Came across a tape of what sounded like a reggae show doing a live-to-air. Talked about a live show coming up that Thursday.
At the start of another tape, the very beginning of "Caribbean Swing" on CIUT-FM Toronto with guest host filling in for all the other ones.
PEOPLE
Woman Finds Blood in Burger King Meal After Worker Injures Their Finger, Daughter Mistakes It for Ketchup (Exclusive)
Shortly after her daughter started eating her cheeseburger and fries, Tiffany Floyd heard, "Mom, I don't want ketchup"
By Virginia Chamlee Published on July 31, 2024 10:00AM EDT
A woman took to TikTok to share that she found blood in her 4-year-old daughter's meal at a New York Burger King location — which the fast food chain says was the result of a worker "injuring their finger."
"Today I went to Burger King by my house," Tiffany Floyd says in the video, showing footage of the bag of food she purchased at a Gettzville, New York, Burger King.
Floyd says that she bought a meal for herself and a kid's meal for her daughter at the drive-thru. Shortly after her daughter started eating her cheeseburger and fries, Floyd heard, "Mom, I don't want ketchup."
"So I take the bag back, thinking that they messed up our order," Floyd adds. "And I look in her bag and there is blood all over."
Speaking to PEOPLE, Floyd says that she had visited that particular location — just up the road from one of her doctors — dozens of times in the past. But this visit was altogether different.
Floyd says that her daughter had eaten a few French fries and a bite of her cheeseburger when she asked about the ketchup.
"Instantly I grabbed the bag because I thought maybe they messed up her order. I looked at it, felt something wet and thought it was ketchup and you could tell it was human blood," she tells PEOPLE.
At that point, Floyd was already on her drive back home and called the Burger King location asking to speak to a manager. "I spoke to the manager and he paused and said, 'Yes. I had a worker here cut their hand right before your food was made and bagged. The worker knew he cut himself but did not think he was bleeding that bad.' "
"He was so nonchalant at this point and I was livid," she says, adding that the manager offered her a refund if she came back to the store.
"I said, 'No, thank you,' I hung up the phone and called my local health department," she tells PEOPLE.
In her TikTok video, Floyd shows the bag of food in question — where a dark red substance can be seen on the burger wrapping, a kid's toy and the French fries.
"I called Burger King because I was not going to go back there," she says. "And the manager had told me that someone did cut their hand, and that if I came back he would give me a refund of my money."
The video has been viewed more than 6 million times on TikTok since being posted on Saturday, July 27.
In a statement to PEOPLE, Burger King confirmed the incident, saying the blood was the result of "a team member in the restaurant who injured his finger, and upon noticing immediately stepped away."
"We were deeply upset and concerned to learn of this incident. We have been in contact with the Guest and are working with her to resolve this incident," the statement reads.
Burger King added that it closed its Gettzville restaurant for a retraining and deep-cleaning and has since re-opened.
"We closed the restaurant over the weekend to retrain all the team members and hired an external company to complete a deep cleaning," the statement said. "We expect the restaurant to re-open Monday, July 29, and are fully paying team members for any lost shifts during this temporary shut down."
Floyd tells PEOPLE that she is "distraught," noting that she has since filed a report with the local health department and contacted her daughter's pediatrician.
"She now needs to get bloodwork done every month," Floyd says, adding that the tests will look for things like HIV and Hepatitis.
In addition to being "emotionally not okay," Floyd says her daughter is now refusing to eat.
"I try to give her food, she thinks there's blood in it," she says.
As for why she posted the TikTok about the incident, Floyd says she is worried that someone else may have ingested blood that day without realizing it.
"Every time you get food through a drive-thru, you open the bag up and start eating without even looking," she says. "I just want other people there to check to see if they ate it, too."
Came across a dvd featuring pictures of a trip to Newfoundland taken in August 2006.
There is a spiritual war going on in this world of the great deception for the new world system that will be pro-life when the pro-death has accepted his defeat. Jesus has already won on the cross He died on and shed His blood for the salvation of the entire world, then risen to be the king of God's kingdom yet to come after the exodus of evil is complete.
It is time to preach God's Word from the rooftops in this war that is reality versus virtual reality. Time to put on the armour of God, pick up the sword of Christ and follow God's Spirit of turth into the kingdom yet to come. Romans 1 15, Ephesians 6 10-17
Doug
There is a much deeper meaning to this life than most people realize. This life is about preparing you for what God's plan is and your part in it. Your life choices matter in how God uses you and your life ever after this life is over for you. Psalm 73
Doug
The ignorance of so many of man's kinds is mind-boggling.
The message is open your ears so what you hear will open your eyes.
There is a division coming and the trinity of truth is upon this world that begins the harvest of souls.
I pray for the deceived that they will hear and then see the door that is open for them to choose to walk through and then close in the face of the deceiver who is drawing you into torment with him in a place prepared for his followers into Satan's Hell ever after.
The message is open your ears because what you hear will open your eyes to where your life choices are leading you into the wrold of darkness, doom and regret and nowhere left to turn. When the demons are chasing you into the darkness turn and face them. Then, when God is with you, they will flee. Matthew 22
Doug
Have been getting more into Bill Haley the past few months. He had such a great sound.
I have to admit I like Kendrick Lamar "Not Like Us."
Have heard Eminem's latest song. Honestly, that guy should have hung it up over twenty years ago.
Recently read "The Fragrant Garden" by Day's Lee. I found it well-written and entertaining.
It seems newer young adult contemporary books have more nuance than the older ones, with characters, particularly the adults, having more dimensionality.
Just read "The Golden Ball and Other Stories" by Agatha Christie. Never knew she wrote stories involving the supernatural. A lot of the others read a bit like they were written for magazines, with the main character marrying at the end.
Live Action News
TikTok video awarded for exposing 5 ‘excuses’ used to exclude people with disabilities
By Bridget Sielicki | July 29, 2024 , 10:47amTikTok, Down Syndrome, CoorDown, Ridiculous Excuses Not to be Inclusive
Italian Down syndrome advocacy organization CoorDown partnered with the creative agency Small last year to release a video for a TikTok campaign calling for disability inclusion. That video, “Ridiculous Excuses Not to be Inclusive,” has just won an award.
The TikTok video, which highlights five of the “excuses” people often use to discriminate against those with disabilities, recently won silver in the Small Agency Best Use of TikTok. The video showcases five instances in which people with Down syndrome experienced discrimination.
“All the ridiculous experiences you’re about to hear have been given for real,” the video says in its opening.
Viewers first see a group of students boarding a school bus for a field trip. “So why can’t my kid come on the field trip again?” asks a mom standing next to her son.
“Because we’re not prepared for this,” says a teacher, giving the first ridiculous excuse. “It’s not you, my dear, it’s us,” she says to the boy.
Other ‘ridiculous excuses’ seen in the video include a judo instructor who says he can only take a student at 10:00 (when the boy is in school), a camp counselor who refuses admission to a young girl because “we already have one of those kids,” and a woman excluded from a meeting because “we don’t have enough chairs.” All of those discriminated against had Down syndrome.
When the video was released last year, CoorDown noted that it used inspiration from real-life examples when creating its video campaign.
“Some of these excuses were so incredibly ridiculous that they deserved to be brought to life and properly celebrated,” the organization said. “This is where the film draws its inspiration from: in a comic, yet bitter, tone of voice it tells precisely the most frequently used excuses for denying access and legitimate space to people with disabilities.”
The video resonated with viewers; following its release, more than 3,000 people shared their stories either in the comments sections of CoorDown’s videos or in their own TikToks.
“The time has come to break down this wall as well and expose the false ‘good intentions’ of those who out of laziness or lack of understanding still exclude people with intellectual disabilities,” said Antonella Falugiani, President of CoorDown ODV following the campaign’s launch. “With this campaign we will give space and voice to boys, girls, children and adults with their families who will tell us how many ridiculous excuses they have had to listen to and how they reacted to assert their right to participate and decide on every aspect of their lives.”
save the date -
Saturday, October 26th
Harvest Hootenanny square dance & silent auction
Doors open at 6:30 pm / Appetizers provided.
Tickets $25 pp / Central Hastings School / Madoc, Ont.
Many Christians would agree that Satan is the god of this world, but most of them don't realize how deep and widespread Satan's agenda truly is.
This video is pretty good at blending the basic understanding of this concept with its fuller implications.
I was in a car with someone earlier today and we saw a partridge.
A creature of some sort walked across my picnic table last night when I was out in the backyard.
My sister saw a red squirrel yesterday.
National Review
Drag Queens Parody the Last Supper During Olympics Opening Ceremonies
By HALEY STRACK
July 26, 2024 8:59 PM
Drag queens parodied Leonardo da Vinci’s rendition of the Last Supper during the opening ceremonies of the 2024 Paris Olympics on Friday evening, creating international outrage.
During the Olympic ceremonies, 18 performers re-created the scene, a depiction of Jesus Christ’s final meal with his disciples before his crucifixion. The burlesque performance was an “interpretation of the Greek God [of wine and festivity] Dionysus” to make viewers “aware of the absurdity of violence between human beings,” the Olympics said on X.
The scene featured some half-naked performers, one in the middle with a halo atop her head, behind a long table. A man who was painted blue, and with only vines covering his genitals, sat in the middle of the table and was surrounded by flowers. Viewers called the performance “crazy,” and Christian commentators on social media said that the scene made a mockery of the Christian faith.
The Paris games also opened this year with a performance by LGBTQ icon Lady Gaga paying tribute to French dancer and singer Zizi Jeanmaire near the River Seine, a performance by French-Canadian singer Céline Dion by the Eiffel Tower, and a torch-bearing act by rapper Snoop Dogg.
Journalist Kyle Becker said on X that “the 2024 Paris Olympics has gone full Woke dystopian.”
“The opening ceremony was filled with transgender mockery of the Last Supper, the Golden Calf idol, and even the Pale Horse from the Book of Revelation, “ Becker said. “The Olympics has made it clear that Christian viewers aren’t welcome.”
Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker called the visual “crazy” on Instagram, and quoted Galatians 6:7: “Be not deceived, God is not mocked.” European Parliament member Marion Maréchal said on X, “To all the Christians of the world who are watching the #Paris2024 ceremony and felt insulted by this drag queen parody of the Last Supper, know that it is not France that is speaking but a left-wing minority ready for any provocation. #notinmyname.”
Athlete Riley Gaines also commented on the display, saying on social media: “Men in wigs front & center at the Olympic Games. No one ever tell me this group is ‘oppressed’ or ‘marginalized’ again.”
Out magazine, an LGBTQ publication, meanwhile praised “queens everywhere” for “this huge moment for drag performers breaking through the mainstream and showing their talents to the entire world.”
National Review
The Real Reason Vance’s Child-Tax Comments Are Bad
By Dominic Pino
July 26, 2024 5:39 PM
ABC News reported today on comments J. D. Vance made on the Charlie Kirk Show podcast in 2021 in which he said people who don’t have children should pay a higher tax rate than people who do have children. Left-wing activist groups such as American Bridge have clipped the comments and shot them around social media:
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Watch the clip. It shows Vance isn’t a very good politician, but not in the way the Left wants you to think.
The Harris campaign is trying to make it sound as if Vance was calling for some kind of dystopian makeover of tax policy. But he wasn’t. U.S. tax policy, in 2021 and right now, effectively has a higher tax rate on childless people than on people with children. That’s because of the child tax credit, which is quite popular, and politicians from both parties have voted for it in the past.
Levying higher taxes on people without children is mathematically identical to levying lower taxes on people with children. Vance talks about different tax rates rather than a tax credit, but that could also be worked out to be mathematically identical.
The U.S. tax code, right now, punishes people who don’t have children relative to people who do, all else equal. You can agree or disagree with whether the child tax credit is good policy, but it is currently the law of the land, and those are the effects it has.
It’s not the content of Vance’s comments that hurt him. It’s the way in which he says them.
A big part of a politician’s job is trying to make policy ideas sound good to voters. There are any number of different ways to describe a policy idea. For example, a politician could communicate to voters about inflation and interest rates with articles from economics journals, mathematical equations, and lectures about the money supply and the market for loanable funds. Or, like the Reagan campaign did in 1984, he could talk about inflation and interest rates by showing people getting married and young families buying houses. I think we all know which of those approaches would be more successful.
Vance here essentially does the opposite of what politicians are supposed to do. He is describing a policy idea in the least palatable way possible.
First, he does so by talking about the idea with Charlie Kirk, one of the more disreputable people on the right. Kirk regularly goes over-the-top with his rhetoric in ways that damage the conservative cause. When on a show with someone like that, it’s natural to play along.
Second, he does so by trying to sound edgy and aggressive in his rhetoric. He said he supports punishing people who do not have kids by taxing them more. People don’t generally like to hear politicians talk about punishing people with taxes. He says, “We need to reward the things that we think are good and punish the things that we think are bad.” Note that “we” here refers to “the government,” the entity that sets tax policy. That “we” implies a “they,” in this case, childless people. Siccing the government on a subset of the population is also something people generally don’t like to hear from politicians.
And third, he does so by being poorly informed while trying to make his point. He is arguing for a change in current tax policy, but current tax policy already does what he says he wants. Maybe he would like the child tax credit to be increased, but that is not what he said here. He was saying that tax policy, in principle, should do something that it already does. He would not have gotten himself into this mess to begin with if he took into account the effects of current tax policy.
There’s a totally palatable way to make the argument that Vance is making in this video. It’s the same argument many people have made for many years about the child tax credit: Raising kids is expensive, government shouldn’t discourage people from having kids, in fact it make things easier for families with kids, so there should be a tax benefit for people with kids.
But Vance didn’t make that argument. He is now being judged for the argument he made, which makes a normal idea that is currently in law sound like a weird idea that would require overhauling the tax code.
The Real Reason Vance's Child-Tax Comments Are Bad | National Review
Babylon Bee
Obama Reluctantly Endorses Kamala After Butt-Dialing Her
Politics
Jul 26, 2024 · BabylonBee.com
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Vice President's campaign for president received a highly sought-after boost this week, as former President Barack Obama reluctantly endorsed Kamala Harris after butt-dialing her.
The unintentional endorsement occurred yesterday while Obama was reportedly sitting down to enjoy some chips and salsa and inadvertently called the vice president. A source close to Obama confirmed that the former president improvised the endorsement as a way to cover the embarrassing butt dial.
"Ah, shoot, I accidentally called Kamala," Obama was heard whispering as he pulled his phone out of the pocket of his slacks. "What do I say now? How am I going to play this off? I don't know what to — Hey, there, Kamala! How are you? Barack and Michelle here!"
Insiders disclosed that Obama's cover for the butt dial was successful, with Harris coming away from the conversation proudly boasting about having the former president's blessing. "She was thrilled," said one source. "She was giggling uncontrollably and smiling from ear to ear like she was hopped up on something. Then again, I guess she's pretty much always like that, but still, you could tell she was relieved to have Obama's endorsement."
Sources within the Obama camp refused to comment on whether or not he would have endorsed Harris at some point anyway, conceding that his selection of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State was also done by accident. "Sometimes things just work out," one insider said. "He's had a pretty good track record with his butt dials."
At publishing time, Obama was reportedly stuck making small talk with Joe Biden after yet another accidental butt dial.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Chipotle CEO finally addresses biggest complaint from customers
BY PATRICIA BATTLE THESTREET
UPDATED JULY 25, 2024 6:32 PM
CEO Brian Niccol is letting customers know that he hears their complaints loud and clear. The CEO finally addressed the negative chatter surrounding the restaurant’s food portion sizes, which is a topic that recently went viral on social media, sparking controversy.
After Chipotle was accused of “skimping on ingredients” in a viral TikTok video in May that shows a customer storming out of a Chipotle restaurant after being unsatisfied with the amount of food an employee was putting in his burrito bowl, many TikTok users also began to share similar experiences with small portion sizes at Chipotle.
A theory that alleged that if customers filmed Chipotle employees putting food in their burrito bowls, they would get larger proportions of food went viral on social media. The theory stemmed from a leaked memo that Chipotle allegedly sent to employees admitting as much. As many customers began to test out this theory, some reported that they found luck in getting larger proportions of food, but Chipotle employees began to grow frustrated with being filmed without consent.
Even though Chipotle later denied shrinking its food proportion sizes and instructing employees to give customers more food if they spotted a camera, during a recent earnings call, Niccol further addressed the controversy.
“I want to take a minute to address the portion concerns that have been brought up in social media,” said Niccol during the call. “First, there was never a directive to provide less to our customers. Generous portion is a core brand equity of Chipotle. It always has been, and it always will be.”
Niccol also said that after surveying customers, the company found that 10% of its restaurants had “outlier portion scores,” and that those locations will undergo training.
“To be more consistent across all 3,500 restaurants, we have focused in on those with outlier portion scores based on consumer surveys, and we are reemphasizing training and coaching around ensuring we are consistently making bowls and burritos correctly,” said Niccol. “We have also leaned in and reemphasized generous portions across all of our restaurants as it is a core brand equity of Chipotle.”
The move from Chipotle comes after a study conducted by Wells Fargo analysts earlier this month found that food portion sizes of burrito bowls at Chipotle restaurants across New York City varied significantly.
According to the study, some of the Chipotle locations served burrito bowls that weighed 33% more than what they received at others. Out of all 75 burrito bowl orders, the heaviest one weighed in at 26.8 ounces, and the lightest was 13.8 ounces. The median weight of all bowls was 21.5 ounces.
The controversy comes after Chipotle announced in 2023 a “modest price increase” of menu items to “offset inflation” that would take effect this year. Chipotle also recently revealed that it increased its menu items in California by 6% to 7% due to the minimum wage increasing in the state.
Even though some customers took to social media to complain about the higher prices. It appears that sales at the company haven’t been negatively affected by the harsh feedback. In Chipotle’s second-quarter earnings report for 2024, the company revealed that its revenue increased by about 18%, its comparable restaurant sales also rose by roughly 11%.
Chipotle closed Thursday's session down nearly 2% following the release.
Have been hearing some cicadas lately, but not the huge, gargantuan, take over the human race amount we were supposed to have.
Mom saw a doe in the field behind her house last Sunday.
I for one love the songs of all the different birds in the early morning this time of year.
Dear Friends:
If your life is like mine this summer - working in between vacation time, parties and musical events - I KNOW how busy you are! But THIS Open Mic you don't want to miss!! Tracey is back - smiling, dancing and delivering GREAT service behind the bar. :D We are celebrating Elly's birthday and getting the garlic harvest in. AND I already know some of the musicians who are coming - so KNOW we're going to have a lot of fun. I'm SO MUCH looking forward to this week's Madoc's Open Mic. AND looking forward to seeing all of you!!
Jerry will be there with his terrific sound system - 3 mics, music stand - with clamps for a cell phone or tablet, amplifiers, monitors, remote plugins... and a terrific guy on the sound board. (:
Everyone is welcome! Come out and play or just enjoy Live Local Music.
See you this Friday!!
Elizabeth & Robert
This article is a good summation of the key diferences between true Christianity and the LDS church as far as the question of Jesus is concerned.
This article is definitely interesting. A deathbed repentance is still valid.
Babylon Bee
AOC Lectures Homeless Man On How Fortunate He Is Not To Have To Pay Rent To Evil Landlords
POLITICS
Jul 21, 2020 · BabylonBee.com
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a powerful statement of democratic socialist love and compassion, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez paused to tell a homeless man how lucky he is not to have to pay rent to evil landlords while walking to her swanky D.C. apartment this afternoon.
"Hey, lady, can I get some change?" the man asked, shaking his little tin can.
"OK, first of all, like, lady? What is this, 2019?" she snapped back. But, being moved by the pitiful sight of the man, Ocasio-Cortez decided to stop and help the best way she knew how: by lecturing him on how fortunate he is not to have to pay rent to evil landlords.
"I really, really envy you," she said. "I mean, I'm a socialist. I envy everybody. But seriously, like, you don't have to deal with evil landlords and pay rent to them. Forcing people to pay rent and eviciting them if they fail to do so is literally, like, systemic racism and classism and a few other isms that I can't remember right now. Hmmm. What were they?"
The homeless man shrugged uncomfortably as Ocasio-Cortez concentrated hard.
"Sexism! That's the one. Anyway, you're just, like, so lucky."
Ocasio-Cortez then noticed that the man had a quarter with the well-known Nazi eagle symbol on it, so she stole it from him and threw it into a nearby storm drain inlet. "You're welcome," she said as she hailed an Uber on her smartphone to get back to her luxury digs.
Independent
Disabled woman claims Canada is forcing her to die by assisted suicide: ‘It’s not what I want’
The woman accused the government of creating ‘the perfect storm for disabled people’ in Ontario
Graig Graziosi
Friday 23 June 2023 17:05 BST
A quadriplegic woman from Ontario said it would be faster for her to pursue a medically assisted death than it would for her to wait for the state to provide disability support services.
The mother, Rose Finlay, shared a video on social media explaining her decision and accusing Canada of balking on its responsibility to its people.
“I am a 33-year-old quadriplegic single mom raising two kids with disabilities,” she said in the video. “Every Ontarian that is paying taxes and paying into social programs thinking that one day should they ever need the supports they would be available to them, I’m here to let you know that’s not actually the case.”
She says in the video that she can access Canada's medical assistance in dying (MAID) program after a 90-day eligibility assessment, but that accessing disability services could take up to eight months, according to the National Post.
“My life as it is, without support as a quadriplegic is far more deadly than me even exploring the MAID process,” Ms Finlay told the Global News.
Ms Finaly's spinal cord was injured when she was 17. She ran her own disability advocacy business, Inclusive Solutions, which allowed her to support herself and her family, but increasingly frequent illnesses have left her unable to work.
With few options available and a limited pool of potential personal care workers in her area — she lives approximately 80km east of Toronto — she decided to apply for the Ontario Disability Support Program.
Ms Finaly said that’s when she realised she would have to wait for at least half a year before she would even have her application approved.
In March she decided she would explore MAID, even though she does not want to die.
“It’s not what I want,” she told CBC. “But if I don’t receive the support that I need, the outcome is the same. If I get to a point where I am really sick and basically terminally ill anyways, I would like to have other options.”
She noted that she has received some backlash from individuals pointing out that she has children but is choosing to die anyway; to them, she said her constant illnesses mean she's "not being very useful" to them.
Ms Finlay said even with ODSP support money, she would be living in a "forced poverty" as the most the program pays out is $1,228 a month for all living expenses. Canada's Emergency Response Benefit program has previously determined that Canadians need a minimum of $2,000 per month to afford their basic necessities.
She is currently the subject of a fundraiser, which she hopes will raise enough money that she can avoid pursuing MAID. Ms Finlay makes clear her feelings on the government's current treatment of people with disabilities, saying the government has "created the perfect storm for disabled people here in Ontario."
“Starve them, cut them off from participating in society, and then offer them death,” she wrote.
