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FULL HEADLINE: Bride-to-be who broke her leg in four places when she fell over on her hen do would have LOST the limb if it wasn't for her quick-thinking bridesmaid who 'popped' it straight (despite having NO first aid training) (EXCERPT) Lula fell to the floor and rolled around in agony.When she caught sight of her limb it was bent backwards. She said: 'I couldn't get up. I was in so much pain. 'My leg was bent back the wrong way. It was all in the wrong place. 'One of the girls called an ambulance and the on-site medic, but...

Cops said Sum Bora, 28, slipped into the tiny crevice on Sunday while trying to retrieve his flashlight, which had fallen in the small rocky hollow. Sum’s brother found him and alerted authorities to his location in the mountains. About 200 rescue workers carefully freed the trapped man by destroying bits of the rock that had pinned him in an effort that took about 10 hours, police spokesman Sareth Visen said.

A researcher who has spent more than half a decade monitoring Google’s influence said he believes the tech giant will “actively interfere” in the 2020 elections. On Aug. 6, President Donald Trump said his administration is watching Google “very closely.” Dr. Robert Epstein, senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, told The Epoch Times that Google has access to a number of powerful manipulation methods mostly through “ephemeral experiences” that can shift votes. Online ephemeral experiences are brief moments where information is generated instantaneously, such as search suggestions. They are not stored anywhere and can’t...

I looked up Joaquin Castro's political donations. This is proof that Joaquin is a disgusting racist. HE DID NOT DONATE TO BARACK OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN!

When the final report of then-special counsel Robert Mueller stated that it couldn’t establish that anyone from the Trump campaign had conspired with Russia, many Americans may have failed to realize how revealing a statement that was. The recent conviction of a former partner in the now-defunct consultancy firm of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, shows how easy it would have been for Mueller to bring charges even if he could piece together only a circumstantial case. Yet he didn’t. Conspiracy Despite its ominous sound, the federal charge of conspiracy has a low...

It was 50 years ago today, that The Beatles caused a traffic delay.

A Montana man has been charged with assault of a minor for allegedly slamming a 13-year-old boy to the ground for not removing his hat during the national anthem, according to reports. Charles James Brockway, 39, was arrested Saturday evening at the Mineral County Fair and Rodeo in Superior, a small town in northwestern Montana, the Missoulian reported. Taylor Hennick, a witness cited by the paper, said the national anthem had begun at the fairgrounds when she saw a boy, “lying on the ground.” “He was bleeding out of his ears, seizing on the ground, just not coherent,” Hennick said.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is leading a congressional delegation on a trip to Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras that will ultimately end at McAllen, Texas, as she seeks to highlight President Trump’s hardline immigration policies. “As our high-powered delegation begins our visit to the Northern Triangle, we look forward to strengthening our partnership to enhance regional security and stability, create greater economic opportunity, combat corruption and advance human rights to make it safer for people to thrive in their communities,” Pelosi said in a statement Thursday, referring to the three Central American countries. The delegation will meet with government officials...

Leslie Wexner, in letter to foundation, said the amount was at least $46 million Leslie Wexner, the billionaire behind Victoria’s Secret, said his former money manager Jeffrey Epstein misappropriated more than $46 million of his fortune, revealing for the first time some of the financial fallout from his relationship with the disgraced financier. In a letter Wednesday, the founder and chief executive of L Brands Inc. LB -0.63% wrote to members of his Wexner Foundation that the missing funds were uncovered after Mr. Wexner decided in 2007 to sever ties with Mr. Epstein. Mr. Wexner began the separation process after...

The divide over health care among Democratic presidential candidates is raising fears the party might turn an issue that was a key winner in the House midterms into a liability in next year's Senate races. Democratic Senate candidates have been planning to borrow heavily from the playbook used by House Democrats in 2018, when the party won back the chamber in large part because of a pledge to protect ObamaCare against Republican attempts to kill the 2010 law. Democrats are attempting to replicate that success with a push to take the majority in the Senate during an election year when...

As I mentioned privately to another Freeper with interest in the island happenings, the situation is so fluid that each time I try to sit down and write down my thoughts, something changes. Another Freeper with PR roots, AuH2ORepublican, is summarizing the situation very well in this thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3767397/posts I've promised my own thoughts on the matter, but again, real life gets in the way and I probably won't be able to until things settle down. Right now we're into our third governor in less than a week. One thing you have to know is that this now boils down...

Leftists Dream of Hunting ‘Deplorables’ Like Deer. Time to Disarm Christians, Right? By John Zmirak Published on August 7, 2019 • Yesterday I warned that President Trump might throw away his re-election chances and undermine our freedom. How? By backing the attack on the Bill of Rights that Red Flag laws represent. They let any nosy neighbor, angry ex-spouse, or frustrated stalker, take away a citizen’s Second Amendment rights with a single uncorroborated phone call. Then the burden of proof is on the citizen to prove that he is “innocent.”You can see on the face of it why such proposals are...

The Congressional Budget Office and other such experts of public finance routinely severely underestimate the cost of major government programs such as Medicare, Social Security, student loans, government pensions, lifetime health benefits for government employees, and Obamacare. They also miss estimates on "smaller" government projects (we're still talking billions here) such as the "big dig" in Boston and the bullet train in California. They're always underestimating these costs. Why are we always so broke at most government entities? Why do these costs always overshoot their budgets? The short answer is that politicians and bureaucrats routinely underestimate the costs of all...

The left just loves to tout "renewable energy" as the clean, green panacea, something that will save the earth. Just look at the foremost proponent of this, California's Gov. Gavin Newsom: On day one, I will issue a directive putting California on a clear path to 100% renewable energy. It’s achievable and it’s necessary. Frankly, I think we can surpass our 100% goal by positioning California as a net exporter of energy to other states and nations. It’s a money maker for us and the natural next step in our global leadership — a classic example of California innovation. Under the leadership...

The establishment media has revealed themselves as the rabid activists they really are this week, using two horrific shootings to turn their slow march into a full charge. They have put one half of the country in their sights, defaming them as white supremacists, racists or worse. On Monday, MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace claimed that “President Trump was talking about ‘exterminating Latinos.’ ” Not until the next day did she tweet that she “misspoke.”

If there has been one bit of conventional wisdom about 2020 that has most comforted left-of-center analysts like me, it’s that Donald Trump’s job approval ratings seem exceptionally stagnant and too low to support the evident optimism of his conservative media boosters. I made that argument just a few days ago in a piece looking at evidence that Trump’s actual voting appeal may not be much better than those shaky approval ratings. But now comes the formidable number cruncher Nate Cohn with a challenge to this assumption from a couple of different directions. It will be received by many Times...

A worker at Walmart corporate is asking thousands of fellow employees to take part in an organized “sick out” over the retail giant’s gun and ammo sales. CNN reports that Thomas Marshall, one of three employees organizing the walkout, sent a message on a Slack and email chain “that included about 20,000 people.” The message said: In light of recent events, and in response to Corporate’s inaction, we are organizing a “sick out” general strike to protest Walmart’s profit from the sale of guns. Walmart is a company that has always placed its associates and customers first, and we have...

MSNBC national security analyst Malcolm Nance said America is "overdue" for a mass shooting on the scale of Norweigian white supremacist and mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik. From Tuesday's edition of MSNBC's 'Hardball' with host Chris Matthews: MALCOLM NANCE, MSNBC: I think that we're finally in for a great societal change where we're finally addressing this issue... I wrote a book last year called, 'The Plot to Destroy Democracy,' one of the chapters I led off with the massacre of 68 children in Norway by the original white supremacist terrorist who created the concept of this terrorist manifesto, Anders Behring...

The first step in a sweeping crackdown on crime ranging from drugs to sex trafficking in a notorious San Francisco neighborhood yielded 32 arrests of mostly Honduran nationals tied to two international operations that poured heroin and cocaine into the community, U.S. prosecutors announced Wednesday.