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We welcomed this bundle of energy two weeks ago Saturday. Ivie is a handful. Wifey and I had forgotten how much work puppies are! She’s loving us and we are loving her! Gracie has been an amazing help with keeping her in check. Have a great weekend!

@KrumelsBunker And dirty…

@RothmanProphecy They get big.. 😊

We welcomed this bundle of energy two weeks ago Saturday. Ivie is a handful. Wifey and I had forgotten how much work puppies are! She’s loving us and we are loving her! Gracie has been an amazing help with keeping her in check. Have a great weekend!

@mark_slapinski Women have the right to say no to men in their spaces. If that bothers men, they can stay home.

For 12 years, every major winner of McDonald's Monopoly was a fraud. The game was rigged by the one man hired to prevent rigging. > McDonald's Monopoly launched in 1987. > Peel a game piece off your fries or drink. Match the right properties. Win up to $1 million. > The promotion was massive. Tens of MILLIONS of game boards distributed in magazines alone. > McDonald's poured massive marketing behind it. > By law, McDonald's couldn't run its own contest. > A third party company called Simon Marketing handled the game pieces. > The man in charge of security at Simon Marketing was Jerome P. Jacobson. > Former cop. Everyone called him Uncle Jerry. > His job was to make sure nobody stole the winning pieces. > He stole the winning pieces. > Starting in 1989, Jacobson figured out how to swap the high value game pieces during transit. > He would duck into an airport bathroom stall, break the tamper proof seal on the case, pocket the winners, and reseal it. > He got away with it because a supplier accidentally sent him a sheet of the tamper proof seals directly. > That mistake gave him 12 years. > At first he gave the pieces to friends and family. His step brother. His nephew. People he trusted. > Then it grew. > Jacobson started selling winning pieces to strangers for a cut of the prize. > His network eventually included mobsters, strip club owners and a members of the Colombo crime family. > One family connected to Jacobson's network claimed three separate $1 million prizes plus a Dodge Viper. > Jacobson apparently even anonymously mailed a $1 million winning piece to St. Jude Children's Hospital. > McDonald's honoured it and paid out the full amount over 20 years. > The total stolen was over $24 MILLION in cash and prizes across 12 years. > In 2000, the FBI got an anonymous tip about a man called "Uncle Jerry" rigging the contest. > They looked at the winner list. Almost every major winner lived within 25 miles of Jacobson's house. > The FBI convinced McDonald's to run the contest one more time. Wiretapped Jacobson's phone. > Intercepted the name of the next $1 million winner before he even claimed it. > Then they posed as a McDonald's film crew and interviewed the fake winner on camera. Let him tell his entire made up story about how he found the piece. > Three weeks later, Jacobson was arrested in an early morning raid. > The trial began September 10, 2001. The next day was 9/11. > One of the biggest corporate fraud cases in fast food history got buried under the biggest news story of the century. > Over 50 people convicted. Jacobson got 37 months. He was the only one who served more than a year. > Every time you peeled a game piece off your fries and lost, the fix was already in. The winning pieces were in Uncle Jerry's pocket before the food hit the tray.

I'm not sure I'm ever going to stop laughing. Holy Jesus. cbc.ca/news/politics/…

@MarkJCarney Canada has been overwhelmed my immigration from India over the last decade. It has had a disastrous impact on our politics, our economy, and our social fabric. The last thing we need is to be glorifying their foreign religion.

I think if you want someone to understand the ethical issues with egg donation and surrogacy for gay men the best thing you can do is ask them this question: “Why do you think the standard practice in these arrangements is to have two separate women as donor and surrogate?” Any human with a functioning moral compass and an above room temperature IQ is going to feel at least a bit uncomfortable as they outline how this arrangement is intended to ensure minimal maternal infant bonding and therefor no legal claim of motherhood. People who oppose these practices often frame it as “buying a baby” but I think that’s not quite right, because at least one intended parent is usually the actual father. What they are buying, and legally ensuring, is the absence of a mother.

🚨 France just arrested a 19-year-old Afghan migrant for repeatedly raping sheep and goats at an educational farm near Marseille. He was caught in the act on camera. The animals were found with their legs tied, bleeding, and severely injured. DNA evidence links him to multiple attacks over months. A five-month-old lamb was reportedly abused so severely on 31 March that it nearly died. Sorry to shatter the rainbow utopia, but not all cultures are equal.

Please bro just one more tax will fix it trust me bro

I’m in Olive Garden. They have unlimited breadsticks.

This is Nancy Lefrançois and her 11-year-old son Loïc. They are dead now. They are dead because Baljeet Singh, who was driving a semi, was so engrossed in playing an online game on his cell phone that he didn't notice that the traffic ahead of him was stopped for road work. Singh mowed down 7 vehicles with his truck. 10 victims other than Nancy and Loïc miraculously survived, but were badly injured. After Singh was treated for shock, he fled the country and went on the lam. For years. Nancy's husband Benoit was unable to attend her funeral because he was in a coma for 3 weeks with serious injuries. The other child in their vehicle suffered injuries to his spine, internal bleeding, a broken nose, and facial injuries requiring plastic surgery. Singh was eventually caught by US authorities and returned to Canada. Singh is now expressing deep regret. Which seems self-serving and convenient because he had a plethora of violations prior to this catastrophic event, suggesting a pattern of reckless disregard for the lives and safety of others. According to CTV News reporter, Joe Lofaro, "A review of the truck’s dash camera showed that he committed more than 40 traffic violations during his last three trips and repeatedly used his cellphone while driving, weaved between lanes, and failed to take his mandatory rest periods, leading him to exceed the number of permitted driving hours." I am tired of writing about the avoidable slaughter of Canadians on our roads. Accidents are an unavoidable reality of driving. Well-meaning people sometimes make unintentional and catastrophic errors that end in tragedy. We all know and accept this. But these events aren't accidents. These are deaths caused by wanton recklessness. The drivers in these cases consciously disregard known risks and as a consequence, people die who would otherwise not. 11-year-old boys die. Little girls die. Moms and Dads die. Grandparents die. Lives are shattered. Innocents have catastrophic injuries that forever change their futures. None of it needs to happen. It's all a choice. Canadians will keep getting slaughtered on our roads if we don't stop mass-importing third worlders to drive semis. Only about 18% of Indians have a driver's license. India has over 150,000 road deaths per year. It is fantastical to believe that people born and raised in places where driving is unusual and recklessness on the roads is the norm will all be cultural outliers. It is pure ignorance to deny that, even for the outliers who do value safety and competence, skills like driving in snow and ice are easily acquired. Canadian driving skills are first learned through observation and experience in a small vehicle. They are not easily acquired by adult foreigners behind the wheel of a semi. It is akin to organised crime to allow companies to bring these drivers in, and it is suicidal not to shut the companies down and deport the offenders when they slaughter Canadians on the road. Elbows Up policies get Canadians killed. The willful blindness of Canadians who refuse to tell the truth and the clinging to bromides about diversity being a strength are destroying Canada.

@gypsymagic24 @cbcwatcher Would have been nice to have had a national conversation about whether we want to do this before going all-in on it...

We don't have this figure for Canada because the authorities refuse to collect that information

We already had walkies doggo

@OfAthenry “You can’t click on this link because it is printed paper” Lmao

1994: Change brake pads on your truck in the driveway for $30. 2026: Electronic parking brake says 'DIYers not permitted.' Needs $6k dealer tool + subscription. They call it 'security.' We call it a software lock scam to kill DIY and force you back to the dealer. Right to Repair now. Who's with me? 🔥🚛🔧 #RightToRepair

Crazy Eddie’s financial reports were false due to a discrepancy.

After folks laughed at AOC for not knowing vaquero history, I knew Wikipedia would alter their meaning to fit hers, so I took a screenshot, and they finally did rewrite it. Wiki removed vaquero from 'The origins of the vaquero tradition come from Spain...'

@kitten_beloved Hm. It feels to me that the common thread in the modern stories is "you are weird and don't fit in, but that weirdness is actually your strength, and you just need to have more self-confidence and figure out how to use your weirdness".