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Rick Santorum reacts to the Kentucky court clerk Kim Davis who has been jailed for refusing marriage licenses because of her religious opposition to same-sex marriage.

McDonald's, the company that invented calories, has shocked the world by announcing that on Oct. 6, its restaurants will start serving breakfast all day long.

Bail was set at $100,000 Thursday morning for a Vernon Hills woman who is accused of falsely claiming to have spotted two possible suspects in the killing of a Fox Lake police officer Wednesday night.

Bail was set at $50,000 Thursday morning in DuPage County court for a West Chicago man who was charged with child pornography possession, officials said.

In additional to the seasonal pumpkin drinks they trot out every year, The Coffee Bean is also introducing new Salted Butterscotch this year as a latte or Ice Blended.

The new flavor features buttery caramel with a hint of salt.

Also available as either a latte or Ice Blended are Pumpkin and Pumpkin Chai. They're also offering a new Pumpkin Spice Donut.

The limited-time fall drinks are available through November 1, 2015.

Illinois employers reported mass layoffs of 2,140 people in August, according to a monthly report released Friday by the state's Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.

Maddie just joined our family. She loves to chew on sticks, play in water, eat peanut butter, run in the grass, and wrestle with her buddy Tucker. She has a playful spirit and is always up for a good run or play session.

Tim Tebow, former and maybe now future TV analyst, is no longer an NFL quarterback. The Philadelphia Eagles cut him today, per Adam Schefter:

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Earlier this week, five Rutgers football players were arrested for an April assault on a 19-year-old student. Andre Boggs, Ruhann Peele, Nadir Barnwell, Razohnn Gross, and Delon Stephenson were all kicked off the team this morning following their arrests. The five were charged with aggravated assault, riot, and conspiracy to commit a riot, and Boggs was also charged for two home invasions from April and May.

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A King Cobra snake, a venomous species that can kill an elephant with one bite, is currently on the loose in Orlando, FL, with officials confirming that the licensed owner violated protocol by waiting to report the escape for a full day after the snake went missing. What do you think?

(Pete makes one last check of his four different fantasy rosters, opens a cold beer and eases into his worn barcalounger. This is the happiest moment of his life.)

PETE FOOTBALLFAN: Ahh, time to settle down with my favorite sport… the game of American football.

INTERNET HERO: (bursts through wall) You shouldn’t like this. It’s problematic.

PETE FOOTBALLFAN: Dude, my wall.

INTERNET HERO: Football is a brutal sport that encourages violence on and off the field.

PETE FOOTBALLFAN: But I like it.

INTERNET HERO: The league doesn’t take care of its veterans’ health costs.

PETE FOOTBALLFAN: Well, that is unfortunate, but it seems unrelated to–

INTERNET HERO: What about when they shove the military-industrial complex down your throat every week, troops on the field, camo jerseys, players waving American flags?

PETE FOOTBALLFAN: I don’t really watch the pre-game stuff much.

INTERNET HERO: Young men ruining their futures colliding into each other at high speeds.

PETE FOOTBALLFAN: I mean, it’s not like the Army in the ’40s. They’re not being forced to play. There isn’t a draft–

INTERNET HERO: Yes there is.

PETE FOOTBALLFAN: Dammit.

INTERNET HERO: Some players are punished for minor offenses for as long as other players are for major offenses.

PETE FOOTBALLFAN: That’s really more of an administrative issue.

INTERNET HERO: One guy killed dogs.

PETE FOOTBALLFAN: Didn’t another guy kill people?

INTERNET HERO: Yeah, but doggies.

PETE FOOTBALLFAN: Look, I really just wanna watch this game.

INTERNET HERO: Being played in a stadium funded by taxpayers like you and I.

PETE FOOTBALLFAN: Well, that’s really more of a political issue.

INTERNET HERO: The stadiums use GMOs in their food.

PETE FOOTBALLFAN: Look…

INTERNET HERO: One of the teams has a racist nickname.

PETE FOOTBALLFAN: I know, I’m not a fan of that team.

INTERNET HERO: Racist.

PETE FOOTBALLFAN: What? I just said I’m not a fa—

INTERNET HERO: Cheerleaders are paid minimum wage, female fans can’t bring purses into the stadium, victims of abuse by league employees are swept under the table.

PETE FOOTBALLFAN: Well, that does suck. They could make a more concerted effort to–

INTERNET HERO: If you watch this game, you are essentially an accomplice to all the violent sex offenders, murderers, alcoholics, child-beaters, wife-beaters, dog-beaters, racists, rapists, bigamists, atheists and foot fetishists who play the game. It’s basically like you committed all those crimes yourself.

PETE FOOTBALLFAN: Don’t athletes in other sports commit crimes, too?

INTERNET HERO: This isn’t about them. This is about you and how you’re a bad person. I don’t watch football and therefore that makes me a better human being.

PETE FOOTBALLFAN: (craning neck around Hero) Look, they just kicked off. Can you–

INTERNET HERO: I want you to read this listicle I wrote. And also these three longforms.

PETE FOOTBALLFAN: I just wanna watch football.

INTERNET HERO: You make me wanna throw up.

PETE FOOTBALLFAN: Are you gonna fix my wall?

INTERNET HERO: Gotta go.

SUSAN FOOTBALLFAN: Pete, I’m leaving you for that brave Internet Hero.

PETE FOOTBALLFAN: (turns directly to camera, single tear) My wife left me.

Need a little push to get off the couch, or just want to recreate a viral web stunt? The Fitbit Charge HR is the best fitness tracker for most people, and you can get one for just $110 today ($40 off), which is the best deal we’ve seen on the heart rate-tracking model. [Fitbit Charge HR, $110]

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As a potential follow up to their tortilla-crust fried chicken, Taco Bell has been spotted testing a fried chicken taco shell as part of the Naked Crispy Chicken Taco.

The shell is described on the menu as a "marinated all-white meat chicken shell."

According to Foodbeast, the chicken shell is filled with lettuce, tomato, shredded cheese, and an avocado ranch sauce. Basically, it's filled the same as a typical Taco Supreme but with the avocado ranch sauce rather than sour cream and without any additional meat beyond the shell (a missed opportunity in my book).

The idea isn't so far-fetched seeing as sister brand KFC has already done the meat-as-bun thing with the Double Down and even used fried chicken as a hot dog bun abroad.

The price tag on the Naked Crispy Chicken Taco ranges from $2.49 to $2.99 each and it has been spotted in both Lost Hills, CA and Bakersfield, CA (a known testing ground for new Taco Bell menu items).

Also being tested in Bakersfield are Chocolate Lava Delights, which appear to basically be bite-sized mini molten lava cakes.

Photo by Cheez4444 / Imgur.

Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refuses to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples, will appeal the contempt of court ruling that put her in jail, her attorney said Friday. Davis has been locked up since Thursday, and her deputies have been granting long-awaited licenses to gay couples in her absence.

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It's time, once again, to marvel at some idiots who don't know how to handle the world:

Cry-Baby #1: Zaneta Hucikova

Screencaps via Facebook and Google Maps

The incident: A woman was told she wasn't allowed to have her cat in her purse on a plane.

The appropriate response: I have no idea. This is not a situation you should be in to begin with.

The actual response: She had an inflight meltdown and attacked a flight attendant.

Last Friday, 34-year-old Zaneta Hucikova was on a flight from Las Vegas to Frankfurt.

As first reported by CBS, Zaneta was traveling with a cat in her purse. She allegedly claimed the cat was a support animal.

She was reportedly told that, as the animal was not in a carrier or crate, it would have to be locked in one of the plane's bathrooms until landing. Speaking to CBS, one of the other passengers on the plane said that Zaneta was not happy about this and began "screaming and shouting" at airline staff.

She then reportedly slapped one flight attendant, and threw a paper cup at another.

A passenger named Dashenka Giraldo told ABC News: "She said that she was part of the mafia and that the mafia follows her around the world and that she was able to bring the plane down if that needed to be the case if she couldn't see her cat."

Flight staff apparently took this threat seriously, and decided to divert the plane to Denver and dispatched two F-16 jets to escort it to the airport. Zaneta was removed from the plane after it landed, and the other passengers had to wait 24 hours to complete their journey.

It should be noted that, though Zaneta is described as a model in all of the news stories about this, I am unable to find any evidence to support this claim.

Zaneta will not be charged for her behavior on the flight, but, as she does not have a valid US visa, she is currently being detained in an immigration detention facility.

According to the Daily Mail, the cat, which they say "is possibly named Victoria," remains in federal custody. #freevictoria

Cry-Baby #2: Some students at Hillsboro High School

Screencaps via Google Maps and KMOV

The incident: A transgender girl wanted to use the girl's locker room.

The appropriate response: Nothing.

The actual response: A bunch of students staged a walkout.

17-year-old Lila Perry is a student at Hilsboro High School in Hillsboro, Missouri. She came out as transgender last year, but has identified as female since the age of 13.

Earlier this year, Lila expressed an interest in using the girls' locker room to change for gym class. The school offered her her own single-occupancy restroom to change in, but she rejected it. "I am a girl. I shouldn't have to be pushed away off to another bathroom," she told local news station KMOV.

"There is a lot of ignorance," she added. "They are claiming they're uncomfortable. I don't think they are. I think this is pure and simple bigotry."

More than 150 students took part in the two-hour walkout. Pictures of the event show a mix of male and females. According to the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Lila was locked in the principal's office for the duration of the walkout for her own safety.

KMOV spoke to two men who were staging a protest outside the school. One of the men, Jeff Childs, who was holding a sign that read "GIRL'S RIGHT'S MATTER" (sic), told the network, "Boys need to have their own locker room, girls need to have their own locker room, if somebody... has... mixed feelings where they are, they need to have their own also." As of press time, it was not entirely clear what the fuck his sign was supposed to mean.

KMOV also reported that "some parents have asked if all this is an act by Lila to get in the girl's locker room."

Lila has reportedly since dropped gym class "out of concerns for her safety."

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Who here is the bigger cry-baby? Let us know in this little poll down here:

Previously: A woman who allegedly faked a kidnapping to get out of work vs. some students who boycotted a book because it had drawings of naked people in it.

Winner: The students!!!

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With anti-gay Clerk Kim Davis locked up for contempt of court, William Smith and James Yates were able to this morning to finally obtain a gay marriage license from the Rowan County, Kentucky, courthouse.

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Kentucky, man. I was born in this fine state, and am in fact here right now, but dang, there are some particularly vocal duds roaming around this summer.

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We Interviewed Our IT Guy About His Band so He Would Fix Our Computer

Here, in a preview of coming attractions (your holiday weekend) (it’s gonna be great), is a pond. It’s filled with liquor, and it’s on fire, and the flames have been wind-whipped into a tornado. Excuse me—a “firenado.”

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What if there was a way to cut the cost of your outrageously priced student loan? That’s what refinancing promises: ideally, you save thousands of dollars in interest over the life of your loan. But that’s not necessarily the whole story. Here’s everything you should consider before refinancing.

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Perhaps because “The Star-Spangled Banner” is so meandering, it happens to be the perfect platform for singers to  display their full, jaw-dropping range. Add that to the fact that it’s often sung to stadiums full of people being particularly reverent, and it’s hard for it not to resonate as an echoing beacon of hope for what our dysfunctional country could be, coupled even with some sadness for what it currently may be. (Obviously the more jingoistic among us might have other interpretations of its tone.) And yesterday, it was T-Pain wowing the Dodger Stadium — and then the Internet — with his rendition of the song.

The visceral performance is especially noteworthy in juxtaposition T-Pain’s pioneering efforts in auto-tuning, and the fact that he’s become very much affiliated with the inorganic sound. But last night, opening the game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants, his gorgeous voice reminded people that the aforementioned style was a choice rather than a necessity. T-Pain seemed to throw himself into the performance — to the point that the couple of moments he’d seem to veer off key were, themselves, still pretty poignant.

As was announced just before the performance, T-Pain’s upcoming album, Stoicville: The Phoenix, will be released in November.

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker denies he's a career politician - even though he has been in elected office since he was 25 years old and first ran for office when he was 22.

You’ve got to love how they made the front and the back views consistently awful.

 

Whoa, now that’s a thigh gap! Thanks, Raquel, for spotting this hilarious disaster on her new package of undies.

The post InteRose Underwear: That’s Not How Thighs Work appeared first on PSD : Photoshop Disasters .

I am not Saturday Night Live’s newest cast member Jon Rudnitsky. But if I were, one thing I would have done upon learning that I had achieved my lifelong dream of being hired by Lorne Michaels was delete the following tweets and Vines.

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Beloved as a hip-hop eccentric, Kool Keith is best known for traveling at the speed of thought with the Ultramagnetic MC’s and, as a solo artist, embracing a wide range of brilliant personas, from Dr. Octagon to Black Elvis to Clean Man. Another of those characters goes by the name of Fly Ricky the Wine Taster, who once rhymed about “sippin’ real smooth wine” out of “galactic glasses” while wearing a bomber jacket. (See? You’re not the only one.) Given that choosing wine is hard (even your crappiest local retailer will have an array of colors, vintages, grapes, and countries to choose from), and seeing as how I once shared a post-interview glass of chardonnay with Keith himself in a dive bar, I wondered what kind of sagely advice the rapper might have for the wine enthusiast in all of us. Graciously, he agreed to another, more wine-centric interview. Here, then, are his thoughts on the topic; it turns out that Fly Ricky likes to keep it simple.

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....and it still looks like a middlebrow kids clothing brand logo.

So why are we doing this now? Once upon a time, Google was one destination that you reached from one device: a desktop PC. These days, people interact with Google products across many different platforms, apps and devices-sometimes all in a single day. You expect Google to help you whenever and wherever you need it, whether it's on your mobile phone, TV, watch, the dashboard in your car, and yes, even a desktop!

Today we're introducing a new logo and identity family that reflects this reality and shows you when the Google magic is working for you, even on the tiniest screens. As you'll see, we've taken the Google logo and branding, which were originally built for a single desktop browser page, and updated them for a world of seamless computing across an endless number of devices and different kinds of inputs (such as tap, type and talk).

Update: The design team shares how they came up with the new logo.

Update: When I said that Google's new logo "still looks like a middlebrow kids clothing brand logo", this is pretty much what I meant.

Gymboree's identity (1993-2000) vs. Google's new identity (Sep 01, 2015)

(via @buzz)

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