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August 14, 2024

1958's Trackdown 'The End of the World' seems to be telling Trumps fortune. "Your under arrest Trump." at 18 minutes

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Narrator: The people were ready to believe. Like sheep they ran to the slaughterhouse. And waiting for them was the high priest of fraud.

Trump: I am the only one. Trust me. I can build a wall around your homes that nothing will penetrate.

Townperson: What do we do? How can we save ourselves?

Trump: You ask how do you build that wall. You ask, and I'm here to tell you.


https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trackdown-trump-character-wall/


August 11, 2024

It turns out JD Vance has a thing for foreign woman.

Rumor has it he dated an Ottoman in college.

August 4, 2024

Australia starts world-first peanut allergy treatment for babies

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0xj3xq5l1vo?

Babies with peanut allergies in Australia will be offered treatment to build immunity to the potentially life-threatening condition, under a world-first programme.
Supervised by select paediatric hospitals, eligible babies will be given gradually increasing doses of peanut powder each day for at least two years, to reduce sensitivity.
Oral immunotherapy has been available in clinical trials and some specialist allergy centres around the globe, but this is the first time it has ever been adopted as a national model of care for peanut allergies.
Australia is often dubbed the "allergy capital of the world", with one in 10 infants diagnosed with food sensitivities.

It is about time they started doing this. I hope the US adopts this common sense solution soon.
August 4, 2024

Botched Spanish church makeover leaves cherubim looking startled

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/01/botched-spanish-church-makeover-leaves-cherubim-startled?

Professional restorers in Spain are demanding explanations after a historic church in the north-eastern city of Soria was given a bold makeover that has left the building’s cherubim looking startled and local heritage lovers up in arms.

The attentions lavished on the Ermita de Nuestra Señora del Mirón, which was built in 1725 on the ruins of a romanesque and gothic church, have drawn comparisons to the infamous “Ecce Homo/Monkey Christ” restoration that made headlines around the world 12 years ago.

For the online newspaper El Confidencial, the parallels were clear. “Another Ecce Homo, but with Cherubs?” asked its headline on Thursday. The paper had picked up on the concerns of a group, Soria Patrimonio (Soria Heritage), which had posted before-and-after pictures of the paint job on X, showing how the once white nave had been striped a dusky pink and its cherubim vividly, if crudely, freshened up.

“What have they done to the Ermita de Nuestra Señora del Mirón?” the group asked.
August 2, 2024

A woman brought her own snacks to Despicable Me 4. Then the police arrived...

According to the New Zealand Herald, the two women took some children to see Despicable Me 4 at Cinema 3 in Pukekohe, North Island. The pair were said to have taken blankets and snack bags – containing popcorn, sweets, crisps and lollipops – into the screening without being stopped by any cinema employees. However, just as the movie started, an employee told them to put their snack bags away, the report said. They agreed but the employee apparently insisted on sitting next to them to monitor the snack situation.

A few minutes later, one of the children popped a Skittle he was already holding into his mouth, and quite frankly, all hell broke loose, the women said. The employee started shouting at them, and said that the police would be called unless they left. This is when the children started crying.

“My niece asked nicely: ‘If you’re calling the police, are they going to kill my mum?’” one of the women told the newspaper. “And he laughed at that stage. He looks directly in her face and he said: ‘Yeah, maybe we’ll find out.’”

https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/aug/01/a-woman-brought-her-own-snacks-to-despicable-me-4-then-the-police-arrived

August 2, 2024

Miss South Africa contestant faces backlash over Nigerian father

Chidimma Adetshina subjected to online abuse and questions about whether she is South African amid anti-African immigrant sentiment

A South African beauty pageant contestant with a Nigerian father has been subjected to relentless online abuse and interrogations of her right to compete for the Miss South Africa title, as a persistent strain of xenophobia against immigrants from other African countries has resurfaced.

There is a long standing problem of Africans moving to South Africa taking jobs from the locals. It is no surprise that anti African sentiment runs so high there.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/01/miss-south-africa-contestant-faces-backlash-over-nigerian-father

July 22, 2024

Do you think Trump will end his campaign to steal Biden's thunder?

I mean, he is the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral. I can't imagine all this praise and positive attention is sitting well with him.

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