CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ‐ The FBI is asking the public’s help in catching a so-called "bad wig bandit" who’s been robbing banks in North Carolina.
The FBI said in a statement on Thursday that the suspect wore a different wig during each heist in the Charlotte area.
One wig was blonde. Another was black. The third was red.
The FBI said he robbed a BB&T in Huntersville on Dec. 13. He then robbed two banks on Jan. 7. The first was a New Horizon Bank in Belmont. The second was a Wells Fargo in Gastonia.
[FoxNews] Gwyneth Paltrow has done it again, folks.
The 47-year-old actress and serial lifestyle entrepreneur found another way to shock the world with the sale of a vagina-scented candle in her online Goop store.
The candle, provocatively named "This Smells Like My Vagina," will run customers a cool $75 and boasts a fragrance packed with geranium, citrusy bergamot and cedar, according to the Daily Mail.
Apparently the idea for the candle, made by Heretic, originally started out as a joke.
As the product description reads: "This candle started as a joke between perfumer Douglas Little and GP -- the two were working on a fragrance, and she blurted out, ’Uhhh ... this smells like a vagina’ -- but evolved into a funny, gorgeous, sexy, and beautifully unexpected scent."
I assume the candle dimensions are her favorite "tool" dimensions.
I've developed some candles her market might like: Racing striped underwear. I could probably let them go at $74.95, plus shipping..
I feel no need to ask how she knows what it smells like, but that ingredient list probably isn’t a match.
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I believe the prime component is:
Pyridine is a basic heterocyclic organic compound with the chemical formula C5H5N. It is structurally related to benzene, with one methine group replaced by a nitrogen atom. It is a highly flammable, weakly alkaline, water-soluble liquid with a distinctive, unpleasant fish-like smell.
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Hard to imagine this is going to be a big seller. You've got to be really both crazy in a weird and preverted way to buy one of these fish-smelling $75 candles.
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Purred Gwyneth, "If pussies could smell,
They'd surely come running like hell
To the tang of my poon
By the light of the moon...
Or this scandal that's ringing my bell."
Cha-ching!
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*UGH* Just ... ugh. What is next, a set of boutique designer scents of various Carrion Flowers???
#23
Cooed Paltrow one morning, "Made Poopy!
I know all my groupies are loopy,
But will they recoil
From the smell of my soil
In this oil, so essentially Goopy?"
But seriously, if that's the purportedly anti-mosquito lemon geranium, I could roll around in that stuff and die happy. Orange mint, too, or pretty much any mint fambly greenery, really. Hmmm. Excuse me while I wax HD... [screech]
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[Huffpost] HOUSTON (AP) ‐ Severe storms sweeping across southern portions of the U.S. and up into the Midwest were blamed Saturday in the deaths of at least 11 people, including two first responders, as high winds, tornadoes and unrelenting rain battered large swaths of the country.
Storm-related fatalities were reported in Texas due to icy weather, in Alabama from a deadly tornado and in Louisiana, where winds were so strong that a trailer home was lifted off its foundation and carried several hundred feet. A man drowned in Oklahoma and the storms even touched the Midwest with at least one death on an icy highway in Iowa. Hundreds of thousands of people were left without power from Texas to Ohio, parts of highways were closed in Oklahoma and Arkansas due to flooding and hundreds of flights were canceled at Chicago’s international airports.
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In North Texas this is the first time some kidders have seen snow since they were too young to notice it the last time it hit the ground and stuck around. Then there are some young adults who were too stoned to notice it the last time.
[IsraelTimes] 73 applications have been filed with Rockland County Clerk’s Office since December 28, compared to 51 requests in previous 8 weeks.
The number of residents seeking to own handguns has risen sharply in a New York community shaken last month by a machete attack that injured five men during a Hanukkah celebration.
The Journal News reports 73 pistol permit applications have been filed with the Rockland County Clerk’s Office since the December 28 attack at a rabbi’s home in Monsey, a hamlet in the town of Ramapo northwest of New York City.
That compares to 51 applications the office received during the eight weeks prior to the stabbing, County Clerk Paul Piperato told the newspaper.
Sixty-eight of the new applications came from Ramapo residents, including 31 from Monsey.
"It’s definitely because of this incident," Piperato told the newspaper, referring to the attack. "In some way, shape or form, they want to defend themselves."
Chief William Barbera of the Rockland County Sheriff’s Department says an application is the first step in a months-long process. Applicants are required to be fingerprinted and undergo a background check and firearms training before the paperwork is submitted to a licensing officer.
An academy run by veterans of the Israel Defense Forces has been providing weapons training in Ramapo’s synagogues since the machete attack, The Journal News reports. Its trainers have been advising Jewish residents to seek unrestricted pistol permits.
"The goal is to be able to carry at synagogue and not to just possess at home and take to the range," said Yonatan Stern, the academy’s director.
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It is the first responsibility of government to provide for the protection of one's self, one's family, and one's property. When government fails to provide that security it is no longer legitimate. When government inhibits you from doing so it is despotic.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
It appears to be a museum for tourists to admire rather than a working synagogue for the few Jews remaining in Cairo, but they’re awfully proud of it — a new attitude as far as I can tell.
[AlAhram] Egypt's antiquities and tourism minister Khaled El-Anany said the inauguration of the renovated Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue in Alexandria sends a message to the world that Egypt cares for its heritage.
In statements on the sidelines of the opening ceremony of the synagogue on Friday, El-Anany said that Egypt has it all, explaining that travellers can enjoy visiting Greek, Roman, Islamic, Coptic, and Jewish monuments.
The Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue in Alexandria was inaugurated after massive revamp carried out under a cooperation protocol signed between the Antiquities Ministry and the Armed Forces Engineering Authority in 2017.
The cost of the temple's renovation stands at more than EGP 60 million.
The opening ceremony was attended by Alexandria Governor Mohammed El-Sherif, world-renowned archaeologist Zahi Hawass, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mostafa Waziri, Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Mostafa El-Fiqi, in addition to a number of foreign ambassadors and officials.
A documentary on the synagogue's history was screened at the inauguration ceremony.
The history of Jewish synagogues in Egypt represents the religious tolerance of the country. The antiquities ministry has 11 registered Jewish houses of worship: nine in Cairo and two in Alexandria.
The current structure of Eliyahu Hanavi was constructed in the 1850s, after the original building, which dates back to the 1300s, was badly damaged in the late 18th century, during the French occupation of Egypt.
With room for approximately 700 worshipers, it is the larger of the two synagogues remaining in the city.
The renovations included the structural reinforcement of the synagogue, the restoration of its main facade, decorative walls, and brass and wooden objects, and the development of its security and lighting systems, the antiquities ministry said in a statement.
The city’s few remaining Jews praise Egyptian leader Sissi for funding project, part of a push to draw tourists by marketing country’s rich cultural heritage.
Sitting in the back wooden rows, Yolande Mizrahi, a septuagenarian Jew born and raised in Alexandria, was delighted with the conservation.
"If it wasn’t for [President Abdel Fattah] al-Sissi, this would have never been done. A lot of things have changed since he’s taken over," she told AFP.
In 2018, Sissi singled out preservation of places of worship for Egyptian Jews and Coptic Christians as a priority for his government. Sissi said in November 2018: "If we have Jews, we will build [synagogues] for them." In recent years, Sissi, who has led a widespread crackdown on dissent and placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! thousands of critics, has frequently met with Jewish delegations in the US and Cairo.
Egypt’s Jewish community, which dates back millennia, numbered around 80,000 in the 1940s, but today stands at fewer than 20 people. The departure of Egypt’s Jews was fueled by rising nationalist sentiment after Israel’s founding in 1948 and during the Arab-Israeli wars, harassment, and some direct expulsions by then-Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Egypt and Israel signed a landmark peace treaty in 1979 and have since maintained formal diplomatic relations. But public opinion in Egypt has largely remained hostile to the Jewish state.
For Mizrahi, she fondly recounted how the synagogue which she used to attend as a youngster was a communal gathering space for the Jewish minority in Alexandria.
She hoped Friday’s opening of the temple to the public would spur other Jews abroad to visit the temple.
"I have relatives who left to La Belle France, Italia and Israel and they would like to visit the synagogue now," she added.
"Despite the leaders' good relations, it is a mistake for the United States to expect a return to talks," says North Korean official.https://t.co/7r03gkiZ2Y
[DAWN] A 21-grade officer and Sindh secretary for human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... , Dr Badar Jamil Mandhro, who was reportedly facing a corruption case, has gone missing in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , officials said on Saturday. The incident prompted both the Sindh police chief and chief minister to take notice.
Mandhro had left his residence in Clifton on Friday morning to go to his office at the Sindh Secretariat but did not return home and his whereabouts were not known, Deputy Inspector General South Sharjeel Kharal told Dawn quoting the bureaucrat's family.
He reportedly made telephone contact with his wife at around 2:30am on Saturday, informing her that he was in the Defence Housing Authority area.
DIG Kharal said when police came to know about his disappearance on Saturday, they tried to locate him with the help of modern technology.
His last presence traced with the help of his mobile phone was in Nazimabad area where he was present at around 4:00am on Saturday. Since then, his whereabouts were not known as his cell phone remained off.
The senior police officer said that they were waiting for the family to formally lodge a report to proceed further in the case.
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[AnNahar] Leb’s Foreign Ministry expressed regret Saturday over the UN announcement that Leb is among the countries losing their voting privileges in the 193-member General Assembly for being behind in paying their dues.
The Ministry said it has, on its part, fulfilled all of its duties and completed all transactions within the legal deadline, and conducted reviews more than once with related parties to no avail.
The UN decision could "harm Leb's interests, its prestige and reputation," the foreign ministry said in a statement carried by the state-run National News Agency.
The ministry which "regrets" the move called for a solution to be found "as quickly as possible", saying the situation "could be corrected".
It is worth noting that the ministry attached its statement with a document issued on August 7, 2019, which aims to pay Leb's contribution to the regular UN budget for the year 2019.
The finance ministry later said Leb's arrears would be paid on Monday. It was not immediately clear how much Beirut owed the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... The United Nations said Friday that seven countries --Leb, Venezuela ...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeds places like Honduras and El Salvador, and a significant proportion of the populace as refugeed to Colombia and points south... , Central African Republic, Gambia ... The Gambia is actually surrounded by The Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain... , Lesotho, Tonga and Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... -- have lost their voting privilege for being behind in paying their financial contributions.
The finance ministry hit back saying it did not receive any request to make the payment.
Under Article 19 of the Charter of the United Nations, member states that are behind on the payment of dues in an amount that equals or exceeds the contributions due for two preceding years can lose their vote in the General Assembly.
Member states that can show that inability to pay is due to conditions beyond their control are allowed an exception.
The World Bank estimates that Leb is in recession, and has warned that the number living in poverty could increase from a third to half the population.
The economic downturn coincides with an anti-government protest movement that has remained mobilised since October 17.
Protesters are demanding the removal of a political class they deem incompetent and corrupt.
[AmGreatness] According to Fox News, “a federal judge lifted a temporary restraining order against a project to build a privately funded border wall next to the Rio Grande.” The judge also denied a separate request for a restraining order in a separate lawsuit filed by the National Butterfly Center against the builders.
Fisher Industries, a construction firm based in North Dakota, is funding the project which is estimated to cost about $42 million.
The project was originally announced by We Build the Wall, a Florida-based nonprofit founded in December 2018, when Trump demanded $5 billion in wall funding from Democrats in Congress. When Democrats refused, the resulting standoff led to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
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^Sorry, McAllen has always been in the southern Rio Grande valley, what’s commonly called simply “the Valley “ around here. I can’t believe the Plaintiffs in the case actually argued that the wall could change the course of the Rio Grande. Losers.
h/t Instapundit
[Washington Examiner] - Two black executives are suing McDonald’s over "systematic" racism that may have cost dozens of people their jobs.
Vicki Guster-Hines and Domineca Neal are senior directors at the fast-food franchise in Dallas, Texas. The two were demoted from vice president positions in July 2018 as part of a company-wide re-organization under former CEO Steve Easterbrook.
Guster-Hines and Neal are suing McDonald’s alleging that under Easterbrook’s leadership, the company discriminated against black people by demoting or firing black employees and shifting business away from black advertisers, according to the Guardian. The suit also names CEO Chris Kempczinski and president of the franchise’s west-zone, Charles Strong.
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WELL? IMAGINE THAT? black folk starting trouble "'bout dey treatments"? DEM sorrea crackers be dissin us black folk? Making us work? no wut'm be saying YO!
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.
[FoxNews] Gwyneth Paltrow has done it again, folks.
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeds places like Honduras and El Salvador, and a significant proportion of the populace as refugeed to Colombia and points south...
No, it's not the batteries. 
