WASHINGTON (AP) — Michael Avenatti, who skyrocketed to fame as a chief critic of President Donald Trump and the lawyer for porn actress Stormy Daniels, was taken into police custody Wednesday following an allegation of domestic violence, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
Oddly, he doesn't seem to have much to say.
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The guy just can't seem to stay out of trouble:
SANFORD, Fla. - George Zimmerman entered a no contest plea to resolve a misdemeanor charge of stalking a private investigator in the latest run-in with the law for the neighborhood watch leader who killed Trayvon Martin.
Don't know how you "stalk" a PI - generally, it's the other way around. In any case, it seems clear that George has serious mental problems, and should probably be removed from society.
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LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. -- In Pennsylvania, you must have a license for your dog, but there are no state regulations on pet alligators.
They're sort of cute when they're little (if you discount the spread of salmonella and other things). But they grow fast; generally eight to ten inches per year, although some folks claim it's more around a foot per year. And when they grow too big for the bath-tub, people tend to dump them into lakes and ponds. Because that's what responsible pet ownership is all about. Alligators aren't pets.
Unlike dogs, alligators aren't amenable to domestication, so they fall into the classification of wild animals. That's rather a problem - if you can't take care of a wild animal, dumping it is not a solution.
“At the very least, we need to regulate the sales of alligators. We could make a thousand dollar permit. We could require microchips so that when someone throws their alligator in a lake in a few years, they’re held responsible," explained Rothacker.
And Jesse Rothacker's on the right track. While I generally disfavor increased government, there are times when the idiots need regulation and accountability.
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“You know, Vlad and I had a great talk today, and we agreed that the Cold War is over and neither one of us wants to start it up again. ‘sides, we have other mutual concerns. So we’re gonna pull all our troops out of Europe and deploy them elsewhere. (Like, maybe, the Rio Grande.) Have fun, guys!”
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A Ford dealership in California has been hit with a barrage of criticism over a tone deaf ad which tried to make light of the deadly wildfires ravaging the state.
The ad, which was published by the company's Simi Valley dealership on November 11, read: 'Well we didn't catch fire but these deals are smoking hot. Take a look!'
Some people think that's really insensitive, but then, most of them likely spend the better part of their day looking for something to get offended or outraged over. For a lot of people these days, that's their main mission.
They'll stroke out soon enough.
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Yesterday was the anniversary of the great Oregon Exploding Whale debacle, which occurred Nov. 12, 1970. Good times....
Yes, that was something else. ODOT soon realized that 20 cases of dynamite was not useful in eradicating a dead whale on the beach.
On Nov. 12, 1970, an eight-ton dead whale was blown to pieces on a beach in Florence, Oregon. The story made Paul Linnman, a young journalist for KATU News, a part of history. The plan was to explode the whale into tiny pieces that seagulls would eat. But as Linnman and former KATU Photojournalist Doug Brazil found out, the pieces were not exactly bite-sized. The two had to run to escape the flying blubber. It was so big that some of it flattened a car.
Original broadcast - one of the all-time greats!
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It's pretty grim down there, as well over 200 people are still unaccounted for and at least 29 are confirmed dead. In some places, the fire's been so hot that people have been cremated in place; only bits of bone remaining. Other casualties include firefighters themselves - several injured, but none of them have died as yet. At present, over 4,000 firefighters are working on the blaze, along with 23 helicopters, 67 bulldozers and 440 engines.
President Donald Trump stirred controversy earlier in the weekend by tweeting that California officials are to blame for poor forest management. He threatened “no more federal payments” if the state doesn’t get its house in order.
That led to a retort from the California governor: “Managing all the forests everywhere we can does not stop climate change, and those who deny that definitely are contributing to the tragedies that we are witnessing and will continue to witness. The chickens are coming home to roost.”
Yeah, it's all because of climate change; California's long record of mismanagement and active interference has absolutely nothing to do with anything. Why is that state the only one that experiences repeated and massive conflagrations? There must be some reason - and climate change isn't it.
On a bright note, the home of Miley Cyrus has burned to the ground, so there's a silver lining in all of it.
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Is it breeding season or something? The Portland Loons are becoming seasonally aggressive.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Reducing litter and saving the whales -- and more than 660 species of sea creatures and seabirds -- are some of the main reasons for a Portland City Council ordinance that aims to further regulate the use of single-use plastic.
The proposal currently under consideration by City Council would forbid establishments like restaurants from giving customers plastic straws and stirrers unless they ask for them.
Welp, at least they aren't planning to shave the whales - yet. By what passes for their logic, shaving them would reduce water resistance, making the animals more efficient in energy use.
They haven't taken that step - so far. Probably just a matter of time.
Here's an idea: just outlaw businesses in Portland! Fine with me, as I only do business in Washington County - never in Portland or Multnomah County.
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"Long time, no see" is now considered "offensive, non-inclusive language" at Colorado State University. Administrators there (and I use the term loosely) have decided that the greeting is derogatory to people of Asian descent. Eating dogs is still perfectly acceptable; it'd be unsurprising to see dog on the campus menu fairly soon.
Leibee also noted that administrators discouraged use of "you guys" in favor of "y'all," which is gender neutral (and ungrammatical, but this is apparently less of a concern). Her column does not claim that administrators force students to use the gender neutral terminology, just that such terminology is preferred.
Isn't "y'all" sort of "cultural appropriation"? Just askin'.
Reckon that's okay with the "administrators" there, though.
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If you sat down to eat at any point and in any part of the U.S. in the 1800s, nothing on your plate was quite what it seemed.
Your morning coffee? If it wasn’t already mixed with chicory, there was probably quite a bit of sawdust mixed in, with scorched and ground peas, beans, or dandelion seeds for color. The honey in your tea? Sweetened corn syrup complete with wax “honeycomb”. The spices on your table? Finely ground coconut shells, burnt rope, or straight up floor sweepings. The flour in your bread? Mixed with crushed stone, gypsum, or dirt. The brown sugar in your grandma’s cookies? Spiked with ground insects. The scotch in grandpa’s after supper tipple? Poisonous wood alcohol dyed honey brown. The milk in Junior’s glass? Certainly watered down, almost definitely whitened with chalk or plaster of paris, often dosed with a preservative like formaldehyde to keep it “fresh,” and occasionally topped with pureed calf brains to mimic the “cream” on top. The fact that past generations managed to survive their own kitchens was a medical marvel in its own right, and those dark days are only barely behind us.
And indeed, many did not survive their own kitchens, due largely to profiteering companies increasing their margins by adulterating the "foods and drinks" they peddled. At the time, medical science was largely nonexistent; even antibiotics had yet to be discovered. Average lifespan for a man was 46 years; for women, 48.
The materials added into the food supplies certainly did nothing to improve the odds of long-term survival.
In 1883, Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, a chemistry professor from Purdue University, was named chief chemist of the agriculture department.
And he was horrified by some of the substances that he discovered while looking into American food supply chains. Thus was born The Poison Squad - volunteers who consumed these foods under (for the times) rigorous examination.
Great moments in American history.
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