[MAMBA] Beloftebos, in the Western Cape, continues to defy the law and constitution and has again humiliated another same-sex couple by refusing to host their wedding.
When Sasha-Lee Heekes, 24, a content writer, and Megan Watling, 25, a trainee accountant, got engaged in December last year, they were excited to start planning their dream wedding.
Despite being a couple of seven years, the engagement also represented their coming out to the broader world. “We had read horror stories of homophobic attacks and we did not want our love to be attacked,” Heekes told MambaOnline. “We have grown so much as people since we were together as teenagers. We finally felt ready and strong enough to take on whatever the world had to throw at us.”
After a recommendation from a family friend, the young couple went to the website of Beloftebos, a wedding venue in the town of Stanford. They were excited by what they saw, believing that it would be perfect to host their “forest fairy tale” wedding in April next year.
After filling out the online enquiry form on 7 January, they were met with silence. After a follow-up call and email, they finally received a response from Beloftebos owner Coia de Villiers.
De Villiers told the women that she could not allow their wedding at the venue because “based on our personal beliefs, we do not host weddings between couples of the same gender.”
She referred them to a statement on the Beloftebos website that elaborated on the Christian owners’ views on same-sex marriage. The statement affirms that their “Biblical conviction is that marriage is reserved for a life-long commitment between one man and one woman.”
Skipping down to "swallowing bitter pill."
“It has been a difficult pill to swallow, but we are so in love and so excited to get married,” says Heekes. “We have also received so much love and support – from people that we don’t even know – and it has just reminded us the importance of us continuing to live authentically and to do our part wherever we can to make the world a more tolerant and accepting place for the LGBTQIA+ community.”
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the venue CONTINUES to defy the law. They knew they were going to get turned down that's why they chose the place. Looking for attention and something to bitch about.
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Me too! However (lowering the tone... it's what I do):
Tail K., the anonymous slummer,
Down Park St. in shirt sleeves, then -- bummer! --
Upon crossing Tremont
The weather's inclement
Till Washington ushers in Summer!
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So glad I canceled nutfux last year. In their "why are you leaving?" questionnaire I said "Your lousy politics."
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Guessed that one; on to the next round. What will Minx & Lena's first production be titled?
a) "Climate Justice For Girls"
b) "Climb it, Girlz!!"
c) "Just us (girls - no trannies here)"
d) "She Shtups To Conquer"
e) "Gone With The Titanic"
Personally I think d) is most appropriate but a) seems like the safest bet.
#3
Fiduciary responsibility needs to be made into law after so many CEOs have used corporate monies for their personal social stage antics. By issuing a gazillion stocks, management insures they can never really be held accountable by any stockholder.
#4
Fiduciary responsibility needs to be made into law after so many CEOs have used corporate monies for their personal social stage antics.
Yup - this contract (and Obama's) looks like they're just pissing money out the window. Excellent sell signal or time to take a small short position. The next TSLA just might be right there!
#5
#3 ABSOLUTELY. The company is owned by the shareholders not an imperial clique in the board room. Now if we can only remind the populace that the government is for the people and by the people and staffed with our servants.
#6
Corporate directors and officers get sued for breach of fiduciary duties all day every day and twice on Sundays. If you want to go totally geek on the subject look here, but be prepared to be mightily bored. The only reason anyone in his right mind would serve as a director, other than the excellent canapes, is that liability insurance is available -- for a price, and that price is increasing.
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When the Queen kicks the bucket Britain's Glory finally fades away completely. The Duke knows that. The Royal remnants will become tasgets of the hoards of muslims now in Britain. Just as Diana left Charles, so does hïs son.
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#6 The only reason anyone in his right mind would serve as a director, other than the excellent canapes
Well, the options package can be quite substantial if you're a politician or a relative of same. Chelsea Clinton's pocketed about $9 million for doing f-all as an IAC (Friend of Bill Barry Diller's internet vehicle). Jarret's probably getting a similar sum from Uber. Ditto for Donna Shalala at United Health. Etc etc
[PageSix] In which Florida Woman Samantha Markle opines about matters she knows not of, and about the child of her father’s second marriage, from whom, along with the rest of her nearest and dearest, Miss Samantha has long been estranged.
#2
...See - self inflicted wound. I guess just doing drugs or being a major alcoholic still is considered an unseemly way of self destruction in the family.
#3
Sister Samantha's not wrong on this one; Meghan's dad thinks she's being a world-class douche as well, and that's as much rat's ass as I give to British royal bullshit.
#4
And people wonder why Britons are coolish towards Americans as a whole...
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#5
It's not money she's after. It's status. After she broke through to the highest status available to her, marrying a literal price, it still wasn't enough. It just made her hungrier for even more.
So now she's going for the highest status she knows is possible in this life: hobnobbing with pedophile-infested Hollywood celebrities. Remember, she was an "influencer" before she snared her prince.
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Meghan's dad thinks she's being a world-class douche as well
Miss Samantha takes after the shared father, who was estranged from Meghan and her mother long ago.
Hark! Newshounds who bark themselves hoarse...
A tuft of coarse hair on the gorse...
Fresh prints in the soil
That resemble a royal's...
And lead straight to remorse and divorce.
Hmmm... needs more cowbell dog whistle! Or possibly not.
[UPI] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday confirmed the United States' first case of coronavirus in a traveler who returned from China.
The patient, a man in his 30s, was diagnosed in Seattle and was in good condition, the CDC said.
The patient was first treated for pneumonia last week, but subsequent tests showed he had coronavirus, which can cause pneumonia. He returned to Washington state from Wuhan, China, on Wednesday.
The virus, a coronavirus known as 2019-nCoV, originated in Wuhan, in central China's Hubei province. Chinese health officials said Tuesday the disease has killed at least six people and sickened more than 300.
[Aljazeera] A serious outbreak of locusts is spreading in parts of East Africa and posing an "unprecedented" threat to food security in some of the world's most vulnerable countries, according to officials, with unusual climate conditions partly to blame.
Roughly the length of a finger, the insects fly together by the millions. They devour crops and destroy grazing plots, threatening food production and local economies.
An "extremely dangerous increase" in locust swarm activity has been reported in Kenya, the East African regional body reported this week. One swarm measured 60km (37 miles) long and 40km (25 miles) wide in the country's northeast, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) said in a statement.
The outbreak of desert locusts, considered the most dangerous locust species, has also affected parts of Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Djibouti and Eritrea. Parts of South Sudan and Uganda could be next, the IGAD warned.
The outbreak is making the region's bad food security situation worse, according to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), with hundreds of thousands of acres of crops destroyed.
"Grasshoppers are a crunchy, delicious treat enjoyed around the world in countries like Mexico and Uganda. Just one grasshopper contains 6 grams (0.21 oz) of protein and many people think the world should harvest more insects to help people in need of healthy, nourishing meals."
[Mil.com] A Ohio Air National Guard squadron is being deployed to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to help that U.S. territory in its continuing effort to recovery from earthquakes and aftershocks that devastated the island's southwestern coast in December 2019.
Gov. Mike DeWine issued a proclamation Thursday authorizing specified members of the Ohio Air National Guard 200th RED HORSE (Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineer), headquartered out of Port Clinton, Ohio, with a detachment in Mansfield.
The unit is equipped to provide engineering, construction and logistics capabilities worldwide on short notice.
"I have authorized the mobilization of the Ohio National Guard to provide emergency assistance until basic services in the impacted areas are restored," DeWine said in a prepared statement.
"I have instructed Ohio's Adjutant General to take whatever actions are necessary to assist local authorities to protect the lives, safety, health, and property of citizens affected by these devastating earthquakes."
The 200th RED HORSE Squadron will support earthquake relief efforts by establishing two Disaster Relief Bed-down Systems, kits capable of providing basic housing and life support facilities such as tents, showers and latrines for up to 150 military personnel responding to the disaster.
[Epoch Times] The head of Puerto Rico’s National Guard said the supplies and equipment that was housed for years in a warehouse in Ponce since Hurricane Maria will be distributed after the commonwealth’s governor fired three officials. "With only a small fee for shipping, handling, and storage"
Jose Reyes, the head of the National Guard, was named head of the island’s emergency management bureau by Gov. Wanda Vazquez. He announced that those supplies will be distributed after locals discovered they sat unused for nearly three years, triggering a political firestorm that led to the firings of three officials including Puerto Rico’s Office of Emergency Management head Carlos Acevedo, Housing Secretary Fernando Gil, and Department of Family Secretary Glorimar Andújar.
"We have coordinated with the mayors and their Emergency Management division to not take them from one warehouse to another warehouse but to take it in coordination where the people are who need it, along with the shelters that are on the periphery of the villages," Reyes said on Monday, reported El Vocero.
The items that would be distributed are 270 cots, 400 awnings, 700 portable stoves, and dozens of containers, he said. But he stressed there are more items around the warehouse.
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The items that would be distributed are 270 cots, 400 awnings, 700 portable stoves, and dozens of containers, he said. But he stressed there are more items around the warehouse.
There will be more action by the US to support Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says after meeting with Guaido on the sidelines of a regional conference in the Colombian capital, Bogota.https://t.co/oMroVVcF39
#4
Says the man in charge of algorithm manipulation for political purposes. Fundamentally how different is that from the old Soviet practice of making people disappear? That's different because....shutup.
#5
I am not sure I get it. The concern. The nefarious purposes. Sure, inside of your house, privacy should be a right. But once you step outside, into your city, they have no right to know where you go are what you are up to? In China they do this all of the time, and as one result, they have no armed state troopers. You speed, run a red red light, fine ... you get a phone call and are told where to go pay your fine. Nobody gets shot. If you are a criminal without a mask, they find you. If you are a criminal with a mask, well you just advertised that you are a criminal. That's simple and 99% right.
Don't be a criminal, and nobody with surveillance technology will care about you, not even 1%. And tying together 'deepfakes' and facial recognition eludes me.
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I'm just not sure how anonymity in public places balances with personal rights for privacy in private places, given that there are so many bad actors at large these days. And, not just democrats :-)
Not just Jew hatred, but a culture that allowed all sorts of nastiness. How embarrassing for them.
[Jpost] Employees targeted as "f*****g Jew"
Germany’s publicly funded news outlet Deutsche Welle is facing allegations that it permits a widespread work culture of antisemitism, racism, sexual harassment and bullying.
The British Guardian paper reported last week that staff employees accused a presenter at the giant news organization DW of being antisemitic. "From what I witnessed, it seemed to build up over time as he targeted certain colleagues," one employee said, adding, "He would just use the term as shorthand. ’Oh, yeah, that f**king Jew over there.’"
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[BBC] A newly-discovered part of our immune system could be harnessed to treat all cancers, say scientists.
The Cardiff University team discovered a method of killing prostate, breast, lung and other cancers in lab tests.
The findings, published in Nature Immunology, have not been tested in patients, but the researchers say they have "enormous potential".
Experts said that although the work was still at an early stage, it was very exciting.
What have they found? Our immune system is our body's natural defence against infection, but it also attacks cancerous cells.
The scientists were looking for "unconventional" and previously undiscovered ways the immune system naturally attacks tumours.
What they found was a T-cell inside people's blood. This is an immune cell that can scan the body to assess whether there is a threat that needs to be eliminated.
The difference is this one could attack a wide range of cancers.
"There's a chance here to treat every patient," researcher Prof Andrew Sewell told the BBC.
He added: "Previously nobody believed this could be possible.
"It raises the prospect of a 'one-size-fits-all' cancer treatment, a single type of T-cell that could be capable of destroying many different types of cancers across the population."
How does it work? T-cells have "receptors" on their surface that allow them to "see" at a chemical level.
The Cardiff team discovered a T-cell and its receptor that could find and kill a wide range of cancerous cells in the lab including lung, skin, blood, colon, breast, bone, prostate, ovarian, kidney and cervical cancer cells.
[Mil.com] Military veterans from throughout Northeast Florida came together to honor comrades in arms who were prisoners of war or missing in action, and remember their sacrifice. A salute to an old comrade Steve Leopold, 1LT 5th Special Forces who spent nearly 5 years in the Hanoi Hilton. I hope and pray he is still among us.
A standing-room-only crowd that including former prisoners of war, as well as the families of those missing in action, and Gold Star families wept, hugged and prayed together during a solemn ceremony marking the groundbreaking for the total, estimated $82 million National POW/MIA Memorial & Museum.
The first of its kind, the memorial and museum is being built at 6112 POW-MIA Memorial Parkway, at Cecil Commerce Center, which is the former Naval Air Station Cecil Field jet base on the Westside of Jacksonville.
Cecil Field POW/MIA Memorial, Inc., a nonprofit organization, is leading the multi-phase memorial and museum project.
"Our mission is to honor all former prisoners of war; remember and never forget those missing in action heroes and the families who seek their return," said Mike Cassata, organization executive director.
The memorial and museum is being built on 26 acres.
[Business Insider] The US Air Force operates a VIP transportation system for the government's top employees.
The Air Force, which is known for flying the president on Air Force One, also flies elected officials, cabinet secretaries, and even top generals on a fleet of aircraft configured for VIPs.
As part of the Air Force's Special Air Mission, the 89th Airlift Wing, which is based at Joint Base Andrews near Washington, DC, operates a VIP fleet with the stated mission of "Enabling national interests through global transportation for America's senior leaders."
Its most frequent flyers include the president, vice president, first lady, secretary of state, secretary of defense, and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a spokesperson for the wing told Business Insider.
The fleet is primarily made up of civilian aircraft, which are sometimes modified for military use and receive military designations. For example, Air Force One is a modified Boing 747-200 designated as the VC-25A.
The 89th Airlift Wing took delivery of its newest aircraft, a Gulfstream 550 designated as a C-37B, just before Christmas. The US Navy's website says the aircraft cost $64 million.
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I'm willing to bet it used to be a $110 million Gulfstream private jet until Trump got on the phone and rattled some cages, like he did when a new Air Force One went online just after he came into office.
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They should fly government officials on DC-3's. That's plenty of aircraft for what they need. And there's no need for a fancy interior. Web seats and puke buckets will be fine. And they should be crewed by all those nice Saudi air force guys.
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When Pelosi was Speaker in 2009-2011, she racked up over a million dollars in Air Force flights per year and $50,000+ in booze and food bills per year on those flights. Her demand was a B-757 like the Vice President's ride and got into a snit if "only" an Air Force G-3 or G-4 were available.
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.
[MAMBA] Beloftebos, in the Western Cape, continues to defy the law and constitution and has again humiliated another same-sex couple by refusing to host their wedding.
[Mil.com] A Ohio Air National Guard squadron is being deployed to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to help that U.S. territory in its continuing effort to recovery from earthquakes and aftershocks that devastated the island's southwestern coast in December 2019.
[Mil.com] Military veterans from throughout Northeast Florida came together to honor comrades in arms who were prisoners of war or missing in action, and remember their sacrifice.
