The crowd of crustaceans was caught on camera by 24-year-old Brian Slepian, who came across the crabs around 10:45 p.m. at the 45th Street subway station in Sunset Park.
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11 Police Shot In Dallas, Multiple Fatalities
Live coverage here
One suspect reported in custody, the second one reported barricaded somewhere.
Update: More shots fired at police
Update 2: Oh, who knows. The scene is total confusion as one would expect.
Y2Kyoto: The Planet Has A Fever
Global temperatures have plummeted more than 0.5C this year, and are falling 2nd fastest in the satellite record pic.twitter.com/WD1lXjicaN
— Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) July 7, 2016
“Just doing my small part”
The forgotten other U.S. terror attack on LGBT:
Yet the American government never treated the Brown murders as acts of domestic terrorism as they are calling the Orlando massacre at the gay nightclub. And perhaps because media reporting of the Brown case was so scattered, episodic, and highly localized, most of us have never even heard of it in a way that would have afforded the nation an opportunity to comfort the families of the victims, who also were targeted because they were LGBT. Neither were the families given the benefit of a formal federal declaration as to WHY their loved ones died: the retribution of radical Islam. And lastly, when federal authorities declare an act of terrorism, full investigations tend to unfold for co-conspirators, foreign connections, lessons learned, intelligence failures and so on… Without a terrorism acknowledgement, it’s unclear if this case ever prompted such all-important introspective treatment, or more importantly, rolled up other cocked and loaded Islamic extremists.
Red Rose Country
…in the eyes of world investors, the governments of Kazakhstan, Indonesia and Egypt are safer investment risks than Rachel Notley’s NDP.
Pat Condell’s Post-Brexit Thoughts
Related: This is the Amanpour/Hannan interview that he referenced.
Comey, Live
FBI Director James Comey testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Updated link to livestream here.
And why would he?
During testimony before Congress on Thursday, FBI Director James Comey stated that the FBI’s interview with presumptive Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was not under oath or recorded, but it still would be a crime to lie to the FBI.
Comey stated that he did not personally interview Clinton, and did not talk to all of the “five or six” who did interview Clinton.
Not A Muslim
Meanwhile, In The Guardian…
A grown woman is oppressed by the existence of tiny cakes.
Brexit, Continued
The reaction to Bexit by some commentators, including several in Canada, has been near apocalyptic. Shock, anger and bitterness were accompanied by accusations of racism, atavistic parochialism and isolationism. The vote was greeted with withering contempt for the country’s supposedly crypto-fascist leadership and Little Englanders who were either ignorant or bigoted, or likely both.
That reaction is not respectful of a decision freely rendered by a sovereign people. To the contrary, some empathy should be extended to a country that has a deep democratic tradition and a long history of usually getting things right. Further, we need to understand the underlying reasons when the popular will goes against prevailing opinion of the political, financial and intellectual establishment.
More Pavilions At Volkfest
A leaked report into a surge in sex crimes by immigrants at German public swimming pools is a ‘grave concern’, according to officials.
The secret report’s authenticity has been confirmed by the authorities in Dusseldorf which outlines the particular worry over rapes and sexual abuse of children.
Beware! The Feds are going #SpecialHashTag!
If you wander into a room and the chairs are in a circle. STAY ALERT! If you see a millennial that appears welcoming, be especially cautious!
You may have inadvertently interrupted a federal electoral reform dialogue.
DO NOT PANIC. Remember, it’s only chairs. NO ONE IS ACTUALLY THERE!
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Those Moderate Muslims!
Mogadishu: mob of up to 30 young Somali men paraded through an upscale neighborhood last week, yelling disparaging comments and threats against homeowners.
Just kidding! It was Minneapolis.
It’s Probably Nothing
Billion Dollar Fund Manager Comes Out of Retirement To Bet Against Canadian Real Estate
…we sat down with Marc and he explained to Better Dwelling co-founder Stephen Punwasi, the perfect storm he sees in the Canadian housing market – a mixture of rising home prices, foreign money laundering, and an unregulated sub-prime lending system most Canadians don’t even know exists.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors
Pennsylvania Slashes Rooftop Solar Subsidies –
The state commission found twice that net metering solar subsidies are not in the public interest, as they raise the price of electricity and transfer money from poor people without solar panels to rich people with them. The PUC is made up of both Republican and Democratic appointees and voted unanimously both times.
It’s almost as though there’s a pattern emerging.
Y2Kyoto: Launch of the RFS Planetary Fever
The return of the Russian icebreakers.
The new ship is a 6,000 ton (deadweight), 85 meter (180 foot) long vessel that can handle ice up to a meter thick. Meanwhile Russia is building three Artika class nuclear powered icebreakers. These are much larger (173 meters long and 33,500 tons) vessels that can handle ice three meters thick. With a crew of 75, Artika class ships can stay at sea for up to six months at a time. Currently Russia has the largest icebreaker fleet (41 ships), followed by Finland (seven), Sweden and Canada (six each) and the United States (five).
The “W” Word
A Calgary indigenous woman who knocked out a Caucasian woman’s tooth while yelling “I hate white people,” didn’t commit a racially motivated crime, a judge says.
Provincial court Judge Harry Van Harten, in a written decision, said Tamara Crowchief’s motivation for striking Lydia White was not related to racial bias.
Because she didn’t belong to a “group”.
What Would We Do Without Experts?
From science to industry to academia, the governing class is crawling with incompetents, fraudsters, and fakes — and people are beginning to notice.
The Brexit vote, suggests analyst Aaron Renn, demonstrated that arrogant urbanites, seeing themselves as the exclusive centers of civilization, ignore those who live outside the “glamour zone” at their own peril.
h/t Jean
