February 27, 2022

Ukraine brewery switches to making Molotov cocktails!

https://twitter.com/DallasEyeball/status/1497778173848825856?s=20&t=F3-yd9BmvooMifnBwZvU1g

From the comments:
Medvedev is on the lap. Yanukovich is in the mouse suit -- that's prev Ukrainian president that ran away in 2014 after screwing up our EU application. The sign says, "I am legitimate, I am alive" -- that's what he was saying when riots against him have started

February 18, 2022

Former suburban Minneapolis officer Kim Potter sentenced to 2 years in prison for killing Daunte Wri

Source: Washington Post

The former suburban Minneapolis police officer convicted of manslaughter for fatally shooting Daunte Wright during a traffic stop last April was sentenced to two years in prison in a Hennepin County courtroom Friday.

A Hennepin County jury in late December found Kim Potter guilty of first- and second-degree manslaughter for shooting Wright, a 20-year-old unarmed Black man in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center last April. Potter claimed she mistook her gun for a Taser when she fired on Wright to stop him from driving away.

“This case is highly unusual,” Judge Regina M. Chu said Friday, and called it “one of the saddest cases I’ve had in my 20 years on the bench.”

Ultimately, Chu said Potter made a “tragic mistake ... and ended up killing a young man.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/02/18/kim-potter-sentence/

February 10, 2022

Former NFL lineman now cooks at his kids' school cafeteria

Retired NFL offensive lineman Jared Veldheer was looking for a new challenge in Grand Rapids, Mich., last summer when he heard about a job opening. It was at his kids’ school, in the cafeteria.

The Catholic school needed someone to oversee cooking and serving lunch for about 260 students from preschool to eighth grade. The previous manager had quit, and the school wanted to line up somebody quickly because classes were to start in two weeks.

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He accepted the job at $15 an hour, a far cry from the millions he made in the NFL, including $29 million with the Arizona Cardinals. He did it for the experience and to help out, he said, not for the money. As soon as the cafeteria was renamed the SPA 68 Cafe after his NFL uniform number, students and parents said they right away saw a difference in the $3.50 lunch menu.

Slices of pizza with salty tomato sauce and greasy cheese were history, as were chicken nuggets, french fries and sugary desserts.
They had been replaced by smoked carnitas, mashed cauliflower, a salad bar and Korean beef bulgogi — a dish most of the kids had never tasted.

Whole story at:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/01/14/nfl-jared-veldheer-cook-cafeteria/