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One of the girls had previously reported the suspect as a stalker threat. The suspect had family members in law enforcement




 
Fire Marshal Billy Judson said a propane gas leak caused the explosion. Sky 5 captured several first responders gathered around the Stuffyman's Vegan Stuff truck.

Damage from an explosion inside a food truck at a festival in Chatham County. Chatham County photo.
The workers were taken to the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center in Chapel Hill. Their conditions are unknown.

An ambulance and medical flight were seen leaving the festival. Several Pittsboro fire trucks were also there.
 
The wonderful and oft-described as irascible (he wasn’t) geology professor at Duke, Orrin Pilkey, described the effort to save the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse as stupid and futile.

He suggested moving it to Greenville and converting it into a bell tower.

The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse will have to be moved again…..and again…..and again…..
After the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse was moved, the Charlotte PBS station did a great show about it. One of the really good segments was an interview with the contractor in charge of move. He almost embarassedly explained that moving the lighthouse really wasn't that big of a deal. The two reasons he gave were: 1. The weight distribution of the lighthouse was similar to an upside down ice cream cone. 2. While the lighthouse was on the rail system during the move, it had a stronger and firmer foundation than either before or after the move.
 


Imagine having a Pride flag on your desk, looking up and seeing this in your office doorway

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Key detail:

“… The agent received a letter that claimed he had displayed an improper “political” message while on assignment in California in 2024, prior to President Donald Trump’s second term.

The notice, signed by Patel, read, “After reviewing the facts and circumstances and considering your probationary status, I have determined that you exercised poor judgment with an inappropriate display of political signage in your work area during your previous assignment in the Los Angeles Field Office.”…”

 
It’s October 2nd, 2025.

When America’s suburbanites and “Independents” and “moderates” vote against the GOP, the GQP, the MAGAts, and the Trumplicans in OVERWHELMING numbers……1974 blue wave numbers…….and do so over the course of 15-20-30 years, I’ll believe the MAGAts and Trumplicans AND the Reaganauts are beaten back.

Key detail:

“… The agent received a letter that claimed he had displayed an improper “political” message while on assignment in California in 2024, prior to President Donald Trump’s second term.

The notice, signed by Patel, read, “After reviewing the facts and circumstances and considering your probationary status, I have determined that you exercised poor judgment with an inappropriate display of political signage in your work area during your previous assignment in the Los Angeles Field Office.”…”

Why Partisan? No more Log Cabin Republicans?
 
Why Partisan? No more Log Cabin Republicans?

Ernst Rohm was a long-time dedicated and truly loyal Nazi and Hitler's right hand man, till he wasn't... and Adolph had that whole Night of the Long Knives thing. They even made him a scape goat at the very end, blaming his homosexuality on why Germany lost the war saying Rohm's ideas would have revolutionized the army but since he was gay they never happened. This was of course easier than saying "Well he never put his ideas into practice because we murdered him 10 years ago..."
 

Victim died after being shot by armed police in response to synagogue attack​

One of the victims in yesterday’s attack outside a synagogue in north Manchester died after being shot accidentally by an armed officer, police have confirmed.

Chief constable Stephen Watson, of Greater Manchester Police (GMP), said that the attacker Jihad al-Shamie was not in possession of a firearm and that the death was the result of “a tragic and unforeseen consequence of the urgently required action taken by my officers to bring this vicious attack to an end”.

A second member of the public sustained non-life threatening gunshot injuries, he added.

In a statement, he said:

The Home Office pathologist has advised that he has provisionally determined, that one of the deceased victims would appear to have suffered a wound consistent with a gunshot injury.

It is currently believed that the suspect, Jihad al-Shamie, was not in possession of a firearm and the only shots fired were from GMP’s Authorised Firearms Officers as they worked to prevent the offender from entering the synagogue and causing further harm to our Jewish community.

It follows therefore, that subject to further forensic examination, this injury may sadly have been sustained as a tragic and unforeseen consequence of the urgently required action taken by my officers to bring this vicious attack to an end.

We have also been advised by medical professionals that one of the three victims currently receiving treatment in hospital, has also suffered a gunshot wound, which is mercifully not life threatening.
 

When Jarred Shaw, an American basketball player in Indonesia, stepped down to the lobby in his apartment complex earlier this year to collect a package containing illegally imported cannabis gummies, he thought that the medicine to ease his Crohn’s disease had arrived.

It had – but so too had 10 undercover police officers. A video on social media shows Shaw, wearing a black T-shirt and shorts, shouting for help as the swarm of officers move to apprehend him.


The 35-year-old from Dallas, Texas, is facing the possibility of the death penalty or a long spell behind bars. He was a key member of Prawira Bandung, who won the Indonesian Basketball League (IBL) in 2023, and he has scored more than 1,000 points over three seasons in the country. But now he is languishing in pre-trial detention and is banned for life from the IBL for life.


“I use cannabis as a medicine,” he told the Guardian over the phone from a prison just outside Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, in his first comments to the press since his May arrest. “I have an inflammatory condition called Crohn’s disease that’s incurable. There’s no medicine apart from cannabis that stops my stomach from aching.”

During the off-season Shaw lives in Thailand, where cannabis is subject to more liberal laws. He says he had endured the pain of going without cannabis in previous campaigns in Indonesia but says that health reasons spurred him to import the intercepted supply of 132 gummies this year. “I made a stupid mistake,” he says.

But that mistake should not warrant the death penalty or a long spell in prison, he says. “There’s people telling me I’m about to spend the rest of my life in prison over some edibles,” he says. “I’ve never been through anything like this.” In the first two months after his arrest, he was at “the lowest point in [my] life” and in a “really dark mental place”.
 

When Jarred Shaw, an American basketball player in Indonesia, stepped down to the lobby in his apartment complex earlier this year to collect a package containing illegally imported cannabis gummies, he thought that the medicine to ease his Crohn’s disease had arrived.

It had – but so too had 10 undercover police officers. A video on social media shows Shaw, wearing a black T-shirt and shorts, shouting for help as the swarm of officers move to apprehend him.


The 35-year-old from Dallas, Texas, is facing the possibility of the death penalty or a long spell behind bars. He was a key member of Prawira Bandung, who won the Indonesian Basketball League (IBL) in 2023, and he has scored more than 1,000 points over three seasons in the country. But now he is languishing in pre-trial detention and is banned for life from the IBL for life.


“I use cannabis as a medicine,” he told the Guardian over the phone from a prison just outside Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, in his first comments to the press since his May arrest. “I have an inflammatory condition called Crohn’s disease that’s incurable. There’s no medicine apart from cannabis that stops my stomach from aching.”

During the off-season Shaw lives in Thailand, where cannabis is subject to more liberal laws. He says he had endured the pain of going without cannabis in previous campaigns in Indonesia but says that health reasons spurred him to import the intercepted supply of 132 gummies this year. “I made a stupid mistake,” he says.

But that mistake should not warrant the death penalty or a long spell in prison, he says. “There’s people telling me I’m about to spend the rest of my life in prison over some edibles,” he says. “I’ve never been through anything like this.” In the first two months after his arrest, he was at “the lowest point in [my] life” and in a “really dark mental place”.
That is sad. And I wish the best for Jarrad Shaw. But that was a self-own. The last time I was even remotely in that part of the world was in 1971. Even then I knew that, "I wasn't in Kansas anymore." People who think they can sneak stuff like that into places like Russia and Thailand because it's "just edibles" or it's "just medicine" are "just stupid." I hope I never become so entitled that I think I can pick and choose which rules apply to me.
 
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