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HARDY (real name Michael Wilson Hardy) has been celebrated for his hybrid approach to country music, weaving elements of anthemic rock and even nu-metal into his compositions. ( Kid Rock has left a pretty massive vacancy, it could be pointed out.) On his third studio album, “QUIT!!,” HARDY continues to push the boundaries of his chosen genres. “ROCKSTAR” sounds like something that would’ve found a home on the Van’s Warped Tour, delivered through his signature twang; the line between rock and country has never been thinner.

Is this 'HARDY' as revoltingly X-rated as Kid Rock is? If he is, maybe he should QUIT. Kiddie Crock is one of the most disgusting brats in the business. He's that obnoxious puke in your school class that read Little White (porn) Books during lunch periods and study halls who somehow made it in the music industry.

As for 'Bachelorette', with all this Women's March and reaction to TrashTrump's sexist boorish attitudes, why would a self-respecting woman 'sell herself' in such a garbage 'reality TV' show like that? Most of those marriages don't last anyway.

“I can’t even imagine this anger,” she says. “How to restrain oneself, how to look at them.”

Her priority remains Ukraine and keeping its losses and sacrifices in the spotlight.

I hope she doesn't let the war anger get the best of her. If she does it could foul up her attempts at winning anything.

It should be a bit obvious. In France where French is the language those shirts should say 'Francaise'.

theFuToday  10:16 am JST

But Trump is a convicted felon - 34 counts. Only a crazy person would vote for a convicted felon. And that's just the beginning. His lawyers have been delaying all the other trials for years now. If he wasn't guilty, he'd want his months in court to be handled and over - though I doubt he won't get jail time - he seems to believe it.

"Project 2025" is another set of considerations for every American to consider. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-seeks-disavow-project-2025-despite-ties-conservative-group-2024-07-05/ 6 close Trump advisors were in on the creation of that 900+ pg document to destroy the USgovt. Trump claims to know nothing about, but he's a proven liar, so I don't believe him.

In Korea, just put a price tag on the number of troops stationed there and let SK decide how much American blood is enough to be spilled for protection and to have American military equipment close to SK for when NK invades without warning.

The former-liar-in- chef said about the Project 2025 group,

"Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them."

30,001 lies from him now.

Remember, this Fuehrer kissed up to Kimmy boy. And you can't believe anything trump says. Anybody who supports, endorses or even believes the lies this uncivilized sexually deviant criminal traitor says is weak. No hope for them.

Another failed attempt to 'keep the peace'. Somalia was/is in a state of anarchy, the UN pulled out in 1995. The Rwanda Genocide led to a domino effect in Congo/Zaire and a tidal wave of coups, refugee crises, mass rapes, gross abuses, insurrections and ethnic wars throughout cental/equatorial Africa and the Sahara. I really hate to read this.

There's been so many UN peacekeeping missions in Haiti too, but has led to abuses by the UN forces themselves.

At least the UN mission in Cambodia seems to have been a success after all those decades of ugly wars, genocide and strife.

Gene HennighToday  07:50 am JST

My daughter had a heck of a time. I'd run behind her, holding her up straight. When she saw that I wasn't holding on, she'd crash. Then one day, two of her friends came over and asked her if she'd like to go bike riding. She jumped on her bike and went with them. All it took was having friends to go with. I was amazed. Then she and I would bike a little after dinner so she could learn the rules.

About the time my generation was preschool age we rode 'Big Wheels' before we rode bicycles themselves. On day 50 years ago this past June my dad tried to get me and my little sister to learn how to ride bikes just weeks after getting them. He screamed like a cretin Neanderthal at us on one Sunday afternoon when he took the training wheels off and we both crashed. He kept snarling and sassing off to us 'It's going to be next summer before you two learn to ride your bikes!'. But later that same June (summertime, school was out) during the afternoon when our dad was at work, we both learned to ride our bikes on our own. Maybe it was the very next week. What kind of guidance you get (or don't get) makes all the difference.

GuruMickToday  08:25 am JST

Oceans are warming, acidification increasing, corals dying out and climate change has been comprehensively identified as the prime mover.

Fishermen in my local area, hardly "lefty ,anarchist greenies " have spoken to me about how the seas are warmer and 1/ some seaweed no longer appear, which affects 2/ some species of fish are declining.

From NASA to fisherman the consensus is in.

Where I live at and across America, bees and monarch butterflies and frogs have diminished in numbers too. Of course bees pollinate, and do we need to mention how important frogs are?

MoonrakerToday  07:22 am JST

Happy news for the life haters but depressing for those who love the beauty and diversity of this living planet.

And those screwheads just keep saying, 'Nothing you can do about it' or they even deny it. Ecologists have been warning about this at least since 1990 but the deniers and liars keep on denying and lying even when it's right there in our faces.

Good thing we are exploring other worlds because one day in the future we're going to have to evacuate it. We keep mucking it up!

wallaceJuly 9  12:19 pm JST

An important part of ramen is the soup base, and you can even add more halfway through.

Ramen is often looked upon as 'poor boy/girl' food for university and college students trying to scrape by in America (easy to fix, ya know) but I understand its importance in Japanese cuisine. The lady punk band Shonen Knife has a song celebrating it, 'Ramen Rock'. It details about how they like to chill out and chow down with it after doing a show. Of course, many of their songs are about food anyway, and they have this kawaii demeanor. Nothing wrong with that.

NormJuly 8  05:21 am JST

This looks interesting as a one-off try. I have no serious chronic health problems, so if I get the chance I’ll give it a go.

Looks tasty enough for me to try. Still, Pizza Hut is best with their namesake. That's what most patrons come to them for in the first place.

Jon Landau? Not that pop/rock journalist? Not that one. Not to be a spoiler, but I never liked 'Titantic; or 'Avatar'. Overrated boring cliche-ridden garbage.

kwattToday  08:29 am JST

Nice breakup! Don't punch any girl/woman whatever.

Whatever the age of either of them, 16-yes-old is not a 'woman' yet and this 19-year-old geek has some serious maturity issues.

And as for whatever time of night it is, there is one thing clear. He beat her. Physically, hard. He's an abuser, a total jerk. This 'relationship' is OVER. She should not 'have' to take this crap from the fool. Lock him away!

The 1996 Ego-Lympics in Atlanta still leaves a sick taste in my mind. The arrogance of the US Team and the motormouth press was repulsive. And this 'Only the gold will do' is sheer arrogance and childishness, bad sportsmanship. That was the attitude in 1996 from the US Team, and we don't need that juvenile attitude now. What ever happened to just being GLAD to compete at the Games?

“Our only goal,” he said, “is to win a gold medal.”

LeBron has a lot of nerve saying that. And if they don't, he'd better pull a hissy fit like Hope Solo did in the 2012 Olympics when the Swedish women's badminton team trounced the US team. If you win Silver or Bronze you accept it like an adult.

Aly RustomJuly 8  08:46 am JST

Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un

'Provocation'. Just shut-it-up, Kim Yo Jong, you lippy loudmouth. Just can it! Ain't nobody scared of you or your flattop lardo brother. Shove it up where the Rising Sun never shines!

jackandjillToday  11:12 am JST

Le Pen seems reasonable to a very large extent.

Even with her racist anti-semitic history.

'Reasonable'? I think not. Racists and Jew-bashers have rocks in their heads. As for Germany they still have igly memories of fascism and what it does. Chancelor Scholz doesn't want a fascist state at the western border, neither would I.

Le Pen, suck it up.

TaiwanIsNotChinaToday  07:32 am JST

One of the few things the US can rightly be criticized about is not defending the Iraq Museum and other cultural sites during the 2003 invasion. It's also worth noting that ISIS has as one of its goals the destruction of ancient art so defeating them is also a priority to preserve the world's heritage.

When I saw the looting of that museum on TV it made me sick. These are relics of not just Mesopotamia but all mankind. After all, the first civilization and the first writings occurred in the Fertile Crescent and Tigris + Euphrates Rivers areas. The Bible mentions that, and so many empires throughout history wanted/wants a piece of it - Greeks, Macedonians, Arabians, Romans, Persians, Turks, you name it.

The so-called 'Christian morals' store chain Hobby Lobby was fined over $B for illegally selling this war plunder online. That's piracy. Send it back to Iraq!

And yes, those Taliban fanatics blew those Buddha mountain carvings in Afghanistan. Whether you're a Buddhist or not, it's still artwork. That disgusted me too. And yes, that monster ISIS is doing the same carp and no they ain't 'defeated' like that lying sassybrat trump claimed it was. Hell, the Army Times were reporting their stories in direct contradiction openly because they explicitly stated that they hadn't moved an inch 'out'. LIAR!

Recent US military deaths in the area show that, and yes it's imperative that ISIS must be quelled. They've too much already at trying to erase the art of mankind's heritage in the Middle East.

Gene HennighToday  09:47 am JST

Ice cream. Summer. Fun ice cream. Super duper. Calories don't count..

I'm aware that some people in East Asia believe in samsara. I don't care one way or the other. Why not enjoy life (and summertime) right now? Ice cream is GOOD for you! Keeps you cool and refreshed, and it's a dairy product so it's nutritious. Win-win to me.

They need to, for the same reason as it ever was - at least since WW2. China is a Communist monster and until that changes Japan needs all the allies it can get to project itself and counteract the CCP, make them think twice.

And China has been pulling some crap lately with their navy. A Pacific alliance is needed to make sure China doesn't do anything really stupid.

1glennJuly 5  03:58 am JST

In the USA we used to have the Fairness Doctrine, which kept one point of view from dominating a network. Under the Republican, President Reagan, the FCC controlled by him eliminated the Fairness Doctrine. Congress was upset about what was likely to become of the news industry in the USA, and passed a bill to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine. However, President Reagan vetoed the bill.

Today's environment, where a news organization like the Fox Network can be fined 2/3rds of a billion dollars for intentionally inflicting harm by knowingly lying, and then go on doing business as if nothing had Doctrine had been removed before the administration of President Nixon, it is likely that the lies and misinformation spread by the Fox Network would have made removing him from office impossible, just as their actions during the Trump administration made removing him from office all but impossible.

I remember as a kid seeing on '60 Minutes' there were two commenters on a certain issue: 'Point' and 'Counterpoint'. My dad would sass off the mouth to some talking heads on there, once in a while. But at least there were two sides to a story here. Then you decide.

Hell, even during the transitional 90s while unknowing blubberbutt geeks like Rubbish Limberger were screaming the AM mayhem, there still were Republican/'conservative' commenters and journalists who were knowledgeable and civil. Guys like Sen. John McCain, Rep. Bob Dole, journalist George Will - all of them were/are educated, sociable, mature, and they didn't/don't act boorish, obnoxious or uncouth in their actions or demeanor. Right or wrong, they worked together with their rivals in government. At the same time while I was in college, there were those screaming 'PC' geeks who 'had all the answers' and were just as rigid and numbskulled as the racist/sexist/fascist extremist rightists. IOW, a bunch of loudmouth screaming droids with concrete mindsets who also don't know how to SHADDUP.

The past few years, esp. the trump dictatorship have proven that America has been misled, misguided and miseducated about ourselves. The old ways won't work anymore. Where do we go from that?

As a Cold War veteran I was happy when Communism fell in Europe. But since then, the United States has been undergoing and subject to something just as ugly. Americans have become complacent, uncaring, comfortably dumb and even worse they just seem to want to be led around by the hand. Many nations have become that way, sad to say. I hate it.

kohakuebisuToday  09:31 am JST

There has definitely been an increase in clickbait, i.e., engagement/profit driven reporting.

However, the article is about trust, and if you look at the most heavily reported big lie in the past year, the "40 beheaded babies" that didn't happen on October 7, its hard to conclude that that story was driven by media profit. It was clearly driven by media bias. A bias so strong that we get shocking lies being repeated despite zero evidence for them. As we enter an era where video etc. evidence can be created by AI, this is a scary situation.

When I applying to get my passport in 2019, nearby on the same street I saw a Sinclair Communications building. They host and air the local news broadcast of three local network stations - Fox, ABC, NBC. That just leaves the local CBS station which is farther down the same road.

What's that mean? We get the same 'news' crap on all the network stations. It's been well established that the screaming geek Rupert Murdoch slings the mud and doo-doo all around. And the other networks and local stations ain't much better. It's just 'talking heads' spouting gibberish that nobody needs, like Lady Caca getting her pooch snatched or the latest lay by Britney Spears/Taylor Swift/J-Lo and how they 'do it'. I don't a ** about any of that. Not to mention amplifying and glorifying violence, crime, ego and war war war war WAR. **America At War. Yeah!

Where is Dan Rather and his type when we need them? Those kinds were at the scene of events and worked their way up. That's a major reason why I get my news mostly from the internet, and some foreign sources are better because they're from 'outside' the US and they're not screaming and finger-pointing each other like juvenile brats.

MilesTegJune 24  10:00 pm JST

starpunkToday  02:10 pm JST

Stadion Olympique has a lot of history there. 1976 Olympics with Bruce (now Caitlin) Jennings, Pink Floyd incident that inspired 'The Wall', Montreal Expos. And Donald Sutherland too.

Of course the stadium's signs only state the 1976 Games but there are so many stories of history and culture in that unique stadium.

The Big-O does have historical significance for Montrealers and many have some fond memories including me but....

The 1976 summer olympics will go down in history as perhaps the most financially mismanaged olympics in history. It took 30yrs to pay it off and one main reason was the stadium. Looked nice but poorly designed with major cost overruns and delays. The retractable roof didn't work. It was cavernous and all concrete with no colors. Cold even in summer. Acoustics were pretty bad. It's basically been empty since 2004. A true white elephant and it's actually white!

I first visited Montreal in 1997 and at the very least across the street from Stadion Olympique there is the Parq Olympique. Doesn't that help things a little bit there? Of course it's an iconic feature of the city's downtown skyline. Besides, is there any chance it might be used for a sports team again, or shows? Or even some rip-off mystic like Bill McCartney and his 'Promise Keepers' vision telling us men about how to 'be Christians' and give him lots of money? Oh wait, by my observation that nonsense just doesn't go so well in the Great White North.

Just be glad it's not like that other Olympic stadium that was built for the 1984 Olympics, the one in Sarajevo. I saw those Games live on TV as a teenager and 10 years later everything in Yugoslavia had changed - for the worse,

Stadion Olympique has a lot of history there. 1976 Olympics with Bruce (now Caitlin) Jennings, Pink Floyd incident that inspired 'The Wall', Montreal Expos. And Donald Sutherland too.

Of course the stadium's signs only state the 1976 Games but there are so many stories of history and culture in that unique stadium.

StrangerlandToday  01:14 pm JST

The criminals who did the terrorist attack in Makhachkala on June 23, 2024, used American AR15 assault rifles

The Putin false-flag terrorist attack to drum up support for his war?

You think so? His little mission to NK was a diversion for sure. But those UN sanctions are kicking him where it counts, and that Ukraine war is getting to be what Afghanistan was to the USSR.

There are ethnic tensions within the Russian Federation. Remember Chechnya? Putty Tat had better watch his ass.

isabelleJune 23  02:37 pm JST

Error in the article:

Chinese sailors

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Chinese pirates

'Pirates' owe allegiance to no government or authority. These weren't pirates by any definition of the word. They are Chinese sailors, Chinese Navy personnel, military. Military of the CCP. And they are looking for a fuss and fight with the PI.

We all know that China is a Communist totalitarian nation, which means that the government has total control over everything in it. 'Pirates' are not compatible with that because pirates obey nobody.

Somalia due to its anarchic condition, has had pirates. The Houthi hooligans are technically pirates, they certainly don't follow the Yemenese government.

These are officially sanctioned CCP Navy men in intentionally trying to start an incident, maybe a fight.

WesleyJune 23  08:43 pm JST

Japan is not a party to the South China Sea issue and has no right to intervene in China-Philippines maritime matters

china has no right to tell Japan what to do.

china has no rights to be in Philippines waters.

china has no right to be in Tibet.

china has no right to be in Vietnamese waters.

china has no rights to be in Senkaku.

china has no rights to bully Taiwan.

china has no rights.

Communism is based upon socialism and democracy, both of what are good principals. Karl Marx envisioned the whole planet Earth based upon that. That's good too. But Communism never has delivered any of those things, it twists things all up and turn them into a warped grotesque monster. And that's what the CCP does.

I saw the Tiananmen Square massacre live on TV before the foreign news blackout, back in 1989. Is that what Marx envisioned in his social theory? NO!

As if what Murderous Mao did before wasn't enough to tell you, that certainly did. It cemented it, and I saw it live on TV in living color.

That day was the day when the CCP had no right to even exist in my book, if it ever did before.

TaiwanIsNotChinaJune 22  06:54 am JST

China has no right to be denying the Philippines access to the Second Thomas Shoal.

The Laws of International Waters and Free Passage. That's why the US Navy is currently waging war against those Houthi hooligans in the Red Sea.

PTownsendJune 22  07:00 am JST

China's territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests,"

But according to Chinese myths, accepted as rule of law by the CCP, all the seas and lands, even some place called the 'heavens' are ruled by the Chinese emperor.

China hasn't had an emperor since 1911. Even the CCP will tell you that. Nonetheless, they have no right whatsoever to lip off to the Japanese or Filipinos about any of these affairs. They need to show some respect for other nations, something the CCP doesn't want to recognize. And Chairman Xi and his stooges can stick it where the Rising Sun doesn't shine!

> TaiwanIsNotChinaToday  06:41 am JST

Military and economic targets definitely seem justified and Putie can stuff his complaints.

And his visit to puny NK isn't going to help matters much either. And as for the Ukes targeting Russian cities, well they're asking for it.

bass4funkToday  06:50 am JST

And Russia is still winning this conflict.

Lesse, there's defections, draft dodging (men in their 40s and 50s!), UN sanctions, the Wagner threat, demonstrations and protests and riots, drones hitting Moscow. And Puddy Tat thought it would a couple months at max. After all, Kazakhstan was just a week or two. He was dead on wrong.

GuruMickToday  07:07 am JST

Off centre thoughts but...if the Saudis' said to the west and US, "no more oil unless you stop funding Israel's endless wars ",

That did happen in the early 70s. In late 1973 OPEC (along with the Saudis) did just that. I was in the 2nd grade and my teacher asked me to pronounce what she had just written on the blackboard. I said, 'Ener-gee chris-sez'. Of course I mispronounced the phrase 'energy crisis'.

Problem is, as for alternative energy sources nobody in America really gave a damn. Look at all the wars fought for oil in the ME since the Cold War ended. With the exceptions of Libya, Haiti and the Yugoslavia wars (Somalia?) the real basic reasons have been oil oil oil oil OIL. If that isn't enough, the stupid 2003 - 2011 Iraq War was first titled 'Operation Iraqi Liberty' = OIL. D'oh!

Hamas started this whole mess, totally. Hamas is a rotten fanatical terrorist group, absolute scum and crumbums. Yet that ain't enough for the maniac Nutty Yahoo; he has made it an excuse to kill everybody he can in Gaza because he wants his fellow Israelis to be diverted from his crimes and unite against the Gazans. And he wants all of Gaza to himself, all of it! He don't give a damn who dies from it all, he don't give a damn even if Israelis are at risk. He sure didn't when he launched those missile wars during the past few years!

Look at those pictures, a 12-year-old boy, dead. He could've been an astronaut, he could've been a doctor who cures cancer, he could've been a Nobel Prize winning peacemaker (like the Israeli PM Yehudi Rabin (sp?) who was murdered by a Jewish fanatic in the terrorist club Kach in the 90s).

Guess we'll never know now. He won't get to truly fall in love, graduate high school, get a career.

This is sad and tragic to both sides of this sick war. No matter what flag covers the body, Palestinian or Israeli; whether the funeral is Islamic or Jewish - it's all the same. Those people are all united, in defeat - and death.

Why not? After all, many classic video games (along with their graphics) are of Japanese origin. Did somebody say 'Puckman/Pac Man'?