It's a hot time in the ol' town tonight

A woman caught shoplifting at a South Bay convenience store used a lighter and an aerosol can to spray flames at an employee who confronted her, police said.

It happened on Tuesday, Nov. 12 around 3:20 a.m. at a 7-Eleven on the 1200 block of Artesia Boulevard.

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Cheap thrills - he didn't even have to buy her a drink

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEVV) — Evansville authorities say they arrested one man on several different charges Thursday after a report of a disturbing incident at a local bar.

Officers say they were called to the Break Time Bar and Grill to take a report from a woman, who said that 43-year-old Brian Kennebeck had ejaculated on her.

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ZZ Top One Foot In The Blues - Full Album - 1994

AUDIO ONLY  (1 hour, 6 minutes)

Tracklist:

1 Brown Sugar

2 Just Got Back from Baby's

3 A Fool for Your Stockings

4 I Need You Tonight

5 She Loves My Automobile

6 Hi Fi Mama

7 Hot, Blue and Righteous

8 My Head's in Mississippi

9 Lowdown in the Street

10 If I Could Only Flag Her Down

11 Apologies to Pearly

12 Sure Got Cold After the Rain Fell

13 Bar-B-Q

14 Old Man

15 Certified Blues

16 2000 Blues

17 Heaven, Hell or Houston

"Class, this is what happ..." BOOM!!!

BERLIN, Conn. (WFSB/Gray News) - A science experiment at a Connecticut high school led to a gas leak that sent a teacher and a student to the hospital.

The reported incident occurred at Berlin High School during a science experiment being conducted on the second floor of the school.

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As if parking wasn't already tight enough there

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- For drivers around the Bay Area, parking just got a little bit harder.

Beginning Monday, a new state law requires cities around California to improve visibility at intersections to protect pedestrians- called "daylighting."

That means from now on, no car will be able to park within 20 feet of any crosswalk.

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I have always hated trying to park in San Francisco. You're either going to circle the block a dozen times or more, or you're going to take it in the ass financially by parking in a lot or garage.

This is what is called Self Service

What would you do if you landed in an unfamiliar city one evening planning to pick up a rental car, only to find the rental counter completely lacking in staff? Waiting for someone to show is one choice; a taxi or mass transit another. Or, of course, there's always option is to simply grab a car with keys in it and drive away, as the mayor of Denver, Colorado and a gaggle of other Hertz customers did an upstate New York location in July.

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Battle of Saipan 1944: Total War in the Pacific

In June 1944, an armada of warships and landing craft is getting ready for D-Day. Thousands of American soldiers are about to attack a prepared enemy with formidable defenses. But this isn’t Normandy, this is the island of Saipan. And the bloody battle there will bring total war to the Pacific.

VIDEO HERE  (33:24 minutes)

Chapters:

00:00 Why the US Landed on Saipan

01:46 American Plan for Saipan

03:38 Japanese Defenses on Saipan

05:08 Preparations for D-Day on Saipan

06:39 D-Day on Saipan

08:46 Marine Combat Shotguns on Saipan

14:48 Japanese Counterattack

16:30 D-Day Plus 3 on Saipan

17:01 Battle of the Philippine Sea

20:45 D-Day Plus 7-9 on Saipan

22:33 D-Day Plus 11-15 on Saipan

24:10 Japanese Banzai Charge on Saipan

26:46 Civilian Casualties on Saipan

27:57 End of the Battle of Saipan

28:48 Battles of Tinian and Guam

30:04 Epilogue

File Under ‘WTF?’

President-elect Trump announces Pam Bondi as his new pick for US attorney general. 

That would be the same Pam Bondi NRA sued over denial of rights for 18-20-year-olds where the 11th Circuit, contrary to Bruen, “decided that historical sources from Reconstruction are more probative of the Second Amendment’s scope than those from the Founding.”

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D.O.G.E.: Our Last Chance

I fully believe that the biggest impact of Trump’s re-election is D.O.G.E.

I’ve long (at least 8 years) publicly maintained that the United States is due to end in its present form.  My earliest time for this to happen is 2025, and the latest I’d expect it to come is around 2040.  The three most likely candidates for the resulting body have been:

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-WiscoDave

President Trump Nominates Pam Bondi for U.S. Attorney General – The Deep Swamp Smiles

The nomination of former Florida AG Pam Bondi for the position of U.S. Attorney General is a big mistake; not for the corrupt background of Bondi that we presume President Trump is not aware of, but rather for the background of Pam Bondi the Deep Swamp is almost certainly aware of.

Within the background story of state AG corruption and unlawful activity, Pam Bondi is very easily leveraged, blackmailed and controlled.

I presume at this writing that President Donald Trump is completely unaware of what Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi did during her time in office.  The Florida Governor at the time was Rick Scott, who could most certainly corroborate much of the background, albeit now with layers and layers of serious political ramifications.

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GOP Pushes for Nuclear Energy, Natural Gas to Combat the Left’s ‘Green New Deal’

While the Democratic Party has often controlled the narrative on the issue of climate change, the Republicans have been promoting alternative options that they argue are more cost-effective and could improve the environment while at the same time strengthening America’s energy independence.

Democratic elected officials have put up some solutions to climate change such as the “Green New Deal” and staying in the Paris Climate Accord, the international treaty that has a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Manliness Needs to Make a Comeback

Regarding the education of American boys, the news of late seems rather bleak: our boys are struggling in school. As Richard Reeves of the American Institute for Boys and Men points out, 45,000 fewer boys than girls are graduating each year from high school, amounting to a gender gap of 6%. The gender gap in higher education is even wider, with young men earning only 42% of the degrees. In the average school district, according to Reeves, boys are almost a grade level behind girls in English language arts.

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U.S. House passes measure to ban contracts with Venezuela

(The Center Square) – The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday passed the Banning Operations and Leases with the Illegitimate Venezuelan Authoritarian Regime Act.

U.S. Reps. Mike Waltz, R-FL, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-FL, introduced the legislation in February, which seeks to extend existing restrictions on U.S. government contracts with Venezuela to include all U.S. agencies, not just the Department of Defense.

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And men everywhere just cringed

No two words strike fear into a man more than "ruptured testicle." 

Mats Zuccarello, the Minnesota Wild forward who stars on the top line with Kirill Kaprizov, knows all too well about the uncomfortable details associated with the below-the-belt injury. 

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Russia Did Not Fire an ICBM Today, They Fired Something Much Worse – A Message

Despite the diminutive Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy jumping around and shouting about Russians firing an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) today, they didn’t.  Instead, Russian President Vladimir Putin decided his response to the U.S-led NATO group firing missiles into the Russian Federation would be to send a message with a multi-warhead intermediate range hypersonic missile. 

President Vladimir Putin said, “one of the newest Russian medium-range missile systems was tested in combat conditions, in this case with a ballistic missile in non-nuclear hypersonic edition.”  The missile has a range of approximately 3,500 kilometers, below the threshold for the “Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT), that’s a reach throughout western Europe and the hypersonic message is likely, ‘you have no iron dome system that can prevent this.”

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-WiscoDave

Commentary: Trump’s Story Is a Powerful Lesson for All Americans

The remarkable story of President Donald Trump is a powerful lesson for how we can achieve success in our own lives. Trump convinced America that it can be great again.

In this incredible moment in history, we are witnessing something much bigger than the opportunity to protect our borders, to enhance our economy or to preserve conservative values. Trump shows all of us, Democrat and Republican, that we are capable of greatness in our own lives.

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"I'll give you something to cry about!"

Authorities in Texas arrested three people after they allegedly forced a 6-year-old boy into a dryer at a laundromat and turned it on for a minute.

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A witness who called police to report the abuse later told detectives the whole ordeal occurred because the boy was crying over losing a bag of chips, and they wanted to punish him, the affidavit said.

FROM HERE