[ABC7] Two feisty employees of a San Bernardino sex shop fought off an armed robber, yelling at him and throwing sex toys to chase him out of the store with no money. "Gimme yer dough!"
"No! Piss off!"
The attempted robbery, caught on surveillance video, happened Wednesday around 9:45 p.m. just before closing at Lotions & Lace. "Attention Lotions and Lace shoppers! The store is closing in five minutes!"
"Ahah! Here's my chance!"
A man walked in with his face covered pointing what appeared to be a gun. "It had a hole in the end of it anyway!"
Store employee "Amy" said she wasn't scared. She was convinced the gun was a fake and she was having none of it. "With the gun, he walked in. I just thought he was trying to be funny, to scare us," she said. "But then I saw the gun and it was like, really? I don't have time for this." "That ain't a real gun, is it? Why's it got that orange plastic thing on the end?"
She started yelling at him, "Beat it, jerk! Store's closed!"
and at one point he grabbed her. "Harrr! C'mere, baby!"
[SLAP!]
That's when a coworker at the store started throwing sex toys at him. Eventually he fled the store empty-handed. [BONK! CONK! BZZZZ! THUMP!]
"I think he was a coward," said the store's other employee. "Coming in and trying to get over on two females and not realizing that were pretty feisty."
Police released surveillance video of the robbery, including images of the suspect outside the store with his face uncovered.
San Bernardino police also said they generally recommend people don't confront armed robbers. But Amy and Whatsername can...
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A story that will not be told in the Three Cripples pub.
The Cleveland Browns are inching closer to a 0-16 season and one devoted fan is moving forward with his idea to celebrate the feat.
Chris McNeil created an event on Facebook last month for the “Browns Perfect Season Parade.” On Wednesday, McNeil met with Cleveland city officials to turn what started as a joke into a reality. The steering committee meeting included about 20 people from different city departments like police and fire. He said he received good feedback and everyone seemed open to the idea. A private security firm has been retained for the event and most permits have been filed.
McNeil said the parade will likely happen, unless the Browns win a game. More than 4,300 users said they are going to the Jan. 7 celebration around FirstEnergy Stadium. The route originally created a zero and 16, but has been changed to minimize any disruption to the Great Lakes Science Center.
Cleveland is 0-13 0-12 heading into their game on Sunday at the Buffalo Bills against the Cincinnati Bengals.
Per ESPN, the Browns have a 54% chance of going 0-16. And a 0.3% chance of winning the remaining three games, though there's only a ten percent chance of that...
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...As a lifelong Browns fan (grew up almost within earshot of old Lakefront Stadium), I know exactly how this is going to end: you have a dedicated Browns fan who is putting together an event to make people feel good about a disastrous season, to try to put a smile on people's faces about it and remind them that no matter what happens, these are our Browns, and we love them, and we will be there next year.
And just watch. The Browns will screw it up by winning one.
Mike
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Oh, come ON! After the election are we STILL quoting MSM probabilities? Come off it!
[DAILYCALLER] Whoopi Goldberg thinks the right to celebrate Christmas and get an abortion are the same thing.
"The View" host was talking about the right to display Nativity scenes on Tuesday when she brought up abortion out of nowhere.
"You cannot pretend that Christmas doesn’t start with the birth of Christ!" Goldberg said. "Listen, I’m not, wait, wait, wait, don’t do it, don’t do it because I don’t want to disappoint you. I don’t want to disappoint you. I’m not a religious person, OK? I’m not a religious person but I do know that Christmas starts with the word Christ! It’s about the birth of Christ."
"So you can’t, you can’t erase that! And if you don’t believe in it, if you don’t believe in it, then you got Santa Claus. Santa Claus is not a religious thing."
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Wasn't she supposed to move to Canada or Australia or something?
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Her mouth wouldn't fit through the airplane door.
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Santa ( Saint ) Claus ( Nicholas), born in the year 260 AD and is a Catholic SAINT. In the Church calendar his Feast Day is December 6th the beginning of Advent, the Liturgical color of Red, the beginning of the Church year and Santa ( Saint ) Nicholas is the ANNOUNCER of Catholic Advent.
The Mall Santa may or may not be another matter. THAT is about getting your MONEY.
The Left speaks through Whoopi. Listen to her and learn. The Left is not your friend.
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The fact that ABC, and its parent corporation Disney, allow Goldberg and her unhinged partner Joy Behar to spout their nonsense for a half hour on nationwide television every weekday morning proves irresponsible they are.
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how irresponsible
But, hey, at least I'm not on television.
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[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] A former Credit Suisse banker spat in his wife's face after he found details of her sex games scribbled on notepaper from the hotel where she met her lover, a court heard. This wouldn't have happened if they'd lived in Italy, would it?
Marc Grosjean, 43, exploded in rage after he found the note in his wife's handbag describing sex acts.
His wife Artemis "Mitzi" Berberi, herself a lawyer, claimed it was just a game she was playing with a female friend.
But Grosjean checked her car's sat nav and found she had been going to the very same hotel. In a fight that followed he spat in her face, Southwark Crown Court heard.
Grosjean was convicted by magistrates of both spitting and punching his wife in October.
He appealed and was cleared of striking Ms Berberi after inconsistencies were found in his wife's account and Grosjean's lawyers claimed she had lied about the incident.
But his conviction for common assault by spitting was upheld. Grosjean is a former director at Credit Suisse and Anoa Capital.
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[THELOCAL.IT] Married couples in Italy will no longer have to promise to be faithful to each other, if a new bill is approved. Marriage in that case becomes mere cohabitation with a license.
...and tax advantages.
The proposed amendment to Italy's Civil Code would remove the word "fidelity" from Italian marriage contracts. So a married woman may have three children with three different men, none of them her husband.
The promise not to cheat is a "cultural legacy from an outdated and obsolete vision of marriage, family, and the rights and duties of spouses", according to the senators who have signed the bill. At what point were judges authorized to rule on social issues? Who's qualified to judge whether a universal social urge that's been around for thousands and maybe hundred thousands of years is "outdated?"
They cited a previous ruling from Italy's top court, which declared that judges could not legally place the blame for a marriage separation "on the mere failure to observe the duty of fidelity". They used to call men who philandered philanderers. Women who did were called hussies. Or sluts.
Instead, the other party has to prove that their spouse's infidelity led to the irreconcilable breakdown of the marriage. People have survived adulterous marriage by ceasing the activity and forgiveness of the spouse or by ignoring it or by pretending it's not happening, all without a judicial decision.
The bill, which was presented to the Italian Senate last year and has now been passed to its Judiciary Committee, goes on to argue that there is an element of sexism in the current wording. It was originally included to refer to the woman's sexual fidelity, in order to determine whether children were "legitimate", they noted. It would have made more sense just to change the wording to include men.
"Until not long ago, only the fidelity of the woman was sufficient to guarantee the 'legitimacy' of children," the bill notes, saying that since the "hateful" legal distinction between "legitimate" and "natural" children was scrapped in a 2012 ruling, there is no longer a need for the clause. There was a fad of "open marriage," in the 70's, maybe? I recall reading that the couple who started that and wrote ever so elaborate justifications got a divorce. If two people marry they should form what's known as a "couple." They should work together for their common good. I feel strongly, perhaps because I'm not a complete idiot, that you're not gonna make that couple when one or both parties is spreading it around.
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and wymyns wonder why guys don't want to "settle down, get married and have kids with them".
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I'm sure that this doesn't hold true anymore but could it have had something to do with the fact that a kids mother was an indisputable fact? I mean the baby didn't crawl in there by mistake did it?
How about mandatory DNA testing of each kid and the purported parents? That would stop any quibbling about who did what to whom.
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Be sure and "like" Facebook for being so thoughtful of your right to express yourself and CENSORING you when you do.
they are only doing it for your own good. Ever wonder why Facebook is "free stuff"? Its because you ARE the Product. They go over all your posts and process them into data and sell your data to advertisers and collect money on you and all your friends.
You are farm animals to Facebook. They buy and sell you like pigs and sheep.
Anyone who needs Facebook will be happy happy to put on a collar . Sucker.
Venezuela withdrew its 100-bolivar notes on Thursday, promising to introduce new banknotes to replace the bill that makes up almost half of the country’s circulating bank notes, just 72 hours after the policy was announced by President Nicolas Maduro. The switch is an attempt by Mr. Maduro’s government to tamp down inflation rates, estimated at around 500 percent, by targeting smugglers who traffic state-subsidized goods on the black market, which has mushroomed as the rest of the oil-based economy has fallen. Maduro accuses Colombia-based smugglers of hoarding bolivars outside of the country in order to buoy the black market, part of a larger effort he describes as an “economic war.”
Critics say the government’s longstanding price and currency controls are the real root of the economic crisis, and call the campaign against black marketeers a distraction. The campaign has aggravated Venezuela’s own version of an ongoing border drama with Colombia, one that has flared at times into xenophobia and put the spotlight on the cross-border trade of household goods by criminal mafias.
The conflict has played out most acutely in the border state of Tachira, where ties with Colombia have historically been stronger than with Caracas, as The Christian Science Monitor reported in 2014. Since an August 2015 attack that wounded three Venezuelan soldiers – an attack that Maduro blamed on right-wing paramilitary groups – the border with Colombia periodically been mostly closed, with restrictions lifted to allow locals to stock up on basic supplies, as Al Jazeera noted in September.
In announcing the currency swap this week, Maduro also extended the closure of the Colombian and Brazilian borders for another 72 hours to keep hoarded cash from re-entering the country. And he announced the discovery of a warehouse near the Colombian border that was being used by an unidentified NGO to store contraband bills, according to Univision.
The change has so far proven chaotic for many Venezuelans, who lined up at banks to deposit bills that would soon become worthless but were unable to take out new bills that haven’t yet been received by many banks.
"Many countries in the world have changed their currencies but afforded enough time to exchange the old notes with new ones," said a Caracas man identified as Carlos by the Guardian, in an interview with the site. "Think of Europe and the euro. And when [late ex-president Hugo] Chávez changed the Venezuelan bolivar to Strong bolivars both currencies could be used for several years."
[al-Manar] The Kremlin on Friday slammed Washington for pointing the finger at President Vladimir Putin over cyber attacks targeting the US election, after Barack Obama pledged to retaliate against Russian hacking. "All lies!"
“At this point they need to either stop talking about this or finally present some sort of proof. Otherwise this looks extremely scurrilous,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists during a visit to Japan.
Obama on Thursday warned that the United States would take action against Moscow after the White House accused Putin of direct involvement in cyber attacks designed to influence the US election.
“I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections that we need to take action,” Obama told NPR radio.
“And we will, at a time and place of our own choosing.”
The outgoing US president’s remarks dramatically upped the stakes in a dispute between the world’s leading nuclear powers over alleged interference in last month’s presidential race.
Obama’s threat came after the White House ratcheted up allegations over the Russian hacking by personally tying Kremlin strongman Putin to the attacks.
“I don’t think things happen in the Russian government of this consequence without Vladimir Putin knowing about it,” one of his top advisers, Ben Rhodes, said earlier Thursday.
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“At this point they need to either stop talking about this or finally present some sort of proof.
The US MS media realize there is no proof. They report it anyway.
What does that tell you about the MS Media?
What does it tell you about Journalism in the US? What does it tell you about Journalists?
NBC is your friend? CNN is your friend? The NYTimes is your friend?
Trump WILL be inaugurated in January and everything after that will be Legal and inside the Constitution. But, the seating at the White House Pressers will be on stools in a smaller room.
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I'd been more happy had the self-immolation been simply delayed.
It'll be interesting to see how far BHO has to twist himself to pass this on to DJT. Or, maybe, he'll feel the need to (dangerously) take a "Legacy" position.
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It isn't military and there are large numbers floating around in the oceans. If China wanted whatever secrets they contain. Not that I think they have any secrets. They would have taken one sereptitiously. Which makes this provocation, pure and simple.
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The price on that oceanographic instrument just went up. We've cancelled payments on $150B in your U.S. bonds, and we've closed west coast ports to all Chinese shipping until further notice.
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Just like the weapons ISIS acquired from Obama, and the billions of dollars released to Iran, I am sure drone technology to China via this incident was not without pre-meditation by this regime.
USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is a Banner-class environmental research ship, attached to Navy intelligence as a spy ship, which was attacked and captured by North Korean forces on 23 January 1968, in what is known today as the "Pueblo incident" or alternatively, as the "Pueblo crisis".
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What may be happening is that China and Russia et. al. were so invested in the expected Hillary coronation that they didn't plan for the possibility of DJT.
Therefore, all of the crap they've been planning to take advantage of BHO and HRC weakness and incompetence and evil intent had to get moved up real fast cause they doubt that DJT will play along.
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Don't need to attack the so called large stationary targets. Hit China economically. Sun Tzu back at you ChiComs.
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It may be they didn't want any information about their precious islands to get out from undersea charting. Which of course means there's something WRONG with the islands.
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..I say send a couple of smart and aggressive SSN skippers to start doing random 'Yankee Searches' on PRC warships, especially that overbred aircraft transport they call a carrier.
Mike
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overbred aircraft transport
I thought that was the new model artificial reef, Mike.
[DAWN] Two suspected gangsters were killed in an alleged shootout with law enforcers in the Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... area on Friday, an official said.
Police with Rangers troops raided a hideout on reports about the presence of some gangsters in the Chakiwara area, the official said.
"The gunnies in the hideout attacked the personnel of our team as they were taking positions following a tip-off about the presence of some criminals in the area," said Chakiwara SHO Inspector Arshad Khan.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The Cleveland Browns are inching closer to a 0-16 season and one devoted fan is moving forward with his idea to celebrate the feat.
