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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar reportedly stabbed multiple times in federal prison
It is often said that regular criminals don’t like those who prey on kids.
[DallasNews] Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar, who was convicted of sexually abusing female gymnasts, was stabbed multiple times during an altercation with another inmate at a federal prison in Florida.

Two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press the attack happened Sunday at United States Penitentiary Coleman in Florida. The people said he was in stable condition Monday.

One of the people said he had been stabbed in the back and in the chest.

The people were not authorized to publicly discuss details of the attack or the ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/10/2023 10:04 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The people were not authorized to publicly discuss details of the attack

That's alright. We pretty much understand the human dynamic involved.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/10/2023 10:25 Comments || Top||

#2  But he didn't kill himself. Yet. There's that...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/10/2023 10:54 Comments || Top||

#3  From Wikipedia: Former prisoner Nate A. Lindell wrote that USP Coleman II is "a so-called special-needs prison—a 'safe' facility where informants, former cops, ex-gang members, check-ins (prisoners who intentionally put themselves in solitary confinement to be safe), homosexuals, and sex offenders can all, supposedly, walk the Yard freely. At regular BOP lockups, these types of men are in danger of being beaten, stabbed, or killed."[
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/10/2023 10:57 Comments || Top||

#4  I thought Nassar had offered himself long ago. I guess Jared from Subway must be still sandwich artisting in the jug as well. You sort of forget about them.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/10/2023 12:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Dead Man Walking - law of the jungle.
Posted by: mossomo || 07/10/2023 12:43 Comments || Top||


Girl, 14, missing for two weeks is found at Camp Pendleton barracks after her family claimed the teen was sold to a Marine for sex as cops drag a suspect away from base in handcuffs
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A 14-year-old girl whose family claimed she was sold to a US Marine for sex has been found at Camp Pendleton in California two weeks after she went missing.
Which relative got the money?
The girl was first declared missing on June 13, four days after some relatives said she ran away from her grandmother's house. However, her aunt claims the teen had been sold into sex trafficking.

The teen was found at the San Diego area Marine base on June 28. Days later, a Marine was seen being led from the barracks in handcuffs.

'We can confirm that a Marine with Combat Logistics Battalion 5, 1st Marine Logistics Group was taken into custody for questioning by Naval Criminal Investigative Services on June 28, 2023, as seen on social media July 2, 2023,' Captain Chuck Palmer said. The name of the Marine taken into custody has not been released.

'The incident is under investigation, and we will continue to cooperate with NCIS and appropriate authorities,' he told NBC San Diego.

Palmer confirmed the Marine pictured in handcuffs was being detained and questioned about the missing girl.

The victim's grandmother told the authorities she had run away several times before but had always previously returned.

The girl's aunt, Casaundra Perez, told authorities her niece - who she says has learning disabilities - was sold to the Marine for sex.

She posted to her TikTok account on July 6, clearly nervous about what would happen to her as she feared retribution speaking out about what her niece had allegedly gone through.

'I would just like to preface this video, I did not kill myself, if I go missing or end up murdered the people potentially responsible could possibly be located here at Camp Pendleton,' she said.

She claimed the military tried to engage in a cover-up and that everyone at Camp Pendleton allowed the victimization of the 14-year-old.

'The security looked her in the face and allowed this man to bring a minor on to base where he then proceeded to have sex with her' Perez said.

'Due to her age, she could not have given this consent,' she added, then claiming someone referred to her family by the military told them the Marines were trying to keep the story from becoming public.

Perez added she will release the name of a 'military detective' she believes is behind the coverup if her attorney allows so she can get justice for her niece.

She reiterated as the video ended that she thinks the military will retaliate against her family.

Palmer said the Marine brought in for questioning has not been charged with a crime.

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service said its investigation is still ongoing, according to a statement.

'Out of respect for the investigative process, NCIS does not comment on, confirm details relating to, or confirm the existence of ongoing investigations,' a spokesperson said.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/10/2023 07:56 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:


#2  You can’t keep a kid in the barracks for two weeks and have nobody know.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/10/2023 11:23 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Base housing is more than just barracks. A lot of families live there in housing that looks pretty much like any other suburb. However...


'The security looked her in the face and allowed this man to bring a minor on to base where he then proceeded to have sex with her' Perez said.

If this is true I think some MPs have some explaining to do.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/10/2023 14:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Something fishy about this story
Posted by: Thomoth McGurque4145 || 07/10/2023 16:14 Comments || Top||


2 would-be Texas ATM robbers 'slipped the surly bonds of Earth'
[Blaze] Two would-be robbers allegedly attempted a stickup of a Texas man at an ATM in broad daylight. Little did they know it would be the last thing they ever did because the armed man shot both would-be thieves dead, police said.

Around 1 p.m. on July 7, a man in his 20s went to the ATM at a Chase Bank in the southside of San Antonio, Texas. While attempting to withdraw money at the drive-thru ATM the man said two people drove toward him. The two men were also in their 20s.

One individual got out of the car, and the alleged victim believed he was about to be robbed.

The man withdrawing money drew his gun and shot both men.

The suspected robbers both died in the parking lot, according to authorities.

San Antonio Police Department Chief William McManus said during a press conference, "It was a robbery that didn’t go well for the robbers."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/10/2023 01:26 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If this had happened in New York or California, he would have been charged with two counts of murder.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/10/2023 2:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Any bets that ATM robberies drop off drastically in TX the next few weeks. The JUSTIFIED Shooter has likely saved many lives and billfolds by his actions.

Anyone have any details about the Robbers?
Because the MEDIA sure isn't sharing any demographics or possible previous criminal histories.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/10/2023 5:54 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Anyone have any details about the Robbers?

Looked at a dozen on-line stories. Media release nearly identical in all 12. Same info, "2 men in their twenties." End of description. No names, no fotos.

Yes, I also call it news censorship.

In other news:

  • Uvalde shooter manifesto still not available to the public.

    "On May 24, 2022, a mass shooting occurred at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, United States, where 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, a former student at the school, fatally shot 19 students and two teachers, while 17 others were injured but survived."

  • Seth Rich Murder remains 'Cold Case.'

  • Owner of recently found White House cocaine remains a mystery.


  • Posted by: Besoeker || 07/10/2023 7:12 Comments || Top||

    #4  Fox 13 Tampa Bay - Sun City Center home invasion attempt.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 07/10/2023 7:52 Comments || Top||

    #5  If this had happened in New York or California, he would have been charged with two counts of murder.

    Or in Austin, Houston, etc.
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/10/2023 8:00 Comments || Top||

    #6  Two down, a bunch to go.
    Posted by: ed in texas || 07/10/2023 9:12 Comments || Top||

    #7  That wasn’t a pickle in his pocket and he wasn’t happy to see them.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 07/10/2023 11:16 Comments || Top||

    #8  Unlikely in Houston, we see this sort of thing every week. The prosecutors are too scared to do that since they know the grand jury or jury will not convict. Instead they concentrate on letting the criminals go, so a few dead ones they don't care about.
    Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/10/2023 12:25 Comments || Top||

    #9  Two less goblins in the world
    Posted by: DarthVader || 07/10/2023 15:21 Comments || Top||


    Rashad Trice charged for kidnapping, strangling ex's 2-year-old daughter to death with cellphone charger
    [NYPOST] A 2-year-old Michigan girl was kidnapped and strangled to death with a cellphone charger, according to the FBI.

    Rashad Trice, 26, was charged Friday with kidnapping and killing Wynter Cole Smith on Sunday. He was also charged with as well as sexually assaulting and stabbing the girl’s mother, Symari Cole, who is his ex-girlfriend, in a Lansing apartment that same day.

    Trice used a pink cellphone charging cord to strangle the toddler, whose body was found Wednesday evening in a alley in eastern bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
    ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
    , the FBI said.

    Pieces of the cellphone charger were found in Trice’s car after he was arrested, according to The Detroit News.

    The little girl disappeared after Trice allegedly attacked the mother, who then ran from the apartment, leaving her daughter and her 1-year-old son alone with Trice.

    Trice, who was not Smith’s biological father, then grabbed the tot and took off in Smith’s car, authorities said, prompting an Amber Alert to be issued early Monday morning when they could not be found.
    Satan puked.
    Posted by: Fred || 07/10/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


    Shooting in Cleveland, Ohio leaves 9 people injured; suspect on loose
    [GEO.TV] Police said Sunday morning that at least nine people suffered gunshot wounds in yet another mass shooting incident when an armed suspect started firing on a group of people and expeditiously departed at a goodly pace in Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone,
    ...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ...
    , Ohio.

    Cleveland Division of Police spokesperson Jennifer Ciaccia said that no deaths have been reported.

    "Preliminary information indicates that a suspect opened fire towards a group of people and then expeditiously departed at a goodly pace," Ciaccia said in a statement.

    The officers responded to the scene as they were nearby working a weekly detail around 2:30am to West 6th Street and Johnson Court for a report of multiple people shot, the statement said.

    Police "arrived quickly" and provided medical aid on the scene to the injured people.

    "Investigators are in the process of reviewing evidence and video, as well as interviewing victims at MetroHealth Medical Center," Ciaccia’s statement said, adding that "no additional information was immediately available."

    The shooting comes just days after a series of fatal shootings that occurred during the Fourth of July celebration in Shreveport, Louisiana, leaving at least four people dead with multiple injured.

    According to Shreveport Police Lt. Van Ray, two bodies were found when authorities arrived and a third person died at a hospital.

    Local Councilwoman Tabatha Taylor also expressed about the Shreveport shooting telling news hounds that she was "livid" and the shooting was "catastrophic, at best".

    "Now we are the victim of a mass shooting in our community simply because individuals decided to come in and disrupt a good time that individuals were having," she said.

    "A family event that has gone on for years in our community has been disrupted by gunfire because somebody decided to pull their guns and do this. Why, why? My other choice words cannot be articulated on camera."

    There have been no arrests and the police have not yet identified the shooters.

    Posted by: Fred || 07/10/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Since there seem to be no descriptions of the shooters we can make a good guess…
    Posted by: Glenmore || 07/10/2023 0:42 Comments || Top||

    #2  Was that story about Cleveland or Shreveport?
    Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/10/2023 8:12 Comments || Top||

    #3  Cleveland has post-Katrina gulf city aspirations.
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/10/2023 8:51 Comments || Top||

    #4  9 cases of attempted murder with no success. The Galactic Empire has a white plastic body suit in your size.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 07/10/2023 11:00 Comments || Top||

    #5 
    #4 9 cases of attempted murder with no success. The Galactic Empire has a white plastic body suit in your size.
    Posted by: Super Hose 2023-07-10 11:00


    ...SH,

    In fairness, it's Cleveland - enthusiasm and accuracy are often mutually exclusive.

    Mike
    Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 07/10/2023 15:26 Comments || Top||

    #6  Even though he was safety director, Cleveland could use Elliot Ness about now.
    Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/10/2023 16:34 Comments || Top||


    Scooter-riding gunman shoots 4 in Queens, kills 87-year-old man: NYPD
    [NYPOST] A scooter-riding gunman shot four people in Brooklyn and Queens early Saturday, killing an elderly man and leaving three others hurt in a span of 12 minutes before he was taken into custody, police said.

    The 25-year-old shooter was on an illegal scooter at Ashford Avenue and Arlington Avenue in East New York when he drove up behind a 21-year-old man and shot him in the shoulder, Assistant Chief of Detectives Joe Kenny said.

    Then, 17 minutes later at 11:27 a.m., the shooter fired one bullet into the back of an Asian man, 87, at 108th Street and Jamaica Avenue in Queens, Kenny said. He was rushed to nearby Jamaica Hospital but couldn’t be saved.

    Roughly eight minutes later, another man, 44, was shot in the face at 11:35 a.m. at Hillside Avenue and 126th Street. The bullet lodged in his cheek and he was taken to Jamaica Hospital at death's door, police said.

    A couple minutes later, at 11:37 a.m. a 63-year-old Hispanic man was shot in the shoulder at 134th Street and Jamaica Avenue. He was in stable, pH balanced condition.

    The shooter, whom a source described as "extremely emotionally disturbed,"
    ...yet another crazed mass killer? Not surprising in today’s NYC...
    was taken into custody nearby at 1:10 p.m. Once source said the gunman had a .9-mm firearm with an extended clip of ammunition.

    Charges against him were pending.
    “They charged him with mentally ill and dangerous, Sarge, so we hadda throw him back to do it again. It’s his Constitooshional Right ta be cuckoo, donchaknow.”

    Posted by: Fred || 07/10/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:


    #2  How does a .9 mm projectile even hurt anyone? Even a lethal injection needle is bigger...
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/10/2023 8:10 Comments || Top||

    #3  ^^ Head or heart shot.
    Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/10/2023 8:33 Comments || Top||

    #4  I am disturbed by his mix of green and purple. Maybe he is the last Hartford Whalers fan.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 07/10/2023 9:32 Comments || Top||

    #5  ^ Come on, man! It's only a decimal point. Let us not quibble!
    Posted by: SteveS || 07/10/2023 9:40 Comments || Top||

    #6  A .45 caliber mm would have been better.
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/10/2023 9:42 Comments || Top||

    #7  .9 mm 'cuz it wuz a “a ghost gun,” the source said. The gun has “no serial numbers on it and is unregistered”

    Ghost guns are more deadly, everyone knows that!
    Posted by: Bobby || 07/10/2023 16:11 Comments || Top||


    -Great Cultural Revolution
    More than 100 are charged, including 81 children, as SF skateboarding event erupts into massive melee with minors destroying a light-rail vehicle and yelling 'F*** the police' as riot cops crackdown on annual gathering
    [DM]
    • San Francisco police shut down an annual illegal skateboarding event that erupted into chaos - arresting 32 adults and citing 81 minors in the Mission District July 8

    • Hundreds gathered near Dolores Street to take part in the 'Dolores Hill Bomb' - a popular annual skateboarding event where people ride down a large hill

    • Officers issued a mass arrest of the crowd at 8.35 pm the majority were minors - cops seized multiple firearms, unignited fireworks and narcotics paraphernalia

    • The Harvey Milk Democratic Club was critical of the police response
    Posted by: Skidmark || 07/10/2023 08:04 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Seems like some lengths of chain rigged properly might have done the needed jobs without nearly as many SWAT officers.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 07/10/2023 12:23 Comments || Top||

    #2  SWAT shows up to arrest of under age skateboarders... like how cops kill Golden Retrievers in front of their owners. FTP cops look for the easy marks.
    Posted by: mossomo || 07/10/2023 12:40 Comments || Top||

    #3  A most appropriate graphic.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 07/10/2023 13:45 Comments || Top||

    #4  "...will not be tolerated". BS, it's an annual event. You tolerate it. Must say, very disappointed. Back in 70s Santa Rosa we had Hewlett-Packard Hill, n the cops would clock us and issue tickets accordingly. But that was our gig n we didn't issue invites. Any parent who brought their child to participate in that should get a CPS visit.
    Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/10/2023 15:28 Comments || Top||


    Transgender woman is crowned Miss Netherlands for the first time in the beauty pageant's history and will now compete for the Miss Universe crown
    Because men are better at being women than women are?
    Because judges from the Nether Lands are less able to discern vital, distinguishing female traits?
    [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A woman has been crowned Miss Netherlands for the first time in the beauty pageant's history and is now set to compete for the Miss Universe crown.

    Rikkie Valerie Kolle, 22, made history after she won the competition in the country on Sunday.

    The new Miss Netherlands wore a red gown as she was overcome by emotion while receiving her crown from her predecessor Ona Moody and reigning Miss Universe R'Bonney Gabriel from the USA.

    The model stood victorious with a bouquet of flowers while her competitors applauded. She later took to to exclaim 'I DID IT!'

    Miss Universe 2023 will be held in El Salvador in December, although an exact date has not yet been confirmed, and will see contestants from 24 countries battle it out to claim the title.

    The star will be the second transgender woman ever to compete in Miss Universe.

    In 2018 Angela Ponce from Spain became the first trans woman to compete for the acclaimed Miss Universe title.

    She told NBC at the time that she 'never could have imagined' that she would make it to the final stage.

    Transgender contestants have been able to compete for the crown since 2012.

    Thai businesswoman and advocate Anne Jakrajutatip, who bought the Miss Universe organisation in October 2022, also identifies as transgender.

    The pageant system was previously owned by former US president Donald Trump.

    Ms Jakrajutatip has promised to continue the pageant's legacy of women empowerment and 'evolve the brand for the next generation.'

    And earlier this year Daniela Arroyo González, who is openly transgender, was selected to compete in the Puerto Rico competition.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 07/10/2023 00:22 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Judging by his looks the competition must have been awful.
    Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/10/2023 9:48 Comments || Top||

    #2  I blame legal pot.
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/10/2023 10:04 Comments || Top||

    #3  Because judges from the Nether Lands are less able to discern vital, distinguishing female traits?

    Which apparently would still qualify them for a job on SCOTUS like our recent AA hire.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/10/2023 10:45 Comments || Top||

    #4  Well, "I can't define it, but I know it when I see it" is a famous SCROTUS alumnus declaration.
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/10/2023 10:52 Comments || Top||

    #5  Hopefully, the second place prize included a significant amount of counseling.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 07/10/2023 11:08 Comments || Top||

    #6  As has been mentioned before, it's observed that the real females who lost out are just giddy about losing to a male. In fact, most women in general seem ok with this, as in, very few are up to rocking the sisterhoods boat. Hard to muster up even a few Fs for such a crowd.
    Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/10/2023 12:47 Comments || Top||

    #7  the real females who lost out are just giddy about losing to a male.

    If you want to compete there, you have to make the right noises. There are career benefits for those who place well, even if they don’t go all the way. Remember, the owner is also a fake female.
    Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2023 13:25 Comments || Top||

    #8  I question the sanity of anyone that tuned in. It is not even original. Rip Torn did a better parade of a beauty contest for $1.98.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 07/10/2023 14:03 Comments || Top||

    #9  Obviously the Netherlands didn't explore "her" nether regions.
    Posted by: European Conservative || 07/10/2023 15:42 Comments || Top||

    #10  Let's stick to calling the Netherlands "Holland", o.k?
    Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/10/2023 16:35 Comments || Top||

    #11  ^^ Then who are the Dutch?

    George Costanza
    Posted by: Beavis || 07/10/2023 20:51 Comments || Top||


    -Short Attention Span Theater-
    Multiple people have died after attempting boat jumping challenge on TikTok
    [Today] At least four people have died in Alabama attempting a dangerous TikTok challenge where people leap off of moving boats and hit the water, officials said.

    Capt. Jim Dennis of the Childersburg Rescue Squad told NBC News the four people died in the state over the past six months after jumping out of boats.

    "The four that we responded to when they jumped out of the boat, they literally broke their neck and, you know, basically an instant death," Dennis said.

    The TikTok stunt is not new, with videos posted of people jumping out of moving boats since 2020, but more people are trying the challenge as they're out on the water during the summer months.

    Experts emphasized the dangers of attempting the challenge on TODAY.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 07/10/2023 14:03 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  idiots get killed everday doing stupid shit, tik tok has just sped up darwins work.
    Posted by: Chris || 07/10/2023 14:09 Comments || Top||

    #2  Darwin white courtesy phone, Darwin white courtesy phone.
    Posted by: DarthVader || 07/10/2023 14:32 Comments || Top||

    #3  This is why I love tik tok. By weeding out the weak end of the gene pool, the CCP is actually improving our long term prospects.
    Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/10/2023 15:40 Comments || Top||

    #4  "The four that we responded to when they jumped out of the boat, they literally broke their neck and, you know, basically an instant death,"

    The next TikTok challenge, repelling with the rope around your neck.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/10/2023 15:44 Comments || Top||


    -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
    Bud Light no longer among 10 most 'liked' beers in US: survey
    [NYPOST] Bud Light is no longer among the nation’s 10 most popular beer brands following its ill-fated 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...
    , according to a survey.

    Bud Light, which was tied for ninth-most popular last year, is currently tied for 14th-most popular, according to the YouGov survey, which was first cited by Newsweek.

    The poll taken in the second quarter of 2022 found that 42% of Americans "liked" Bud Light, putting the brand on par with the likes of Corona Extra, Dos Equis and Coors Light, according to Newsweek.

    In the second quarter of this year, the percentage of those who "liked" Bud Light stayed the same, but other brands such as Pabst Blue Ribbon, Miller Genuine Draft and Miller Lite vaulted ahead.

    Guinness, Heineken, Corona, Samuel Adams and Blue Moon were the top five most-liked beers in the US, according to the survey.

    Posted by: Fred || 07/10/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  No idea why it ever was…
    Posted by: Glenmore || 07/10/2023 0:38 Comments || Top||

    #2  ...the power of advertising/propaganda tagged with both the bandwagon effect and 'just good enough' to not encourage looking elsewhere.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/10/2023 7:37 Comments || Top||

    #3  Didn't really take that long.
    A good illustration of how strongly we are influenced by marketing in our daily lives.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 07/10/2023 7:46 Comments || Top||

    #4  The surly unwillingness of the proles to worship the latest progressive victim group is surely causing some ugly hatred in the secret meetings.
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/10/2023 8:05 Comments || Top||

    #5  causing some ugly hatred in the secret meetings

    We can but hope.

    Now MLB legend Ken Griffey Jr is caught up in Bud Light scandal as critics pile on over beer firm's Father's Day merchandise tie up
    Posted by: Skidmark || 07/10/2023 8:07 Comments || Top||

    #6  I want to see the corresponding disliked list to see if King Cobra is there.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 07/10/2023 11:05 Comments || Top||

    #7  OK...and where were they during actual Father's Day?

    Kelce's appearance in the advert was also met with backlash, with one commenter slamming him for being a 'sell out'. 'Not rooting for Kelce again

    He wasn't drinking Woke Light during the golf special.

    The Ace Ventura looking dude in the sidebar..ugh. Quit it with the pronoun tickling.
    Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/10/2023 11:53 Comments || Top||

    #8  On a positive note, Bud Light came in at #1 in a survey on "Beers I would never drink again even on a dare".
    Posted by: SteveS || 07/10/2023 12:51 Comments || Top||

    #9  ...The Bee
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/10/2023 15:57 Comments || Top||


    Africa Horn
    Somaliland military accused of shelling Las Anod, north of Somalia
    [Garowe] The Somaliland army has yet again been dragged into controversy as fighting in Las Anod city escalates, with both parties involved in the conflict refusing to take responsibility for skirmishes that have grounded economic activities in the northern state of Somalia.

    For over five months, Las Anod has been the epicenter of violence in Somalia, with local militia SSC-Khatumo pushing to have Sool and Sanag regions governed from Mogadishu instead of Hargeisa, the regional administrative capital of the breakaway region of Somaliland. The militia is embroiled in a tussle with the Somaliland army.

    On Saturday, reports indicate, SSC-Khatumo forces accused the Somaliland military of shelling Las Anod "indiscriminately", from East and North, targeting mosque, hospital, and civilian buildings as fighting erupted in the West of the city, leading to questions about the safety of critical infrastructure and civilians.

    Several people, including medical workers, were maimed in the bombardment, sources said. This comes days after Gen Taani, the commander of the Somaliland army threatened to launch an all-out offensive against the city which has been under SSC since the start of 2023.

    Hargeisa has repeatedly accused Puntland
    ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
    of sending reinforcement of troops to Las Anod, arguing that Garowe is directly involved in the conflict by dispatching soldiers. However,
    a woman is only as old as she admits...
    Puntland has periodically denied the claims while threatening to join forces with SSC-Khatumo.

    Last week, Somaliland threatened to open operations in Las Anod, arguing that United Arab Emirates-trained Puntland Marine Police Force [PMPF] was in Las Anod initiating operations. Previously, Hargeisa had also linked US-trained Danab Special Forces, but the government of Somalia was quick to absolve them of any wrongdoing.

    Somaliland has been fighting to control the region but locals have often insisted that they are comfortable with Mogadishu. Somaliland declared self-independence in 1991 but efforts to push for international recognition have never been futile with the world pushing for a single Somali policy in all aspects.
    Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:


    Great White North
    Canadian special needs teacher had.... 'special needs'
    [Blaze] A Canadian special needs teacher has been fired from her job after the school district discovered her racy OnlyFans account. The teacher claimed that she began posting adult content for money because she doesn't receive a "livable wage."

    Since 2015 Kristin MacDonald had been a teaching assistant at Terry Fox Secondary School in Port Coquitlam in British Columbia, Canada. While working as a teacher, she started an OnlyFans account under the stage name "Ava James." The 35-year-old teacher posted adult content on her OnlyFans page.

    At some point, the school district discovered her OnlyFans content. On April 28, MacDonald received an email from School District 43 ordering her to deactivate all of her accounts related to "Ava James." The email reportedly stated that she risked termination if she failed to deactivate her OnlyFans, Instagram, and TikTok with her Ava James persona.

    MacDonald refused to comply with the school district's demands.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 07/10/2023 01:33 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Have to wonder who on that school board uses OnlyFans also?
    Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/10/2023 4:08 Comments || Top||

    #2  People who would pay to see that nekkid do indeed fit the "special needs" descriptor...
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/10/2023 7:16 Comments || Top||

    #3  She's got a mouth like a grouper
    Posted by: Frank G || 07/10/2023 7:24 Comments || Top||

    #4  The "duck lips" are as big a turn-off as face tattoos, nose and lip hardware or the grotesquely oversized ass, but the women keep aspiring to that look.
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/10/2023 8:07 Comments || Top||

    #5  I'm with you Murcek, that shit is not attractive at all.
    Posted by: Chris || 07/10/2023 8:48 Comments || Top||

    #6  Oh, it's "attractive" to someone, or so they are told by the "fashion media."

    As Mark Twain said in the Star Trek TNG episode, "That increasingly hypothetical someone wouldn't be me..."
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/10/2023 8:56 Comments || Top||

    #7  Well, Ive always heard that anyone can get fucked by someone
    Posted by: Chris || 07/10/2023 11:07 Comments || Top||

    #8  One can easily see that a teacher aide salary could not possibly cover the costs of surgery and silicone to achieve that result. Around here they make a little above minimum wage for a part-time job — but given that it’s basically unskilled labour by housewives who want to get out of the house, there’s no reason to pay more.
    Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2023 11:18 Comments || Top||

    #9  #7 any visit to Wally's Mart* will validate that observation. * offer not available in Chicago.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/10/2023 13:38 Comments || Top||

    #10  Please, teaching assistant, don't twitch
    As you scratch my unnatural itch!
    [places video call
    to inanimate doll
    getting rich in unusual niche]
    Posted by: Phish the Full Bosomed4775 || 07/10/2023 17:28 Comments || Top||

    #11  #4 Weird, right - that such infantilism is treated as hard currency within the sisterhood? Not judging - just observing.
    Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/10/2023 17:55 Comments || Top||


    Home Front: Politix
    "I'm Wondering What's Going On with Your Campaign?… What Happened?" – Maria Bartiromo Corners Ron DeSantis in Sunday Interview (VIDEO)
    [Gateway] Governor Ron DeSantis joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunder Morning Futures this morning.

    Maria did not hesitate to ask the hard questions. Maria cornered Governor DeSantis on his stalled out campaign. DeSantis has failed to put a dent in President Trump’s huge lead in the GOP presidential primary.

    Governor DeSantis dismissed claims of a stalled campaign, attributing them to media narratives that seek to undermine his candidacy.

    "I’m wondering what’s going on with your campaign? There was a lot of optimism about you running for president earlier in the year, but here’s this weekend’s headline from the Politico playbook, "FAILURE TO LAUNCH — Florida Gov. RON DeSANTIS’ campaign to topple DONALD TRUMP has stalled." We are way behind, says a top DeSantis PAC official, sounding the alarm. What happened?" asked Maria Bartiromo.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 07/10/2023 01:41 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  'Stalled campaign' is it ?
    Posted by: Besoeker || 07/10/2023 1:47 Comments || Top||

    #2  What happen was he did what most front runners do and take the support of the establishment. Trump made the same mistake when selecting his cabinet. The two most popular candidates and the two least liked by their party leaders are Trump and Kennedy.
    Posted by: Airandee || 07/10/2023 5:02 Comments || Top||

    #3  Like Scott Walker before him. Someone who would likely do a great job but didn't understand how to win at the national level.
    Posted by: no mo uro || 07/10/2023 5:44 Comments || Top||

    #4  Yes, the "secret sauce" of leadership vibes cannot be bought with campaign contributions. Walker was an apt comparison, very successful at the state level, but that was his ceiling.
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/10/2023 7:08 Comments || Top||

    #5  I haven't met one Floridian yet who wants him to run for president and would rather have him stay in Flaw-id-a.

    I think that wouldn't be a bad idea.
    Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/10/2023 7:17 Comments || Top||

    #6  I think he is a good guy. I worry that the guys pushing him forward are the guys I want gone.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 07/10/2023 11:18 Comments || Top||

    #7  The man is not a gifted orator. The more DeSantis engages, the less he is like. Often he sounds like he is reading off an Anchorman Script.
    Posted by: mossomo || 07/10/2023 12:51 Comments || Top||

    #8  The fact the Trump is so reviled by the media and persecuted by DoJ is exactly what makes me want to vote for him. I said it when he first ran in 2016: He is pissing off all the right people. DeSantis is good at pissing off the Pride people but he has yet to be vilified and persecuted at anywhere near the same level as Trump.
    Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/10/2023 14:21 Comments || Top||

    #9  I think he is a good guy. I worry that the guys pushing him forward are the guys I want gone.

    Pretty good summation there. For me, an endorsement by Karl Rove is a big problem.
    Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/10/2023 14:28 Comments || Top||

    #10  We have a problem with unelected officials subverting the Constitution. DeSantis would reverse many of Biden’s policies. That would be great, but we need someone turning over tables and cleaning house. Certainly, Trump did not do that the first go round, but a Karl Rove guy is definitely not going to do that.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 07/10/2023 16:40 Comments || Top||

    #11  I think it would be fun to have a Kennedy-Kennedy ticket as a bi-partisan independent party- Louisiana Sen. John and Bobby Jr.
    Posted by: Glenmore || 07/10/2023 18:11 Comments || Top||


    India-Pakistan
    Seven dead, over a dozen injured in Jhelum gas cylinder blast
    [GEO.TV] At least seven people died and 15 others sustained injuries when a three-storey building collapsed due to a powerful gas cylinder explosion in Jhelum on Sunday.

    The three-storey hotel located on the Grand Trunk Road in Punjab’s Jhelum collapsed after a cylinder went kaboom! in the kitchen.

    Rescue officials said that as many as 15 injured have been recovered and shifted to the Jhelum District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital. Two of the injured — who were at death's door — have been transported to Rawalpindi, they added.

    District Emergency Officer (DEO) Saeed Ahmen said that the first and second storeys of the building have been cleared.

    Taking to Twitter, the Jhelum police earlier said that all available resources are being utilised to rescue the lives of the people trapped under the debris of the building.

    Sharing a video of the rescue operation, the police said that the building debris was being removed with the help of heavy machinery.

    Posted by: Fred || 07/10/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:


    Olde Tyme Religion
    Angus talks about Scottish Preacher Peter Marshall and Faith (You Tube)
    Posted by: Besoeker || 07/10/2023 08:52 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


    Science & Technology
    Archaeologists unearth giant prehistoric hand axes, scientists baffled as to why 300,000-year-old tools are so large
    [BLAZE] Archaeologists recently unearthed giant prehistoric hand axes in England. Scientists are bewildered at the sheer size of the 300,000-year-old tools and are not positive how humans from the Ice Age used the giant hand axes.

    Researchers from University College London discovered the giant hand axes in Ice Age sediments in an ancient river channel in the Medway Valley in southeastern England. The hand axes were found among 800 artifacts buried on a hillside in Frindsbury, Kent. The artifacts were found in the excavation site at Manor Farm that began in 2021. The ancient artifacts are believed to be from the Middle Pleistocene age.

    The giant hand axes were crafted from flint stone and measure more than a foot long from tip to butt, plus have very thick bases. Scientists are baffled as to how prehistoric humans were able to use the large stone tools.

    "We describe these tools as 'giants' when they are over 22cm long and we have two in this size range," senior archaeologist Letty Ingrey of the University College London Institute of Archeology said in a press release. Ingrey said one of the hand axes is the "longest ever found in Britain."

    "These hand axes are so big it’s difficult to imagine how they could have been easily held and used," Ingrey added. "Perhaps they fulfilled a less practical or more symbolic function than other tools, a clear demonstration of strength and skill."
    Posted by: Besoeker || 07/10/2023 01:13 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Maybe the stuff they were chopping up needed larger tools so they wouldn't break, like mammoths and such.
    Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/10/2023 8:30 Comments || Top||

    #2  Manufactured for export to Texas ?
    Posted by: Besoeker || 07/10/2023 8:34 Comments || Top||

    #3  Scientists are baffled as to how prehistoric humans were able to use the large stone tools.

    Says something about 'scientists'.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 07/10/2023 8:38 Comments || Top||

    #4  measure more than a foot long from tip to butt, plus have very thick bases

    Puhleeez!
    Posted by: Frank G || 07/10/2023 8:45 Comments || Top||


    #6  Owwwwww!
    Posted by: Frank G || 07/10/2023 9:45 Comments || Top||

    #7  baffled scientists seem to be seen in large numbers these days.

    I'm sure it was a paleolithic attempt to slow global warming.
    Posted by: AlanC || 07/10/2023 10:14 Comments || Top||

    #8  The Binford 1?
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/10/2023 10:43 Comments || Top||

    #9  For executing people that cannot province the word “ask.”
    Posted by: Super Hose || 07/10/2023 11:13 Comments || Top||

    #10  Nephilim.
    Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/10/2023 14:32 Comments || Top||

    #11  Theory 1 - Nephilim as Offspring of Fallen Angels and Human Women

    Ancient Astronaut theorists would contend that the beings Biblical scholars call "fallen angels" were in fact extraterrestrials. One of the few descriptions we have of life before the Great Flood is in the Book of Enoch, supposedly written by Noah's grandfather, in which the fallen angels are discussed.
    Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/10/2023 14:42 Comments || Top||

    #12  I suspect it's, "Hey dude, look how big I made an ax!" "Oh yeah, watch this!"
    Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/10/2023 15:24 Comments || Top||

    #13  It was a dick axe measuring contest.
    Posted by: DarthVader || 07/10/2023 15:27 Comments || Top||

    #14  "Giant", a whole 12 inches in length?
    "...archaeologist Letty Ingrey of the University College London Institute of Archeology... Ingrey said one of the hand axes is the "longest ever found in Britain." So many things best left unsaid....
    Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/10/2023 15:55 Comments || Top||

    #15 
    Posted by: Tharong Unoluque9060 || 07/10/2023 18:34 Comments || Top||

    #16  Maybe it was the big Ax that the caveman put outside of the Ax Depot cave to attract customers
    Posted by: Airandee || 07/10/2023 19:55 Comments || Top||


    Syria-Lebanon-Iran
    Iran soccer boss says women can attend top league games
    [IsraelTimes] Women in Iran, who have long been barred from attending soccer matches except for rare occasions, will be allowed into stadiums during the upcoming season, a top official says.

    "This year, one of the prominent features of this league... is that we will witness the entry of women into stadiums," says Mehdi Taj, head of Iran’s Football Federation.

    He speaks during a live broadcast of the draw ceremony for the upcoming season of Iran’s top-level soccer league. The 16-team tournament is set to begin next month.

    Iran
    ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
    has largely barred female spectators from soccer and other sports stadiums since the Islamic revolution of 1979, despite no law banning their participation.

    Clerics, who play a major role in decision-making in Iran, have argued that women must be shielded from the masculine atmosphere and sight of semi-clad male athletes.

    Some officials have blamed lacking infrastructure in sports facilities.

    Taj says some stadiums in the cities of Isfahan, Kerman and Ahvaz — but not the capital Tehran — are "ready" to host women.

    In August, women were allowed for the first time in years to attend a national soccer championship match, when Tehran club Esteghlal took on Mes Kerman.

    In another rare instance in October 2019, some 4,000 women were allowed to attend Iran’s 2022 World Cup qualifier against Cambodia at Tehran’s Azadi Stadium.

    Iran has faced mounting pressure to allow women into matches after the 2019 death of soccer fan Sahar Khodayari, who set herself on fire for fear of being placed in durance vile
    Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
    after trying to attend a match disguised as a man.

    Khodayari became known as the "blue girl" after the colors of her favorite team, Esteghlal.
    Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

    #1  I think we should refer this entire issue to our favorite activist Megan for her immediate action.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 07/10/2023 9:41 Comments || Top||



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