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  • Florida Police Confiscate 180kg Pet Pig Over Welfare Concerns

    12/14/2023 1:25:01 PM PST · by allen592 · 29 replies
    The Pet Zealot ^ | December 14, 2023 | James Alain L.
    In a heart-wrenching turn of events, Florida police have confiscated a 180kg pet pig named Pork Chop from its owner, Kelly Jacobson. Worries about the animal's welfare prompted the authorities to take action, leaving Jacobson devastated and determined to fight for custody. While she acknowledges the concerns raised, Jacobson is determined to demonstrate that Pork Chop is well cared for and loved.
  • Tom Cruise ‘saves agent from being fired’ over pro-Palestine posts

    11/24/2023 7:21:12 PM PST · by NoLibZone · 41 replies
    The Independent UK ^ | MAANYA SACHDEVA
    Tom Cruise reportedly stepped in to back his agent, one of the top Hollywood representatives, after her pro-Palestine social media posts sparked an industry-wide controversy. Maha Dakhil, 48, was among the most important talent managers at reputed firm Creative Artists Agency (CAA) until last month, when she faced intense criticism for describing Israel’s war against Hamas as “genocide” on Instagram. “What’s more heartbreaking than witnessing genocide? Witnessing the denial that genocide is happening,” she reportedly captioned one of her posts. She apparently also reshared a statement, first posted by the Free Palestine account, which read: “You’re currently learning who supports...
  • 'Super pig' Prairie problem now approaching the U.S. border (tasty pork cutlets and ribs are heading in your direction)

    11/24/2023 5:26:30 AM PST · by jerod · 103 replies
    AP via CBC News ^ | Nov 23, 2023 | Steve Karnowski
    Hard-to-eradicate swine exploding in Canada and threatening to spill south of the border: expertAn exploding population of hard-to-eradicate "super pigs" in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states like Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana are taking steps to stop the invasion. In Canada, the wild pigs roaming Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba pose a new threat. Ryan Brook, a professor at the University of Saskatchewan and one of Canada's leading authorities on the problem, calls feral swine, "the most invasive animal on the planet" and "an ecological train wreck." They are often crossbreeds that combine the...
  • Pig named Kevin Bacon returns home after 17 days on the loose

    11/01/2023 1:01:08 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 23 replies
    UPI ^ | NOV. 1, 2023 / 1:05 PM | By Ben Hooper
    Nov. 1 (UPI) -- An escaped Pennsylvania pig named Kevin Bacon is back home after rescue efforts including a Benadryl-laced sticky bun and a plea for help from the actor who shares his name. Chelsea Rumbaugh of Gettysburg said the 200-pound Juliana pig was captured after 17 days on the loose when he returned to her property and wandered into the new pen she and her husband constructed after the escape. "I had come outside with my husband to do a perimeter walk of our property to see if Kevin was hiding in the woods," Rumbaugh told the Philly Voice....
  • 2023 Congressional Pig Book

    10/06/2023 5:37:18 PM PDT · by ATOMIC_PUNK · 5 replies
    https://www.cagw.org ^ | 2023 | Democrats, Republicans, and thier minions
    2023 Congressional Pig Book https://www.cagw.org/reporting/pig-book The Congressional Pig Book is CAGW's annual compilation of the pork-barrel projects in the federal budget. A "pork" project is a line-item in an appropriations bill that designates tax dollars for a specific purpose in circumvention of established budgetary procedures. To qualify as pork, a project must meet one of seven criteria that were developed in 1991 by CAGW and the Congressional Porkbusters Coalition. Earmarks continue to provide the most benefit to those with spots on prime congressional committees. In FY 2023, the 89 members of the House and Senate appropriations committees, making up only...
  • Fred the Pig Caught After Mischief Rampage

    10/06/2023 5:28:02 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 19 replies
    BBC ^ | 10/6 | Nadine Yousif
    After numerous complaints of mischief in the city of Aurora, a 400lb (181kg) culprit has finally been caught loitering outside a shopping centre.Officials say Fred, who dodged them for several days, is "always hungry" and "loves his belly scratches". Aurora Animal Services knew they were looking for a pig, they were surprised at just how big he was. It took about eight people and five hours to capture him. They now hope to find his forever home. "He's almost like a dog in behaviour, so we want to maintain his life of being a happy, social pig," said Augusta Allen,...
  • PLUS-SIZE TRAVEL INFLUENCER JAE’LYNN CHANEY REVEALS 7 DEMANDS FOR HOTEL INDUSTRY: GIVE US ‘SIZE-INCLUSIVE’ AMENITIES

    10/03/2023 10:33:27 AM PDT · by ConservativeInPA · 85 replies
    Outkick ^ | October 2, 2023 | JOE KINSEY
    , the massive airline passenger who demanded airlines provide free tickets to bigguns’ to enjoy an extra seat to accommodate their fat rolls, is back and now she’s taking aim at the hotel industry. The plump provocateur is calling on the hotels to accommodate hotel guests by making hallways wider and adding “size-inclusive” amenities. In one of her latest TikToks, Chaney claims she’s “on a mission to revolutionize the travel industry and make it a more accessible, accepting, accommodating place for all.” Wait, what’s the problem with hotels? Don’t they already offer king beds and walk-in showers where the doors...
  • The Uneasy Truth About Traveling While Fat

    09/19/2023 9:48:31 AM PDT · by JonPreston · 138 replies
    Thrillist.com ^ | 9/15/23 | Cheyenne Davis
    In 2019, on a trip to the Bahamas with my mom and sister, my flight turned into an uncomfortable ordeal. My seat belt wasn’t long enough to fasten, and a fellow passenger's visceral reaction added to my discomfort. I repeatedly asked the flight attendant for a seat belt extender and was ignored until takeoff, leaving me feeling disregarded and disrespected.And this wasn’t the first time I’ve dealt with this particular kind of travel stress. I went to Paris in 2014, and found the city cramped and unwelcoming. Narrow staircases, tiny chairs, and compact showers were just the beginning. Throughout my...
  • Zelensky Introduces Bill to Abolish Christmas on 7 January

    07/06/2023 6:14:04 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 23 replies
    Union of Orthodox Journalists ^ | 6/28/23 | Yaroslav Nivkin
    President proposed cancelling a day off on 7 January, as well as moving the dates of Statehood Day and Defenders Day, which coincide with Orthodox holidays, by 13 days.On 28 June 2023, Volodymyr Zelensky registered Bill 9431, which envisages cancelling the celebration of Christmas on 7 January in Ukraine, as well as postponing the dates of Statehood Day and Defenders’ Day, which coincide with the Orthodox holidays of the Baptism of Rus' and the Intercession of the Virgin Mary. The explanatory note says that "the purpose of the bill is to reject the Russian legacy of imposing Christmas on 7...
  • The Morning Briefing: The Bidens Are About to Get 'Harvey Weinstein-ed,' and Here Are Joe's 'Secret Audio Bribery Tapes' You've Been Dying to Hear!

    06/19/2023 6:43:28 AM PDT · by george76 · 64 replies
    PJ Media ^ | JUNE 19, 2023 | Kevin Downey Jr.
    Bye-bye Bidens. The Bidens are done. I know, I know, we have reasonable suspicion to believe the Biden crime family will never be held accountable for the treasonous bribes Joe has accepted and passed through to his family of Delaware trash, but remember this: Everyone knew Harvey Weinstein was a pig and no one said a word… Until one person started talking about it… Soon everyone was talking about it… Then cops had no choice but to stop playing dumb and arrest him. That is where the Bidens are now. We all know they took mad stacks to make decisions...
  • JPMorgan CEO Suggests Gov’t Should Seize Private Property For Clean Energy Projects

    04/05/2023 2:59:33 PM PDT · by thegagline · 62 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | 04/05/2023 | Brianna Lyman
    JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said in his annual shareholder letter Tuesday that the government may need to seize private property to advance clean energy initiatives. Dimon discussed the need to quickly begin investing in solar projects and other green initiatives and suggested that the government should use eminent domain to seize property for those projects. “At the same time, permitting reforms are desperately needed to allow investment to be done in any kind of timely way. We may even need to evoke [sic] eminent domain – we simply are not getting the adequate investments fast enough for grid, solar,...
  • Pig kills butcher in Hong Kong slaughterhouse

    01/23/2023 12:22:13 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 57 replies
    NY Post ^ | January 23, 2023 | Lee Brown
    A pig appears to have got the ultimate revenge at a Hong Kong slaughterhouse — knocking over and killing a butcher with the cleaver about to be used on him. Police told CNN that the pig had been shot with an electric stun gun at the Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse on Friday when it suddenly woke and pounced on a 61-year-old worker. The swine knocked over his would-be slaughterer — who seemingly dropped his 15-inch meat cleaver onto his own foot. Another worker found the butcher — named by local media as Cai — with the cleaver in his hand and...
  • BACON DAY – December 30 - It's here! It's Here!

    12/30/2022 5:25:54 AM PST · by Red Badger · 50 replies
    National Day Calendar ^ | December 30, 2022 | Staff
    BACON DAY On December 30th each year, bacon lovers celebrate one of nature’s favored gifts on Bacon Day! The day reminds us that bacon is not just for breakfast and encourages us to test out various ways to enjoy this culinary marvel. #BaconDay Everything is better with bacon, so someone said once. And our research shows very little to dispute this assertion. The United States and Canada make bacon from the pork belly. Other countries around the world use the side and back cuts of pork. The meat is cured in either a salt brine or a salt pack. It...
  • Henry Ford’s Great Grandson Forces Church to Remove Cross Display Mourning 64 Million Aborted Babies

    10/14/2022 7:09:40 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 46 replies
    Life News ^ | 10/6/22 | Micaiah Bilger
    The millionaire great-grandson of Henry Ford used his influence to force a Michigan church to take down part of its pro-life display this month. Edsel B. Ford II complained to the City of Grosse Pointe that the display at St. Paul on the Lake Catholic Church was ugly and a “blight” on the community, The Federalist reports. Ford retired from the board of Ford Motor last year, according to ABC News. The city responded “immediately” by ordering the church to take down its pro-life sign or replace it with a smaller one to comply with a city zoning ordinance, according...
  • Disgraced ex-Gov. Cuomo allowed to keep $5.1M from COVID book deal after court win

    08/16/2022 3:26:46 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 17 replies
    NY Post ^ | August 16, 2022 | By Zach Williams
    Disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo can keep his pandemic memoir money — at least for now. An Albany County court ruled Tuesday that a now-defunct state ethics watchdog overstepped its authority when it ordered Cuomo to surrender the $5.1 million he received from a controversial book deal inked while still in office. The Joint Commission on Public Ethics, which was wound up at the end of June, had argued that Cuomo – who resigned amid multiple scandals last year – improperly used staff and other state resources while writing “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic” in 2020. But...
  • Massachusetts Wants Your Bacon

    08/12/2022 10:44:45 AM PDT · by DUMBGRUNT · 40 replies
    WSJ ^ | 10 Aug 2022 | The Editorial Board
    New rules on pork production will lead to regional shortages. Bay State voters in 2016 approved a referendum that would prohibit the sale of products from farms that confine “any breeding pig [sow], calf raised for veal, or egg-laying hen in a way that prevents the animal from lying down, standing up, fully extending its limbs, or turning around freely.” Hog farmers would be most affected since nearly all are housed in individual pens. “There’s so many things that there’s shortages on, it’s almost like throwing salt on a wound,” ...If Massachusetts can prohibit the sale and mere distribution of...
  • Rattled Putin rants about West's 'empire of lies' as worldwide sanctions reduce rouble to rubble: Desperate leader hikes interest rate to 20% sparking rush on ATMS, US cuts off Russia's central bank - and now even Switzerland slaps Kremlin with penalties

    02/28/2022 11:11:04 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 158 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 2/28/2022 | James Gant
    A smirking Vladimir Putin today ranted about the West's 'empire of lies' and banned Russians from sending their money abroad from midnight as worldwide sanctions caused the rouble to tumble and sparked a nationwide rush to withdraw cash. The currency sank 30 per cent in early trading before easing back to stand 20 per cent down. Its collapsing value risks wiping out the savings of ordinary Russians, who have been seen flocking to ATMs all over the country to empty their accounts, including in Putin's home city of St Petersburg. But as the Russian economy tanked, the Russian President took...
  • Ukraine National Guard Shares Video of Fighters Greasing Bullets In Pig Fat for Chechen ‘Orcs’

    02/27/2022 4:03:13 PM PST · by bimboeruption · 82 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 2-27-2022 | Jack Montgomery
    The National Guard of Ukraine has shared video footage of “Azov fighters” greasing bullets with pig fat for Chechen “orcs” deployed in their country on their verified Twitter account. The Checehn Republic, a Muslim-majority federal subject of the Russian Federation headed by Islamist strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, is reported to have sent forces to Ukraine to support President Vladimir Patin’s ongoing invasion of the country, with Kadyrov sharing video footage which purports to show Chehen fighters replacing the Ukrainian flag with a Russian flag at a captured military facility. Kadyrov has boasted he could amass a 70,000-strong force to send to...
  • FNC’s Geraldo Rivera: Conservative Media Has Gone from ‘Support to Incitement’ of Canadian Truckers

    02/16/2022 4:28:26 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 61 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/16/2022 | Pam Key
    Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera said Wednesday on “The Five” that conservative media went from “support to incitement” of truckers protesting COVID restrictions in Canada. Rivera said, “You know what is not popular in Canada is this trucker, this ‘Freedom Convoy.’ What about the freedom of the homeowners to live in peace? What about the freedom of the shopkeepers to do business? What about the freedom of the autoworkers to get parts so they can put their cars together?”
  • Pennsylvania school board member tells parents 'I don't work for you'.

    01/23/2022 6:05:08 AM PST · by Carriage Hill · 94 replies
    Fox News ^ | 1.23.2022 | Adam Sabes
    One Pennsylvania school board member has a message for parents: "No, I don't work for you." York Suburban School District school board member Richard Robinson wrote an op-ed in the York Dispatch explaining his claim.