Friday, January 17, 2025
Wait..... WHAT???!!!
The family of an Oregon man who suffered from severe burns after his face caught on fire during surgery is suing the hospital for $900,000.
Memphis Belle: a Story of a Flying Fortress | 1944 Combat Documentary
The Memphis Belle, a B-17 "Flying Fortress" was assigned to the 324th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, at Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, England, during the early part of the USAAF strategic bombing campaign during World War II. Between November 1942 and May 1943, the Memphis Belle and its crew flew 25 bombing missions, including strikes against targets in Germany, France, and Belgium. This film portrays a bombing mission over Germany during World War II, including preparations for the raid, the take-off from England, the flight over the English Channel, the bombing of the submarine base at Wilhelmshaven, Germany, and the return to base.
Non-Original Rants
Be advised that Non-Original Rants is now Midwest Chick and the URL has changed to https://midwestchick.com/
I've updated my blogroll to reflect that and the name change.
Wait, there's no such thing as a Snail Darter?
Species are becoming extinct! It’s a crisis competing for all manner of other crises, though at the moment the “Climate Crisis,” AKA “Climate Change,” is winning the publicity and funding war. Keeping in mind much of the literature on the subject—trust the science—is very much in the hysterical category, consider this:
-WiscoDave
Two Federal Judges Rule for Small Businesses, Halt Corporate Transparency Act
Within one month of each other, two federal judges ruled that a law passed by Congress is “likely unconstitutional” and ruled in favor of small businesses.
At issue is the Corporate Transparency Act, which Congress passed in 2021, overriding a veto issued by then President Donald Trump. The law requires entities incorporated under state law to disclose the personal information of their stakeholders, including current address, identification documents, and other sensitive information, to the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
Tools for Conservative Education Reformers
Conservatives interested in higher education reform have spun their wheels for decades. They have demanded free speech, stopping racial preferences, abolishing DEI offices, and ending tenure in the hope of getting universities to appreciate Western civilization. While conservative causes are noble, the mismatch between means and ends predestined its reforms to failure.
Opportunities to reform universities are coming. But conservatives must be willing to take the time to understand how universities work and how to use the levers of power within the academic system to their advantage.
Starbucks reverses open-door policy
PHILADELPHIA -- If you want to hang out or use the restroom at Starbucks, you're going to have to buy something.
Starbucks on Monday said it was reversing a policy that invited everyone into its stores. A new code of conduct - which will be posted in all company-owned North American stores - also bans discrimination or harassment, consumption of outside alcohol, smoking, vaping, drug use and panhandling.
Commentary: Woke DEI and Green Nihilism Result in Los Angeles Fires
Over 25,000 acres are ablaze in Los Angeles in the Pacific Palisades fire, a veritable living hell.
Some 12,000-plus structures were incinerated. More than 250,000 souls have been evacuated and are in need of shelter.
No one has really taken charge yet. And now even the woke culprits for the catastrophe are blame-gaming each other to determine who was the more incompetent, which in this case translates to the most woke.
Stabby li'l bitch, ain't she?
CHICAGO — A female carjacker took a woman’s car in Garfield Ridge and then stabbed a man who tried to help her after she crashed the hijacked SUV a few blocks away, Chicago police said Thursday morning. Fire department personnel pinned the hijacker at the crash scene and held her until cops arrived.
"Eh, it's too close to quitting time for this shit"
ST. LOUIS (KMOV/Gray News) – Shocking body camera footage shows two St. Louis Metropolitan Police (SLMPD) officers walking away from a still-breathing victim of a gunshot wound to the head because they said they did not want to take the call.
The footage obtained by KMOV contains the body camera video of several responding officers at the scene.
Who's gonna tell Greta?
A raging fire as broken out at one of the world's largest battery storage facilities in California.
A fire at a battery facility on the site of Vistra Corp's Moss Landing power plant in Monterey County, California, prompted orders for the evacuation of places nearby, the company and county officials said on Thursday.
The fire began in a building that contains lithium-ion batteries on Thursday afternoon, an official at the Monterey County Sheriff's office said, adding that about 40 per cent of the building had been consumed as of late Thursday.
Boy, he sure showed her!
Maine police have arrested a man for assaulting his girlfriend after he cut his own face with a razor blade — allegedly in an attempt to blame her.
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Your Friday Morning Florida Report
A Florida housekeeper who was once regarded as a loyal and trusted caregiver has been accused of turning on her elderly employer in a shocking spree of theft and violence after being denied a $500 Christmas bonus.
Dear Diary
A 29-year-old man in Virginia will spend decades behind bars for executing his roommate as they were being evicted for not paying rent after authorities found, among other things, journal entries indicating he fantasized about fatally shooting someone.
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We'll give that a Pucker Factor 10
It’s the sort of injury that will make you suspicious of sex toys for a long time. The internet has caught wind of a resurfaced story involving a young woman who was sent to the hospital after she underwent a MRI scan while having an apparently metallic butt plug inside herself.
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