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  • Applebee’s waitress was stabbed after she brushed up against diner’s leg, cops say

    07/13/2018 11:44:03 AM PDT · by rightwingintelligentsia · 88 replies
    Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | July 13, 2018 | Chelsea Prince
    A waitress required 15 stitches after she was attacked by four women she served Tuesday night at a Henry County Applebee’s. The women beat and punched the waitress and stabbed her in the forearm with a steak knife, McDonough police Maj. Kyle Helgerson told AJC.com. They allegedly took her tips before they skipped out on a $62.57 bill. Helgerson said it all started when the women were having dinner at the Industrial Boulevard location in McDonough, and one of the diners was sitting with her leg out in an aisle. “The waitress had brushed up against her leg,” Helgerson said....
  • Civil servant skipped work for a decade and nobody noticed

    07/13/2018 11:10:36 AM PDT · by Innovative · 46 replies
    NY Post ^ | July 12, 2018 | Frank Chung,
    A Spanish public servant who skipped work for a decade without anyone noticing spent his free time running a male brothel and drawing erotic comics. Carles Recio, who was paid a €50,000 ($58,000) salary as an archives director in Valencia’s provincial government, would show up to the office every morning at 7:30 a.m. to clock in using the fingerprint scanner before heading home, only returning to the office at 3:30 p.m. to clock out. He kept up the routine for 10 years before colleagues began to raise suspicions. After Spanish newspaper El Mundo broke the story 18 months ago, Recio...
  • What Trump should say while in UK

    07/13/2018 6:34:03 AM PDT · by Tell It Right · 9 replies
    At every stop in England Trump should quote our 1st Amendment and highlight perhaps the #1 deference between us and England. #FreeTommyRobinson
  • Fake News Won't Slam Caricature Balloon of Trump. What if it were Obama?

    07/13/2018 5:37:56 AM PDT · by SoFloFreeper · 31 replies
    7/13/18 | sff
    Looking at American media coverage I see no criticism of the silly Trump balloon. But what would the reaction be if a group created a mocking balloon of B Hussein Obama?
  • As Trade War Persists, Mnuchin Says China Talks Have 'Broken Down'

    07/12/2018 8:44:38 PM PDT · by cba123 · 7 replies
    New York Times ^ | 7/12/2018 | By Alan Rappeport and Jim Tankersley
    WASHINGTON — The trade war between the United States and China showed no signs of yielding on Thursday, as Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, told lawmakers there was no clear path to resolution and Beijing blasted the administration over its approach. (whaah) Trump is doing great. The first US President, who I dare say that about.
  • Three men arrested in unrelated attempted breaches of White House, Capitol grounds

    07/12/2018 7:11:11 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 15 replies
    lmtonline.com ^ | July 12, 2018 | Peter Hermann, The Washington Post
    <p>WASHINGTON - Three men were arrested in the past week after authorities said they tried to breach security barriers at the White House or violated orders to stay away from the U.S. Capitol and other government buildings. The incidents were unrelated.</p>
  • Any Odds on Lisa Page?

    07/12/2018 4:47:09 PM PDT · by originalbuckeye · 66 replies
    Vanity | 7/12/18 | Originalbuckeye
    Anyone have odds on Lisa Page going to the hospital with ‘exhaustion’, so she doesn’t have to face the music tomorrow?
  • Build-A-Bear 'pay your age' offer abandoned amid 'chaos'

    07/12/2018 1:26:44 PM PDT · by rightwingintelligentsia · 59 replies
    BBC ^ | July 12, 2018
    A cheap teddy offer which left shoppers with young children queuing for up to eight hours amid chaotic scenes has been abandoned over "safety concerns". Build-A-Bear Workshop was offering UK customers a chance to buy any bear, which can cost up to £52, for the price of their child's age. At Leeds' White Rose Shopping Centre police were called when queues of "about a mile long" formed. The company said the response had been "overwhelming and unprecedented". There have also been reports of long queues in US shopping centres, where the American company was also putting on the same promotion...
  • Polls say abortion views do not align with party affiliation

    07/12/2018 12:24:18 PM PDT · by heterosupremacist · 16 replies
    https://cruxnow.com ^ | 07/12/2018 | Christine Rouselle
    WASHINGTON, D.C. - Abortion in the United States is usually thought of as a deeply partisan issue. The majority of Republicans in Congress support restrictions on abortion, and the Democratic Party has included support and public funding for abortion in its most recent official party platform. Outside the beltway, however, viewpoints about abortion don’t divide neatly among party lines. Some recent polls show broad support for some abortion rights among Republicans, and another suggests that a noteworthy number of Democrats are in favor of overturning Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that cemented abortion’s legality in the United States....
  • Pakistan: New party gaining popularity by insisting that “blasphemers” must be put to death

    07/12/2018 12:14:18 PM PDT · by heterosupremacist · 25 replies
    https://www.jihadwatch.org ^ | 07/12/2018 | Robert Spencer
    “Ahead of Pakistan’s general elections later this month, the newly established Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) party is gaining traction with its anti-blasphemy agenda.” This is because its Islamic message resonates with the serious Muslims in Pakiustan. Islam mandates death for non-Muslim subjects of the Islamic state who mention “something impermissible about Allah, the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), or Islam” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o11.10), and such laws are based upon passages in the Hadith and Sira in which Muhammad orders the murders of people who have insulted him. These include Abu Afak, who was over one hundred years old,...
  • Missouri man pleads guilty to terrorism charge for stopping Amtrak train in Nebraska

    07/12/2018 12:08:30 PM PDT · by posterchild · 16 replies
    Lincoln Journal Star ^ | July 12, 2018 | Lori Pilger
    A 26-year-old Missouri man pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge Thursday for bringing an Amtrak train to a stop in southwest Nebraska last October and sending passengers into a panic. Taylor M. Wilson, of St. Charles, Missouri, also pleaded guilty to possessing an unregistered 9 mm CZ Scorpion EVO 3 S1 rifle, one of several guns FBI agents found in a search of his home, as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors there. Several other counts will be dismissed at his sentencing Oct. 5. "Why did you stop it (the train)?" Magistrate Judge Cheryl Zwart asked Wilson at his...
  • NATIONAL PECAN PIE DAY - July 12

    07/12/2018 12:02:10 PM PDT · by heterosupremacist · 12 replies
    recipe at link ~ National Pecan Pie Day is observed annually on July 12th. The delicious pecan pie is made primarily with corn syrup, pecan nuts, salt and vanilla flavoring with some variations including sugar syrup and molasses or maple syrup. Chocolate and bourbon whiskey are popular additions in some regions of the country. Pecan pie is often served with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream...
  • ‘She was going to retire soon.’ Postal carrier dies in truck in 117-degree heat wave

    07/12/2018 6:42:31 AM PDT · by rightwingintelligentsia · 73 replies
    Sacramento Bee ^ | July 10, 2018 | DON SWEENEY
    Peggy Frank had worked as a carrier for the U.S Post Office for 28 years. At age 63, she’d started planning for her upcoming retirement, her family told KTLA. “Now she can’t,” Lynn Calkins, her sister, told the station. Frank died Friday after being found unresponsive in her mail truck on her route during a blistering Southern California heat wave. It was her first day back at work after months recuperating from a broken ankle, KTLA reported. Temperatures reached a high of 117 degrees that day in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles where Frank died delivering mail in...
  • Q Anon: 07/11/18 "Trust The Plan"

    07/11/2018 10:42:10 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 1,151 replies
    qanon.pub/ ^ | 07/11/2018 | FReepers, vanity
    “Trust The Plan” YouTube President Trump This Video Will Get Donald Trump Elected (The Plan) - 6 min YouTube Joe Masepoes Q - The Plan To Save The World - 13 min - popular introduction YouTube Thoughts Not Bots Who is Q - 4 min - quick overview Twitter Paul Serran What is Q? - 31 point introduction Threadreader ImperatorRex A thread on how Team Trump is preparing the normies for what is coming : major Swamp Draining. - overview Article Sundance Imagine You are Not a Politician, Yet You are Running For The Presidency - overview PDF Anonymous...
  • Thailand Cave Rescue To Be Turned Into Hollywood Movie

    07/11/2018 8:06:44 PM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 23 replies
    Yahoo ^ | 07/11/18 | AFP
    The mission to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach from a Thai cave is to get the Hollywood treatment in a movie announced by faith-based production house Pure Flix. Managing partner Michael Scott, who lives in Thailand and was at the rescue site in Chiang Rai as the boys were being pulled to safety, made the announcement late Tuesday on Twitter. "I couldn't be more excited. This story has meant so much to me as I have followed it in Thailand this summer," he said in a video filmed at the scene of the flooded cave in the country's...
  • Where is Tucker?

    07/11/2018 5:20:32 PM PDT · by originalbuckeye · 16 replies
    Vanity | 7/11/18 | Originalbuckeye
    This is the third night Tucker Carlson isn’t on his show. Does anybody know where he is? Vacation? FoxNews doesn’t say. And Martha says (at the end of her program) Tucker’s next up....and then he’s not.
  • Melania to meet with British vets and school children - details of her London visit....

    07/11/2018 4:39:56 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 11 replies
    The first couple heads to London on Thursday. It will not be an official state visit with all the pomp and circumstance that comes with such a designation but, instead, a working visit. While her husband meets with British Prime Minister Theresa May, Melania will have her own agenda with Philip May. ... Details haven't been released on what school she will visit or where she will meet with veterans but children have long been an interest for the first lady..... And while it's not a formal state visit, there will be plenty of opportunities for the first lady to shine....
  • FarmerDean Update (great news for a change!)

    07/11/2018 4:09:12 PM PDT · by fieldmarshaldj · 13 replies
    n/a ^ | 7-10-2018 | dp0622
    FarmerDean, who has no physical right to be alive according to natural law, will be going home under GOD’S law in a few weeks. After over a YEAR fighting for his life from a botched cancer surgery of his intestines and MANY MANY nights where I thought he was going to God, the farmer/man/beast is going home and will once again one day heap 50 pound bails on a truck for hours at 66!! I just got a hernia thinking about it!!! :) God doesn’t always give us what we ask for and we can’t and aren’t supposed to understand...
  • Why is the left so concerned about straws?

    07/11/2018 3:23:17 PM PDT · by Jonty30 · 71 replies
    Demarketing plastic products in order to try and demarket oil?
  • Pakistan: Muslims murder candidate who was foe of Taliban with jihad martyrdom...

    07/11/2018 10:42:37 AM PDT · by heterosupremacist · 5 replies
    https://www.jihadwatch.org ^ | 07/11/2018 | Robert Spencer
    Full title: Pakistan: Muslims murder candidate who was foe of Taliban with jihad martyrdom suicide bomb as he campaigns. SHAWAR, Pakistan — A candidate from a political party opposed to the Taliban was killed in a suicide bombing late Tuesday as he campaigned in northwestern Pakistan, just weeks before the country goes to the polls. At least 12 people were killed and dozens were wounded, several of them critically, police and hospital officials said. The death toll was expected to rise, officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but immediate suspicion fell on the Pakistani Taliban, which has...