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Demovictory9's JournalConor McGregor punches elderly man in the head
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The video above shows McGregor pouring three shots of the whiskey at the Marble Arch pub in Dublin on April 6 this year.
He clinks glasses with one man but another declines the offer before McGregor appears to punch the man with his left hand, Mirror.co.uk reports.
The Irishman is then dragged away as the victim staggers on his stool, much to the shock of the staff behind the bar.
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https://twitter.com/cmsslo/status/1161880833621315584Donald J. Trump
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I know President Xi of China very well. He is a great leader who very much has the respect of his people. He is also a good man in a “tough business.” I have ZERO doubt that if President Xi wants to quickly and humanely solve the Hong Kong problem, he can do it. Personal meeting?
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You're not fluent in anything besides English. You probably have the level of a 15 to 16-year-old in the general English language. You're not well read & you don’t have the ability to use logic to work out many problems as they present themselves. So, how can you know him?
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Arrest made in terrifying San Francisco attack caught on camera
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/san-francisco-condo-watermark-assault-video-beale-14303495.php
San Francisco police say they've made an arrest in a terrifying incident caught on camera Sunday night.
Surveillance footage from the Watermark condo complex on Beale and Bryant appears to show a man attacking a woman outside of the glass doors around 1:40 a.m. Initially, he blocks her access to the doors. As she maneuvers to get a grip on the door handle, he starts pulling her backward into the street. A guard at the security desk gets up and eventually gets the woman inside the complex and locks the door.
Police say Austin James Vincent, 25, has been booked at San Francisco County Jail on charges of battery, attempted robbery and false imprisonment. According to SFPD, he has no local address.
The woman in the clip has identified herself as Paneez Kosarianfard and spoke to several local media outlets about the encounter.
couple and stranger fight off wolf
The Rispolis were asleep in their tent at the park's Rampart Creek Campground when they were jolted awake after midnight by the wolf.
"It was like something out of a horror movie," Elisa wrote in the Facebook post.
Matt instantly threw himself in front of his wife and the children, fighting the predator as it ripped apart the tent. While her husband was trying to keep the wolf at bay, Elisa wrote that she lay on top of her two boys to shield them. Together, the couple cried out for help.
Luckily, Fee heard them.
When he arrived at the family's campsite, Fee told "Calgary Eyeopener" that he saw the wolf attempting to yank something free of the tent, like it was "pulling on a toy."
"It was big enough that I immediately figured out what it was, which is weird because I've never seen one outside of the zoo," he said. "It was just so much larger than any dog I've ever seen."
Inside the now mostly collapsed dwelling, an intense tug-of-war was unfolding. Elisa wrote that the animal had "started to drag Matt away" and she was holding on to his legs.
"I cannot and don't think I'll ever be able to properly describe the terror," she wrote.
Meanwhile, as Fee ran toward the tent, carrying only the lantern his wife gave him, he devised a hasty plan.
"I just kind of kept running at it and I just kicked it . . . in the back hip area like I was kicking in a door," he said on the radio show. "I booted it as hard as I could."
The kick may not have done much physical damage, but Fee said it was enough to startle the wolf into letting Matt go. Then, the animal emerged from the tent and Fee said he "immediately regretted kicking it."
"I felt like I had kind of punched someone that was way out of my weight class," he said.
But before Fee had to think of another way to take on the wolf solo, he said Matt, whose "whole half side was just covered in blood," came flying out of the tent. The two men began screaming at the wolf and hurling rocks about "the size of a head of cabbage" at the animal to drive it back, Fee said. Soon, the wolf was far enough away that the group was able to flee to Fee's campsite, where they hid in his minivan.
On Facebook, Elisa wrote that her husband was transported to a hospital where the puncture wounds and lacerations on his hands and arms were treated.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Like-a-horror-movie-Camper-saves-family-of-14303149.php
Americans say they can't afford a vacation
Americans say they can't afford a vacation
Americans, crippled by debt and seeing signs of a slowing economy, are sitting out on pricey vacations and everyday leisure activities.
A new Bankrate survey found 42 per cent of Americans decided not to take a vacation over the past year because of the cost. Nearly a third said they can afford a vacation less now than they could have five years ago, though 26 per cent said they can afford to do so more now. More than two-thirds of U.S. adults opted out of a recreational activity due to the cost at some point in the past year, the study found.
You can’t blame them. Trade tensions have economists projecting the likelihood of a recession in the next 12 months at 35 per cent. U.S. student debt is over $1.5 trillion. Almost 40 per cent of Americans think the economy is “not so good” or “poor.”
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/polopoly_fs/1.1301361!/fileimage/httpImage/image.png_gen/derivatives/default/staycation.png
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/americans-say-they-can-t-afford-a-vacation-1.1301199
Half of respondents said the activities they passed on were too expensive to begin with or not a good value, while 43 per cent said they didn’t have enough money left over after paying everyday bills and 41 per cent said they wanted to save money for other things.
Parents missed out most of all. More than three-quarters of those with kids under the age of 18 reported missing out on activities, versus 66 per cent of non-parents.
U.S. officials shield Ivanka Trump's and Mike Pence's projects in review of foreign aid
The Trump administration has decided to shield the signature projects of White House adviser Ivanka Trump and Vice President Pence as it looks to cancel billions of dollars in foreign aid for other projects around the world, U.S. officials said.
In coming days, the White House is expected to send a proposal to Congress for returning billions of dollars of unspent foreign aid funds to the Treasury in a process known as rescission. Officials say they will safeguard funding for global health programs.
Because U.S. aid agencies often do not designate funds until the end of a fiscal year, the White House could claw back between $2 billion and $4 billion in foreign aid projects approved by Congress for fiscal years 2018 and 2019.
Senior Republicans and Democrats say the review threatens to undermine Congress’s authority to appropriate funds, but U.S. officials insist they are only targeting projects that are unnecessary or of questionable value.
The Office of Management and Budget is reviewing a vast array of programs but has already ruled out canceling funds for Ivanka Trump’s Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative, Pence’s programs for Christians, Yazidis and other religious minorities in the Middle East, and global health programs amid an outbreak of Ebola in Congo.
Aid advocates criticized the move for attempting to protect the pet projects of the president’s inner circle.
“Our international affairs budget should go to the programs that save the most lives and go the furthest to make our planet safer — not just the ones with the Trump name on them,” said Scott Paul, the head of humanitarian policy at Oxfam America.
A senior U.S. official said it was appropriate for the White House to protect the programs it values most.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-officials-shield-ivanka-trump-and-mike-pence-projects-in-review-of-foreign-aid/2019/08/14/82db2847-2bf2-4ffe-b944-2aee7cba8c01_story.html
Trump is talking more than ever about men's looks
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump told Fox News in June that it's "tough" to follow his instincts and withdraw all troops from Afghanistan when a "great-looking, central casting" military general urges him not to.
When Trump visited replacement border fencing in California in April, he waved local sheriffs up to the assembled cameras.
"That's central casting," he told reporters. "You can't cast -- you don't have anybody in Hollywood that looks like these guys."
Last week, Trump told Army Pfc. Glendon Oakley, who carried children away from danger during the mass shooting in El Paso, that he was a "hero." Then the commander in chief added something else.
"So you'll be a movie star, the way you look," Trump said.
Oakley, who has sought to deflect attention away from himself and toward the massacre victims, nodded without smiling.
Trump, a former beauty pageant owner, reality television star and product pitchman, has always been concerned with appearances.
But it's not your imagination: his public musings about how people look have become much more frequent since the first year of his presidency.
Trump referred to people as "good-looking" or "great-looking" four times in his first year, according to data from Bill Frischling of Factba.se, a website that comprehensively tracks the President's public words. In the year-and-a-half since then, he has done it 31 times.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/13/politics/central-casting-trump-is-talking-more-than-ever-about-mens-looks/index.html
Politics 'He gets it': Evangelicals aren't turned off by Trump's first term
For many, the eight years of the Obama administration felt like a nightmare. The indelible image for the Rev. Chris Gillott was the night the Supreme Court ruled gay marriage legal across the land and Obama flooded the White House in rainbow lights.
“I didn’t see it lit up in a rainbow this June,” the youth pastor at Christian Life Center in Bensalem, Pa., notes, with a hint of satisfaction.
Gillott perceived, during the Obama administration, a newly hostile attitude toward Christians in America that left him worried his country was changing irrevocably. “If you think marriage is between one man and one woman, you’re a bigot and we don’t need you in this country,” he summarized what he saw as the thinking of Democrats. “There is animus being attributed to Christian core beliefs. And where that’s coming from is the left.”
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For many, abortion was the defining issue of the last election. In Appleton, Wis., the Rev. A.J. Dudek sat with several leaders of men’s Bible study groups recently in his megachurch’s huge curving lobby.
“Do I enjoy his tweets? No,” Dudek said about the president. But he believes the agenda far outweighs that concern. “If Donald Trump will help save a couple million babies, that’s a good thing. My vote has to align with my view of God’s word — I should care for the baby in the womb.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/evangelicals-arent-turned-off-by-trumps-first-term--theyre-delighted-by-it/2019/08/11/3911bc88-a990-11e9-a3a6-ab670962db05_story.html
During a Sunday in July when Trump spent the morning tweeting that four congresswomen of color — three of whom were born in the United States — should “go back” to the countries “from which they came,” many white evangelicals attending church in Florida said immigration is their top priority. They almost unanimously approved of Trump’s handling of the border.
“If you are coming to America and you are in one of our facilities being held, that’s on you,” said Andrea Owen, a retired police officer who spends most days babysitting her autistic great-nephew. “I’m not trying to be hateful because we’re all God’s people. But do it legally. .?.?. The places they’re housing them? Honestly, if they’re so uncomfortable, they shouldn’t have come here.”
Elderly couple's Patio furniture and flip-flops beat machetes in epic fight
Patio furniture and flip-flops beat machetes in epic fight
August 13, 2019
An elderly couple fought off two machete-wielding men in Tamil Nadu, India. Watch as the heroic duo, ages 72 and 69, toss patio furniture, sandals and a plastic bucket at their masked attackers. Police are investigating the attempted robbery, which injured the woman’s right hand.
https://nypost.com/video/patio-furniture-and-flip-flops-beat-machetes-in-epic-fight/
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