Sal Affist comments

University restarted across the USA during the same time period, so some people matriculated or returned to college, which would make them ineligible to apply for unemployment benefits. This number is not surprising. Of course, in a few months (after the election), the Dept. of Labor will adjust the unemployment number higher to reflect the reality of the American economy right now.

It started "at THEIR home". Meaning, they shared a residence, which will mean there will be more opportunities for him to repeat this misbehavior. Used car dealers don't have great reputations no matter where someone goes!

The point of a capital market is for an investor to make a return on his investment. I would like to know whether the Metro system is profitable right now, before investing. If it is not, what would be the plan to generate a profit? [raise ticket prices, cut staff, cut services, cut employee benefits] If it is already profitable, it would be nice to know how much we have been over-paying for our tickets and passes.

It shows another amazing failure of Hezbollah's security, that the Israelis could know the time and location of a meeting of such senior personnel. If the pagers were tracked before blowing up this week, the Israelis likely have determined the location of Mr. Nasrallah himself based on analysis of movement patterns. This attack on Mr. Akil was probably a message that Mr. Nasrallah is next, no matter how deep a command bunker he has.

When taking our children to the Japanese school in Munich, during Oktoberfest Mrs. Affist and I would always see many celebrants sleeping it off in their cars, still in lederhosen and similar clothing, waiting to return to Theresienwiese for another go as soon as the fest tents reopened.

If this event had occurred in America, we might be considering fentanyl poisoning, or the relatives would already be lawyering up in the hope of suing some municipality for millions of dollars for police brutality.

Even though we hang our laundry on our 2d floor balcony, Mrs. Affist always reminds me to hang the female panties on the inside of the rack so they can't be easily spotted through the towels, pillow cases, and my clothing on the outside clips. She thinks some of these fetishists would climb to the 2d floor to take panties if they see them.

But wait, why would stocks in the US go higher if they think the economy is not slowing? Recent articles have indicated that stocks rally when interest rates are cut, but a stronger economy means the US Federal Reserve is less likely to cut rates or cut them as much as traders hope for. These articles which purport to assess a rationale for why the market went up or went down are often contradictory from day to day.

I am incredulous. Why would anyone invest money in a startup headed by someone who has declared bankruptcy as many times as Mr. Trump?

Mr. Maduro promised to hold a free and fair election in exchange for sanctions relief from Mr. Biden. Mr. Biden agreed and gave him sanctions relief. Now it looks like Mr. Biden has been had.

Tyrants never leave willingly, never transfer power peacefully.

I was in Tokyo on 3/11 and watched plenty of the videos over the ensuing days. I encourage all of you to Google those videos, of villages and cities large and small. They had just had a 9-magnitude earthquake off their coast, not many kilometers away, and very few buildings were knocked down or on fire (as happened in January 1995 in Kobe). In some locations, residents were gathering to talk to each other, while in others they were running for their lives as the tsunami warnings went off. (It was the tsunamis that caused all the destruction in those locations.) Yes, some people away from the tsunamis were killed or injured by things falling on them, but by and large Japanese buildings remained standing if not deluged. Look at the pictures from the Fukushima evacuation zone inland - nearly every structure and house was fully intact when abandoned - again, even though located a few score kilometers from the epicenter. So I was shocked to see the collapsing structures on January 1st in Ishikawa, and wondered what the difference was.

This is unreal. After stabbing two officers, I am surprised he wasn't perforated himself. The restraint of the second groups of responding officers is admirable.

They were feeding him mochi every meal, every day, and now look what happens!

Gut health is linked to many other conditions, including external complexion. Previous studies indicated that constipatory foods such as red meats lead to release of toxins in the bowels and colon, resulting in colon cancers. Everyone should have daily exercise, plus eat yoghurt at least once per day, and decent quantities of fibrous fruits and vegetables to make excretion a regular, daily event.

I'm not familiar with why marine mammals would wind up beached, but since they are air breathers, surely they can survive until the next high tide floats them back to the sea?

The West has an expression of "good cop, bad cop" where a police duo intentionally try different tactics to get the same end result. Mr. Pezeshkian is the good cop (so-called reformer) to the bad cop of the Supreme Leader (who runs everything in Iran.) They are one and the same. They have the same goals. One is just more of a smooth talker who says what the soft West wants to hear.

Mr. Ohtani can hit these homeruns every day as far as I'm concerned, as long as the Dodgers continue to lose. It's the best possible form of entertainment.

Nothing to worry about. The FBI, who all just love Mr. Trump so dearly, have taken over the investigation. I'm SURE it will reveal a lone wolf, mentally disturbed, who everyone knew should not have had access to firearms. Any manifesto revealing his political leanings, if not politically useful to the FBI's leadership, will be suppressed into at least mid-November.

And at some point, BOJ may just get more inflation than it wants. Hopefully not Argentina-level or Zimbabwe-level, but with the public debt twice the size of the GDP, printing more and more money eventually leads to this.

Thankfully only minor injuries after a child was punched in the face by an adult man. He could have disfigured her for life or broken her neck.

Mr. Mizuhara needs to sue the Dodgers for wrongful termination, as the reported acts occurred when Mr. Mizuhara worked for the Angels and there is no report that these transactions occurred during his Dodgers employment...

This is the second time Mr. Ohtani is in financial trouble. He took money from a failed cryptocurrency company to hawk their product, and has been sued for fraud for promoting a Ponzi scheme. His defense was "I am Japanese and I do all my business in the Japanese language. I have no idea about English-language business. I just take the money people throw at me to advertise their products." Good luck with that, and good luck with telling everyone you and your accountant had no idea the interpreter was running off with $5M. This athlete has a team of lawyers and accountants (and agents). He and his lawyers are in self-preservation mode right now to claim there was a theft. It's the least damaging choice to the Ohtani brand. Throw your long-time friends under the bus. But Mr. Mizuhara has the scoop on everything Mr. Ohtani has been doing for the last six years. An orange jumpsuit will make Mr. Mizuhara rat Mr. Ohtani out pretty fast, maybe even halfway through this season.

In the USA, there are tax issues from giving "no-interest" loans (even to friends), especially at that magnitude. There are also rules on the "gift tax", that limit how much of your own money you can give someone without it becoming a taxable event. There is a reason the USA Internal Revenue Service is looking at this, and it isn't because someone "lost" $5M. The IRS doesn't care about someone losing money. They do care about failing to report income or failing to report gifts or failing to properly account for "loans".

Looks like winter at Hogwarts and Hogsmeade.

His situation is reflective of many high school athletic prodigies. He didn't study or learn anything in high school other than baseball. Maybe junior high school too. He was what was called a "baseball baka". And when the career didn't pan out, and any signing bonus dissipated, he wound up as an uneducated man with no marketable skills. His gambling debts may be to shady characters - it's not that he couldn't help himself and avoid stealing, but he needed to come up with some cash quickly to satisfy the hoods who lent it to him ... or else.

PM Albanese continues the historic tradition of foreign leaders traveling to the Middle Kingdom and kowtowing to the emperor. Every country will have to do it, sooner or later.

Give them only children's diapers and infant formula. I can't see any way that Hamas would seize those and misuse them, other than seizing them and redistributing them to loyal followers first and not to the apathetic or disillusioned residents in Gaza.

American football is so different from rugby. There is no tackling anymore. Instead, huge men launch themselves like projectiles at the ball carrier in an effort to knock the ball loose. Given their size and speed and powerful collision impacts, of course the players will all get injured at some point.

I also spend only about $60 on my food, so I see nothing wrong with his answer. If the question was how much does my family spend, the answer would be far higher since my wife does most of the shopping.

I've read in Western media that there is no such thing as Islamic extremism. Each person who does some act like this really was is just a poorly understood victim (of something), and was affected with mental problems. Islamic teaching and Islamic theology could never, ever cause a sane, normal person to act violently since everyone knows that Islam is the Religion of Peace. (And if you don't know it, repeat it over and over until you agree.)