Friday, 8 March 2024

Runaway Pig Named Kevin Bacon Lured Back to his Pigpen With Trail of Oreos

Runaway pig named Kevin Bacon lured back to his Wisconsin pen with OREOS

A 450-pound runaway pig named Kevin Bacon escaped from a farm last Friday
It spent a weekend at Jake Molgaard's house and scarfed down some apples, rice cakes, tomatoes, and carrots, along with its favorite snacks - doughnuts
It was finally lured back to its pen with a trail of Oreo cookies

A 450-pound runaway pig named Kevin Bacon was lured back to its Wisconsin pen with a trail of Oreo cookies after it unexpectedly showed up at a family's backyard doorstep.

The pig escaped from a farm in Brighton, about 38 miles south of Milwaukee, sometime on Friday, wandering a mile down the road while its owner was out of town for the weekend.

The porker ended up at Jake Molgaard's backdoor and was caught on his security camera hamming it up.

'My wife spotted an unusually shaped figure on our driveway camera walking along our garage,' Molgaard, a 40-year-old local business owner, told AP.

With a trail of Oreo cookies and assistance from the Kenosha County sheriff's office, it took Molgaard and his family two and a half hours to lead Kevin the pig back to his pen, located only a mile away.

A 45-pound runaway pig named Kevin Bacon was lured back to its Wisconsin pen with a trail of Oreo cookies after it unexpectedly showed up at a family's backyard doorstep

The pig escaped from a farm in Brighton , about 38 miles south of Milwaukee, sometime on Friday, wandering a mile down the road while its owner was out of town for the weekend. Pictured: Kevin the pig and a deputy with the Kenosha County Sheriff's Department

The porker ended up at Jake Molgaard (pictured)'s backdoor and was caught on his security camera hamming it up

After spotting the bulky stranger at their home, Molgaard's wife started feeding it right away, as Molgaard added, 'that's what she does with every animal that comes to our backyard.'

Kevin scarfed down some apples, rice cakes, tomatoes, and carrots, along with its favorite snacks - doughnuts.

Molgaard made a few phone calls to find the pig's owner, who was out of town when his pig squeezed its way out of the barn and walked down the road.

The owner had to ask the Molgaards to lure Kevin back to its pen, adding that the big pig is partial to cookies, marshmallows and other sweets.

With some Oreo cookies and any tempting treats they could find in the fridge, the family and Kevin embarked on a two-and-a-half-hour adventure along a side road.

Molgaard's 16-year-old daughter Chloe Delaney jumped on the pig's back at one point during the walk, so that the bulky animal could speed up.

'The owner said that if he stops on you, you can jump on his back and he likes to run at that point,' Molgaard told KKTV.

After spotting the bulky stranger at their home, Molgaard's wife started feeding it right away

It scarfed down some apples, rice cakes, tomatoes, and carrots, along with its favorite snacks - doughnuts

Molgaard made a few phone calls to find the pig's owner, who was out of town when his pig squeezed its way out of the barn and walked down the road

'They wanted to adopt him immediately. And I said we don't have a place to put a 450-pound pig. But yeah, they fell in love with him right away,' Molgaard said

Deputies were dispatched to address what they referred to as a 'typical county call' and assisted in escorting the pig back to its property 'safely and not too quickly,' according to the Kenosha County Sheriff's Department.

Captured in a photo shared on social media, a deputy can be seen posing with the porker, wearing a bright smile.

After the sheriff left smiling, the pig and its temporary caretakers finished the rest of the journey on their own, Molgaard said.

'He is a massive creature, but the owner says he's a gentle giant. We have been over there every day giving him a dozen donuts,' he added.

Kevin the pig is now back home safe and seems to be in good spirits. After spending a weekend together, it has also become a part of the family.

'They wanted to adopt him immediately. And I said we don't have a place to put a 450-pound pig. But yeah, they fell in love with him right away,' Molgaard said.

Thursday, 7 March 2024

Arab Invasion of Europe

Europe will soon face a direct Arab invasion

It is a case of predator and prey right before the jump. From the Arabs' point of view, their time has come. Opinion.

Alexander Maistrovsky

Mar 5, 2024, 11:06 AM (GMT+2)

In April 711, the governor of Tangier, Tariq ibn Ziyad, with only 9 thousands of his soldiers landed in Iberia. By 719, the Arabs were already standing near Toulouse, and in 720 – they were at the Rhone delta. The Iberian Peninsula was captured in less than 10 years. This was a stunning success; medieval Europe was not ready for anything like this.

Arabs are excellent psychologists. They “feel their enemy”, analyze his weaknesses and strengths, draw conclusions from their victories and defeats - at different times and in different places. And they are infinitely faithful to their dream: the revival of the Caliphate. This aim justifies all means.

The key event that changed the collective consciousness of the Arab world was the victory in Afghanistan over the Soviet army. A powerful totalitarian superpower that had neither moral doubts, nor reflections was defeated by irregular formations of the “Mujahideen.” That was the first turning point. If the “Mujahideen” were able to win the Soviet army, then what would prevent them from coping with the loose, insecure, notorious, and confused West?

This gave impetus to Islamic ambitions, the consequences of which were 9/11, mass terror, al-Qaeda, ISIS.

The second turning point was the panicked and chaotic flight of the US from Afghanistan. The most powerful army of the Western world, abandoning its weapons and allies, fled in front of the irregular Taliban units, which entered Kabul without firing a single shot.

On October 7, Islam won (“thanks” to the Israeli military and intelligence establishment) its third brilliant victory. Regardless of whether Israel succeeds in uprooting the Hamas structure in Gaza or not, this bloody raid has already gone down in history as a symbol of Muslim triumph. The "Zionist entity", until now yet another hard nut to crack in the path of Muslim aspirations, was (temporarily or not, we have to find out) thrown under the hooves of the Islamic horsemen. Thus a new milestone appeared on the path to the longed-for dream.

There is no doubt that this success is now being studied by the Arabs and will be reproduced: in another place and another time.

Where?

The answer is obvious - Europe. It suggests itself to you.

First is the motive. The Arabs began to dream of conquering the Old World immediately after the so-called “Arab Spring”, enthusiastically supported by stupid Western liberals.

Let's recollect:

*Muhammad Badie, the General Guide of the Egyptian MB promised that: “improvement of Muslim nation can only be attained through jihad and sacrifice”;

*Muhammad Mursi's advisor Cleric Safwat Higazi talked about “United States of the Arabs” with capital in Jerusalem (If it weren’t for Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, hated by Obama and the liberals, Egypt had long been in the power of the Muslim Brotherhood);

* Theologian Ibrahim Al-Khouli said that “We must conduct jihad against the West”;

* The main preacher of “Muslim Brotherhood” Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi declared that after fall of Constantinople in 1453, “Islam will return to Europe as a conqueror and victor”;

* Dr. Subhi Al-Yaziji, dean of Koranic studies at the Islamic University of Gaza (HAMAS is branch of MB), called to “conquer Andalusia and the Vatican” after Palestine. (Shortly after that, Spain opened a consulate in Gaza in March 2013).

Today it is difficult NOT to find an Islamic cleric who does NOT call for this. “Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come”, - wrote Victor Hugo.

From the Arabs' point of view, their time has come. If the mighty USSR, and then the USA and the “Zionists” with their one of the most technically equipped armies in the region, trembled under their pressure, then what can we say about spineless, pampered Europe that has lost faith in itself?

So, we have a powerful motivation. How does it meet our possibilities?

Here we come to the second point.

After World War II, Europe did not exist as an independent military power. It was entirely dependent on the US. Its entire policy was aimed at pacifying the Islamic world. (Except for post-Soviet Eastern Europe).

But the US withdrawal from the world stage is inevitable. We do not know in what form this will happen: whether the “Red-Green alliance” represented by the [non] Democratic Party will establish itself in the White House; whether Trump will win, and the ruling oligarchy will plunge the country into the abyss of civil war; whether America will break up into red and blue states; whether it will fall in the grip of anarchy.

However most likely America will be busy with itself in the coming decades, and the big question remains – if it will survive as a unified and capable state. One way or another, the US will not be able to come to the aid of anyone, including Europe.

What can Western European countries oppose to the armies of the Arab states?

Let's compare, for example, the Spanish and the Moroccan armies.

Spanish (left) vs Moroccan (2024):

Active Military Manpower: 133 000/196 000;

Reserve Military Manpower – 15 000/150 000;

Combat Tank Fleet – 327/1564;

Self-Propelled Artillery – 96/565;

Towed Artillery – 140/306;

Multiple Launch Rocket Projector (MLRS) vehicle fleet – 0/208;

Spain has air superiority, but otherwise its army (just as armies of other European states) is not comparable to the armies of the Arab states of the Mediterranean.

A rapid invasion of the Iberian Peninsula by even a small part of this army, like Hamas did on October 7, would lead to the collapse of Spain.

Still military imbalance is only a part of the problem. An even bigger problem is the “fifth column”.

There were about 2.5 million Muslims living in Spain as of 2022. This is not much, but their growth is about 4.5%. Masses of Muslims, as in all European countries, undergo an intoxication in mosques built with the money of Arab sheikhs.

There is not the slightest doubt what their reaction to the invasion of the fellow believers will be. Terrorist attacks, riots, sabotage, violence, and blocking of key highways will plunge the country into a chaos. They will be supported by the extreme left, as we saw clearly in the example of Israel, and perhaps by a part of the globalist ruling establishment.

Spanish youth, raised on the myths of interfaith “harmony in Andalusia”, are completely devoid of national or religious identification, not to mention the readiness for self-sacrifice that we saw among young Israelis.

No one will come to Spain's aid. The French and British armies are themselves extremely weak, and their own countries will be engulfed in violence. If the massacre of October 7 provoked such an insane psychosis, it is not difficult to imagine what would happen after the invasion by the Arab armies of Melilla and Ceuta (two Spanish port cities on the northern shore of Africa), and then the Iberian Peninsula.

Each country will think about its own salvation, and each one will have very bad chances of salvation, except for Eastern Europe.

Islam is a predator: attentive, cunning, absolutely merciless. The West is a prey: timid, trusting, having lost the instinct of self-preservation. The outcome is obvious.

This scenario looks like a phantasmagoria, but all the key events of the recent history looked like this just a minute before they became a reality: the collapse of the USSR, 9/11, the fall of Arab regimes, BLM pogroms in the USA and progressive madness, and finally, October 7.

However, by means of interpolating current events and trends, we can try to discern the contours of the future.

In 1969, a Soviet dissident Andrei Amalrik wrote the essay “Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?” The USSR was then at the zenith of its glory. Amalrik was off by only 6 years...

Wednesday, 6 March 2024

U.S. Politics: Nikki Haley to suspend campaign after Trump’s near-sweep on Super Tuesday — but will she endorse ex-prez?

Nikki Haley to suspend campaign after Trump’s near-sweep on Super Tuesday — but will she endorse ex-prez?

By Diana Glebova and Ronny Reyes, New York Post, March 6, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/03/06/us-news/nikki-haley-to-suspend-presidential-campaign-after-super-tuesday-defeats-reports/

Nikki Haley dropping out of presidential race

Nikki Haley is set to suspend her Republican presidential bid Wednesday following another series of defeats on Super Tuesday, sources told The Post.

The former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador is expected to formally drop out of the race during a press conference at 10 a.m. Wednesday in her home state of South Carolina, according to sources familiar with the decision.

She will not endorse former President Donald Trump but will encourage him to earn the support of those who had backed her, the sources said.

The expected announcement — first revealed by the Wall Street Journal — comes after Haley was only victorious in Vermont during Super Tuesday’s primaries, with Trump beating her in 14 other states.

She made no public appearances after spending the night huddled with staff watching returns near her home.

Haley’s withdrawal effectively hands the Republican nomination to Trump, whose cabinet she served on from 2017 to 2018.

She had repeatedly criticized the former president on the campaign trail and claimed she was the only Republican who could beat President Biden in the general election

Haley often touted that she was especially popular among moderates and college-educated voters, a demographic that may play a pivotal role come November.

Her campaign, however, failed to gain enough momentum to properly challenge the former president, with Haley’s only other victory coming on Sunday when she won the Washington, DC, primary.

Following Haley’s defeat on Tuesday, campaign spokesperson Olivia Perez-Cubas warned that the GOP was far from unified under Trump, referencing Haley’s Vermont win.

“Today, in state after state, there remains a large block of Republican primary voters who are expressing deep concerns about Donald Trump,” Perez-Cubas. “That is not the unity our party needs for success.”

Trump had notably declared that Haley’s donors would be permanently banned from his “Make America Great Again” movement, and it remains unclear if he will clear that ban if she endorses him.

With Post wires

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