BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A battering winter storm knocked out power to 1.7 million homes and businesses across the United States on Saturday, left millions more to worry about the prospect of further outages and crippled police, fire departments and an airport in snow-blown New York state.
…with no way to charge their electric cars. But hey, who's going anywhere at Christmas, right?
Every time someone has tried explaining crypto to me, my mind has reached the same conclusion: This sounds complicated, and anything that complicated—and that unregulated—will not end well, at least for the little guys, and thus it is none of my business….
Enjoy what holidays you have; stay safe and warm.
BAGHDAD (AP) — Everything from the signboard outside down to the napkins bears the official emblem of the top international coffee chain. But in Baghdad, looks are deceiving: The “Starbucks” in the Iraqi capital is unlicensed.
…when he named Iran as part of his famous Axis of Evil.
A fake Starbucks? Beyond the pale.
At halftime of a televised game between Stanford and Arizona State University, Stanford’s human sapling walked onto the field. With help from Sparky the Sun Devil, the ASU mascot, the Tree unfurled a 40-foot banner that said “Stanford Hates Fun.”
“Where is everybody?” Fermi is said to have asked.
This 3-legged buck nicknamed Tripod by Dallas, Ore. residents was not run over by a reindeer but got tangled up in lights while decking the halls like another buck recently. ODFW darted it and removed the lights. The leg wound is fully healed and the deer seems to get around OK. pic.twitter.com/x3m79Egt7Q— Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (@MyODFW) December 20, 2022
…really?
“'Because of the dismantling of funding to the IRS, they have not been unable to do their job,' said Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev."
This from an AP story about the public release of Trump's tax returns, which also says (the story says):
