A pizza delivery man in Lafayette, Indiana, Nicholas Bostic, performed an incredible act of heroic selflessness when he was getting gas for his shift and noticed a house engulfed in flames, after which he bolted to the residence, covered his face from smoke inhalation, and saved five children from what would have been certain death. Cenk Uygur and Jessica Burbank discuss on The Young Turks.
“When emergency workers responded to a call about a fire in Lafayette, Ind., last week, they witnessed a house engulfed in flames and a man leaping out of a window with a child in his arms.
The man was later identified as Nicholas Bostic, 25, a local pizza delivery man who is now being hailed as a hero for rescuing two children and three teenagers from the burning house.
Bostic was seriously injured during the rescue and had to be flown to nearby Indianapolis for treatment of severe smoke inhalation and a large gash on his right arm, according to a press release from the Lafayette Police Department.
A few days after his ordeal, Bostic had recovered enough to recount his story to police.”
Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis saw the Daughters of the Confederacy schoolbooks and said hold my beer! DeSantis’ initiative to overhaul Florida Civics Training for Teachers is rolling out. Forget white washing, it is straight up rewriting history – especially when it comes to the Founding Fathers. No mention of the Founding Fathers owning slaves and according to Florida, they didn’t mean it when they said “separation of Church and State”.
A mother from Missouri calls in to tell the story of how she had to quickly cross state lines to get her teenage daughter an abortion before Roe v Wade was overturned.
The republicans of today have no decency or sense of decorum. They don’t live in reality, they make stuff up and lie as well as they breath. They are gang thugs who think winning at any cost is the goal. If it harms those they don’t like that is a plus benefit for them. We can not let these people take over the government, we must vote Democrat in the midterm elections no matter what. We have to have a functioning government for the people, not an oligarchy that uses government to produce their profit at the expense of the public. Hugs
Ryan Dark White, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Maryland under the name Jon McGreevey, has been arrested and charged with filing a false report after he allegedly told law enforcement an adult bookstore in Edgewood was forcing a young girl to perform sex acts on men, the Harford County Sheriff’s Office said.
The sheriff’s office now says the story was made up. “It is shameful that a candidate for public office would make up such a story and use it to further his own political agenda,” said Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey R. Gahler.
In April, a tipster provided information to detectives with the Harford County Sheriff’s Office that a man and a young girl between, 10-12 years old, entered an adult bookstore in the 3000 block of Pulaski Highway and the child was forced to perform sex acts on male customers, police said.
Sheriff Gahler added, “It is even more appalling that another individual, who is running for a law enforcement position, would embrace such an obviously false narrative in an effort to gain political traction – nothing more.” This swipe is apparently aimed at Andy Kuhl, who is running for Baltimore County sheriff as a Republican.
Kuhl told Law&Crime in an email that in his opinion, this was as political smear campaign against White–whom he called McGreevey–ahead of the upcoming primary.
In a statement, he called him a credible informant, told Law&Crime he showed up to the July 7 interview unannounced on White’s behalf, and accused detectives of strange behavior, such as messages about there being good news in the case. He told Law&Crime on the phone that he did not respond to those messages.
White/McGreevey reportedly told police that he was working at the bookstore as part of an undercover drug sting. That’s him with Kuhl in the video below.
A Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Maryland has charged with filing a false report after he allegedly told law enforcement an adult bookstore in Edgewood was trafficking children.
“It is shameful that a candidate for public office would make up such a story and use it to further his own political agenda,” said Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey R. Gahler.
Making up stories to further their political agenda is all the Republicon party has. It’s their brand. This scumbag is just aligning himself with the party’s core values.
It is okay for Republicans to go around with two names, the one they have on official records and one they chose for themselves, a nickname or whatever they’re more comfortable using.
A trans person choosing a name for themselves? Oh, no that can’t be allowed. It would be “confusing”. It goes against someone else’s religious beliefs. I’ve even seen it said that trans people changing their names snarls up the legal system, somehow making it impossible to conduct a complete criminal background check if or when necessary to do so..
“So let’s talk about children. Children are in the greatest danger in America today because traditional family values are being destroyed.
“The idea that mom and dad together – not fake mom and fake dad, but biological mom and biological dad – can raise their children together and do what’s right for their children.
“Raising them to be confident in who they are and in their identity. Their identity that they’re a child by God.” – Marjorie Taylor Greene, speaking to far-right troll Alex Stein.
Stein first appeared on JMG in March 2022 for a deranged “assassinate Putin” rap before a Texas city council.
This week he made headlines for sexually harassing AOC on the steps of the Capitol. Since then he’s been rewarded with appearances on many right wing shows and podcasts. Like Greene, Stein is a COVID denialist.
As a step-dad and a husband to a woman who was adopted, I take issue with the terms "fake mom and fake dad" https://t.co/g0dM4O3cNp
— Anagram Man aka @ConserveLetters@mstdn.social (@ConserveLetters) July 16, 2022
I don’t tweet politics nor usually care about the rantings of a moron. But as part of a family where we are blessed to have adopted members, her referring to non-biological parents as “fake mom and fake dad” is too offensive to ignore. https://t.co/3je5BTufme
I had a well-meaning co-worker who knew that I was married to a guy and had just adopted a baby who was mixed race. She asked if we were going to tell him he was adopted. I just looked at her until the light bulb came on. 🙂
I’m sure there are parents–re-married widows and widowers, divorced and re-married, parents of adopted children, and a dozen other combinations of parents who are not biological–who would be happy to disagree with you, Marge. This is why you sound like such an idiot when you speak, dear.
At least 23 people are dead and dozens more are injured after Russian missile strikes on the central city of Vinnytsia, Ukraine. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Holly Williams spoke with the Ukrainian defense minister about the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Hell in switching computer I not only once but twice started typing which may have led to the loss of comments on the blog. Sorry if you think this happened to you please comment agin. It happens so fast when that happens I can not catch it. Sorry. It almost made me sorry I wanted to post this. Hugs
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