BEWARE...SOME DAYS ARE NOT VERY PRETTY. I GET CRABBY LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE DO. AND I DO SPEAK MY MIND.
DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE TO TRUE, REAL, EVERYDAY FEELINGS LIKE MINE.(But I think you would enjoy it)
DON'T FORGET...FREEDOM OF SPEECH !
update....9-29...(crissy I would NEVER wish any harm come to you or any of your family. You have been hospitalized with bad bleeding. Stop worrying about the stupid white house and worry about your health. See... THIS is what is important, let the white house take care of itself. You and john are paying too much attention to things that are so childish, please take care of the baby. You have been stressed out about president when you know that he isn't what is important right now. Take care of that baby and your family. We wish you well....stop worrying about things that You will never have control over. take care of your family not the white house.)
John Legend and Chrissy Teigen considered leaving the USA because of Donald Trump
Lottie Lumsden
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https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/john-legend-chrissy-teigen-considered-083000890.html
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What the hell has Trump done or could possibly do to effect Crissy and John? Not kidding.... how can Trump effect them? Did he take away their home? Did he stop them from spending time with their family? Did he take away any of their planes, boats, any toys like that? Did he stop them from vacations? Did he stop them from preforming? Did he stop them from posting on social media? Did he stop them from doing anything "important"? Or do you both just want to whine and complain as usual? All they do is complain and make money... A lot more people are laughing at them instead of feeling sorry for them. Trump is not my favorite person but when are these cry babies going to stop blaming everyone else for their own lives?
YOU ARE IN CHARGE OF YOUR OWN LIFE AND FEELINGS.
STOP blaming everyone and change your own life ...cry babies.
A
team of researchers at the University of Minnesota has found traces of
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in lake water.
The
virus was detected by a group led by Richard Melvin, an assistant
professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of
Minnesota Medical School, in mid-September. Melvin and his team have
been sampling water from various beaches on Lake Superior since July 4
on a weekly basis as a partnership with Minnesota Sea Grant, an
organization that works to enhance the state’s coastal environment. The
team hadn’t found the virus during weekly tests, but, on Sept. 11, that
changed.
The research team detected SARS-CoV-2 at 100 to 1,000
copies per liter, or 10,000 times lower than levels observed in
wastewater. “I was surprised and not surprised,” Dr. Richard Melvin,
assistant professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School,
Duluth campus, tells Yahoo Life. “We were testing a hypothesis that
beachgoers would bring this on their bodies into the water, but when you
see it on the machine, there’s this sinking feeling.”
Researchers
have been sampling water from various beaches on Lake Superior since
July 4 on a weekly basis and detected SARS-CoV-2 at 100 to 1,000 copies
per liter, or 10,000 times lower than levels observed in wastewater.
(Photo by Alex Kormann/Star Tribune via Getty Images)
The
source — or sources — of the virus are unknown at this point, Melvin
says, but the research team plans to continue to monitor the water, as
well as work with local health experts to try to pinpoint the source of
the virus in the water.
The news sounds scary, but public health experts say people shouldn’t panic.
Dr.
Richard Watkins, an infectious disease physician in Akron, Ohio, and a
professor of internal medicine at the Northeast Ohio Medical University,
tells Yahoo Life that, while research has shown
that SARS-CoV-2 can show up in wastewater, there’s no data to suggest
that the virus is actually transmitted through water. “However, there is
a lot we don’t know about the virus, so nothing can be definitively
ruled out at this point,” he says.
But finding the virus in water
“doesn’t mean that they’re infection particles,” Dr. Thomas Russo,
professor and chief of infectious disease at the University at Buffalo,
tells Yahoo Life. “It’s highly unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 can survive in a
body of water for very long,” he says.
Dr. Valerie Fitzhugh, an
associate professor and interim chair of the Department of Pathology at
the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson
Medical School, agrees. “Lake water should not be a risk,” she tells
Yahoo Life. “The bigger issue would be crowds at a beach near the lake
than the water itself.”
Even if the virus were infectious in
water, it’s likely to be diluted if it shows up in a larger body of
water, like a lake, Russo says. “It would probably be so diluted that it
wouldn’t be sufficient enough to cause an infection in an individual,”
he says.
But how did the virus get there in the first place? There
are a few different possibilities, Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar
at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, tells Yahoo Life.
“People
excrete the virus in their feces, and people deposit fecal matter in
lakes,” he says. The virus could be shed into water after someone didn’t
wipe well after using the bathroom, or it could actually end up in the
water from someone using the area as a toilet. “People go to the
bathroom in lakes,” Adalja points out.
There is also a risk of
sewage contamination seeping into lakes, Adalja says. And, since
SARS-CoV-2 has already been detected in sewage, it could end up in a
lake that way. “This is not surprising to me,” Adalja says. Worth
noting: Melvin says that the virus is “not likely” to come from local
wastewater treatment plants. “They do a perfectly effective job of
eliminating the virus,” he says. “However, it could be coming from sewer
lines or septic tanks.”
Because of all this, Adalja says, SARS-CoV-2 is likely to also be found in other bodies of water elsewhere.
But,
again, people shouldn’t panic. “I don’t think it’s a major mode of
transmission,” Adalja says. “SARS-CoV-2 was just found in water — it’s
not necessarily living in water. Any virus that gets excreted fecally
can be found in water.” Melvin agrees, noting that the virus “rapidly
degrades” in water. “In my research, I’ve never found a case of anyone
recording an infection due to water,” he says.
Ultimately, Melvin
says, his findings are more a signal of what’s happening around the
lake. “It’s just an indication that the infection level is high in the
city,” he says. “Anytime something like that happens on a high level, it
spills into the environment in some way.”
Everyone that "I" have talked to said that they afraid of people boycotting them so they are making sure they have a balance of ethnic workers. Hope they are the best person possible for the job.
(and there isn't one single adult to stop them. You are all weak a_s holes.
And the jerk throwing gas is a freaking ANIMAL ! And if the motorbike was not doing anything wrong, why the hell were they running? They were running for a reason so don't make the excuse that they were scared. Oh bull crap.)
Crowd shouted 'light them up' as eight police officers doused in petrol after motorbike chase
A crowd shouted “light them up” after eight police officers were doused in petrol following a motorbike chase.
The officers were covered in fuel as they made an arrest on the Ward Close estate in Basildon, Essex, last May.
They recalled the horrifying incident for BBC One documentary Critical Incident, which was broadcast on Monday evening.
Officers had been in pursuit of a motorbike which was being ridden dangerously in nearby Canvey Island.
The moment police officers were doused with petrol in Basildon, Essex, in May last year. (SWNS)After
following the rider for eight miles, accompanied by a police
helicopter, they attempted to make an arrest in Basildon which attracted
a large crowd.
One woman threatened officers with a hammer before a man threw petrol over them.
The officers said they heard people in the crowd shout, “Who’s got matches?” and “light them up”. Read more: Coronavirus deaths top 1 million - the 10 worst-hit countries
Two
of the officers were hospitalised after ingesting fuel in the incident
and firefighters had to wash petrol out of their eyes.
A total of 90 officers arrived at the scene to aid their colleagues.
PC
Andrew Bird said: “Out of the corner of my eye I saw a gentleman appear
from down one of the alleyways. He was just sprinting full speed
towards where we were.”
Police with tasers before being doused in petrol during the incident in Basildon, Essex. (SWNS)After intercepting the man, the pair fell to the floor.
"I
was pretty much at the bottom of the pile," said PC Bird. "You've got
officers trying to get him off of me, he had his arms wrapped round my
legs trying to keep hold of me.
"It was as I was trying to control
this gentleman who had run out of the middle of nowhere that this other
chap has appeared with a watering can.”
PC Matthew Cutts said he didn’t know what was in the watering can but suspected it could be acid.
"I
could smell petrol so I sort of fumbled around to get my baton out but
once I've got it I've put it behind my head and just struck him in line
with my training,” he said.
"It's not a random act of violence, it's a controlled measure that we are taught to use to get people away from us."
PC Cutts said he felt his skin stinging and tingling on the front of his body where he had been doused in petrol. Read more: New gadget lets scientists ‘plant ideas’ in people’s dreams
Chief
Inspector Jonathan Baldwin said: "One match, one lighter, one spark
could result in us going up in flames and being disfigured for life or
possibly even dead.
"I was hearing them shout 'light them up'.
"I don't know how we didn't just cut and run but then that's not the way we're wired - we all stuck together.
Justin Jackson, 28, from Basildon, was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison. (PA)"There's something running in the core of us that says you don't run away from the danger, you run towards it."
Residents helped rinse the petrol off the officers with water until the fire service arrived and hosed them down.
Justin Jackson, 28, from Ward Close, who threw the petrol over the officers, was jailed for three years and nine months.
A 17-year-old from Basildon was disqualified from driving for 12 months and fined for driving a motor vehicle dangerously.
Janine
Justin, 47, from Basildon, was found guilty of possession of an
offensive weapon and sentenced to nine months in prison, suspended for
18 months.
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that lady is a loudmouth and she makes the man look like an assistant. she is so loud and pushy and now the man is hardly ever heard. Yep time to change the channel, abc is only getting worse.
All of our tvs at work ( 8) have also been changed. We watch the news for the "news" not her personal "slang" opinion on every story. BYE BYE Abc !
biden has all african americans beleiving his bull.
Biden has never said one word in 'details" how he would help the black community. NOT ONE SINGLE DETAIL. Just the generic comment about "helping". Helping how Biden? just watch and see
She has already made a fool out of the the Queen and Charles....
now she wants to make a fool out of the people in the U.S because they would be foolish to vote for her.
First of all... the people that wrote this article seem to be obsessed with their movie stars and anyone popular ONLY ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
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Celebrity
Meghan Markle Reportedly "Would Seriously Consider Running For President” If She Gives Up Her Title
Mehera Bonner
Photo credit: Pool - Getty Image
Meghan Markle would reportedly "seriously consider" running for President in the United States.
The royal family typically stay politically neutral, but Duchess Meghan and Prince Harry stepped down as senior royals and are no longer living in England, so....
Looks
like Meghan Markle is considering getting involved in politics—and
might even consider a future presidential run. According to a "close
friend" of Meghan's who spoke to Vanity Fair's royal reporter Katie Nicholl,
“One of the reasons she was so keen not to give up her American
citizenship was so she had the option to go into politics. I think if
Meghan and Harry ever gave up their titles she would seriously consider
running for president.”
However, Meghan has no plans to pursue a
career in politics at the present moment, and a well-placed source who
works with Meghan told Nicholl that “While there’s no denying she is
interested and engaged in politics as a topic, she harbors no ambition
to enter a career in politics herself." Meghan recently spoke out about the importance of voting in ABC's TIME 100 special,
saying “Every four years, we’re told the same thing, ‘This is the most
important election of our lifetime.’ But this one is. When we vote, our
values are put into action, and our voices are heard.”
Royals
are expected to stay quiet about politics, but, ahem, Meghan and Harry
aren't in England anymore. Using their platform to encourage people to
vote only seems like it could be a positive thing, and I, for one, am
excited to see Meghan get more involved in politics—presidential run, or
not.
Just proves how you are NOT human. You are making total fools out of yourself.
TRY TO SHOW SOME CLASS
Trump pays respects to late Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg
APTOPIX Supreme Court Ginsburg
President
Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump pay respects as Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg lies in repose at the Supreme Court building on Thursday,
Sept. 24, 2020, in Washington. Ginsburg, 87, died of cancer on Sept.
18. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
KEVIN FREKING
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump paid respects to late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Thursday morning, just two days before he announces his nominee to replace her on the high court.
The
president and first lady Melania Trump — both wearing masks — stood
silently at the top of the steps of the court and looked down at
Ginsburg's flag-draped coffin, surrounded by white flowers. The death of
the liberal-leaning justice has sparked a controversy over the balance
of the court just weeks before the November presidential election.
Trump
has called Ginsburg an “amazing woman,” but some spectators were not
happy that he came. Moments after he arrived, booing could be heard from
spectators who then briefly chanted, “Vote him out.”
How dare you give a job to a person with a certain skin color instead of a person qualified. Stand up for yourself and explain to others that you only hire those that have applied and were the best candidate.
STOP letting others TELL you the people to hire for YOUR company !!!!
Armed and Black. How a group of men licensed to carry guns say they are seeking racial justice
Kurtis Lee
Romeal Taylor, a member of the Minnesota Freedom Fighters, at a meet-and-greet event in Minneapolis. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)Before
he drove to the grocery store parking lot, Romeal Taylor did the same
thing he's done every day this summer — he holstered his 9-millimeter
handgun to the waistband of his gym shorts until he could feel it hug
his right hip.
When he arrived at the store in north Minneapolis
he spotted six other Black men, some in tactical gear, armed with Glock
23s and Smith & Wesson M&Ps. One of them beamed when he spotted
Taylor and hugged him.
“Bro, good to see you,” Taylor said, muffled through a face mask.
They
had come together for a meet-and-greet to introduce themselves to the
community, marking one of the first public gatherings of the Minnesota
Freedom Fighters.
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The
ad hoc group of about two dozen men — including a retired firefighter, a
healthcare worker and a veteran — formed in the days after George
Floyd’s killing in response to the local NAACP chapter putting out a
call for residents in predominantly Black north Minneapolis to protect
small businesses from destruction as fires and unrest engulfed the city.
Members of the Minnesota Freedom Fighters pose for a photo with a boy at a community meet-and-greet. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)Heeding
the call, the men — who would meet at a local cafe — stood watch
outside small businesses for several nights in late May and early June.
More recently, they have patrolled neighborhoods, offering security to
protesters, and have been in regular communication with city officials
about protests they plan to attend.
"It's important to have men
from the community step up for the community," said Sasha Cotton,
director of the city's Office of Violence Prevention. "It's their right
to be out on the streets and it's commendable. There are Black residents
who in the early days of the unrest felt vulnerable ... and still do."
Cotton
said the Freedom Fighters have also met with Minneapolis Police Chief
Medaria Arradondo, who is Black, and they're in touch with precinct
commanders.
A spokesman for the Minneapolis Police Department
declined repeated requests for comment. At a summer Freedom Fighters
event, a patrol officer stopped and posed for selfies with members of
the group during a 30-minute visit.
Leslie Redmond, president of
the Minneapolis National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People,
said she is happy the men are armed and wants them to grow as community
leaders.
"These brothers were there in the beginning, when threats
were being made by white supremacists," she said. "There is no doubt
they stepped up for the community."
Taylor and other members view
the group as a way to provide safety for peaceful protesters. But they
also understand that Black men armed with legally registered guns are
viewed differently by many in law enforcement and other parts of society
than, say, white militia members who stormed state capitols waving
their firearms without repercussions in recent months.
Nonetheless, he said, “We are like any other American.... We have the right to bear arms.”
Romeal Taylor, a member of the Minnesota Freedom Fighters, carries a legally registered handgun. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)Months
after Floyd was killed in Minneapolis police custody, as national
unrest over police brutality toward Black people has mixed with partisan
politics, deadly incidents have occurred in Kenosha, Wis., and
Portland, Ore., involving armed, self-styled civilian security
operatives.
In Kenosha, Kyle Rittenhouse, a white Illinois
teenager who traveled across state lines with a military-style rifle, is
accused of killing two white men who were protesting
the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man who was struck multiple
times in the back during an arrest. Rittenhouse was not apprehended by
police at the scene but was arrested later on homicide charges; his
attorneys argue the 17-year-old was acting in self-defense.
Near Portland, meanwhile, Michael Reinoehl, 48, a white man who had provided armed security to protesters, was killed by federal agents in
a hail of gunfire as they sought to arrest him in the shooting death of
a member of a far-right group. Before his death, which government
agents claim occurred when he pulled out a weapon as they confronted
him, Reinoehl had told a reporter that he had acted to protect the life
of a companion when the man he shot attempted to attack them.
Members
of the Freedom Fighters say their objective is to avoid confrontations
by working hand in hand with authorities and making clear that they are
prepared to defend their community. They also say they aim to
de-escalate situations so that police do not get involved, because
calling the police has sometimes led to encounters in which unarmed
Black men have been killed.
Because of its cooperation with city
officials, the group is not fearful the police will attack them. In
their view, they are an added layer of security in the community.
The
Freedom Fighters' mission statement reads: “Our objective is not to be
the police, but the bridge to link the police and the community
together.”
"We are like any other American," Romeal Taylor of the Minnesota Freedom Fighters said. "We have the right to bear arms." (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)In
addition to marching in the streets of their hometown, some have
traveled to Louisville, Ky., in support of protesters demanding justice
for Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old Black woman who was shot to death inside her apartment in March by police carrying out a no-knock warrant.
Amid
calls for justice and an end to systemic racism, dozens of armed Black
groups have sprung up across the nation. Such groups have marched
through city streets in Atlanta and Detroit and have gathered at Stone
Mountain in Georgia.
After Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man, was shot to
death after being confronted by white men while out for a jog in a
Georgia neighborhood in February, members of a Black militia group
called NFAC — the full name of the coalition uses an expletive to
explain that they’re not messing around — showed up with long guns and
tactical vests in Brunswick, Ga. Weeks later, some 1,500 members went toStone
Mountain, calling for the removal of Confederate monuments there and
elsewhere. The group, along with other protesters, engaged in a peaceful
march.
Members of the Minnesota Freedom Fighters gather for a community event. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)Recently, similar groups have patrolled gatherings in Kenosha, where protesters demand justice for Blake.
While
armed Black groups hark back to the 1960s Black Panther movement and
its armed citizen patrols, the modern iterations by and large do not
share the same policing-the-police viewpoint.
The fate of the
Black Panthers serves as a case study for the long-standing risks felt
by Black men who legally carry firearms. Local and federal law
enforcement agencies, including the FBI, ceaselessly surveilled the
group and wound up shooting to death some of its leaders, including Fred
Hampton in Chicago.
Outrage by white society to the Panthers
carrying weapons, which they had lawfully purchased to conduct armed
patrols of predominantly Black Oakland neighborhoods, was such that
then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan signed a gun control measure known as
the Mulford Act that prohibited Californians from carrying loaded
firearms to protests.
At this point, 36% of white people
nationwide own a gun, according to the Pew Research Center, compared
with 24% of Black people.
Fears concerning Black gun ownership are nonetheless a raw reality for many people in Minneapolis.
In
a nearby suburb in 2016, Philando Castile, who had a licensed firearm,
was killed by police during a traffic stop after he let an officer know
that he had a legal weapon. :::
For Romeal Taylor,
28, who works as an overnight security guard at a local hotel, owning a
gun has always been about personal protection. For the last six years,
he’s carried a firearm with him anytime he goes out in public. He
understands he can be viewed as a threat, but he's also a trained and
proud gun owner.
"There is a lot going on out here in the world,”
he said. “I would rather have a gun and not need it than need it and not
have it.”
The
Rev. Tim Christopher is one of the armed members of the security team
at his Minneapolis church. He supports the mission of the Freedom
Fighters. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)Days
after Floyd was killed, Taylor said, he heard from neighbors in north
Minneapolis about a call to action for licensed gun owners to protect
local businesses from vandalism and destruction. The call resonated with
him, he said, because he had been frustrated to see people he didn’t
recognize from his neighborhood destroying buildings.
“These weren’t Black folks,” he said. “These were outsiders truly intent on destroying this city.”
The group’s headquarters was Sammy’s Avenue Eatery along a bustling thoroughfare.
It’s
where Taylor met Randy Chrisman and other local Black gun owners like
himself. Chrisman, who lives in the suburbs, read the NAACP call to
action on Facebook and showed up at the cafe.
Romeal
Taylor holds a photo of fellow Minnesota Freedom Fighters outside Cup
Foods, where George Floyd was pinned to the ground by a Minneapolis
police officer and died. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)“It’s
been a brotherhood ever since,” said Chrisman, who has had his
concealed carry permit for nearly a decade and typically carries his
handgun with him.
“You just never know when something is going to
happen,” he said. “As a Black man, I have the same rights as others to
also carry a firearm and I do it.”
In the evenings after Floyd’s
death, Chrisman would leave his job at a restaurant in the suburbs and
drive into the city. He can still hear the sound of the National Guard
Humvees barreling past him and the hum of helicopters overhead as he
holstered his Glock. He had to work to steel his nerves during their
long nights of patrolling.
The Rev. Tim Christopher holds his pistol, which he always carries, at an event held by the Minnesota Freedom Fighters. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)“You
have to be prepared to take action if needed,” Chrisman said. “It’s
something I’m ready to do. I don’t want to, of course, but I’m ready if
needed.”
During the patrols and at backyard barbecues and other
events they’ve held together, the men have formed a kinship, giving one
another nicknames, such as “Sarge” and “Roach.” They feel lucky to have
found one another — a group of like-minded thinkers who value their
right to bear arms and support racial equity, but who don’t view the
police as the enemy.
“This is about filling the gap we see between
police and community.... It’s really about harm reduction,” said Robert
Sayers, a fire inspector for the city of Minneapolis and member of the
Freedom Fighters.
Sayers got involved after witnessing outside
groups — white supremacists, he says — burning properties around the
area where Floyd was killed. He wanted to help protect Black-owned
businesses.
“We could not and still cannot allow destruction in the city,” the 52-year-old said.
Others in the community see the Freedom Fighters as allies.
The
Rev. Tim Christopher, whose church is in north Minneapolis, has a
concealed carry permit and packs during church service on Sundays.
Christopher, who has testified at the state Capitol in St. Paul in
recent years in support of the 2nd Amendment, says he felt comforted the
first time he saw members of the Freedom Fighters in his neighborhood.
Members of the Minnesota Freedom Fighters connect with kids who came to their meet-and-greet. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)“It’s
been a breath of fresh air,” he said. “Seeing an armed Black man —
knowing he is here to take care of the community, nurture the community —
is a blessing.”
But Christopher also knows the risks of carrying as a Black man.
When
he drives while carrying his handgun, he thinks about Castile and
others like him. If he gets stopped by police, he said, he doesn’t tell
them he has a firearm until they ask.
“At that point, my hands are
on the steering wheel and I say, ‘Yes, officer, I have a firearm and
it’s legal,'” he said. “They always back up and place a hand on their
gun.… There is a stigma, and they're scared of Black men with guns.”
On
a recent afternoon, Christopher stood with the Freedom Fighters in a
grocery store parking lot. Some of the guys grilled hot dogs and burgers
as R&B played in the background. Kids screamed as they played tag
near an inflatable playhouse that was flapping in the afternoon breeze.
“We want to show all the good we can do for and in the community,” Taylor said.
Later,
one of the Freedom Fighters handed printouts of group photos the men
took in the days after Floyd’s death. They showed the group armed —
AR-15s, Glocks, tactical vests, bandannas — near the intersection where
Floyd was killed.
A little boy gripped one of the printouts and looked up at Taylor with a pen.
“Oh, he wants your autograph,” said the boy’s mother.
As Taylor leaned over and swiftly signed the back of the photo, he turned to the young child’s mother.
“Be sure to let us know if you all ever needed anything, for real,” he told her.
She nodded and clinched her fist in a salute.
