The limousine was carrying a wedding party when it collided with another vehicle outside the Apple Barrel Country Store in Schoharie (skoh-HAY'-ree), NY, on Saturday afternoon, according to local reports.
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The limousine was carrying a wedding party when it collided with another vehicle outside the Apple Barrel Country Store in Schoharie (skoh-HAY'-ree), NY, on Saturday afternoon, according to local reports.
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Monica Lewinsky (left), Linda Tripp
Monica Lewinsky (left), Linda Tripp
These are the charges today leveled against Ford, 53, by Linda Tripp, the woman who exposed Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.
Tripp secretly recorded the then 22-year-old Lewinsky admitting to her intimacy with the president 17 years her senior. She made the tapes public in January 1998.
But today she does not see Ford's decision to speak up as an act of conscience in any way comparable to her own.
The incident took place in the southeastern Indian state of Karnataka on Monday. However, the authorities only learned about it after footage of the driver - smiling and patting the monkey as it sat on the steering wheel of the moving bus - went viral.
The driver, identified as M Prakash, "has been taken off duty for allowing the monkey to sit on the steering wheel and handle it," an official from the local transport company confirmed. He said the authorities launched an inquiry since "a driver cannot risk the life of passengers."
The monkey, which belongs to a school teacher, sat next to him at first, but then its curiosity and mischievousness must have taken over. So it went to make friends with the driver and jumped on the steering wheel. The primate reportedly steered the bus for almost 10 minutes, while M Prakash was only working the pedals and gears. Around 30 passengers were on the monkey-driven bus.
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The incident occurred early on Saturday in Annandale, when a man - it is being presumed - spray-painted numerous white swastikas over the center. The suspect was well disguised and his identity remains unknown.
Stills from CCTV footage, released by Fairfax County police, show the suspect, sporting a dark blue T-shirt over a gray hoodie walking past the JCC and painting the offensive symbols on the building. The suspect was also seemingly well-prepared for the vandalism act and was equipped with a headlamp.
As protesters chanted "vote them out" and "November is coming," while demonstrating on Capitol Hill ahead of the Kavanaugh vote, the 53-year-old conservative judge was confirmed by the US Senate in a vote 50 to 48 in favor of the appointment.
Even while Vice President Mike Pence ran down the details of the final tally, protesters inside of the Senate chamber could be heard shouting "Shame on you!" according to reports.
Following Friday's announcement by Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) that she would vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the left flipped on one of its recent heroes; Michael Avenatti.
In a fiery speech announcing her decision, Collins ripped unsupported claims by Avenatti's client, Julie Swetnick, that Kavanaugh facilitated a Cosby-esque "gang rape" operation while in high school.
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Michael Avenatti
Michael Avenatti
As a result of Collins citing Swetnick's claim, liberals began to pile onto Avenatti - blaming him for Kavanaugh's impending Saturday confirmation, while conservative pundits poked fun.Some of the allegations levied against Judge Kavanaugh illustrate why the presumption of innocence is so important. I am thinking in particular not of the allegations raised by Professor Ford, but of the allegation that, when he was a teenager, Judge Kavanaugh drugged multiple girls and used their weakened state to facilitate gang rape.
This outlandish allegation was put forth without any credible supporting evidence and simply parroted public statements of others. That such an allegation can find its way into the Supreme Court confirmation process is a stark reminder about why the presumption of innocence is so ingrained in our American consciousness. -Sen. Susan Collins
Comment: Probably a wise choice - although his background makes him perfectly suited to be a liberal favorite: With the spotlight on lawyer Avenatti, his own dodgy past is emerging
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Gathering along a fence separating them from the Syrian-controlled side of the Golan Heights, Druze commemorated the anniversary of the start of the 1973 Arab Israeli War while celebrating Syria's successes in its recent war against the terrorists.
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Male State founder Vladislav Pozdnyakov
Male State founder Vladislav Pozdnyakov
The Russian Investigative Committee reported on Friday that its branch, in the major industrial center of Nizhny Novgorod, had pressed charges of extremism against a 27-year old man from the nearby Saratov Region. In comments with Lenta.ru news site investigators revealed the suspect's name as Vladislav Pozdnyakov.
Investigators claim that the suspect had been the mastermind behind the 'Male State' group on Russia's most popular social network Vkontakte. They also claim that most of the texts and images posted by the suspect and other group members amounted to hate speech.
Comment: While the debate on free speech should be taken on a case by case basis, and even Putin has recently intervened to ensure that common sense prevails, the internet is as much part of the public sphere as a street corner and so anyone contravening the laws of the land will fall foul of the law.
See also:
- Russian woman attacked 'manspreading' metro riders with bleach-laced water
- England's police deployed to hunt down 'offensive speech' amidst an actual rise in crime
- "Digital strip-search": Travellers to New Zealand now face $5000 fine if they refuse
Let's start by talking about obesity. At this point, so many of our young people are overweight that military recruiters are having a very difficult time finding enough "suitable candidates for military service"...
The study, featuring roughly 18,000 randomly selected participants across each of the service branches, showed that almost 66 percent of service members are considered to be either overweight or obese, based on the military's use of body mass index as a measuring standard.
While the number of overweight service members is a cause for concern, it correlates with the obesity epidemic plaguing the United States, where, as of 2015, one in three young adults are considered too fat to enlist, creating a difficult environment for recruiters to find suitable candidates for military service.
Comment: It's even worse - the internet generation isn't reading books because nearly two-thirds cannot read proficiently, nor are they proficient in math. They lack social skills and have never learned how to deal with conflict or differing opinions. Without knowing how to deal with life they find anything that is vaguely threatening a cause for official and/or violent intervention. See:
Make America Great Again? Things Not Looking Good For The 'Internet Generation'
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Hassan Sufan on the right, senior leader of the Turkish-backed National Front for Liberation (NFL)
Hassan Sufan on the right, senior leader of the Turkish-backed National Front for Liberation (NFL)
According to the HTS-linked news network Iba'a, the reconciliation agreement was signed by radical scholar "Mazhar al-Ois" on behalf of HTS' leadership and by "Hassan Sufan," a senior leader of the NFL. Under the agreement, both groups will withdraw their weapons from civilian areas and release all the militants who were captured during the clashes.
The tension between HTS and the NFL began on September 26, when HTS forces attacked the town of Darat Izza in order to arrest several members of the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement [one of the NFL's groups] after accusing them of carrying out several attacks inside the town.
Comment: Notice the US is nowhere in sight.
- Russian FM: Turkish drones & extra troops to patrol Idlib after making deal with Moscow
- Analyst to RT - Idlib buffer zone will help Russia & Turkey clear area of radicals
- Turkey now controls the fate of Syrian jihadists in Idlib
- Syrian Army dispatches additional military convoys to Idlib
- Good timing: Turkey designates Tahrir al-Sham (a.k.a. al Nusra) as terrorist group
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