Festival week peaks and ends today. On the one hand, we’ll miss the revenue. On the other… I will not miss the attendee demographic. Boomer affluent white prog entitled NPR-chip-implanted… I mean, they hit every stereotype. One of our very best front of house staff refuses to commit to more hours because she just can’t deal with them. She gets yelled at 5 or 6 times a day, and in perfect Karen mode, WebDom is summoned to the counter to hear the complaint to the manager, usually because our FoH can’t add a side for no charge, or ring up porkless bacon, or have an infinite variety of gluten-free substitutions for everything on the menu, or sell a dish that was taken off the menu a decade ago. I mean, this is worse than Hitler and how can we possibly be so thoughtless as to not anticipate this Boomer’s desires needs.
But everyone is entitled to birthdays. Those today include the greatest contributor to equality; an artist with a definite kink; a hottie who definitely had an edge to her; one of the greatest animators to walk this earth, and another argument for immigration’s contribution to the greatness of America; one of the last of the Team Red Brahmans; a guy who managed to make Richard Nixon look good; another major contributor to equality among men; and one of my favorite comedians and here’s a clip of why I love the guy.“
And in this case, Links are for openers.
Obama was an amoral piece of shit? I’m shocked, SHOCKED. And of course, the wagons are being circled by the usual suspects.
Let’s focus on the important stuff.
They can just never say “Hamas” when they euphemize their sources.
Just curious how you’re going to serve the defendants.
If you’re thinking about dieting, here’s a perfect way to lose your appetite.
“Ideological motive.” What could it be, I wonder…
So we’re stupidly trying to kill tourism. Gotcha.
The Catholic Church is always true to its roots.
The Old Guy hasn’t posted any shredgrass for, oh, at least a week. So it’s time.
“ She gets yelled at 5 or 6 times a day”
All she gotta do is cut one bitch…
This is why the cafe should be upstairs. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade style “No Ticket” would shut them up too….
Say “You sound just like that MAGA clown who was complaining earlier today.”. That should embarrass the hell out of them. Or precipitate an assault whereupon FoH files charges.
Don’t all these folks have a “No Kings” rally to get to or something? I feel for your wait staff… though I can’t help but assume WebDom (being Glib to her core) produces some unexpectedly humorous “Karen v. Manager” conversations…
Morning all.
One maybe two well timed Ayn Rand quotes would probably clear out the Karens.
Please – they’ve never read that wrongthinker’s work. They wouldn’t recognize any quotes.
#metoo
Living in Progtown is only bearable when you don’t have to deal with any of them. *shudder*
There seriously is one every Tuesday at the traffic light (our one and only).
We have to tread lightly because our customer base would evaporate instantly if our actual politics and values were known. This is a remarkably intolerant place.
Institute ‘equity pricing;’ offer the Boomers a -50%* price reduction to thank them for their lifelong support of tolerance! They get to believe they are saving money. You get a 50% surcharge which you can share with the staff as hazard pay, and amusement at innumeracy.
Nota bene, this is not a 50% discount, this is a -50% discount.
50% surcharge for using the term “boomers”.
Fucking Millenials/Gen Z and their fucking ahistorical dispshittery.
What? A college town is full of intolerant people?
/man who has lived in college towns half of his 50+ years.
It’s intolerant all over.
The commies targeted a local Subaru dealership that let the county Republican Party meet in their conference room. One star reviews, all sorts of bullshit. Yet there’re the ones fighting “fascism”.
Let’s be honest, what was a Subaru dealer thinking? Chevy or Ram could probably get away with that shit, but, know your customer Subaru.
Technically, it’s not remarkable at all. Academia has been intolerant for decades.
Given all the really obscure ones you do — I appreciate this softball to the crowd, Old Man.
Happy Birthday, Obama (see all your links on this topic… calling him an insult to slimy weasels is an insult to weasels… and slime for that matter… thanks, Chicago political machine and thanks to all the 1970s prosecutors that didn’t properly go after the Weather Underground folks for the terroristic Marxist slimeballs they are while I’m at it…)
or sell a dish that was taken off the menu a decade ago
You haven’t even been there for a decade!
Look, if Emmett Brown wants the breakfast combo waffle that was the special in 2015 when he was tracking down Marty Jr.’s bad timeline… who are we to judge?
Well, didn’t the old owners hand over all the recipes, and couldn’t you just whip up the dish? It’s not too complicated %lists off ingredients that aren’t in stock or season%…
Or worse, the ingredients are there and have been languishing for over 10 years unused on the shelf.
an artist with a definite kink;
Happy birthday Ray Davies!
Happy Birthday Hunter Biden!
To the reporter, not to you — but never has this felt more apt. There’s a reason this sort of information is called “private” people. NO ONE WANTS TO KNOW (except this reporter-with-a-kink, I guess…. bring back public shaming…)
I’m sure he was just upset at the Gnostics losing out or something.
Visitors to the United States will need to pay a “visa integrity fee,” according to a provision of the Trump administration’s recently enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
The fee will be at least $250 during the U.S. fiscal year 2025, which runs from Oct. 1, 2024, to Sept. 30, 2025. However, the secretary of Homeland Security is free to set the fee higher, according to the provision.
Tourists from friendly countries don’t need visas, so the fee is only $21 — not likely to deter the family from Manchester that wants to go see Mickey for a week.
Is Britainistan still a friendly country?
My Magic 8 Ball says “No”… but who knows what the State Department thinks.
-1 special relationship
It’s more of a deposit. Pay the fee, come here, return to where you came from under the terms of the visa and get the money back.
All Karen wants is a kosher BLT on gluten free whole wheat toast, why is that hard? Do better!
With fresh squeezed avocado juice!
Excuse me while I go barf at that concept. Thanks ever so much, Sean.
After the recent hate-fest here on the poor tomato, those Karens come in different forms.
No GMOs, Adolph.
Did you make sure there was no microplastics used near this?
Humanely slaughtered tomato.
and no black spatulas!
That’s African American Spatulas now!
*spots noose in the kitchen*
Back when I was in a tank battalion, we accidentally shot up churches all the time. The targeting computer just can’t resist the giant cross.
It was just an apse in judgment?
1) First instinctual thought — “What else would we expect from a casino / attraction developer? Of course he wants to raise the admission fee for the US!”
2) More seriously… yeah, just adding hoops will probably do what you say… but reading it, it looks like you get the fee back if you just don’t screw up while you’re here:
— which says to me the point is to cut down on oddball “sneaking in under student visa” type activities…. not sure it will work for that (since the sneakers are already working with NGOs to pay thousands to coyotes / if coming in for criminal acts, 250 isn’t going to throw them, etc… but I can understand the spirit of the thing.
Probably shouldn’t bother (since I don’t think it will work and it will put normal tourists off)… I would think better pre-screening (but then again… how much is a simple tourist type going to want to deal with that either?)… this is one of the times I freely acknowledge I’m way out of my lane, don’t have the answers and will shut up now.
Your first thought was right. And Trump somehow managed his casino into bankruptcy. This is a bad plan.
Yeah, that always for me shot his business credibility to hell – bankrupting a casino.
I always figured it was done on purpose. He (or his accountants) found a benefit to getting it off the books.
I’ve seen Kroger do that a couple of times- spend money renovating a store then months later close it down. I assumed they needed a big loss someplace to offset another store.
However, I dont have a business degree. I climb smokestacks.
Trump took a chance with the casino. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Sometimes you win while losing
As far as I know, none of the AC casinos have done well. As far as business credibility goes, the man made billions in one of the most cutthroat businesses around – commercial real estate. There’s a lot of reasons a casino in a mobbed up town like AC can go under, I’m sure.
I doubt anyone planning to overstay their visa or work under the table is going to go “nope, not gonna do it. I might lose out on my refund”.
Tres, only people with business degrees can have that kind or bad thinking.
It’s less expensive to pay the taxes than to close “under performing” locations, that are almost always profitable.
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It… Really doesn’t ever get old. All of it is hilarious, perhaps quite legit racist, and a great demonstration of the wild success of British public schools. Wowza.
A couple years back, the girlfriend and I were on a road trip. We were heading out to a brewery for dinner, so we got a ride share. The driver happened to be from Jamaica, so me and him were chatting about bands. The girlfriend said she could never understand what they were saying, and I mentioned it was the Jamaican patois (which is technically a creole), and it wasn’t that complicated. Neither the driver nor the girlfriend believed I could understand it, so he asked me how may day was going in it. I answered back and translated for the girlfriend which shocked the hell out of both of them.
I then explained that while I could understand it, there was no chance in hell of me talking it, because no matter how accurate I was, I would flat out sound like a racist asshole. That got a hearty laugh from him.
There are white and Chinese Jamaicans that talk the same way.
Common Tater:
True, and there’s white people with dreadlocks, it doesn’t mean I have to contribute to such terrible things. Besides, the Cleveland accent gives away that I’m not from Jamaica.
The Philly Fanatic went there.
https://youtube.com/shorts/NJkSwD0MOW8?si=PmfZe_oVHJZXa5VJ
When personell gets personal… But yeah… what a couple of cheating weasel idiots.
The part that I love was that it was an HR harridan who got busted. You know, the joyless cunt who made sure that everyone had a half dozen trainings a year on inappropriate workplace behavior…
Even HR’s naughty play is cold.
“side chick”
😂🤣
Seeing Jim Norton in the links reminds how much I miss Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn.
It just reminded me that I really don’t miss listening to Opie and Anthony (on XM, I think) during my commute.
I have long wondered if anyone likes morning shows.
I simply assumed they were fillers so the radio staff could sleep in.
Morning is the biggest time slot.
If I recall the trendlines in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria — it won’t matter in another generation or so. All the Christians there will have been driven out or converted by the tolerant Polynesian between meals food purveyors anyway.
Yet somehow Christian churches have been in the Middle East for 2,000 years. Victim blaming the church or “oh, well, you’re doomed anyway” doesn’t cut it.
In the American military, there would be an immediate investigation and everyone in the chain of command relieved. Then court martials for those who decided this was a good idea.
Probably deliberate! I mean it only stands to reason that Christ Killers would fire on Christ’s house after all!
Let’s all hold out breath and wait for the investigation that never happens.
Questioning why a church was fired on and being suspicious of the explanation isn’t antisemetic.
Make Tiki Great Again!
What’s the penalty for treason?
One would think….
Depends on whether you win or lose, I think.
Well Obama armed the same terrorist groups that attacked us… So the penalty for treason would appear to be an $18M mansion in Martha’s Vinyard and being asked what you think about current events by a sycophantic media for the rest of your life.
Preview of NYC’s new food distribution under Mamdani.
It’s going to be a hilarious disaster as an outsider looking in and they’ll learn nothing from it.
“social issues that can make success even more challenging”
Oh please do explain…
“a naked woman parading through the store throwing bags of chips to the ground, another person urinating in the vestibule and a couple fornicating on the lawn of the library in broad daylight”
Ah, okay.
It’s shocking that people who live in neighborhoods where people deal drugs and rob customers at the grocery end up without grocery stores. Must be racism.
“publicly supported grocery stores as a way to help provide for low-income neighborhoods”
Help me Obi-wan Mamdani, you’re our only hope.
(((Jarflax:
When did you serve on Cleveland City Council?
I think he referenced that KC store specifically in his campaign as a success to emulate.
I have seen my good intentions, bother me not with actual results!
Meh. I have seen this movie before. I wont spoil the ending for you.
The Warriors come out and play?
My image of WebDom when being asked to see the manager.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vszT-cJTzpM
My image of WebDom at the cafe for some reason…
“Sex is not just pleasure – it’s resistance. Every time I claim ownership of my desires, I reject the patriarchal script that says my body exists for male consumption. Society polices women’s sexuality through slut-shaming, purity culture, and reproductive control – but my autonomy is my rebellion. Whether I embrace celibacy, casual sex, self-pleasure, or committed intimacy, the power lies in my decision.”
That’s retarded.
“Sex toys are illegal here in Thailand;”
That’s also retarded.
I thought their lady-boys were their sex toys?
Argle-bargle-oggidy-bloop. Spackle goes boink.
Anything can be used as a sex toy if you’re imaginative enough.
Whether I embrace celibacy, casual sex, self-pleasure, or committed intimacy, the power lies in my decision.”
You can do that. Just don’t complain if men don’t want to marry and have kids with the “village bicycle”. After all, men’s sexuality is also theirs to give or withhold as they prefer, right?
That’s the “slut-shaming, purity culture, and reproductive control” she’s complaining about.
Jim Norton was one of my first standup comics I saw. He came to a local dive that had a weekly comedy night. He asked me and a fellow bar mate about the area prior to the show to get local flavor.
He was brutally funny
Is he still married to a trans sex worker?
Yes. Not sure about the sex work part.
He can make his childhood grooming stories very funny, but yikes. Great example of why you should keep pedos away from kids. Ended up an alcoholic with sex addiction issues as an adult.
I meant she was a sex worker.
Say, it’s been a while since we had a good hate hoax
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A noose was found at the site of the Tennessee Titans’ new Nissan Stadium, according to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, which said Friday that they are investigating the incident.
The Tennessee Builders Alliance, which is leading the stadium construction, said work at the site had been halted amid the investigation.
The group added that a reward has been offered for “information leading to the identification of the individual responsible” and that additional anti-bias training will be required for all workers.
I know if I was the electrical contractor for a $2B project, I’d really be looking forward to stopping work for some implicit bias training provided by some dumpy chick with poison-frog hair.
The cords keeping bias hanging around are a knotty problem. We need to choke them off by looping in some grievance students!
They definitely have to take care of the loose ends.
No pictures anywhere of the alleged noose.
Say, that gives me an idea on how to hamstring any construction projects I don’t approve of. A few dollars of rope from the hardware store can cost the developers a mint!
This. We are are in crazy-land. In this case it was done for the purpose of stopping the construction or shoehorning in a relative with a grievance studies degree for a few hundred K.
One way or other it is about the money.
I was thinking of it from the opposite angle. If I’m running Goodthink Consulting and my billable training sessions are way down as companies ditch DEI, just buy some rope at Home Depot (pay cash), twist a few loops, and visit the local construction sites at night.
Sometimes you have to generate your own leads.
Anti-racist cold calls!
Nooses are the new ‘N’ word.
‘N’- and ‘n-‘ are words that are doubly racist when used together
Fourscore:
I was listening to Elon Gold on Carolla’s podcast and he said he has taught his kids to any word that sounds like the N word.
For example he insists they say vinegga (soft a) instead of vinegar.
WTF? Shpip posted this story?
I’m still waiting for him to drop a pun about the training all these contractors have to undergo: No noose is good noose.
How’d he miss that fat pitch over the plate?
As a curiosity, is it ever men who make the off menu requests or just women? My wife never orders anything anywhere without asking for at least one (or more) modifications to the menu item. If something sounds good to me, but has something I don’t like (mushrooms). I simply don’t order it.
I worked in “service” jobs long enough to know intimately the kind of shit they have to put up with, so yeah I don’t stir the pot with stuff like “off menu requests”.
is it ever men who make the off menu requests
The very worst person about this who I have ever seen was very much a male. It was a guarantee that he would demand that every single thing about whatever he ordered be changed. “I want the rosemary roast chicken, but not with rosemary. And use olive oil instead of butter. I need the roasting to be very light. Replace the side of carrots and green beans with an arugula salad.” And he’d inevitably complain when the dish was brought.
I learned quickly that I should never go with him to a restaurant where I might someday want to go back.
“And the portions are so small!”
Oh, I have/had that friend. He doesn’t change his order, but he is so quick to belittle staff for any perceived ‘wrong’. Then always tries to chisel for a discount at the end of the meal. I won’t go out to eat with him anymore.
In a different timeline, I would give up my day job just to come there and work the counter and see how long before I could make someone cry.
I don’t regard “hold the mushrooms” as an off-menu request.
I think extensively modifying a menu item is basically an incredibly petty power play. I’ve seen men do it, too. It irritates the hell out of me every time.
I actually honored an off-menu request yesterday. It wasn’t slammed, I had all the ingredients, it’s a dish I can do with my eyes closed (vegetable omelet), and made someone very, very happy. A minute to chop some peppers and mushrooms, a minute to make the omelet, boom.
But if we’re slammed, don’t have the ingredients, or it takes excessive prep time, I’ll sweetly take all the verbal abuse. Just don’t yell at the teenagers working the counter.
It’s not necessarily, but when the request gets disregarded, who’s the asshole, the guy who made it wrong or the guy returning it? I used to order like that, but about 20% of the time they showed up anyways. I’m one of those people who despise mushrooms so much, that I can’t simply pick them out and continue eating. While there are plenty of foods I don’t like that I’ll eat to keep the peace, mushrooms are the one food I despise for some reason. I’d give you a reason if I could, but I can’t.
I recently made an off menu order. Small diner. Their breakfast menu was…complicated.
“Would you like to see the menu Sir?”
“Can I just tell you what I want?”
“Sure”
“It is for my Mother. She is a bit of a shut-in and is craving a big scrambled egg and bacon breakfast.”
“Scrambled? How many eggs?”
“Three”
“How many bacon strips?”
*Looks over counter at chef plopping giant bacon slices on grill”
“Three”
“Toast or biscuits?”
“Both. I think that will do it”
“Thank you Sir. That is the easiest order I have had today. We will have it right out for you”
I forgot to add…I tipped ten bucks for a to-go order. She was cute, what can I say.
I go down the menu until I find the first thing that sounds good, and stop there. The wife has to read each possible selection at least three times, decide whether it is something she could cook at home, make three choices, ask the waitress about each and any possible variation, ask to be the last one giving an order, select three additional items to ask about, say she isn’t quite ready yet, ask me what I am having so she can balance the the possibilities in the possible flavor profile(?), make a choice, decide that wasn’t what she wanted, be vaguely disappointed, attempt to steal what is on my plate, look at the dessert menu, decide she can make anything the restaurant has, attempt to take half of my dessert. And go home unfulfilled.
Same as my wife, Z, then she asks what I’m having. Decides to have the same, takes 1/2 of hers home for tomorrow.
I’m a creature of habit, not adventurous in the food department. Simple is better for me.
Oh, you married my ex!
After watching Good Fellas (or was it Casino?) and knowing what a co-worker told me about his restaurant kitchen experience, i NEVER do anything as a customer at a food prep establishment that might annoy any of the help.
I’ve enjoyed the cheating CEO memes as much as the next person, but someone always takes it too far.
“The majority of studies on the mental health effects of pornography have centered around viewers, not the talent. The limited amount of research on performers indicates female participants generally experience worse mental health than women surveyed at random.”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/19/us-news/drugs-and-porn-another-overdose-death-shines-light-on-substance-abuse/
This is my surprised face.
Although with so much fentanyl and so many women doing porn, there is going to be some overlap.
I’m not sure the causation arrow on “bad mental health” and “does porn” points the way they imply.
I’m pretty sure it goes both ways.
Going both ways is a key attribute for girls in porn.
Ya dont say.
“According to insiders at the firm, pretty much from the start of the summer, the Biglaw Biter started chomping away at other employees at Sidley Gnaw-stin — not in an aggressive, “we’re beefing” way, but more of a faux-quirky manic pixie dream girl crossed with the Donner party vibe. But like, you’re in NYC for the summer — if you want to get your kicks by biting people, there are more consensual ways to do it.
The final chomp-count is thought to be in the double digits — which is an awfully long time for the nibbling to continue. (Though I’ve seen pics of the results post-Biglaw Biter, and “nibble” is probably too tame a word. No one should have marks on their person after an interaction with a co-worker in Biglaw — emotional and psychological scars only!) It’s unclear why so many people let this go before reporting the Biglaw Biter, but the rumor is she’s otherwise personable and there was some reluctance to elevate the matter.”
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/07/summer-associates-naughty-toddler-impression-gets-her-bounced-from-biglaw/
WTF??
Lawyers be cray-cray?
https://nypost.com/2025/07/19/sports/phillie-phanatic-hilariously-recreates-viral-coldplay-kiss-cam-scandal/
https://nypost.com/2025/07/18/business/astronomer-hr-chief-kristin-cabot-appears-to-be-married-to-ceo-of-privateer-rum-and-bought-a-house-with-him-just-five-months-ago-records/
Must be a slow news week. I know more about these people than the Las Vegas shooter.
https://pagesix.com/2025/07/18/celebrity-news/alyssa-stoddard-recently-promoted-astronomer-vp-of-hr-identified-as-embarrassed-woman-on-coldplay-kiss-cam/
I wonder how she got that promotion?
What Las Vegas shooter?
Glad I refreshed
What do you ever expect to know about someone who decides to shoot a bunch of people?
The Pulse night club shooter made it very clear in his 911 call he was doing it to protest U.S. military involvement in the Middle East, but Obama and the media said it was anti-LGBT.
“At least 31 people have been injured after a car ploughed into a crowd outside a nightclub in Los Angeles.
‘Apparently somebody that lost consciousness inside the vehicle and drove into a taco cart and then ultimately ran into a large number of people that were outside a club in East Hollywood.
‘Right now we have a total of approximately 31 patients. All of those patients are in the process of being treated and transported and evaluated.’
‘We have reports that there was a gunshot wound in one of the patients. There was a patient inside the vehicle and they were able to extricate that patient.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14920863/Vehicle-ploughs-crowd-Los-Angeles-injure.html
Sounds like drugs more than terrorism.
That’s terrible.
Gabbard’s nomination as national intelligence director was one of Trump’s most contentious. It drew criticism because of her lack of previous intelligence experience, having never even served on a congressional committee on the subject, and a track record of supportive comments about Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and repeating Kremlin talking points on the war with Ukraine.
She’s no Justice Jackson.
It drew criticism because of her lack of
previous intelligence experiencesubservience to Kamala in the debate back in 2020“Top Senate Democrat Dick Durbin revealed that the FBI launched a massive operation to dig through the Epstein files and ‘flag’ any mention of Donald Trump.
Durbin said that about 1,000 FBI employees were ordered to work 24-hour shifts and review about 100,000 pages of documents related to the prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein.
The senator also noted his staffers had been told ‘that these personnel were instructed to “flag” any records in which President Trump was mentioned.’
Durbin, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, revealed the details in a letter to FBI director Kash Patel.
The letter was written in response to a July 7 memo from the Department of Justice that ‘directly contradicts’ previous statement from Attorney General Pam Bondi.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14920465/Top-Democrat-reveals-massive-operation-FBI-comb-Epstein-files-flag-mention-Trump.html
Unlike the WSJ, the Daily Fail published the entire letter.
24 hour shifts huh?
Just when you think Sheldon Whitehouse is the chief douche of the Democratic caucus in the Senate.
I’m sure they had access to the senate chambers, showers, and gym just like firemen do on those 24 hr shifts. https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2023/12/16/senate-staffer-out-after-sex-tape-scandal-00132143
I am a little fuzzy on this. Durban wrote the letter to Patel, head of the FBI, revealing this? How did Durban know about it and Patel did not? When was the investigation? His (Durban) staffers had been told….by whom?
The Epstein shit-bomb keeps getting stinkier.
I would like to point out that most of this happened 20ish years ago. I am starting to wonder how it is relevant today.
And what is the statute of limitations on the crimes?
In that case I do not know. In Louisiana we have no statute of limitations on murder or child molestation/statutory rape.
Durbin is a fraud. He’s doing this as a total sop to the Indian lying sack of shit that is running for the seat Durbin is vacating.
Durbin is so stupid that he actually thinks we would believe that the files weren’t scoured by Democrats for any trump- related info they could use.
The dems will now make a stink about how unsealing a grand jury prosecution file is unprecedented abuse.
To get their money back, visa holders must comply with the conditions of the visa, which includes “not accept[ing] unauthorized employment,” and not overstay the visa validity date by more than five days, according to the provision.
Oh, horror.
It’s a deposit. People who don’t ask for their refund may be assumed to have overstayed their visa. Not fair.
There’s a lot of stupid shit buried in that monstrosity, but I can’t get too worked up about this.
Yes, and if you prove yourself innocent, you’ll get your forfeited assets back, right?
Never trust the government. Never trust the government. Never trust the government.
Never trust A government.
Especially a foreign one.
“A former Fox News executive producer who accused ex-anchor Ed Henry of rape was arrested on suspicion of battery in Florida.
Jennifer Eckhart, 34, pouted in her mugshot after she was detained in Palm Beach County at 1pm on Wednesday afternoon. She was released on her own recognizance without bail.
According to her arrest affidavit obtained by Daily Mail, Eckhart allegedly attacked her boyfriend, named in the papers as Thomas Beasley, after he told her he was ending their relationship…
The arrest comes a month after Eckhart settled a rape lawsuit against Henry, five years after she accused him of sexually assaulting her when they worked at Fox News.
Henry, who denied Eckhart’s allegations and said they were in a ‘kinky’ relationship, was fired weeks before she filed her lawsuit in 2020.
Eckhart alleged in the filings that she was ‘violently raped while helpless and restrained in metal handcuffs.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14920995/Jennifer-Eckhart-arrest-battery-Fox-News-accuser-rape-Ed-Henry.html
Ridiculous that there was a settlement after reading the text messages.
Never stick it in crazy.
The legal system are the craziest people in this story.
High on the crazy axis, not so much on the hot.
That video never gets old.
Redheads and hairdressers.
I have been guilty of both.
Threedoor:
/looks over at the girlfriend
Whatever do you mean?
Remembering my social life before marriage and seeing this kind of stuff now , having been in a sane marriage for 35 years…..If I ever end up single I will NOT be getting back into the dating life.
Ditto.
Heroes
The three Los Angeles County sheriff’s detectives killed in an explosion Friday were described as the “best of the best,” who served their community with honor, courage and unwavering commitment.
The fallen lawmen — identified as Dets. Joshua Kelley-Eklund, Victor Lemus and William Osborn — combined to serve the Sheriff’s Department for 74 years. They leave behind grieving colleagues, friends and family, including 16 children between them.
The lethal blast took place while the men were moving ordinance at the Sheriff Department’s Biscailuz Center Training Academy in East L.A. It marked the agency’s deadliest incident in more than 160 years and sent shock waves through the law enforcement community.
All three were highly trained members of the department’s arson explosives detail.
It’s always the blue wire. Almost always.
Just what kind of “ordinance” do they have, and more importantly, why?
Yesterday the news said it was a training accident.
This makes more sense.
I rarely understand when cops blow up a house when they find bombs and such. Makes more sense now.
It is the pros that get hurt. They think they know what they are doing and aren’t scared of it anymore.
You can make that statement to anyone who works with dangerous stuff.
Ive been up and down the same ladder thousands of times on my job.
Fallen once.
It’s the single largest risk of my job and yeah, I get complacent, being cognizant of how my body has changed over the years and having knowledge of doing the same task safely so many times is hard to keep in mind.
It only takes once.
“In a Wall Street Journal article about a letter and drawing allegedly sent to Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003, the president’s emphatic denial includes the statement, “I never wrote a picture in my life.”
In a flurry of frantic Truth Social posts on Thursday night, Trump doubled down on his lack of artistic skills. “These are not my words, not the way I talk. Also, I don’t draw pictures.”….
In January, prestigious auction house Sotheby’s sold another Trump portrait, this one in his beloved color of gold, for $15,000…
While the picture was dated “2004″ by Trump, Sotheby’s states it was initially drawn in 2003, the same year he allegedly sent another doodle to his close friend Jeffrey Epstein…
In 2017, another one of Trump’s signature New York City skyline drawings sold for $29,184. It was also originally done for charity in 2005. The same year, another NYC skyline doodle, originally created for the St Francis Food Pantries and Shelters and also drawn in 2005, sold for $20,000.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-sketchy-epstein-lie-instantly-exposed/
Sure looks like he drew pictures.
Coverup
In the letters sent Friday, Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked each of the Trump administration officials to respond to information received by his office that suggested FBI personnel were specifically instructed to “flag” any records mentioning Trump.
“My office was told that these personnel were instructed to ‘flag’ any records in which President Trump was mentioned. … Why were personnel told to flag records in which President Trump was mentioned,” Durbin asked Bondi, Patel and Bongino in separate letters. “What happened to the records mentioning President Trump once they were flagged?”
A Durbin aide told NBC News that the senator’s office received that information from a protected FBI whistleblower disclosure.
Oh, so that’s it I was having a hard time figuring out what was going on. Especially since I don’t care who went to Epstein Island or what they did there.
He is assuming records were flagged.
As for the letter thingy I knew it was a fake when the naked woman drawing was mentioned. My instant gut reaction was nope, the idea of Trump drawing anything is laughable.
As for the paintings a guy like Trump would never pay someone to draw or paint for him if he was expected to produce something for a charity auction. He would never do anything like that.
The problem I am having with all of this is that his accusers have been caught red-handed every time so far telling absurd lies and they describe Trump’s behavior in ways that seem very out of character.
Ok, now having seen the images he supposedly did…they do have a Trumpian feel about them.
Yesterday the news said it was a training accident.
The linked article makes it sound like they were called in to remove explosives found in a private apartment.
In other news, dill havarti is awesome.
“Some activists as well as fans of the game have argued that Zelda, who is a female character in the game, is transgender because in “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time,” she disguised herself as the ninja character “Sheik,” who helped the main character in the series, Link, defeat Ganondorf, the villain of the video game, per Breitbart.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/trans-activists-outraged-legend-of-zelda-movie-will-cast-female-actress-as-zelda
That doesn’t even make sense.
A tranny thing doesnt make any sense?
Usually someone will snark “I know what all those words mean individually but…”
In this case I dont even know all of those words.
If it were Bridget from Guilty Gear it would make some sense.
So when Mulan disguised herself as a man so her father wouldn’t get drafted into a war it means she was trans?
Mizu in Blue Eye Samurai is trans because she disguises herself as a boy to avoid being killed by people looking for a girl?
How many of these women were trans? None, since most of them had husbands.
https://nednote.com/masters-of-disguise-women-who-lived-as-men/
JFC these people are insane.
Just wait for Disney’s live-action Mulan remake. 😣
And they’ll fucking ruin Fidelio if they ever find out that it exists…
During this year’s NFLPA summit on Feb. 21, Howell accompanied the employees to the Magic City strip club for an outing that incurred $2,426 in charges including cash withdrawals, ranging from $200 to $525, from a club ATM, sources and documents show. They used two “VIP rooms.”
Those are rookie numbers.
Just before 1:30 p.m. local time on July 15, a “security incident” involving a small private plane led to a temporary halt in airport operations, according to a statement from YVR. The plane, flying within YVR’s airspace, forced nine incoming flights to reroute to different airports.
At approximately 1:45 p.m., following a 39-minute air traffic suspension, the Cessna 172, operated by a single individual, safely landed. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) then apprehended the pilot.
He just got lost looking for Red Square.
Old Guy Music is good.
“I confess that I have felt a little crazy about the question of Epstein’s demise ever since it happened. The cross-ideological certainty you run into that he didn’t kill himself is hard to justify. While “Epstein didn’t kill himself” has become a kind of meme shorthand for elite corruption, the more mundane and less cinematic explanation seems entirely plausible: Epstein was an utterly disgraced, high-profile, aging man facing a lifetime in prison with no path out, already convicted once, publicly reviled, and well aware that his life as he knew it was over. He was facing the hardest time you can do for the worst crime you can be accused of, likely to be locked up for the rest of his life and to face the constant threat of death from other prisoners.
Conditions at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where he died, were notoriously chaotic, suicide watch protocols had recently lapsed, and he had been nearly asphyxiated less than a month earlier in what was most likely a suicide attempt. In that context, suicide doesn’t require an elaborate conspiracy, only access to means, momentary opportunity, and the cowardice necessary to prefer death to the consequences, all of which he plausibly had. Sometimes, the most boring explanation is the truest one. Do I know for sure? Of course not. But the level of conviction people have about this confuses me.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-epstein-files-are-just-a-sideshow
PEOPLE WILL DIE
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Friday it is eliminating its research and development arm and reducing agency staff by thousands of employees. One union leader said the moves “will devastate public health in our country”.
The agency’s office of research and development (ORD) has long provided the scientific underpinnings for the EPA’s mission to protect the environment and human health. The EPA said in May it would shift its scientific expertise and research efforts to program offices that focus on major issues such as air and water.
Nothing says quest for understanding like unionized “scientists”.
“People will die!”
Yep. They all will. There is a whole industry built around it. Why do you hate Funeral Directors and Morticians?
Representative Zoe Lofgren of California, the top Democrat on the House science committee, called the elimination of the research office “a travesty”.
“The Trump administration is firing hardworking scientists while employing political appointees whose job it is to lie incessantly to Congress and to the American people,” she said. “The obliteration of ORD will have generational impacts on Americans’ health and safety.”
EPA administrator Lee Zeldin said in a statement that the changes announced Friday would ensure the agency “is better equipped than ever to deliver on our core mission of protecting human health and the environment, while Powering the Great American Comeback”.
The EPA also said it is beginning the process to eliminate thousands of jobs, following asupreme court ruling last week that cleared the way for Donald Trump’s plans to downsize the federal workforce, despite warnings that critical government services will be lost and hundreds of thousands of federal employees will be out of their jobs.
The world needs ditch diggers, too.
and hundreds of thousands of federal employees will be out of their jobs.
We libertarians are always told that “the government is here for YOU”; that it’s a beneficent society whose functionaries get up every day pondering how they can best improve our lives.
The sobbing over government employees having to find new jobs (as everyone else has to do from time to time) proves that wrong. Government is a profit-seeking business.
The first time my weather station has report 100% relative humidity. 73 degrees with a dew point of 73 degrees.
Good thing I don’t need to go anywhere today.