Contract in haste, repent at leisure

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It must have seemed like easy money to its owner when 547 Lake Avenue was listed for $21 million last September 23rd: an offer came in immediately, a fully-executed contract was achieved by September 30, and with all contintingences met, it was reported pending on October 10th.

That deal fell through yesterday, and those who’d feared that they’d lost their chance to part with idle pocket change have a new opportunity to do so, starting today.

Hurry, this one won’t last!

"One person's terrorism is another person's neighborliness."

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BBC blasted after hiring new boss from Canada who told journalists not to call Hamas ‘terrorists.’

And: Biden’s handlers strike again

[T] he Biden administration will remove the communist regime from the State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list. …[T]he decision came directly from the Democratic administration at the White House, not the State Department.

The decision comes just six days before President Biden will relinquish power and President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn in on Jan. 20

The Bee's the only reliable, trustworthy news source left, so this must be true

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“You’re gonna love the way you look”

"It has been an honor to lie to you everyday, but I've decided to leave my job lying to the press and go back to my old gig lying to normal everyday people as a salesman for Men's Wearhouse," Jean-Pierre said in a final press conference in which she invited colleagues to visit her at the Men's Wearhouse on 6th Avenue in Manhattan. "When God closes a door, He opens a closet."

(The picture above is real; the picture below may not be, although it certainly appears to be authentic)

Oppression combo

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BUT OF COURSE: San Diego State University Pride Center says ‘fatphobia’ is ‘rooted in anti-Blackness,’ calls on students to champion ‘fat bodies.’

Glenn Reynolds points out a rude truth:
”Nobody is afraid of fat people. People just find them unattractive. That’s what all this is about: If you won’t date me you’re a bigot!

The woman below doesn’t appear to be of the colored persuasion, but I’m sure she frightens some small-minded persons anyway:

Going postal, B'gosh

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The company behind the United States Postal Service's all-electric mail trucks has said it would be prepared to switch to gas vehicles. 

Oshkosh Corp., which provides the so-called 'Duck' mail trucks, has said it is prepared to U-turn if USPS cuts back orders for EVs under the second Trump term. 

Trump, who takes office on January 20, has long criticized funding brought in by the Biden administration to transition to an electric mail fleet. 

President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) provided $3 billion over a decade for the Postal Service to become all-electric, including both trucks and charging stations. 

USPS said in October last year that it plans to buy more than 100,000 mail trucks through 2028, of which at least 62 percent will be EVs. 

Oshkosh has received its first order from USPS for 50,000 electric trucks, valued at $2.98 billion.  

But John Pfeifer, CEO of Oshkosh, said the company would be prepared to make the switch back to gas if necessary.  

'We'll do what they want us to do - supplying either gas or electric,' he said in an interview at the CES trade show in Las Vegas, Bloomberg reported. 'A new Congress could come in and repeal, I guess, part of the IRA that hasn't been spent.'

Before finally bowing to overwhelming pressure from Congress and professional enviro grifters, the USPS Postmaster General Louis DeJoy fiercely opposed converting the entire truck fleet to electric due to the huge cost not only of buying the vehicles themselves, but also the necessary upgrading the electrical service to the nation’s 35,000 post offices. Congress has printed $3 billion to pay for converting half the fleet, leaving the rapidly failing USPS (when was the last time you mailed paid a bill by mail? Sent a letter?) to come up with another $3 billion to buy the rest of the trucks, and billions more for those electrical upgrades and charging stations.

It’s understandable that Trump will see this as an irresistible target for elimination, and Oshkosh is smart to realize this.