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Disney is facing mounting dissatisfaction from its customers as prices at its theme parks continue to rise, and the quality of its products plummets. In an article by the New York Post, customers document a wide range of issues with Disney, from its skyrocketing prices to defective rides and attractions to its dirty facilities. One customer said he had a poor experience due to rides being down and didn’t expect Disney to fix them anytime soon. “Rides are also down a lot. It’s been lacking since they reopened and I don’t expect it to change anytime soon,” the user continued....

For years many of us have been screaming for the GOP to just get on the field. Too often the muckety-mucks led by the McRomneys run and hide with any controversial issue (abortion, for example) and hide behind "muh tax cuts." So far, no one has provided an inside look at exactly how Greg Abbott/Ken Paxton in Texas or Ron DeSantis in Florida actually arrived at the conception of what I'll call "Operation Alinsky #4" but whoever and however they did it, it was genius on multiple levels. And it is anything but a "stunt." It is the single best...

On Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said he was shocked by Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) blocking his school safety bill. Sen. Chris Murphy blocked the bill with just two words: "I object." And then he walked out of the chamber. (video)

Charlie Crist’s running mate, Karla-Hernández-Mats, is married to a man arrested for serving alcohol to a minor when he was twenty-six. Feliks Mats got arrested when he was a student at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN A twenty-six-year-old giving alcohol to a minor may or may not concern voters, but someone has been trying hard to erase all the evidence. Given that both Hernandez-Mats and her husband work in our school systems, the public has a right to know about this arrest. I started to write a post about an appearance Hernández-Mats scheduled for Sept. 15 in Palm Beach County...

Photographs and video footage have been circulating on social media this week which appear to show a Canadian high school teacher wearing obscenely large prosthetic breasts while teaching a shop class. Several photographs show a biological male wearing a blond wig, short-shorts, and a tight top stretched almost to breaking point by the gigantic fake bosom apparently teaching a shop class.

Rajasthan has turned into a giant cattle graveyard as the lumpy virus is wreaking havoc. In overall, over 57K cattle have died due to lumpy skin disease in India. 46K have died in Rajasthan alone. Meanwhile, the Lumpy skin disease epidemic has spread in six-seven States, including Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh. The Centre on Thursday said that about 57,000 cattle have died so far due to lumpy skin disease across various parts of the country and asked affected States to boost the vaccination process to control the disease. Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is a contagious viral disease...

According to the Gentry Police Department, a Gentry intermediate PE instructor has been detained on suspicion of sexually assaulting a former pupil in connection with an alleged event that took place in 2010. Leah Queen, 44, is being held without bond after being charged with the furnishing, having, or using illegal items, according to jail records. Additionally, according to her jail record, she is detained due to a Benton County warrant for second-degree sexual assault. The event allegedly occurred in March 2010 after Queen made friends with the victim, who was 17 at the time, following a basketball game and...

Transplant recipients are rejecting their new organ after receiving a vaccination against Covid-19, adding an additional challenge for the vaccinated population, according to the new study published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine. A group of 18 health experts and researchers from Japan conducted a study to systematically evaluate and characterise the currently reported cases of acute corneal graft rejection after being injected with a Covid “vaccine.” A rejection graft occurs when the recipient’s immune system rejects tissue from a donor, in this case, the cornea. Allograft is the transplant of an organ or tissue from one individual to another...

LA lost cargo to East, Gulf Coast ports — and Long Beach next door ... The Port of Los Angeles, the highest-volume container gateway in America, is diverging from the nationwide trend. U.S. container imports remain close to record highs, yet imports to LA are falling double digits. On Thursday, the Port of Los Angeles reported total throughput of 805,672 twenty-foot equivalent units in August, down 15.5% year on year (y/y). Imports came in at 404,313 TEUs, exports at 100,484 TEUs and empties at 300,875 TEUs. Imports were down big, sinking 16.8% y/y and 16.7% compared to July. ... It...

A Waukesha County judge should declare that a federal voter registration form is illegal in Wisconsin because it omits questions and disclaimers required by state law, according to a lawsuit a conservative group filed Thursday against the Wisconsin Elections Commission. The so-called National Voter Mail Registration Form breaks state law by not asking applicants whether they have felony convictions and doesn’t state that falsifying information on it is a felony, according to the lawsuit. Beyond declaring the voter registration application illegal, a voter represented by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty wants a Waukesha County Circuit Court judge to...

As is well-known, the city of Hebron is often the center of clashes between Israelis and Palestinians. Now a Palestinian kindergarten teacher has shed light on the nature of one of the “difficulties” faced by Palestinians in the city. During an interview about Palestinian children in Hebron, a kindergarten teacher noted that one “difficulty” for the children is that “the settlers or Israelis sometimes call to them and give them a carton of chocolate milk or milk.” This is in addition to the children being afraid to cross a particularly busy street.

First Lt. David Schmitz, an F-16 pilot at South Carolina’s Shaw Air Force Base, died 30 June 2020, when his ejection seat malfunctioned as he tried to punch-out during a failed nighttime landing. He was 32. An Air Force investigation of the incident revealed that key components of the ejection seat may have been counterfeit

At least two people were shot in separate incidents in the Loop as revelers filled Chicago’s downtown area to celebrate Mexico’s Independence Day. At times, members of the crowd overwhelmed Chicago police, threw bottles and other objects at officers, and even tried to pull some cops from their patrol cars. Videos uploaded to the Citizen App showed people climbing on top of a CTA bus to wave Mexican flags. A sports car caught on fire outside the Roosevelt Red Line station while other souped-up vehicles spun donuts in downtown intersections. ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Thursday slammed Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) for his treatment of a witness during a House Oversight Committee hearing. Higgins had a contentious exchange during the hearing with clean energy advocate Raya Salter, who he at various points referred to as “young lady” and “boo.”

Germany’s public broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, has revised its code of conduct to require support for Israel’s right to exist, and employees who fail to do so may now be fired. The move announced Sept. 1 preceded a court order last week that DW reinstate a former employee fired who was fired after the company determined she had made comments about Israel that could be construed as antisemitic. In all, seven employees from the broadcaster’s Arabic service were let go last year on similar grounds, and so far two have successfully sued DW for reinstatement. The revised conduct code appears to...

This week’s stunning turn of events in the war in Ukraine was head-spinning, reflected in dramatic headlines in the media around the world. “Ukraine is turning the tide against Russia,” declared one. “Ukrainian victory shatters Russia’s reputation as a military superpower,” shouted a second. “Russia withdraws more forces from northeast Ukraine as Kyiv presses advance,” read a third. Seven months after the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the tide seemed to turn in the war, as Ukrainian forces registered victories in the northeast. In a symbolic action that seemed unimaginable a few months ago, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited...

Former President Donald Trump said on Thursday that if he is indicted over storing classified documents at his Florida residence the United States would face “problems ... the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen before.” “If a thing like that happened, I would have no prohibition against running,” Trump told talk radio host Hugh Hewitt. “I think if it happened, I think you’d have problems in this country the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen before. I don’t think the people of the United States would stand for it.” Hewitt asked Trump to elaborate on what he was...

The solar flare, classified as M8 in the second-most energetic category of flares, departed from the sun at 5:49 a.m. EDT (0949 GMT) on Friday, disrupting shortwave radio communications in the sun-facing parts of the world. According to Spaceweather.com(opens in new tab), amateur radio operators in Africa and the Middle East could have experienced signal distortion for up to one hour after the flare. The U.K. space weather forecaster Met Office predicts there is a chance of further flares today before the sunspot AR3098 disappears behind the sun's limb (the edge of the sun's visible disk). Space weather forecasters think...

And Eliza Fletcher. And Brianna Kupfer. Where are the media mourners of those crime victims?Every day seems to bring another crime video. This one is especially grim. The store clerk gave the thug everything he demanded, and posed no threat at all to him. The thug shot him simply because he, the thug, is an animal. ***WARNING*** The following media includes graphic content.Here's a news story about the murder:Tupelo police said Copeland tried to rob a Chevron store Sunday morning, Sept. 11. During the attempted robbery, he allegedly shot Parmvir Singh, 33, of Tupelo, in the head. During his court...

Prausnitz's lab has been researching microneedles for vaccine delivery for years and realized they could be equally applicable to tattoos. With support from the Alliance for Contraception in Cats and Dogs, Prausnitz's team started working on tattoos to identify spayed and neutered pets, but then realized the technology could be effective for people, too.