1) Sword wielder attacks Ice Cream Truck
2) Maine Tells PETA Hands off our Lobsters
3) Trump Speechwriter Attends Conference Featuring White Nationalists
4) Heathrow Airport LONG passport clearance waits
5) FL Political Candidate Admits She Lied that she has a degree
6) White House to Sell off Utah National Monument land (8/16/18)
7) 2 New Amazon Prime Shows we will watch
ONLY IN THE UK - ICE CREAM VAN ATTACKED BY MAN BRANDISHING SAMURAI SWORD
A man who attacked an ice cream van and threatened its owner with a Samurai sword in front of "screaming" children has been jailed. Jamie Tickle was drunk and high on cocaine when he climbed into the van and waved the sword as a woman was serving three children on 1 July.A MAINE NEWSPAPER ISN’T HAVING PETA’S ANTI-LOBSTER-EATING CAMPAIGN
On Twitter, PETA said the Maine Anti-Lobster Eating campaign urges people at the airport “to see lobsters as the individuals they are.” The Portland Press Herald newspaper editorial board is unequivocal in its opinion of PETA's attempt to get people to stop eating lobster: "Nice try, but move along."
TRUMP SPEECHWRITER ATTENDS CONFERENCE FEATURING WHITE NATIONALISTS
Trump speechwriter was fired last week because of media inquiries about his appearance at a conference featuring prominent white nationalists. Darren Beattie was terminated after the White House learned he had appeared on a panel with British white nationalist Peter Brimelow at the 2016 Mencken Club conference in the Baltimore area, CNN reported. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremists, called the conference a gathering of “white nationalists and pseudo-academic and academic racists.” The theme of the 2016 event was “The Right Revisited.” VIDEO REPORT: https://youtu.be/dVsJOx2IZ00
HEATHROW AIRPORT PASSPORT QUEUES REACH 2.5 HOURS
Delays at Heathrow Airport passport control left
passengers queuing for up to two and a half hours in July 2018, figures show. The government said it would send 200 extra
staff to Heathrow this summer. According to the data, the longest immigration queues
were on 6 July when travellers from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) -
an area made up of 31 European countries - had to wait in line for up to two
hours and 36 minutes.
*CAUGHT IN THE ACT- GOP CANDIDATE ADMITS FAKING DIPLOMA Republican candidate Melissa Howard, who is running for office in Florida, has admitted she faked her university diploma — but said on 8-10-18 she will not exit the race. Howard is seeking the GOP nomination for an open seat in the Florida House of Representatives’ 73rd District. UPDATE ON 8-15-18: FAKE DIPLOMA CANDIDATE DROPS OUT GOP candidate Melissa Howard has finally dropped out of the race for the Florida state House after admitting she faked her diploma.
WHITE HOUSE TO SELL OFF UTAH MONUMENT LAND The Trump administration is considering transferring or selling more than 1,600 acres of federal land that until recently was protected as part of Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. [HuffPost]
HERE ARE 2 of THE FIVE BEST AMAZON PRIME ORIGINAL SERIES OF 2018 SO FAR.
ONE FOR TOM:
“A Very English Scandal”
Premise: A secretly gay British politician has a fling with a man in the 1960s. This romantic partner ultimately threatens to reveal the love affair, which would ruin the politician’s career. The politician uses increasingly desperate measures to try to make this problem disappear. (The show is a dramatization of the real Thorpe affair, between the politician Jeremy Thorpe and his lover, Norman Josiffe.)
ONE FOR ROB:
THE TICKPremise: Superheroes and super-villains have invaded Earth, creating a warped normalcy. As a child,
the protagonist became famous for witnessing a super-villain kill his father and his city’s superhero team (major cities have superhero teams). Now a young man, the protagonist still suffers from the trauma of this moment and has visions others can’t see. He befriends a superhero that may or may not be in his mind. Together, the duo tries to destroy the super-villain that killed his father.
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