Posts Tagged ‘weird news’
Monday, March 13th, 2017
Yesterday, I finished a story for an invitation-only anthology.
Today I had a job interview.
Both those things went well, but I can no longer brain today. Maybe brain tomorrow.
So enjoy a single link instead of actual content: “Defense lawyer’s pants catch fire during arson trial.”
Bonus: Florida! Like you couldn’t already guess that…
Tags:arson, Crime, Florida, Florida Man, Instead of Actual Content, Miami, weird news
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Friday, October 7th, 2016
It’s been one of those weeks. Enjoy a Friday LinkSwarm:
This just in: The eight years of the Obama Administration have been a miserable failure.
Some ObamaCare patients are losing their plans, others are facing huge rate hikes. In Tennessee, they’re getting both. (Hat tip: Jim Geraghty’s Morning Jolt.)
More on the same theme:
ObamaCare’s unraveling shows the danger of a one-size-fits-all federal program. What’s happening in Tennessee is only a nationwide harbinger. Every single neighboring state will have less competition on its ObamaCare exchanges next year. The entire state of Alabama will have only one insurer. Almost all are facing double-digit premium increases: in Mississippi a weighted average of 16%; in Kentucky 25%; in Georgia 33%.
These problems aren’t confined to the Southeast. ObamaCare exchange buyers will have only one option in nearly a third of American counties, according to an August report from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. That’s a 300% increase in single-option counties from last year. Twenty-five states and the District of Columbia have approved rates leading to average premium increases next year of over 26%.
(Hat tip: Director Blue.)
Indiana police raid offices in nine county voting fraud case. (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
And speaking of voting fraud, the 86 non-citizens registered to vote in Philadelphia are just the tip of the iceberg. (Hat tip: Director Blue.)
There’s even a huge voting fraud investigation going on in Tarrant County, with “a vote harvesting scheme involving as many as 20,000 ballots.”
Michael Moore: “I don’t think people do trust the Democrats.”
Even MSNBC panelists nail the media for obvious left-wing bias.
Race relations have gotten worse under Obama. That’s what happens when you have George Soros spending millions to poison race relations, and let Social Justice Warriors go rampaging through your institutions…
Both Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte and Donald Trump are gaining in New Hampshire. Remember that until very recently New Hampshire was considered a solidly Republican state.
“Mayor de Blasio is thin-skinned and unable to handle even the slightest criticism.” (Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ.)
NFL ratings are down across the, and one-third of people surveyed says its because of the Black Lives Matter pandering. (Hat tip: Jim Geraghty’s Morning Jolt.)
Followup: Dawanna Dukes seeks a plea deal. (Hat tip: Dwight.)
So even Canada has giant brawls in its McDonalds? Bonus: Baby raccoon.
Peak Florida? (Hat tip: Bill Crider.)
Tags:2016 Election, 2016 Presidential Race, Austin, Bill De Blasio, black, Border Controls, Canada, Crime, Dawnna Dukes, Democrats, Elections, Indiana, Kelly Ayotte, McDonald's, New Hampshire, Philadelphia, Republicans, Social Justice Warriors, Tarrant County, Texas, voting fraud, weird news
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Friday, September 2nd, 2016
Happy Labor Day Weekend, everyone!
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are in a statistical tie.
Ditto Rasmussen: Trump 40%, Clinton 39%. (Hat tip: Director Blue.)
538: Don’t Assume The Electoral College Will Save Clinton.
Let us celebrate the fall of Alan Grayson with a look back at his greatest hits.
Huge food stamp fraud bust in Baltimore. More than half those arrested have names like “Mulazam Hussain.”
How the New York Times lies about red state vs. blue state prosperity.
Milo Yiannopoulos decries the Islamicization of London and declares he’s leaving.
“After a lengthy period of deliberation, the Brazilian parliament has formally removed from office President Dilma Rousseff, the corrupt left-wing populist who has been trying to do for Brazil what Hugo Chávez and his epigones did for Venezuela.” This is at NRO, which has recently installed an AdBlocker blocker, so good luck reading it. If it’s a choice between turning off my AdBlocker or giving up on reading NRO, I’ll give up on reading NRO, even though I subscribe to NRODT. Though I am still trying to figure out which combination of RefControl, GreaseMonkey and cookie deletion that will block the AdBlocker blocker…
Would you bite the hand that feeds you? (Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ.)
Is this Indonesian man really 145 years old? He does sort of look it…
Lefty science fiction writer John Shirley (who I workshopped with at a Turkey City many moons ago) has penned a piece on why science fiction needs conservatives at Tangent Online. And I’m accurately quoted. The big caveat is that Shirley doesn’t understand modern conservatism at all, doesn’t know what they’re trying to conserve, and doesn’t make mention of constitutional rights or limited government. But at least he’s recognized how Social Justice Warriors are poisoning the field.
“Alabama ACLU sues government, claiming pro-Muslim discrimination.” (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
Are Austin’s red light cameras illegal?
The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire.
Newly hired woman explains how she got screwed out of her paycheck by a Silicon Valley startup. She also ignored several early warning signs…
Great story from Charles James II on how he made the Texans. “If you need a story to give you hope, I want you to lean on mine. As long as your most valuable measurable is your work ethic, there’s no reason you can’t be successful at whatever you wish to do.”
“Everyone was loving Montreal’s family-friendly puppet festival until the prison rape part.” (Hat tip: Dwight.)
Looks like your creepy Halloween stories are starting a little early this year: “At the edge of dark, dark woods in South Carolina, children have been telling adults that a group of clowns have been trying to lure them into the cluster of trees. They say the clowns live deep in the woods, near a house by a pond.” (Hat tip: Althouse.)
Workers tear up sidewalk to free a dog. With heart-tugging photo.
Tags:Alabama, Alan Grayson, Apple Computer, Austin, Brazil, California, Charles James II, Crime, Democrats, dogs, Elections, Foreign Policy, Jihad, John Shirley, London, Media Watch, Milo Yiannopoulos, red light cameras, science fiction, Social Justice Warriors, South Carolina, weird news, welfare, Welfare State
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Saturday, August 6th, 2016
Celeron, New York’s medium-term regional nightmare is finally over:
There’s a new Lucy in town.
Lucille Ball’s hometown of Celoron, NY is welcoming a brand new bronze statue of the actress on Saturday, Aug. 6 and sculptor Carolyn Palmer is anxiously anticipating how her statue will be received.
“I’ve lived and breathed every second of Lucy for the last nine months,” Palmer tells The Hollywood Reporter ahead of the unveiling Saturday (Aug. 6), which would have been Ball’s 105th birthday. Palmer’s statue is replacing a previous statue, which was nicknamed “Scary Lucy” and frightened residents so much they petitioned to get it removed.
Palmer’s version Ball stands proudly on her Hollywood star, clad in a polka-dot dress, pearls and heels with her hair curly and coiffed. The sculptor said the statue is a total of 7 feet tall in its entirety. She said she contemplated making the statue even taller, but she “didn’t want [Ball] so unaccessible to the public.”
The new statue isn’t great, but it’s a vast improvement over zombie lobotomized alcoholic Amelia Earhart.
See for yourself:
Progress!
(Previously.)
Tags:Lucille Ball, statues, weird news
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Friday, August 5th, 2016
Enjoy a Friday LinkSwarm! A lot of plane and weird news links this time around:
Aetna is losing $300 million a year on ObamaCare. (Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ.)
Air Force Declares F-35 ready for combat. (Hat tip: Borepatch, who is more than a little skeptical…)
Islamic State Sinai leader Abu Dua al-Ansari killed in Egyptian air strike.
Is there any greater bastion of 1%er elitism than New York Times wedding announcements?
How is it actually acceptable for an ostensibly liberal newspaper to conclude that wealthy, well-educated people’s lives are more interesting and worth more attention than non-wealthy, less-educated people? Everyone laughs about the Weddings section, even the Times itself. But joking aside, isn’t it morally indefensible to treat people as newsworthy in accordance with their elite social status… a paper run by liberals, who would profess themselves averse to inequality, openly treats most of the population as insignificant.
(Hat tip: Dwight.)
Cahnman’s Musings has a really solid review of Jane Jacobs’ classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities and how central planning screwed everything up.
Clint Eastwood on various liberal whining over Trump: “Just fucking get over it.”
Frau Merkel ist nicht sehr beliebt.
Austin’s toy trains are a monument to government waste. (Hat tip: Push Junction.)
What Pokémon Go Teaches Us About Capitalism.
#BlackLivesMatters is all in against Israel. So what do George Soros and Tom Steyer have against Israel? (Hat tip: Director Blue.)
“A point of view should be based on its own merit, not dismissed by a lazy appeal to privilege.”
Funny or die mostly does the latter. (Funny or Die still has 95 staffers? Really? It takes that many people to produce mediocre comedy?)
Things you never knew about the World’s Strongest Man competition.
“An Exciting History of Drywall.” (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
Who would have won the battle between a Bismarck-class battleship and an Iowa class battleship? (Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ.)
Butthurt level: Epic.
Airplane trick.
Feel good dog story of the day.
Behold the legendary crime spree of Dickface Johnson.
“Oh no! Not the bees!”
Tags:#BlackLivesMatter, Abu Dua al-Ansari, Angela Merkel, Austin, Crime, Democrats, Egypt, Foreign Policy, Funny or Die, Germany, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Media Watch, Military, ObamaCare, Pokemon, Social Justice Warriors, Texas, The New York Times, Tom Steyer, weird news
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Friday, July 29th, 2016
Finally, the Democrats have a presidential candidate that combines the honesty of Bill Clinton, the electrifying personality of Walter Mondale, the down-to-earth demeanor of Adlai Stevenson, the even temper of Lyndon Johnson, and the humility of Barack Obama.
In short: The candidate they deserve.
A LinkSwarm:
Angela Merkel decides that she isn’t going to let a little thing like repeated terrorist attacks and mass rape dissuade her from welcoming lots more Muslims into Germany. It’s like she’s a sleeper agent designed to destroy the CDU from within…
DNC unable to fill seats, hires actors to fill them up.
Did Palestinian flags outnumber American flags at the DNC? I’m sure they did Monday, when the DNC realized they had no American flags…
John Stossel explains how Clinton Cash works. (Disclaimer: You just can’t read that site without AdBlock.)
Clinton Foundation investigation referred to IRS. I wouldn’t get my hopes up that anything comes of it.
It seems some disgruntled DNC delegates altered their HILLARY signs to read LIAR.
Seen on Facebook:
You’re not allowed to tweet about the Olympics without approval. So much for my live tweeting the 100 Meter Zika Infection…
Speaking of futile bans, China bans Internet news reporting. That’s not in any way the last-gasp desperation move of a country whose smoke-and-mirrors economy is imploding…
Trump gets big post-convention bounce.
UK Union of Students works to make the organization Judenfrei. Funny how “antizionism” starts to look a whole lot like garden-variety antisemitism…
Examining top world fighter planes, including the F-22, China’s Chengdu J-20, Russia’s T-50/PAK FA, the Eurofighter and the Sino-Pakistani JF-17. (Hat tip: Bad Blue.)
“Nearly 15 Years After 9/11, Retired Colonel Meets the Man Whose Life He Helped Save.” Man, there sure is a lot of pollen in the air today… (Hat tip: Ted Cruz’s Facebook page.)
NFL all-pro cornerback Richard Sherman reiterates that all lives matter. I find it hard to believe this is even remotely controversial… (Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ.)
Alden Ehrenreich as Han Solo? Could work pretty well. He was excellent in Hail, Caesar!.
“Woman assaults man with burrito, then knife.”
Florida Man Charged With Picking Magic Mushrooms While Carrying An Alligator. Oh Florida Man, don’t ever change…
Wyoming Man Found with 30 Eyeballs in His Anal Cavity. Authorities are keeping an eye on him…
Tags:2016 Election, 2016 Presidential Race, Air Force, aircraft, Alden Ehrenreich, anti-semitism, China, Clinton Foundation, Crime, Democrats, DNC, Germany, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Scandals, IRS, John Stossel, Military, movies, Richard Sherman, UK, weird news
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Thursday, February 12th, 2015
I know that the the breakup of this perfect romance is going to devastate so many of you:
Manson’s engagement to a woman 53 years his junior was part of a wild scheme of hers to profit by putting his body on public display after his death, says the author of an upcoming book.
Manson’s fiancée, 27-year-old Afton Elaine Burton, known as Star, sought to wed the convicted mastermind of the Sharon Tate murder and eight other slayings so that she could gain possession of his corpse, according to journalist Daniel Simone.
Burton and a pal, Craig Hammond, planned to lay out Manson’s remains in a glass crypt, Simone says. The pair figured their bizarre California version of Lenin’s Tomb would draw huge crowds and make big money.
Golly, whoever would have guessed that a woman who wanted to marry Charles Manson was creepy and unstable?
Props for working in a reference to Lenin, one of the extremely finite number of people in the world compared to whom Charles Manson looks good by comparison…
Tags:Charles Manson, Crime, weird news
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Thursday, July 5th, 2012
“Most members of the urban workforce don’t actually have any plan if they came in contact with a mountain lion.”
You don’t say.
Actually, in Texas, a CHL holder would have one more action available: shoot it. Of course. this wouldn’t do you any good in California, or if you’re unfortunate enough to work in an office that has a “Gun Free Zone” policy, since there’s no chance the mountain lion will heed the “Mountain Lion Free Zone” policy…
Tags:California, Guns, Texas, weird news
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