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  • The end is nigh for snoozefest late-night talk shows

    08/18/2024 3:41:40 AM PDT · by Libloather · 46 replies
    NY Post ^ | 8/17/23 | Johnny Oleksinski
    In an interview this week, Jimmy Kimmel conceded that the end is nigh for late-night talk shows. “I don’t know if there will be any late-night television shows on network TV in 10 years,” the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” host said. “Maybe there’ll be one but there won’t be a lot of them.” Jimmy’s right. The culling has already commenced. After James Corden departed “The Late Late Show” in 2023, CBS didn’t kick off a dramatic “Late Shift”-style talent search of yesteryear — the network brass replaced it with a comedy game show called “After Midnight.” Nobody shed a single tear....
  • Switzerland offers cash prize to get munitions out of lakes

    08/18/2024 3:38:16 AM PDT · by DUMBGRUNT · 14 replies
    BBC ^ | 17 Aug 2024 | Imogen Foulkes
    Some munitions are at depths of 150 to 220 metres, but others in Lake Neuchatel are just six or seven metres below the surface. Now, the Swiss defence department is offering 50,000 francs (£45,000) in prize money for the best idea to get it out. The munitions pose two risks, he said. First, despite the fact it is underwater, there is still a risk of explosion, because in many cases "the army did not remove the fuses before dumping the munition".
  • A non-lethal automated paintball / nylon bullet / pepper-ball / beanbag gun?

    08/18/2024 3:26:21 AM PDT · by DUMBGRUNT · 18 replies
    Second City Cop ^ | 18 Aug 2024 | Second City Cop
    Sublethal developed the non-lethal remote-control gun that fires standard .68 caliber paintballs with solid nylon bullets or pepper balls. "The remote gun will not autonomously shoot anyone. The gun is controlled either from a control center or from the user's cellphone. Either way, there is a human who decides when to shoot."
  • Near-Death Experiences As Proof of a God

    08/18/2024 12:03:17 AM PDT · by Lazamataz · 309 replies
    Various Places | 8/18./2024 | By Laz A. Mataz
    I've been a fan of watching YouTube accounts of Near Death Experiences lately. There are certain common elements: Leaving your physical body and observing people operating on them. In some cases, people were able to leave that location and see other people and places. One young lady left the operating room, travelling through walls, and went to find her father in the hospital.There is, of course, the tunnel you travel through and the bright light at the end of it.There, TO A PERSON, they describe a Life Review of all your significant actions, but not from your perspective, but how...
  • Not just for kids anymore: Adults turn to lemonade stands as side hustles

    08/17/2024 11:31:19 PM PDT · by RandFan · 17 replies
    WaPo /MSN ^ | Aug 17 | Amber Ferguson
    There was no ice at Giant. There was no ice at CVS. And Malia Blake was getting anxious. Her new side hustle, intended to help her climb out of debt, was inspired by a woman she saw on TikTok do this to pay for pharmacy school. It depended on four ingredients: ice, water, sweetener and lemons. With her SUV filled with tables, bags of lemons she got from Costco and flavored syrups she bought off Amazon, Blake pulled into a 7-Eleven parking lot in Southeast Washington and ran inside. Tucked in the back of the store was a freezer. “Yay,...
  • Nextrush Unplugged Weekend*Chop Down More Trees*The 4 P Policy In Ukraine Rolls On*Elon Musk's Jewish-Christian Childhood*Biden Spins Peace While Middle East War Continues*Candid On Canadace Owens*

    08/17/2024 10:26:02 PM PDT · by Nextrush · 2 replies
    Nextrush Free ^ | 8/17/2024 | Nextrush/Self
    Welcome to another attempt at media excellence my formerly stained fingers at the keyboard again. If Rush Limbaugh were with us today his message regarding wildfires raging around the world from Jasper, Canada to Athens Greece would be clear... Those disturbances in the UK consider this the new Keir Starmer government wants to reverse Brexit move the UK away from closer USA ties back to ties... It's time for a Lindsey Graham Update Linsdey on the Armageddon Highway in Ukraine... Why don't they give us footage like that from the Ukraine War... We also learned this week that Joe Biden...
  • Elvis, 47 Years Gone

    08/17/2024 10:21:37 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 31 replies
    EuroWeekly News ^ | 16 Aug 2024 | Adam Woodward
    On August 16, 1977, the devastating news that the King of Rock ’n’ Roll had died. I, although just a wee thing, remember my mother and aunt besides themselves, sobbing over a copy of the Daily Mirror. All over the World his death had a profound impact on culture. He had been, and still remains today, one of the most influential characters in the history of popular culture. Not only was his music groundbreaking (before Elvis, Billy Connolly describes all music as being ‘beige’), but his charm, style and swagger permeated Western Culture and brought out the envy in other...
  • DNC Attendees Will Have Opportunities For Free Vasectomies, Abortions

    08/17/2024 10:20:28 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 65 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | August 17, 2024 | Julianna Frieman
    Attendees at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago will have the opportunity to receive free vasectomies and abortions blocks away from the proceedings at the United Center. Planned Parenthood Great Rivers, which operates in parts of Missouri and Illinois, will park its mobile health clinic near the DNC on Aug. 19 and Aug. 20, according to The New York Times. Medication abortions are reportedly available on both days, with vasectomies being exclusively offered Monday. Appointments on the vasectomy vehicle are in high demand, with eager registrants forming a waitlist, according to the outlet. Those hoping to be sterilized must...
  • France expels 'radical' Tunisian imam Mahjoub Mahjoubi over flag comments

    08/17/2024 10:17:10 PM PDT · by Cronos · 15 replies
    BBC ^ | 23rd February 2024 | Lou Newton
    France has expelled a "radical" imam who made "unacceptable remarks" about the country's flag, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has said. Mahjoub Mahjoubi appeared to call the French flag "satanic" in a video that went viral online earlier this week. Mahjoub Mahjoubi, who hails from Tunisia but came to France 38 years ago, was an imam at the Ettaouba mosque in the small town of Bagnols-sur-Cèze, in the south of France. He was arrested earlier this week after a video circulated online showing him describing a "tricolour flag" as "satanic" and saying it has "no value with Allah". The imam said...
  • I’m a Gen Z travel influencer who’s been to 190 countries — this is the most overrated place on Earth

    08/17/2024 10:15:32 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 52 replies
    New York Post ^ | Aug. 17, 2024 | An=drew Court
    You’re tripping if you want to visit this tourist hotspot. A Gen Z travel influencer who has ventured to 190 of the world’s 193 countries says Egypt is among the most overrated places on the planet. Luca Pferdmenges, 22, made the bold claim in an interview with the Daily Mail on Saturday, with the declaration sure to dash the hopes of those who have long dreamed of seeing the pyramids and sailing down the Nile. The German explorer has racked up 2.9 million TikTok followers and some serious air miles by filming travel videos around the globe, but he won’t...
  • Our Minnesota Governor Walz... Weird.

    08/17/2024 9:53:01 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 40 replies
    Twitter / X ^ | August 17, 2024 | TL Rttn
    Minnesota Governor Walz... GAY? My Gaydar went up in smoke.................. VIDEO AT LINK....................
  • She’s Fighting Big Oil in Texas. But Republicans Want to Make Her DA.

    08/17/2024 9:44:59 PM PDT · by GrootheWanderer · 8 replies
    The New York Times via Yahoo ^ | Aug. 17, 2024 | J. David Goodman
    A Texas Monthly article published in 2008 took Reynolds, the incumbent district attorney, to task for a relatively low prosecution rate for cases of drug trafficking, theft, assault and robbery brought to his office by law enforcement. More than a decade ago, he faced scrutiny for letting a sex abuse case at a state-run school languish. It was ultimately taken over by the attorney general at the time, Greg Abbott, who is now the governor. After that scandal, Reynolds faced an opponent in the Democratic primary and won. He has not been opposed since.
  • Can my ex-employer obligate me to open a safe that I was the only one to know the combination?

    08/17/2024 9:44:43 PM PDT · by Jonty30 · 113 replies
    August 17, 2024 | jonty30
    Just a random question, but relevant for some of us older workers. Hypothetical situation, if a business fires you or lays you off, but they realized after that you had knowledge about the business, like a combination to a safety that nobody else had, can they legally make you give it up to them?
  • Local Pa. Republican committee member under fire for push against Donald Trump

    08/17/2024 9:38:48 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 18 replies
    nbcphiladelphia.com ^ | August 14, 2024 | Lauren Mayk and Emily Rose Grassi
    The future of a Montgomery County Republican's position within his party is unclear after he said he is not going to vote for candidate Donald Trump – and encouraged others in the party to not vote for him as well. "I just wanted to do anything that I could that, you know, would prevent another Trump term," Matthew McCaffery, the Republican municipal chair in Upper Merion Township, told NBC10 political reporter Lauren Mayk. McCaffery's words have created some drama in Montgomery County as he said he will be voting for the Democratic nominee in the upcoming election in November. He...
  • Democrats are building a huge wall around the DNC convention.

    08/17/2024 9:37:48 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 54 replies
    Twitter / X / Citizen's Free Press ^ | August 17, 2024 | Staff
    VIDEO AT Link.....................
  • U.S. looks to ban election betting as traders flock to prediction sites

    08/17/2024 9:15:52 PM PDT · by RandFan · 11 replies
    Markets Today ^ | Aug 17 | Story by Tony Romm
    Even before President Joe Biden had announced his exit from the 2024 election, thousands of voters flocked to the website PredictIt last month, hoping to place bets on the other candidates who might win in his stead. It amounted to an active week of trading on the political prediction marketplace, which fashions itself as a more accurate alternative to public polls. And federal regulators are looking to outlaw it. The U.S. government has embarked on a broad crackdown against election betting, relying on a mix of newly proposed rules and ongoing court cases to try to stamp out a nascent...
  • Gangs of brazen teen robbers ransack three 7-Eleven stores in Hollywood on same day Gavin Newsom pledged crackdown on 'smash and grabs'

    08/17/2024 8:41:33 PM PDT · by Morgana · 20 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | August 17, 2024 | Nic White
    Brazen thieves on bikes raided three 7-Eleven stores in California in the space of half an hour, smashing their way in and taking all they could carry. About 20 robbers swarmed inside the shops in Hollywood, grabbing food, drinks, cigarettes and anything else on shelves. Staff could only stand by helplessly as their convenience stores were ransacked in the blink of an eye before the invaders moved on to the next. The raids lasted a matter of minutes each, starting at 8:02pm on Friday when the 7040 West Sunset Boulevard store was hit, police said. Another near Hollywood and Highland...
  • Here's Why The US Is Playing Dumb About Ukraine's Plans To Invade Kursk

    08/17/2024 8:40:04 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 11 replies
    White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed that the US didn’t know about Ukraine’s plans to invade Russia’s Kursk Region, but that’s unbelievable since there’s no way that its intelligence services didn’t even catch a hint of it, not to mention likely participate in the preparations.Putin even reaffirmed during a meeting on Monday with high-ranking government officials about this crisis that Ukraine is the West’s proxy for waging war on Russia. Here are the five reasons why the US is still playing dumb:1. Maintain Plausible Deniability For Escalation ControlAdmitting complicity in Ukraine’s invasion of Russia’s universally recognized territory would make...
  • New Video Appears To Show DC Police Units Planting J6 Pipe Bomb

    08/17/2024 8:37:35 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 15 replies
    One of the great mysteries about the January 6, 2021, events is the lack of curiosity by the FBI about who planted the pipe bombs at the DNC and RNC headquarters. Amid all of the available CCTV video and surveillance technology exploited by the justice department, their transparent unwillingness to identify the pipe bomber has always been a dog that did not bark.The Occam’s Razor explanation for why DC and federal law enforcement have been incurious, points to law enforcement actually planting the bombs. New CCTV video seems to show exactly that.Shortly after 12:51pm a DC police SUV appears next...
  • NY Times: Abortion Clinics Everywhere Are Going Broke

    08/17/2024 8:35:17 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 20 replies
    Hotair ^ | 08/17/2024 | John Sexton
    A couple weeks ago there was some surprising news out of New York. Planned Parenthood announced it would stop doing late-term abortions (those after 20 weeks) and also planned to close four clinics in the state. The problem in New York wasn't the legality of their business, it was the profitability. PP's president wrote in an opinion piece that because of inflation they were in trouble unless the state started directing more public money their way.Today, the NY Times published a follow-up in the business section which makes the case that the business of abortion is not going well almost...