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  • Explosion at R.M. Palmer chocolate factory in Pennsylvania leaves 2 dead, others missing and injured.

    03/25/2023 7:21:46 AM PDT · by Carriage Hill · 69 replies
    Fox News ^ | 3.25.2023 | Elizabeth Pritchett
    An explosion at a historic chocolate factory in southeastern Pennsylvania left two people dead, several missing and eight injured Friday afternoon. West Reading Borough Police Department Chief Wayne Holben confirmed two fatalities and nine missing after an explosion at the R.M. Palmer Co. chocolate factory in West Reading shortly before 5 p.m.
  • Russian ICBM test failed while Biden was in Ukraine: report

    02/22/2023 6:53:36 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 38 replies
    NY Post ^ | 02-22-2023 | Victor Nava
    While President Biden was in Ukraine on Monday, Russia tested an intercontinental ballistic missile that appears to have failed, according to a report. US officials told CNN on Tuesday that Russia used a deconfliction line to notify the US in advance of the missile test, which reportedly did not pose a risk to the country. According to the officials, the US did not view the test as an anomaly or an escalation. The test was of a nuclear-capable heavy SARMAT missile, dubbed Satan II by NATO, and classified as a “superweapon” by the head of Russia’s aerospace research agency. US...
  • “White Piece of Sh*t”: Burger King Employee Goes On Racist Rant, Pays the Price (Video)

    02/09/2023 1:17:18 PM PST · by montag813 · 146 replies
    RNN ^ | 02-09-2023 | Jim Clayborn
    A Burger King employee has been caught on video going on a racist rant against a “white” couple in the fast-food restaurant’s drive-thru. Now, she is paying the price for her inappropriate outburst.This Burger King employee spewed racist remarks A black Burger King employee went on a racist rant against a Hispanic couple whom she assumed was white. The shocking dispute broke out between the employee and a couple at a Burger King drive-thru in North Miami Beach. The cellphone video has since gone viral. It seems the customers requested a refund for their order after another worker kept touching...
  • MAGA Blows Up Over Trump’s Baffling Endorsement in Tennessee… But It’s Even Worse Than They Think

    02/01/2022 2:46:42 PM PST · by NoLibZone · 143 replies
    A baffling Trump endorsement in Tennessee has caused quite a stir in MAGA country. If you haven’t been paying close attention to political minutiae lately, Politico has the story: Former President Donald Trump is facing serious backlash from die-hard loyalists over his decision to intervene in a Tennessee House race, with his supporters accusing him of spurning a staunch Republican ally who’s running. Trump on Tuesday evening endorsed Morgan Ortagus, who served as a State Department spokesperson during his administration and is pondering a run for a Middle Tennessee-based congressional district. The announcement has caused a firestorm, with far-right, high-profile...
  • Cruz's campaign is over, but his delegates fight on (Better call Saul)

    05/22/2016 6:55:42 AM PDT · by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies · 101 replies
    LA Times ^ | May 21, 2016 | Seema Mehta & Melanie Mason
    After Ted Cruz dropped out of the presidential race, his campaign staffers boxed up their mementos and souvenirs as they prepared to shutter the Houston headquarters, and the Texan announced that he would seek reelection to the U.S. Senate. Yet Cruz’s team didn't abandon the race for the White House entirely. It still filed a slate of potential presidential delegates for California’s June 7 primary, and continues to monitor delegate selection in states that already voted in the GOP nominating process. The end result is that Cruz will have more than 550 loyalists attending the Republican National Convention in Cleveland...
  • Cruz returns to Washington, warns of 'volcanic anger'

    05/11/2016 8:37:44 AM PDT · by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies · 114 replies
    Reuters ^ | May 11, 2016 | Doina Chiacu
    Former Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz returned to his job in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday with a warning to Washington that the turbulent primary race was a wake-up call. "All across this country people are hungry for change. This election cycle should be a wake-up call to Washington, D.C.," the senator from Texas said outside his office. "The frustration and volcanic anger with Washington was echoed throughout this election." Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders have upended expectations in their respective presidential campaigns, tapping into voter anger at establishment politicians in Washington. Cruz, a...
  • Suspect in custody after threatening to blow up Fox Baltimore headquarters

    04/28/2016 2:17:19 PM PDT · by Innovative · 15 replies
    FoxNews ^ | Apr. 28, 2016 | FoxNews
    A contractor who threatened to set off a bomb at the headquarters of Fox 45 Baltimore Thursday afternoon, forcing police to evacuate the building, walked outside before a sniper shot him as cameras rolled. A bomb robot scanned him for nearly an hour before police removed his clothing, picked him up and carried him into an armored van. Crews transferred him to an ambulance minutes later. His condition was unclear.
  • Man Nearly Explodes After Compressed Air Valve Lodges In Buttocks

    02/16/2014 7:32:56 PM PST · by Dallas59 · 73 replies
    LA Times ^ | 2/16/2014 | LA Times
    WHAKATANE, New Zealand (PIX11)— New Zealand trucker Steven McCormack is either the luckiest or unluckiest person in the world, depending on one’s perspective. McCormack was working on his tractor trailer at a gas station in Whakatane, on the North Island’s east coast, when he slipped and fell, landing on a broken high pressure air valve.
  • Obama is bubble-wrapped

    11/06/2013 1:03:26 AM PST · by Cincinatus' Wife · 14 replies
    Washington Post ^ | November 5, 2013 | Dana Milbank,
    ".......In a damning account of the Obamacare implementation, my Post colleagues Amy Goldstein and Juliet Eilperin described how Obama rejected pleas from outside experts and even some of his own advisers to bring in people with the expertise to handle the mammoth task; he instead left the project in the care of in-house loyalists. “Three and a half years later, such insularity — in that decision and others that would follow — has emerged as a central factor in the disastrous rollout,” Goldstein and Eilperin reported. Their report is based in part on a prescient memo sent to the White...
  • 5 Arrested For Allegedly Trying To Blow Up Ohio Bridge

    05/01/2012 9:53:52 AM PDT · by Fennie · 78 replies
    FOX News ^ | May 1, 2012
    URGENT: Five people described as anarchists were arrested Monday in a Cleveland-area park for allegedly trying to blow up a bridge, sources tell Fox News.
  • 3 Hospitalized After Mobile Home Explosion

    10/24/2011 1:07:35 PM PDT · by Morgana · 18 replies
    http://www.wlky.com/news/29565173/detail.html ^ | 10/24/2011 | Daniel Kemp/WLKY
    NEW PEKIN, Ind. -- Two people are in critical condition and another in fair condition following a mobile home explosion and fire in southern Indiana. It happened on Hurst Road near New Pekin, northwest of Louisville. The damage was evident after the mobile home exploded, ripping it apart on all four sides. "I just heard a big boom, I didn't know what it was," said neighbor Trevor Trainor. It was a neighbor who ran to tell him just what was going on. "He was beating on the door. All he said was, 'Call 911 and get an ambulance to the...
  • Muslim suicide bombers (vanity humor alert)

    08/31/2011 6:54:00 PM PDT · by KeyLargo · 11 replies
    31 Aug 2011
    Everyone seems to be wondering why Muslim terrorists are so quick to commit suicide. Lets have a look at the evidence: - No Christmas - No television -No nude women - No football - No pork chops - No hot dogs - No burgers - No beer - No bacon - Rags for clothes - Towels for hats - Constant wailing from some idiot in a tower - More than one wife More than one mother in law - You can't shave - Your wife can't shave - You can't wash off the smell of donkey - You wipe your...
  • (British) Nuclear Missiles Could Blow Up 'Like Popcorn'

    06/25/2008 4:10:38 PM PDT · by blam · 19 replies · 208+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 6-25-2008 | Duncan Gardham
    Nuclear missiles could blow up 'like popcorn' By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent Last Updated: 8:59PM BST 25/06/2008 A design flaw in Britain's nuclear arsenal means that warheads could set off a chain reaction "like popcorn" if they were accidentally dropped, according to Ministry of Defence documents. More than 1,700 warheads are affected by the problem which would cause them to explode one after another, an effect known as "popcorning." A typical Trident nuclear missile contains three to six warheads, and some submarines carry up to 24 missiles, meaning the potential for disaster could be huge. Defence companies try to prevent...
  • ’We will blow up all of Gaza’s churches’

    09/16/2006 10:54:57 PM PDT · by LibWhacker · 63 replies · 2,046+ views
    Judeoscope ^ | 9/16/06
    The spiritual leader of Lebanon’s Sunnis, the Grand Mufti Sheik Mohammed Rashid Kabbani, said the pope’s remarks emanated either from "Ignorance and lack of knowledge or were deliberately intended to distort Islam." Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said “there should be no controversy; the pope has already explained his true intentions. The religious dialogue and the respect for every religion is a necessity, and religion doesn’t justify violence. Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said of Benedict XVI: He is a great pope, with great intelligence. Right-wing politician Roberto Calderoli said “I ask myself some crazy member of the Left...
  • Muslims criticise naming of plot suspects

    08/11/2006 1:25:42 PM PDT · by LibWhacker · 55 replies · 1,743+ views
    Reuters ^ | 8/11/06 | Gideon Long
    LONDON (Reuters) - Muslims criticised the government on Friday for publishing the names of 19 men who police sources say are under arrest for allegedly plotting to blow up passenger planes bound for the United States. The government instructed the Bank of England to publish the names on its Web site on Thursday, just hours after police arrested 24 people in connection with the suspected plot. Police have not named the 24 but a police source confirmed they include the 19 named by the central bank. Although the bank did not give the addresses of the 19, it listed their...
  • Palestinians Hunker Down As Cash Runs Out [Aw Jeez Alert]

    05/16/2006 6:34:58 PM PDT · by Alouette · 55 replies · 1,222+ views
    ASSociated Press ^ | May 16, 2006 | Karin Laub
    BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip - He's overdrawn at the bank, owes $400 to the grocery, can no longer afford baby formula for his youngest and is trying to sell his 16-year-old car for half its value to raise cash for food. After two months without his government salary, Abdel Hakim Abu Samra, 47, is fast running out of options. "It's the worst time we've had," he said, comparing the deepening crisis since Hamas rose to power in March to previous periods, including two bloody uprisings against Israel. And there's no end in sight. The West won't lift crippling economic sanctions...
  • Emma, Ann and a sex doll that upsets Muslims ["Mustafa Shag"]

    02/09/2006 7:34:18 PM PST · by ATOMIC_PUNK · 8 replies · 577+ views
    Published: 09 February 2006
    * The latest public figure to stand accused of defiling the Prophet Mohamed is not some Danish cartoonist, or French newspaper editor, but a hapless British Page 3 girl called Emma B. Yesterday, the erotic retailer Ann Summers unveiled Miss B as the "face" of its new range of products. Not 24 hours later, she finds herself on the front line of Islamic protest after Muslim leaders discovered that the range includes a new blow-up doll, called "Mustafa Shag".
  • Loose blogs may blow up BCTs

    11/14/2005 3:42:48 PM PST · by SandRat · 5 replies · 412+ views
    ARNEWS ^ | Nov 14, 2005 | Gary Sheftick
    WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Nov. 10, 2005) – This is not your father’s war, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker tells troops in a videotaped message emphasizing proper Operations Security procedures and responsible use of the Internet. The video is part of the Army’s comprehensive OPSEC Action Plan that has Mobile Training Teams visiting deploying units to teach how improper information and photographs posted on the Worldwide Web could endanger lives. For instance, photos of combat operations and destroyed military equipment could provide the enemy with clues about U.S. vulnerabilities, said Maj. Michael Pate, the Army’s OPSEC officer...
  • Brigade finds huge weapons cache (Alaska)

    10/18/2005 3:55:32 AM PDT · by Jet Jaguar · 63 replies · 2,186+ views
    Fairbanks Daily News-Miner ^ | October 17, 2005 | TATABOLINE BRANT
    t's not unusual for the soldiers of the Alaska-based 172nd Stryker Brigade to seize weapons caches while patrolling the streets and villages of Iraq. But the stockpile they unearthed outside a chicken coop Tuesday set a record. It took three days to blow up. "Without a doubt, this was a significant find and certainly crippling to the (anti-Iraqi forces) operating in my sector," Lt. Col. Mark Freitag wrote by e-mail this week from Rawah, Iraq, where his cavalry unit, from Fort Wainwright, is stationed. Stryker brigade commander Col. Michael Shields said the cache is the largest one the 172nd has...
  • Blast hits BP Texas City refinery (Oh oh... here it comes!)

    03/23/2005 4:40:03 PM PST · by SierraWasp · 48 replies · 6,959+ views
    CBS MarketWatch.com ^ | 3/23/05 | Jim Jelter
    Blast hits BP Texas City refinery Gasoline futures jump to record high on supply fearsBy Jim Jelter, MarketWatch Last Update: 7:20 PM ET March 23, 2005 SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- A huge blast ripped through part of BP's sprawling petroleum refinery in Texas City, Texas, Wednesday, killing and injuring several workers, the company said. News of the explosion shot through the energy market, triggering a swift after-hours jump in gasoline futures to a record high $1.61 a gallon on the New York Mercantile Exchange on fears the giant refinery's gasoline production might be severely cut. See Futures Movers. The move...