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August 11, 2021

British Anti-Vaxxers Try Storming BBC, Attack Wrong Building Entirely

It’s Wonkette but there’s a link there to the Washington Post story on it.

A mob of angry anti-vaccine protesters tried to shut down the British Broadcasting Corporation's news operations Monday, only to be thwarted by its leaders' complete ignorance about where in London the BBC actually is these days. The protesters tried to invade Television Centre in West London, although it hasn't housed the BBC since 2013.

The Beeb moved its operations to another building, Broadcasting House, five miles away, and the Television Centre building was remodeled to house upscale apartments, a private club, some restaurants, and, yes, some TV studios owned by the BBC, but which are rented out for morning news and daytime talk shows on ITV, a completely different network. Nonetheless, the protesters showed up at the old offices to condemn the BBC for "promoting" the vaccines as a reasonable public health effort.

https://twitter.com/afneil/status/1424760271000702987?s=21

As to why the anti-vaxxers went to the wrong location, we can only speculate that it was some sort of homeopathic protest aimed at influencing the BBC's coverage by barging into its former offices, creating a harmonic vibration that would bring the current BBC to its knees.

Or they could just be dipshits.

https://www.wonkette.com/british-anti-vaxxers-try-storming-bbc-attack-wrong-building-entirely

August 11, 2021

BREAKING to Fox News - Tesla's don't have tail pipes 😆😆😆



"Tesla wasn't invited to the White House event," Baier said, noting that Musk had complained in a tweet.

"Why was that?" the Fox News host asked. "Was it because Tesla is not unionized?"

"We were celebrating the other day the fact that we brought together labor leadership and the leadership of many of these employers of UAW," Buttigieg explained. "Now, what we are working on in our department and what we were announcing that day was tailpipe emissions standards."

"To their credit, an all-electric company like Tesla doesn't even have tailpipes and that's an exciting thing to see too," the secretary added.

https://www.rawstory.com/pete-buttigieg-fox-news-tesla/
August 8, 2021

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August 8, 2021

Ellen's Restaurant (Dallas). You can do anything you want...but you're wearing a mask 😷 😆👍





Brunch all day
https://www.gritsrule.com/full-menu


Amid a covid resurgence, a restaurant is requiring masks again — and bracing for confrontation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/01/dallas-restaurant-mask-rules/

“This whole thing with people not wanting to mask up, we’re tired of it,” Ellen’s CEO Joe Groves said. “You can have all the political opinions you want, but when you come into this restaurant and berate an 18-year-old hostess that we have in our offices, you’ve crossed the line, and I’m tired of it.”

“We care about keeping people safe and keeping people healthy, and there are far more people that agree with us than don’t,” Groves said. “It’s just a matter of how are we willing to tackle it.”


https://www.ellens.com/about
August 8, 2021

Trump actually said this? 😳🙄 "If I were president right now...(COVID numbers)

"Well, first of all, could you imagine if I were president right now and we had this massive attack from the coronavirus, you know, now they like to call it, they have new names and they have other new names, but it's exactly what we had, we had the same thing," Trump suggested. "If that were me, they would say 'what a horrible thing, what a horrible job.' These are numbers in some cases that are equivalent to what it was, but we don't hear that."


https://twitter.com/mollyjongfast/status/1424344917028057096?s=21


https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-19/

August 8, 2021

US WOMEN WIN 7th GOLD MEDAL IN A ROW

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

August 7, 2021

Pamela and JaVale McGee become the first mother-son gold-medal duo in Olympics history


https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/31977111/pamela-javale-mcgee-become-first-mom-son-gold-medal-duo-olympics-history


Hall of Famer and USC Trojans legend Pamela McGee and her son, JaVale McGee, are the first mother and son to win gold medals in Olympic history.

Pamela was a member of the 1984 squad that defeated South Korea 85-55 to win gold at the Olympics. Thirty-seven years later, JaVale secured a gold medal at the Tokyo Games, beating France 87-82 on Saturday.

Pamela is also the only former WNBA player to have children who have played in the NBA and WNBA. JaVale has played in the NBA for more than a decade, while younger sister Imani McGee-Stafford played in the WNBA from 2016 to 2019. The first mother-son duo in WNBA-NBA history continues to etch their

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