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Post by mhbruin on Oct 4, 2022 8:45:49 GMT -8
My wife is still hot. It just comes in flashes now.
Of Course Herschel Lie-Walker Lies About Paying for an Abortion
The Daily Beast reports that they did their due diligence and corroborated the story with the woman’s friend at the time, who also cared for her after the procedure.
Walker vehemently denied the story. And even made an appearance on Fox News’ Hannity to prove it.
When asked about the “serious accusations” and if he knew the woman, Walker replied with, “I have no idea,” and called the report a “flat-out lie.” He then said, “they were making up lies … to take this seat.” Then he asked for some money for his campaign.
When asked about his signature on the card, Walker denied ever seeing it, even after the photo was displayed on the screen. He said he sends out lots of cards, adding, “But I can tell you right now, I never asked anybody to get an abortion, I never paid for an abortion, and it’s a lie [...] And I will continue to fight.”
Walker, 60, claimed the story “energized him.”
When asked about the $700 check, he said he gives money to people all the time and then quoted a few Bible verses.
Then His Son, Christian Truth-Walker, Speaks Up
Listen to This
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 4, 2022 8:51:12 GMT -8
A Day in the Life Of Ivan
Forced into Prostitution and Suicide
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 4, 2022 8:54:10 GMT -8
The Law of Large Numbers. You Run Enough Drawings and 1-2-3-4-5-6 Will Come UpA lottery in the Philippines that saw 433 people hit the jackpot has drawn surprise and triggered scrutiny. It was the highest number of people to have ever won the Grand Lotto's top prize, according to local media. The winning combination for last weekend's 236m peso ($4m; £3.5m) jackpot was a series of numbers which were all multiples of nine. Philippines senate minority leader Koko Pimentel has called for an inquiry into the "suspicious" results. Participants in the Grand Lotto select six numbers from one to 55. To win the jackpot, all six of a player's numbers have to match those drawn by the lottery's operator. 
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 4, 2022 8:56:42 GMT -8
It's About Time!
The European Parliament has approved a new rule that will introduce a single charging port for mobile phones, tablets and cameras by 2024 in the European Union in a world-first measure that is expected to affect iPhone maker Apple more than its rivals.
Tuesday’s move confirms an earlier agreement among EU institutions and will make USB-C connectors used by Android-based devices the EU standard, forcing Apple to change its charging port for iPhones and other devices.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 4, 2022 8:58:26 GMT -8
A Real Texas Welcome!
A Honduran national who crossed the border into the U.S. told police that her baby was stolen and held for ransom after an El Paso, Texas, woman offered her a ride earlier this year, according to a federal criminal complaint.
The suspect, Jenna Leigh Roark, was arrested last month on charges of hostage taking and aiding and abetting. Attorney information was not listed for Roark in the court documents.
The FBI was alerted to the case on Sept. 26 when the St. Petersburg Police Department in Florida contacted them about a woman who said she had been separated from her infant son since May and was being extorted for money. At the time the woman made the complaint, she was living in Florida.
The woman, who is not named, told police that she crossed the border from Mexico and approached a man and woman in an El Paso apartment complex looking for directions to the bus station, the complaint states.
The woman said that Roark said her name was "Jenna" and the pair offered her a ride to the station. During the drive, Roark told the woman that she would keep the woman's son and the two women exchanged phone numbers, it says.
"Jane would periodically send victim pictures and videos of son and victim and son would speak on the phone two to three times a week," the complaint states.
But soon after, Roark allegedly told the woman that she had to pay $8,000 to get her son back. The complaint alleges that Roark later dropped the price to $5,800.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 4, 2022 9:01:36 GMT -8
This is No Joke. The Onion Files a SCOTUS Bried
The Onion has some serious things to say in defense of parody.
The satirical site that manages to persuade people to believe the absurd has filed a Supreme Court brief in support of a man who was arrested and prosecuted for making fun of police on social media.
“As the globe’s premier parodists, The Onion’s writers also have a self-serving interest in preventing political authorities from imprisoning humorists,” lawyers for the Onion wrote in a brief filed Monday. “This brief is submitted in the interest of at least mitigating their future punishment.”
The court filing doesn’t entirely keep a straight face, calling the federal judiciary “total Latin dorks.”
The Onion said it employs 350,000 people, is read by 4.3 trillion people and “has grown into the single most powerful and influential organization in human history.”
The Supreme Court case involves Anthony Novak, who was arrested after he spoofed the Parma, Ohio, police force in Facebook posts.
The posts were published over 12 hours and included an announcement of new police hiring “strongly encouraging minorities to not apply.” Another post promoted a fake event in which child sex offenders could be “removed from the sex offender registry and accepted as an honorary police officer.”
After being acquitted of criminal charges, the man sued the police for violating his constitutional rights. But a federal appeals court ruled the officers have “qualified immunity” and threw out the lawsuit.
One issue is whether people might reasonably have believed that what they saw on Novak’s site was real.
But the Onion said Novak had no obligation to post a disclaimer. “Put simply, for parody to work, it has to plausibly mimic the original,” the Onion said, noting its own tendency to mimic “the dry tone of an Associated Press news story.”
More than once, people have republished the Onion’s claims as true, including when it reported in 2012 that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was the sexiest man alive.
The brief concludes with a familiar call for the court to hear the case and a twist.
“The petition for certiorari should be granted, the rights of the people vindicated, and various historical wrongs remedied. The Onion would welcome any one of the three, particularly the first,” lawyers for the Onion wrote.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 4, 2022 9:16:38 GMT -8
Khershon Will Be a Russian Disaster, Like the Germans at StalingradIt would be possible to simply list villages and towns liberated by Ukrainian forces. And it would still be long. From Kherson to Kharkiv—and at nearly every stop in between—Russia’s army is in retreat, Ukrainian forces are advancing, and the speed of the change is incredible. Kos was right on when he stated back at the end of August that the Russian Army had culminated. But I don’t think he, or Volodymyr Zelenskyy, anticipated just how extensively, and how rapidly, that Russian army would collapse. In parts of both Kherson and northern Kharkiv, Ukrainian forces don’t seem to be so much fighting their way past Russian defenses, as they are … strolling into town. And if there’s any shortage the Ukrainian army may be facing at the moment, it could be a shortage of Ukrainian flags. The advance that began over the weekend in Kherson was initially focused on the western bank of the Dnipro River, but has since become a general rout all across the northern area that was previously occupied by Russia.  Ukraine has advanced over 20km on both the east and west of this area. So far that Davydiv Brid could soon be has been taken from the north, rather than the west. The bridgehead that Ukraine established across the Inhulets River, and fought so hard to maintain, is just a few kilometers away from being incorporated into this general southward advance. how a smart, capable, flexible, motivated army can use terrain, enemy incompetence, and operational art to beat a cretinously led army.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 4, 2022 9:21:22 GMT -8
How Could They Possibly Think This Was Funny?
In a viral video, members of a California high school football team were shown auctioning off their Black teammates in a mock slave auction that on Friday, which put an end to the school's football season. The footage, which was shared on TikTok and later deleted, showed the athletes at River Valley High School wearing little more than underwear in front of a boisterous crowd of their peers pretending to bid for them. Yuba City Unified School District Superintendent Doreen Osumi described the video as "unacceptable" and "deeply offensive" in a statement CNN obtained.
She said the students involved in the video violated the student athlete code of conduct and have been prohibited from competing the rest of the season. “As a result, we do not have the necessary number of players to safely field the varsity team and must thus forfeit the remainder of the season,” Osumi said in the statement.
She said the district and school administrators are working to find ways to help their students learn from this situation. “Re-enacting a slave sale as a prank tells us that we have a great deal of work to do with our students so they can distinguish between intent and impact,” Osumi wrote. “They may have thought this skit was funny, but it is not; it is unacceptable and requires us to look honestly and deeply at issues of systemic racism.”
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 4, 2022 9:23:09 GMT -8
Fuck Off, Elon!
Elon Musk drew backlash on Monday from Ukrainian officials, including President Volodymyr Zelensky, for his unsolicited advice on how to bring about “peace” amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of the country.
In a Twitter poll, Musk suggested a path to “Ukraine-Russia Peace” that included re-doing elections “under UN supervision” in the regions of the country recently annexed illegally by Russia. The land grab, covering nearly a fifth of Ukraine, followed referendums that have been widely dismissed as “shams” by much of the world.
The billionaire Tesla CEO also suggested making Crimea, a region Russia invaded and annexed from Ukraine in 2014, “formally part of Russia.” He added in bullet points: “Water supply to Crimea assured” and “Ukraine remains neutral.”
This is what happens when you get so wealthy there is no one with sense around you to tell you, “NO!”
So it was left to the Ukrainians to tell Musk what they thought of his “peace plan.”
A majority of respondents on Twitter voted “No” in response to Musk’s poll. In a follow-up tweet, Musk appeared to blame these results on a “bot attack.”…
But his latest musings were not well-received by Ukrainian officials, after a months-long war that has left a trail of untold devastation in the region.
“F— off is my very diplomatic reply to you,” Ukraine’s Ambassador to Germany Andrij Melnyk wrote in response to Musk’s Twitter thread.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 4, 2022 9:26:42 GMT -8
Worst Political Ad of the Year?
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 4, 2022 9:34:34 GMT -8
Raise Your Hand If You Are Surprised By This.
Abuse and misconduct "had become systemic" in the United States' top-flight National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), an independent investigation has found.
Governing body US Soccer said it would move immediately to implement reforms.
An investigation was launched last year following allegations made against North Carolina Courage's English head coach Paul Riley, who was sacked.
Riley, who has coached women's teams since 2006, has denied the accusations.
After the alleged offences against Riley came to light, a round of NWSL games were suspended before players halted matches in their own displays of unity, while league commissioner Lisa Baird resigned.
US Soccer appointed Sally Yates and King & Spalding LLP to conduct the independent inquiry, who spoke to more than 200 NWSL players.
"Our investigation has revealed a league in which abuse and misconduct - verbal and emotional abuse and sexual misconduct - had become systemic, spanning multiple teams, coaches, and victims," the Yates report said.
"Abuse in the NWSL is rooted in a deeper culture in women's soccer that normalises verbally abusive coaching and blurs boundaries between coaches and players.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 4, 2022 9:36:07 GMT -8
One of Previous Guy's Lawyers Didn't Fall For It.
Former president Donald Trump asked one of his lawyers to tell the National Archives and Records Administration in early 2022 that Trump had returned all materials requested by the agency, but the lawyer declined because he was not sure the statement was true, according to people familiar with the matter.
As it turned out, thousands more government documents — including some highly classified secrets — remained at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and private club. The later discovery of those documents, through a May grand jury subpoena and the Aug. 8 FBI search of the Florida property, are at the heart of a criminal investigation into the potential mishandling of classified material and the possible hiding, tampering or destruction of government records.
Alex Cannon, an attorney for Trump, had facilitated the January transfer of 15 boxes of presidential records from Mar-a-Lago to the National Archives, after archives officials agitated for more than a year to get “all original presidential records” back, which they are required by law to do. Following months of stonewalling by Trump’s representatives, archives officials threatened to get the Justice Department or Congress involved.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 4, 2022 9:37:58 GMT -8
Come to California. Get a Pill
A Phoenix abortion clinic has come up with a way for patients who can end their pregnancy using a pill to get the medication quickly without running afoul of a resurrected Arizona law that bans most abortions.
Under the arrangement that began Monday, patients will have an ultrasound in Arizona, get a prescription through a telehealth appointment with a California doctor and then have it mailed to a post office in a California border town for pickup, all for free.
While not as easy as before an Arizona judge ruled that a pre-statehood law criminalizing nearly all abortions could be enforced nearly two weeks ago, the process saves an overnight trip to a major California city with an abortion clinic. And it is more accessible than the previous workaround used by Camelback Family Planning in Phoenix, which was to have a doctor in Sweden prescribe the pills and a pharmacy in India mail them to Arizona. That could take up to three weeks.
Ashleigh Feiring, a nurse at the clinic, said the cost of the pills will be covered by the Abortion Fund of Arizona, which is helping women pay for out-of-state access to abortions. Women can use a pill for an abortion until the 12th week of pregnancy. Pills and surgical abortions were legal until about 24 weeks until the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in June and allowed states to ban all abortions.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 4, 2022 9:39:24 GMT -8
Dr PuppyKiller
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman has branded his Republican opponent Dr. Mehmet Oz "sick" following a report that Oz supervised experiments that caused the deaths of more than 300 dogs.
Fetterman, who is running for Pennsylvania's open Senate seat and is currently the state's lieutenant governor, took to Twitter on Monday and accused Oz of being a "puppy killer."
Jezebel reported on Monday that Oz had supervised experiments at the Columbia University Institute of Comparative Medicine between 1989 and 2010 that had resulted in the deaths of at least 329 dogs, as well as other animals.
"I LOVE my dogs," Fetterman tweeted. "Apparently some sick people like Dr. Oz get their jollies by harming animals..." There is no evidence to suggest Oz took pleasure in the animal experimentation or any deaths.
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Post by sagobob on Oct 4, 2022 12:48:50 GMT -8
Worst Political Ad of the Year? Now I know what goes on in a MENSA meeting. |
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