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    Wyoming is 60 % white.

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    Ted, since you retired, are you practicing law? You sure to seem to be defensive when it comes to Chip.

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    Just to show that mini skirts are not appropriate for any occasion, Ted.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chuck Naill View Post
    Ted, since you retired, are you practicing law? You sure to seem to be defensive when it comes to Chip.
    Yeah, that must be it.

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    Ted, since you retired, are you practicing law? You sure to seem to be defensive when it comes to Chip.
    Yeah, that must be it.

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    What next? Kosher lawn mowers?

    Kosher phone dispute grips ultra-Orthodox Tel Aviv suburb

    An opaque council controls smartphone access for Israel’s Haredim population, but many are making forays online anyway

    Bethan McKernan and Quique Kierszenbaum in Bnei Brak
    Tue 19 Jul 2022

    Tel Aviv’s booming science and technology industry, bolstered by graduates of elite state intelligence units, has earned Israel the nickname “start-up nation”.

    Yet in Bnei Brak, an ultra-Orthodox suburb just a few miles east of Tel Aviv’s skyscrapers, a vicious fight is unfolding over whether smartphones are compatible with traditional Jewish law - and who should have the power to decide on internet access.

    Israel’s ultra-Orthodox, or Haredim, population, has grown to make up 12% of the country; according to one study, one in four Israelis will be ultra-Orthodox by 2050.

    Much of the community still shuns television and other mass media, which is viewed as a threat to their way of life. The first wave of mobile phones was dealt with by creating kosher handsets, which could only make and receive calls from other blessed numbers, identifiable by the prefix 05331, and did not have cameras or internet capability.

    The rise of the smartphone, however, is making it harder for the community to get by without using the internet. In Israel, as in many high income countries, municipal service provision, filing taxes and accessing bank accounts has mostly moved online.

    The Haredim’s solution so far has been to continue with “dumb” phones, or to allow smartphones that come with content blocking filters preinstalled: the only apps on a typical kosher smartphone’s home screen are a clock, calculator, and navigation software.

    Only one body – the Rabbinical Committee for Communications – has the power to issue kosher certificates for Israel’s estimated 500,000 kosher mobile phones. It is an opaque and influential operation which can screen numbers, content and the flow of information as it pleases.

    “The rabbis used to say: ‘Stay away from Allenby Street in the middle of Tel Aviv, it’s sinful.’ But now anyone can go to Allenby Street on their phone. The idea originally was to keep the community safe from impure culture,” said Israel Cohen, a prominent Haredi political commentator.

    “It is rare for the Haredi community to agree on anything but many people think the committee is out of touch.”

    Members have alleged that blocked numbers include news and public transport hotlines still widely used by Haredim, and even numbers for medical and domestic violence services. Kosher numbers also cannot be transferred to non-kosher providers, severely limiting competition.

    The Guardian made several unsuccessful attempts to contact the committee for comment.


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    Man trying to burn spider with lighter sparked Utah wildfire, police say

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    Tue 2 Aug 2022

    A Utah man has been arrested on suspicion of starting a wildfire while trying to burn a spider with his lighter.

    Cory Martin, 26, told police that he spotted the spider on Monday while he was in a hiking area in the foothills south of Salt Lake City near the city of Springville. He acknowledged starting the fire, but did not explain why he was trying to burn the spider.

    Deputies found a jar of marijuana in his belongings, but he did not appear to be high, said Sgt Spencer Cannon of Utah county sheriff’s department. There is no evidence to suggest Martin intentionally started the blaze, said Cannon, but he called it a reckless and puzzling decision. This area and most of Utah are bone dry amid extreme drought conditions. “What led him to stop and notice a spider and decide to try to burn it, we don’t know,” Cannon said. “There may not be a why. He might not even know a why.”

    Martin was arrested on suspicion of reckless burn and possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, court documents show. He was being held in jail and it was unknown if he had an attorney.

    The wildfire quickly spread up the mountain and had burned less than a square mile as of Tuesday, according to fire officials. No homes had been damaged.



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    Pop Quiz:

    Which one is Beavis?



    In June, Paramount+ aired “Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe,” the animated pair’s first movie feature since 1996, and their first appearance onscreen since 2011. (The plot sees them sucked into a time portal in 1998, and spit out in 2022, washed up on the shores of a very changed America.) And, on Thursday, “Beavis and Butt-Head” returned to TV, where there will be two new seasons, also on Paramount+, featuring the duo in both youth and middle age.

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    Photo of the Week:



    What's a good caption? The Bad, The Worse, and the Unspeakable?

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    Just when you think it can't get any weirder, it does.


    Alex Jones sent nude photo of wife to Roger Stone, Sandy Hook lawyer reveals

    Picture was among cache of messages inadvertently handed over by Infowars host’s lawyer to opposition legal team

    Ramon Antonio Vargas
    Tue 9 Aug 2022

    Lawyers for the notorious American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones accidentally gave his legal adversaries a nude photo of his wife that he had texted to the conservative political operative Roger Stone, an attorney involved in the matter has acknowledged.

    The seemingly farcical – but entirely true – development was the latest bit of fallout since one of the attorneys for a family suing Jones for defamation revealed last week that Jones’s own lawyer had inadvertently handed over numerous text messages belonging to the far-right provocateur and then failed to take steps to keep them out of court.

    The lawyer, Mark Bankston, the recipient of the accidental leak, appeared on Monday on the Young Turks progressive news commentary show to confirm that one of the texts in question contained a naked photo of Jones’s wife sent to Stone, once an adviser to former president Donald Trump.

    Bankston also expressed concern about whether Jones had obtained permission from his wife, Erika Wulff Jones, to send that photo to Stone or anyone else.

    “I don’t know if that was consensual,” said Bankston, who recently won a nearly $50m judgment against Jones for the family of a six-year-old boy killed during the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, which for years Jones falsely claimed was a hoax aimed at forcing nationwide gun control reform.

    “And if it wasn’t consensual, Mrs Wulff Jones should know about that, and there might be something that needs to be done about that.”


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    In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight. . .

    Pro-Trump brand fined for using fake ‘Made in USA’ labels

    Utah-based company Lions Not Sheep was first cited by the FTC in May for replacing ‘Made in China’ tags on their clothing
    The company and its owner, Sean Whalen, have been ordered to pay $212,335 in fines on 28 July and stop producing apparel with the fake tags.





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    Wed 10 Aug 2022

    A pro-Donald Trump brand was fined by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for using fake “Made in USA” labels on items that were imported from other countries. The Utah-based apparel company Lions Not Sheep was first cited by the FTC in May for replacing “Made in China” tags on their clothing with bogus “Made in USA” labels.

    The company and its owner, Sean Whalen, were ordered to pay $212,335 in fines and stop producing apparel with the fake tags, according to a statement from the FTC. “Stop making bogus Made in USA claims, and come clean about foreign production,” read the FTC’s 28 July statement.

    Lions Not Sheep is widely known for producing clothing with conservative messaging, including apparel with slogans like “Let’s Go Brandon” and “Shall Not Be Infringed”, referring to the right to bear arms. A free copy of the US constitution is also shipped with every order, according to the brand’s website. The company sells T-shirts, hats and other clothing through its website and Amazon, reports USA Today.

    According to the FTC complaint, in October 2020 Whalen admitted that the brand’s shirts were actually made in China and screen printed in the US, after multiple comments from others asking if the products were made in the US. During the four minute video posted to social media, Whalen stated: “So our shirts are made in America … But those shirts are made in China, just like damn near every single made in America shirt you’re wearing is. This is how it works.”

    The following year, the FTC claims, Lions Not Sheep began changing the labels on their clothing to “Made in USA” tags, despite the apparel coming from foreign countries. The FTC said in a statement that the company must stop claiming the products are made in the US “unless they can show that the product’s final assembly or processing – and all significant processing – takes place here and that all or virtually all ingredients or components of the product are made and sourced here”.

    Whalen and Lions Not Sheep have not commented on the most recent FTC decision.


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    City tells New Yorkers: don’t panic about ‘splooting’ squirrels

    Yes, it’s a real word. Here’s the science (and etymology) behind it

    Matthew Cantor
    Fri 12 Aug 2022

    It’s baking hot in New York, which can only mean one thing for the city’s small mammal population: it’s splooting season.



    This week, with temperatures reaching 95F (35C), the city’s parks department urged residents not to worry about the health of squirrels seen sprawling on the ground, legs extended behind them like a person whose arms gave out halfway through a yoga class. “On hot days, squirrels keep cool by splooting (stretching out) on cool surfaces to reduce body heat,” the department tweeted.

    Perhaps even more remarkable than the phenomenon itself was the word the government agency used. Splooting? Is that a real thing?

    The science certainly is. Squirrels’ bellies have less fur than other parts of their bodies, so splooting helps them cool down, says Dan Blumstein, a professor in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at UCLA. It’s a popular trick among mammals, including the marmots he studies, which “on hot days will lie on rocks as it gets hot, because the boulders are still cooler”, he says.

    But until recently, he says, he didn’t know the term “splooting”. “I always called it ‘doing the rug’,” he says.

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    Hemingway look-alike contest, Key West.


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    In the grand tradition of Sarah and the Palin family:

    Lauren Boebert’s neighbors’ 911 calls describe threats, husband running over mailbox

    “I’m sure he’s loaded to the hilt. Do you know who his wife is? Lauren Boebert. She’s loaded. They all have guns,” one neighbor told 911 dispatchers.

    By Conrad Swanson | The Denver Post
    August 12, 2022

    Garfield County Sheriff’s deputies decided to let neighbors of U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert settle a dispute between themselves and the congresswoman’s husband after he reportedly threatened them and destroyed their mailbox.

    But 911 calls from the incident, obtained by The Denver Post, show just how upset and nervous the neighbors were over their run-in with Boebert’s husband, Jayson Boebert. The calls also provide additional context into what the neighbors, in Silt, said amounted to excessive speeding, property damage, possible drunken driving and threats made from a man whose family openly and regularly carries their firearms.

    “I’m sure he’s loaded to the hilt. Do you know who his wife is? Lauren Boebert. She’s loaded. They all have guns,” one neighbor told a 911 dispatcher. “He just got chest to chest, face to face, looking to fight.”

    That additional context from the calls appears to match the limited information available in reports from Garfield County deputies. But still, Sheriff’s Office spokesman Walter Stowe refused to say why deputies didn’t investigate further and would not provide any additional information.


    https://www.denverpost.com/2022/08/1...nce-calls-911/

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    It's been a bad week for really weird news.

    Or perhaps I'm getting jaded.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chip View Post
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    What's a good caption?
    The Representative, the Reporter, and the Resident in your head?

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    The Trollop, the Tout, and the Turd.

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    Clever use of defamation per se
    Is that even a thing anymore?

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    Quote Originally Posted by kazoolaw View Post
    Clever use of defamation per se
    Is that even a thing anymore?
    Sorry you flunked English. It's called alliteration. Look it up.

    How about: the Harlot, the Hustler, and the Hemorrhoid?

    The possibilities are endless.

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    Seal breaks into New Zealand home, traumatises cat and hangs out on couch

    Young fur seal slipped into marine biologist’s home through a catflap before spending more than two hours inside

    Eva Corlett in Wellington
    Thu 18 Aug 2022



    A curious young seal has been returned to the sea after breaking into a New Zealand home, harassing the resident cat, hanging about in the hallway for a couple of hours while the children slept upstairs, and miraculously ruining nothing.

    The Ross family of Mt Maunganui were more than a little surprised to find the New Zealand fur seal in their home, which is about 150m from the shore, on Wednesday morning.

    Phil Ross, who happens to be a marine biologist, said it was unfortunate he was the only one not home at the time. “The big joke is that this is really the only family emergency where it would be useful to have a marine biologist in the house,” he said. “I really missed my time to shine.”

    Ross said his wife, Jenn, rose just before 6am on Wednesday to go to the gym.

    “As she got in the car, something barked from underneath and shuffled away. She thought it was someone’s dog … and didn’t really think too much of it.”

    She returned around 7am, opening the door to find “a cute little seal”.

    “It got a bit of a fright and humped its way down the hallway into the spare room.”

    Ross said the seal had managed to make its way through two catflaps to get into the home. He believes it had encountered the family’s territorial cat, Coco, outside, just after Jenn had left the property, and had likely been inside for an hour.

    “The cat would have gone to defend its territory and obviously the seal wasn’t as intimidated as some dogs are, so Coco must have bolted around the side of the house, into the catflap, and the seal must have followed her.”

    Jenn woke their two children, Noah, 12, and Ari, 10, to come and see “their new pet”.

    “They thought it was cool and pretty exciting but were totally oblivious to the fact that … not many of their mates would have seals come to visit them in their houses.”

    The seal spent time in the spare room and on the couch before Jenn managed to usher it out the front door and into the garden. A Department of Conservation ranger turned up at 10am to take the seal back to the sea, after a busy morning of seal-related call-outs.

    The seal, which the family nicknamed “Oscar” in a long tradition of giving seals that name in the community, proved to be polite company, Ross said, and thankfully had not defecated inside. “I think that would have been pretty terminal for the furniture.”

    Meanwhile, Coco the cat had scarpered to the neighbour’s house. On returning to its own home, it refused to go downstairs because it was “clearly pretty traumatised”.



    Ross said it was not unusual to see young seals roaming about in the area at this time of year, because the young ones were beginning to wean and head out on their own.

    “I guess, like all teenagers, they don’t necessarily make sensible decisions.”


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