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No Retard Left Behind. But fuck those kids who might actually amount to something.
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LaGuardia Airport had FDNY blast the fuck out of a plane with a firehose due to a "suspicious device"
EDIT: UPDATE - no device found, just some dude actin like a sped, false alarm
EDIT: UPDATE - no device found, just some dude actin like a sped, false alarm
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It’s a schtick up! NJ rabbi designs concealed-carry coat for Shabbat
The video is pretty funny, but the only way I know how to capture it is via screen record. Too much of a pain in the ass.
This rabbi is really proud of his new “piece” of clothing.
Rabbi Raziel Cohen of Morris County, NJ, has designed a $550 kapota — the long jacket donned by married Hasidic men on Shabbat and holidays — meant to comfortably conceal a gun.
After he got married about two years ago and graduated to wearing a kapota, “I realized right away it was a problem,” said Cohen, 24, of the cumbersome garment, which is traditionally fashioned with buttons and a belt known as a gartel.
The issue: He couldn’t easily pull out the Glock 19 or Glock 17 he always wears during synagogue.
“When you draw a gun, you have to do it safely, quickly and efficiently — ensuring that it’s not a risk to the person drawing the gun or to those around him,” said Cohen, an NRA-certified firearms instructor.
So he designed a “Tactical Kapota” with quick-access snaps hidden under a decoy version of the buttons traditionally required for the jacket.
“The buttons are definitely too time-consuming to undo,” he said, adding that “efficiency” is essential. “The snaps are safer. With this design, you’re able to expose the gun through those layers of material faster.”
Miami-based manufacturer Shaul Snovsky produces and sells the “luxury” kapotas. “People are calling me all the time for the product,” he said. “I’m not trying to sell anybody fear. You don’t want to be sheep going to the slaughter.”
That’s a sentiment that’s spread across the Jewish community after Boston rabbi was stabbed multiple times outside a Jewish day school in July and a teenage student was gunned down and killed was gunned down and killed outside his yeshiva in Denver in August.
“The danger increased. I’d like to be safe and be in control — I don’t want to be a victim,” said Aaron, a 20-something Hasidic New Yorker who asked The Post to withhold his last name for safety reasons. “It comes down to a matter of seconds. That’s not enough time to call for help or rely on someone else.
“This kapota allows me to not waste time,” added the married father of young children, who said has a concealed carry permit.
Cohen, who does chaplain work in prisons, is also known as the “Tactical Rabbi,” as he is firearms instructor and ounder of National Defensive Firearms Academy. He regularly videos to educate people on protecting themselves and staying safe and gun safety. Indeed, it’s not uncommon to see him outfitted in tactical fatigues and a monogrammed bulletproof vest one day and his traditional black hat and religious attire the next.
People who think anyone who carries a firearm is a vigilante, that we’re looking for confrontation,” said Cohen, noting that drawing an actual firearm should be the last resort after exhausting every other layer of protection. “It’s not true. People are getting killed in synagogues and houses of worship — the places where we never want to be the most vulnerable, but are the most vulnerable. I don’t want to have a firearm in synagogue, but that’s a perfect world we don’t live in. It’s sad.”
Cohen, who holds a concealed carry permit in a handful of states, also holds a permit to own and purchase firearms and ammunition with a license in New Jersey. (There are firearms that are legally able to be stored in the synagogue, which the rabbi has access to.)
Given the recent rash of Jewish hate crimes around the country, including a spike this past spring stemming from unrest in Israel, tensions are high.
“Anyone who said they weren’t scared is lying,” said Cohen. “I’m not scared only because I’m prepared. We’re not trying to take over the role of law enforcement. We’re just trying to make sure that until we get there, we’re able to protect ourselves.”
Rabbi Raziel Cohen, 24, demonstrates his concealed carry of a Glock 19 under his Kapote
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Some folks really push to see WWIII happening, Iran isn't the only one to push for it, Belarus had poked Poland.
Poland summons Belarus diplomat over shots fired at border
Poland’s Foreign Ministry has summoned the top Belarusian diplomat in the country after Polish authorities alleged that Belarusian forces had fired shots at Polish troops along their common border
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It never ends.
Last week, after the Senate averted an entirely Republican-inflicted crisis about the debt ceiling, Sen Joe Manchin, whose very utterances are edict in a 50-50 Senate, again scoffed at the idea of creating a special carve-out on the filibuster for the debt ceiling.
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“The filibuster thread we have to keep democracy alive in America,” Manchin told reporters after a late Thursday night. “If we didn’t have the filibuster to where it can keep us coming back to civility from time to time, then you would see total chaos.”
Manchin’s words came after no Republicans voted to lift the debt limit, which came only after 11 Republicans voted to invoke cloture after President Joe Biden and other Democrats entertained changes to the rule. The Democrat from West Virginia, along with fellow conservative Democrat Sen Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, has insisted that he would not get rid of the tactic that allows members of the Senate to require 60 Senators to vote on legislation. He also opposes the For the People Act, Democrats’ plan to reform elections, saying he believes “partisan voting legislation will destroy the already weakening binds of our democracy.” Meanwhile, his own efforts on voting rights have so far come up short.
I couldn’t shake Manchin’s words as I sat in the press booth in Des Moines, Iowa two days later as Donald Trump unleashed his sound and fury, accompanied by most of the Hawkeye State’s Republican establishment, about how the election was rigged. Between his usual bile of mistruths, half-truths and virulent racism, he hinted at potentially running again in 2024, teasing a new spin on the MAGA Mantra: “Make America Great Again, Again.” All of this made fears about the debt ceiling, Democrats’ hand-wringing about infrastructure, Republicans’ crowing about Chuck Schumer saying mean words about them seem infinitesimal.
Even more alarming, Trump’s airing of grievances was done with the tacit endorsement of other Republicans. Chuck Grassley, the longest-serving Republican who recently announced he will run for an eighth term, stood beside the former president to proudly accept his endorsement. Gov Kim Reynolds, Iowa GOP Chairman Jeff Kauffman, Reps Ashley Hinson and Mariannette Miller-Meeks all spoke at the rally.
In the days after the insurrection, Hinson said Trump “bears responsibility” despite ultimately voting against his impeachment. The same goes for Grassley, who said “The reality is, he lost,” before standing side-by-side Trump and receiving his endorsement, as Politico noted. But nothing erases the memory of people yelling “Hang Mike Pence” and trying to overturn an election quicker than needing to be reelected largely under the banner of “America First Republicans,” as Trump called them in Des Moines.
Just like Manchin and Sinema on the Democratic side, Republicans are whistling past the graveyard, acting as if everything is fine and normal as if Trump hasn’t completely co-opted their party and that fealty to Trump and at least tacit acceptance of the Big Lie is now a central tenet of what it means to be a Republican.
Meanwhile, Iowa’s GOP is planning a hostile takeover of the state’s congressional delegation. Not satisfied with holding both Senate races (the state’s junior Sen Joni Ernst won reelection decisively in 2020), and three of the state’s House seats the Republican majority in the state legislature is now trying to win all. Last week, the Republican majority in the Senate voted to reject the first map drawn by the nonpartisan redistricting board. This means the Legislative Services Agency will have to go literally back to the drawing board and create a new map in 35 days for the legislature to vote on again. If the legislature rejects them again, it will allow for partisan amendments.
This may all sound incredibly arcane. But consider the fact that Democrats currently only have a 220-seat majority and Republicans only need eight seats to win in 2022, let alone if Republicans gain seats in 2024, as they did in 2020, despite Joe Biden winning the presidency and Democrats gaining the Senate. If Trump runs again and attempts to declare victory against Joe Biden or Kamala Harris or any other Democrat even if he lost, he could have a ready and willing army of Republicans who will object to the election.
Earlier this year, a full 139 Republicans in the House voted to object, but that number is likely to mushroom as more Republicans don the red hat. As Trump continues to endorse multiple primary challengers to Republicans he perceives as his enemies or drives others toward retirement, every House member counts.
Texas, North Carolina and Florida, all of which have Republican-controlled state legislatures, will all gain seats, among others, and furthermore, because of the Supreme Court’s decision in 2013 that weakened the Voting Rights Act, they won’t have to seek pre-clearance (Texas was covered as a whole while multiple counties in Florida and North Carolina were covered under the Voting Rights Act). That means these state legislatures have fewer barriers, which gives Republicans an even further advantage.
Meanwhile, all the remedies are essentially nonstarters in Washington. The For the People Act would require states to set up nonpartisan redistricting commissions (though as Iowa shows, such practices aren’t without their pitfalls), but as long as Manchin objects to both eliminating the filibuster and opposes the bill, it’s dead in the water.
Similarly, the filibuster likely precludes any changes to the Voting Rights Act, which would protect against racial discrimination in redistricting. Manchin also effectively took a shotgun to the idea of statehood for Washington, DC, which has a bigger population than Wyoming, despite the fact it could serve as a bulwark in both the Senate and the House (the question of whether Puerto Rico should be a state or independent is a question for another day).
All this is to say the United States is slowly headed off a cliff that combines a demagogic candidate with little regard for democratic institutions, and the people within his party who are meant to preserve safeguards themselves but are all too willing to become his footsoldiers. How then, can a filibuster “keep us coming back to civility from time to time” when one party has outright rejected democracy as a concept?
Yet, all the while, it seems like Republicans and Democrats are unwilling to address the looming crisis. Instead, Republicans would rather play brinksmanship on the debt ceiling, creating manufactured crises, while Democrats, resigned to the fact there will be almost no progress on election reforms or voting rights, are content to bicker about whether to spend $1.5 trillion or $2 trillion on social welfare, all the while feeling really guilty about doing so.
This isn’t to say legitimate problems, such as the lag in the economy, recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, a lack of caregiving and access to health care are not legitimate crises. But the ability to confront them is rendered moot if the vehicles for governing are hijacked, the foot is entirely on the gas and the brakes have been cut. All the while, Washington keeps missing the offramps while driving straight over a cliff and all the doors are locked.
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>implying TENS of trillions in debt is not an actual issue but just some shit Republicans made up
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One CNN executive got a red pill moment.
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Home and Away child actor charged over alleged hammer attack
The former actor, who appeared on the show for several years, allegedly carried out the attack on Monday night.
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Because who doesn't like to laugh at this disgusting fatbody pig?
SOOEY, SOOEY!
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SOOEY, SOOEY!
Lizzo dares to bare in see-through dress at Cardi B’s birthday party
Lizzo brought the “Juice” to Cardi B’s 29th birthday party, sporting a totally sheer purple gown covered with crystals.
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https://www.castanet.net/news/Kelow...ats-deemed-conduct-unbecoming-the-profession-Kelowna lawyer's threats deemed 'conduct unbecoming the profession'
Kelowna lawyer fined $12k
Nicholas Johansen - Oct 14, 2021 / 4:00 am | Story: 348496
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William Clarke
A Kelowna lawyer has been fined $12,000 by the BC Law Society after he was convicted of threatening his ex-wife in 2017.
William Thomas Clarke was convicted in January 2019 of uttering threats to cause bodily harm or death against his ex-wife in December 2017, and was sentenced to a 12-month conditional discharge.
Clarke has been a lawyer since 1996, and he now practices divorce and other family law matters in Kelowna, at The Courtyard Law Offices.
His appeal of the criminal conviction was dismissed, and he abided by his probation conditions for the 12-month period before the conviction was discharged from his record.
But as a result of the conviction, the Law Society of B.C. has disciplined Clarke for engaging in “conduct unbecoming the profession.”
In a recently published decision, the Law Society notes the conviction stems from a Dec. 16, 2017 phone call, where Clarke called his ex-wife, referred to as LC, to discuss some arrangements about their child who they shared custody over. The conversation became less than amicable after the topic turned to a condo in Ontario he had been forced to give to LC during their separation two years prior.
“[Clarke] called LC a 'greedy guts' for wanting more money than she deserved, given that he had paid for repairs to the condominium plus lawyer fees,” the Law Society said.
“[Clarke] went on to talk about a former criminal client who could solve problems by menacing, intimidating, hurting people, or just making them disappear.
"[Clarke] said something about how people who were within six or two degrees of separation of them, could end up with bullets in them, and said that LC should beware, be careful or be warned. LC did not know whether [Clarke] was referring to her, her family, her lawyer or somebody else, but she took his rant as very threatening ... [Clarke] mentioned not caring if he ended up spending the rest of his life in an eight-by-eight jail cell.”
Shortly after the phone call, Clarke then called a friend of his ex-wife's, who was storing Clarke's firearms, and told her he was coming over to pick up his guns.
“The timing and rapid sequence of these calls from the friend and [Clarke] sent LC into a panic,” the Law Society states.
The incident came after Clarke had previously emailed LC earlier that year, saying “I want you dead.” During a prior incident in 2016 or 2017, Clarke called LC and said “I bitterly hate you,” and “That is why spouses hate each other and kill each other when they are deprived of the parenting rights they believe they are entitled to.”
But LC did not report Clarke to police until the December 2017 incident.
Clarke maintained he had not intended to intimidate LC, but he was “engaging in a jesting, joking or humorous rant,” according the Law Society. He argued that his desire to pick up his firearms right after the argument was pure coincidence, to take advantage of a sale on gun storage boxes, but Judge Paul Meyers rejected this defence.
He has since told the Law Society that he had not meant to threaten LC, and she had misunderstood him. He says he has since apologized to her, and they are now on friendly speaking terms.
The Law Society noted that apart from his criminal conviction, Clarke has a good reputation in the legal community, but his “pattern of unacceptable behaviour directed at LC” was unbecoming of the legal profession.
“Lawyers who practise family or criminal law, as has [Clarke], should know all too well the trauma that threats directed against a current or former intimate partner can cause,” the Law Society stated.
Ultimately, Clarke and the Law Society agreed to the $12,000 fine, in addition to Clarke paying $1,000 in legal costs. He was not suspended from practising law for any period of time.
Lots of irony having a divorce lawyer with divorce problems.
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Fat is only part of the problem, the general lack of taste is bigger issue in my book. Nobody would look nice in that dress, including people who do look very nice naked. The seams, lack of detail and boxy shape are all just so cheap and ugly looking. Compare that to these red carpet ones. Sure the ladies are in better shape but even if you ignore that, the dresses themselves are so much more lovely.Because who doesn't like to laugh at this disgusting fatbody pig?
SOOEY, SOOEY!
Lizzo dares to bare in see-through dress at Cardi B’s birthday party
Lizzo brought the “Juice” to Cardi B’s 29th birthday party, sporting a totally sheer purple gown covered with crystals.
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Yeah, it looks like babby's first sewing project with netting. The thick seam lines are what stuck out to me. It's basically two panels connected at the shoulders and sides, and sleeves stuck on. None of the detailing and craft like the ones you posted.
Of course the fact that the sleezy cunt didn't put any kind of modestly panels and had her sad, flabby tits on display, and only wasn't flashing her cunt because the fupa covered it, just demonstrates her level of class.
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Boston College Troon afraid of blue collar workers
A Boston College Troon wrote an article in their school paper decrying the College for letting contractors replace radiators in a College dorm so they and their fellow ilk wouldn't freeze to death come winter.
They also wrote a pro mask article about how the common man is stupid and ignorant to question authority.
I mean what a beautiful woman.
A Boston College Troon wrote an article in their school paper decrying the College for letting contractors replace radiators in a College dorm so they and their fellow ilk wouldn't freeze to death come winter.
They also wrote a pro mask article about how the common man is stupid and ignorant to question authority.
I mean what a beautiful woman.
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Because the superflu wasn't enough...
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Jurassic Park could become reality after experts unearthed a fossil that may contain dinosaur DNA.
Scientists believe it may have the first prehistoric genetic code yet discovered.
If experts can extract the information, it raises the prospect of cloning a dinosaur — just like in the 1993 movie.
The fossil, a piece of cartilage from the thigh of a peacock-sized caudipteryx, was perfectly preserved in volcanic ash.
The beast roamed the Earth 125 million years ago and resembled the film’s fearsome velociraptors.
It was discovered in northern China by a team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and was in “exquisite” condition.
The cells were mineralized by a process called silicification and experts have concluded some were healthy and others diseased at death, a study said.
It adds that the fossilized cells cannot be considered “rock” because they contain remnants of organic molecules.
Professor Alida Bailleul said: “We are obviously interested in fossilized cell nuclei because this is where most of the DNA will be, if DNA was preserved.”
“We have good and exciting preliminary data. We need to figure out exactly what those organic molecules are, but I hope we can reconstruct a DNA sequence.
“I could be wrong, but I could also be right.”
Scientists in China find preserved fossil that may contain healthy dinosaur DNA
It was discovered in northern China by a team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and was in “exquisite” condition.
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Scientists in China find preserved fossil that may contain healthy di…
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Scientists in China find preserved fossil that may contain healthy dinosaur DNA
Jurassic Park could become reality after experts unearthed a fossil that may contain dinosaur DNA.
Scientists believe it may have the first prehistoric genetic code yet discovered.
If experts can extract the information, it raises the prospect of cloning a dinosaur — just like in the 1993 movie.
The fossil, a piece of cartilage from the thigh of a peacock-sized caudipteryx, was perfectly preserved in volcanic ash.
The beast roamed the Earth 125 million years ago and resembled the film’s fearsome velociraptors.
It was discovered in northern China by a team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and was in “exquisite” condition.
The cells were mineralized by a process called silicification and experts have concluded some were healthy and others diseased at death, a study said.
It adds that the fossilized cells cannot be considered “rock” because they contain remnants of organic molecules.
Professor Alida Bailleul said: “We are obviously interested in fossilized cell nuclei because this is where most of the DNA will be, if DNA was preserved.”
“We have good and exciting preliminary data. We need to figure out exactly what those organic molecules are, but I hope we can reconstruct a DNA sequence.
“I could be wrong, but I could also be right.”
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Screw you, I want my damn dinosaur.
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Sadly, a female crewmember passed away during the filming of Alex Baldwin upcoming movie "Rust".
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‘Rust’ DP Halyna Hutchins Dies After Prop Gun Misfire On New Mexico Set Of Alec Baldwin Western; Director Joel Souza Also Injured – Update
UPDATED with more details: The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed that director of photography Halyna Hutchins was the crewmember killed on the New Mexico set of Rust, where star …
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Getting Crow flashbacks hereSadly, a female crewmember passed away during the filming of Alex Baldwin upcoming movie "Rust".
‘Rust’ DP Halyna Hutchins Dies After Prop Gun Misfire On New Mexico Set Of Alec Baldwin Western; Director Joel Souza Also Injured – Update
UPDATED with more details: The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed that director of photography Halyna Hutchins was the crewmember killed on the New Mexico set of Rust, where star …