What would you say if I told you a distraught woman recently came into my counseling office? She explained that her boss threatened that, if she didn’t have sex with him, she would be fired. He’d already banned her from all firm social activities and said that he’d do what he could to destroy her personal life too. After he was done with her, he said, she wouldn’t be able to leave the house. He would take away everything that meant anything to her.
America must “regain trust and goodwill” of terrorists with taxpayer money.
“I was inspired by the Palestinian intifada,” Hady Amr wrote a year after September 11 while working with an anti-Israel group.
A few years later, the Beirut-born extremist had become an advisor on Muslim relations to the World Economic Forum before heading up Brookings’ Doha Center for Qatar. The tiny Islamic tyranny is allied with Iran, Al Qaeda, and the Muslim Brotherhood. It’s a backer of Hamas.
A Newsweek report detailing the alleged anti-ageing properties of transfusions of young people’s blood has understandably raised cries of “Alex Jones was right!” The magazine’s marketing of the article was slightly sensationalist; its promotional tweets emphasised the vampirish idea of mainlining the blood of youths while the article considered that as one of many potential anti-ageing treatments.
Still, the theory exists.
Prince Philip refused to obey the rules of modern moral etiquette.
Even though I am not a royalist, I always admired Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. He was often criticised in the media for his many so-called gaffes. However, his formidable track record of saying unfashionable things in public can be taken as a positive testimony to his refusal to follow the rules of media training.
An in-depth CNN report about the allegedly racist roots of Asia-inspired fonts has left many wondering whether the outlet has simply run out of things to be outraged about.
According to a feature published in CNN’s style section, fonts designed to communicate “Asianness” that appear on restaurant menus, food packaging and other items are offensive and perpetuate “crude” stereotypes.
Prince Harry is now chief impact officer for BetterUp, a Californian corporate consultancy whose ‘mission’ is to sell online life coaching with — in his words, — ‘innovation, impact and integrity’. Harry may not realize it, but he is the latest celebrity frontman for the rapidly growing, broadly unregulated and frequently dubious corporate ‘coaching’ industry.
Amazon workers at a giant warehouse in Alabama voted decisively against forming a union on Friday, squashing the most significant labor drive in the internet giant’s history.
Workers cast 1,798 votes against a union, giving Amazon enough to emphatically defeat the effort. Ballots in favor of a union trailed at 738, less than 30 percent of the votes tallied, according to federal officials.
A treasure trove of documents seized by German police and obtained by the JC reveals the extent to which Tehran’s spies have infiltrated Europe.
The documents were found in a hire car used as a mobile intelligence station by Assadollah Assadi, an Iranian spy chief who in February was sentenced to 20 years in prison for masterminding a failed bomb attack in Paris in 2018.
The material discloses a sophisticated network of regime agents that stretches across at least 22 cities all over the continent, along with plans for terror attacks using explosives, acid and toxic pathogenic substances.
A postal worker in Michigan was viciously attacked by two enraged women — as an onlooker accused them of trying to steal stimulus checks in the mail carrier’s van, video shows.
The footage of Thursday’s attack at River Village Apartments in Flint shows two women repeatedly hitting and punching a US Postal Service worker while she is on the ground.
If the Germans weren’t so busy with their own problems, I’d ask them to come up with a word for that feeling you get when the screw-up cousin you’ve always looked down on suddenly lands a great job, a house and a runway-model spouse while you’re left eating ravioli out of a can in a basement apartment. It’s some combination of jealousy, disorientation and sheepishness. How did the smug high ground collapse into Chef Boyardee?
It’s 3 months since Kathy left us. A month for Mum.
I try every day to keep myself occupied and some days I succeed better than others.
I have donated Kathy’s and Mum’s clothes and am starting to sort through stored items. Neither task was welcomed but it’s not all in sadness.
Here’s a throwback pic of a pic. I believe taken in Hamilton where we attended a function of some sort, perhaps a wedding. It was stored in one of Kathy’s trunks along with a slew of items we packed away from her old apartment when we moved to the condo.
Kathy and I had been dating for just under a year when I was offered a transfer and promotion to manage the Vancouver office of the firm I worked for.
I said yes and Kathy and I promised one another we would maintain a long distance relationship.
That first summer away Kath came to visit for a month. I took some vacation and we explored BC and Washington state.
The day came when Kath had to head home and we said our goodbyes at the airport. The longing I felt on arriving back at my empty apartment has stayed fresh all these years.
Whenever Kathy and I had a fight which was rare despite her furious rep I would remember that day. Over the years it became a sort of touchstone for why our relationship was so right and worthwhile.
A little over two years later I quit my job. Kathy said come home and from the day I turned up on her doorstep we rarely spent more than 2 or 3 days apart.
We were good for each other and when we weren’t we patched things up knowing we were in it for the long haul and both of us better off for it.
When Kathy was diagnosed with cancer that longing, that memory of her parting returned. I felt selfish and told her that it was the first thought that sprang to mind but she understood.
Nothing prepares you for what Kath went through, for what we both went through.
She told me often how happy she was to wake up in recovery after her major surgery and see my smiling face.
And I remember the joy we shared when the doctor declared her “disease free” and also the dread when 3 months later Kathy noticed those familiar “pains” had returned.
Kathy was robbed one by one of life’s little pleasures. That’s what cancer does, it steals from you and your loved ones.
I’m not sure if I will ever watch another episode of CSI: Las Vegas.
Between Christmas and New Year a 24/7 marathon was on.
By then Kathy could only be semi-comfortable in the Lazy Boy so I slept on the couch and we watched every season together, falling asleep in fits and starts throughout the day and night.
My days were spent feeding her as best I could even though it became more futile with each passing day, giving her injections and otherwise trying, hoping to be some sort of useful.
But I learned what it means to be truly powerless, to know that nothing can be done to save the one you love.
To watch her fade away before my eyes.
To grow so weak she could no longer walk.
To bathe her in the morning lifting each weakened limb and feeling virtually no resistance.
To watch as she struggled with anguish and fear that I could not in any way assuage.
She pointed and I packed her clothes for her the trip to the hospice scheduled for Friday morning January 8th.
Her condition turned critical that morning just as the hospice transport arrived, they, against protocol, called 911 and the medics revived her so Kathy was to admitted to a local hospital.
Kathy smiled and waved as she watched me being made Covid proof in the ER outside her room.
We were granted a few more hours more together and I will always be grateful for that.
Kathy passed away the next morning.
I miss her every single day.
These last few days have been a bit more trying given I am sorting through our life together and I just felt a need to write something down, to vent a little.
Last night my niece texted me. She lost her husband to cancer not long before Christmas.
I found out She still talks to Kim just as I still talk to Kathy.
We agreed they have a way of lifting us when we are down.
As for Buddy and me, well we are managing best we can. He’s a good little guy. Likes ham a lot.
Three major polls find that the majority of Americans believe he has bungled immigration.
When the inevitable assessments of President Biden’s first 100 days in office begin to appear, his precipitous actions pursuant to illegal immigration at the southern border will be judged by most honest observers to have been his worst blunder. That is certainly the perspective of the majority of Americans, according to three recent public opinion surveys. An NPR/Marist poll, for example, found that 53 percent of respondents disapproved of Biden’s handling of immigration. An ABC News/Ipsos poll found that 57 percent were dissatisfied with his management of the situation, particularly as it affects unaccompanied minors. An AP/NORC poll found that 56 percent were unhappy with Biden’s performance on immigration.
