NYC Man Convicted Over Gunsmithing Hobby After Judge Says 2nd Amendment 'Doesn't Exist in This Courtroom'
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Red State ^
| 4/22/24 | Jeff Charles
A Brooklyn man has been convicted of 13 weapons charges after having been arrested and charged in 2022 for building his own firearms. Dexter
Taylor’s ordeal could become a landmark Second Amendment case in light of the Bruen ruling handed down in the same year. The jury found Taylor guilty of second-degree criminal possession of a loaded weapon, four counts of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, five counts of criminal possession of a firearm, second-degree criminal possession of five or more firearms, unlawful possession of pistol ammunition, violation of certificate of registration, prohibition on unfinished frames or receivers. Two...
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Nation's Husbands Now Praying Hobby Lobby Does Something Stupid
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BabylonBee.com ^
| 5-24-2023 | Babylon Bee Staff
OLATHE, KS — In the wake of the Target controversy resulting in widespread calls for boycotts among suburban housewife shoppers, husbands across the United States have begun praying faith-based home decor retail chain Hobby Lobby will make a bad public relations decision to cause a similar firestorm. "There's
got to be something they can do," said Brandon Quezada, whose wife, Rachel, spent $728 on Hobby Lobby craft supplies this morning. "We all lucked out with Target continuing to be completely horrible, so the boycott there has been a real financial blessing. What would really help now is if Hobby Lobby...
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Hobby Lobby employee (black) kills manager in Oklahoma City store
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Fox News ^
| 1 March 2023 | Paul Best
A Hobby Lobby employee shot and killed a manager at a distribution center on Wednesday in Oklahoma City, according to police. The
suspect, described as a Black male about 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighing 240 pounds, fled the scene in a red Dodge Challenger. The suspect had a dispute with the victim before the shooting around 5:00 p.m., according to police. "An employee went inside and had an altercation with a manager," Oklahoma City Police Sgt. Rob Robertson told Fox News Digital. "The employee produced a weapon, a firearm of some type, and shot the manager at least...
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UFO shot down by $400,000 US missile may have been a $12 hobby balloon: report
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New York Post ^
| 02/17/2023 | Katherine Donlevy
One of the UFOs shot down last weekend by the US Air Force with a $400,000 missile may have simply been a $12 balloon belonging to an Illinois enthusiast club, a report said. The
Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade told Aviation Week on Thursday that it fears one of its diligently tracked gasbags that recently went missing was the mystery object taken out by the military over Canada on Saturday.The Pico Balloon — silver-coated, cylindrically shaped object — reported its last position at 38,910 feet off the west coast of Alaska on Friday.By Saturday, based on the balloon’s projected path,...
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Illinois hobby club fears its balloon was shot down by the USAF; NORAD responds
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FoxNews ^
| February 16, 2023 | Bradford Betz
In the days since the Air Force shot down three unidentified objects out of the sky, questions linger about just what these objects actually were. On
Thursday, a report by Aviation Week offered an hypothesis about what one of those three objects could be: a "missing in action" globe-trotting balloon belonging to an Illinois-based hobbyist club. In this photo provided by Chad Fish, a large balloon drifts above the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of South Carolina, with a fighter jet and its contrail seen below it, on Saturday, Feb. 4. In this photo provided by Chad Fish, a...
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Bottlecap Balloon Brigade - a Missouri hobby group - claims its $12 weather balloon last pinged near Yukon on February 10 - hours before F-22 brought down UFO in SAME area with $400k missile
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Daily Mail ^
| 02162023 | Lewis Pennock
A mystery object shot down by U.S. fighter jets amid ongoing hysteria sparked by a Chinese spy balloon may have been a $12 inflatable launched by a hobby group in Illinois. The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade (NIBBB) reported one of its balloons 'missing in action' around the same location - and
at the time time - a U.S. Air Force jet downed an unidentified object near Alaska using a $400,000 Sidewinder missile.
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Illinois hobby club fears its balloon was shot down by the USAF
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MSN ^
In the days since the U.S. Air Force shot down three unidentified objects out of the sky, questions linger about just what these objects actually were. On
Thursday, a report by Aviation Week offered an intriguing hypothesis about what one of those three objects could be: a "missing in action" globe-trotting balloon belonging to an Illinois-based hobbyist club. The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade’s (NIBBB) silver-coated, party-style "pico balloon" reported its last position on Feb. 10 at nearly 40,000 ft. off the west coast of Alaska.
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Review: Mella fruiting chamber turns mushroom growing into home hobby
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New Atlas ^
| December 24, 2022 | By David Szondy
For indoor gardeners who want to try something a bit more exotic, cultivating mushrooms can be rewarding and FirstBuild's Mella smart mushroom fruiting chamber promises to take some of the guesswork out of the challenge. New
Atlas recently got its hands on one and we put it through its paces. Here's what we found. For centuries, mushrooms have been a mystery and often suspected as being something supernatural. Suddenly appearing out of nowhere, they were thought to be the works of the devil, or witches, or lightning, or shooting stars. Folklore even suggested that rings of mushrooms in a field...
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Tweep's 'hobby' of finding sofas and other objects that Jill Biden's dresses are 'MADE from' results in spectacularly HILARIOUS thread
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Twitchy.com ^
| 10/9/2022 | Sam Janney
Nobody has ever accused First Lady Jill Biden of having the best taste when it comes to how she dresses. Sorry,
DOCTOR Jill Biden. Either the woman needs to fire the stylist who keeps dressing her like a piece of furniture from an old Sears catalog OR she needs to actually hire one because WOOF. Time and time again people have shown photos of Jill in her latest bizarre dress and compared them to old sofas and curtains … but Twitter user Rondalee Iowa has made a ‘hobby’ of it and wow, the thread she put together is spectacular and...
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'Prairie Dogs': Scarborough Flogs His Gun-Control Hobby Horse Into the Ground
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NewsBusters ^
| Mark Finkelstein
Joe Scarborough is at it again: getting fixated on a word or phrase, and repeating it ad nauseam. Joe
might think he's being clever or impactful, but eventually, people become inured and bored by his endless repetition. We've documented sad Scarborough's verbal compulsions before, on everything from "bedbugs" to "toilets." Scarborough's Morning Joe hobby horse o' the day was "prairie dogs." In the first hour, the panel pronounced the term no fewer than 19 times. It came in the context of denouncing Sen John Thune (R-S.D.) and other Republicans who decline to ban "assault weapons" because they say their constituents...
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Hobby Lobby Loses Right to Maintain Sex-Separate Bathrooms
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Illinois Family Institute ^
| 8/20/2021 | Laurie Higgins
An Illinois Appellate Court just ruled that Hobby Lobby violated the Illinois Human Rights Act by refusing to allow a male employee who masquerades as a woman and goes by the name of “Meggan Renee” Sommerville to use the women’s restroom. If
this decision is not appealed and overturned, it will mean the end of sex-separated private spaces in all companies in Illinois, including stores and restaurants. Mark Thomas Sommerville was hired as the man he is and always will be by Hobby Lobby in 1998. In 2009, he began cross-sex hormone-doping to conceal his biological sex, and in 2010,...
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Hobby Lobby’s $1.6 million Gilgamesh tablet has been forfeited to the U.S.
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CNBC ^
| JUL 27 2021 - 5:07 PM EDT | Sarah Whitten
KEY POINTS A 3,500-year-old clay tablet purchased by the Hobby Lobby arts and crafts chain for $1.6 million has been forfeited to the United States. The tablet was illegally transported to the U.S. in 2003 and 2014. In
a complaint filed in May 2020, prosecutors said the 5-by-6-inch tablet is considered the property of the Iraqi government and should be returned. ======================================== A 3,500-year-old clay tablet purchased by the Hobby Lobby arts and crafts chain for $1.6 million has been forfeited to the United States. The tablet, which bears a portion of the epic of Gilgamesh, a Sumerian poem considered...
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Business Insider
DOJ seized the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet - a portion of the epic of Gilgamesh - from Hobby Lobby
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yahoonews ^
| 7/27/21 | Azmi Haroun,Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
The Department of Justice announced that it seized a tablet from the Epic of Gilgamesh. According to the DOJ, the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet was smuggled into the US and then auctioned off.The ancient tablet had been bought by Oklahoma-based arts and craft superstore Hobby Lobby. The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday
that it had recovered the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, a rare portion of the epic of Gilgamesh, from Oklahoma-based arts and crafts superstore Hobby Lobby.The epic of Gilgamesh is considered one of the most ancient works of literature and originally comes from Iraq. According to the Department of Justice,...
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Did Hobby Lobby Really Go ‘Full Dominionism’?
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Townhall.com ^
| July 5, 2021 | Michael Brown
On July 4th, Hobby Lobby took out a full-page ad in multiple newspapers featuring a prominently placed verse from the Bible along with numerous, pro-Christian, pro-Bible quotes from our Founding Fathers and other key leaders in our history. It
then closed with an appeal to seekers to find out more about Jesus. The response has been quite shrill, if not downright hysterical. But is the response in any way justified? According to a headline on the popular gay atheist blogsite, Joe My God, “Hobby Lobby Goes Full Dominionist In July 4th Ad.” A viral tweet claimed, “Hobby lobby took out...
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Donald Trump takes up a post-presidency hobby: revenge
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The Guardian ^
| 4/2/21
Every former American president picks up hobbies after leaving office (books, painting, skinny dipping, boxing). For
the early days of Donald Trump’s post-presidency he has picked something a little different: revenge. It’s early and presidents usually intentionally recede from public view dramatically after leaving office. But Trump appears uninterested in following that practice. The 45th president has amassed a post-presidential war chest of $31m. He has endorsed a former aide in an upcoming gubernatorial election in the shape of his former press secretary Sarah Sanders in Arkansas. And he has vowed to take revenge on high-profile Republicans who he sees...
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This Flip Lid Jar Is Ideal For Storing Any Of The Foods You've Made With Your New Pickling Hobby
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delish ^
| 12/24/2020 | This Flip Lid Jar Is Ideal For Storing Any Of The Foods You've Made With Your New Pickling Hobby
Here at Delish, we aren't shy about our love for pickles. We'll
put them in pretty much anything from hummus to mozzarella sticks to nachos. Sometimes, though, you want to go back to your roots and eat them straight out of the jar, and in such a case, Walmart has the perfect jar to store them in. This Flip Lid Jar is is designed specifically to keep marinated foods fresh while still keeping them easy to serve when needed. For example, items like pickles, olives, or jalapeños that typically come in jars submerged in their pickling liquids would be great...
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Biden says he would restore pre-Hobby Lobby contraceptive mandate in wake of Little Sisters ruling
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Fox News ^
| July 09 2020 | Tyler Olson
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was one of many on the left to express dismay at the Supreme Court's Wednesday ruling that the Trump administration acted within its authority when it expanded exemptions to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requirement that employers provide insurance that includes contraception, and promised he would
return to an Obama-era policy should he be elected. "As disappointing as the Supreme Court's ruling is, there is a clear path to fixing it: electing a new President who will end Donald Trump's ceaseless attempts to gut every aspect of the Affordable Care Act," Biden said in...
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Monterey County DA’s Office Warns Hobby Lobby of California Code Violation
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KSBW ^
| May 14, 2020
A member of the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office said the Salinas store was warned they were in violation of CALIFORNIA BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE 17200 The Monterey County District Attorney's Office is putting another Central Coast business on notice for potentially violating the county's shelter-in-place order. The
DA's office warned Hobby Lobby in Salinas that they were in violation of California Business and Professions Code 17200: "As used in this chapter, unfair competition shall mean and include any unlawful, unfair or fraudulent business act or practice and unfair, deceptive, untrue or misleading advertising." A representative of the DA's office...
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A New Hobby For You To Lose Yourself In While Boreantined
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Jalopnik ^
| 4/4/20 | Toni
For me, it is now week three of self isolation. A
bum immune system has kept me from leaving my house much, but luckily, I have an absurd array of inane solo hobbies to keep me occupied (plus, you know, writing these blogs), and I’m here to share one of my favorites with you all in these boring times. This is a 12" x 12" piece of plywood populated with model railroading supplies and $7 worth of Hot Wheels/Matchbox cars that I had sitting around. This is the ultimate sweet spot hobby of dollars spent/time invested, in that it is...
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Hobby Lobby faces criticism over products that 'encourage' gun violence
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Yahoo.com ^
| October 4, 2019 | By Paulina Cachero
Hobby Lobby, the arts-and-crafts giant whose evangelical Christian owners won a landmark religious-freedom ruling in U.S. Supreme Court several years back, is now under fire for selling signs that a customer alleges “glorify and encourage gun violence,” with some calling for a boycott of the chain. Shopper
Leslie Ruffing, 39, was at her local Hobby Lobby in Aurora, Ill. when she came across two gun-themed wall decorations. One of the metal signs read “We don’t call 911,” framed by two opposing pistols with their barrels crossed, and with bullets embedded in the number “1.” The other yellow metal placard says...
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