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2025-01-07 
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Sarkozy in the dock: former French president faces corruption charges over 'suitcases of cash from Gaddafi', sensational claims set to reignite interest around the world
Tuesday 01/07/2025

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Rocket volley from Gaza lightly
damages Sderot home as attacks surge 		Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Police, Shin Bet arrest four minors on suspicion of involvement with attacks on Israeli forces in West Bank
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Top US diplomat visits Israel to expedite probes into Palestinian Americans killed by IDF in West Bank
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Two Druze rebel groups say they're
ready to join new Syrian national army
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US shifts some military aid
to Lebanon from Egypt, letter says 		Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israeli FM gave 'positive guarantees'
to Syrian Kurds in phone call: Rojava media
Feral hogs terrorizing Texas town, infuriating
locals: 'I can't go out there and start blasting'

Posted by Fred 2025-01-07 12:49|| || Front Page|| [11150 views ]  Top

#1 At first I misread one headline here as "Feral frogs terrorizing Texas town" and found that reading truly terrorizing.
Posted by Elmaper+McGurque1612 2025-01-07 02:42||   2025-01-07 02:42|| Front Page Top

#2 I thought the switch to GA was going to talk about Democrats.
Posted by alanc 2025-01-07 10:15||   2025-01-07 10:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Guarantee there's some shrieking harpies in that bunch.
Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-07 11:08||   2025-01-07 11:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Not a looker in the bunch.
Posted by Crusader 2025-01-07 13:00||   2025-01-07 13:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Now for something completely different, from Ace of Spades yesterday-watch the video to the end-truly heartwarming display:
"The Hershey Bears have once again established a new hockey record, collecting 102,343 stuffed toys during Sunday’s annual Teddy Bear Toss.
This surpasses the club’s previous hockey world record of 74,599 collected in 2024.

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As part of the club’s Hershey Bears Cares initiative, which showcases the philanthropic activities and volunteer efforts of Bears players and staff members throughout the community, teddy bears and stuffed animals are collected and donated to more than 35 local and regional organizations. Additionally, the Sweigart Family Foundation has pledged to donate a sum to the Children’s Miracle Network that will match the number of stuffed animals thrown on the ice.

Hershey’s annual Teddy Bear Toss has collected more than 566,000 stuffed toys since its inception in 2001."

https://x.com/i/status/1876007375225626856
Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-01-07 14:46||   2025-01-07 14:46|| Front Page Top

#6 some seriously ugly feet, too
Posted by Dino Whomoting4294 2025-01-07 14:50||   2025-01-07 14:50|| Front Page Top

#7 #4 Not a looker in the bunch.

That's criterion three.

The first two criteria are

1. Warm

2 Willing

Posted by badanov 2025-01-07 15:04||   2025-01-07 15:04|| Front Page Top

#8 at first I misread one headline here as "Feral frogs terrorizing Texas town" and found that reading truly terrorizing.

Hell Comes to Frogtown.
Posted by swksvolFF 2025-01-07 16:17||   2025-01-07 16:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Off topic but big news in California...Palisades Wildfire Threatens School, Homes in Los Angeles

Pacific Palisades under mandatory evacuation order but the roads are impassable so it's either shelter-in-place or walk out and the smoke is making it hard for people to breath. Big, expensive homes are burning. Life in southern California.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-01-07 17:35||   2025-01-07 17:35|| Front Page Top

#10 100 mph winds are nothing to smirk about. Embers catch miles away. Powerlines are shut down to stop fires. If you think that's funny you can fuck right off
Posted by Frank G 2025-01-07 19:12||   2025-01-07 19:12|| Front Page Top

#11 From shorpy.com:

If you put five male celebrities in drag, the results would be, from left to right:

1. Lyle Lovett
2. Michael J. Pollard
3. Vic Morrow
4. George Harrison
5. Gary Sinise
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2025-01-07 19:56||   2025-01-07 19:56|| Front Page Top

#12 "On Broadway in your elite city Diddie Wa Diddie,
The feets on the street are all pretty
With hardly a bunion,
The kids can quote Runyon,
And Steven and Jimmy are witty!"

Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2025-01-07 20:26||   2025-01-07 20:26|| Front Page Top

#13 100 mph winds are nothing to smirk about. Embers catch miles away. Powerlines are shut down to stop fires. If you think that's funny you can fuck right off

No it isn't funny. We get 50mph with 80+gusts regularly, during the Summer especially. Whatever moisture is in the air disappears, downwind turns into a kiln, houses turn into billows, thermals throw burning branches into the air then get blown downwind behind any entrenchments, fire vortex 'tornadoes' throwing burning heavy objects way up in the air to be carried. I watched a cut wheat field catch so fast I couldn't see the flames, just the the discoloration like a demon shadow racing at open highway speeds...then our engine choked out. Another time one of our team got caught and had to drive the road using their phone map; that particular we lost 300 THOUSEND acres in 24 hours - the State of Delaware is like 160,000 acres. Cattle Country, very gross, smelling it as I type. People ducking into cow water tanks popping up for air and getting burned.
Posted by swksvolFF 2025-01-07 20:51||   2025-01-07 20:51|| Front Page Top

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