid via direct deposit, the associated financial institution must digitally record the transaction and update your account balance.

A #CBDC would support systems already established by private financial institutions by issuing a digital fiat currency that has the full backing of a central bank. In most countries, the only type of central bank money available to the public are physical bank notes.

Interest in CBDCs has skyrocketed in recent years. According to the Atlantic Council—an independent think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C.—a total of 87 countries are exploring issuing a CBDC as of March 2022. Less than two years prior, in May 2020, just 35 countries were considering a CBDC.1

This article will focus on some of the largest countries currently developing a CBDC.

Is the United States Going to Create a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)?

https://www.investopedia.com/countries-d...dc-5221005


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These are basic handsets, or feature phones, with very limited functionality compared to say an iPhone. You can typically only make and receive calls and SMS text messages. And, if you are lucky - listen to radio and take very basic photos, but definitely not connect to the internet or apps.

These devices are similar to some of the first handsets that people bought back in the late 1990s.

"It appears fashion, nostalgia, and them appearing in #TikTok videos, have a part to play in the dumbphone revival," says Ernest Doku, mobiles expert at price comparison site Uswitch.com. "Many of us had a #dumbphone as our first mobile phone, so it's natural that we feel a sense of nostalgia towards these classic handsets."

Mr Doku says it was the 2017 relaunch of Nokia's 3310 handset - first released in 2000, and one of the biggest-selling mobiles of all time - that really sparked the revival. "Nokia pushed the 3310 as an affordable alternative in a world full of high-spec mobiles."

He adds that while it's true that dumbphones can't compete with the latest premium #Apple and #Samsung models when it comes to performance or functionality, "they can outshine them in equally important areas such as battery life and durability".

Five years ago, Przemek Olejniczak, a psychologist, swapped his smartphone for a Nokia 3310, initially because of the longer-lasting battery. However, he soon realised that there were other benefits.
Przemek Olejniczak

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60763168

Why was this video of bumbling Joe at the CFR deleted from almost all social media?

https://rumble.com/vvw22b-2018-joe-biden...of-pr.html

The fool admits he used his power to stop an investigation on his son involving the Burisma Holdings company which made Hunter Biden an executive. Uncle Joe threatened to have $1 billion withheld in US Aid if a certain prosecutor wasn't removed. I DIDN'T SAY THAT HE FUCKING DID!

Hunter Biden received a total of $3.1 million dollars in 46 payments and the contents of that laptop has it all. Including 50% of that money going to the "big guy" Joe Biden himself.

This is fully documented in the Ukrainian government and other sources including Hunter's laptop.

Then we have the Chinese side of the coin. That involves members of the Chinese government having offices right next to Hunter Biden's in the United States.

Guess who had official business cards made up with that location on them? Feckless Joe.

He has bent over backwards to appease the Chinese in a great many ways including easing restrictions on Hauwei.

All of this information and a hell of a lot more was uncovered over a several year span from 2016 to 2020. It's literally days worth of video and tens of thousands of documents.

Amazing how people cry conspiracy theory when they refuse to even consider looking closer at evidence. Any good investigative reporter even a dumb ass could connect the dots.

This entire "out of sight out of mind" idiocy needs to stop. "If it's not in the mainstream media" then it never happened thinking is total mind control madness. The weaponization of the media is in full force and many have been assimilated.

Hybrid information warfare!

If you have plans to globalize your brand, don’t make the mistake of using software translation rather than human translators. Also, be sure to do your homework to find out whether your branding will be a cultural let-down in a foreign market.

Here is a collection of some memorable translation blunders:

Mercedes Benz’s market name in China was translated to “Bensi”, which meant “rush to die.” Which is not an ideal name for a car company. Fortunately, the company realized the mistake and changed its name to “Benchi”, which means “run quickly as if flying.”

https://medium.com/@bethworthy/famous-ex...440312bbad


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From Mazes and Monsters to Dark Dungeons, D&D was a lot scarier in the 1980s.



These days your life isn’t complete if you aren’t part of a role-playing gaming group, but it wasn’t that long ago that playing Dungeons & Dragons was seen as a surefire ticket to madness and damnation.



During the 1980s, D&D became associated with violence and idiot suicide, casting a spell over the media that resulted in some strident anti-fantasy propaganda.



The game became an instant hit among mid-70s “indoor kids,” who were looking for a fun way to exercise their imaginations and play around in a vast, complex world of magic and mystery. Unfortunately, that same desire for escape often goes hand-in-hand with depression and other feelings of isolation.



The catalyzing event that started the moral panic over D&D was the disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III in 1979. Egbert was a gifted computer programmer studying at Michigan State University, having been accepted at the age of 16. While at the school, he was involved with a D&D group that would sometimes do a little LARPing in the privacy of the university’s underground steam tunnels. Egbert disappeared into the steam tunnels in August of 1979, with the intention of committing suicide by overdosing on quaaludes.



Egbert’s family hired enterprising private detective William Dear to find their son. During his search, Dear learned of Egbert’s D&D hobby, and made it the focus of his investigation. Egbert’s disappearance came to be blamed on a “Dungeons and Dragons game gone awry.” Dear concluded the game had driven him mad, that he lost the ability to discern reality from fiction and had gone off on some insane, delusional quest. Of course when the media got wind of this, it planted the seeds of D&D as a corruptor of youth, and maybe even worse.

The controversy surrounding Dungeons & Dragons continued throughout the 1980s. When the second edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons was released in 1989, TSR removed all mention of demons and devils, and skewed gameplay to more heroic actions as opposed to the more ambiguous tenor of the first edition. As the 1990s moved on, attention moved away from the evils of pen-and-paper roleplaying games, and focused on violent video games or other cultural boogeymen.

D&D eventually got its devils back, and enough room from its 1980s image to publish such great sourcebooks as The Book of Vile Darkness. However, in those circles where reference to Harry Potter and talk of fantasy violence is still seen as a ticket to the dark side, D&D is still the bad boy of roleplaying.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/th...ns-dragons



https://youtu.be/5hJdhL1Ni_w

The reality in 2022, yes it's a DUDE!

Rachel Levine has been named one of USA Today’s Women of the Year.

Dr. Levine spearheaded Pennsylvania’s response to COVID-19 after cases were first reported in the state in March of 2020.

She served as the Health Department’s Secretary from 2017 to 2021 before joining the Biden administration as the Assistant Health Secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

With the move, the 64-year-old became the first openly transgender four-star officer in the Uniformed Services and the first female four-star admiral.


   

This is too much it's a FUCKING DUDE!