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SF Bacon Restaurant Shut Down for Smelling Like Too Much Bacon

 

Few food items have enjoyed a more surprising recent resurgence than the savory strips of pig fat known as bacon. It is being wrapped around entrees, used to swizzle cocktails, and even serves as a flavor of ice cream.

But now a popular pork-focused restaurant in the Upper Haight must close its doors Friday following months of failed negotiations with neighbors over neighborhood concerns about porcine aroma and grease disposal.

Department of [...]

RAMPAGE!! Neighbor ‘goes nuts,’ destroys several homes with bulldozer

PORT ANGELES, Wash. — Witnesses say a man upset with his neighbors went on a rampage with a bulldozer-like piece of logging machinery in a Port Angeles neighborhood, damaging four homes and knocking out power to thousands of people.

Keith Haynes lives near one of the damaged homes and told the Peninsula Daily News the man took a piece of logging equipment called a skidder and “just went nuts.”

“It was like [...]

Boston Manhunt ‘Missed the Boat’ as Police Skip Street

Sue Lund lives about five blocks from where police engaged in a wild shootout April 19 with the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects and about eight doors down from where the one who escaped alive was found 18 hours later.

Yet, during the all-day manhunt, she said police never searched her Franklin Street home or garden shed in Watertown,Massachusetts. Ten other neighbors had the same story and said they didn’t know [...]

Ok, The Cops Are Incompetent. I’m Supposed To Be Shocked?

 By Karl Denninger

Gee, who could have come up with this one?

Sue Lund lives about five blocks from where police engaged in a wild shootout April 19 with the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects and about eight doors down from where the one who escaped alive was found 18 hours later.

Yet, during the all-day manhunt, she said police never searched her Franklin Street home or garden shed in Watertown, Massachusetts. Ten [...]

Friends of accused Boston bomber are taken into custody in New Bedford, Mass.

Two pals of the accused Boston Marathon bombers were pulled from their New Bedford, Mass. home and taken into custody on Saturday.

The two men, known to neighbors by their first names Azmat and Diaz — who share a black BMW SUV adorned with a novelty license plate that reads “Terrorista #1” — were cuffed and hauled out of their Carriage Dr. apartment shortly before 4 p.m.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com …

FIND THEM! FBI releases video of two ‘dangerous’ suspects in Boston bombing

The FBI has released video and photos of two “armed and extremely dangerous” suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing and appealed for the public’s help in identifying them.

“Somebody out there knows these individuals as friends, neighbors, co-workers or family members,” Boston FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard DesLauriers said at a Thursday evening briefing.

“Though it may be difficult, the nation is counting on those with information to come forward and provide [...]

Baby Boomers get ready! Kids in their mid 30′s moving back home! Economists are now saying that a kid today will now cost $240,000 more over their lifetime than they used to-due to the economic environment!

I have noticed around my neighborhood alot of adult children moving back in with their parents… Many of these neighbors are not happy at all with their moving back in!

So lets ask the parents, would you let your kids move back?

http://money.ca.msn.com/retirement/gordonpowers/when-adult-kids-move-back-home

Nearly all boomers surveyed (93 per cent) have provided some form of financial support to their adult children.

The list includes helping them pay for college tuition or loans (71 per [...]

City OKs yard sign: ‘Parking reserved for neighborhood a**hole only’

Virginia Beach, Va. – Everything seems picture perfect on Victor Road in the Hilltop Manor neighborhood of Virginia Beach, until you see the sign posted in Jeanine Wenger’s front yard that reads, “Parking reserved for the neighborhood A–hole only.”

“That’s a matter of first amendment rights,” said Jeanine Wenger’s husband Rich.

http://wtkr.com/2013/02/01/beach-neighbors-in-heated-dispute-over-sign/

SNAP: Man Allegedly Kills Neighbors Over Dog Poop

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Residents at the Sable Ridge Condominium complex say they’ll never forget the sound.

Michael Issa says the eight gunshots that rang out Monday morning scared him.  “I just know I heard a whole bunch of gunshots at 8 a.m.  I dove over my son to protect him.”

Neighbor Yolanda Washington said, “I heard three [gunshots], then it stopped and I was about to rise up on the floor, and I [...]

MSM calls Alabama hostage taker was a prepper!!!!

A tense standoff in Alabama continued into the early hours Thursday as authorities demanded the gunman to surrender from his underground bunker and free a child hostage.
“Give up! You need to exit the shelter, put down any weapons you have and approach police!” a negotiator said to the suspect, identified as 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes, who is believed to have killed a man Tuesday before kidnapping the young boy.
New details [...]

Crony Gun Control: Obama Leveraging Wal-Mart to End Private Gun Sales

Just as Obama used crony capitalism to leverage pharmaceutical companies into advertising for Obamacare, so too is he trying to fashion gun control legislation in way that will make Wal-Mart one of the legislation’s most prominent supporters.
The irony: As of right now, Wal-Mart is one of the leading sellers of firearms and ammunition, if not the leading seller, in the country.

The goal: Obama wants to end private gun sales, period. [...]

When is a good time to start worrying?

When I expressed my concerns about the actual facts regarding the 911 event and what the government reported.  I was told you have nothing to worry about.  It will be alright our government will take care of it.

 

When I expressed my concerns about the drone strikes killing thousands of innocent women and children in foreign countries.  I was told you have nothing to worry about.  It will be alright.

 

When I [...]

Obama has hired 101 new federal employees A DAY since taking office

You may have noticed some economic difficulties across the country in recent years among family, friends, neighbors, colleagues. One sector is doing quite nicely, however, under Barack Hussein Obama.

In the 1,420 days since he took the oath of office, the federal government has daily hired on average 101 new employees. Every day. Seven days a week. All 202 weeks. That makes 143,000 more federal workers than when Obama talked forever [...]

Earth Booms and ground shaking reported by news in states country wide within past 24 hours (Dec 5th)

CBS 5 News Arizona.. Dec 5th:

Residents in communities in and around Verde Valley and as far as Flagstaff called 911 or their police and fire departments to report the strange booming sounds.
“It sounded like thunder, but underground,” Swesey said. “Like muffled thunder. And all the dogs in the neighborhood, all of them that were outside all started barking at once.”

http://www.kpho.com/story/20263184/mysterious-booms-rock-verde-valley

Patch News California.. Dec 4th

I live in NW Altadena near Lincoln [...]

PAPER: NFL Belcher spent night drunk with other woman before murder-suicide

KANSAS CITY, Mo — He was playing the field.

Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher had a boozy dinner with another woman and spent the night at her apartment before he went home, fought with and killed his girlfriend, and then ended his own life in a practice-facility parking lot, sources said yesterday.

After dinner and drinks Friday night at a local tavern, the former Long Island high-school star took the woman, [...]

Couple faces $97,000 in fines for using own driveway

CLEARCREEK TWP., Warren County — The six-year dispute between Clearcreek Twp. and Howard and Lisa Gray shows just how complicated, combative and costly local land use issues can become.

The Grays obtained permission from a Clearcreek Twp. official to use their residential driveway in Warren County to get to buildings on the Montgomery County portion of their land. The buildings house the Grays’ storage and landscaping businesses.

But following complaints from neighbors, [...]

The Flood Is Coming: Reno Declares State of Emergency

The Nevada County Office of Emergency Services and the Truckee Police Department issued a flood warning at 2 p.m. to Truckee residents living near the river in the Foxmead Lane and Riverside Drive neighborhoods. These are areas that run along the Truckee River through downtown.

 

They urged people living in those areas to take precautions and monitor conditions closely.

 

“Most important, stay calm, think clearly and when in doubt, call 911 and [...]

Map depicted in new Chinese passport includes parts of Vietnam, Taiwan and the Philippines

The red dragon has big plans…

 

China has enraged several neighbors with a few dashes on a map, printed in its newly revised passports, that show it staking its claim on the entire South China Sea and even Taiwan.

Inside the new passports, an outline of China printed in the upper left corner includes Taiwan and the sea, hemmed in by the dashes. The change highlights China’s longstanding claim on the South [...]

Postal Service finally delivers post card — sent in 1943!

A postcard sent to two Elmira sisters nearly seven decades ago arrived last week at the intended address, but it ended up in the hands of two different sisters.

The postcard, sent July 4, 1943, from Rockford, Ill., was intended forPauline and Theresa Leisenring, who once lived in the home along Bridgman Street in Elmira.

It was sent by their parents, who were visiting their brother at the Medical Center Barracks at Camp Grant.

The [...]

VILLAGE TO 96-YR-OLD STORM VICTIM: CLEAN UP!

MYFOXNY.COM -

The cleanup in Amityville, Long Island, is still underway three weeks after Superstorm Sandy devastated parts of the region. So when residents got a warning that they now have to get rid of all of the debris themselves, they were none too happy.

Pete Picucci, 96, spends hours a day sitting in front of his fireplace, the lone source of warmth after Sandy flooded his home, destroying pretty much everything.

His [...]

Neighborhood On Alert As Aggressive Wild Turkeys Attacking Residents, Vehicles

BROOKLINE (CBS) – Neighbors are on the offensive in Brookline after what some residents are describing as aggressive turkeys.

“They were attacking the vehicle,” Karen Halvorson said outside her home in the Aspinwall Hill neighborhood.

After getting in her truck, a neighbor came and ran the birds off but it didn’t stop there.

“Then, the turkeys came and started attacking my front door,” she said.

A second run-in came a few weeks ago as [...]

Vet flies flag upside down for Veteran’s Day… Neighbor calls police

Philip Hoezel says he served the Navy for seven and half years and is now using his first amendment right to express his dissatisfaction with last Tuesday’s election results.

“Under the conditions normally set for the military at sea, if you fly your flag upside down on a ship, it means you’re in distress… I think this country is in distress,” says Hoezel.

http://www.wtsp.com/news/topstories/article/282329/250/Flag-protest-upsets-neighborhood-on-Veterans-Day

Palm Bay police were called about the flag — [...]

UPDATE: Mysterious Explosion Rocks Indianapolis Neighborhood

HICAGO (CBS)– A huge explosion overnight left a small Indianapolis neighborhood shaken. CBS 2?s Derrick Blakley reports.

Homes were engulfed in flames, as neighbors ran for their lives, and tried to help others. This happened just after 11 p.m. last night in the Richmond Hill neighborhood on Indianapolis’ south side.

One neighbor described the scene saying, “It’s like a war zone. I got up, ran outside, looked around. There was insulation falling down [...]

The Prepper Movie: When Survival Is All That’s Left

Mac Slavo
November 9th, 2012
SHTFplan.com

 

Coming soon to a home theater near you; from the producers of Full Spectrum Survival:

“An explosive narrative following a catastrophic collapse. The movie follows groups of preppers after an event who must use every resource at their disposal to survive in a post collapse society.

In this movie you will find yourself following people from varying walks of life as they adapt their lives to a new and lawless [...]

NY men charged with hoarding gas — took 120 gallons in five-gallon buckets!

Police arrested a 47-year-old New York man accused of filling up 30 five-gallon Home Depot buckets with gasoline on Saturday night.

According to investigators, Yunus Latif, of Richmond Hill, collected money from his neighbors, bought gas at a Valero station almost 80 miles away in Orange and planned to bring it back to his neighborhood, where they had no power and gas.

Since Superstorm Sandy hit last Monday, drivers from New [...]

New York City Council member warns Sandy looters will face extreme repercussions

Cathy Hayes
irishcentral.com
November 2, 2012

As New York City recovers from the effects of Hurricane Sandy there have been mounting reports of looting in areas where there are power outages and abandoned buildings.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said those found to be looting during this difficult time for New York should except exceptionally harsh punishment. Speaking in Coney Island on Thursday she asked people to do the right thing.

“They really shouldn’t prey [...]

“After [Hurricane] Sandy, nobody is teasing their prepper neighbors anymore.” – An anonymous forum poster in New England

China Flexes Its Military Might During This Live Ammunition Island Capture Drill; US, Japan To Hold Similar Drill Nov. 5th

Time for talk in the South China Sea may be coming to an end.

http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-military-captured-on-video-during-a-huge-island-capture-drill-2012-10

After nearly a year of back-and-forth between its neighbors regarding island rights in the China Sea, Beijing just concluded a very well documented, live-fire island landing drill.

The mission involved landing craft, artillery, infantry troops, and multiple aircraft. To be sure their abilities were documented and seen by the world Beijing released the following video, which to be [...]

The nightmare scenario in Detroit just got worse: Those with nothing left to lose are becoming more daring, more aggressive, and more ruthless

From SHTFplan:

As more and more Americans across the country become impoverished by rising costs for essential goods, falling wages, job losses, and an unraveling social safety net, those with nothing left to lose are becoming more daring, more aggressive, and more ruthless.

Nowhere is this as apparent than in the cities of Chicago, where police have compared the explosion in violence to a tribal warfare akin to what we’ve seen in [...]

RT @Reuters: U.N. CHIEF BAN KI-MOON URGES SYRIA’S GOVERNMENT TO RESPECT TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF ITS NEIGHBORS, END VIOLENCE AGAINST SYRIANS