Mocking Christ in Paris Gloria Romanorum | July 31, 2024 | Florentius
… there is a social media trope out there that maintains that the tawdry performance was not meant to ridicule the Last Supper at all. That it was, instead, merely an attempt to mimic a well-known French painting showing the pagan gods at a Bacchanalian. Those who can not appreciate this homage to French art—so the trope goes—as performed by a bunch of overweight men prancing around in their granny’s flapper garb, are ignorant, uneducated, intolerant, overly-sensitive, and otherwise bad people who can be safely ignored.
This 23-Floor Manhattan Office Building Just Sold at a 97.5% Discount New York Times | 31st July 2024 | Matthew Haag
In 2006, the hulking office building at 135 West 50th Street in Midtown Manhattan sold for $332 million. Tenants occupied nearly every floor; offices were in demand; real estate was booming.
On Wednesday, it changed hands again . . . for $8.5 million.
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…The buyer faces an immediate financial challenge: The auction was for the building itself, not the land. That is owned by a publicly traded real estate firm, which collects a monthly lease. But the rent from the building’s current tenants is not enough to cover those monthly payments, which are set to increase every five years and do not expire until 2123.
135 West 50th has more than 920,000 square feet but is just 35 percent occupied with office tenants, down from about 40 percent a year ago.
Ummm . . . I’m no financial genius, but . . . Democrats?
Female boxer yells ‘this is unjust’ and falls to her knees in tears as she quits fight against ‘biologically male’ Olympic opponent Imane Khelif after just 46 SECONDS following two powerful punches Daily Mail | August 1, 2024 | Shekhar Bhatia, Tom Cotterill
Boxer in middle of Olympics gender storm forces distraught first opponent to quit 46 seconds into fight NY Post.com | 8/1/24 | Justin Terranova
Paris Olympics: Boxer With Male Chromosomes Absolutely PUMMELS Female Boxer, Who Leaves Ring in Tears PJ Media| 08/01/24 | Rick Moran
Punching An Attacking Grizzly In The Face Might Work, But Not Recommended Cowboy State Daily | July 29, 2024 | Mark Heinz
A man in British Columbia stopped a grizzly attack by punching the bear in the face…
It’s possible to fight off a grizzly with a stout punch to the snout, but only as an absolute last-ditch tactic.
“By that point, a lot of things will have gone wrong,” retired Forest Service and National Park ranger Richard Jones told Cowboy State Daily.
Portrait of an Alaskan brown bear walking through a field in McNeil River State Game Sanctuary and Refuge
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Hunt Ends in Ambush: Hunter Uses 10mm Pistol to Stop Bear Attack AmmoLand | July 31, 2024 | Dean Weingarten
The following occurred in a few seconds:
The bear charged the guide from the front, appearing 20 feet away. The guide managed to get off one shot, which hit the bear in the chest/shoulder area, slowing the bear. The guide fired another shot as he backed away, tripping on the brush. The second shot missed as the guide fell backward, trapped in place by the tangled vegetation. The guide yelled for help. Tyce crawled forward to get a shot at the bear without shooting the guide. Alongside the guide, Tyce used the 10mm to fire three rapid shots at the bear, which was whirling around 12 feet away. The bear dropped, rolled downhill, and lay still.
