Rockin' in old Paree...

 

This iconic photograph is titled Rock 'n' Roll sur les Quais de Paris (Rock 'n' Roll on the Quays of Paris), captured by Hungarian-French photographer Paul Almásy around 1950.

The scene depicts a couple dancing rock 'n' roll on the banks of the River Seine, with the stone arches of the Pont Saint-Michel bridge in the background.

Paul Almásy was based primarily in Paris, capturing vivid, empathetic black-and-white street scenes of post-war European life. He also began his extensive global documentation work for international organizations like UNICEF, UNESCO, and the WHO during this decade.

He made the French capital his primary home and creative focal point following World War II and traveled extensively across continents, documenting everyday life, reconstruction, and social conditions.

SoSueMe...

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You can keep your plastic bottles and cup...

Glass is one of the few materials that can be recycled forever. It doesn't break down or lose its strength. A glass bottle from 100 years ago could be melted down and turned into a new bottle today—just as strong and clear as the day it was made. Unlike plastics or paper, which degrade in quality during processing, glass maintains its chemical structure and can be remelted endlessly.

That's because glass is made from natural ingredients like sand, soda ash, and limestone. Recycling it saves energy and reduces waste. It's a simple, circular system that works—if we actually use it.

 Using recycled glass (cullet) significantly reduces energy consumption, lowers manufacturing temperatures, and cuts down carbon dioxide emissions.

A material that never wears out, and a reminder that some things are built to last. Like beer glasses and mugs...

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You gotta have a lot of faith - and no other options - for this move...

Video footage captures the moment a Berlin woman narrowly cheats death while leaping from her 11th-floor window onto a truck’s aerial platform as flames consumed the high-rise. The woman is seen dangling Friday as smoke and flames billow out of the window next to her, with a firefighter urging her to jump down onto the rescue truck two floors below.

Smoke and flames crept closer to her as she took the leap of faith, plummeting toward the firefighter, whose arms were outstretched. She landed safely in the rescue bucket before being lowered to the ground.

There you have my reason number four for never living anywhere were you have to take an elevator to get to your 'home'. I don't even like visiting people in buildings like that. I'll be living on the first floor of my one-story house with a lot of windows if ya need me, thank you very much...

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Kid musta skipped the 'good sportsmanship' class...

 

A South Dakota high school soccer player went viral for all the wrong reasons, kicking and repeatedly punching his opponent in the head on Friday, resulting in calls for a lifetime ban. The incident between Rapid City Central’s Jaxson Bergman and Brookings’ Kyle Soost occurred just before halftime of a match on Friday as the two fought for the ball.

Bergman shoved Soost to the ground after the latter got ahead of him, and instead of chasing the ball, attacked Soost. Bergman kicked him in the back of the head, then punched him five times in the head. Caylon Peters, one of Soost’s teammates, then came in and threw some punches at Bergman before the play was broken up.

A coach escorted Bergman away from the field and he reportedly did not return to the match, which was suspended for 10 minutes before order resumed, according to Matt Kerney, a South Dakota preps reporter who posted video of the incident on X.  Many on social media are calling for Bergman to suffer a lifetime ban from playing soccer. Here's video of the attack - it starts at the beginning of the play. Watch for the little badass who jumps the kicking kid:

https://x.com/MattKerney/status/2088696324795314610

I have a better idea. Take this punk-ass white kid over to the toughest black neighborhood - somewhere on MLK Blvd maybe - in Detroit or Chicago and just drop him there. See how he fares.  That should be sufficient payback. Juss' sayin'...

She may be our last HillBetty...

 

 

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It's always fire pit time...

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From lifetime loser to big time winner in one day...

In March 2019, 54-year-old Michael J. Weirsky was down on his luck. He was unemployed and had just gone through a divorce. Then, everything changed. He bought a Mega Millions ticket at a QuickChek in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, and won the $273 million jackpot.

But the win almost slipped away. Right after buying the ticket, he was distracted by his phone, left it on the counter, and walked out. A stranger found it and gave it to the store clerk, who kept it safe. 

When Weirsky returned the next day, he got his ticket back. He didn't realize he’d won until checking the numbers two days later.

The store clerk who held the ticket, Phil Campolo, was later identified. Weirsky said he planned to reward him but kept the amount private. He also said he planned to buy a new pickup truck and a car for his mother. A story of near-miss luck, a kind stranger, and a second chance.

Just one question - how do you stay 'unemployed' for 15 years? 

(Asking for a friend)

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Calvin's always in color on Sundays...

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She mighta been bi-, at least she wasn't a tranny......

  Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema opened up about the sordid details of her dalliance with her then-married ex-bodyguard during a deposition in the $75,000 “homewrecker” suit brought by his angry ex-wife. Sinema (I-Ariz.), the first openly bisexual person elected to Congress, fessed up to having repeated sex with Matthew Ammel in cities across America in an affair that upended his 14-year marriage. She confessed that she first had sex with Ammel, her then-bodyguard, around Memorial Day of 2024, two years after he began working on her security team. “We were staying at an Airbnb in Napa, California. We were outside. Matt kissed me. We went inside and had sex,” the former senator explained during her July 31 deposition, court records show.

Ammel’s ex-wife, Heather Ammel, a mother of three, sued Sinema last year, taking advantage of her home state North Carolina’s “homewrecker law,” which permits women to sue their ex-spouse’s mistresses. Sinema, 50, pushed the suit to federal court in January in a bid to argue that the dalliance took place outside of North Carolina.

Ya fucked him - what difference does it make where? People suck.

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Justice for the sea lion...

An 18-year-old jerkoff from California has admitted he kicked a sea lion in a video that went viral recently, and has pleaded guilty to a federal crime. Tyler Muehl, of San Diego’s La Jolla neighborhood, faces up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine after acknowledging in court on Thursday that he violated the Marine Mammal Protection Act’s prohibition on harassment of wildlife.

In court papers, Muehl conceded that he repeatedly kicked a protected sea lion that was peacefully sitting on a wall in La Jolla Cove near Ellen Browning Scripps Park on the night of 22 July 2026. He said he went up to the animal with his hands up as if he were readying himself to fight the sea lion.

Muehl confessed to kicking the sea lion four times. 

He twice kicked the creature’s face, causing it to “rear, flinch and immediately recoil” as well as prompting it to try to flee. Muehl then chased the sea lion and kicked the animal a third time as it stumbled on the wall, prosecutors said in their statement.

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Flock me? No - flock you, pal...

 Has your vehicle been searched by Flock cameras? 

Here’s how to check...  

A website is allowing drivers to see if Flock surveillance cameras have searched for their vehicle. HaveIBeenFlocked allows users to type their license plate number into a search bar to run through a series of “audit logs” within the Flock system, according to the website.

The data from the cameras is made available through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Those sources are made publicly available. The results do not show if a vehicle passed by any of the Flock cameras, or what the devices may have returned, but rather what searches of a license plate were performed by agencies that use Flock cameras.

HaveIBeenFlocked also tracks reasons for Flock searches, still based on public records. The most common reason appeared to be related to drugs, closely followed by motor vehicle theft. According to the website, license plate numbers entered in are not saved.

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On his days off, Andrew Lumish, of Land O' Lakes, Florida, isn't relaxing - he's in a cemetery, scrubbing decades of grime off headstones. In 2015, while taking photos at a historic cemetery in Tampa, he noticed how many veteran graves were so covered in mold and mildew that the names were unreadable. He decided to do something about it.

His work is both a tribute to the fallen and a personal mission. He was deeply affected by the suicide of a friend and employee, an Air Force veteran with PTSD, and now cleans in his honor. "They paid the ultimate sacrifice to our country," he says, "and to see that they faded away was something I didn't find acceptable".

He uses careful methods, avoiding harsh chemicals like bleach that can damage old stone. He often shares the stories of the people he uncovers, like a Civil War veteran wounded at Shiloh. "We uncover heroes," he says. In his own words: "I do feel pride. But it's not necessarily for me. It's because I'm able to tell a story about their lives". 

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With Platner gone and Jackson seemingly in, their newest candidate in Maine is also running in to flack for domestic abuse charges, along with a bunch of other shit, not the least of which is knocking up his own cousin - more than once. Looks to me like Susan Collins' job is fairly secure, but then again...

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This iconic photograph titled "Country store on a dirt road, Sunday afternoon" was captured by renowned American documentary photographer Dorothea Lange in July 1939 in Gordonton, Person County, North Carolina.

Local men sitting on the porch of a rural wooden country store covered in vintage tobacco and beverage advertisements, with the store owner's brother standing in the doorway. The original was, of course, in B&W, but I couldn't help myself. It's too rich in details - I had to colorize it...

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A lucky-to-be-alive Marine pilot covered in blood miraculously walked away relatively unscathed from a fiery fighter jet crash in Washington state and casually said into a phone “Hey, buddy, I just crashed,” newly released video shows.

The battered and bloodied pilot, assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 11, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing in Miramar, Ca., is seen on the phone to 911 when he approaches responding deputies on the side of a road near the crash site on June 13, in the footage released by the Yakima County Sheriff’s Office. “That’s an F-18,” the pilot tells the deputies. “Well, that was an F-18.”

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Back in 1940, before the US got involved in the war, America was becoming a battleground of ideas as European fascism gained supporters in this country. Activists were working to deepen the country’s divisions of race, religion, labor, and wealth.

The Nazi government of Germany saw these national disagreements as democracy’s fatal weakness. Adolph Hitler believed America was perpetually on the brink of civil war because immigrants had brought the ancient feuds and prejudices of the old world to their new home. As the Nazis achieved more victories, they expected to see a spontaneous movement in the U.S. for cooperation with Germany. They didn’t expect Americans would support Naziism, but many would see it as acting in their own interests.

Meanwhile, Hitler was counting on demagogues to deepen the country’s divisions and weaken its defenses. He had so much faith in these activists that he thought he’d never have to invade the U.S.

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There is a river in north Florida so clear that from above, your kayak looks like it is floating on air. The Ichetucknee rises from a cluster of springs near Fort White, pushing out millions of gallons of cool, filtered water every single day at a steady 72 degrees, no matter the season.

For generations, this spring fed run has been a place of quiet pilgrimage. Families float its gentle current on lazy summer afternoons, drifting past waving eelgrass, turtles sunning on logs, and herons stalking the shallows beneath a canopy of ancient oaks and cypress. In 1972 the state stepped in to protect it, and much of the river remains as wild and pristine as it was a century ago. 

Places like this are the real Florida, the one that existed long before the highways and the crowds. Every drop of that water fell as rain, then spent years traveling slowly through the limestone underground before rising back into the light.

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Within just five short miles of my house in any direction, there are a total of 11 mattress stores. ELEVEN. You tell me that ain't some kinda money-laundering scheme, 'cause there just ain't no fucking way these places can sell that many mattresses.

There are no less than ten car washes and four storages places in that same radius. The storage places I get, because so many people move here with too much shit, they're down-sizing to smaller houses and they can't bring themselves to let go of anything. My own brother has had a storage unit up in Jersey for nearly 20 years. Can't tell him shit - he thinks of it as additional rent on his apartment.

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I can imagine that almost every guy, at one time or another in their lives, has had their own personal 'Jenny'. I know I did. Her name was Nancy, and she was beautiful - and bat-shit fuckin' crazy.

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 This is the historic Doochary Bridge (Droichead na Dúchoradh) crossing the river in the rural village of Doochary, located in County Donegal, Ireland. Doochary is a scenic, quiet village set in the heart of the Donegal's glens and boglands along the Gweebarra River.

The old stone arch bridge is a central feature of the local heritage, surrounded by lush greenery, traditional rural buildings, and nearby spots like the historic Old Garda (Police) Station, that's now a B&B.

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