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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Jeffrey Epstein's fugitive 'madam' Ghislaine Maxwell 'is hiding out in luxury Paris flat close to billionaire paedophile's £7million apartment'
[Mail] Fugitive Ghislaine Maxwell is reportedly hiding out in a luxury flat close to billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's £7million Paris apartment.

The socialite has apparently escaped to her native France as the FBI continues to investigate links between her and convicted paedophile Epstein, as reported by The Sun.

Maxwell has rarely been seen in public since 2016 and rumours have circulated frequently since then on her whereabouts.

She is now understood to have moved into a flat on on Avenue Matignon, in Paris's 8th Arrondissement, a wealthy part of the city dotted with upmarket retail shops.

A source told the newspaper: 'Ghislaine is moving locations every month to keep private investigators off her tail and is ­staying at the residences of trusted colleagues and contacts.

'She wants to remain in France for as long as she can to take advantage of extradition laws and has a huge network of contacts willing to keep her hidden.

'Under French law anyone born on French soil is safe from extradition to another country, regardless of the alleged crime.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/22/2020 06:36 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good, let the French harbour an associate to a "known paedophile".
Posted by: Clem || 06/22/2020 6:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Another one?

Is she next door to Roman Polanski?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/22/2020 6:53 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Ha, well said! I was thinking about him, too.
Posted by: Clem || 06/22/2020 7:16 Comments || Top||

#4  a huge network of contacts


Also known as ex-customers.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/22/2020 7:45 Comments || Top||

#5  I think it was more a club where you were bribed with forbidden fruit and blackmailed with evidence of same.
Play along and embezzle the money of others and you're fine, step out of line and you get dirt-napped.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/22/2020 8:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Paris is to spies, as Bern, SZ is to banking.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/22/2020 8:09 Comments || Top||

#7  Vienna was up there back in the day.
Posted by: Clem || 06/22/2020 9:04 Comments || Top||

#8  Jizz-laine. Proof we need to court the British empire.

Gag...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/22/2020 9:46 Comments || Top||

#9  One thing is for sure. the deep state DOJ has "Barred" her from being questioned and or arrest.

Talk about pure flat out obvious corruption.
Posted by: Woodrow || 06/22/2020 12:57 Comments || Top||

#10  Why would you need to ask questions when you already know what the answers are?her life insurance policy is her ability to prove that various government agencies here and elsewhere know exactly what she knows and did, and who was involved.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/22/2020 13:09 Comments || Top||

#11  Let’s get the terms right. She is a procuress. He was a whoremonger.
Posted by: Grunter || 06/22/2020 17:24 Comments || Top||

#12  Ref #9: One thing is for sure. the deep state DOJ has "Barred" her from being questioned and or arrest. Talk about pure flat out obvious corruption.

g(r)om ~ Could you possibly comment on this ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/22/2020 17:44 Comments || Top||

#13  ^Eh?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/22/2020 17:52 Comments || Top||

#14  g(r)om ~ Could you possibly comment on this ?
^Eh?


Epstein, et. al. as a Mossad 'back door' operation coordinated thru the DS.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/22/2020 17:57 Comments || Top||

#15  ^Ehhhhhhhhhh?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/22/2020 17:59 Comments || Top||

#16  Let's ask this chap:
Posted by: Clem || 06/22/2020 18:04 Comments || Top||


70 Atlanta Cops Have Resigned After Officer Rolfe Charged W/Felony Murder
[The Lid] Rayshard Brooks didn’t have to be six feet under the ground, right now. It is his own fault that he got shot. You can’t be drunk, violently resist arrest, fight with cops, grab a taser to use as a weapon, and then expect to sleep in your own bed that night. Atlanta cops have resigned.

It just doesn’t add up.

Now that Officer Garrett Rolfe was fired by a Mayor’s rush to judgment and has been wrongly charged with murder by a Fulton County prosecutor Paul Howard Jr, who is running for re-election and fighting charges of corruption, some of his peers have decided to call in quits in a show of solidarity.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/22/2020 02:39 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good for them - loyalty is a two way street.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/22/2020 3:34 Comments || Top||

#2  NYC Disbanded Its Anti-Crime Unit. Guess What Happened Next
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/22/2020 3:39 Comments || Top||

#3  What will future episodes of Law & Order be like?
Posted by: Clem || 06/22/2020 5:35 Comments || Top||

#4  What will future episodes of Law & Order be like?

Sam Waterston pulling up his pants with a young boy bent over a chair in the background. Mariska Hargatay rolling her eyes.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/22/2020 9:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Chris Meloni comes all the way out and wears just a leather jockstrap in every episode.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/22/2020 9:09 Comments || Top||

#6  70/1700 = about 4%.

Caveat - size of APD came from Wikipedia so cum grano salis.
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/22/2020 9:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Sam Waterston...lol, didn't he have a presidential campaign going for about 25 minutes once?
Posted by: Clem || 06/22/2020 9:22 Comments || Top||


Macy's Says White Employee Attacked By Black Man Never Said the 'N-Word'
[Townhall] A Macy's employee in Michigan was knocked to the ground and punched multiple times by a black man. The attacker's brother, a rapper, told the New York Post that his brother assaulted the employee because he used a racial slur. After investigating the incident, Macy's says the attack on one of their employees was "unprovoked."

"We are deeply saddened about the incident that took place on Monday at Macy’s Genesee Valley as the safety of Macy’s customers and colleagues is our top priority," the company said. "Violence in the workplace of any kind is unacceptable. All the materials from the evening have been reviewed and it is clear that the attack was unprovoked. We are working closely with local authorities on this investigation, and will defer any further comments about the case to them per policy."

The video filmed by the brother circulating on Twitter does not show the white employee using the "n-word," but the black assailant can be heard calling the white employee the "n-word" several times.
Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Grundy3291 || 06/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Until they eliminate that word and it's mindset from themselves, it will never die.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 06/22/2020 0:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Too much money involved. That word's here to stay.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/22/2020 0:12 Comments || Top||

#3  We should all just wear personal cams nowadays. Only way to prove your side of the story.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/22/2020 0:14 Comments || Top||

#4  I love it when scummy hoods post their disgusting acts on social media. Almost no need for personal body cams.
Posted by: Clem || 06/22/2020 6:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Macy's says the attack on one of their employees was "unprovoked."

Being white appears to be 'provocation' enough.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/22/2020 7:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Someone heard a dog whistle?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/22/2020 7:39 Comments || Top||

#7  They don't need a reason, just an opportunity.
Posted by: charger || 06/22/2020 22:24 Comments || Top||


9 Dead, 56 Shot in Chicago Father's Day Weekend Violence; Toddler Killed
[EpochTimes]
Posted by: Clem || 06/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Are you my father?
No.
Bang!
Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Grundy3291 || 06/22/2020 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Does this mean we aren't doing Black Lives Matter any more?
Posted by: SteveS || 06/22/2020 0:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Black Lives Matter; some more than others.
Posted by: Raj || 06/22/2020 1:06 Comments || Top||


#5  /\ If Planned Parenthood were actually doing their job as originally designed, none of this kinetic unpleasantness would be happening.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/22/2020 7:11 Comments || Top||


#7  Busy little beavers.
102 shot, 14 fatally, over Father’s Day weekend in Chicago
Posted by: Pheang Thealet8559 || 06/22/2020 9:12 Comments || Top||

#8  Continued from previous day:
Chicago: Bang, Bang, Bang!
Minneapolis: Hold my beer.

Chicago: Amateur!
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/22/2020 9:25 Comments || Top||


#10  Black lives only matter if a white guy kills them. Otherwise it the gangster life as usual.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/22/2020 13:23 Comments || Top||

#11  Actually, Black Lives Matter only when a white cop kills a black man. No matter how justified the killing is.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 06/22/2020 13:33 Comments || Top||

#12  Will BLM go to these high-shooting areas of Chicago and demonstrate that black lives really do matter? (I didn't think so.)
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/22/2020 14:02 Comments || Top||

#13  Toddler killed? yeah...shame that. Ah well. George Floyd!
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 06/22/2020 21:56 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Alaska's 'Magic Bus' finds new home
[Mil.com] PALMER, Alaska -- Almost 30 years after hiker Christopher McCandless died in an abandoned 1940s-era bus in the Alaska wilderness, that bus has been airlifted away from its resting place just outside Denali National Park by the Alaska Army National Guard.

The so-called "Magic Bus" had become a dangerous tourist destination deep in Alaska's interior, about 19 miles down the Stampede Trail. McCandless' story became particularly famous after it was told in the book "Into the Wild" and a movie by the same name.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/22/2020 07:59 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lawsuit to put it back in 3-2-1...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/22/2020 8:36 Comments || Top||

#2  just tell the hippies it was leaking fluids
Posted by: Chris || 06/22/2020 16:14 Comments || Top||


Gunbroker.com - GSG ATI MP40 9mm With Extras
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/22/2020 02:32 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Again, I gotta protest...carbine weight, pistol caliber.

(yeah, yeah, yeah...UZI)
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/22/2020 18:00 Comments || Top||


Julian Assange's hidden family revealed: top secrets inside the Embassy
Lengthy video.
[60MinutesAustralia] Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has made his name – and plenty of enemies – by publishing military and other highly sensitive secrets of multiple governments around the world. As a consequence, he now calls a maximum-security jail in England home while he fights a bitter battle with the Trump administration which wants him extradited to the United States. Before prison, the controversial – and now very frail – Australian spent seven years holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. And that’s where Assange conceived his own top secrets – two sons with his, until now, equally secretive fiancée, Stella Moris.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Enormous Saharan dust cloud reaches Caribbean Sea after traveling more than 3,000 miles over the Atlantic Ocean - as it prepares to float over the South and bring gorgeous sunsets
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/22/2020 07:46 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And bugs, likely.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 06/22/2020 9:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Who has Mummies for July?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/22/2020 10:32 Comments || Top||

#3  And crushing half of hurricane season for North America. They can run the Soviet state funeral music early on the Weather Channel this year.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/22/2020 10:36 Comments || Top||


CDC reports 2,248,029 cases of new coronavirus infections, an increase of 32,411 cases from its previous count
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If I were a Chinese entrepreneur, I'd import several million MAGA masks to USA, and several million BLM masks.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/22/2020 2:42 Comments || Top||

#2  "We release virus and crash round eye economy!"

"But if round eye stop buying cheap slave made chinee sh*t..."

"Oops."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/22/2020 2:54 Comments || Top||

#3  NYC reopening its 'biggest piece'
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/22/2020 7:19 Comments || Top||




#7  Ya know, all those stats Skid cites would have meant something to me a year ago.

Now? I don't believe a single stat from anyone on much of anything.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/22/2020 7:53 Comments || Top||

#8  More testing and you find more virus.

It's amazing...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/22/2020 8:09 Comments || Top||

#9  Newsflash. Humans have germs.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/22/2020 10:30 Comments || Top||


Arabia
SaudiArabia began lifting #coronavirus restrictions across the country — the latest effort by the Kingdom to return to ‘normalcy’
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hard to move divisions to the southern borders wearing masks.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/22/2020 18:03 Comments || Top||


Britain
Man allegedly caught at airport with cocaine inside artificial johnson
[New York Post] A British man arrested in a Brussels airport with cocaine inside of an artificial penis could face up to three years in prison for the offense, prosecutors said last week.

The man was busted trying to smuggle the drugs from Jamaica into Belgium last February, The New Zealand Herald reported.

He allegedly told investigators that he intended to use the cocaine for personal use once he returned home.

Prosecutors did not prove the man, who said he got the drugs while visiting his mom in the Caribbean county, was a "mule," but still asked for a 36-month sentence, the report said.

Defense attorneys argued such a sentence is too severe since the man is in poor health.

"My client has kidney failure and needs to exercise as well as follow a proper diet," his lawyer said, according to the report.

The man is set to be sentenced on Wednesday.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/22/2020 02:08 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  Isn't the entire point of a whizzinator to pass a drug test.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/22/2020 2:32 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Brazil passes 50,000 deaths from coronavirus
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  CV19 reached the poor parts of the world.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/22/2020 2:43 Comments || Top||

#2  How can people with so much debt be poor? Oh, wait. That's Argentina. Never mind...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/22/2020 2:46 Comments || Top||


#4  Still fewer deaths than Flu in 1999 50,000+ , when the population was smaller due to less immigration.

ALSO These are deaths where the person is SUSPECTED of having covid and only one Dr needs to sign it off instead of usual 2.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/22/2020 8:14 Comments || Top||

#5  You are being a bad sport, BP.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/22/2020 8:34 Comments || Top||

#6  Should be winter time in the southern hemisphere...of course more instances of flus & viruses.
Posted by: Clem || 06/22/2020 9:06 Comments || Top||

#7  Every time I see a Brazil story I have to play my Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto album.

Tall and tan and young....
Posted by: AlanC || 06/22/2020 15:25 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
N. Korea keeps sending small groups of troops to border sentry posts
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  ..then only a couple can defect at at time rather than whole units.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/22/2020 7:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Just imagine if you put takeout at the fence line.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/22/2020 13:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Maintaining face for the Chinese.
Does anybody know if those groups of troops are NK?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/22/2020 18:01 Comments || Top||


China banned imports from a top US poultry producer and ordered a Beijing Pepsi factory to close
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Good — that’s more chicken for us in America. Especially since my grocery store recently doubled the price of ground beef.
Posted by: Fred || 06/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  But remember the former CEO of PepsiCo said America gives the rest of the world the finger.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/22/2020 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Pleas to insert tab A in slot B.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/22/2020 1:14 Comments || Top||


#4  ...how are they going to wire money home?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/22/2020 7:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Tyson got in China by shipping chickens to China in exchange for China to open 4 production plants for China to produce processed chicken for export to the U.S.
Also,this deal was made with no inspection required by USDA.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 06/22/2020 10:14 Comments || Top||

#6  Summer chicken?
No thanks.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/22/2020 12:39 Comments || Top||


Cyber
'I saw horrors posted on Facebook daily... and it nearly destroyed me': Man hired to moderate content - including beheadings, graphic sex and even child murder - says more MUST be done to block harrowing uploads
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/22/2020 08:01 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


#2  What do you expect to find in a sewer pipe?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/22/2020 8:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Prepping just cause for big corps to boycott until only correctthink is on facewatch?

Or is this a mod for the Greater London Tourist Page?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/22/2020 14:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Why are they not referring this stuff to police?
Posted by: Silentbrick || 06/22/2020 20:08 Comments || Top||


Europe
The Newest Battlefield in the European Gas War
[Oilprice.com] In the first days of June 2020, the Greek industrial holding Mytilineos announced that it had concluded a long-term contract with Gazprom’s commercial arm.

The onset of continuous US LNG deliveries to Greece bears a much harsher reputational blow to Russian energy interests than Qatari or Algerian supplies.

Across the planet LNG prices in May-June 2020 have dropped to unprecedentedly low levels — landed seaborne prices still remain below $2 per MMBtu, compelling rivals of LNG to counteract the trend. In the vanguard of those affected is the Russian pipeline gas monopoly Gazprom which expects its exports to drop from the peak of 199-200 BCm per year attained in the last 2 years to some 167 BCm in 2020. Pipeline gas supplies to Europe seems somewhat paralyzed currently with little to no availability of ramping up exports despite producers curbing natural gas production concurrently to oil. With this in mind, Gazprom is looking to beat its competitors on their own field, having no liquefaction facility that could realistically target European customers. In the first days of June 2020, the Greek industrial holding Mytilineos announced that it had concluded a long-term contract with Gazprom’s commercial arm, Gazprom Export, to import Russian natural gas. The news in and of itself should not be considered as anything surprising — Mytilineos had several short-term contracts with the Russian firm in the past couple of years and imported 0.6 BCm in 2019. Were one to examine the details of the deal though, it gets much more interesting — the tenor of the deal is for 10 years until 2030, i.e. even longer than the main import contract with Russia, the one state-owned DEPA has until 2026. Under DEPA’s contract Greece has imported an average of 2.5 BCm per year from Gazprom, via the Soviet-era TransBalkan pipeline....

....The Revithoussa LNG terminal, the only existing LNG plant in the Balkans as of today, lies 45km to the west of Athens and serves predominantly the needs of the capital area. Concurrently to Revithoussa's increasing intake, Greece might see the launch of another LNG import facility, this time serving the country's north, in the form of the 5.5 BCm per year Alexandroupolis FSRU. The development of a second LNG plant coincides with Greece and Bulgaria finishing the IGB interconnector, assumed to go onstream in 2021 to allow for the cross-border movements of TANAP-supplied Azerbaijani gas – the same route would be used for Alexandroupolis volumes (Bulgaria's Bulgartransgaz already took a 20% stake in the project company and Romania's Romgaz seeks to do the same).

The Mytilineos deal in and of itself will not witness any major breakthrough in the upcoming years – the metallurgy and energy-focused portfolio of the Greek company necessitated some 0.6 BCm in 2019, around 12-13% of the country's annual gas consumption. Yet it is a testament to renewed Russian interest to the Greek market, a harbinger of things to come – be they in the form of advantageous price formulas for pipeline deliveries or even straight LNG supplies sourced from reliable sources. Hence, the struggle for Russia's share not to decrease in the Mediterranean will encompass Turkey, the hotspot of vying so far, Greece and most probably Italy, too, as all of them have seen increased levels of LNG imports in general and US supplies in particular.

Posted by: Clem || 06/22/2020 07:52 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran Turns George Floyd Into a Shi'ite Muslim Saint
[PJ] Dr. Reza Parchizadeh, a political theorist and analyst, recently noted on Twitter that "the Iranian regime has turned the late #George_Floyd into Saint George, Shiite-style!" And sure enough, Parchizadeh posted a painting of Floyd depicting him in the way Shi’ite Muslims often depict their holy figures: in a green robe and surrounded by an aura of holy light.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/22/2020 01:52 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  I hope he's in Heaven. I hope it's the most astoundingly humbling experience he can't imagine.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/22/2020 2:04 Comments || Top||

#2  But MM, what about the Virginians?
Posted by: AlanC || 06/22/2020 7:48 Comments || Top||

#3  He just doesn't seem like a raisin guy to me. But I didn't know him. I'm really not sorry about that.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/22/2020 9:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Feel free to lick his shrine.
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/22/2020 9:21 Comments || Top||

#5  YJCMTSU
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/22/2020 13:12 Comments || Top||


Iran reports over 100 new deaths from the coronavirus for the third day running
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  actually 7 of past 8 days over 100 deaths

but, of course, these are official figures and are controlled by a dictatorship
Posted by: lord garth || 06/22/2020 9:48 Comments || Top||


-PC Follies
Family of woman who portrayed Aunt Jemima opposes move to rebrand
[New York Post] The family of a Texas woman who once portrayed Aunt Jemima has called on the breakfast brand to reconsider its decision to scrap the ubiquitous fixture from its products.

Vera Harris said the family takes pride in Quaker Oates scouting her second cousin Lillian Richard to become a brand representative in 1925, news station KLTV reported.

"She was considered a hero in [her hometown of] Hawkins, and we are proud of that. We do not want that history erased," Harris said.

Harris said Richard worked for the company for 23 years, traveling around as Aunt Jemima to serve pancakes until she suffered a stroke.

"She made an honest living out of it for a number of years. She toured around Texas," Harris said, noting there "wasn’t a lot of jobs, especially for black women back in that time."

Harris said the family was upset by Quaker Oates’ announcement last week that it would rebrand Aunt Jemima products because the character’s origins are "based on a racial stereotype."

"We want the world to know that our cousin Lillian was one of the Aunt Jemimas and she made an honest living. We would ask that you reconsider just wiping all that away," Harris said.

"I wish we would take a breath and not just get rid of everything, because good or bad, it is our history. Removing that wipes away a part of me — a part of each of us."
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/22/2020 02:25 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They didn't cash in before but they're going for it now.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/22/2020 2:49 Comments || Top||

#2  No Blacks on brands!

To fight racism and encourage diversity!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/22/2020 3:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Replace her with a pic of George Floyd or Rayshard Brooks - it's sure to increase sales.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/22/2020 3:19 Comments || Top||

#4  I can't wait to not buy this product.
Posted by: Clem || 06/22/2020 5:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Quaker Oats had better stick with what they've got. No claims of the dreaded 'racial appropriation' of product names in nearly 100 years. Difficult record to break.

Jemima, Amos, Andy, appear to be names no longer in vogue.

Posted by: Besoeker || 06/22/2020 6:31 Comments || Top||


#7  Well, them upper class white pseudo-religious are ashamed of their own families history of employing people of color to do their domestic labor. Besides, today its Tia Maria and Tio Marco from Central America doing the same work for them.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/22/2020 7:49 Comments || Top||

#8  And the Messicans actually work and are mostly honest.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/22/2020 8:59 Comments || Top||

#9  I think this is the same family that wanted more money for her services....as I recall.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 06/22/2020 10:24 Comments || Top||


Petition Draws Support To Rename Columbus, Ohio, ‘Flavortown’
[DAILYWIRE] Flavortown.That’s what thousands of people want to rename Columbus, Ohio, according to a new petition posted on change.org.

And the petition poster sounds serious.

"Beloved Buckeyes one and all," wrote someone identifying himself as Tyler Woodbridge. "Columbus is an amazing city, but one whose name is tarnished by the very name itself. Its namesake, Christopher Columbus, is in The Bad Place because of all his raping, slave trading, and genocide. That’s not exactly a proud legacy."

"Why not rename the city Flavortown? The new name is twofold. For one, it honors Central Ohio’s proud heritage as a culinary crossroads and one of the nation’s largest test markets for the food industry," Woodbridge added. "Secondly, chef-lebrity Guy Fieri was born in Columbus, so naming the city in honor of him (he’s such a good dude, really) would be superior to its current nomenclature. "
Posted by: Fred || 06/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And the clock tower can be renamed Flavor Flav tower.
Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Grundy3291 || 06/22/2020 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  What is a buckeye? A worthless, inedible nut.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/22/2020 0:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Dibs on Funkytown!
Posted by: Big Jumble5190 || 06/22/2020 2:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Trouble in River City.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/22/2020 2:37 Comments || Top||

#5  LiberiaTon?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/22/2020 3:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Tyler, old boy, have it occurred to you that you might make a certain group of Italian Americans unhappy with you?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/22/2020 3:33 Comments || Top||

#7  "And the winner of our renaming contest is: Towny McTownface"
Posted by: Frank G || 06/22/2020 6:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Go Buckeyes!
Posted by: Clem || 06/22/2020 6:41 Comments || Top||

#9  Guy Fieri may have a trade mark on that name. He uses it all the time on his show.


/sarc
Posted by: AlanC || 06/22/2020 8:22 Comments || Top||

#10  I used to like watching Guy on teevee a lot. I don't watch teevee anymore. I'm glad I really never had to choke down any of his "cuisine."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/22/2020 9:23 Comments || Top||

#11  This seems appropriate. Not because it is a "good" idea so much as it is a very "Ohio" idea. We here in Michigan would love to see our southern neighbor finally outdoing us in stupidity this year.
Posted by: Vernal Hatrick || 06/22/2020 10:01 Comments || Top||

#12  Ohio. Elected John Kay-Sick to the US Senate. Ohio. Look for the video of angry red head guy saying the US "deserved" 9/11.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/22/2020 10:23 Comments || Top||

#13  At one time, back in the 1970s, Columbus was known as the Quaalude Capital of America. Flavortown is probably more acceptable. There is already a Buckeye Town in AZ.

Too many left-wing spineless politicians have caved in to these anarchists who want to tear down everything. These politicians have just thrown gasoline on the fire.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/22/2020 14:23 Comments || Top||

#14  Not the Bee.

The Flavortown/Fieri got me, but I should have known better in The Age of Boaty McBoatface.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/22/2020 14:45 Comments || Top||



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