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Durham, N.C. — A Durham man who has been missing since January may have been killed and fed to some hogs as retribution for stealing cocaine from a local drug dealer, according to a new search warrant.

Charleston Prentice Goodman, 26, was last seen on Jan. 28, when several people saw him arguing in the 800 block of East Woodcroft Parkway with a group of men, who then shoved him into a minivan and drove off.

It doesn't seem like an effective means of retrieving stolen drugs, but on the other hand, Charlie made good BLT sandwiches.

 

Cable And Satellite Companies Are Stealing Your Cash

Arris International is the world’s largest supplier of set-top boxes to pay-TV companies. They charge providers between $150 and $200 per unit. When you rent from the provider, you pay over $230 per year, on average.

You might want to consider buying your own box, though it'll cost a bit more up front: the Arris units run about $280 for consumers. But you save in the long run.

 

PeTa: Cow Milk Drinkers = White Supremacists

Yep, that's their latest loony pitch.

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) - Cow's milk is allegedly a symbol used by white supremacists, according to PETA. 

In a recent statement, the animal advocate organization explains that dairy milk has been the drink of choice for supremacists because "the dairy industry inflicts extreme violence on other living beings."

Aside from “lactose-tolerant” white supremacists, cow’s milk really is the perfect drink of choice for all (even unwitting) supremacists, since the dairy industry inflicts extreme violence on other living beings. PETA is trying to wake people up to the implications of choosing this white beverage and suggesting that they choose something else pronto.

Every cow abused by the farming industry has a unique personality. Think about WHO is making your milk.

PeTA exists for only one purpose: to rake in money from well-intentioned but oblivious donors. And they do it very well; they rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars every year, mostly by posting garbage. But people buy it, and they send PeTA money.

Lots of money. As Barnum observed, there's one born every minute.

 

Been There

A good look at the farrier business. He ought to try it on elephants, sometime - that's a lot of work. It'll put a real hitch in your git-along.

Colby Smith is a farrier, a shoer of horses. Accompanied by his wife, Jess, who is also his assistant, he circuits far West Texas every four to six weeks, trimming hooves and nailing shoes onto his clients’ horses, ponies, mules, and donkeys. “When I was fourteen, I started working with farriers to see if I could do it,” he said as the couple drove from their Alpine home to a job in Fort Stockton. “I wanted to learn because I didn’t want to have to pay someone else to do it.”

 

So Much For The Mask

Consider what just happened to Rep. Marsha Blackburn, who is running for Senate in Tennessee. She recently booked a meeting place at a family-style diner in suburban Mt. Juliet, about 20 minutes east of Nashville. The owner, a man named Tom Courtney, didn’t think twice about renting the dining room — that is, until he and his staff started getting death threats.

Death threats for daring to rent a meeting space to a Republican.

The Left is completely insane. Heck, I don't like most Leftists, and I really didn't like Barky OBummer, but I've tolerated them all. Never once felt the need to threaten them. But given the destructive antics of the far Left here in Portland of late, my tolerance level is diminishing.

If there's anything good to be said about the idiocy, it's that they've mounted a long-running campaign that will inevitably benefit anyone who's not a Democrat. Sane people are plumb out of rationales for supporting Democratics.

 

Florida Funzies

A Florida gas station owner has placed a sign in his store asking customers not to warm urine in the microwave.

Parul Patel says he’s become “sick and tired” of people walking into his BP gas station and On the Fly convenience store in Jacksonville to warm their containers of urine. The store is within walking distance of two labs that offer drug testing services and collect urine samples.

You might say he's become a little pissy.

Yet another reason to avoid Florida at all costs.

 

California News Today

MALIBU, Calif. (KABC) --

Authorities served a search warrant at Cher's Malibu home Thursday and an arrest was made, Eyewitness News learned.

She's touring in Australia, and while the Ventura County Sheriff office is being pretty tight-lipped regarding the warrant and the bust, they did note that the arrestee has been living with her. UPDATE: the guy taken into custody is the son of Cher's assistant...

3:15 PM PT -- Law enforcement sources tell us the person arrested 23-year-old Donovan Ruiz. Our sources say Ruiz was taken into custody in connection with the overdose death of a Ventura County resident in mid-September. Ruiz lives at Cher's home.

There were a few dozen gypsies, tramps and thieves detained as well.

And...

WEST LOS ANGELES (KABC) --

A man has been convicted of riding an electric scooter while drunk in West Los Angeles and knocking over a pedestrian. It's the first motorized scooter DUI incident charged in L.A. Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer announced the conviction Thursday, adding that the defendant, identified as 28-year-old Nicholas Kauffroath, was three times over the legal blood alcohol limit when he knocked over a 64-year-old pedestrian with a Bird electric scooter.

Making matters worse, he didn't stop, much less attempt to render aid; cops caught up with him at a nearby apartment building, where he was taken into custody. He pleaded no contest to the DUI charge and to the charge of hit-and-run.

Last but not least, another corporation is bailing out of California: The North Face is moving its corporate headquarters to Denver, where they expect to create 650 jobs.

The mayor of Alameda was caught by surprise. "I didn't hear about it from city staff. I heard about it from an employee of theirs," she said. "They give their desired management the first option to relocate and then they'll look at what they want with the rest of the employees," said Darien Louie with the East Bay Economic Development Alliance.

The North Face is just the latest Bay Area business looking for greener pastures. Jamba Juice moved its headquarters from Emeryville to Texas. Tech giants Apple, Google and other technology companies have built new operations in other states.

And Oracle's planning a big new campus in Austin, Texas.

California's running increasingly low on other peoples' money, it seems.

 

Trouble For Tesla & Musk

Tesla CEO Elon Musk have been sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission, CNBC has learned.

The charge: fraud. Tesla stock fell by about 10% today. The company itself, though not named in the lawsuit filed today, also expects to be sued.

 

What's Killing Sears?

Bad pension decisions.

Sears, once the nation's largest employer, has an estimated 100,000 retirees still eligible for benefits under the pension plans, according to a federal regulator.

And these retirees get paid every month, for life.

Most businesses today offer what's known as a defined contribution plan, such as a 401(k).

Sears was a little too generous. Perhaps they thought that the good times would roll on indefinitely. Wrong:

Sears has lost $11.7 billion since its last profitable year in 2012.

No wonder they're shutting stores all around the USA.

 

Next Up At Amazon

Seven foot-tall Christmas trees, delivered right to your doorstep.

A 7-foot Fraser fir from a North Carolina farm will cost $115, according to an Amazon holiday preview book. Also listed are a $50 wreath and a $25 red-leafed plant with a decorative candy cane speared into the soil.

Hm. If it's all the same, I'll save the money and just go cut my own, like I've done for years.  This year I may even use a chainsaw.

I used to use a bow-saw, but find that I've somehow misplaced it.

$115 seems rather expensive for a decorative tree; easier to just buy a $5 permit and cut one in one of our many National Forests.