[People] Erin Napier celebrated the important lessons husband Ben Napier is teaching their daughters as she honored him in a Father's Day Instagram post.
Erin Napier celebrated husband Ben Napier as one of the great dads out there this Father's Day.
Sharing photos of the HGTV star, 39, spending quality time with daughters Mae, 2, and Helen, 5, on Instagram Sunday, she wrote, "Here’s what the truly great dads do: they fix things, broken necklaces, broken barbies, broken hearts."
"They teach their daughters what to expect from the men they’ll someday love and what’s unacceptable, too," she continued. "They love their wives so well, with such faithfulness, their children see it and understand what marriage is meant to be. They carry the heavy things so we don’t have to."
[NYPOST] Bud Light suffered its worst weekly sales drop since the nation’s No. 1 beer brand launched an ill-fated marketing tie-up with transgender influencer Dylan Stench of Death Mulvaney ...the transexual influencer who single-handedly trashed a major American beer brand owned by a Belgian company, tainted Maybelline and Condé Nast, and then demanded that anybody who called him/her/it a man be arrested... .
For the week ending June 10, Bud Light sales dropped by a whopping 26.8%, according to the latest data from Bump Williams Consulting and NielsenIQ.
That’s wider than the 24.4% drop seen during the prior week — and topped the all-time previous worst plunge of 25.7% during the week ended May 20 — since the beer giant got into bed with Mulvaney on April 1.
Anheuser-Busch’s other brands also took a step backwards for the week ended June 10, according to the data. Sales of Budweiser were down 10% compared to a 7.8% decline the previous week, while Natural Light was down 2.3% vs. a 1% decline. Michelob Ultra — the nation’s No. 3 beer — was down 2.4%.
"This was a tough week for Bud Light and other beer brands" owned by Anheuser-Busch, said Bump Williams, head of the eponymous consulting firm.
The calls for a boycott from conservative corners of the country over the Mulvaney campaign has cost the Belgian-based beer company more than $20 billion.
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For what it is worth dept.
Was joking with with several competitor brand distributors... "Cheer up... or Bet you are glad... you are are not selling Bud-Lite for a living." Then mentioned it looks like only a few cases have sold since he restocked. 2 of the competitor route sales people said the basically the same thing...
That the Bud-Lite route guys have been short stacking the displays to make it look like it is selling something.
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What is most surprising (to me) is sales are around 75% of pre-mulvaney. I thought it would be worse. Admittedly, a 25% haircut is a lot, it's not much of a boycott.
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Our local's A/B sales van was a well marked vehicle.
The other day, they were using a non-descript white van with the windows paneled over, like a Chester Molester or Disney Galaxy Transport. The only company marking was a fancy Bud Light bumper sticker.
ill-fated marketing tie-up with transgender influencer Dylan Stench of Death Mulvaney
Well having Garth Brooks, or as the memer are going, Brook Garths, calling everyone 'assholes', and cheese dick politicians calling for an end 'so we can continue to get our bribes' should be factored in, Post. Mulvany is no longer the ..ugh..face...of the walkaway.
25% of the #1 beer in American, in a relatively short time, is impactful. DIE may be able to cover monies with a line of credit, the real concern it seems is losing regional distributors' and point of sales retailers' product confidence since they, unlike corporate, actually put chips on the table and get left holding the corporate's decisions..gugh..bag.
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Re: Barf Schnooks, the vast majority of celebrities wish conservative people would die screaming, if they think about us at all.
I'm happy to reciprocate.
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In some cases sales can be presented as by volume instead of sales dollars. In either case, deep discounts can hide to true impact of the boycott.
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Re: Barf Schnooks, the vast majority of celebrities wish conservative people would die screaming, if they think about us at all.
If we're not buying their crappy music, not reading their formulaic books, not going to see their perverted movies, they don't need us.
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It's very aggressive for me to say I don't need you (or your awful music, acting, etc.)
So it's the other side of the coin.
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I don’t see it as a boycott. It has been my understanding that boycotts have a central cast of characters leading the boycott. I see this more as public revulsion, which is not lead by some cast of characters.
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Modelo Negra
Details:
Brewery:
Anheuser-Busch
Country:
United States
Style:
Münchner Dunkel
Alcohol Content:
5.4 %
Added By:
BeerMe65
On July 17, 2017
Modelo Negra is an American beer, it has an alcohol content of 5.4%.
A medium-bodied lager with slow-roasted caramel malts.
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Modelo Negra
Details:
Brewery:
Anheuser-Busch
Country:
United States
Style:
Münchner Dunkel
Alcohol Content:
5.4 %
Added By:
BeerMe65
On July 17, 2017
Modelo Negra is an American beer, it has an alcohol content of 5.4%.
A medium-bodied lager with slow-roasted caramel malts.
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Fast Company, 3/16/23
For the first time ever, Cannes Lions has named a back-to-back winner for its Creative Marketer of the Year award.
The marketing and advertising industry’s biggest awards show and conference has named AB InBev as its 2023 recipient, coming on the heels of the global brewing giant’s 2022 win.
h/t IOTW
Goes to show this is years into planning. Article also states they have been using an AI program for probably a couple years now.
I've suspected this sudden flourish of AI this and AI that didn't happen without a select clientele being offered various beta versions for trials, so there that is.
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I think the 'boycott' phase is over. They'll never return, no they'll never return. IIRC August is a matrix month when shelf space is calculated and distributed.
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The all-important BREWED and bottled statement
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In the United States, Constellation Brands owns Modello. Outside of the US, the brand is Anheuser-Busch InBev. AB had to divest the US operations of Modello when it purchased the brand. So drink up!
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#13... I see this more as public revulsion, which is not lead by some cast of characters.
I think Whiskey Mike is right. It's not an organized boycott, otherwise related brands and the company itself would be involved. In an advertising triumph, AB managed to strongly associate Bud Light with something most people don't want to be associated with. Gonna be hard to get that out of people's heads.
The ad company really should get some sort of award for this.
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Mickey’s Fine Malt Liquor is a Miller Brewing Company product so I’m good.
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Brewed and bottled by Cerveceria Modela Nava, Mexico
Imported by Crown Imports, Chicago IL.
AB may own them, but it ain't AB.
The confusion stems from the fact that Anheuser-Busch purchased a company called the Groupo Modelo back in 2013 in a transaction valued at $20.1 billion. U.S. antitrust regulators, however, required Anheuser-Busch to sell the U.S. rights to Modelo, Pacifico, and Corona to win approval for the deal. Constellation was the buyer and the acquisition included an advanced brewery in Mexico as well as the glass production plant used to bottle the beer.
[Al Ahram] Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... ese President Macky Sall on Tuesday vowed to strengthen "democracy and freedom" in his country, in his first public reaction to deadly unrest sparked by the conviction of a popular opposition leader.
"We will pursue our march towards economic development and the strengthening of democracy and freedom in Senegal, with respect of course for the state of law," Sall said on a state visit to Portugal.
"I will make sure that Senegal adheres to the most important democratic standards," he said after a meeting with President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
Senegal is still reeling from violence between June 1-3 that caused at least 16 deaths, according to the authorities. Amnesia Amnesty International puts the toll at 23, and the opposition at 26.
The bloodshed has shaken the West African state's image for stability, in a region notorious for coups and turmoil.
Protests were triggered by the conviction and sentencing of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko to two years in jail on charges of "corrupting" a young beauty salon worker, a conviction that will make him ineligible for the 2024 presidential elections.
Sonko is Sall's fiercest critic, accusing him of sitting at the top of a corrupt elite and nurturing plans to install a dictatorship.
Sall was elected in 2012, when the presidential term was seven years, and re-elected in 2019 after the term was reduced to five years under a constitutional change.
Presidents cannot serve for more than two "consecutive" terms,but Sall's supporters say the clock has been reset after the constitution was revised in 2016.
Sall, in Lisbon, also promised to ensure "that our country is not destabilised, whatever the source of this will to destabilise. We will monitor this very closely," he said.
"Our economic profile has become very attractive. This year we are going to start extracting oil and gas. That may also be the reason for all this frenzy," he suggested.
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[AFRICANEWS] Fulgence Kayishema, accused of playing a major role in the genocide in Rwanda and arrested last month near Cape Town after 22 years on the run, is to seek asylum in South Africa, his lawyer announced on Tuesday.
"My instructions are to apply for asylum in the republic of South Africa", Juan Smuts shared at the end of a court hearing in Cape Town.
His client "fears for his life if he is extradited," he explained.
The request for asylum is likely to delay Kayishema's trial in South Africa, where he faces numerous charges relating to his illegal stay in South Africa, and will "suspend his extradition", the lawyer added.
Until his arrest on 24 may, the 62-year-old Rwandan was one of the last four runaways wanted for their role in the 1994 genocide of 800,000 Rwandans, many of them Tutsi, by Hutu murderous Moslems.
A stocky, balding man with round eyes behind thin glasses, the sixty-year-old had admitted to being the man wanted by international justice. A master at assuming false identities, according to Sherlocks, he was most recently using the name Donatien Nibashumba.
It is still unclear how he came to be on the run, but according to the South African prosecutor's office, he started a family and, using an assumed name and claiming to be Burundian, applied first for asylum in 2000 and then for refugee status in 2004.
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How about they give him asylum but restrict his freedom to a locked cell for the rest of his life. In compensation for this inconvenience they can provide him with healthy meals and special clothes to wear.
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[Breitbart] President Joe Biden spilled "sensitive" United States intelligence about China to campaign donors at a recent event in California, according to a report.
At the fundraiser in California, Biden revealed to attendees what the U.S. intelligence agencies had learned about the Chinese spy balloon incident earlier this year, reportedly surprising U.S. officials.
The New York Times reported that at the fundraiser, Biden "set off into what appeared to be an unplanned riff" about the spy balloon incident, "revealing what United States intelligence agencies had learned about the internal confusion in Beijing during the incident."
According to the Times, Biden told about 130 guests in attendance at the fundraiser: "The reason why Xi Jinping got very upset in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two boxcars full of spy equipment in it is he didn’t know it was there." "Apparently, Corn Pop had a rogue mission"
"No, I’m serious. That’s what’s a great embarrassment for dictators, when they didn’t know what happened," Biden said.
The Times reported that "other U.S. officials were surprised on Tuesday night that the president would discuss the sensitive information in a public setting."
[NYP] Hunter Biden and his baby mama have privately settled their child support dispute in Arkansas, according to a source close to the first son.
Lunden Roberts, 32, the mother of Hunter’s long-unacknowledged 4-year-old daughter, agreed to her $20,000 monthly child support payments being slashed after she showed up in person to his deposition in Little Rock last week.
Roberts’ lawyer, Clint Lancaster, told The Post late Thursday that final terms were still to be determined and declined to confirm that his client had agreed to a reduced monthly payment of $5,000.
"The case is sealed, and these are financial terms that should never be disclosed," he said, warning that leaks about details of the settlement would derail talks and end up with Hunter back in an Arkansas court on July 11.
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^ Exactly what I thought. I also had no trouble believing it was true.
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This settlement eliminates the look into Hunters finances.
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This settlement eliminates the look into Hunters finances.
As it relates to this matter WRT federal taxes and child support. The underlying crimes still exist and nothing in this settlement puts them off limits for an honest prosecutor (I know) looking at them with respect to other events.
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WTF? Title sez SHE'S paying him. Reading the text, article again states per her lawyer that she is paying him and that they're happy for reduced payments so that Hunter won't use those funds for a personal agenda? Is this a hoax or is it that our legal system is a hoax? It's one of those..or both.
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From $240,000 per annum to $60,000 and she doesn't get to name her kid a Biden. I smell a lump sum somewhere, serious money bought her off! The name thing was a slam-dunk, and it was a huge irritant to Jojo. Poof, all done, only money does that!
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Roberts’ lawyer, Clint Lancaster, told The Post late Thursday that final terms were still to be determined and declined to confirm that his client had agreed to a reduced monthly payment of $5,000.
That says she's paying him, Rex?
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I agree with the lump sum unless the court artist has depicted her with a bunch of bandaged fingers.
Regardless, the kid wins. She won’t be carrying the mark of Cain until she gets married.
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IIUC, they agreed to reduce monthly payments to Roberts from $20k to $5k, and that there is a lot of closed proceedings and records activity which went on. Payoffs and promises.
#12
“The kid has lots of love on the maternal side of the family in Batesville. They are a very, very close family. They adore her and are always going to support her … But I think everybody is disappointed that there’s not more contact [with the Biden family].
Hunter Biden’s love child snubbed again in White House stocking display
“It’s not lost on anybody that Jill Biden wrote a children’s book and [dedicated it] to her grandchildren,” the lawyer went on. “She could have kept it at that, but she named every child except Navy.
“They hung stockings for the dog at Christmas but not for Navy. That is one of the saddest things.”
They should not be sad. Navy will be a lot better off in the long run if people forget who her daddy is.
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All sorts of advantages to not being close to that family.. Now Navy can be picked up at school instead of having to walk 200 feet away. Don't have to share a chair. Gets the shower to herself.
[GIZMADO] Investigators are currently racing against time to find the Titan, a small commercial submarine that went missing in the North Atlantic on Sunday with five people aboard. Now, new reporting reveals that the company behind the ill-fated underwater tour previously fired an employee after he expressed concern over the safety of the missing vehicle’s design.
OceanGate Expeditions, which charters insanely expensive aquatic trips like the one that went awry this weekend, was previously the subject of a lawsuit involving its former director of marine operations. The exec in question, David Lochridge, lost his job at the company in January of 2018 after he delivered a "scathing" report to the company’s senior management that highlighted numerous safety concerns with its underwater vehicle, TechCrunch reports.
After his termination, OceanGate sued Lochridge, accusing the former executive of leaking confidential corporate information about its submarine. Consequently, Lochridge filed a compulsory counterclaim, alleging wrongful termination for having been a whistleblower regarding safety concerns.
To hear Lochridge tell it, the company’s top brass repeatedly ignored his efforts to draw attention to problems with Titan’s design—problems so serious that he felt they could "pose a safety risk to personnel" and to passengers.
Lochridge became actively concerned about these issues after he was instructed by management to conduct a quality inspection of the submersible. The inspection revealed "numerous issues that posed serious safety concerns," according to the lawsuit.
#4
Deep Thought on Old Age, by Apostle
Of Youth. "Take, for instance, John Stossel:
He's rusty and wrong
And annoys the young throng
Like an old submarine. What a fossil!"
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the transexual 
[AFRICANEWS] Fulgence Kayishema, accused of playing a major role in the genocide in Rwanda and arrested last month near Cape Town after 22 years on the run, is to seek asylum in South Africa, his lawyer announced on Tuesday.
