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Carl Lentz has “gone into hiding” after being fired from the trendy church. Lentz — who has preached to Kendall and Kylie Jenner, Chris Pratt, and Kevin Durant, among many other stars — got the boot last week after admitting that he’d been “unfaithful in [his] marriage.” Now we’re told he’s embarrassed and unreachable. “It’s like he’s gone into hiding,” a source told Page Six, “He’s not returning anyone’s phone calls. Friends have been trying to encourage him to hire someone to navigate this situation, but he’s not responding.” Meanwhile, we’re told Bieber started distancing himself from Lentz over a year ago. “[Justin] quit going and it was pretty abrupt. He separated from the church a while ago. They used him,” the source said, “They were opportunistic leaches. Carl ‘Hipster too cool for school’ is a total used car salesman type of guy.” The first source suggested the pastor had jacked Bieber’s rockstar lifestyle. “He was always living the pop star life, popping bottles on private planes. The infidelity was not a surprise,” the source said. “At one point, he was in Australia with Bieber at a bar with his shirt off and doing shots… He’s new age and modern, but shots and taking off your clothes in public places? Come on.” Another insider confirmed that Bieber’s new spiritual advisor is Judah Smith, who leads Churchome. In an interview with The Post, his mistress Ranin said that they’d had a five-month relationship after meeting in Brooklyn in May. “We were obsessed with each other,” she said, “He was like a drug to me. I was a drug to him.” She said that she spoke to him after he was fired, and claims he told her, “My life is over.” Lentz did not get back to us. A rep for Bieber did not comment.

Not that he'd do it, but Neil DeGrasse Tyson would be an interesting choice.

Category is: inappropriate responses. Veteran Milwaukee newsman Ted Perry is off-air this week after tweeting that the cruel year 2020 took a beloved 80-year-old game show host away, yet spared a very conservative Kentucky senator, who turns 79 in February. “2020 takes Alex Trebek but leaves Mitch McConnell? Just end already,” Perry posted on Facebook, then deleted, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Perry was absent from his 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. TV spots throughout the week at Fox 6, where he has worked for 27 years, the paper reports. It’s unclear when he’ll return to the anchor desk. He has not returned a request for comment. Trebek, who hosted the popular game show “Jeopardy” for 37-years,died Sunday following a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He won six Emmy Awards during that long run. Senate majority leader McConnell was elected to the U.S. Senate for the seventh time last week, where he has been dubbed “The Grim Reaper” due to his propensity for killing political initiative brought forth by his rivals in congress. His own health was questioned last month when he was spotted on Capitol Hill with bruised and bandaged hands as well as swelling around his mouth. McConnell told reporters he was not having health issues, but offered no further explanation for his condition. Perry’s personal social media accounts were reportedly shut down following his off-color joke. His Facebook account for work remains active.

A man was taken into custody on Thursday after driving through a Columbia Falls (Montana) grocery store before crashing his vehicle and fleeing on foot. perhaps the man needed a handicapped cart and the store didn't have one Columbia Falls Police Chief Clint Peters said a man in his 50s drove his vehicle, a 1995 Chevrolet Lumina, into Super 1 Foods around 5:50 p.m. After coming in through the front doors, the man then drove down an aisle to the back of the store, before turning around and driving down another aisle. obviously looking for the sale items. He then left through the front doors and crashed the vehicle across the highway. Within minutes, Chief Peters said police were advised of a nude male running down a hallway of a nearby retirement home that was near the area where the Chevrolet Lumina was abandoned. Peters said the nude male fled on foot but was eventually taken into custody near the Columbia Falls mini-storage area. Peters said a short investigation determined that the nude male was in fact the driver of the Chevrolet Lumina that had driven through Super One. Peters said the man showed signs of drug impairment at the time of his arrest. no kidding?!?!? The suspect was transported to a local hospital for non-injury medical issues and will be transported to the Flathead County Detention Center when he is medically cleared. Peters said the suspect’s name and pending charges will not be released until transported and formally booked into the Flathead County Detention Center. So far, no injuries have been reported in this incident. Chief Peters added that Columbia Falls residents immediately rallied to help clean up the store, which he said says a lot about the community.

Billy Crystal zoomed into THE VIEW yesterday for the Whoopster's birthday. He was discussing an ultra-low budget ($1,000,000) movie he made earlier this year, and he described his character thusly: "He's an alcoholic pothead dermatologist, which was difficult for me because I'm not a dermatologist."

The Marlins have made a groundbreaking hire, as the team announced that Kim Ng will be the team’s new general manager. MLB Network’s Jon Heyman (Twitter link) was the first to report the news that Ng will join the Marlins, making her the first Asian-American GM in Major League Baseball history and the first woman to ever act as a GM for a men’s team in any of the major North American sports. Today’s news is the culmination of a baseball career that began almost 30 years ago, when Ng was hired as an intern in the White Sox front office. Like many other Marlins hires, Ng has a connection to Derek Jeter, as she worked as an assistant GM with the Yankees from 1998-2001. Ng then moved on to an assistant GM job with the Dodgers until 2011, and she has since worked for Major League Baseball as the league’s senior vice president for baseball operations. Ng’s name has long been floated in past GM searches, as she was previously a candidate for openings with the Orioles, Giants and Mets as recently as 2018, as well as past vacancies with the Dodgers, Phillies, Diamondbacks, Angels, Mariners, and Padres. These interviews created some anticipation that Ng would eventually be the first woman put in charge of an MLB front office, though after all the years and all the close calls, it was the Marlins who made the breakthrough decision. The 51-year-old Ng will now oversee a promising young team that is coming off both its first playoff berth since 2003 and its first winning season since 2010. While the Marlins’ 31-29 record in a shortened season isn’t quite yet indicative that Miami has wholly turned the corner after another rebuild, Jeter and owner Bruce Sherman appear to have gotten the franchise on the right track since taking over in 2017.

I had to really push myself to get through the first year. I actually enjoyed it, but really disliked Toby (too damned earnest) and Kevin (too damned insipid) and William's death took WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too long. I recorded the first half of the second season, never could make myself start it, and eventually deleted it. I do recall Onorati being in it a bit that first year, now that you mention it. And I've never been able to trust Ventimiglia since he lied about his stepfather raping him on SVU.

The second episode was awful, plus I’m bummed that Marjorie won’t be seeing Peter Onorati again, as she did in an episode last year.

The GREY’S ANATOMY season premiere was really good. It picked up in April, when the hospital was overrun with Covid. The performances and the depiction of the doctors’ struggles were top-notch. Plus, we got an unexpected Schmico situation and a legitimate surprise at the end. Schmico broke up last year because Nico couldn’t give Schmidt the emotional intimacy he wanted. I thought that would be the last we’d see of him (he got a sweet new job that led to the break up), but he was there working in the hospital tonight (no explanation why) and they had a couple of awkward scenes, including one in which Schmidt told him he’d just had to tell his 100th person that their loved one had died, which was ten times more than he’d had to in his whole career before Covid, and he didn’t know how much longer he could do this, and just wanted to know if Nico was okay, because he wasn't. Nico gave him an uncomfortable look and said he was fine and walked away. Near the end, Schmidt was looking for something in a supply closet and Nico walked in. Schmidt told him whatever he was looking for, he probably wouldn't find it in there. Nico told him he'd been a terrible boyfriend and he was sorry he couldn’t give Schmidt what he had needed emotionally, but he sensed earlier that Schmidt needed some stress relief, and at least he could give him that… Stress relief? Stress relief. Can I can keep my mask on? That’s not what I want to take off. (as he sinks out of the picture & Schmidt’s eyes roll back.) As for the surprise ending... (SPOILER ALERT) Patrick Dempsey left the show on rather frosty terms six years ago and his character was killed off. The episode started with Meredith on the beach, staring at the ocean, and at the end one of the doctors found her passed out in the parking lot, and then she was back on the beach, and off in the distance she saw… guess who? Definitely new footage, and he’ll be in next week’s episode, too.

But officer, I was just speeding so I could get to Claire McCaskill so I could kill her... A Utah man was busted for allegedly leading cops on a high-speed chase while drunk and high on drugs, claiming he was en route to kill former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, police said. George William Stahl, 36, was busted early Wednesday in Summit County, where a Utah Highway Patrol trooper clocked him doing 115 mph on I-80, according to the Deseret News. When the trooper attempted to pull Stahl over, the driver booked it, going at least 130 mph as light snow fell, a police affidavit said. The chase came to a halt when another trooper used tire spikes to stop Stahl. The affidavit noted that Stahl, of Cottonwood Heights, was “belligerent and appeared heavily intoxicated” and reeked of alcohol. “There was an empty 12 pack of Budweiser beer in his vehicle as well as a partially consumed other 12 pack. Stahl stated that he was on Adderall and LSD and beer,” the document said.[/url] He allegedly told police he was “on his way to Missouri to kill (former US Sen. Claire McCaskill) if she wasn’t dead already,” according to the affidavit. “Stahl made several real threats to Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill,” it said. “He stated that he was on his way to Missouri to kill her several times.” He also allegedly told cops that he hit the spikes at 135 mph. Stahl was taken to the North Summit Fire Station for a medical evaluation before he was booked into the Summit Count Jail. He was charged with making a threat of terrorism, failing to stop at the command of police, reckless driving, speeding, DUI and drug possession. McCaskill, a Democrat, served as a Missouri senator from 2007 to 2019 before losing her seat to Republican contender Josh Hawley, the state’s attorney general at the time. On Wednesday, McCaskill congratulated Hawley on the recent birth of his daughter.

ShopRite by me has stopped allowing the sampling of grapes.

Can I help it if you're all perverts whose minds are in the gutter? :eek::cool:?

The unfortunately named great tit has joined a long list of species that could soon disappear due to Earth’s rapidly warming climate. “If the changes happen too fast, species can become extinct,” said Emily Simmonds, an associate professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology’s department of biology. She authored an article in the journal Ecology Letters detailing how the food supply of the great tit — a colorful songbird endemic to Europe and Asia — and other bird species can be impacted by a premature season shift caused by rising temperatures. Simmonds argued that warmer winters and resultant early springs prompt plants to leaf earlier, causing tree-eating larvae to hatch ahead of time, Science Daily reported. This can prove problematic to birds like the great tit that depend on the spring bug bounty when they’re babies. “When the climate changes, the interactions between different species changes [sic], too,” explained Simmonds. Fortunately, some populations of great tits have learned to adapt to the untimely spring by simply hatching earlier — proving that the early bird does indeed get the worm. This behavior, in turn, could potentially be passed on to future generations. However, after analyzing statistical models and different climate scenarios, researchers deduced that the songbirds wouldn’t be able to evolve in tandem with their prey forever. “The larvae might be changing even faster than the great tits,” said Simmonds, who chalked up the evolutionary discrepancy to the “big greenhouse gas emissions.” The report added, “We might reach a kind of threshold where the great tits aren’t keeping up. The rubber band gets stretched too far, you could say.” In the worst-case scenario, researchers suggested, larvae hatched approximately 24 days earlier than the 2020 norm would cause the whole population of great tits to vanish by the year 2100 due to lack of food. Fortunately, Simmonds said, “populations will be able to survive scenarios with lower or medium warming trends.” Great tits aren’t the only fine-feathered friends feeling the heat from climate change. According to a report by Audobon, nearly two-thirds of America’s breeding avian species face extinction due to the global temperature spike. More alarmingly, scientists speculate that global warming could wipe out one-third of all animal and plant life by 2070.

Two Amish brothers in Missouri admitted having sex with their 12-year-old sister and getting her pregnant — but managed to avoid jail time because a prosecutor feared they’d “be eaten alive” in prison. Yeah, so what? The abuse came to light after a doctor alerted authorities that the girl was pregnant just after she turned 13 — and she said that four of her brothers, two of them also minors, had been having sex with her. The family that lays together stays together? The eldest two — Aaron Schwartz, 22, and 18-year-old brother Petie — D'ya think the others are named Bernie and Sherwood? admitted to police that they had sex with her at least half a dozen times each at home in Seymour, starting when she was only 12. The sister ended up giving birth just two weeks ago — and “one of the brothers is the father of this child,” Webster County Prosecutor Ben Berkstresser said. Ooh! A cliff-hanger! The brothers were initially both charged with six counts of statutory rape and one count of incest. But those charges were reduced to third-degree child molestation, a Class C felony. They then reached a plea deal last week for 15 years in prison — but suspended to keep them out of jail. The prosecutor insisted it was a “different relationship” than if a “parent in a position of authority sexually abused or exploited their child,” and said the convicts were “very immature.” “These two young men would’ve been eaten alive in the state prison system,” Berkstresser said in defending his decision. He also said that the Amish community “had punished all four of the boys” and “made it clear that this punishment was very severe.” “All of them had sexual relations with their sister,” the prosecutor said of the four brothers. “There is no question this occurred,” he said. It was not immediately clear if any action was taken against the two brothers who are minors, and it was not clear how old they are. The convicted brothers must complete the Missouri Sex Offender Treatment Program as well as 100 hours of community service — and write a letter as part of their punishment. “Both young men must write a letter to me, explaining how they are going to protect their children from this happening to them,” Berkstresser said. “They have 30 days to get this letter to me.” And if their penmanship isn't impeccable, they'll get 40 lashes with a wet noodle! The prosecutor accepted that his decision would likely receive harsh backlash. “Previously, I’ve been very harsh on the Amish when they’ve been charged with crimes of this nature,” he insisted to the paper. He said the brothers “will go to prison” if they do not complete a sex offender treatment program within a year. “This won’t be easy for either of them to do, but I’ll assure you they will face the consequences if the program isn’t completed,” the prosecutor said. “And that consequence will be prison.” Opinions? Comments?

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So do many of us; that's what makes it so annoying. I saw a bunch of people like that at BJs Warehouse Club the other day.