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March 17, 2019

Dean Cain Knocked Around on Twitter for Saying He'd Knock a Teen Protester 'Unconscious'

Superman actor Dean Cain appears to be Pro-Fascist:

The teen protester smacked an egg against the head of an Australian Senator criticized after he blamed Muslims for the New Zealand mass shootings that have left 50 dead.

Dean Cain may have achieved fame by beating up bad guys as Superman on television, but he achieved a different sort of fame on Sunday for saying he'd beat up on a teenage protester.

The former star of "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" inserted himself into a story coming out of New Zealand in the wake of the tragic shootings there late last week. His comments came in response to a tweet from Aussie journalist Deborah Knight, lamenting a politician attacking the teen after he was egged.

Cain's response to the story was twofold. First, he tweeted, "I would have knocked that kid cold." In another response, Cain added, "He would have been unconscious if it were up to me."

https://twitter.com/RealDeanCain/status/1107151311189884928

http://toofab.com/2019/03/17/dean-cain-knock-kid-cold-teen-protester-new-zealand-shooting-egg-eggboy-superman/

March 6, 2019

Billionaire diamond trader, 65, dies during penis enlargement surgery at private Paris clinic

A billionaire diamond trader has died after 'suffering a heart attack' during a penis enlargement operation in Paris.

Ehud Arye Laniado, 65, was at an unidentified private clinic on the Avenue des Champs-Elysees in the French capital on Saturday when complications during surgery proved fatal.

The experienced diamond expert's heart attack happened when a substance was injected into his penis, Belgian media reported.



Mr Laniado's company Omega Diamonds, which is based in the Belgian city of Antwerp, confirmed his passing.

A statement from the firm said: 'Farewell to a visionary businessman. It is with great sadness that we confirm that our founder Ehud Arye Laniado has passed away.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6777961/Billionaire-diamond-trader-65-dies-penis-enlargement-surgery.html

January 31, 2019

Post links to the original articles please.

Rather than a site that discusses the article.

Like this:

Social media post shows Detroit officer making racist comments about African-American pulled over

DETROIT (WXYZ) — We're exposing a social media post that has sparked an internal investigation into a Detroit police officer. Comments made in that post are being called racist by a woman pulled over and told to leave her car and walk home in below freezing weather.

Detroit police are calling the behavior of one of their own completely inappropriate and problematic. They're now launching an internal affairs investigation over what took place during a traffic stop.

Take a close look at this video temporarily posted to social media site Snapchat following a Detroit police traffic stop near Joy Road and Stout Tuesday night.

Listen closely as the officer makes a few condescending remarks toward an African-American girl he has instructed to walk home in the cold. We've confirmed she was pulled over for having expired license tabs.

Notice in the upper left corner of the screen the officer shared his Snapchat name. Detroit police confirm his real name is Gary Steele. The man seen in this public LinkedIn page.

We showed this video to Ariel Moore, the young woman who was videotaped on a cell phone, and her mother, Monique Mobley. They're now sharing their outrage over his words and captions that read "What black girl magic looks like," and "celebrating Black History Month."

https://www.wxyz.com/news/social-media-post-shows-detroit-officer-making-racist-comments-about-african-american-pulled-over


Whiny MAGA Snowflake writes:

Why I proudly wear my Make America Great Again hat | Opinion


https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2019/01/30/why-proudly-where-my-make-america-great-again-hat/2716182002/


Like that...

Quit being lazy.



January 30, 2019

Jill Stein to go on Fox News to discuss Howard Schultz and how mean "Establishment" Dems are to ...

third party candidates...

Translation: I’ll be on the Republican propaganda channel tonight to talk about third party spoilers because of course I will.

January 28, 2019

This is why Trump really wants a wall: Millions of Americans Flood Into Mexico for Health Care

Millions of Americans Flood Into Mexico for Health Care — the Human Caravan You Haven’t Heard About

At just one checkpoint in Yuma, Arizona, up to 6,000 Americans cross the border every day and enter the bustling Mexican town of Los Algodones, seeking heath care.

Unlike the Trump administration that seeks to build a wall between the countries, Los Algodones welcomes Americans seeking dental care with open arms.

Los Algodones has to be seen to believed. There are more dentists per capita than anywhere else in the world. It seems like every square foot of public space wall is covered with advertisements promising quality and affordable dental care, vision care and prescription drugs. The community’s economy is built to serve the flood of “dental refugees” — mostly senior citizens from the US and Canada seeking major dental care they cannot afford in their own countries, even with insurance.

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But the problem is much larger than people lacking dental insurance. Dental insurance is not really insurance. It’s nothing like health or auto insurance, for example.

Most dental plans don’t cover much at all beyond regular check-ups, cleaning, X-rays and fillings. Beyond that, patients are expected to fork over much of the cost of large but common procedures like crowns, root canals and implants. Dental plans also generally pay a maximum of $1,500 annually, a number that’s hardly changed in 50 years. And $1,500 doesn’t go far when you consider the cost of major dental work. The cost of a single crown can be as much as $2,000 and the cost of an implant can run $5,000 a tooth. It’s not uncommon for seniors to need a set of four implants and several crowns, so you can see the costs can quickly get prohibitive.

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Which brings us back to the small town of Los Algodones, or as the locals and visiting patients have affectionately come to call it, “Molar City.” Just seven miles across the border from Yuma, Arizona, visitors looking for dental care are bombarded with a vast array of dental ads, billboards and street vendors offering deals. According to Mayor Christian Camacho, up to 6,000 dental refugees make their way to Los Algodones every day in the temperate season between Thanksgiving and March.

The costs savings are hard to debate. Dental work in Mexico is on average two-thirds less than in the US and customers may save 80 percent or more on some costly operations. Those savings derive partially from Mexico’s less expensive real estate and labor costs, but also, Mexico’s dentists don’t graduate with a ton of student debt.

more: https://truthout.org/articles/millions-of-americans-flood-into-mexico-for-health-care/
January 25, 2019

Twitter CEO says Mark Zuckerberg once served him a goat he killed with a stun gun

Uhhh, what a sick fuck:



Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says that Mark Zuckerberg once served him goat the Facebook exec said he had killed with a stun gun.

Dorsey was asked during an interview with Rolling Stone published Wednesday about his most memorable encounter with his fellow tech giant CEO.

"Well, there was a year when he was only eating what he was killing," Dorsey said. "He made goat for me for dinner. He killed the goat."

When asked how, exactly, Zuckerberg had killed the goat before preparing it, Dorsey mentioned a "a laser gun" before clarifying what he meant.

"I don’t know. A stun gun. They stun it, and then he knifed it," he said.

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/426690-twitter-ceo-says-mark-zuckerberg-once-served-him-a-goat-he

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