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1 hour ago, iHeart said:

https://people.com/human-interest/st-nicholas-grave-found-beneath-church-turkey/?utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&utm_content=link&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=6350885671fe1700014450fa&fbclid=IwAR0u61OZEThmMy4iKnxM-FkFYbKudLpnrmb68SQo4DnImgFmKkTAPzQwo3M

What about the elves?

[FrostyWinnipeg]

13 hours ago, Tracker said:

What about the elves?

You don;t want to know about the "offering" found in one of the other graves

 

[FrostyWinnipeg]

 

[FrostyWinnipeg]

The Winnipeg gravesite of Louis Riel has been vandalized

One-year sentence for Saskatchewan man convicted of hate speech against Jews

Mom, tattoo artist arrested after 10-year-old child gets arm tattoo, police say

Edited October 21, 2022 by FrostyWinnipeg

[FrostyWinnipeg]

Serena Williams says she has not retired from tennis and that the chances of her returning to the sport are “very high.” https://nbcnews.to/3TQIEF6

A California teacher is accused of hiding a missing teenager who vanished more than two years ago and reappeared at his family's home in March, authorities say. https://nbcnews.to/3f3mXmx

Edited October 25, 2022 by FrostyWinnipeg

[FrostyWinnipeg]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/25/worlds-dirtiest-man-dies-in-iran-at-94-a-few-months-after-first-wash

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Lawyer Who Fought Helmet Laws Killed in Motorcycle Crash While Not Wearing a Helmet

A Florida lawyer who passionately fought against state laws requiring motorcycle riders to wear helmets was killed in a motorcycle crash while not wearing a helmet. Ron Smith, 66, was heading to a memorial service for another biker in August when he crashed his bike as he tried to slow for traffic in front of him. His 62-year-old girlfriend, Brenda Jeanan Volpe, who was a passenger on the bike, was also killed. She too was not wearing a helmet. Smith—who was a member of the Brotherhood Against Totalitarian Enactments—represented clients who broke Florida’s motorcycle rules in cases which some say ultimately helped to overturn the state’s helmet requirement in 2000. “He thought everybody should have their own choice,” his friend Dave Newman said.

[Tracker]

Cruel and unusual punishment?

[Fatty Liver]

Mormon Church in Canada moved $1B out of the country tax free — and it's legal

Money collected for charity transferred to Latter-day Saints’ university in U.S.

Past time for the Feds. to step up and scrutinize how non-taxable charitable organizations spend monies donated, and close all the loopholes these babbling grifters exploit.  Time to put this religious nonsense to rest and attacking the Mormons in Southern Alberta is a great place to start as they're largely at the root of Alberta's backward Republican counter-culture.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mormon-church-jesus-christ-latter-day-saints-funds-charity-1.6630190

Edited October 27, 2022 by Fatty Liver

[JCon]

4 minutes ago, Fatty Liver said:

Mormon Church in Canada moved $1B out of the country tax free — and it's legal

Money collected for charity transferred to Latter-day Saints’ university in U.S.

Past time for the Feds. to step up and scrutinize how non-taxable charitable organizations spend monies donated, and close all the loopholes these babbling grifters exploit.  Time to put this religious nonsense to rest and attacking the Mormons in Southern Alberta is a great place to start as they're largely at the root of Alberta's backward Republican counter-culture.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mormon-church-jesus-christ-latter-day-saints-funds-charity-1.6630190

Tax the churches. 

[Tracker]

47 minutes ago, JCon said:

Tax the churches. 

In France, churches do not take tithes- instead they receive $ from the government according to how many adherents they have and must pay property taxes. Not sure if this is a better system.

[JCon]

37 minutes ago, Tracker said:

In France, churches do not take tithes- instead they receive $ from the government according to how many adherents they have and must pay property taxes. Not sure if this is a better system.

Heck no. Just tax them like a business. That's what they are. 

[Wanna-B-Fanboy]

God save us all

 

 

[iHeart]

you know it's weird the drama was dragged out BEFORE they officially filed, apparently they wanted to figure stuff out before they filed (at least that's how the article made it sound)

https://www.tmz.com/2022/10/28/tom-brady-gisele-bundchen-divorce-florida/

[FrostyWinnipeg]

16 hours ago, Wanna-B-Fanboy said:

God save us all

 

 

Twitter about to become the new Telegram.

Edited October 28, 2022 by FrostyWinnipeg

[JCon]

Just now, FrostyWinnipeg said:

Twitter about to become the new Teelegram.

Yup. People will leave and so will advertisers. 

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https://www.cheknews.ca/victoria-7-eleven-using-drip-line-to-deter-loiterers-sparks-concern-from-homeless-advocates-1108703/

[iHeart]

regardless of what goes on on twitter, there's always the block button

[bustamente]

Jack Dorsey is working on a new social media platform, wonder how Musk feels about that.

Edited October 29, 2022 by bustamente

[Mark F]

re Maxwell.

now let's see us attorney office charge some of the people who had sex with minors that maxwell procured.

 

this result is just more proof that the system is corrupt, and, many people are above the law. 

 

"It has already been revealed that Bill Clinton and Donald Trump were frequent fliers on Epstein’s jet, dubbed the Lolita Express. Flight logs introduced during Maxwell’s trial show Donald Trump flew on the jet between Palm Beach and New York City airports six times, sometimes accompanied by his then-wife, Marla Maples, and infant daughter, Tiffany.

Bill Clinton was a passenger at least 26 times. Fox News obtained records showing Clinton flew without his Secret Service detail for at least five of the flights and that trips between 2001 and 2003 “included extended junkets around the world with Epstein and fellow passengers identified on manifests by their initials or first names, including ‘Tatiana.’ The tricked-out jet earned its Nabokov-inspired nickname because it was reportedly outfitted with a bed where passengers had group sex with young girls.” (Neither Trump nor Clinton has been accused of anything illegal or inappropriate.)"

 

 

Edited October 29, 2022 by Mark F

[FrostyWinnipeg]

At least 146 killed in Halloween crowd surge in Seoul, officials say

Edited October 29, 2022 by FrostyWinnipeg

[blue_gold_84]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/musk-twitter-ceo-1.6636400

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Tesla Inc. boss Elon Musk said on Monday he will serve as chief executive of Twitter, the social media company he just bought for $44 billion, a move that Wall Street analysts have said could stretch the billionaire thin.

Musk, who also runs rocket company SpaceX, brain-chip startup Neuralink and tunnelling firm the Boring Company, fired Twitter's previous chief Parag Agrawal and other top company officials last week, and has proposed revisions to the platform's user verification process, which has been free until now.

Musk announced his Twitter CEO role in a securities filing. In another filing on Monday, Musk revealed that he became the sole director of Twitter as a result of the takeover.

Musk had previously changed his Twitter bio to "Chief Twit" in an allusion to his planned move. Twitter on Monday declined to comment on how long Musk might remain CEO or appoint someone else.

Meanwhile:

Social media was a mistake.

[Tracker]

Musk may have bitten off more than he can chew. Twitter value dropped precipitously after the purchase, the N-bombs posted increased some 500% and Musk re-tweeted a ugly post that claimed that the attack on Nancy Pelosi's home was somehow staged. Moreover, Musk borrowed a tone of money from Saudis and the interest will be about ONE BILLION per year. Twitter has not been consistently profitable and not very profitable when it was. 

[JCon]

They fired hundred plus content moderators that would catch the racist, homophobic, etc. posts and Musk has cut that down to 15. Twitter will soon be a cesspool. People will abandon it and so will advertisers.