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  • Brother asks Josh Allen to hug sister; She was in tears

    07/26/2023 4:28:13 PM PDT · by NohSpinZone · 8 replies
    WHEC ^ | 7/26/2023 | By Evan Bourtis
    An older brother passed up a chance at getting the signature of Josh Allen, instead asking the all-star Bills quarterback to give his sister a hug. Allen did just that as the sister was in tears. Fans shouted as Allen signed autographs at St. John Fisher University on Wednesday during the first day Buffalo Bills training camp. Before Allen began signing autographs, the brother calls to him saying “I have a question.” The quarterback walks over and the brother leans into his ear, asking him to hug his sister in the bucket hat whose already crying. In between signing hats,...
  • Thug, 36, is charged with punching 68-year-old Sri Lankan immigrant in face while yelling 'you (bleeping) Asian' on NYC subway

    03/22/2021 5:43:40 AM PDT · by C19fan · 50 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | March 22, 2021 | Keith Griffith
    A 68-year-old man Asian man has been violently assaulted on the New York City subway by an assailant shouting racial insults, in the latest shocking incident of anti-Asian hate. Narayange Bodhi, originally from Sri Lanka, was commuting to his job as a security guard at 2.40pm on Friday when the attacker viciously punched him on a 1 Train in Lower Manhattan, police and witnesses say. Suspect Marc Mathieu, 36, of the Bronx was arrested on Sunday and charged with assault after NYPD Transit cops recognized his image on a wanted poster. Mathieu has nine prior arrests, a police source told...
  • AOC and Bernie Sanders share most awkward hug of all time

    05/10/2019 1:20:58 PM PDT · by Drastic · 29 replies
    Trending Politics ^ | 5/10/2019 | Frank
    Nevermind what they were discussing, but this hug had people cringing into next Tuesday. This is the most fake and awkward hug of all time. It wasn't even a full hug! I guess socialists hate each other too!
  • UC-Berkeley reopens investigation into campus assault on conservative activist (Trunc.)

    03/01/2019 11:24:31 AM PST · by libstripper · 32 replies
    Fox News ^ | Mar. 1, 2019 | Elizabeth Lorente
    Article's full title: "UC-Berkeley reopens investigation into campus assault on conservative activist days after announcing its end" Excerpt: University of California-Berkeley officials say that campus police have reopened an investigation into the assault on a conservative activist who was manning a recruitment table on campus. Earlier this week, officials said the investigation had ended and police were seeking a felony arrest warrant from the Alameda County District Attorney Office. * * * The Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Teresa Drenick did not respond to a message from Fox News. She told the Washington Free Beacon on Wednesday: "The matter has...
  • North Carolina Boy Asks Donald Trump for a Hug After Hurricane Florence

    09/20/2018 6:16:59 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 9 replies
    brietbart ^ | Charlie Spiering
    President Donald Trump toured New Bern, North Carolina, on Wednesday, viewing the damage caused by Hurricane Florence. Trump also visited Temple Baptist Church and joined volunteers handing out pre-packaged meals to storm victims As he passed out supplies, one boy wearing a hat approached the president. “Can I have a hug?” he asked. “Yes!” Trump said enthusiastically, embracing the boy to the delight of the crowd.
  • Shelter Cat Gives Everyone Hugs and Won't Take No for an Answer

    07/23/2018 9:50:07 PM PDT · by vannrox · 46 replies
    Lovemeow ^ | 18MAY18 | Amy Bojo
    Zorro the stray cat was eager to be loved but when he was brought to a shelter in Philadelphia, he could barely tolerate being touched. When staff found out what was bothering him, they soon discovered a cute little quirk that he does to everyone he meets. Pennsylvania SPCAZorro came to the Pennsylvania SPCA four months ago for a chance at a better life. "He was being fed by a Good Samaritan for some period of time, and he was so friendly that she was trying to find him a permanent home," Gillian Kocher Director of Public Relations of...
  • Hammond girl aims to hug police officers in all 50 states

    02/11/2017 4:03:51 PM PST · by BBell · 6 replies
    http://www.nola.com ^ | 2/10/17 | Kara Martinez Bachman
    In a country that often seems more divided than united, it might be the little things -- nods, smiles, hugs -- that make all the difference. For 7-year-old Hammond resident Rosalyn Baldwin, it's exactly those token actions that set a meaningful tone of healing and gratitude. In an effort to show respect and appreciation to law enforcement professionals -- a group that's increasingly facing scrutiny and, in some quarters, outright disrespect -- young Baldwin aims to set the record straight. Her mission? To hug an officer in every U.S. state. She began by giving bear hugs to her local police...
  • Help honor the "Hug Lady" who cared for our troops (FReep a Petition!)

    12/26/2015 12:25:20 PM PST · by Marie · 6 replies
    Change.org ^ | Nov, 2015 | Jeffrey Wolf
    This is a petition to honor Miss Elizabeth (the Fort Hood Hug Lady) by posthumously renaming the Fort Hood Deployment center the Elizabeth Laird Deployment Center. Miss Elizabeth has doled out more than half a million hugs to soldiers leaving and coming home from Ft. Hood. She's touched so many lives. For some, her's was the last hug that they had on this earth. For others, her's was the first good thing that happened to them when they got home. She was there days, nights, weekends, holidays... rain or shine, Miss Elizabeth was there for our troops. And she did...
  • Manhattan Woman Sues Nephew After Breaking Wrist During 8-Year-Old’s Hug

    10/14/2015 5:59:09 AM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 22 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 10/13/15
    NEW YORK – A Manhattan woman is suing her own nephew after the excited 8-year-old’s hug allegedly caused her to fall and break her wrist. Jennifer Connell testified against Sean Tarala, who is now 12 years old, on Friday in Westport court. Tarala, accompanied by his father, Michael Tarala, appeared confused during a hearing Friday, according to the ctpost. The boy lost his mother, Lisa Tarala, when she died last year. Connell, a 54-year-old human resources manager, said she loves her nephew, whom she called “very loving,” but told the court he should be held responsible for her injury. Connell...
  • Pope Francis and his "worldwide hug" to transgender people

    02/01/2015 4:28:03 AM PST · by cleghornboy · 22 replies
    National Catholic Reporter via La Salette Journey ^ | January 30, 2015 | Thomas C. Fox NCRonline.org; Paul Melanson
    From The National "Catholic" Reporter: "Gay Catholic leaders have expressed their pleasure following reports that Pope Francis, in an unprecedented move, met last week with a transgender Spaniard at the Vatican. While the Vatican has yet to confirm the meeting, it has been widely reported in the press, and there has been no Vatican denial. 'I think that his meeting with the transgender man was a gesture not only of pastoral care, but of genuine interest in learning about the transgender experience from a firsthand source,' Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Ministry, told NCR in an email. Said...
  • Obama choreographed hug with Ebola victim

    10/25/2014 8:28:18 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 69 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | October 24, 2014 | Kevin Rogers
    President Obama is usually “not interested in photo ops,” but apparently he made an exception for Friday’s good news that Nina Pham, the first Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola, is now virus-free. Mr. Obama and Ms. Pham shared an embrace in the Oval Office, certainly a reassuring image for Ebola-panicked Americans. But according to still photographers on the scene, his hug with Ms. Pham was staged.
  • Sea Turtle 'Hugs' Surfer Who Cut it Free From Nets (Video)

    07/19/2014 5:53:46 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 19 replies
    Orlando Sentinel ^ | July 19, 2014 | Gail Smith
    Did a sea turtle “hug” a surfer who rescued it from fishing nets? Call it what you will, but the moment caught by a GoPro camera on the stunning video shows there was a connection there. When kite surfer Cameron Dietrich and Colin Sutton spotted the distressed sea turtle off the Mexican coast, they quickly dived in the ocean to try to rescue it. “When I saw the turtle tangled up I jumped in the water and began to cut it free
  • The Strange Christmas Eve of 1941

    12/24/2013 9:49:11 AM PST · by Dansong · 31 replies
    The Providence Journal Editorial Page | 12/23/2013 | Daniel F. Harrington
    The Strange Christmas Eve of 1941 Seventeen days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, on Christmas Eve in 1941, a radio broadcast from the White House reached millions of Americans just as our young men readied themselves to fight in foreign lands and our young woman resigned themselves to long hours in dark factories. A generation that spent a decade weathering the Great Depression now, unbelievably, would face an even deadlier challenge in the form of a world war. The radio broadcast was given to commemorate the lighting of the National Christmas tree but President Roosevelt would share the micrphone...
  • Obama gets airborne bear hug

    09/09/2012 4:13:52 PM PDT · by Lucky9teen · 71 replies
    <p>FORT PIERCE, Florida — President Barack Obama reputedly loves nothing more than a good old campaign trail hug -- but he may have got more than he bargained for Sunday.</p> <p>Obama was lifted at least a foot in the air in an intense bear hug by hulking pizza shop owner Scott Van Duzer, during a bus tour of Florida.</p>
  • Who TMZ'd Rep. Bob Etheridge?

    06/14/2010 3:42:26 PM PDT · by Mrs.Z · 83 replies · 1,659+ views
    http://voices.washingtonpost.com ^ | 6/14/10 | David Weigel
    ...just by riling up a member of congress, the students have created the first conservative meme of the week."
  • New Idea for Getting Rid of Hippies

    12/17/2009 2:21:46 PM PST · by mnehring · 27 replies · 1,147+ views
    Here’s my new idea for getting rid of hippies. Let’s put out this announcement: Due to increased global warming, polar bears are increasingly scared and sad. The only solution is to give them hugs. Thus, as citizens of the earth, we need to go out and hug polar bears now. So just go up to them and start hugging. They may bear their teeth, swing their paws, and roar, but that’s just polar bear for “I’m scared and need a hug!” If you are too intimidated to hug an adult polar bear, at least hug a baby polar bear then....
  • Denton Police Seek Man who Posed as Massage Student (assault by contact charge for a hug)

    12/02/2009 1:04:50 PM PST · by Dallas59 · 33 replies · 1,419+ views
    Star Telegram ^ | 12/02/2009 | DOMINGO RAMIREZ JR.
    DENTON -- Police are looking for a man who gave a woman a massage in her apartment Monday afternoon near the University of North Texas campus. Authorities say he wasn’t a masseur. A 21-year-old woman gave the unidentified man, who posed as a massage student, permission to give her a massage, but she ordered him out of her apartment when his hand began moving up her leg as he rubbed it. But police said today that the man would not face a charge for the massage because the victim allowed him to do it, but he could face an assault...
  • FL 2010: Republican Senate Nomination May Come Down to a Hug [Crist-Obama hug]

    10/25/2009 1:30:45 PM PDT · by rabscuttle385 · 40 replies · 1,538+ views
    NBC Miami ^ | 2009-10-25
    Marco Rubio capitalizes on a photo of Charlie Crist hugging Barack Obama. BY CARLOS MILLER Marco Rubio has less political experience than Charlie Crist. And he hasn’t raised nearly as much money in his run against the governor for U.S. Senate. And he still lags behind the governor in polls leading up the November race. But he hasn’t hugged Barack Obama. And that just may be his ace in the hole. The former republican House Speaker has seized on a February photo that shows Crist hugging Obama as to why he is the better candidate. And it appears to be...
  • Doctors gave my 20oz baby up for dead ... but I saved her life with this cuddle

    12/07/2007 2:09:23 PM PST · by rawhide · 67 replies · 195+ views
    The Daily Mail UK ^ | 7th December 2007 | LUCY LAING
    It was to be the one and only cuddle Carolyn Isbister would have with her tiny, premature daughter. Rachael had been born minutes before - weighing a mere 20oz - and had only minutes to live. Her heart was beating once every ten seconds and she was not breathing. As doctors gave up, Miss Isbister lifted her baby out of her hospital blanket and placed her on her chest. She said: "I didn't want her to die being cold. So I lifted her out of her blanket and put her against my skin to warm her up. Her feet were...
  • Minister quits over hug (Islam claims another victim)

    05/22/2007 2:43:58 PM PDT · by Cornpone · 4 replies · 383+ views
    News24 (South Africa) ^ | 22 May 2007 | News24
    Islamabad - Pakistani Tourism Minister Nilofar Bakhtiar was in consultation on Tuesday with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz about her tendered resignation over a controversial hug she exchanged with a French paragliding instructor. Religious leaders demanded her expulsion from the cabinet after newspapers in March published photographs of the embrace after a successful flight in Paris to raise funds for victims of the October 2005 earthquake in Pakistan. Bakhtiar said she would step down voluntarily, citing personal hurt at how her charitable act had been portrayed at home. "French media praised my daring attempt but unfortunately some irresponsible elements in Pakistan...