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General Discussion / Not good for Asian woman, go to the airport in Thailand and lost a leg??

« on: June 30, 2023, 11:47:11 AM »

Woman’s leg amputated after becoming trapped in Thai airport moving walkway

A 57-year-old Thai woman had to have her leg amputated after she got caught up in a moving walkway at an international airport in Bangkok on Thursday in a freak accident that has yet to be fully explained by authorities.

Don Mueang International Airport’s director Karant Thanakuljeerap at said the incident took place at around 8:27 a.m. local time (7:27 p.m. ET) in the southern corridor of the domestic passenger terminal.

Speaking at a news conference Thursday, Karant said the woman, who was traveling to the southern city of Nakhon Si Thammarat, had a “severe” accident at the end of a moving walkway after her left leg became caught in the end of the walkway.

Medics responded quickly and the woman was transferred to the nearest hospital, though the severity of her injuries led to the amputation of her leg up to the kneecap, Karant said.

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General Discussion / HYPOCRITE: the idiot that wants "FREE MONEY" but then complain about food prices

« on: June 30, 2023, 08:50:05 AM »

Republicans’ Problem in Attacking Biden: They Helped Pass His Economic Bills

CHICAGO — President Joe Biden isn’t the only one doing a full summer embrace of federal spending on infrastructure and semiconductor manufacturing — so are some of the Republicans aiming to remove him from office next year.

The White House has labeled the president’s new economic campaign Bidenomics, a portmanteau that until now has been a pejorative used by Republicans and conservative news outlets primarily to underscore inflation.

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But in a speech on Wednesday in Chicago about the economy, Biden latched on, with a renewed focus on the two most significant bipartisan legislative accomplishment s of his term, the infrastructure bill and the CHIPS and Science Act. He hopes these measures will help brand him as the cross-aisle deal maker he sold to voters in 2020, appeal to political moderates who formed a core of his winning electoral coalition and impress upon tuned-out voters what he has done in office.

One significant benefit for Biden: Republicans helped pass those bills.

While GOP presidential candidates and the Republican National Committee continue to paint Biden’s economic stewardship as a rolling disaster, Republican senators who helped shape the legislation say they anticipated that those accomplishment s would accrue to Biden’s political advantage — as well as to their own.

Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., who helped write the enormous bill aimed at revitalizing the domestic semiconductor industry, said the work on a law that he called “off-the-charts popular” had started with Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., during President Donald Trump’s administration .

“The Biden administration deserves credit for advancing the proposal and, irrespective of the timing of its origin, helping it become law,” Young said.

Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., more grudgingly acknowledged the president’s role in securing a trillion-dollar infrastructure bill that had eluded the past two administration s.

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General Discussion / Even though I'm not there in person, I can feel the adrenaline, caution: might

« on: June 30, 2023, 12:33:57 AM »

...be too graphic for some:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWvKT5fHa0U

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General Discussion / I haven't made my own fish in a while so why not? No better time than now

« on: June 30, 2023, 12:16:46 AM »

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General Discussion / Some folks love their pets as much as their family members if not more

« on: June 30, 2023, 12:04:09 AM »

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General Discussion / If you ask a guy about fishing spots & he says take "95 to menominie", run cause

« on: June 29, 2023, 11:49:27 PM »

..he's a fake that "don't know anything". As I've stated in the other thread, gotta at least know how to read maps like this when venturing deep into the wilderness  :

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General Discussion / His mom's intuition's wrong, I've had Bruce Lee, sports,.posters & I wasn't gay

« on: June 29, 2023, 11:43:08 PM »

Most of the posters I had in my room growing up were martial artists, athletes and cars as well as a few SI swimsuit models...

Arnold Schwarzenegger says his mom cried when she saw posters of men on his walls growing up until she eventually called a doctor about it


Arnold Schwarzenegger's mother was originally upset by all the male posters hanging on his wall growing up.

During "An Evening With Schwarzenegger," the actor said his mother called a house doctor, concerned.

Schwarzenegger said his parents' biggest fear was that he was gay.

When Arnold Schwarzenegger was aspiring to be a world-famous bodybuilder, posters of boxers, wrestlers, and bodybuilding champions adorned his bedroom walls growing up.

The sight originally upset the star's mother.

"My mother was always looking at that wall and she said, 'All of your friends have pictures of girls. Where did I go wrong?'" Schwarzenegger told the crowded room in the Academy Museum of Motion Picture's 966-seat David Geffen theater in Los Angeles, California Wednesday night during "An Evening With Schwarzenegger ."

"And she would cry. She was in front of the wall crying every day until she called the doctor, our house doctor," Schwarzenegger said of his mother's concern over his posters.

Schwarzenegger recalled the doctor telling her there was nothing to worry about.

"He finally said, no, this is quite normal in the kids at this age. They idolize men that are strong. Don't worry about it. He's not gay," Schwarzenegger said, adding, "That was their biggest fear."

Schwarzenegger said when he took up an interest in bodybuilding, "Hercules" star Steve Reeves and English bodybuilder Reg Park became his idols and he began reading everything he could about the sport and following everything they did.

"When I read that Reg Park was working out five hours a day, lifting heavy weights and doing 50, 60 sets of exercise and lifting 50 tons of weights a day, I would do the same thing," Schwarzenegger said.

"My parents thought that I was a little bit sick in my head and they thought I was overdoing it and I was obsessed and it was bad for my health," he added.

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General Discussion / It's been over 130 years & now that FAA approved, is it happening now or not?

« on: June 29, 2023, 05:23:07 PM »

133 years in the making  :

Fly above the traffic in a car? First 'flying car' approved by the FAA

Alef’s bonkers flying car has been officially cleared for takeoff.

The retro-futuristic hybrid, which can be driven on the road like a regular car or flown like a VTOL aircraft, was awarded a Special Airworthiness Certification from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that enables it to hit the skies under experimental status. The California company says it is the first time a vehicle of this nature has received government certification.

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General Discussion / I've passed by this Donner Lake sign many times on 80 going to Reno but never

« on: June 29, 2023, 05:16:25 PM »

...made the connection to the "Donner Party"  :

Photo Of Freeway Exit Goes Viral For Unsavory Reason

Chew on this: A photo of a freeway exit is going viral because of its apparent connection to cannibalism

On Wednesday, the Placerville office of the California Highway Patrol posted a photo on Facebook of the Donner Lake exit on Interstate 80.

The lake just happens to be named after the Donner Party, a group of Midwestern pioneers who were forced to spend the winter of 1846–47 in the Sierra Nevada mountain range.

Legend has it that some of the members survived by eating others in their party...

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General Discussion / Today the coward won and can continue to collect his $104k annual pension

« on: June 29, 2023, 04:50:46 PM »

Deputy acquitted of all charges for failing to act during deadly Parkland school shooting

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff’s deputy was acquitted Thursday of felony child neglect and other charges for failing to act during the 2018 Parkland school massacre, concluding the first trial in U.S. history of a law enforcement officer for conduct during an on-campus shooting.

Former Broward County Deputy Scot Peterson wept as the verdicts were read, while the fathers of two students murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb, 14, 2018, stared straight ahead and quickly left the courtroom. The jury had deliberated for 19 hours over four days.

After court adjourned, Peterson, his family and friends rushed into a group hug as they whooped, hollered and cried. Kevin Bolling, Peterson’s private investigator, chased after lead prosecutor Chris Killoran and said something. Killoran turned and snapped at him, “Way to be a good winner” and slapped him on the shoulder. Members of the prosecution team then nudged Killoran out of the courtroom.

“I got my life back. We’ve got our life back,” Peterson said as he exited the courtroom, his arm around his wife, Lydia Rodriguez, and his lawyer, Mark Eiglarsh. “It’s been an emotional rollercoaster for so long. Calling Mark at 1 in the morning.”

He also said people should never forget the victims.

“Only one person was to blame and it was that monster (Nikolas Cruz),” Peterson said. “It wasn’t any of the law enforcement who was on that scene. ... Everybody did the best they could with the information we had.”

Peterson said he hopes to to one day sit down with the Parkland parents and spouses to tell them “the truth,” that he did everything he could.

“I would love to talk to them. I have no problem,” he said. “I’m there.”

The campus deputy at Stoneman Douglas, Peterson had been charged with failing to confront shooter Cruz during his six-minute attack inside a three-story 1200 classroom building that left 17 dead.

His charges were in connection to the six killed and four wounded on the third floor, who were shot more than a minute after he approached the building. Prosecutors did not charge Peterson in connection with the 11 killed and 13 wounded on the first floor before he arrived. No one was shot on the second floor.

Prosecutors were using a novel legal theory against Peterson, that as the school's assigned deputy he was legally a “caregiver” to its students — a requirement for him to be guilty of child neglect. Florida law defines a caregiver as “a parent, adult household member or other person responsible for a child’s welfare.” If jurors found Peterson was a caregiver, they also would have had to agree he failed to make a “reasonable effort” to protect the children or failed to provide necessary care.

He could have received nearly 100 years in prison, although a sentence even approaching that length would have been highly unlikely given the circumstances and his clean record. He also could have lost his $104,000 annual pension.

Prosecutors, during their two-week presentation, called to the witness stand students, teachers and law enforcement officers who testified about the horror they experienced and how they knew where Cruz was. Some said they knew for certain that the shots were coming from the 1200 building. Prosecutors also called a training supervisor who testified Peterson did not follow protocols for confronting an active shooter.

During his two-day presentation, Peterson’s attorney, Eiglarsh, called several deputies who arrived during the shooting and students and teachers who testified they did not think the shots were coming from the 1200 building. Peterson, who did not testify, has said that because of echoes, he could not pinpoint the shooter's location.

Eiglarsh also emphasized the failure of the sheriff’s radio system during the attack, which limited what Peterson heard from arriving deputies.

“As parents, we have an expectation that armed school resource officers – who are under contract to be caregivers to our children – will do their jobs when we entrust our children to them and the schools they guard,” Broward State Attorney Harold F. Pryor and the prosecutor's office said in a statement after the verdict. “They have a special role and responsibiliti es that exceed the role and responsibiliti es of a police officer. To those who have tried to make this political, I say: It is not political to expect someone to do their job.”

Eiglarsh called the verdict “a victory for every law enforcement officer in this country” and blasted prosecutors for charging his client.

“How dare prosecutors try to second guess the actions of honorable, decent police officers,” Eiglarsh said.

But that was not the reaction of the two fathers who watched the verdict. Tony Montalto and Tom Hoyer believe Peterson knew where the shots were coming from but chose to protect himself instead of doing his duty and confront Cruz. Montalto, whose 14-year-old daughter Gina was killed on the first floor, and Hoyer, whose 15-year-old son Luke died next to her, said they had no interest in talking with Peterson, who was not charged in connection with those deaths.

“No. No. Bring me my daughter back,” Montalto said. “We’ll all trade anything to get our kids back. The spouses, they who lost someone, they want them back, too. And if that’s not going to happen, why do we need to talk to this failure? He didn’t do the right thing. He ran away.”

Montalto said if the jurors believe Peterson acted appropriately, they should get him hired at their children’s schools.

Security videos show that 36 seconds after Cruz’s attack began, Peterson exited his office about 100 yards (92 meters) from the 1200 building and jumped into a cart with two unarmed civilian security guards. They arrived at the building a minute later.

Peterson got out of the cart near the east doorway to the first-floor hallway. Cruz was at the hallway’s opposite end, firing his AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle.

Peterson, who was not wearing a bullet-resistant vest, didn’t open the door. Instead, he took cover 75 feet (23 meters) away in the alcove of a neighboring building, his gun still drawn. He stayed there for 40 minutes, long after the shooting ended and other police officers had stormed the building.

Peterson spent nearly three decades working at schools, including nine years at Stoneman Douglas. He retired shortly after the shooting and was then fired retroactively.

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Debate Central / This fatal subway case's similar to the Marine chokehold case? No indictment tho

« on: June 29, 2023, 12:22:09 PM »

...Is it because in the case below, the killer is Black and the Marine is White in the other case?  :

Charges dropped against NYC man accused in fatal subway stabbing

Charges dropped in fatal NYC subway stabbing
A grand jury declined to indict Williams on manslaughter and weapons charges in connection with the June 13 deadly stabbing of Devictor Quedraogo, 36, on a Brooklyn J train. Quedraogo was alleged to have punched Williams' girlfriend and harassed other passengers.

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General Discussion / Better than having sex with young boys and girls I suppose? In this RED state

« on: June 29, 2023, 12:17:05 PM »

Texas nun is accused of having sex with a priest. Here’s what we’ve learned about him

FORT WORTH, Texas — The priest identified in a recorded interview as the man with whom a nun from Arlington broke her chastity vow is from North Carolina and recently spent time in Montana contemplating his vocation, according to Catholic officials.

The interview where the priest was identified was with the Rev. Mother Teresa Gerlach of the Carmelite Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington. It was played Tuesday during a hearing in a lawsuit Gerlach filed against Bishop Michael Olson and the Fort Worth Catholic Diocese, alleging that Olson defamed her, took information from her personal devices and invaded her privacy.


In an audio recording played during the hearing, Gerlach reluctantly told Olson that the priest’s name is Bernard Marie.

But the Diocese of Raleigh issued a statement Wednesday identifying him as Philip Johnson.

According to the statement, Johnson was “granted leave” from the diocese to serve as chaplain to a religious community in 2020 and later joined the Transalpine Redemptorist Monastery in Montana in 2022.

The diocese also said in the statement that Johnson recently returned to North Carolina after he resigned from the Redemptorist community, where he served under the chosen name of Father Bernard Marie. Johnson is “not currently exercising” public ministry. “Upon returning to N.C., Fr. Philip Johnson’s priestly faculties were restricted by Bishop Luis Rafael Zarama as a precautionary measure until more clarity regarding his status can be ascertained,” the statement read.

In Montana, Chancellor Darren Eultgen, of the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings, said during an interview with the Star-Telegram that it isn’t unusual for a priest to choose to go by a different name. “We knew him as Brother Bernard,” Eultgen said.

Eultgen also said when Johnson “was living at the monastery, he wasn’t in any sort of public ministry, and he did not say Mass publicly.”

In April of 2022, Johnson came to the Transalpine Redemptorists, a religious community of men near Forsyth, Montana, where he was contemplating “a vocation,” according to the statement from the diocese in Montana.

Eultgen said that on April 26, the diocese in Montana got a call from Fort Worth diocesan officials investigating an incident involving the priest and a “religious sister.”


According to a statement from the diocese in Great Falls-Billings, on April 27, Bishop Michael Warfel “removed the priest’s faculties of ministry.”

Johnson returned to North Carolina on May 1.

According to testimony during Tuesday’s hearing, Gerlach said the priest contacted the Carmelites in Arlington asking for prayers, and that is how they met.

The legal battle between Gerlach and the diocese centers on whether a secular court has jurisdiction in matters involving church investigations . The diocese, which is also conducting a canonical investigation into Gerlach’s actions, argues that courts cannot get entangled in ecclesiastical matters.

Gerlach’s lawsuit states that the diocese and Bishop Olson violated her privacy rights when he took information from electronic devices and that Olson defamed her by posting information about a private confidential matter on the diocese web site.

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General Discussion / As a Life Guard, I feel their frustrations after this NFL Quarterback's death

« on: June 29, 2023, 12:13:06 PM »

...Stupid folks just don't listen and chose to ignore warnings until it's too late unfortunately. ..

Bodycam video, new details released after ex-NFL QB's death at beach

Authorities released partial body camera video footage on Wednesday of the scene at a Gulf Coast beach on the Florida panhandle where Ryan Mallett, a former NFL player, died in an apparent drowning earlier this week.

Addressing public speculation about conditions in the water that may have caused the fatal incident, the sheriff said rip currents — which the National Weather Service linked to at least seven deaths at nearby Panama City Beach over the course of nine days this month, between June 15 and 24 — were not present in the area and therefore did not play a role in the fatal incident.

Citing deputies who responded to the drowning incident, the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office said they arrived at the beach near Gulf Shore Drive in Destin just after 2 p.m. ET on Tuesday afternoon, and found a group of people in the water, near the second sandbar, who had reportedly been struggling to return to shore. One person in the group, later identified as Mallett, went under and was not breathing when lifeguards pulled him out. Destin is about 50 miles away from Panama City Beach.

Lifesaving measures were unsuccessful, and Mallett was later pronounced dead at the Destin Emergency Room, according to the sheriff's office.

"In response to dozens of media inquiries from across the U.S., we wanted to report that Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office investigators are continuing to gather information in the drowning of an Arkansas tourist Tuesday afternoon in the Gulf of Mexico," the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office said in a post shared to Facebook on Wednesday, which included a brief clip that showed a deputy running down the beach while responding to the scene.

"Investigators say Mallett began struggling while attempting to swim to a second sandbar about 150 feet offshore of the beach near Gulf Shores Drive in Destin around 2:15 p.m.," the post continued, adding, "Despite widespread media misinformation, yellow beach safety flags were flying at the time and there were no indications of any 'riptides.'"

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General Discussion / Oh so that's why these Asians look one year older than they really are? Must be

« on: June 29, 2023, 01:13:30 AM »

...nice to be able to turn the age clock back  :

South Korea abolishes traditional age system

Why are South Koreans suddenly younger? New age system explained
South Koreans officially became a year or two younger on Wednesday as new laws requiring the international method of age counting took effect.

South Koreans woke up a year or two younger after the government changed the East Asian nation’s traditional age-counting system.

Here is what you need to know..

Why are South Koreans younger?

A law passed in December that scrapped the “Korean” method of counting someone’s age came into effect on Wednesday.

Under the “Korean age” system, babies are considered to be one year old on the day they are born, and every January 1, a year is added to people’s ages – regardless of their actual birthdate. For example, a baby born on New Year’s Eve becomes two years old the next day.

There is a second counting method – a mix of the international and Korean age systems – in which a baby is born at zero years, and one year is added every January 1.

So if a woman was born in August 2003, she would be 19 years old under the international system, 20 using the mixed method and 21 under the Korean system.

Is this a radical change?

Under the new law, the country will use the international system that calculates age according to a person’s actual date of birth, meaning everyone will officially become a year or two younger.

But in reality, the change will have limited impact.

Many legal and administrative functions – including ages listed on passports, the age at which one can be prosecuted as a juvenile, and those to qualify for retirement benefits and healthcare services – already use actual dates of birth rather than the Korean system.

Other key areas such as school year eligibility, compulsory military service, and legal drinking and smoking are based on the mixed counting method  and will remain in place for now, Minister of Government Legislation Lee Wan-kyu told a news briefing on Monday.

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General Discussion / Having lived there, I can see why so many would rather remain lost in S.E. Asia

« on: June 29, 2023, 01:08:38 AM »

Meet the ‘lost boys’ of south-east Asia – who went backpacking but never came home
Each year, countless travel novices set off on adventures with the intention of returning home, yet many decide to stay. Here’s why


It’s impossible to know how many of the 45 million backpacking trips taken each year end with the making of another lost boy. It’s uncharted territory – perhaps because those who become lost deliberately choose to live on continents where they cannot be found.

Southeast Asia is one such region. A hotspot for digital nomads and backpackers alike, an estimated 500,000 to one million expats currently reside in Thailand, and Vietnam is home to 100,000 more, yet these figures do not provide a clear picture. These statistics largely tally residential or working visas, but some long-term residents use tourist visas to stay in their chosen country. They fly abroad to backpack new territories and ultimately slip through the cracks, becoming untethered lost boys with endless adventurous avenues to pursue.

The reasons behind their decision to remain abroad are difficult to interpret. In 2020, 281 million people lived in a different country than the one they were born in, a figure that has more than doubled since 1990. But this data does not distinguish between those who made the decision ahead of their departure and people who spontaneously forged a new life abroad during – or as a result of – a backpacking trip.

Explorers arrive in new territories with an open-ended ticket and get sucked in by the culture, the people or the affordability of a different nation. Enticed by the vast contrast to the frantic, work-focused culture of home, travellers choose a ‘lost life’ to escape the pre-planned one etched into Western standards of living.

Any visitor to Southeast Asia can attest to the presence of the lost boys; a group...