Bruce Willis Stepping Away From Acting Following Aphasia Diagnosis
Bruce Willis is retiring from acting.
variety.com
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Dyson headphones come with air vacuum for mouth
The air-purifying headphones are designed to address the growing issue of pollution.
Stolen Cars Worth Millions Stacked at Calif. Weed Grow Operation
The scene of the crime? Behind a major indoor marijuana growing operation featuring "well over" 400 plants.
florduh
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Tennessee bill would eliminate age requirements for marriages
Story at a glance Lawmakers in Tennessee this week will vote on a bill that would establish common law marriages in the state but would not set a minimum age requirement. Some say it could open the…
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Now defenders of this bill will tell you, it's not meant to legalize child marriage. But then I see one of their engagement announcements...
That's Tennessee Congressman Johnny Rose, not with his daughter, but with his child bride.
JOHN GALT
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Fake Federal Agents Dupe Secret Service
Two D.C. men posing as Homeland Security agents ran such a convincing and elaborate scheme that they fooled four Secret Service agents, including one on the first lady’s detail, into accepting extravagant gifts like penthouse apartments, iPhones and pricey rifles, the feds allege.
Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Ali, 36, were arrested on Wednesday evening when FBI agents and United States Postal Service cops swarmed the plush Crossing Apartments in the capital’s Navy Yard neighborhood and charged them with false impersonation of a federal officer.
According to an unsealed affidavit filed in federal court, the pair have been posing as high-level DHS agents for more than two years, flashing official-looking IDs, carrying Glocks and driving black SUVs with emergency lights while living out of several luxury units at the Crossings and “ingratiating” themselves with federal law enforcement and defense officials, some of whom they lured to live in the same building.
Images Arian Taherzadeh allegedly sent of himself to a Secret Service agent on first lady Jill Biden’s detail.
FBI
In the course of the two men’s attempts to cozy up to real federal law enforcement officers, prosecutors say Taherzadeh paid particular attention to agents from the Secret Service, which became part of the Department of Homeland Security in 2003.In one instance, Taherzadeh tried to gift a member of first lady Jill Biden’s Secret Service protective detail a $2,000 assault rifle, and loaned out his “government vehicle” to the agent’s wife, the affidavit says.
Other Secret Service personnel received access to rent-free apartments worth $40,000 a year as well as “iPhones, surveillance systems, a drone, a flat screen television, a case for storing an assault rifle, a generator, and law enforcement paraphernalia,” the affidavit says.
Residents at the Crossings, including some of the ensnared Secret Service agents, have since told investigators that the complex appeared to be heavily surveilled by Taherzadeh. The agent on Jill Biden’s detail told the FBI that Taherzadeh “made it clear that he is the ‘go-to guy’” in the building. He also sent the agent photos of himself with vast amounts of police gear and a pic of him at a “training course” that the FBI says was actually a stock photo.
Images Arian Taherzadeh allegedly sent of himself to a Secret Service agent on first lady Jill Biden’s detail.
FBI
The courtship of Secret Service personnel had serious consequences. Following the revelation of Taherzadeh and Ali’s alleged fraud, “four members of the Secret Service were placed on administrative leave pending further investigation,” the FBI said.In another disturbing sign of how convincing the two men’s alleged ruse was, Taherzadeh and Ali successfully conned an unnamed “applicant” to join a Homeland Security “task force” they’d invented. But their “recruitment process” included shooting the applicant with an airsoft rifle, supposedly to evaluate their pain tolerance, and having the applicant research an unnamed person who worked as a contractor for the Department of Defense and intelligence community.
The scheme allegedly fell apart in March when neighbors fingered the two men as federal law enforcement agents who may have witnessed an assault on a letter carrier at their apartment complex. When a U.S. Postal Service Inspector showed up to investigate, Taherzadeh and Ali allegedly said they were members of the nonexistent “U.S. Special Police Investigation Unit,” which they claimed to be a part of the Department of Homeland Security.
After the Postal Inspector learned that the two men had allegedly taken to driving around in a black GMC SUV equipped with emergency lights and palled around with actual Homeland Security officials at the Secret Service, the real federal law enforcement agent tipped off DHS’s Inspector General, which triggered the FBI investigation that led to the charges against Taherzadeh and Ali.
A cargo plane breaks in half while making emergency landing at Costa Rican airport
Plane suffers failure of hydraulic system after take-off and returns to airport where it slides off runway
Cops find three bodies that had been decomposing for a year in California home
Three “severely decomposed” bodies of a California family were discovered in their home by police in what is being investigated as a murder-suicide.
nypost.com
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Boy dies after teens take turns shooting at each other wearing armored vest, police say
Two teens were arrested Thursday after authorities said they took turns shooting at each other while wearing a body armored vest.
fox5sandiego.com
florduh
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John Hinckley Jr., who attempted to assassinate Reagan, to play sold-out NY concert
He has more than 26,000 subscribers on YouTube.
Unfortunately, he's about as good at singing as he is at shooting.
Tucker's Testicular Tanning
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We Regret to Inform You That Tucker Carlson’s New Special Does In Fact Promote ‘Testicle Tanning’
Mediaite can now confirm that, yes, Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson's new special, "The End of Men," does in fact promote "testicle tanning" as a way that men can raise testosterone levels.
www.mediaite.com
florduh
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Tucker's Testicular Tanning
We Regret to Inform You That Tucker Carlson’s New Special Does In Fact Promote ‘Testicle Tanning’
Mediaite can now confirm that, yes, Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson's new special, "The End of Men," does in fact promote "testicle tanning" as a way that men can raise testosterone levels.
Can we get some kind of warning on posts like this?
I’m pretty sure content this gay is now banned in the Free State and I don’t want to run afoul of the Law.
Panic at Boston's Logan airport as PlayStation sparks bomb squad call
Massachusetts State Police said the video game console was in a degraded condition, causing abnormalities in imaging when it was X-rayed.
www.nbcnews.com
Experience: my scream is famous
You’ve heard me in Paranormal Activity, Free Guy and Scream. We are like stunt people, doing stuff that could damage an actor’s voice
www.theguardian.com
Bride, caterer charged after Longwood wedding food allegedly laced with marijuana
Tonight, two Florida women face felony charges after being accused of lacing food with marijuana at a wedding.
www.wesh.com
florduh
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Bride, caterer charged after Longwood wedding food allegedly laced with marijuana
Tonight, two Florida women face felony charges after being accused of lacing food with marijuana at a wedding.
Felony charges? For hijinx? Give me a fuckin break.
NYC worker’s belief in ‘Dudeism’ from ‘The Big Lebowski’ does not abide religious exemption from vaccine mandate: Law Department
New York City does not abide. A city worker can’t use his belief in the religion of Dudeism — born of the movie “The Big Lebowski” — as a legitimate reason for exempti…
www.nydailynews.com
florduh
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Tesla Model Y Is Summoned in Air Fair, Crashes Into $3.5 Million Vision Jet
When Elon Musk announced Tesla would eliminate radars from its vehicles to pursue a vision-only autonomous system, we could not imagine his clients would take that so literally. Either that or we have a fantastic irony with a Tesla crashing into a Vision Jet while his owner was summoning it.
www.autoevolution.com
What's the difference between what Tesla is doing with "self driving" cars and what Theranos did with blood tests?
CANtalk
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This interview coming next week...
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Trump's disastrous interview with Piers Morgan reveals a pivotal fact about the Murdoch family: Morning Joe and George Conway
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and George Conway agree Rupert Murdoch and his family are trying to "destroy the monster" they created by ambushing Donald Trump with a hostile interview with his erstwhile friend Piers Morgan.The Murdoch-owned TalkTV aired the interview that appears to show Trump...
www.rawstory.com
florduh
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I feel like I missed this story...
www.nbcnews.com
Kinda shitty to not mention that he was protesting the lack of action on climate change.
Man dies after setting himself on fire in front of Supreme Court building
The Metropolitan Police Department identified the man as Wynn Bruce, of Boulder, Colorado.
www.nbcnews.com
Kinda shitty to not mention that he was protesting the lack of action on climate change.
West Virginia man confuses meth for vehicle registration during traffic stop
A West Virginia man was arrested after allegedly handing officers a bag of suspected meth instead of his vehicle registration during a traffic stop.
nypost.com
Dave Chappell's Skit Comes to Life
Yeah, That Picture’s Real: Black Tennessee Mayor Proclaims April ‘Confederate History Month’
Seriously, the picture is real. We also have some history for you!
www.wonkette.com
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florduh
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I feel like I missed this story...
Man dies after setting himself on fire in front of Supreme Court building
The Metropolitan Police Department identified the man as Wynn Bruce, of Boulder, Colorado.
Kinda shitty to not mention that he was protesting the lack of action on climate change.
Nuts that the media managed to memory-hole a Buddhist monk from Colorado self immolating to protest our nation's lack of action on climate change.
NEWS ALERT: Eerie social media post surfaces from man who set himself on fire near Supreme Court
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He apparently had planned this protest for a while.
A monk self immolating to get the attention of a government that truly does not care seems like an early scene in a horror movie. The guy was definitely a hippy, but reading his post from this past Christmas makes me believe he wasn't insane. Seems like he was a very decent human.
I have lived in Boulder, CO since 2000. I share a few words from the spiritual tradition that I learned of here – Shambhala.
Now I awaken basic goodness in my heart.
I confidently awaken my innate qualities —
Goodness, wisdom, kindness and strength —
Within the sun of basic goodness.
Society is basically good.
May the basic goodness I discovered today continue to grow and grow. May its brilliant rays shine through my life. May this primordial truth, the inheritance of all humanity, be a brilliant torch to guide all beings. May the warm-heartedness, I have discovered, be a parasol to protect all beings. May the love that I have tasted be shared with the entire world.
May the courageousness of this moment never be forgotten. May there be harmony between biospheric family, friends and nations. May the Earth be healed. May the elements be balanced. May humanity have-peace. May enlightened society manifest on this Earth. May all see the Great Eastern Sun of Shambhala.
Summer
Long Island, NY
I guess the + in LGBT+ includes fictosexuals. Well, to each his own.
www.yahoo.com
Japanese man who married virtual character now on a mission to educate others about 'fictosexuals'
Three years into his “marriage” with a popular virtual character, a Japanese man has opened up about the benefits of having a virtual “wife.” Tokyo resident Akihiko Kondo made global headlines in November 2018 when he tied the knot at the age of 35 with Hatsune Miku, a virtual popstar developed...
