Free Republic

Tyra Winters, a high school senior and cheerleader, was on a parade float when she saw the desperate mom crying for help. "I see the kid. I see a little bright red face, and his mom is holding him up begging for help, screaming, asking, 'Someone help me. Someone help me,'" Winters said. "My very, very first thought was like, 'Oh my God. I got to help this child.'" "Her kid is turning purple, so I immediately jumped off the float. I ran down to the kiddo, and I was like, 'I got it,' and I just grabbed him from...

There, in the German Criminal Code, between the laws on murder and abandonment, sit paragraphs 218 and 219. They pertain to — and criminalize — abortion in Germany. On Saturday, activists will be taking to the streets to demand the paragraphs’ removal as part of a global abortion rights demonstration. Sarah Thibol, activist with the feminist organization Frauen*Kollektiv in Cologne, is one of many planning to protest. Her personal goal is “that women realize abortions are not legal in German(y). So many people are surprised the first time they hear that.” According to German law laid out in paragraph 218,...

BOTHELL, WA—According to reports, local 22-year-old Chloe Kowalski’s world was torn apart Thursday morning, as the millennial barista was diagnosed with a rare disease ...

The city of Portland apparently has a gender problem with bathrooms. According to KGW-TV, the city decided when they remodeled the Portland Building that urinals would be banned. Last February Chief Administrative Officer Tom Rinehart emailed employees: We will continue to have gender-specific (male and female) multi-stall restrooms that are readily available to any employee that prefers to use one. But, there will be no urinals in any restroom in the building. This will give us the flexibility we need for any future changes in signage … I am convinced that this is the right way to ensure success as...

A worker cuts black granite to make a countertop. Though granite, marble and "engineered stone" all can produce harmful silica dust when cut, ground or polished, the artificial stone typically contains much more silica, says a CDC researcher tracking cases of silicosis. ================================================================ Artificial stone used to make kitchen and bathroom countertops has been linked to cases of death and irreversible lung injury in workers who cut, grind and polish this increasingly popular material. The fear is that thousands of workers in the United States who create countertops out of what's known as "engineered stone" may be inhaling dangerous amounts...

My 8-year-old grandson plays with fire. On Sunday he set a tree on fire. I have NOT found any local programs to deal with this issue. Nor have I found any videos to show to children with this problem. His mother (my DIL) isn't interested in discipline. I would appreciate any suggestions.

A Tour of the Abortion Mill of abortionist Ulrich Klopfer who held 2,246 dead babies in his garage. **video is 15 minutes long and shows the now closed abortion mill**

When you get in the zone, your focus is on your run: With all that thought going to your pace, your exertion level, and the calculations of how many more minutes you have left in your tempo, you are left susceptible to some embarrassing midrun situations. We’ve all stumbled on a crowded trail, then looked around furtively to make sure no one noticed. Or had to pause our workouts to sneak into the nearest bathroom when long runs made our stomachs rumble. But we wondered: Are there any midrun situations that really get you blushing, even well after the fact?...

Cherry Hill, NJ – An ambulance was called to the Cherry Hill Women’s Center (CHWC) in New Jersey on September 21, 2019, for a 22-year old abortion patient who was hemorrhaging after an abortion. According to 911 records obtained by Operation Rescue, the woman underwent an elective abortion of her baby at 24 weeks gestation, which is the end of the sixth month of pregnancy. Such late abortions are usually 2-day procedures that are completed on the second day by dismembering the baby for removal from the womb. They carry much higher risks to the women undergoing them. When the...

A vegan who says she was served a pork sausage roll that she thought was meat-free claims she has been “traumatized for life.” Sharleen Ndungu, 20, said she began having heart palpitations immediately after being informed that the roll contained meat. And then, she said, she began to cry. “I haven’t had meat in two years,” Ndungu said, according to Metro UK. “My belly started hurting and my heart started going crazy. I was panicking because that only happens when I consume meat — this doesn’t happen when I have other food. I’m traumatized for life now — I’m never...

A federal district judge has allowed a male student’s defamation lawsuit against a female student who accused him of rape to survive a motion to dismiss. The male student, whom The Daily Wire will call John Doe, was accused of raping a female student, who shall henceforth be named Jane Roe. The two students attended Syracuse University. In 2017, the two attended a party at John’s fraternity, which was co-hosted by Jane’s sorority. Surveillance footage from the night showed the two students entering John’s room around 12:30 in the morning. The two awoke in the same bed the next morning,...

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ohio Fentanyl can be mixed with cocaine and methamphetamine to create a deadly combination, the coroner said. The last peak of overdoses that the coroner's office posted about was in August 12, when six people died in less than 24 hours. "The majority of overdose deaths continue to be fentanyl related," the coroner said in the statement. That same year, the Drug Enforcement Administration issued a national alert that said "drug incidents and overdoses related to fentanyl are occurring at an alarming rate ." Opioids -- drugs that replicate the pain-reducing properties of opium -- include both legal...

Domino's Pizza is offering $20 an hour for a one-day job: Chief Garlic Bread Taster. Photo by distel2610/Pixabay.com ================================================================== Sept. 27 (UPI) -- The Australian wing of Domino's Pizza posted a job opening for a $20 an hour position that might be worth the trip Down Under: Chief Garlic Bread Tester. Domino's posted a job opening on LinkedIn seeking a Chief Garlic Bread Taster to spend one day making $20 an hour giving feedback on garlic bread and other Domino's menu items. The posting says the ideal candidate has a "minimum of 5 years' experience in garlic bread consumption," "has...

Alongside a familiar looking greyscale scan there is a new, far sharper colour image produced by the new technique. The scanning technology itself is not new. The innovation has come in physics, statistics - and bubbles. Clinicians have long used microbubbles to increase the contrast of ultrasound images. These are typically tiny capsules of hydrocarbon gas in a lipid shell, each bubble a fraction of a millimetre across. Clouds of them are injected into a patient's bloodstream to diagnose liver and other diseases. The team first used physics to observe how individual microbubbles behaved. "They're very small, about the size...

Modern diets and sedentary lifestyles leading to obesity are largely blamed for the disease in modern culture but a new University of Texas study, published in the American Heart Journal , found cholesterol buildup in the arteries of five mummies dating back to 2000 BC. [S]canning the preserved arteries of ancient mummies revealed that heart disease and high cholesterol have for a long time been part of the human condition. Although processed high-fat foods leading to high-cholesterol are so often blamed for heart disease today, this new study found signs of the same kind of cholesterol-clogged arteries seen in modern...

Metallica says its frontman James Hetfield has entered rehab, and the band is canceling its upcoming tour in Australia and New Zealand. Three of the heavy metal band’s members posted a statement on Twitter Friday announcing the decision and apologizing to fans. […] The statement didn’t elaborate, but the band’s members said they appreciate fans’ understanding and support of the 56-year-old Metallica co-founder. …

In the 1950s and '60s as scientists began to obtain high resolution images of viruses, they discovered the detailed structure of the capsid—an outer protective layer composed of multiple copies of the same protein—which protects the virus' genetic material. The majority of viruses have capsids that are typically quasi-spherical and display icosahedral symmetry—like a 20-sided dice for instance. The capsid shell is what protects them, and as scientists discovered their structure, they proposed that capsids could have different sizes and hold different amounts of genome, and therefore could infect hosts differently. [M]any viruses have essentially been misclassified for 60 years,...

ARLINGTON, Texas - A prematurely born baby, who doctors said was about two hours old, was found alive Saturday morning, abandoned in a zipped-up in a suitcase next to a trash compactor at a Texas apartment complex, authorities said Tuesday. A female resident of the Monterra Pointe Apartments in Arlington was throwing out some trash just before 8:15 a.m. Saturday when she heard a baby’s cries and spotted a small black suitcase. “She opened the suitcase, at which point in time she saw a beautiful baby boy,” Arlington police Detective Morgan Speer told reporters at a news conference. Speer, who...

Brenda Barattini, the woman who used a pair of pruning shears to cut off her lover's genitals, sentenced to 13 years in prison for attempted aggravated homicide. Brenda Barattini, pictured in court on Wednesday. | AGENCIA CÓRDOBA VIA NA ============================================================ Brenda Barattini, the woman who used a pair of pruning shears to cut off her lover's genitals, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for attempted aggravated homicide. Barattini, 28, was convicted unanimously by a popular jury in Córdoba's Criminal Court No. 2 and handed the exact sentence requested by the prosecution. "I am very sorry for what I...

There's only two ...