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British woman faces Dubai jail over Facebook 'horse' insult
Via: Hal A. Lujah • Op/Ed • 10 Comments • 1 Like • 7 years ago
““I hope you go under the ground you idiot. Damn you. You left me for this horse".”
A British woman is facing two years in jail in Dubai for calling her ex-husband's new wife a "horse" on Facebook, campaigners have said. Londoner Laleh Shahravesh, 55, was arrested at a Dubai airport after flying there to attend her former husband's funeral. She faces prosecution over two...
Art is in the eye of the beholder
By: Hal A. Lujah • 2026 ~ The CREATIVE ARTS GROUP ON THE NEWSTALKERS • 8 Comments • 2 Likes • 7 years ago
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. Frank Zappa”
I found this hiding behind a spare couch in a storage area of our basement yesterday. Here is the backstory: Twenty five or so years ago, I was at a store that had thousands of old, antique-ish posters for sale. After flipping through hundreds of them with nothing catching my eye, I came...
‘I cut people,’ a megachurch pastor threatened as she preached. Her target? The local newspaper.
Via: Hal A. Lujah • Religion & Ethics • 21 Comments • 2 Likes • 7 years ago
““I cut people. I got a knife right in that pocketbook,” Carpenter said, gesturing toward her seat. “Greenville News, come on. We done went through...”
Hope Carpenter was met with resounding applause before her monologue at Relentless Church in Greenville, S.C., on Sunday. The crowd was excited about their guest pastor — after all, she’d led the congregation with her husband for nearly three decades before they moved their show to a church in...
Catholic Priest Arrested for Allegedly Groping a Dying Woman
Via: Hal A. Lujah • Op/Ed • 8 Comments • 7 years ago
“He then tried to slip his hand inside her diaper but was unable to.”
A Catholic priest from Austin, Texas was arrested today for allegedly groping a woman who was on the verge of dying. Rev. Gerold Langsch was called to the bedside of a woman in hospice care last October, in order to administer last rites. According to the police report, he did far more than...
Trade Chief Dumbs Down Contract Term After Donald Trump Doesn't Get It
Via: Hal A. Lujah • News & Politics • 34 Comments • 2 Likes • 7 years ago
Robert Lighthizer said a document will be called a "trade agreement" because "memorandum of understanding" didn't track for Trump. America’s lead trade negotiator, Robert Lighthizer, had an awkward encounter with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Friday as he tried to calmly school...
Rick Wiles: Trump is Decriminalizing Homosexuality Because He’s “Owned” by Jews
Via: Hal A. Lujah • World News • 58 Comments • 1 Like • 7 years ago
Did you know that Donald Trump wants to decriminalize homosexuality because he’s apparently “owned by the Jews”? Me neither. But that’s the theory being spun by Christian TV host Rick Wiles on his “TruNews” show Tuesday night. Wiles was responding to the news that the Trump administration was...
Revolutionary new 'battery' could let us bottle sunshine
Via: Hal A. Lujah • Health, Science & Technology • 11 Comments • 1 Like • 7 years ago
““Thermal batteries today are where electrical batteries were a century ago””
A plastic-like material may do for solar power what high-performance electrical batteries have done for iPhones and Tesla cars. Solar energy is clean, abundant, and irritatingly inconvenient: It doesn’t work at night or on cloudy days. You can convert sunshine into electricity and store it in a...
Donald Trump Jr. Delivers Yet Another Spectacular Self-Own On Twitter
Via: Hal A. Lujah • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 7 years ago
“The dangers of meme-ing without understanding the basics of how the US government functions.”
Twitter users dunked on Donald Trump Jr. after he shared yet another inaccurate meme on Friday. President Donald Trump’s son likened his father’s declaration of a national emergency to pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border to former President Barack Obama’s 2010 enaction of the...
India man to sue parents for giving birth to him
Via: Hal A. Lujah • Mental Health and Wellness • 15 Comments • 7 years ago
“"Mum said she wished she had met me before I was born and that if she did, she definitely wouldn't have had me," he says laughing and adds that she...”
A 27-year-old Indian man plans to sue his parents for giving birth to him without his consent. Mumbai businessman Raphael Samuel told the BBC that it's wrong to bring children into the world because they then have to put up with lifelong suffering. Mr Samuel, of course, understands that our...