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Botany's JournalGermans kept up at night by noisy igelsex (that's hedgehog coupling)
Police called out to reports of nocturnal disturbances find hedgehogs ‘having fun’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/05/germans-kept-up-at-night-by-noisy-igelsex-thats-hedgehog-coupling
German emergency services called out to attend to nighttime disturbances are increasingly finding themselves confronted with copulating hedgehogs.
People are calling 110 (the German emergency number) to complain about noises they typically put down to neighbours having unacceptably loud sex or to injured animals crying out for help. The spread of the hashtag #igelsex (hedgehog sex) on social media reveals the disturbances sometimes have a less predictable source.
Recently police in Augsburg were called to a primary school one night after suspicious noises were heard in the playground and a security light was activated. Only after the caretaker had been dragged out of bed and several police officers had inspected the site were the culprits found to be a pair of hedgehogs busily mating.
“The suspicious noises were soon pinned on a hedgehog couple in the midst of a mating ritual,” a superintendent wrote in his report, entitled “Prickly intruders”, adding that the hedgehogs were not disturbed.
The incident was not an isolated one. Police are frequently called out in the summer months to similar complaints, according to the news magazine Der Spiegel. It reports that hedgehogs are among the loudest nocturnal animals, competing with cicadas, frogs and the caridean snapping shrimp.
2 things
1) Jeffery Epstein's business was sex trafficking
2) Epstein introduce Melanie to Donald
Something that bugs me about Epstein's suicide by hanging story.
What structure was in Epstein's cell that allowed Epstein to attach whatever he used to
hang himself to? Was there a pipe across the ceiling? Could he have attached something
to the bars across the front of the cell?
Didn't Barr have Epstein placed in a federal lock up in Manhattan and not Riker's Island?
Or am I remembering it wrong?
Morning Joy: Epstein was in a DoJ prison that is ultimately under the control of Bill Barr
And he had already tried to commit suicide so he should have been under a suicide watch too.
Beto O'Rourke Is Doing What Donald Trump Is Simply Incapable Of
The Texan is demonstrating real leadership in the wake of a horrific mass shooting by unequivocally condemning racism.
And Americans are responding.
By John Nichols
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After a horrific mass shooting that left 22 men, women, and children dead in El Paso, killed by a white man who targeted Latinos and whose “manifesto” echoed Trump’s anti-immigrant hate speech, O’Rourke responded not as a 2020 presidential contender (or as the Senate candidate some would like him to be) but as a passionate son of his hometown.
The former El Paso City Council member and congressman held nothing back. He condemned Trump as “a racist” who “stokes racism in this country.” He challenged those who might coddle Trump or make excuses for a president who takes no responsibility for vile words and deeds. O’Rourke refused to go along anymore with the standard candidate-reporter exchanges regarding the man he proposes to challenge. “What do you think? You know the shit he’s been saying. He’s been calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals,” O’Rourke said of Trump. “I don’t know, like, members of the press, what the fuck? Hold on a second. You know, I—it’s these questions that you know the answers to.”
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Then, as the president prepared to make a trip to El Paso that local officials have criticized, Trump unleashed on O’Rourke—with a venomous Tuesday-night tweet that screamed: “Beto (phony name to indicate Hispanic heritage) O’Rourke, who is embarrassed by my last visit to the Great State of Texas, where I trounced him, and is now even more embarrassed by polling at 1% in the Democrat Primary, should respect the victims & law enforcement—& be quiet!”
O’Rourke responded immediately, and devastatingly, with a tweet that simply said: “22 people in my hometown are dead after an act of terror inspired by your racism. El Paso will not be quiet and neither will I.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/beto-orourke-trump-shooting/
Beto O'Rourke Is Doing What Donald Trump Is Simply Incapable Of
The Texan is demonstrating real leadership in the wake of a horrific mass shooting by unequivocally condemning racism.
And Americans are responding.
By John Nichols
snip
After a horrific mass shooting that left 22 men, women, and children dead in El Paso, killed by a white man who targeted Latinos and whose “manifesto” echoed Trump’s anti-immigrant hate speech, O’Rourke responded not as a 2020 presidential contender (or as the Senate candidate some would like him to be) but as a passionate son of his hometown.
The former El Paso City Council member and congressman held nothing back. He condemned Trump as “a racist” who “stokes racism in this country.” He challenged those who might coddle Trump or make excuses for a president who takes no responsibility for vile words and deeds. O’Rourke refused to go along anymore with the standard candidate-reporter exchanges regarding the man he proposes to challenge. “What do you think? You know the shit he’s been saying. He’s been calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals,” O’Rourke said of Trump. “I don’t know, like, members of the press, what the fuck? Hold on a second. You know, I—it’s these questions that you know the answers to.”
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Then, as the president prepared to make a trip to El Paso that local officials have criticized, Trump unleashed on O’Rourke—with a venomous Tuesday-night tweet that screamed: “Beto (phony name to indicate Hispanic heritage) O’Rourke, who is embarrassed by my last visit to the Great State of Texas, where I trounced him, and is now even more embarrassed by polling at 1% in the Democrat Primary, should respect the victims & law enforcement—& be quiet!”
O’Rourke responded immediately, and devastatingly, with a tweet that simply said: “22 people in my hometown are dead after an act of terror inspired by your racism. El Paso will not be quiet and neither will I.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/beto-orourke-trump-shooting/
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BTW does anybody have a link to the twitter video of Beto consoling the Wal Mart employee and giving him
his personal cell # so he could get him some help?
Farmers suffer 'body blow'/China halts purchase of U.S. Farm Products
U.S. farmers suffer 'body blow' as China slams door on farm purchases
China may also impose additional tariffs on U.S. farm products, the Ministry said, raising the barrier to future trade that further targets rural states that supported U.S. President Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
Trump said on Thursday that Beijing had not fulfilled a promise to buy large volumes of U.S. farm products and vowed to impose new tariffs on around $300 billion of Chinese goods, abruptly dimming prospects of a trade deal.
China on Monday also let the yuan weaken past the key 7-per-dollar level for the first time in more than a decade. The United States responded by designating China a currency manipulator.
American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall called the announcement from China “a body blow to thousands of farmers and ranchers who are already struggling to get by.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-agriculture/u-s-farmers-suffer-body-blow-as-china-slams-door-on-farm-purchases-idUSKCN1UV0XJ
Lawn darts vs AR 15
These were banned after 1 death
these were not banned after >5,000 deaths
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine calls for changes in the wake of deadly Dayton shooting.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine calls for changes in the wake of deadly Dayton shooting.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/ohio-governor-mike-dewine-calls-wake-deadly-dayton/story?id=64785615
The Republican governor, who was sworn into office earlier this year, announced Tuesday morning that he would be taking a number of actions in the wake of the mass shooting early Sunday in Dayton, where nine people were killed and dozens of others were injured.
DeWine made his first comments about the shooting in Dayton on Sunday just hours after the attack, but he was shouted down by attendees who called on him to "do something!"
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He said that he will ask the state legislature to pass a law allowing safety protection orders, which would allow family members or loved ones to prompt the issuance of orders that would take guns away from those who pose a danger and have access to guns.
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The second action that DeWine highlighted was to allow more access to state psychiatric hospitals within the state.
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But Mike's history shows he is a real "gun humper." People in Ohio can cancel carry w/out a permit
and one of the center points of his campaign was blocking background checks.
Ohio is closer than ever to allowing concealed weapons without a permit, supporters say
Updated Mar 29, 2019; Posted Mar 29, 2019
https://www.cleveland.com/open/2019/03/ohio-is-closer-than-ever-to-allowing-concealed-weapons-without-a-permit-supporters-say.html
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DeWine-Husted Campaign issues strong statement in response to calls for gun control
by Chad D. Baus
11:00AM FRIDAY, MARCH 02, 2018
On the same day Governor John Kasich (R) was announcing his support for new gun control, the DeWine-Husted for Ohio campaign released a statement opposing ANY reduction of the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens, and opposing ANY bans.
https://www.buckeyefirearms.org/dewine-husted-campaign-issues-strong-statement-response-calls-gun-control
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