I’ve eaten at the quite a bit over the years. Decent food and good quantity for the price.
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I’ve eaten at the quite a bit over the years. Decent food and good quantity for the price.
Like you I had no clue he was still working (much less alive, hate to say). I can't recall the first song I heard on his show, but I definitely heard that one from him first.
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We have another Darden restaurant in town called Bonefish Grill. There is no doubt that the seafood geared Bonefish serves a better steak than Outback. Outback has been falling for years. Longhorn and Roadhouse have good food.
This may be political, but we don't know yet so I'm posting this here
https://x.com/i/trending/1939470027247538535
https://x.com/i/trending/1939470027247538535
Maybe. I hope this doesn't inspire copy cats, or worse, actual terroristic groups. Hopefully they'll take practical lessons from the tragedy and apply moving forward.
20 years ago today a man died in Washington state which both changed the laws and also reinforced how weird they are up there
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumclaw_horse_sex_case
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumclaw_horse_sex_case
Enumclaw horse sex case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumclaw_horse_sex_case
The Enumclaw horse sex case was a series of incidents in 2005 involving Kenneth D. Pinyan, an engineer who worked for Boeing and resided in Gig Harbor, Washington; James Michael Tait, a truck driver; and other unidentified men. Pinyan and Tait filmed and distributed zoophilic pornography of Pinyan receiving anal sex from a stallion under the alias "Mr. Hands". After engaging in this activity on multiple occasions over an unknown span of time, Pinyan received fatal internal injuries in one such incident.
The story was reported in The Seattle Times and was one of that paper's most read stories of 2005. Pinyan's death rapidly prompted the enactment of a bill by the Washington State Legislature that prohibits both zoophilia and the videotaping of such an act. Under current Washington law, it is now a Class C felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
As zoophilia was legal in Washington state at the time, Tait was instead convicted of trespassing and was sentenced to a one-year suspended sentence.
Young girls celebrating Fourth of July at lake fend off molester by kicking him between the legs, deputies say
SMITHVILLE, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) – Two young girls were able to escape a man who tried to molest them by kicking him between the legs, according to officials.
The Clay County Sheriff’s Office said the attempted attack happened in Smithville, on the Fourth of July, as the girls were celebrating the holiday at a lake.
In a social media post, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office said that Carlos Climaco-Garcia, 26, is in custody on two felony child molestation charges after the incident.
According to court documents, around 8 p.m., two girls under the age of 14 were swimming at the Little Platte Swim Beach in Smithville Lake.
The girls said Climaco-Garcia swam up to them and started asking them personal questions that they didn’t want to answer. They tried to move away from him, but they said he groped them and tried to remove their swimsuit bottoms.
The girls escaped by kicking Climaco-Garcia between the legs, then they got out of the water and told their parents what happened.
The sheriff’s office said it had extra deputies posted at the lake that weekend, so the adults immediately flagged down a nearby deputy.
The girls described Climaco-Garcia to the deputies, and they spotted him getting out of the lake. He was immediately arrested.
He is still in custody on a $75,000 bond that prosecutors have asked to be increased. His next court appearance is scheduled for Thursday.
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SMITHVILLE, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) – Two young girls were able to escape a man who tried to molest them by kicking him between the legs, according to officials.
The Clay County Sheriff’s Office said the attempted attack happened in Smithville, on the Fourth of July, as the girls were celebrating the holiday at a lake.
In a social media post, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office said that Carlos Climaco-Garcia, 26, is in custody on two felony child molestation charges after the incident.
According to court documents, around 8 p.m., two girls under the age of 14 were swimming at the Little Platte Swim Beach in Smithville Lake.
The girls said Climaco-Garcia swam up to them and started asking them personal questions that they didn’t want to answer. They tried to move away from him, but they said he groped them and tried to remove their swimsuit bottoms.
The girls escaped by kicking Climaco-Garcia between the legs, then they got out of the water and told their parents what happened.
The sheriff’s office said it had extra deputies posted at the lake that weekend, so the adults immediately flagged down a nearby deputy.
The girls described Climaco-Garcia to the deputies, and they spotted him getting out of the lake. He was immediately arrested.
He is still in custody on a $75,000 bond that prosecutors have asked to be increased. His next court appearance is scheduled for Thursday.
Copyright 2025 KCTV via Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.
I remember reading about that at the time, and thought, what the hell??
Creepy pedo aside, this detail in the story doesn't make sense to me. You ever try to kick or punch under water? I have (my two brothers and I fought about everything - everywhere!) The increased resistance makes it pretty difficult to deliver. And as the girls were under 14, that makes it even harder to believe. Maybe they simply resisted enough to make a scene and scare the pedo, and there's some fiction being applied to a non-fiction situation?
That is hard to watch. She wowed the world in the Olympics and became a household name. Now, she looks 20 years older than she actually is...
That is hard to watch. She wowed the world in the Olympics and became a household name. Now, she looks 20 years older than she actually is...
Pneumonia was rough on her. Good thing her go fund me raised a bunch of money to cover her medical expenses and buy her a Porsche.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...lion-dollars-donations-how-spent/72132567007/
Mary Lou Retton received $459,324 in donations. She and her family won't say how it's being spent.
Mary Lou Retton's daughters raised thousands for their Olympic-champion mother when she was hospitalized in October, saying she was not insured.
McKenna Kelley, the daughter of Mary Lou Retton who posted a crowdsourcing request for her mother that has now reached $459,324, said in an exclusive interview with USA TODAY Sports that she and her sisters never expected to get so much money from the public and were “so overwhelmed” by the response.
“I don’t know if that’s ignorant of us or if that was just sweet,” said Kelley, 26. “This was not supposed to be a big media thing. … We didn’t even think about what this would turn into. It was simply four daughters who felt helpless who wanted to help their mom who knew that this would help take a burden off.”
Retton, 55, who won the women’s gymnastics individual all-around gold medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, was released from the hospital in late October after a weeks-long stay in which she was “fighting for her life” with “a very rare form of pneumonia,” Kelley posted on Instagram at the time.
On Oct. 30, Retton wrote on Instagram that she was “with family continuing to slowly recover and staying very positive as I know this recovery is a long and slow process.”
Asked repeatedly by USA TODAY Sports to comment, Retton has declined.
Kelley said that after her mother’s medical bills are paid, the family plans to donate "all remaining funds" to a charity of her mother’s choice. Neither Kelley nor Retton would comment on how much of the $459,324 from the account at spotfund.com has been spent or what amount would be given to charity.
Donations skyrocketed after Kelley’s surprising Instagram announcement about her mother, one of the most recognizable names in U.S. Olympic history.
“She is not able to breathe on her own,” Kelley wrote on Oct. 10. “She’s been in the ICU for over a week now. Out of respect for her and her privacy, I will not disclose all details. However, I will disclose that she (is) not insured.”
When asked in the interview with USA TODAY Sports why her mother wasn’t covered by medical insurance, Kelley said that Retton could not get affordable health care because of pre-existing conditions, which she said include “over 30 orthopedic surgeries, including four hip replacements. She’s in chronic pain every day.”
Said Kelley: “Due to her medical history and the amount of surgeries she has endured from gymnastics and just life, it’s unaffordable for her.”
When told that an insurance agent contacted by USA TODAY Sports found two plans charging $545 and $680 per month for which someone with her mother’s medical history would qualify, Kelley said that Retton had once been covered by health insurance but “because she was not able to work and give speeches for two years due to the pandemic, she gave up her insurance.”
Retton was “about to get (health insurance) again but didn’t, and then she got sick,” Kelley said.
Retton remains popular in Olympic circles, with a speaking fee that is believed to be at least $25,000. She and her husband, former University of Texas quarterback Shannon Kelley, divorced in 2018 after 27 years of marriage. About 10 years ago, McKenna Kelley said, Retton moved from her large house in the Houston area to a smaller home.
Against this backdrop, with her mother in the hospital, Kelley said, she and her three sisters made the decision to raise money for their mother online from both friends and strangers.
“This is genuinely four daughters concerned for their mom, that was it,” Kelley said. “I know I keep saying that but that is truly where our hearts were when we started this; we felt so helpless. Her breathing was out of our control. The only thing that we could do to help that was in our control was what if we start a GoFundMe, what if we start a spotfund, people can help.”
Said Kelley: “When we asked for help, when we put this out there, we didn’t think of how this would turn out because she’s not Mary Lou Retton to us. She’s our mom. She would ground us, she would make us clean our room, she’d make us dinner, she’d be the shoulder to cry on, she is the joy and light of our lives and we wanted to help.”
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