Burger King Ordered To Pay Whopping $8M to Man Who Fell on ‘Foreign Substance’
NY Post | 05/25/2023 | Chris Pandolfo

A Burger King franchisee in Florida, was ordered to pay nearly $8 million to a customer who allegedly slipped and fell at the restaurant and needed surgery for his injuries.

Richard Tulecki, 48, “suffered lower back injuries resulting in surgery” after he slipped on a “foreign substance” near the restroom of a Burger King location in Hollywood, Fla., according to court documents.

The fall caused “serious injuries” which required surgery, and Tulecki suffered a postoperative perforated colon, according to his attorneys.

BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors is quietly dumped from Warner Bros after her multi-platform TV deal to create original shows telling black stories produced ZERO content after two years
Daily Mail | 5/26/23 | Alyssa Guzman, Harriet Alexander

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors has been quietly let go from her Warner Bros TV deal after producing no content.

Cullors, 39, signed the deal with the media giant in 2020 to much fanfare but it ended in secret in October 2022, it emerged on Friday.

‘The deal, unfortunately, did not result in any produced shows,’ a source told the New York Post.

You keep using that word, “unfortunately.” I do not think it means what you think it means.

Uh-oh:

I can’t imagine we’d be too lenient after Washington D.C. and the White House were targeted.

Drone Attacks Hit Moscow, Stirring Fury at the Kremlin
Al Jazeera | 30 May 2023

 Drones struck Moscow on Tuesday but were neutralised, Russia said, in what one politician called the worst attack on the capital since World War II…

Since Russia invaded its neighbour in February last year, the war has largely been fought inside Ukraine, though Moscow has reported some attacks on its territory and blamed them on Ukraine, including an alleged assassination attempt against President Vladimir Putin.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said two people were injured, but not seriously, while some residents in two lightly damaged apartment blocks were briefly evacuated.

Russia’s defence ministry said eight drones sent by Kyiv were shot down or diverted, though Baza, a Telegram channel with links to the security services, said more than 25 were involved.

Residents in southwestern Moscow said they heard loud bangs followed by the smell of petrol at about 5am to 6am local time [02:00 to 03:00 GMT]. Some filmed a drone being shot down and a plume of smoke rising over the Moscow skyline.

Politician Maxim Ivanov termed it the most serious assault on Moscow since the Nazis, saying no citizen could now avoid “the new reality”.

“You will either defeat the enemy as a single fist with our Motherland, or the indelible shame of cowardice, collaboration and betrayal will engulf your family,” he said.

Two weeks ago, two drones exploded over the Kremlin in an attack Russia also blamed on Kyiv and said was aimed at Putin.

And (by the way) say goodbye to this guy:

‘You scum” — The Moment Wagner chief EXPLODES with fury at Putin’s minions over Moscow drone attacks
FOR MAILONLINE | 30 May 2023 | Arthur Parashar

Vladimir Putin claimed that Moscow’s air defence worked ‘satisfactorily’

Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin unleashed a torrent of abuse on Putin’s cronies

The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group has unleashed an explosive tirade of abuse at Vladimir Putin’s cronies after Moscow was attacked this morning by suspected Ukrainian kamikaze drones.

In a furious 70-second rant, a ruthless Yevgeny Prigozhin screamed vulgar insults at Russia’s defence whom he described as ‘smelly scumbags’ and ‘b*******’.

The Wagner boss said he was ‘deeply outraged’ by Putin’s troops doing ‘f*** all’ to prevent explosive drones raining down on the Russian capital this morning. Shortly after, Putin claimed that Moscow’s air defence system worked ‘satisfactorily’.

Known for his foul-mouthed rants, Prigozhin, who handed Bakhmut over to Russia’s army last week, was translated as shouting: ‘Smelly scumbags! What are you doing? Get your a**** up from the offices you’ve been put in to protect this country.’

‘You are the Ministry of Defence. You’ve done f*** all in order to advance. Why the f*** are you allowing these drones to fly to Moscow? Who gives a s*** that they are flying to your homes on Rublyovka! Let your houses burn.

‘But I have already warned about this many times, but no one wants to listen. Because I’m angry and I upset bureaucrats who have a great life.’

His astonishing meltdown comes after several buildings in the wealthy suburbs of Moscow were damaged by suspected Ukrainian kamikaze drones.

Why Kari Lake Couldn’t Close the Deal
American Thinker | 25 May, 2023 | Jay Valentine

Our team did the expert witness report on Kari Lake election data showing elected officials jacked with voter rolls days before the election — as in 22,000 new voters and 107,000 changes to the rolls, and thousands of address changes. We suspect that those voter roll manipulations were not to help Kari.

This is the reality of important elections in America today.

Ballot-harvesting is not the problem. Signature verification is not the problem. Jacking with the voter database days before the vote is not the problem. Phantom voters — by the tens of thousands — are not the problem. Election commissions allowing third parties real-time visibility to the voter cast ballot list to vote the recalcitrants is not the problem. U.S. Postal Service employees gathering loose ballots for leftist groups is not the problem.

The problem is that leftists control the entire election apparatus in every swing state, and they have innumerable tools — like those just noted — to steal any election. The Kari Lake election showed that the leftists will use all of them when needed.

The Kari Lake election is equally a template for 2024 because Lake’s reaction is to take Arizona back by “chasing ballots.”

That is the same strategy President Trump is employing — he calls it ballot-harvesting, being a bit looser with vocabulary.

Leftists are jumping for joy as Lake and Trump take the bait — outperform the pros at ballot-harvesting, when they have a dozen other ways to steal an election. None of those ways is addressed by Lake or Trump. They do not even understand them.

Texas high school forced to postpone graduation ceremony after just FIVE of 33 students were eligible: Teachers blame poor attendance and grades
Daily Mail UK | May 25, 2023 | Hope Sloop

A high school located in Texas has been forced to postpone its commencement after just 15 percent of the senior class reached the requirements to graduate.

In a letter sent to parents and families, Marlin ISD Superintendent Darryl Henson said most seniors did not make the cut due to low grades and attendance records.

District officials have postponed the ceremony to June in order to give students the time to catch up and hopefully check the boxes needed to obtain their diplomas.

‘As a school district, we really want to make sure we’re making the best decision in the interest of all children,’ Henson told KCEN News.

A little late for that, Henson?

I don’t know which is more humiliating: that the UK is laughing at us, or that Hope Sloop is.

One of the most pressing questions of our time:

Will Surgery Relieve Bo Jackson’s Chronic Hiccups?
MEDPAGETODAY | May 15, 2023 | Rachael Robertson

— After nearly a year of having hiccups, the athlete is seeking treatment

Former baseball and football star Bo Jackson has had the hiccups for nearly a year and is undergoing a medical procedure this week to treat the unexplained phenomenon.

“I’m busy at the hospital having shine lights down my throat and probing me every way they can to find out why I have these hiccups,” the former professional football and baseball player told the hosts of the radio show “McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning” on WJOX 94.5 FM.

I don’t know now. Looked like a legitimate news source, but that radio station name . . .

“I have done everything — scare me, drink water upside down, smell the ass of a porcupine — it doesn’t work!”

C’mon, man. Am I being played?

Chronic hiccups are rare, but unfortunately for Jackson, they are largely a medical mystery.

Josh Silverman MD, PhD, an otolaryngologist . . .

Isn’t it “otolaryncologist”? Spellcheck says no, but it always was when I was growing up. I thought.

. . . at Northwell Health in New York, has only seen six to eight cases of the maddening condition in the decade that he’s been practicing medicine.

So Bo is mad, too?

Possible root causes for chronic hiccups could be tumors in the brain, chest, or lungs that press on the diaphragm. “A fair amount of time when someone is having hiccuping episodes for a while, it’s the body telling that person that something is going on either in the chest, lungs, or abdomen,” Silverman said.

“It’s something that’s been with humans for a long time and puzzling doctors forever,” Silverman said. “The fact that Jackson is having a procedure means that this is truly debilitating for him and that essentially all other root causes have been ruled out.”

After someone has had the hiccups for a few days without relief, most people end up going to the emergency department, Silverman said. At this point, people have already tried the common tricks of holding their breath or getting scared, both of which alter the respiratory pattern and hopefully stop the contractions. The ED usually checks labs, looking for electrolyte imbalance, and often does ultrasounds, CT scans, or MRIs to see if any tumors or other conditions could be causing the hiccups.

But if those all turn up negative, the patient is referred to a specialist — often an otolaryngologist like Silverman.

Specialists can treat patients with hiccups using medicines ranging from pills designed to treat gastrointestinal issues to those for anti-anxiety or psychiatric purposes. Silverman said the dopamine receptor antagonist metoclopramide (Reglan) is one possible treatment.

The last resort is surgery. One surgical option involves placing Botox . . .

Heh: Bo tox.

. . . on the top of the esophagus or voice box. Another involves stopping the vagus nerve from overstimulating.

What happens in Vagus stays in Vagus.

The most common surgery, phrenic nerve ablation, comes with a price, Silverman said.

Which probably varies with fame and ability to pay.

“When you ablate that nerve, you hopefully stop the process of hiccuping but you’re also paralyzing half of your diaphragm. That’s a big deal from a breathing perspective,” he said. “Especially since Jackson is an athlete, that’s an extreme scenario.”

About two-thirds of people respond to one of the surgeries, Silverman said.

He noted that chronic hiccups can wreck a patient’s life. One of his own family members had chronic hiccups for months following a brain tumor.

“When I see these patients who have had this for multiple months, they are distraught,” he said. “They’re afraid to go in public, they’re embarrassed, it’s painful because of the muscle contractions, and yet we don’t truly understand what causes it or how to fix it.”

In the radio interview, Jackson expressed similar frustrations at how his hiccups interfered with his ability to live his life as usual, even preventing him from attending events.

Oh, So That’s Who Americans Will Blame for a Debt Default
Townhall | 05/25/2023 | Spencer Brown

In continuing bad news for Biden as he looks toward 2024, Fox News’ poll also found that

44 percent of Americans view the president as “corrupt,”

53 percent say he “doesn’t care” about Americans, and

57 percent say he is not “honest and trustworthy.”

When it comes to his job in general,

59 percent of Americans say Biden lacks the “judgment to serve as president effectively” and

60 percent believe Biden does not have “the mental soundness” to be commander in chief.

Joe Biden Celebrates Memorial Day Weekend with Second-Lowest Approval Rating of His Presidency
Breitbart | 05/27/2023 | Wendell Husebo

President Joe Biden will celebrate Memorial Day weekend with the second-lowest approval rating of his presidency, according to Gallup polling from Friday.

Amid pressure to raise the debt ceiling during budget negotiations, just 39 percent of Americans approve of Biden, only two percentage points higher than his personal low recorded last month and in March of last year, when just 37 percent approved.

Police Recover 1.5 Tonnes of Contraband Eels After International Investigation

The Independent | May 14, 2023

Police have seized 1.5 tonnes of contraband eels in an almost two-year long international investigation into fraudulent exports.

Twenty-seven people were arrested after authorities discovered that four tonnes of eels had been fraudulently exported between 2021 and 2023 for a profit estimated at more than €1m.

Suspects in Spain, France, Belgium, and Portugal were arrested after a cooperative investigation by authorities from France, Spain, Europol, Eurojust and the European Anti-Fraud Office.

The European eel is classified as “critically endangered” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, meaning that its fishing is regulated and subject to strict quotas.

I find an eel in my immediate vicinity, it is going to stay on the critically endangered list.

Man, those Scotlanders are all up in the face of renewables. Guess you could call it “junk” science.

Study: Recycling is Actually Bad for the Environment
Hotair | 05/25/2023 | Jazz Shaw

Here’s something many of you probably suspected, but now there’s even more scientific data to back it up. A new study from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland has determined that recycling is not only failing to “save the planet” as we’ve long been promised, but it’s arguably producing a net harmful effect on both the environment and human health.

. . . And recycling really doesn’t work as advertised to begin with. (per Free Beacon)

“Contrary to what climate activists have claimed for years, plastic recycling is polluting the water and air, a new study has found.

“The peer-reviewed study led by Erina Brown, a plastics scientist at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, found that up to 13 percent of recycled plastics become microplastics, tiny particles smaller than five millimeters that pollute air and water, if wash water from recycling plants is not filtered. Brown and her team studied wastewater at a mixed plastics recycling facility in the United Kingdom and found it could produce up to 6.5 million pounds of microplastic per year.”

This has been a pet peeve of mine for a while now and there are several layers to this onion. While the government at all levels insists on mandatory recycling programs for both private and business dwellings, it simply doesn’t work for the most part. Shockingly, on average, less than 10% of the plastic material you put in your recycling bin winds up being recycled. It’s really just the larger soda and other beverage bottles that can be reused. The rest goes into landfills and plastic takes a ludicrously long time to decompose.

Regarding that guy who try to drive through a White House barricade:

According to the papers citing this [illegal alien] foreigner, he said he put 6 months of planning into trying to carry out a coup with an empty Uhaul truck rented in Herndon, Virginia, and a freshly purchased Nazi flag. Did he believe he had Rambo in the back, or a team of ninja turtles? Where did this 19 year old get the money to buy an airline ticket to the Washington area? Did he have a job?

He planned, somehow, so these papers have been told, to get past the Marine Guards, the Secret Service, and Kamala Harris in order to install himself as President of the US.

This does not say much about the education he received in Marquette Senior High in Chesterfield, Missouri, if they gave him a diploma last year. Whoever graded his stuff should have their head examined.

Unless he has a brain tumor or a sudden onset of mental illness, or has taken some powerful drugs.

The whole story is quite possibly the dumbest plot I have ever heard of…. and this comes from some high school grad with an interest in computing? How much time was he even in school? Is he that dumb due to isolation during covid? Did they pass him just to get rid of him?

… “Sai Varshith Kandula, from the St Louis suburb of Chesterfield, Missouri, graduated from Marquette Senior High School in 2022, according to the Rockwood School District. …”

I typed “News from Belgium” into a browser, and, after a yawn, the computer grudgingly popped this up:

Seven Terror Suspects With Links to IS ‘Deprived of Their Liberty’ in Belgium

Euronews •  Updated: 04/05/2023

Seven people suspected of planning a terror attack in Belgium have been detained, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office announced on Thursday.

“Seven persons were deprived of their liberty and questioned,” the Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.

Almost all the suspects are Chechen nationals belonging to a group of strong supporters of the so-called Islamic State. Three of them have the Belgian nationality.

“The examining magistrate will decide at a later stage whether to bring them before him and possibly issue an arrest warrant. The possible charges are attempted terrorist assassination, participation at the activities of a terrorist group and preparation of a terrorist attack.”

“All of them are suspected of preparing a terrorist attack in Belgium,” the statement also said, adding that the exact target of the planned attack has not yet been determined. 

Gotta love countries without a Bill of Rights. All that’s left to deprive them of (since the Pursuit of Happiness is moot) is Life.

Not that I support terrorists, but these could have been Boy Scouts or altar boys, under these rules.

Teen Bragged ‘Fraud Is Fun’ Before Allegedly Hacking DraftKings, Stealing $600K: Feds
New York Post | May 18, 2023 | Priscilla DeGregory

A Wisconsin teen bragged “fraud is fun” before allegedly hacking user accounts on sports betting website DraftKings and helping others steal $600,000, Manhattan federal prosecutors charged Thursday.

Joseph Garrison, 18, is accused of swiping the login information of 60,000 accounts in the Nov. 18 cyberattack, and then selling the data, allowing others to steal money from some of the users, the feds alleged.

In total, the Madison man allegedly helped others loot the $600,000 from a total of 1,600 users — with at least 30 of those accounts belonging to New Yorkers, prosecutors said. Before Garrison carried out the major hack, he bragged in messages to one of his co-conspirators on Sept. 16 that “fraud is fun,” adding that he’s “addicted to see [sic] money in my account,” according to the criminal complaint against him.

If this means that his co-conspirators logged into gambling accounts and re-directed winnings to their own banks, then he is for a world of hurt from the type of guys you don’t play around with.

NSW Police Suspend Officer Who Tasered Grandmother, 95 (Australia)
1News New Zealand | 5/23/2023 | Andrew Macfarlane

New South Wales Police have suspended the officer

[with pay?]

who tasered a 95-year-old grandmother, causing her to fall to the ground and hit her head.

Clare Nowland is now in end-of-life care after being tasered. Police were called to the rest home where she lives, as she wouldn’t drop a steak knife. She lives with dementia…

… and, she passed away.

The only question is, why didn’t the cops call in more backup and go all Rodney King on her?

London Mayor’s Transport Team Bans Whites from Internships
National Pulse | May 23, 2023 | Jake Welch

Transport for London (TFL) – the government arm responsible for travel across Britain’s capital city – has banned white people from applying to internships. The organization – whose chairman is London Mayor Sadiq Khan – now only accepts applications from only ethnic minorities.

The organization’s website states, to apply to the Stuart Ross Communications Internship, “you must be of Black, Asian and minority ethnic background, defined as having some African, Afro-Caribbean, Asian or other non-white heritage.”

The Stuart Ross Internship has been excluding “non-whites” for a number of years already, with many graduates of the scheme going on to work in a number of industries including local government and the Metropolitan Police.

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