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[Snip] UnitedHealth Group’s shares plunged over 10% in premarket trading on Tuesday after the sudden announcement of CEO Andrew Witty’s departure and the suspension of its 2025 financial forecast. The company cited “personal reasons” for Witty’s exit but offered no further details. Stephen Hemsley, UnitedHealth’s longtime leader who previously served as CEO for over a decade, is returning to helm the company during this turbulent period. [Snip] The market response was swift. UnitedHealth’s stock ($UNH) has now dropped nearly 45% in the past month, wiping out around $300 billion in market value. On April 17, shares fell 22% — its...

A saloon in Idaho is drawing both jeers and cheers for its cheeky counter-programming to Pride Month, declaring June “Heterosexual Awesomeness Month,” billing it as a celebration of all things straight. “Come join us all month to celebrate heterosexuals, for without them, none of us would be here!” Old State Saloon in the city of Eagle wrote in a Facebook post announcing a month of festivities and drink specials. Every Monday in June will be “Hetero Male Monday,” with a free draft beer given to “any heterosexual male dressed like a heterosexual male,” the bar said. The bar even put...

VIDEOWe heard the speakers at the forum of the 2023 White House Correspondents Dinner. But what of the many conversations that were not on mic? The good news is that I applied my amazing lip reading ability to present to you what many of the guests were saying at that dinner.

A funny series of communications exchanged between a neighbor who put up a bright spot light shining into his neighbors bedroom window and very witty neighbor with a sense of humor.

Using Obama's Own words against him:

CENTCOM Quotes Subject: Military Quotes : Thursday, June 02, 2005 3:39 PM Subject: Military Quotes (CENTCOM: Central Command - the Command responsible for Iraq and Afghanistan) (EUCOM: European Command) "His knowledge on that topic is only power point deep..." MAJ (JS) "If we wait until the last minute to do it, it'll only take a minute." MAJ(EUCOM) "The only reason that anything ever gets done is because there are pockets of competence in every command. The key is to find them ... and then exploit the hell out of 'em." CDR (CENTCOM) "Our days are spent trying to get some...

Calvin & Hobbes Philosophy on Liberal Left-wing Pseudo-Intellectual Academia

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

'Witty' Worm Wrecks Computers The worm targets Windows computers that run specific security firewalls. By Brian Krebs washingtonpost.com Staff Writer Saturday, March 20, 2004; 7:02 PM A quickly spreading Internet worm destroyed or damaged tens of thousands of personal computers worldwide Saturday morning by exploiting a security flaw in a firewall program designed to protect PCs from online threats, computer experts said.