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The Wieners Circle proving themselves to be winners:
And just because anyone who hasnât seen this video should rectify that mistake ASAP, here is one of my favorite videos about The Wieners Circle:
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Hilarious. Finally a place where the insult dog can let go and be his true self!
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That video never gets old! Jack McBrayer, Robert Smigel, Conan OâBrien + The Wieners Circle = comedy gold.
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You were great in it!
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Wow, heâs still got the pipes!
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No paywall: archive.ph
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The W.H.O. considers an epidemic over when no confirmed or probable cases are reported for 42 days, twice the incubation period for Ebola infections.
Good to know. Not gonna check the difference for a pandemic, though.
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Under existing plans, monthly payments are capped at 10% of a borrowerâs discretionary income, and those earning less than $20,400 a year arenât required to make payments. The new proposal would cap payments for undergraduate loans at 5% of borrowersâ discretionary pay, cutting their bills in half, and require payments only for those who earn more than about $30,000 a year.
As long as borrowers make their monthly payments, any unpaid interest would not be charged. The change is meant to prevent borrowers from having unpaid interest added to their loan balance, a practice that can cause debt to snowball even as borrowers make payments.
Significantly, the proposal would also make it easier to get debt erased after making several years of payments. Existing plans promise to cancel any remaining debt after 20 or 25 years of payments. The new plan would erase all remaining debt after 10 years for those who took out $12,000 or less in loans. For every $1,000 borrowed beyond that, a year would be added.
Typical graduates of a four-year university would save about $2,000 a year compared with todayâs plans, the Biden administration says, while 85% of community college borrowers would be debt-free within 10 years.
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Kinda crying over here. Thanks for posting.
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For a Black man to step in carried enormous risk. Henry concealed the name of his company for a time and long shunned media interviews. He has endured death threats, seen employees walk away and been told by others in the industry that his future is ruined. He started wearing a bulletproof vest on job sites and got a permit to carry a concealed firearm for protection.
The drama interrupted Henryâs careful efforts to build his business. But after removing 24 monuments in Virginia and North Carolina, Henry, 45, has grown more comfortable with his role in enabling a historic reckoning with social injustice across the South. The threats havenât let up; Henry has simply learned to live with them.
âMy headâs in a different place now,â he said. âItâs like, Iâm not scared to cross the street, but Iâm always going to look both ways, right? So Iâm not totally oblivious to who I am and what Iâve done, but Iâm just not letting fear kind of drive what I do.â
Over and over, history-minded friends directed Henry to the words of John Mitchell Jr., the civil rights pioneer and editor of the Richmond Planet, a groundbreaking African American newspaper. In 1890, the year the state erected an enormous statue of Robert E. Lee on what would become Monument Avenue, Mitchell wrote about the resilience of the Black person in society.
âThe Negro ⌠put up the Lee monument,â Mitchell wrote, âand should the time come, will be there to take it down.â
Fucking legend.
The courage of Mr. Henry. Just wow.
Also here:
https://archive.ph/vvdmK
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I found a few of those when I was around her age (and yeah, it made your month), I would go where they were digging ditches after a month or two, and comb the big piles, as the rain would expose lots of the fossil material in there, we were down in coastal SC though.
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(source: NatGeo)
In a report released in early 2023, scientists keeping track of the ozone layer noted that Earthâs atmosphere is recovering. The ozone layer will be restored to its 1980 conditionâbefore the ozone hole emergedâby 2040. More persistent ozone holes over the Arctic and Antarctica should recover by 2045 and 2066, respectively.
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Hopefully sending a message to other financial institutions, too:
According to the Justice Department, City National Bank made a practice of avoiding marketing and underwriting mortgages in primarily Black and Latino neighborhoods in Los Angeles County between 2017 and 2020.
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Wow. That is truly wonderful!
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