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How do you improve on a juicy Whopper? You wrap it up in a delicious soft tortilla and turn it into a burrito, of course. Just chuck in some fries and it’s the drunk food of your dreams. Introducing Burger King’s newest menu item, the Whopperrito, a heady combination of a classic flame-grilled Whopper and burrito. The ultimate fast food mashup sees ground flame-grilled beef, melting American cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, mayo, onions and pickles wrapped into a snug flour tortilla. According to US website GrubGrade, which first broke the news that Burger King were toying with a burrito-burger lovechild, the...

Traffic was stopped for the non-jaywalking gatorThe five-foot alligator took about 30 seconds to use the crosswalk in Palm Coast in the morning hours of Monday, June 6, 2016. An alligator was caught on camera using a crosswalk in Flagler County, in northern Florida, Monday morning. According to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office, the gator was spotted in the bushes near the intersection at Cypress Point Parkway and Cypress Edge Drive in Palm Coast. FCSO Cpl. Kenny Goncalves said the gator was more than 5 feet long. It was sitting by the crosswalk and suddenly scampered across the roadway in...

A woman accused of stabbing a man on Earhart Boulevard on Sunday (June 5) has been arrested, New Orleans police said. Marvel Hilton, 57, was arrested after she attacked the 56-year-old man in the 2000 block of Earhart Boulevard, near the Pontchartrain Expressway, according to a preliminary police report. The victim was standing in the area when Hilton approached him and began stabbing him, police said.

Killer gene The killer read his Bible. He drank. Heavily. It was a fall night in 2006, when Bradley Waldroup walked out of his rural trailer in southeastern Tennessee, carrying his .22 caliber hunting rifle. His estranged wife and her friend, Leslie Bradshaw, had just pulled up to drop off the Waldroups’ four children. Waldroup began arguing with his wife and Bradshaw, who was unloading the car. Drawing his gun, Waldroup shot Bradshaw eight times, killing her. He used a knife to cut her head open. He then chased his wife with the knife and a machete, managing to slice...

There is this VR simulator out there that is pretty educational, but it's also been a source of humor. It's a surgical simulator that is basically a new version of "Operation" for the online world. You are given surgical tools and asked to perform surgery on a virtual patient. Well some filthy low-life modified the game to have Trump on the surgical table, and a gaggle of other filthy low-lifes are playing it. In this video, you'll see one such vile scumbag. There are plenty more. I'm not the kinda guy to do this, but this is a direct threat....

Celebrities could be forced to leave the sanctuary of their estates as a roaring wildfire tears through southern California. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West left their Calabasas home on Friday just before a third-alarm brush fire sparked up on Saturday in the area, causing a mandatory evacuation. As that fire started three others broke out in southern California, NBC 4 reported, burning 200 acres of land and threatening 3,000 homes.

If you own a cat, you know that they crouch down and pounce while playing. The same thing was caught on tape, but with a much larger cat - a 400 pound lion at a zoo in Chiba, Japan. A two-year-old boy got a very close encounter when the lion lunged, after the boy turned his back. The good news is that a glass wall was separating the two when the lion pounced, smashing his face into the wall. The glass wall is only about a month old, allowing lions to see their human visitors more closely than ever before....

Like a downfield receiver who turns to run before securing the ball and muffs the catch, Trump turned his eye to the general election and began to run toward the middle and so he muffed the election in Iowa. Trump believed the polls, he thought he had Iowa in the bag, he was counting on New Hampshire and almost immediately thereafter South Carolina; he thought he was unstoppable all the way to the nomination. All candidates by necessity project confidence in their ultimate victory but Trump went beyond that, in describing his upcoming tenure in the Oval Office he assumed...

Hillary Clinton’s unofficial political adviser Sidney Blumenthal told the Huffington Post in a Facebook Live chat Thursday that “nativism” and “racism” define Donald Trump more than anything else. In 2008, “they [were] going to eliminate Hillary Clinton and instead they make monkeys of themselves,” Blumenthal said of Republicans’ plans when Clinton first ran for president. So “the base gets more and more angry,” he continued;“Nativism and racism are at the core of Trump’s appeal. Without it there is no Trump,” Blumenthal said, adding:

A construction worker has been arrested after authorities say he buried his boss in dirt using a front-end loader. Citing an arrest report, the Orlando Sentinel reports 32-year-old Erick Cox of Sanford was charged Wednesday with aggravated battery. Man Accused of Taking Pricey Ring From Boca Bathroom Witnesses say Cox was arguing with 57-year-old Perry Byrd of Orlando at a construction site in DeBary when Cox dumped two loads of dirt onto Byrd, pinning him to the ground. The report says Cox then began hitting Byrd in the head with a 6-foot aluminum level. Byrd was knocked unconscious and sustained...

Using the "wrong" pronoun in casual conversation can cost you big bucks these days--even when it happens to be the right one. Gresham-Barlow School District in Oregon was forced to cough up $60,000 to a teacher who prefers the pronoun "they" because she "identifies" as neither male nor female. The teacher, Leo Soell, was granted damages in order to compensate her for the emotional distress of being "misgendered." For the uninitiated, "misgendering" is nothing more than using the correct pronoun to refer to a person who prefers to be called something else. In the old days we just called it...

Was travelling from Saudi Arabia to SudanAn American woman travelling from Saudi Arabia to Sudan threatened to blow up the aircraft after the crew refused her request to change seat. The woman, of an Egyptian origin, was travelling from the Western Saudi Red Sea port of Jeddah to Khartoum aboard a Saudia flight when the argument erupted. “She insisted on changing her seat but the crew members asked her to stay in her seat…she then threatened to blow up the plane,” Sada newspaper said, adding that the captain called in security men, who took the passenger away.

She had wounds in a half circle across her torso, teeth marks from her upper right shoulder in the back to her pelvis in front and to the other side of her buttocks in the back. Several ribs were fractured. A lung was punctured. She lost no less than a liter of blood. Doctors looked for teeth that might’ve still been in her body. Maria Korcsmaros, a 52-year-old triathlete and mother of three, survived a shark attack Sunday in Corona del Mar. She lived only because of her own quick thinking, strong work from a pair of Newport Beach lifeguards...

Two legs good, six legs tasty!Some people like to eat their crickets plain. Some people like to eat them after the crickets have been dipped in dark, luscious chocolate. Some people, it seems, prefer to never eat crickets at all – but those people are fewer and fewer, which is why it might be a little crowded, at times, during the ninth annual Bug (Eating) Festival at in.gredients on Saturday, June 4, 4-8pm. Because crickets, yes: Plain and chocolate-covered – or completely indistinguishable in fluffy, protein-rich flour. Because mealworms, spiced and baked. And who knows what other manner of crunchy,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c50JUQohYwYHilarious exchange between historian Michael Beschloss and Don Imus. With Beschloss claiming Hussein's IQ is off the charts

Thomas Beatie's eyes filled with tears as he watched his beautiful bride Amber walk down the aisle just behind his beaming seven-year-old daughter Susan, scattering rose petals. His sons Austin and Jensen, dressed identically in little black suits and striped ties, stood nearby nervously checking the wedding bands in their care. To the casual observer, 42-year-old Beatie and 46-year-old Nichols looked like any other couple tying the knot. Yet Thomas was no ordinary groom - in 2008 he made headlines as the world's first pregnant man. Beatie was born female but started hormone treatment at 23 to become a man....

Amber Heard's dire financial situation has been revealed after court documents showed the actress is losing money at an alarming rate. The 30-year-old filed for divorce from husband Johnny Depp last week requesting he pay her spousal support of $50,000 (£34,500) a month plus her legal costs. She cited irreconcilable differences for the split, which has triggered a battle over Depp's huge $400million fortune.

What goes on in the “gay straight alliance” clubs in high schools – and now in middle schools – across the country? What happens to kids that are persuaded to join them? We had a chance to see it up close – at one of their statewide events. And it’s worse than anyone realizes. As we’ve often warned people, these clubs bring kids into contact with radical adults, bizarre homosexual and transgender activists, sexually oriented literature and paraphernalia, and a heavy dose of destructive LGBT ideology. On Saturday, May 21, 2016 the “Massachusetts Youth Pride” event was held at Boston...

It’s easy to laugh at a grown man in a rubber dog suit chewing on a squeaky toy. Maybe too easy, in fact, because to laugh is to dismiss it, denigrate it – ignore the fact that many of us have found comfort and joy in pretending to be animals at some point in our lives. Secret Life of the Human Pups is a sympathetic look at the world of pup play, a movement that grew out of the BDSM community and has exploded in the last 15 years as the internet made it easier to reach out to likeminded...

Do you feel strongly about Harambe, the hapless gorilla executed by Cincinnati zoo to protect the life of the four-year old child Isaiah whose stupid, irresponsible parents allowed him to crawl into the gorilla’s pen?Well I do too. Especially when you realise – at least by some accounts – that the gorilla was actually trying to protect the child not kill it. But I don’t think in the outrage stakes any of us can quite compete with the angry black people in social media forums who have been blaming the incident on entrenched white privilege.