In the opening monologue of his talk show, Real Time Host Bill Maher suggested that disaster victims in Florida and Texas somehow don’t deserve the $15 billion in federal aid money being allocated for the cleanup efforts after Hurricane Harvey – and now Hurricane Irma – devastated their states and forced millions from their homes.
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Uh, oh. This isn't good for our local insurance outfits. The seawall is gone. Miami is now part of the ocean.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PXuwIHSgEY
BONUS: Here's a man trying to measure Irma's winds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NF6OSNKgLQ
Roof ripped off in Miami.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPaHrOJAg8s
Furious waves in inland Miami.
Comedian Stephen Colbert, host of the Late Show on CBS, twice flashed a Nazi salute on live television during a rant about US President Donald Trump earlier this week. During his first show after a two-week vacation, Colbert criticized Trump and his former chief strategist Steve Bannon, who resigned in mid-August.
Martin Shkreli is awaiting sentencing after being convicted on three out of eight counts of securities and wire fraud last month – charges that carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. In the meantime, with legal bills from his trial piling up, the former pharmaceutical company CEO, who was once reportedly worth as much as $100 million, has decided to sell the only available copy of “Once Upon A Time In Shaolin,” the Wu-Tang Clan album he purchased for $2 million back in 2015.
Once upon a time, Disney used to be the hedge fund world's media darling. Not today, however, when at the BofA Media Communications Conference in New York, Disney CEO Bob Iger slashed the company's outlook and said earnings in 2017 will be "roughly in line" with last year, sending the stock tumbling as much as 3.9%.