‘You should see pictures of her’

‘You should see pictures of her’: Lawyer argues 13-year-old rape victim to blame for being a ‘temptress’

A sentencing hearing in Missoula County, Montana, grew heated this week when the defense lawyer for 26-year-old defendant Justin Griffith accused his victims — including one 13-year-old girl — of acting as “temptresses.”

McDonald's employee gives birth and tries to flush infant down toilet

A McDonald's cashier is facing an attempted murder charge after giving birth to a boy while at work and then trying to flush the newborn down a toilet inside the Redwood City, Calif., restaurant, prosecutors said.

McDonald's employee gives birth and tries to flush infant down toilet, DA says

Arizona judge considers ways to legally out-maneuver Dumbass Trump’s pardon of Arpaio

Arizona judge considers ways to legally out-maneuver Dumbass Trump’s pardon of Arpaio

An Arizona District Court judge is weighing arguments against throwing out charges against Arizona’s Sheriff  Arpaio in spite of Dumbass Trump’s pardon.

Police take down drunk and angry off-duty cop

A Hartford, CT police detective was caught on video threatening members of the Plainville police when he was pulled over for driving under the influence.
According to WFSB-TV, Det. Robert Lanza let fly with several racial and ethnic slurs during the arrest, video of which was released on Tuesday by the Plainville Police Department.

Police take down drunk and angry off-duty cop who slurred them as niggers

Mississippi cop tasered pregnant woman in the stomach

A police officer from Pass Christian, Mississippi, is being accused of tasering a pregnant woman in the stomach even after she implored him not to because of the harm it could do to her unborn baby.
The Miami Sun Herald reports that 27-year-old Aviana White got into a confrontation with police after they pulled over her brother’s car and discovered that he did not have a driver’s license. White, who was a passenger in the car, had an outstanding warrant for a misdemeanor domestic violence charge from 2014, and refused to tell officers her name.
At some point during the confrontation, White walked away from the car and placed a phone call to the Pass Christian Police Department to complain about her treatment. At that point, witnesses say an officer “charged” toward her while holding a stun gun before grabbing White.
Witnesses tell the Sun Herald that White then told the officer to be careful with the taser because she was pregnant. Witness Alicia Burton says that the officer didn’t listen to her, and proceeded to taser her three times in the abdomen, and once in the leg.

Mississippi cop tasered pregnant woman in the stomach even as she begged them to stop: witness

‘Whip you like the slave you are’

‘Whip you like the slave you are’: Dumbass Trump sycophant sent threats before execution-style killing of black man

Parnell sent Facebook messages calling Briggs a “nigger” and threatening to “hang” him on the afternoon of the fatal shooting, according to police.

Missouri Man's Efforts to Prove He's Not a Racist Backfire Spectacularly

Missouri Man's Efforts to Prove He's Not a Racist Backfire Spectacularly

Kentucky student targeted by Dumbass Trump-loving classmate for deportation

A Kentucky student says university officials have refused to help after a deluded Dumbass Trump-loving classmate started a social media campaign to get her deported.
Paola Garcia, a senior at Transylvania University, posted an emotional video on YouTube describing the harassment campaign by fellow student Taylor Ragg

Kentucky student targeted by Dumbass Trump-loving classmate for deportation — and university won’t help

Superman takes on white supremacists

Superman takes on white supremacists in a Trump-inspired installment of the comic

In the most recent installment of Action Comics, Superman saves a group of undocumented immigrants.

White 'Christians' Are Now a Minority

White 'Christians' Are Now a Minority—But They're Getting More Isolated and Less Tolerant

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1146		Zangi of the Near East is murdered. The Sultan Nur ad-Din, his son, pursues the conquest of Edessa.
1321		Dante Alighieri dies of malaria just hours after finishing writing Paradiso.
1544		Henry VIII‘s forces take Boulogne, France.
1773		Russian forces under Aleksandr Suvorov successfully storm a Turkish fort at Hirsov, Turkey.
1791		Louis XVI swears his allegiance to the French constitution.
1812		Napoleon Bonaparte‘s invasion of Russia reaches its climax as his Grande Armee enters Moscow–only to find the enemy capital deserted and burning, set afire by the few Russians who remained.
1814		Francis Scott Key writes the words to the “Star Spangled Banner” as he waits aboard a British launch in Chesapeake Bay for the outcome of the British assault on Fort McHenry during the War of 1812.
1847		U.S. forces under Gen. Winfield Scott capture Mexico City, virtually bringing the two-year Mexican War to a close.
1853		The Allies land at Eupatoria on the west coast of Crimea.
1862		At the battles of South Mountain and Crampton’s Gap, Maryland Union troops smash into the Confederates as they close in on what will become the Antietam battleground.
1901		Vice President Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as the 26th President of the United States upon the death of William McKinley, who was shot eight days earlier.
1911		Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is mortally wounded in an assassination attempt at the Kiev opera house.
1943		German troops abandon the Salerno front in Italy..
1960		Iraq, Iran, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia form OPEC.
1966		Operation Attleboro, designed as a training exercise for American troops, becomes a month-long struggle against the Viet Cong.
1975		Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton becomes the first native-born American saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
1979		Nur Muhammad Taraki, president and former prime minister of Afghanistan, is assassinated in a coup in which prime minister Hafizullah Amin seizes power.
1982		Bachir Gemayel, president-elect of Lebanon, is killed along with 26 others in a bomb blast in Beirut.
1984		Joe Kittinger, a former USAF fighter pilot during the Vietnam War, becomes the first person to pilot a gas balloon solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1994		Major League Baseball players strike over a salary cap and other proposed changes, forcing the cancellation of the entire postseason and the World Series.
2007		Northern Rock Bank suffers the UK’s first bank run in 150 years.

American Foods Tourists Are Most Excited to Try

When you visit another country, you want to try the local cuisine in order to really get a feel for the culture, but to the people in those countries, the food is just an every day reality. People from other countries feel the same way about your culture's food as well. So have you ever considered what tourists visiting America feel like they just have to try? They you have to check out this Reddit thread on the subject. Just as a spoiler, some of the most common responses are corn dogs, Thanksgiving foods and Creole cuisine.See all the delicious (and sometimes odd cravings) at Reddit.

The Closest Address Twins

Address twins are two houses, or businesses, that have the exact same street address. Of course, most address twins are in different towns, but not always. The older a city is, the more likely there is some weird history which can lead to more than one street having the same name.
Paul Plowman admits he has a "bizarre interest in all things address-based," and he became interested in finding out which address twins were closest to each other. He used the resources that were available, and astonishingly, found quite a few address twins within a kilometer of each other. The two homes in the picture are both at 2 George Street, Accrington, Lancashire, UK. They are only 235 meters (about a sixth of a mile) apart. They have different postal codes, but that probably doesn't help a pizza delivery driver. Still, that wasn't the closest address twins he found. Two houses with the same street address in different towns were actually closer to each other! Read the saga of how Plowman found them at The Unusually Named Blog.

When Europeans Killed Others to Kill Themselves

Once upon a time in Denmark, some people wanted to commit suicide, so they murdered someone. They did the deed knowing that they would pay for their crime by execution. No, that doesn't make sense at all to us. People today tend to think of murder as a greater crime than suicide, although both are tragic, and a scheme to put them together is akin to double murder. But around the 18th century, it was a rational way to avoid eternal damnation, if you took the Lutheran church's teachings literally. The "loophole" went like this:

At the time, a common religious belief held that “if you took your life, you had absolutely no chance of going to heaven,” says Jeffrey Watt, a history professor at the University of Mississippi. But if you killed someone else, you could repent before the execution and have your sins pardoned, he adds, shedding light on the murderous intent. Essentially, you’d have a better shot at getting past the pearly gates if you killed someone else rather than yourself. And children were the preferred victims because they were more easily dispatched, and because folks believed that their young, innocent souls were more likely to make it to heaven, Watt explains.

Horrifying. The government of Denmark was on to these suicide-murders, but took some time and wrong turns to figure out how to stop them. Read about suicide-murders at Ozy.

1,000-year-old Viking sword discovered in Norwegian mountains

A reindeer hunter in the mountains of southern Norway stumbled upon a Viking sword that has survived exposure to the elements for more than 1,000 years.
Einar Åmbakk found the sword because half of its blade was sticking up between stones, according to the council of Oppland County, where the hunter made his discovery. “He had seen the blade and pulled it out,” Lars Pilø, an archaeologist for the Oppland County Council, said in a post on the county’s website for its Glacier Archaeology Program, called Secrets of the Ice. “Only then did he understand that he had found a sword.”

1,000-year-old Viking sword discovered in Norwegian mountains

Mummies and treasures 3,500 years old discovered in Egypt

Archeologists in Egypt have uncovered the ancient tomb of a royal goldsmith and jeweller containing mummies, believed to be his family members, and treasure more than three millennia old.

Mummies and treasures 3,500 years old discovered in Egypt

Cruel Moves Made by Local Governments Against the Poor

6 Cruel Moves Made by Local Governments Against the Poor

Nashville Woman Shot Homeless Man Who Asked Her to Move Her Porsche

Nashville Woman Shot Homeless Man Who Asked Her to Move Her Porsche — Then Left Him to Die

An aspiring country singer from Texas has been charged with the attempted murder of a homeless Tennessee man who asked her to move her Porsche. Police say 26-year-old Katie Quackenbush shot Gerald Melton, 54.
Melton asked Quackenbush to move the SUV because its exhaust fumes and loud music were impairing his ability to sleep. 

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She has a history  of violence ...

She was previously arrested on assault charges

Indiana cop suspended after punching handcuffed suspect in the crotch

A police officer in Evansville, Indiana, has been given a five-day suspension without pay after body camera footage showed him punching a handcuffed suspect in the crotch.

Indiana cop suspended after punching handcuffed suspect in the crotch

Family of Australian woman fatally shot wants Minnesota cop charged

The family of an Australian woman who was fatally shot wants the Minneapolis policeman involved charged, their attorney said on Tuesday, the same day investigators sent the evidence collected to the local prosecutor.
State investigators did not release their findings in the July 15 shooting of Sydney native Justine Damond, 40, who died from a single gunshot fired by Officer Mohamed Noor. The policeman was in a patrol car with Officer Matthew Harrity.
Damond had called police about a possible sexual assault near her house and had approached the police after their arrival, authorities previously said. Damond was living in Minneapolis and engaged to be married.
The shooting sparked outrage in Minnesota as well as in Australia, where Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called the incident “shocking” and “inexplicable.” Minneapolis’ police chief resigned after city officials said procedures had been violated during the incident and Damond “didn’t have to die.”

Family of Australian woman fatally shot wants Minnesota cop charged

Reddit ban on white nationalist, fat-shaming channels led to dramatic drop in hate speech

As one of the largest and best known web forums, Reddit has become a sanctuary for people with all sorts of unsavory views, including white nationalists and the so-called "alt-right." But the platform where a section of users have proliferated anti-Semitic memes and creepshots has taken action to clean up some of the hate speech by closing down several subreddits or, and it is working, according to a new study.

Reddit ban on white nationalist, fat-shaming channels led to dramatic drop in hate speech

InfoWars 'hero' who ‘turned his dog into a Nazi’ on trial for committing a hate crime

InfoWars 'hero' who ‘turned his dog into a Nazi’ on trial for committing a hate crime

A man who recorded and uploaded a “joke” video of his girlfriend’s dog ‘heiling’ Adolf Hitler is being tried for a hate crime.

'You want to eat some dog?'

A woman was caught on video going on a obscenity-fueled racist tirade at an Asian shopkeeper after accusing him of giving her fake money during a transaction.

'You want to eat some dog?': Woman launches bizarre racist tirade at Asian shopkeeper

Michigan business closed after owner slurs fellow Lions fans

Michigan business closed after owner slurs fellow Lions fans as ‘ignorant niggers’ for anthem protest

A Detroit business was inexplicably closed Monday after its owner used a racial slur against two fellow Lions fans who declined to stand for the national anthem.

N.J. trooper admits sharing 'intimate photos' of women he pulled over

A New Jersey state trooper admitted on Monday that he pulled over women on state highways to ask them out and tampered with police records to cover it up, authorities said.
Marquice Prather, 38, pleaded guilty to charges of invasion of privacy and evidence and records tampering in front of Judge Benjamin S. Bucca in Middlesex County.

N.J. trooper admits sharing 'intimate photos' of women he pulled over

‘Fight Club’ pastor arrested on forcible touching charges

‘Fight Club’ pastor arrested on forcible touching charges

The “Fight Club” pastor has been charged with forcibly touching two women in a sexual way.

Utah teacher suspended for sex quiz

A Utah high school teacher has been suspended by school administrators for asking students to take a graded quiz on sexual preferences and drug use.

Utah teacher suspended for sex quiz asking students 'Would you go kinky to see what it's like?'

Seattle Mayor resigns after fifth man pins sex abuse allegations on him

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray resigned Tuesday after his younger cousin publicly accused him of of sexual abuse—the fifth man to allege inappropriate sexual conduct

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray resigns after fifth man pins shocking sex abuse allegations on him

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1515		King Francis of France defeats the Swiss army under Cardinal Matthaus Schiner at Marignano, northern Italy.
1549		Pope Paul III closes the first session of the Council of Bologna.
1564		On the verge of attacking Pedro Menendez’s Spanish settlement at San Agostin, Florida, Jean Ribault’s French fleet is scattered by a devastating storm.
1759		British troops defeat the French on the plains of Abraham, in Quebec.
1774		Anne Robert Turgot, the new controller of finances, urges the king of France to restore the free circulation of grain in the kingdom.
1782		The British fortress at Gibraltar comes under attack by French and Spanish forces.
1788		The Constitutional Convention authorizes the first federal election resolving that electors in all the states will be appointed on January 7, 1789.
1789		Guardsmen in Orleans, France, open fire on rioters trying to loot bakeries, killing 90.
1846		General Winfield Scott takes Chapultepec, removing the last obstacle to U.S. troops moving on Mexico City.
1862		Union troops in Frederick, Maryland, discover General Robert E. Lee‘s attack plans for the invasion of Maryland wrapped around a pack of cigars. They give the plans to General George B. McClellan who sends the Army of the Potomac to confront Lee but only after a delay of more than half a day.
1863		The Loudoun County Rangers route a company of Confederate cavalry at Catoctin Mountain in Virginia.
1905		U.S. warships head to Nicaragua on behalf of American William Albers, who was accused of evading tobacco taxes.
1918		U.S. and French forces take St. Mihiel, France in America’s first action as a standing army.
1945		Iran demands the withdrawal of Allied forces.
1951		In Korea, U.S. Army troops begin their assault in Heartbreak Ridge. The month-long struggle will cost 3,700 casualties.
1961		An unmanned Mercury capsule is orbited and recovered by NASA in a test.
1976		The United States announces it will veto Vietnam’s UN bid.
1988		Hurricane Gilbert becomes the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere, based on barometric pressure. Hurricane Wilma will break that record in 2005.
1993		The Oslo Accords, granting limited Palestinian autonomy, are signed by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House.
2007		The UN adopts a non-binding Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
2008		Five synchronized bomb blasts occur in crowded locations of Delhi, India, killing at least 30 people and injuring more than 100; four other bombs are defused.
2008		Hurricane Ike makes landfall in Texas; it had already been the most costly storm in Cuba’s history and becomes the third costliest in the US.

The Selfie-Obsessed Countess of Vanity

In our modern world, smartphones allow anyone to be obsessed with their own photographs, and the internet allows those folks to broadcast their obsession to the world. But even in the days when photography was new, expensive, and relatively difficult, Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, harnessed her wealth to record herself in over 400 portraits. She wasn't a photographer, but an artist, with herself as the medium.

She wasn’t the most likeable character of her time. Once rumoured to be the most beautiful woman in 19th century Europe, a queen of both style and drama; model, mistress, self-appointed muse, narcissist; if there’s one thing to know about the Italian Countess de Castiglione– it’s that she was seriously vain. Shipped off to Paris in 1856 to compete for the affection of the reigning King Napoleon III, she wasted no time weaving herself into a highly scandalous affair with the crown, all the while cultivating her own celebrity through hundreds of elaborate, self-directed photo shoots. At a time when photography was still in its infancy, the Countess had a body of work that could be compared to Kim Kardashian’s selfie collection. It was her vanity and obsession with her own beauty that came to define her entire lifestyle, around which her status, identity, and ultimately her demise, revolved. A cautionary tale of a woman who thought her beauty would last forever…

The Countess was used and abused by the European nobility for their own ends in her younger life, which reads like gossip column fodder. But she is most remembered for her legendary vanity and her portrait obsession. Read about the Countess of Castiglione and see more images at Messy Messy Chic.

Killer Schedule

Modern lifestyles are at war with the way our bodies evolved to function.

It is 7 p.m. on a spring Friday, and the Highland Hospital emergency room in Oakland, one of the busiest trauma centers in northern California, is expecting. When the patient—a young bicyclist hit by a car—arrives, blood is streaming down his temples.

Your life schedule could be killing you

Failure to get up at least once every 30 minutes may shorten your life

You can spend a lot of accumulated time on your bottom in the course of a day. Or you can sit for lengthy spells without a break.
Both, it turns out, are very bad for you.
Whether you're a heavy sitter or a binge-sitter, racking up prolonged sedentary time increases your risk of early death, according to a study published in Tuesday's edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Failure to get up at least once every 30 minutes may shorten your life: study

Key US senators demand answers on Equifax hacking

Two key U.S. senators on Monday asked Equifax Inc to answer detailed questions on the breach of information about up to 143 million Americans’ personal information, including whether U.S. government agency records were compromised in the hack.

Key US senators demand answers on Equifax hacking

US Senate may vote this week to add penalties for sex traffic sites

The U.S. Senate may vote as soon as Tuesday on a bipartisan proposal that would make it easier to penalize operators of websites that facilitate online sex trafficking, according to four sources familiar with the matter.
Allowing a vote on the legislation would deal a major blow to the U.S. technology industry, which has vigorously opposed the measure, saying it would thwart digital innovation and lead to endless litigation.
The proposed law was prompted in part by frustrations over failed attempts to shut down the website backpage.com, which many law enforcement officials have accused of facilitating the exploitation of especially women and children to perform sexual services against their will. The company has long denied the allegations.

US Senate may vote this week to add penalties for sex traffic sites: sources

How Americans drink ...

Party on, old man!
Men over the age of 50 drink a lot more frequently than their Millennial or Gen X counterparts—and the same thing is true for women, a new Gallup poll shows.
About 45 percent of older men drink every day, compared to just 37 percent of 18- to 49-year-old men. Meanwhile, a comparatively less 30 percent of women over age 50 consumed alcohol in the 24 hours before the survey; 26 percent of younger women did so.
How Americans drink: Men hate wine and women rarely binge

A Florida Pizza Hut To Irma-Fleeing Employees: You Will Be Disciplined If You Leave

A Florida Pizza Hut To Irma-Fleeing Employees: You Will Be Disciplined If You Leave

Residents in Florida who work at a Pizza Hut were told by the manager that workers would be disciplined if they evacuated due to the deadly hurricane that...

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The ONLY one(s) that are going to be disciplined are those who would not allow the employees to evacuate

Hammering Pizza Hut

A  Pizza Hut in Jacksonville, Florida, is facing backlash on social media after a manager at the outlet posted a note Friday threatening to punish workers, who attempted to evacuate more than 24 hours ahead of Hurricane Irma. The post went viral since and has sparked outrage on Twitter with people criticizing the brand for risking its employees’ lives.

Twitter hammers Florida Pizza Hut for not allowing employees to evacuate from Hurricane Irma early

Bank has entire Arab-American family arrested after father tries to deposit large check from home sale

Bank has entire Arab-American family arrested after father tries to deposit large check from home sale

In Kansas, Sattar Ali, an Iraqi-American doctoral student was arrested along with his family after Ali attempted to deposit a large check from the sale of their old house.

Police Cases That Basically Solved Crimes Using Magic

We giggle a bit at the implausible ways detectives on TV solve crimes, like the impossible "enhance" technique that allows us to see hi-res images on low-res security video. But crimes have been solved by thinking outside the box, in ways that may surprise you. They should have called this list five police "techniques," as there are actually more than five cases here. Several of them were solved by the presence of glitter.

Glitter might look all the same to you while you're trying to get that shit off your sweater, but there's reportedly "tremendous variation" in the stuff. Bulk glitter conglomerates can boast of having tens of thousands of different types to decorate your belongings, nether regions, and disgruntled pets as you see fit. Knowing this, one can see how leaving even one fleck behind after committing a foul deed can lead investigators right back to the exact Frederick's of Hollywood where you bought your sparkly apple-flavored nipple balm.
The first recorded instance of glitter being used as trace evidence happened at the end of the Cold War in Germany, when the U.S. Army's crime lab used it to solve a sexual assault case during a local celebration. Specific glitter from the victims' Mardi-Gras-like costumes was found on the clothing of the suspects. Another time, a killer in Alaska was nabbed in part because his estranged wife had dropped glitter in his car at some point, and some of it stuck to his victim. More recently, this method was used to bust a deadly hit and run driver who denied being at the wheel, but had a hard time explaining how the exact same cosmetic glitter she wore on her face wound up plastered to the airbag.

Read about glitter, glass. mosquitoes, and other odd ways police have found a perpetrator at Cracked.

‘We are allowed to kick’

‘We are allowed to kick’: Ohio Police defend brutal beating of unarmed black man

Highest paid YouTube star shoots ‘fucking nigger’ in live video stream

Highest paid YouTube star shoots ‘fucking nigger’ in live video stream — and gamer dudes rush to his defense

Koch Brother Company Devastated Arkansas Community for Easy Profits

New Documentary Reveals Koch Brother Company Devastated Arkansas Community for Easy Profits

Destructive and Deluded Women Who Prop Up the Alt-Right

10 Destructive and Deluded Women Who Prop Up the Alt-Right