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This District is telling teens they can't trust any of the adults whose job it is to guide them.What an awful message to send.

There's no better proof that the GOP doesn't give a damn about children, families, or women.

Our society has given up trying to prevent a single death.Now we're trying to prevent excess casualties in a mass shooting.This is the worst way to do it.

"I just didn't want to cash any more checks from the guy."

“I will not be answering to Puffy, Diddy, Puff Daddy, or any of my other monikers.”

For those of us who have been cooking for a long time, it can be a very good thing to sometimes step outside our comfort zones and be a complete beginner again. Humbling, to be sure, but good for our characters.

This is how I’ve felt over the past few months with my Instant Pot. Everything about it was new, from figuring out how to put the lid on and which buttons to push to getting used to the fact that I couldn’t just lift the lid to check on my food whenever I wanted to.

There was a lot of anxiety and a few oopsies, as well as a surprising number of successes, even in the early days.

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Court Mantua | c.1750—The mantua came from Tynninghame, near Dunbar, which became the principal country residence of the 1st Earl of Haddington in 1628 and remained so until the 1980s. Through marriage in the 18th century, the Earls of Haddington became connected to Mellerstain house, where the current Earl of Haddington lives. The National Museum of Scotland has around 162 items previously owned by the Earls of Haddington in the fashion and textile collection, dating from around 1720-1900.

The dress dates to when Thomas, 7th Earl of Haddington held the title and estates. In 1750 he married Mary Holt, widow of Gresham Lloyd, who became known as the Countess of Haddington. The Earl and the Countess appear to have led a socially active life with their peers, with their attendance at balls and hunts reported by Lloyd’s Evening Post. It is likely that this mantua may have belonged to Mary, Countess of Haddington, or another close female relation such as Mary’s daughter. #whattheywore #historicalfashion #fashion #fashiondesign #fashionhistory #historyoffashion #vintagefashion #art #vintage #historicfashion #defunctfashion #historicalfashion #costume #costumedesign #couture #costumehistory #18thcenturyfashion #mantua #nationalmuseumscotland

Washoe County sheriff's detectives are asking for help to find a man who stole about $15,000 worth of wine from a Raley's supermarket in Incline Village.

Does anyone think Pat Robertson would say the same thing if Hillary Clinton was the one in the White House?

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The first baseman says he didn't intend to offend Dodgers pitcher Yu Darvish with the comment.

“You’re going to be good, I know you’re going to cry but it’s okay to cry, you’re going to be okay.”

Unbelievable:

Braden Matejka survived a bullet to the head in the Las Vegas massacre. Then, the death threats started coming.

“You are a lying piece of shit and I hope someone truly shoots you in the head,” a commenter wrote to Matejka on Facebook, one week after a gunman killed 58 people and injured hundreds more. “Your soul is disgusting and dark! You will pay for the consequences!” said another. A Facebook meme quickly spread with a photo of him after the shooting, captioned: “I’m a lying cunt!”...

Conspiracy theorists – some of whom claim that the government staged the shooting on 1 October or that the tragedy was a hoax – have targeted survivors and victims’ loved ones, spamming every social media platform with misinformation and abuse. On Facebook and YouTube in particular, users have published viral posts and videos calling people like Braden “crisis actors”, alleging they were hired to pose as victims...

Friends and relatives posted messages of love and support in response. But soon, the nasty messages began to arrive, with strangers sending comments at such a rapid rate that it was hard for the family to keep up.

“Obviously a TERRIBLE CRISIS ACTOR,” wrote a Facebook user named Samantha. “HE’S SCAMMING THE PUBLIC … This was a government set up.”

“YOUR A LIAR AND THEFT PIECE OF CRAP [sic],” wrote Karen.

“You’ll pay on the other side,” said a user named Mach. Others called Braden a “LYING BASTARD”, “scumbag govt actor” and “fuckin FRAUD”, while one user named Josh wrote: “I hope someone comes after you and literally beats the living fuck outa you.” 

More details at The Guardian.   This is the world we live in.

For those who liked the above video, the one below offers more details on his remarkable life:

Because it's a day long associated with legends about ghosts and hauntings and demons and so on, Halloween is not a big favorite with the ultrareligious types.  It's interesting, however, that the day itself has a (sort of) Christian origin; in the Celtic calendar, there were twelve months of thirty days each, which left five days at the end that belonged to no month.  Because of this, they were thought to be days when all of the natural laws were suspended, the dead came back to life, and other special offers.  The culmination was the last of the five days, Samhain, on which your local priest was supposed to get together with the pious members of the village and fight back the forces of evil, after which there was a big celebration complete with high-fives about how they beat the hell out of the demons yet again.  This practice was later co-opted by kids, who would disguise themselves as demons and go from door to door, demanding a gift (a treat) in exchange for their not vandalizing your house (a trick).

The next day, November 1 (All Saints Day) was a holy day, celebrating the start of the new year and the triumph of good over evil, and a time to remember the dead, at least the ones who were buried on sanctified ground.  All Saints Day is sometimes called "All Hallows Day," so the day before is "Hallow's Eve."

And thus Halloween was born.

So the whole thing has a connection to some at-least-sort-of-Christian mythology, although its roots go back much further, to the pagan rites of the ancient Celts.  I suppose I can see how the ultrareligious would object to the whole thing.  But this still doesn't explain Linda Harvey, televangelist and founder of Mission:America, who said last week that you should definitely not let your kids participate in trick-or-treating, because it could...

... turn them gay.

I kid you not.  Harvey said:

Yes, America’s recent exaltation of Halloween as a festival second only to Christmas owes a lot to promotion by homosexuals and their new favorite comrades — gender-confused males and females. 

And as usual, the “LGBTQ” folks have no problem using any tool, Halloween included, to corrupt children.

How did she figure all this out?  It's hard to say, although she says she escaped from the magnetic lure of evil only by the skin of her teeth:

When I was 14, I had my own bizarre encounter with the enemy spirit world by experimenting with a Ouija board.  Since my parents were Episcopalians, I received no warnings of spiritual danger because at that time, they lacked a mature, informed level of faith. 

But when my friend and I asked the “board” questions, some unseen force pushed the pointer around.  At times, our fingers were hanging on for dear life as it flew around the board, often spelling out messages. 

I had little biblical background to understand what this presence surely was.  Now, I can only thank God for mercifully protecting me from being drawn more deeply into this spooky and alluring world where the unseen has real, tangible power.

What "this presence" was is the well-studied ideomotor effect, where people's conscious or subconscious thoughts drive their bodies to respond, often in such a way that it feels "reflexive" or out of their control.  So there's nothing much to a Ouija board, and it's only able to tell us what we already knew (or what we might imagine).  No evil "presence" required.

Oh, and Linda: that's a hell of a dig at the Episcopalians, not to mention your own parents.  I guess "ecumenism" forms no part of your religious practice, then?  Nor familial respect?

Fortunately for Linda and her followers, there's an alternate celebration available.  It's called -- and I am so not making this up -- "JesusWeen."  The idea is instead of dressing up in costume and getting candy on the evening of October 31, you dress in conservative clothing and pass out religious study materials.

I just bet the neighborhood kids are going to be busting down the front door to participate in that.

Anyhow, if you're planning on going out trick-or-treating tonight, be ready for attacks from Satan and coming back gay.  I guess we all have to decide what kind of risks we're willing to take.  And this is just me, but if I heard that a neighbor was passing out full-sized Mounds bars, I would throw caution to the wind with respect to either of these.

If conspiracy theorists could be swayed by facts and evidence, this video would be very powerful.

“The Press” Fancy Dress | c.1866 —
Significance statement
This dress belonged to Mrs Matilda Butters, second wife of colourful Melbourne politician and businessman James Stewart Butters. It was first worn at the mayor’s fancy dress ball in September 1866, held to celebrate the arrival of the new governor of Victoria, Sir J Manners-Sutton.

The dress was constructed from panels of silk printed with the front pages of Melbourne newspapers. The panels were sewn together to form a bodice, sash and full-length crinoline skirt with train. The skirt, which measured more than five metres around the bottom edge, was made up of 14 panels, each of which were separated and edged with gold braid. The front panels showed the new design for the Town Hall, a portrait of the just-appointed Victorian governor Sir H Manners-Sutton, and Mr Punch as portrayed on the front page ofMelbourne Punch.

To complete her costume, Mrs Butters wore a coronet headdress proclaiming, ‘Liberty of the press’ and carried a staff with a functioning miniature printing press. Throughout the night she used this press to print lines from Lord Byron’s poem 'Lara’ onto satin ribbons. The dress was in fact such a hit Mrs Butters wore it on a number of subsequent occasions.

The dress was made by Mrs William Dobbs of Gardiners Creek Road, South Yarra, about whom little else is known. The papers featured on the dress were The Age, Argus, Weekly Age, Leader, Australasian, Herald, Bell’s Life, Spectator, Journal of Commerce,Government Gazette, Dicker’s Mining Record, Illustrated Australian News, and Punch.

The majority of the panels for the skirt and train were printed from the actual plates and type of the newspapers by Blundell & Ford, a well-known Melbourne printing firm. The exceptions were the Argus and Government Gazette, who printed their own panels.

Widely regarded as one of the great 19th-century printed works in Australia, the silk panels of printed newspaper are still readable – testament to the skill of the printers. #whattheywore #historicalfashion #fashion #fashiondesign #fashionhistory #historyoffashion #vintagefashion #art #vintage #historicfashion #defunctfashion #historicalfashion #costume

I don't remember anything like this when I was a child trick-or-treating on Halloween. The few fundamentalist Christians in the neighborhood were far too afraid of Halloween to consider participating in it. I think some really thought their imaginary souls were in danger from demons who could possess them if they acknowledged Halloween. They simply turned off their porch lights, and we knew not to bother them.

The sort of Halloween candy dripping with Jesus pictured above seems like an improvement. As silly as it is for Christians to inject their Jesus into everything, at least those who hand out candy like this are participating in a fun holiday (by attempting to drain it of fun). Maybe atheists should get in on the act and use Halloween to promote reality. Then again, there are probably better occasions for that sort of thing (e.g., Easter, Christmas). Besides, I wouldn't want to ruin the fun of Halloween.

Law enforcement is warning parents about marijuana edibles that look similar to candy.

"More time equals more walking equals more exercise. Because of road construction, we need more time to walk around."

After seeing various versions of this Halloween-themed, zombie meatloaf on social media over the years, I decided it was time to post my very own. I’ve seen many approaches to this; such as covered in “blood,” or mummified in strips of pastry, but the ones wrapped in bacon always looked the most realistic, and the most appetizing.

Harshly worded letters from San Francisco officials to San Joaquin County leaders have put a stop to renaming the region’s airport.

Cereal maker Kellogg’s is replacing Corn Pops artwork after a tweet brought concerns to the company’s attention.

A new poll finds that a majority of white Americans believe they face discrimination.

A Lincoln-based coffee company is making headlines with the industry's first compostable single-serve coffee pod.

A man who assaulted a woman over alleged adultery got a reduced sentence after judges said the Bible condemns what she did.

Phil Robertson shows us that saying you're religious means you can lie about anything.

She won the tournament, but will not receive the first-place trophy.