Jealous Tennessee man allegedly smacks around his girlfriend because she had a pic of another guy on her Facebook page - but it was Mitt Romney

 

Mitt Romney should campaign more in Tennessee: a jealous resident of the Volunteer State confronted his girlfriend over a picture of a man on her Facebook page — and had no idea it was the GOP presidential candidate.
Lowell Turpin, 40, was arrested on suspicion of domestic assault last week following a violent confrontation with his live-in girlfriend over what he thought was a pic of a romantic rival on her Facebook page, police said.
The apparently news-blind boyfriend from Clinton, Tenn., “angrily demanded to know who the male was” — totally unaware that the man with the graying hair was the Republican presidential nominee, an incident report from the Anderson County Sheriff's Department noted.

Jealous Tennessee man allegedly smacks around his girlfriend because she had a pic of another guy on her Facebook page - but it was Mitt Romney     - NY Daily News

Ritchie disinvited to speak at Minneapolis Catholic church; appearance: "just not appropriate"

 
 Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, who had been invited to speak at St. Joan of Arc Church. Since Ritchie has been outspoken about the upcoming constitutional amendments, the church has rescinded their invitation. 

After consultation with archdiocese officials, a Minneapolis Catholic church is rescinding a speaking invitation for Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, who is at the center of several controversies related to constitutional amendments on this fall's ballot.
Minnesota's top election official, Ritchie was invited to speak prior to Mass on Sunday, Aug. 12 at St. Joan of Arc Church in South Minneapolis. His talk was entitled "A Spiritual Path for Democracy."
Jim Accurso, spokesman for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, said Ritchie was not expected to address the constitutional amendments in his talk. But because he's been a high-profile target of amendment-related criticism, his appearance is "just not appropriate," Accurso said.
"The invitation to him is in the process of being withdrawn," Accurso said Tuesday afternoon. "He will not be speaking on the 12th."



Ritchie disinvited to speak at Minneapolis Catholic church; appearance: "just not appropriate" - TwinCities.com

Taurus Buys Heritage Manufacturing - Handguns

 

Taurus just announced its acquisition of Heritage Manufacturing, which makes rimfire and centerfire single-action revolvers. The company didn’t disclose the terms of the acquisition.

Heritage Manufacturing, like Taurus’ U.S. subsidiary, is located in Florida. It was founded in 1992, and its flagship Rough Rider SA revolvers are affordable designs that include a .22 LR/.22 Mag. combo and .45, .357  and .32 H&R models. The Rough Rider combo rimfire gun is available in a wide variety of grips and finishes; most are in the mid-$200 range. The .32 H&R goes for around $300, and the .45s and .357s range between $480 and $550. Heritage Manufacturing also has a good-looking and well-rounded line of holsters and other gun-leather goods, plus accessories and parts.


Taurus Buys Heritage Manufacturing - Handguns

Investigators charge Russian protest leader Navalny as Kremlin expands crackdown on dissent

MOSCOW - Russian authorities charged Alexei Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin's fiercest critics, with theft on Tuesday, threatening him with a 10-year prison sentence as the Kremlin ramps up a crackdown on dissent. Navalny rejected the charges as "weird" and baseless.
Navalny, a 36-year-old anti-corruption crusader and popular blogger, has played a key role in rallying Russia's young Internet generation against Putin's rule. Over the winter, the lawyer spearheaded a series of rallies in Moscow that drew up to 100,000 people to the streets ahead of the March vote that handed Putin a third presidential term.
The State Investigative Committee said Tuesday that it suspects Navalny of organizing a scheme to steal assets from a state timber company totaling 16 million rubles (about half a million dollars). He was ordered not to leave Moscow as the committee pursues an investigation against him.
In Russia, authorities file initial charges to open a criminal probe, long before reaching the trial stage. In any case, Navalny insisted to reporters, "The charges are absolutely absurd."
Since Putin's re-election, the Russian government has struck back at the opposition, arresting some activists and using legislation to try curbing its activities.

Investigators charge Russian protest leader Navalny as Kremlin expands crackdown on dissent | StarTribune.com

Man's dying wish for $500 tip inspires charity

 LEXINGTON, Ky.—As Seth Collins finished his penne pasta at a Lexington restaurant, he called over the waitress to fulfill his brother's dying wish.
He explained to her that his 30-year-old brother Aaron recently passed away, but that he'd left instructions in his will to leave a $500 tip for a server.
Then Seth Collins handed the waitress a stack of $20 bills.
The waitress, Chelsea Powell, took the money reluctantly and then smiled and said: "Are you kidding me?" She laughed nervously and had to cover her mouth from the excitement before giving Collins a hug.
The big tip at Bella Notte restaurant was the second $500 gratuity Seth Collins has left since Aaron Collins died on July 7. And the tips will keep coming, thanks to more than $47,000 in donations from people inspired by Aaron Collins' dying act of charity.


Man's dying wish for $500 tip inspires charity - TwinCities.com

Seattle Times: Michele Bachmann deserves censure

 She deserve the same censure in Congress that Joseph McCarthy received for his witch hunt for Communists 60 years ago.
 Seattle Times: Michele Bachmann deserves censure | StarTribune.com

Washington Post: Bachmann's politics of slime

 Bachmann's accusations are in the squalid tradition of McCarthyism and other shameful chapters of our history in which politicians have slandered their rivals as un-American
 
 o conspiracy theorists like Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., the Obama administration's approach to the Arab world is the product not of considered diplomacy but of wicked "influence operations," traceable to the Muslim Brotherhood and its agents.
Exhibit A among those agents with murky "ties" to the Muslim Brotherhood, Bachmann warns darkly, is Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Bachmann's smear of Abedin, a 37-year-old Muslim American born and educated in this country, was contained in a letter last month to the State Department's inspector general's office.
It would be simple to ignore the baseless and paranoid assertions of  Bachmann were she not a member of Congress and an also-ran in the recent race for the Republican presidential nomination.
Washington Post: Bachmann's politics of slime | StarTribune.com

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Toddler found alive in dead mother's arms after being flung from home by tornado

 
 VENUS, Fla. –  A Florida toddler was miraculously found alive in the arms of her dead mother Sunday after they were flung approximately 200 feet from their home by a tornado spawned by Tropical Storm Debby.
Toddler found alive in dead mother's arms after being flung from home by tornado | Fox News

Some of the deadliest mass shootings around world

  July 20, 2012: At least 12 people are killed when a gunman enters an Aurora, Colo., movie theater, releases a canister of gas and then opens fire during opening night of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises."
— July 22, 2011: At least 80 people are killed at a summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utoya. A man arrested also is suspected in a blast earlier the same day in downtown Oslo that killed seven. Anders Behring Breivik, 33, has admitted to carrying out both attacks. He awaits sentencing on Aug. 24.
— April 30, 2009: Farda Gadyrov, 29, enters the prestigious Azerbaijan State Oil Academy in the capital, Baku, armed with an automatic pistol and clips. He kills 12 people before killing himself as police close in.
— March 10, 2009: Michael McLendon, 28, killed 10 people — including his mother, four other relatives, and the wife and child of a local sheriff's deputy — across two rural Alabama counties. He then killed himself.
— Sept. 23, 2008: Matti Saari, 22, walks into a vocational college in Kauhajoki, Finland, and opens fire, killing 10 people and burning their bodies with firebombs before shooting himself fatally in the head.
— Nov. 7, 2007: After revealing plans for his attack in YouTube postings, 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen fires kills eight people at his high school in Tuusula, Finland.
— April 16, 2007: Seung-Hui Cho, 23, kills 32 people and himself on Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va.
— April 26, 2002: Robert Steinhaeuser, 19, who had been expelled from school in Erfurt, Germany, kills 13 teachers, two former classmates and policeman, before committing suicide.
— April 20, 1999: Students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., killing 12 classmates and a teacher and wounding 26 others before killing themselves in the school's library.
— April 28, 1996: Martin Bryant, 29, bursts into cafeteria in seaside resort of Port Arthur in Tasmania, Australia, shooting 20 people to death. Driving away, he kills 15 others. He was captured and imprisoned.
  March 13, 1996: Thomas Hamilton, 43, kills 16 kindergarten children and their teacher in elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and then kills himself.
— Oct. 16, 1991: A deadly shooting rampage took place in Killeen, Texas, as George Hennard opened fire at a Luby's Cafeteria, killing 23 people before taking his own life. 20 others were wounded in the attack.
— June 18, 1990: James Edward Pough shoots people at random in a General Motors Acceptance Corp. office in Jacksonville, Fla., killing 10 and wounding four, before killing himself.
— Dec. 6, 1989: Marc Lepine, 25, bursts into Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique college, shooting at women he encounters, killing nine and then himself.
— Aug. 19, 1987: Michael Ryan, 27, kills 16 people in small market town of Hungerford, England, and then shoots himself dead after being cornered by police.
— July 12, 1976: Edward Charles Allaway, a custodian in the library of California State University, Fullerton, fatally shot seven fellow employees and wounded two others.
— Aug. 20, 1986: Pat Sherrill, 44, a postal worker who was about to be fired, shoots 14 people at a post office in Edmond, Okla. He then kills himself.
— July 18, 1984: James Oliver Huberty, an out-of-work security guard, kills 21 people in a McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro, Calif. A police sharpshooter kills Huberty.
— Aug. 1, 1966: Charles Whitman opened fire from the clock tower at the University of Texas at Austin, killing 16 people and wounding 31.Some of the deadliest mass shootings around world | Wausau Daily Herald | wausaudailyherald.com