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Sgt. Slaughter Praises WWE For Saudia Arabia Match
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Saturday, December 8, 2018
Sgt. Slaughter Praises WWE For Saudia Arabia Match
Monday, September 10, 2018
"L&HH" Star Moniece Slaughter Files Police Report Against Princess Love
The raging feud between ‘Love & Hip Hop’ stars Moniece Slaughter and Princess Love has reached a new level … cops have now gotten involved. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … Moniece filed a police report after she and…
Friday, March 16, 2018
Louise Slaughter Dies; Trailblazing Congresswoman Was 88
The House of Representatives has lost one of its most courageous voices.
New York Rep. Louise Slaughter has passed away at the age of 88.
Slaughter had been hospitalized since being injured in a fall at her home last week.
She was the oldest sitting member of Congress.
News of Slaughter’s death was confirmed today by her chief of staff Liam Fitzsimmons.
“To have met Louise Slaughter is to have known a force of nature,” Fitzsimmons said in a statement issued to several media outlets.
Indeed, Slaughter was a true rarity in the House of Representatives – a stalwart ideologue and shrewd negotiator who was also beloved by her colleagues on both sides of the aisle.
First elected to represent New York’s 25th congressional district in 1986, Slaughter played key roles in shaping several historic pieces of legislation.
She co-authored the Violence Against Women Act in 1994, but she might be best remembered for her role in helping to build congressional support for Obamacare as Rules Committee chairwoman in 2010.
Slaughter was a longtime ally of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who paid tribute to her late friend in a statement issued moments ago:
“With her passing, the Congressional community has lost a beloved leader and a cherished friend,” Pelosi said.
“Her strong example inspired countless young women to know their power, and seek their rightful place at the head of the decision-making table.”
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan ordered the flags above the Capitol Building lowered to half mast in Slaughter’s honor:
“She was unrelenting in fighting for her ideas and the people back home in Western New York,” Ryan said today.
“But really, the thing that I keep coming back to is how she was tough, but unfailingly gracious. She was simply great.”
In the hours since the congresswoman’s death, Slaughter’s name has become a trending topic on Twitter thanks to thousands of heartfelt tributes from colleagues and admirers from all over the political spectrum.
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Ree Drummond Accused of Supporting Wild Horse Slaughter
Even if you’ve never watched Ree Drummond’s Pioneer Woman, you’ve probably seen her on The View or the Today Show or Good Morning America.
Cooking show hosts usually aren’t that controversial. Some are funny, some are hot, some are gay icons, some become memes.
Ree Drummond, however, is no stranger to being divisive. This time, she’s accused of supporting a mass horse slaughter.
Ree Drummond runs a blog titled Pioneer Woman, and it’s all about cooking for her family.
They live on a ranch in Oklahoma where her young children are homeschooled, so that’s the general vibe that she has going for her.
Ree has a cooking show, Pioneer Woman.
Of course, Ree Drummond has been accused of racism in the past.
At one point, she joked about having confused having a tan with being black.
Another time, she pulls “Asian hot wings” out of the oven as a game day snack, and members of her crew protest that they don’t “trust” the wings.
(To be clear: there are a lot of Asian and Asian-inspired wing sauce flavors; someone claiming to dislike or mistrust them might be xenophobic and definitely has bad taste, but that particular instance wasn’t necessarily racist)
This time, however, Ree Drummond stands accused of something very different.
Earlier this month, she traveled to Arizona and spoke at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s trade show, writing on Facebook:
“The irony of me speaking to 3,500 cattlemen and cattlewomen was not lost on me, and it was an honor to speak about how much I’ve enjoyed sharing glimpses of ranch life on my blog, TV show, and social media for the past twelve (!) years.”
She received the Distinguished Service Award at the event.
But now she’s being slammed for partnering with an organization that allegedly supports the mass slaughter of Federally protected wild horses.
As reported by RadarOnline, Director of Wild Horse Affairs for the Wild Horse Freedom Federation, Debbie Coffey, writes:
“For many years, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association has been pushing for the slaughter of America’s wild horses & burros, and their organization was listed on the Steering Committee of the secretive ‘Slaughter Summit’ held in Utah in 2017”
Coffey effectively accuses Ree Drummond of hypocrisy, of using horse motifs as part of her branding.
Furthermore, it looks like she believes that the Drummonds are making money from both sides of the wild horse issue.
“All the while, Drummond Land & Cattle Co., co-owned by Ree’s husband, Ladd Drummond, has been paid over $ 20 million in taxpayer dollars to warehouse captured wild horses on his private property.”
Coffey says: “Talk about buttering your bread on both sides.”
For those who aren’t steeped in the culture of … well, pretty much anything with hooves … the “Horse Slaughter Summit” in Utah was an invitation-only event for groups and individuals who believe that, well, wild horse populations need to be culled.
Wild horses are federally protected (animals who aren’t federally protected often run the risk of being hunted to extinction, for food or hides or for sport or simply because humans with guns find them inconvenient).
You’d think that a “horse slaughter” summit, which is emphatically not what they called it, would be about normalizing horse meat in the American diet or something.
(Eating horse is almost taboo, even though unlike dogs, cats, and humans, horses are rarely family members or part of society; this is inherited from British culture)
But this was actually about certain people feeling that the rangelands cannot sustain growing horse populations, and that some should be “humanely euthanized.”
We don’t know the true motives of everyone at the summit — some of them, at least, were certainly looking after their own financial interests. Wild horses can be inconvenient to some ranchers.
But no one is accusing Ree Drummond herself of having been there.
All that she did was address a cattle industry group. It absolutely fits her brand and we don’t see anything particularly sinister or hypocritical about her actions.
In fact, if her husband makes money off of wild horses being alive, doesn’t that — if anything — give her motive to want more wild horses around?
Just a thought.
Thursday, September 14, 2017
"Love and Hip Hop Hollywood" Star Moniece Slaughter Accused of Weird Check Scheme
“Love and Hip Hop Hollywood” star Moniece Slaughter was taken to court by a friend of hers who claims her former NBA star boyfriend wrote checks in the friend’s name to pay her rent. Timothy Clayton Roulhac-Carr claims he used to her Moniece’s good…
"Love and Hip Hop Hollywood" Star Moniece Slaughter Accused of Weird Check Scheme
“Love and Hip Hop Hollywood” star Moniece Slaughter was taken to court by a friend of hers who claims her former NBA star boyfriend wrote checks in the friend’s name to pay her rent. Timothy Clayton Roulhac-Carr claims he used to her Moniece’s good…
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Aleppo Residents Record Mass Slaughter in Real Time, Tweet Goodbye
With the Syrian army closing in this week on rebel-held areas in Aleppo, thousands of civilians in this war-torn city have been trapped in small pockets of opposition territory.
By some estimates, 50,000 residents are essentially waiting to either be killed or taken hostage, sitting helplessly in a one-square mile radius of town.
A UN spokesman has referred to the horrific situation as a “complete meltdown of humanity.”
Earlier this month, a seven-year old girl named Bana Alabed made global headlines when she posted multiple messages on social media that implied she and her mother were about to be captured.
Alabed and her mom, Fatemah – who have been tweeting the horrors from East Aleppo since September – appear to have avoided said capture…
… but they now fear as if their days on Earth are numbered.
Tweeted Fatemah on Monday:
She has since written the following, posted about seven hours ago:
“Dear world, there’s intense bombing right now. Why are you silent? Why? Why? Why? Fear is killing me & my kids.”
Here is a photo of Bana Alabed:
Fatemah is far from the only Aleppo resident recording this mass slaughter in real time.
As events continue to unfold in the area and the death toll continues to mount, those trapped in the city are screaming at the world over social media, saying goodbye forever; wondering why no one is helping them; or both.
“This may be my last video. More than 50,000 civilians who rebelled against the dictator [Syrian President Bashar] al-Assad are threatened with field executions or are dying under bombing,” Lina Shamy, an activist in eastern Aleppo, said in a video shared on Twitter.
Calls for a ceasefire by the United Nations have been ignored by Syria and Russia, who is aiding the government with an intensive air campaign.
Officials from these nations have vowed to continue the offensive until the rebels surrender or die.
Elsewhere, a teacher and father (who tweets under the handle @Mr.Alhamdo) wrote on Tuesday afternoon of his simple desire to see his young daughter taste a banana for the first time.
He now doubts this will ever happen.
“I just wanted to make my daughter taste the banana,” he Tweeted. “She likes such food. She hasn’t tasted it yet. I might not be able to do that.”
There are no words to express how we feel about the situation in Aleppo.
It’s heartbreaking. It’s surreal. It’s the very worst of humanity.
We can only offer our thoughts and prayers to all involved.
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