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Dead Last, Part 10

West Virginia has the lowest internet access in the country. Dead fvcking last.

"Y'all only use internets for pornography. So why would I need internets? I have three daughters, two nieces, and a half-son who likes all of them who live with me. Each night after coming back from McCoy Station, I tell my half-son to pick a different girl, and I get to watch. Internets is for losers who can't get any in real life."

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Division I Board of Directors ratifies transfer, and NIL rule changes

As expected

Effective immediately, Division I student-athletes have access to additional school assistance with name, image and likeness activities and more flexibility to transfer, the Division I Board of Directors decided Monday when it affirmed action taken last week by the Division I Council.

Schools can identify NIL opportunities and facilitate deals between student-athletes and third parties. Student-athletes are not obligated to accept assistance from the school and must maintain authority over the terms in their NIL agreements. Beginning Aug. 1, member schools will be permitted to increase NIL-related support only for student-athletes who disclose their NIL arrangements.

Also effective immediately, Division I student-athletes who meet certain academic eligibility requirements will be immediately eligible at their next school, regardless of whether they transferred previously. Specifically, to be immediately eligible after a transfer, undergraduate student-athletes must have left their previous school while academically eligible and in good standing (not subject to disciplinary suspension or dismissal) and meet progress-toward-degree requirements at their new school before competing. For graduate transfer student-athletes to be eligible, they must earn a degree from their previous school, leave while academically eligible and be enrolled as a full-time postgraduate student while satisfying minimum academic standards.

California’s latest job-killing policy is more bad news for Golden Staters

Democrats, their policies and their bleaters are destroying our country

LINK: California’s list of public policy failures was already long, but hiking its minimum wage to $20 an hour for fast-food workers may belong at the top.

The predictable fallout in lost jobs and higher prices are already being felt, and the flood of residents fleeing the state is poised to accelerate.

The Golden State is already home to some of the highest taxes and costs of living in the country, the consequences of failed government policies. A higher minimum wage is more of the same.

Consider California’s "green" energy policies that have created the highest utility rates in the nation. Instead of rolling back those mandates, it’s created a new one: surcharges on utility bills, making the middle class pay more, even if they don’t use more.

The overtaxing, overspending and over regulating by the government in Sacramento has turned the state into such a basket case that 1.2 million more people left California than moved in over the last three yearsby far the biggest loss of any state, beating New York by 35%.
Californians clearly don’t like the effects of these policies, but they just got more of them with the higher minimum wage law for fast-food workers. This particular policy provides a superb example of how disastrous economic ideas become law: wonderful rhetoric, terrible results.

The law was advertised as forcing "greedy" corporations to pay workers a "living wage." But businesses are not charities and cannot pay employees more than they produce, or they’ll go bankrupt. Employers pays taxes and other costs on top of an employee’s earnings, and at $20 an hour, many fast-food workers don’t provide enough value to justify the highest minimum wage in the country.

Not surprisingly, California’s fast-food companies have now frozen hiring, and some are already announcing mass layoffs. This is not a small cohort of workers: California is, at least for now, home to half a million fast-food workers.

That number is already dropping and is set to plunge soon. McDonald’s has been investing millions of dollars into fully automated restaurants and opened the first of such stores last year. Jack in the Box and Mexican chicken restaurant El Pollo Loco both announced they’ll be using robotics to fully automate cooking and cashier functions.

The machines are cheaper than employing people at artificially inflated wage rates, plus the additional costs like training, payroll taxes and vulnerability to lawsuits, thanks to lawyer lobbies.

Where fast-food workers can’t be replaced, their job will effectively be outsourced. About 1,100 Pizza Hut delivery drivers are set to lose their jobs, with more layoffs announced at another restaurant chain, Round Table Pizza. Consumers will have to use food delivery apps (also being targeted by California’s notorious Assembly Bill 40), or they’ll have to pick up their orders themselves.

Apologists claim that corporations are just posturing and won’t really lay off thousands of workers. That thinking is largely made possible by the fact that many politicians have never run a business, had to make payroll or hired minimum-wage workers.

In short, they don’t understand the impact of the policy they’re pushing. All the politicians know is that it’s a reliable vote winner, even if it throws low-wage workers under the bus – not once, but twice.
Hiking the minimum wage causes job losses, but it also increases prices. Because lower-income folks disproportionately eat at fast-food restaurants, they bear the brunt of these higher costs, in addition to losing their jobs.

A minimum wage of $20 an hour is really a state ban on any job that pays less than $20.
Californians in that category must either go somewhere else where such work is still legal, work illegally "under the table" or rely on welfare.

But the insanity doesn’t end there. The law also creates a Fast-Food Council that can raise the minimum wage for fast-food workers by another 3.5% per year, every year, until there are no fast-food workers left standing.

California will continue to hemorrhage people, and that rate of outmigration will likely accelerate as politicians target low-income workers with wage mandates and inflation. Eventually, all the people willing to work will leave, and the only ones left will be those on the state’s bloated welfare rolls.

The Golden State is killing the goose that laid its golden eggs.

Another baseball question

Back when I was coaching young punks, I always put the smartest player at catcher. I figured them to be a great communicator and allowed them to pretty much be the coach on the field, calling pitches since they typically had a photographic memory of the opposing players, directing the infield and outfield on where to position themselves, based again on their intelligence of opposing hitters, combined with the pitch they would call.

I never cared if they couldn't hit very well or run very well, as long as their average hovered around the .200 mark, because I knew they were an asset when our team was on the field.

How did the rest of you select who you played at catcher?

Dead Last: WV is Just Terrible

Welp, we found something else that West Virginia is the worst in the country: hitting animals (probably fvcking them, too, but I’m not sure stats are kept for that).

West Virginians have the highest chance of an auto insurance claim from hitting an animal with their car. The high rate is due to winding roads, a high population of deer, lack of urban areas, and frankly, a lot of stupid god-damned residents.

What a shithole state. Even the animals in the state are so uneducated and dumb that they don’t know to get out of the fvcking way of cars:

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Democrat governor vetoes bipartisan bill to combat squatting - Republican governor takes action to put an end to squatting in his state

Arizona governor vetoes bill to combat squatting and Georgia governor will sign a bill making squatting a crime, with fake leasing being a felony.

The difference between Democrat policy and Republican policy.

Democrats, their policies and their bleaters are destroying our country.

"This is insanity, that people just think they can come in and take over somebody's home. I mean it's just outrageous," Kemp said. "It really points to, as we've seen around the country, the lawlessness that's gone on under the pedo administration. I’m sure it’s much of the same, just using the legal powers that we have to push up the process. I mean, look, it’s insane that it even happens to start with. But, then, when you can’t remove these people from your own property, as a property owner myself, it goes to the insanity of the world that we’re living in now and I know that Governor DeSantis isn’t going to put up with that and neither are we," Kemp said.

HERDNATION.COM Marshall Men's BBall: Who’s Left and What’s Next?

Really good breakdown from @lukerubin12 on what the current roster looks like and what Coach Jackson and his staff are likely targeting in the JUCO and portal ranks:

Fast Food Restaurants Love New Democratic Policy

In-N-Out Burger took the recent minimum wage increase in stride in California, as did other similar restaurants. The C-suite will only earn low seven-figures this year instead of an extra $200k each while allowing all full-time workers to have closer to a living wage.

If only we listened to those Republican policies in economically-advantaged states like Mississippi, Alabama, West Virginia, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky, and Oklahoma. Christ, why are so many of the shithole states red?

Chicago City Council approves $70M for migrant care despite voter backlash

More illegal-foreign-nationals-before-American-citizens policies, by Democrats.

Democrats, their policies and their bleaters are destroying our country

Residents are angry, but they keep voting for it. Live in the filthy, shitholes you voted for. Fed up? Then vote these America-haters out.

EXCERPT: That money is on top of a $150 million assigned to migrant care in the budget already. Johnson, along with a number of other mayors, have appealed to the federal government for billions more in funding than it is already providing.

Chicago residents confront mayor over migrant funding: 'Most disrespectful thing we've ever encountered



Illegal foreign nationals say six months of free rent, food not enough: 'A slap in the face' and 'offensive'

These criminals will fit right in with you bleaters. "Entitled and offended"

These are the idiots Democrats are putting before Americans.

Democrats, their policies and their bleaters are destroying our country

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