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If Facebook can't limit Russian bots posting stuff to influence elections and churn up hatred and distrust among U.S. citizens, what makes you think the administrators of this site can successfully prevent them from posting all of the 'hateful comments and name calling' you seem to think is coming from actual people outside of Russia?

Houston library sued by anti-gay activists over Drag Queen Story Hour A crew of anti-gay protesters rallied outside the federal courthouse Friday afternoon, announcing they have sued the Houston Public Library over a city-sponsored Drag Queen Story Hour which they say violates their freedom of religion. Opponents of the story hour have also turned out to protest the library events, which began last summer in Montrose, the city’s historic gay enclave. Similar drag queen events have been hosted around the country with the aim of providing role models for children. The lawsuit was filed Friday by a group who has vocally opposed marriage equality and joined the fight to defeat a proposed Houston ordinance that would have lifted gender restrictions on bathrooms. The group has asked a federal judge to halt the reading event, claiming they are not appropriate for all patrons. The library director and Mayor Sylvester Turner are named as defendants, accused of being recklessly entangled in “LGBT doctrine.” The lawsuit says the storytelling sessions advertised as appropriate for patrons of all ages at the Freed-Montrose Neighborhood branch should not be funded with taxpayer dollars since the library would not host a “man-woman marriage storytelling hour.” The group behind the lawsuit identify themselves as “Christ followers,” taxpayers and card-carrying library patrons. One of those bringing the lawsuit is Tex Christopher, who says he homeschooled his children using library books. Another plaintiff is Chris Sevier, who has filed a number of lawsuits across the country, including one in Houston for the right to marry his laptop. If men can marry men, he has argued, why can’t he marry a computer. The plaintiffs also include an evangelical minister and a woman who says she got into a custody battle with her husband after he left her for a transgender woman.

It very well could take you longer to read this story than it would to ride on the world’s shortest scheduled passenger flight. Loganair, a Scottish regional airline, holds that title thanks to its itinerary between Westray and Papa Westray, two of the Orkney Islands located north of Great Britain. The flight, which travels 1.7 miles, lasts only 1.5 minutes in the air. The cost of a ticket starts at 17 pounds (roughly $22). That’s a blip compared to the world’s longest flight, which just re-entered service last week. The New York-Singapore route flown by Singapore Airlines takes nearly 18 hours— some 1,080 times longer than the Loganair flight, give or take a minute. Tickets were selling for $2,147 and up on the Singapore Airlines website this week. The Westray-Papa Westray route isn’t the only short flight that Loganair offers. The journey between Eday and Kirkwall, another two of the Orkney Islands, takes a staggering 10 minutes to complete. Looking to take a short trip closer to home? Last year, United Airlines launched theshortest flight in the continental US, a 16-minute trip between San Francisco and Santa Rosa, located in the Sonoma County wine region. (Sightseeing flight operator Greater Toronto Airways boasts the shortest flight in North America, a 10-minute route between Toronto and Niagara.) In Hawaii, travelers can take a 15-minute flight between the Kalaupapa and Ho’olehua airports on Moloka’i for as little as $50 on Mokulele Airlines. Of course, flying is particularly bad for the environment — aircraft are responsible for 2.5% of total global carbon dioxide emissions. So travelers concerned about their carbon footprint may want to consider other means of travel — for instance, a 25-minute car ferry also runs between Westray and Papa Westray.

First show deleted from my dvr settings this season.

HELL is a commercial on earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVxF1nul4UM

Yes, I did. The first time I ever saw him was in the Jamie Lee Curtis/Richard Lewis show ANYTHING BUT LOVE. He played a bodyguard who was hired to protect Lewis, but wound up coming on to him while wearing just a towel wrapped around his waist. I think I still have it on vhs somewhere.

I want to tie cinderblocks around this schmuck's ankles & throw him in after his wallet:

I'm Colonel Sanders and I quit smoking with Chantix.

Ryan Phillippe’s text messages are fair game in his ex-girlfriend’s assault case. Phillippe, 44, was ordered to hand over text messages between himself and ex-wife Reese Witherspoon regarding Elsie Hewitt, The Blast reports. The judge also sanctioned him $1,580 for not turning the messages in sooner, delaying the case. Hewitt first sued Phillippe for $1 million last year, accusing him of assaulting her at his home. She claimed in her suit that he “grabbed [her] upper arm so tightly that his grip left heavy bruises on her arm hours later. He then braced his body and violently threw her down his staircase as hard as he could.” He denied the 22-year-old’s allegations in his own court filing, and she fired back that he wouldn’t remember the incident because of his drug use. She claimed that he uses “cocaine, ecstasy, psychedelic mushrooms and steroids” among others. Phillippe’s lawyer didn’t immediately return a request for comment.

Wendy Williams is. She's married to Kevin Hunter. :D:p:D:p:D:p:D:p:D:p:D

22-year-old brat arrested for attacking mom with sausages This son is the würst! Police in Florida arrested a hungry 22-year-old jerk who pelted his mom with sausages because she accidentally bumped into him while making his dinner. Hermes Callijas-Gasperin attacked his mother on October 8 in their Bradenton home, the Smoking Gun reported. The food fight erupted when Callijas-Gasperin demanded his mom make him dinner, and she said she was busy. When she did begin to cook his meal — sausages — she accidentally knocked into her son. The wiener threw the sausages at her, hitting her in the eye, and then put his hands on her neck and pushed her, the report said. Grilled by Manatee County cops, Callijas-Gasperin claimed he only wanted his mom to apologize. He was arrested and charged with misdemeanor domestic battery.

I thought the episode had a few genuine laughs and was better than any episode from last season, except possibly the one in which David returned.

I had an ongoing thread about him at ATKOL a couple of years ago.

Grandmothers are known for baking cookies. But ashes of grandmothers baked into cookies is a weird and disturbing twist. California police are investigating a claim that a high school student used the cremated remains of a grandparent in a cookie recipe and served the cookies to unsuspecting students. The sugar cookies the student brought to DaVinci High School in Davis were given to at least nine students, police told KOVR. The incident allegedly occurred on Oct. 4. “This is a weird one,” Davis police Lt. Paul Doroshov told KOVR. “I have not heard of anyone getting sick or anybody being harmed as far as physically, physiologically by this.” Police are trying to confirm that the incident actually took place. Authorities said no actual evidence has been found to support the claims of students who filed the reports, KXTV reported. “This is so unconventional, it would take more research,” Doroshov told KOVR. In a statement, the Davis Joint Union School District said the investigation is ongoing. “This case has been particularly challenging and we have responded appropriately and in the most respectful and dignified way possible,” the statement read.

Sometimes, duty calls even when you’re on duty. An employee at a Virginia meat processing company has been suspended after his poorly-timed pee break on the production line resulted in the dumping of 50,000 pounds of meat. The Smithfield Foods staffer relieved himself underneath a conveyer belt this weekend at the company’s headquarters in Smithfield, Va., Smithfield Foods spokesperson Lisa Martin said in a statement. She said production was immediately halted, the processing line was fully cleaned and all equipment was sanitized multiple times before operations started back up again. Smithfield also disposed of 50,000 pounds of product in accordance with its food safety and quality standards following an internal investigation. Video obtained by local NBC affiliate WAVY shows the worker remove his gloves and then his pants before he relieves himself beneath the conveyer belt filled with meat – and then quickly gets back to work. Smithfield bills itself as the world’s largest pork processer and hog producer, and works with companies such as Nathan’s Famous, Eckrich and Farmland. The company’s headquarters are located in Virginia, but it also has plants across the country in places like Elizabeth, N.J., San Jose, Calif. and Tar Heel, N.C.

Lukewarm critical reviews and low fan expectations are raising questions about the viability of “The Conners,” the “Roseanne” spinoff set to premiere Tuesday night on ABC. The network’s June firing of star Roseanne Barr may make survival tough for one of TV’s most beloved families. In a TV Insider poll last month, 75 percent of viewers said they would not watch “The Conners” spinoff without Barr, whose namesake sitcom reboot was axed after Barr drew widespread outrage concerning a racist tweet about the physical appearance of former White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, a person of color. Like fans, critics aren’t exactly enthusiastic about the spinoff series, either. After viewing two sample episodes, Deadline Hollywood critic Dominic Patten describes the show as an “adequate offering” that’s “packed with jokes and one-liners you can see coming long before they land and full of scenarios you’ve seen a million times before on the small screen.” Daniel Fienberg of the Hollywood Reporter writes that “The Conners” is “nothing if not proficient and comfortably in the rhythms of the original show — though rest assured that a certain percentage of right-leaning viewers will rage against Barr’s departure and absence.” Last year’s “Roseanne” premiere — a continuation of the hit sitcom that ran from 1988 to 1997 — drew 18 million viewers. Barr’s firing, just before the season concluded, was a public-relations nightmare, with ABC Entertainment Group president Channing Dungey describing Barr’s tweet as “abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values.” Nevertheless, the show’s season finale drew more than 10 million viewers, convincing at least a few insiders at ABC that Barr should have kept her job. “What Roseanne did was wrong but we shouldn’t have rushed to fire her,” an unnamed exec reportedly told Breitbart last week. “It was almost a knee-jerk reaction by Ben [sherwood, president of Disney-ABC Television Group] and Channing, who should have launched an investigation. This would have given them more time to listen to the public, advertisers and cast members to determine the best decision.” Earlier this month, Barr’s co-stars spoke of missing the controversial comedian and said that playing the Conner family is “awkward” without her. “The Conners” premieres Tuesday at 8 p.m. on ABC.

Miles Webber: [Rose is embarrassed that Miles's college colleagues saw the racy photograph she gave him for his birthday] Let me tell you something: Back when I was in the Army, inside my locker I kept a picture of Betty Grable, and she was wearing a lot less than you were wearing in my birthday photo. Sweetheart, she was the darling of America. Rose Nylund: Miles, she was in her twenties, and she had the most beautiful legs on the planet. Miles Webber: [intimately] Ah... the *second* most beautiful. Rose Nylund: [flattered] Oh, Miles. Miles Webber: Rita Hayworth had a set of gams on her, boy... Well, no, look, Sweetheart, about the age thing. Something I read someplace I've always believed. Y'know, when you're... when you're young and beautiful, it's an accident of nature. But when you're beautiful older, you've earned it. That you created yourself.

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