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UK: Muslim convert “furious”, seeks compensation because her pasta sauce “tasted” like bacon There is no end to Islamic supremacist entitlements and playing the victim. A Muslim convert, Rianne Ward” described herself as being left “distraught” after tasting a smoked bacon flavor in the vegetarian pasta sauce that she purchased from Aldi grocery chain in Derby. “She feared that she might have betrayed her religion by consuming pork”. Supermarket Aldi in Derby was left scrambling to contact the local media (Derbyshire Live) to reassure customers that there is no bacon in its veggie sauce; but now she expects compensation from...

Right kind of Muslims kill 9 wrong kind of Muslims – Ramadan Day 3 At least 9 killed in blast outside Sufi Muslim shrine in Lahore, Pakistan A faction of the Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for the bombing of the Sufi shrine of Data Darbar in Lahore, Pakistan, which killed at least nine people and wounded a further 24. Of course there are so many sects in Islam, with all believing only their particular sect is the only real one, and the others being apostates or infidels, it follows with Islam being the ‘religion of peace’ and all, they...

A coast-to-coast hiking and biking trail is almost a reality. The proposed Great American Rail Trail, a multi-use trail that will run across multiple states, has been in development for several years. Today, the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC) unveiled in a statement its preferred route for the trail, which will connect more than 125 existing trails and 90 trail gaps over 3,700 miles between Washington, D.C., and Washington State. Originally envisioned in the 1980s, the RTC has been conducting a route assessment for the last 12 months, analyzing more than 34,000 miles of multi-use trails across the country and working with...

This short entry on Instapundit made me LOL. I’ve taken the liberty of reposting it in one of Glenn Reynolds’ own favorite formats - the shot/chaser.An espresso glass for those mornings when a shot just isn’t enough SHOT: Survey suggests shame around mental illness fading in U.S.CHASER: YEAH A LOT OF STUFF SUGGESTS THAT Ain’t that the truth. Or at least some people’s truth. If we can normalize the current fad of transgenderism what can’t we normalize? Naturally this ‘survey’ doesn’t distinguish between types of mental illnesses, so for the purpose of asking the question, anxiety is comparable to psychotic...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Old Testament) 2 Samuel 19 19 [a]Joab was told, “The king is weeping and mourning for Absalom.” 2 And for the whole army the victory that day was turned into mourning, because on that day the troops heard it said, “The king is grieving for his son.” 3 The men stole into the city that day as men steal in who are ashamed when they flee from battle. 4 The king covered his face and cried aloud, “O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!” 5 Then Joab went into the house to the king and...

Special Counsel Robert Mueller spent more than $732,000 on outside contractors, including private investigators and researchers, records show, but his office refuses to say who they were. While it’s not unusual for special government offices to outsource for services such as computer support, Mueller also hired contractors to compile “investigative reports” and other “information.” The arrangement has led congressional investigators, government watchdog groups and others to speculate that the private investigators and researchers who worked for the special counsel’s office might have included Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS, the private research firm that hired Steele to produce the Russia collusion...

When Tiger Woods won The Masters this year it shocked the world. His glory days were long since gone; injuries had relegated him to forever live in past accomplishments – his career was pretty much over, he just hadn’t retired yet. Then he did it, he came back and won. Nearly everyone was not only shocked, they were excited. Americans love a great comeback story.In the midst of that celebration, something happened to turn a lot of people away from that happiness – the president of the United States joined in.First came a tweet congratulating Woods. Leftists responded the way...

Before the crash that she blamed on speculators, Senator Elizabeth Warren made a bundle by flipping houses. Nearly two years after Veo Vessels died, her daughter, 70-year-old Mary Frances Hickman, decided to sell the home her mother had left to her. A sprawling brick house in Oklahoma City’s historic Highland Park neighborhood, it was built in 1924, just a year after Mary’s birth. Advertisement /* effects for .bx-campaign-954452 *//* custom css .bx-campaign-954452 */.bx-custom.bx-campaign-954452.bx-type-agilityzone .bx-close { z-index: 2;}@-ms-keyframes bx-anim-954452-spin { from { -ms-transform: rotate(0deg); } to { -ms-transform: rotate(360deg); } } @-moz-keyframes bx-anim-954452-spin { from { -moz-transform: rotate(0deg); } to {...

Boston Red Sox Manager Alex Cora recently discovered the “mute” function on Twitter, which has come in handy in the aftermath of his decision, first revealed over the weekend by a newspaper in his native Puerto Rico, to skip the defending World Series champions’ scheduled visit to the White House on Thursday. But to date, no such button exists for real life. And so, on Monday afternoon in the visitors’ dugout at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Cora patiently answered questions for a third straight day about that decision — as the team’s White House visit is increasingly framed as...

It was Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney’s first week on the job as mayor when police officer Jesse Hartnett was fired upon in his patrol car at close range by Edward Archer. Hartnett sustained major injuries to his arm but still managed to heroically give chase to his assailant. Archer was apprehended and confessed to the crime. When an officer is shot in most cities, it's headline news. This particular story was even more sensational because surveillance cameras captured the point-blank shots into the patrol car fired by Archer, followed by a seriously wounded Hartnett lurching out of his car and...

African safari hunter on having to choose just one bullet for continent's game: ‘It would most definitely be the Woodleigh Hydrostatically Stabilized Solid.’ The bull elephant was in musth – that was immediately clear – as his temporal glands were weeping down the side of his head. The night previous, he had destroyed the maize field that the village was counting on to survive the winter, rolling around HYDRO POWER like a drunken teenager and ruining their efforts. We got on him early, and we got in close – 16 long paces to be exact – as my professional hunter...

Sure, The Avengers: Endgame is a conservative movie, just like Star Wars and Star Trek. “Not Star Trek!” shriek its doughy fanboys, who go on to point out how that cinematic universe embraces collectivism: the characters all conform, have no money and don’t believe in God.Fine, then Star Trek is a millennial movie series. No, scratch that – Captain Kirk used to get babes and millennials are famously barren.Now, it’s not like Avengers is blatant about its politics, as if the characters chose up sides in some sort of civil war. Oh wait, they did do that a few movies ago,...

Exposing the Hitlerian tactics of the BDS movement against Israel. In a stealth campaign to reach students directly, the David Horowitz Freedom Center has secretly distributed 1000 copies of a newspaper containing its new report on the rising tide of Jew Hatred and its links to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel on select campuses named in the report.  Titled “An Epidemic of Jew Hatred on Campus: the Top Ten Neo-Nazi Incidents,” the Freedom Center’s report chronicles horrifying instances of anti-Semitism on prestigious American campuses including UCLA, Columbia University, the University of Nevada-Reno, Tufts University, UC-Santa Cruz,...

An Anglo-Saxon burial chamber found on a grassy verge next to a busy road and not far from an Aldi is being hailed as Britain’s equivalent of Tutankhamun’s tomb. Archaeologists on Thursday will reveal the results of years of research into the burial site of a rich, powerful Anglo-Saxon man found at Prittlewell in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. When it was first discovered in 2003, jaws dropped at how intact the chamber was. But it is only now, after years of painstaking investigation by more than 40 specialists, that a fuller picture of the extraordinary nature of the find is emerging.

Recently the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives failed to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar for indulging anti-Semitic tropes like the “dual loyalties” slander. Not long after, the international edition of The New York Times published a vile cartoon caricaturing Israeli Prime Minister as a guide-dog leading a blind Donald Trump, another anti-Semitic lie about the Jews’ malign influence, one popular in Nazi propaganda of the Thirties. Jew-hatred on the left is becoming more prevalent and bolder, these days nourished by the progressive Democrats’ alliance with traditional Muslims, whose ancient Islamic doctrines have for 14 centuries made Jews the scapegoat of Islam’s ills....

A young Florida boy called 911 this week and asked the responding officer to be his friend because he was lonely, the Tallahassee Police Department wrote on Facebook. After explaining to him that 911 is reserved for emergencies, “Officer White said he’d always be a friend!” the department wrote. The boy also received a stuffed animal from the department, got to sit in a patrol car and spend time with Officer White.

Rashida Tlaib has her anti-Israel priorities straight, but her message may be getting scrambled. The Palestinian-American congresswoman is partnering with the oddly named Humpty Dumpty Institute for a congressional summer trip to the Israeli-occupied territories that will coincide with a similar junket held annually by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. In a “You’re Invited” flier, Tlaib asked fellow lawmakers to join her on the trip to “Occupied Territories in Palestine” for five days in mid-August, Jewish Insider reported. The trip is being funded and organized by the Humpty Dumpty Institute, an international non-governmental organization that purports to — you...

From 1940 we have the instrumental version of Marcheta by Bob Dunn's Vagabonds. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

Big news. You might have heard about this. It was all over the TV. A woman went public with a claim that a young man sexually assaulted her. No, this isnÂ’t about Christine Blasey Ford and her dubious claims against Brett Kavanaugh. And this incident didnÂ’t happen a long time ago in a house far, far away. It just happened. In a Brooklyn Deli. DonÂ’t wait for the punchline. This isnÂ’t a joke. This is serious. Sexual assault is not funny. Even if it occurs amidst the pastrami and the potato salad. And, of course, we know all sexual assault...

<p>VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis issued a groundbreaking law Thursday requiring all Catholic priests and nuns around the world to report clergy sexual abuse and cover-up by their superiors to church authorities, in an important new effort to hold the Catholic hierarchy accountable for failing to protect their flocks.</p>