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It’s T.G.I.K.M.F. On Saturday!!!

Yes, I forgot yesterday, cos my brain is turning to porridge!

Enjoy, belatedly.

 

What’s in a game?

So, yesterday the Federal Trade Commission sued to block Microsoft’s sixty-nine billion acquisition of video game maker Activision Blizzard. The F.T.C. said that the deal would harm douchenozzle consumers because Microsoft could use Activision’s blockbuster games like Call of Duty to lure game freaks from rivals. The agency’s commissioners voted 3 to 1 to approve filing the suit. As expected, Microsoft said it would not abandon the deal and would fight in court to keep the acquisition alive. After all, the scale of those games is enormous: Activision says it has almost 370 million active users each month. That’s a lot of dosh.

Cos, there’s a lot of maniacs!!!

Meta Madness Continues!

The Guardian has a comprehensive and scathing review of ZuckerNozzle’s costly current obsession... “The metaverse will be our slow death! Is Facebook losing its $100 billion gamble on virtual reality?” The article shows two points of view. Mathew Ball, a tech investor defines the metaverse as “a massively scaled and interoperable network of real-time rendered 3D virtual worlds”, with individual presence and continuity of data. A year ago, it was mostly ‘what is the metaverse?’ Questions now are a lot more practical: what will be there? When? For whom? How, and why?” On the other hand, ZuckerNozzle guides us through his vision for the virtual-reality future. Playing poker in space with your buddies; sharing cool stuff; having work meetings and birthday parties with people on the other side of the world; customizing your avatar (which have no legs). Oh yes, fucking brilliant and well worth $100 billion!!!

What a wanker!!!

Kushner faces Krapola...

Funny to read that Democrats are ramping up investigations of Kushner family business dealings (makes a change from Republicans Hunters laptop bullshit) The inquiry focuses on the efforts by Kushner and his father, convicted felon, Charles Kushner, to bail out a troubled 41-story Fifth Avenue office building in New York City. The Kushner company made a deal with Brookfield Asset Management, which surprise, surprise, involved a Qatari sovereign investment fund. Best bit is that I started my Mad Man days back in the sixties at Benton & Bowles, in this very same building at 666 Fifth Avenue.

Ah... The good old days!!!

Der Trumpf’s Der Troubles...

Adding to Der Trumpf’s continually growing mountain of woes, on the same day that his abysmal protégé, Herschel Walker, got his arse kicked in Georgia, back in New York the Trump Organization was found guilty of tax fraud in no less than 17 guilty verdicts! The company faces up to $1.6 million in fines. Fuck him. And the company he rode in on.

The N.Y. Daily News summed it up well.

Oh my... This will be interesting!!!

Recently appointed special counsel Jack Smith has subpoenaed local officials in Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin — three states that were central to Der Trumps abysmal plan to stay in power following the 2020 election — for any and all communications with Trump, his campaign and a long list of aides and allies. Wonder if Ginni Thomas will be in there???

For sure!!!

Getting pissed on nun’s piss.

Last week I posted about the lack of booze at the World Cup in Qatar. Now I’m reading in the Huffington Post that there is in a fact a solitary liquor store in the capital. It operates on an appointment system and is behind high walls topped with razor wire and armed guards checking your credentials. Best of all, a can of Budweiser Nuns Piss will set you back fourteen dollars.

I’ll do you one for twelve!

She “flashed” her badge!!!

News just in that Tampa Police Chief Mary O’Connor has resigned after flashing her “Chief Cop” badge and asking to be let go from a traffic stop. The best bit was that O’Connor was a passenger in a golf cart that was pulled over for driving on a public road without a vehicle license plate tag, according to footage of the November 12 incident from the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office. I have just one question... Why the fuck was this ditzo in a golf cart on a public road?

Don’t ask me...

Non-Stop Shit from here to 2024...

Joe Mandese over at MediaPost has an interesting article, “One Hitler Wonders.” In which he talks about how fast the news cycle has accelerated with its concentration on Kanye West, Elon Musk and Der Trumpf. He directs us to an interview with Financial Times columnist Edward Luce on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" in which he says... "With regards to Trump, this is a horrible analogy, but you read about people with porn addiction, and it just gets harder and harder and harder to get the same kick as time goes on. This means that Trump has got to be more and more shocking. He can’t replay 2016." In other words, the next couple of years are really going to suck.

I need more ketchup.

Poor under-funded Military Industrial complex.

I almost choked on my breakfast beer when I read the news that the Pentagon has just launched its “Super Secretive” B-21 Bomber ‘ Which so far has cost a terra-billion dollars, and will undoubtable cost terra billions dollars more before they get done fucking around with it. (Each new B-21 is pegged at roughly $729.25 million, and the U.S. Air Force expects to procure at least 100 of them. Costs for research and development, procurement and routine operations over 30 years for that many of the two-seat bombers are expected to total $203 billion.) All this so they can “Nuke” rifle carrying terrorists in the Sahara Desert. Isn’t it about time to build another nuclear aircraft carrier? We’ve only got thirteen of the fuckers, whilst the rest of the world has three in total.

He said it first...