Laugh of the Day: EU inflation is knocking on the door of 10% but the ECB benchmark lending rate is set at 0%, expected puny hike by 0.75 points called a "jumbo"

European Central Bank could unleash a jumbo rate hike as the economy slides toward recession

 

Meanwhile, the Laugh of the Day is CNBC saying "scores without power" in Louisiana and Mississippi in the wake of Hurricane Ida

Yeah, like 55,000 score.

I guess the kids think that's a fancy word for "a lot". 

Holiday weekend help is already on duty, apparently.

 

Laugh of the Day: Peter Meijer, MI-03, the Republican version of drama queen AOC, pulls stunt and flies into Kabul

Peter Meijer, billionaire scion, West Point drop out, & leader of an aimless, mediocre life, is a drama queen who desperately wants to cover himself with the patina of the brave soldier in extreme circumstances one last time before it's all over. Just like Jan 6.

 

Laugh of the Day: Limbaugh and Hannity in flames as advertiser Ruth's Chris Steak House gets $20 million bailout from Trump in four days while Main Street waits and waits and waits

The Wall Street Journal reports:

The company, which operates or franchises 159 restaurants, had a profit of $42 million on revenue of $468 million last year.

The owner of the high-end Ruth’s Chris Steak House chain is among the first public companies to disclose it has received a government-backed loan to keep people on its payroll.

Ruth’s Hospitality Group Inc., a company with more than 5,000 workers, received $20 million in forgivable loans on April 7, according to a securities filing. That is four days after the Small Business Administration opened the application window on its $350 billion Payroll Protection Program.

Many small-business owners are still waiting for their banks to process an application or hear back about whether they qualify or will receive financial assistance from the PPP fund. The SBA says 1.1 million applications have been approved for loans worth $263 billion as of Tuesday afternoon. The average loan size is about $239,000 so far, the SBA says. Banks say only small portions of approved loans have been disbursed to businesses. ...

The loans were intended for businesses with fewer than 500 employees, but language in the $2 trillion stimulus bill allows restaurants and hotel chains to participate regardless of how many people they employ.

The maximum PPP loan is $10 million. Ruth’s said two of its subsidiaries each received $10 million SBA loans from JPMorgan Chase & Co. and would use the proceeds primarily for payroll costs. ... As of Dec. 29, Ruth’s employed 5,740 people, of whom 5,216 were hourly staff.

Laugh of the Month, from the editor of the Washington Examinah: Jews run the UK, not the US

Laugh of the Day: Linda "Sarsour" = "cockroach" in Arabic

Laugh of the Day: Reddit spelling flash mob

Laugh of the Day: Trump really blew it canceling Pelosi's government flights

He should have waited until she was IN Afghanistan.

Laugh of the Day No. 2: Pelosi cancels Trump's State of the Union, Trump cancels government flights for Pelosi

Laugh of the Day: German industrial production tanks 4.7% in November, Reuters calls it a tentative sign of slowing growth momentum

The signs were tentative in H1 and worrisome since then. November was a disaster.

Global economy is headed for recession:

[T]here were tentative signs of slackening momentum in the United States and Germany in November.

Laugh of the Day: NeverTrumpers Bill Kristol and Charlie Sykes erect online defensive wall for spitball fight

Laugh of the Day: Trump calls Elizabeth Talking Bull crazy without calling her crazy

The president has this part of politics down pat. Too bad the follow through on policy utterly escapes him.

From the transcript here:

HEGSETH: She says she’s in the fight all the way, Mr. President. Do you really think she believes she can win? 

TRUMP: Well that I don’t know. You’d have to ask her psychiatrist. But honestly, I just, you know --

(LAUGHTER)

Laugh of the Day: WGVU's school closings page shows its most recent information dates to Dec 31, 1969, or 25.7 million minutes ago

Laugh of the Day: SECDEF Jim Mattis resigned effective Feb. 28, 2019 to ensure a smooth transition, Trump boots him effective Jan. 1 after reading what he said about him

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis Resigning in February

After criticism, Trump pushes out Mattis sooner than planned

 

Laugh of the Day: Photographer plays "Simon Says" with Baraboo WI High School boys of the class of 2019

He says, "Sieg Heil!" and then captures their reaction.

The left is finding no humor in this whatsoever. The boys clearly know how to tweak the liberal tyranny, except for the weirdo in the upper right with gunshot wounds to both earlobes, who has predictably become a hero to the outraged for his passive resistance. The guy front and center left goes even further, flashing the secret sign of white nationalists everywhere.

Sieg away, I say, good old Badger State of mine.

Laugh of the Day: Christian Science Monitor suggests "alien invasion" could unite Americans, or "climate change"

Talk about being out of touch.

The latest invasion is on the way from Honduras as we speak and the last thing I expect to see is Democrats and Republicans unite to stop it.

Instead Democrats intend to welcome the invasion with open arms.

Here:

The parties could also unite to solve an overarching national goal. The problem here is, what? Absent an alien invasion requiring Americans to pull together, what goal would suffice? Some experts suggest climate change, but that would require Republicans to change position and favor more active intervention on the issue.

Laugh of the Day: Axios/Politico co-founder complains reporters always seem to prove they are leftists on social media, should hide it to deceive!

Jim VandeHei.

Here:

Media: News organizations should ban their reporters from doing anything on social media — especially Twitter — beyond sharing stories. Snark, jokes and blatant opinion are showing your hand, and it always seems to be the left one. This makes it impossible to win back the skeptics. 

Laugh of the Day: Democrat lunatics alter climate in hell

Laugh of the Day: Four people claiming I told them last year that I went to the moon proves I did

The CNN fake news Laugh of the Day