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    Mike Leach spends Father's Day arguing on Twitter about heavily edited Barack Obama conspiracy video

    Dr. Saturday Jack Baer,Dr. Saturday 9 hours ago
    46a90ae316c2d01c6a8dd8de36c2adf7 Mike Leach’s quirky reputation has taken a dark turn. (AP Photo).

    Mike Leach could have spent his Father’s Day doing so many fun things, like a family dinner or golfing (okay, probably not golfing). Heck, he probably could have just spent the day recruiting like Nick Saban probably did.

    Instead, Leach honored the occasion by tweeting out a clearly fake video of Barack Obama and spending hours arguing about it with strangers on the internet.

    The video itself is 19 seconds long and features Obama supposedly discussing an all-powerful sovereign controlling the lives of ordinary citizens. It is painfully, obviously fake. Leach decided to share the video with his 100,000 Twitter followers and ask them to text and tweet their thoughts. Leach got his wish.

    Mike Leach’s fun day on Twitter

    Leach’s tweet was swiftly inundated with replies from Twitter users pointing out the video was spliced from portions of a 2014 speech made by Obama to the European Union, not the conspiracy theory-laden Bilderberg Group as the video itself claims. As SB Nation breaks down, the video takes the segment of Obama discussing NATO’s international influence, then splices in the former president’s description of fascism. You can see the quotes from Obama bolded in the official transcript below.

    Leaders and dignitaries of the European Union; representatives of our NATO Alliance; distinguished guests: We meet here at a moment of testing for Europe and the United States, and for the international order that we have worked for generations to build.

    The second part of Leach’s video comes later in the speech.

    But those ideals have also been tested — here in Europe and around the world. Those ideals have often been threatened by an older, more traditional view of power. This alternative vision argues that ordinary men and women are too small-minded to govern their own affairs, that order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign. Often, this alternative vision roots itself in the notion that by virtue of race or faith or ethnicity, some are inherently superior to others, and that individual identity must be defined by “us” versus “them,” or that national greatness must flow not by what a people stand for, but by what they are against.

    In many ways, the history of Europe in the 20th century represented the ongoing clash of these two sets of ideas, both within nations and among nations.

    Leach replied to one of the many accounts calling him out for sharing the fake video and asked for proof.

    Once Leach was given proof that his video’s content was false, he decided to question the whole idea of something being “false” and invoked the name of President Donald Trump.

    All told, Leach asked Twitter users to “prove it” nine different times (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) as he continued to march through the internet battlegrounds, conveniently missing the many people trying to provide him with proof the video he shared was fake.

    At one point, Leach asked a Twitter user a point-blank question that essentially summed up the whole exercise: “What’s a fact?

    Mike Leach’s personality meets his politics

    Leach has always enjoyed a reputation as one of the quirkiest minds in college football. That is buoyed by the success of his Air Raid offense in a sport that loves its odd-duck personalities, even if they have a skeleton or two in their closet.

    However, that reputation takes a sinister turn with Leach tweeting out a video like this. This is not quirky. This is not provocative. We shouldn’t laugh at this like “The pirate is swinging his sword again!”

    This is at best an extraordinarily misguided attempt from Leach to gauge the ideas of his followers and at worst an attempt to smear Obama by sharing a video designed to mislead. While tweeting from a position of power as the highest paid public employee in the state of Washington, Leach hides behind the shield of claiming to just want an “open discussion,” but starts it with a completely false premise. It’s a vastly disappointing decision from a 57-year-old man who should know better.

  2. Went to the Big Apple BBQ Festival in NYC this weekend. Salt Lick was there--not too good, but there were really good and different ribs from a place in Illinois and the best thing all weekend was a pulled pork sandwich from Bob Gibson's from Alabama. All in all, a nice fun time.

     

  3. A teenage girl learning to drive in the parking lot of a shopping center in Philadelphia struck and killed two men on Monday, officials said.

    Philadelphia Police told FOX29 the crash happened around 9 p.m. at a shopping center in the city's Port Richmond neighborhood.

     

    The teenager was driving with her mother and two others the SUV when she struck the two men outside a Dollar Tree store.

     

    "She was navigating into a parking spot and made a mistake," Philadelphia Police Captain Mark Overswise told WPVI. "The vehicle lunged forward striking two men who were seated at the wall of the Dollar [Tree] store."

     

    Authorities said a 50-year-old man died at the scene after getting hit by the SUV, and that a second 50-year-old man died after being transported to the hospital.

    The crash remains under investigation, and no charges have been filed as of Tuesday afternoon, according to FOX29.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/05/teen-girl-learning-to-drive-kills-2-men-in-pennsylvania-parking-lot-police-say.html

  4. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article211164094.html

     

    Seven small dogs — all with legs shorter than an adult's hand — mauled an Oklahoma woman to death while she was outside of her home last week.

    Tracy Garcia, 52, of Ardmore, was attacked by her neighbor's dogs on Thursday and died from her injuries, KTEN reported.

    One of the seven dogs was shot after charging at a deputy who was responding to the attack, KXII reported. The other six dogs were taken to Westwood Veterinary Hospital, where they were euthanized at the owners request.

    Shelter co-director Tena Layton told The Daily Ardmoreite that six of the dogs were about one year old, and the seventh one — about three years old — was possibly the pack's mother.

    "A predominant breed in these dogs is definitely standard dachshund," Dinwiddie told the TV station. "They have really noticeable characteristics like their knobby legs, knees, very short legged dogs and their coats."

    She said all of the dogs were less than 40 pounds each.

    None of the dogs had legs longer than an adult’s hand, The Daily Ardmoreite reported based off of photos kept by the shelter.

    It is unclear what led to the attack, The Associated Press reported, and the investigation is ongoing.

    The dogs were infested with fleas and ticks, according to media reports. There were no other visible health concerns.

    "We were cleaning ticks off ourselves all day," Dinwiddie told KXII. "They are very covered, you can tell they have been living out in the woods."

    The dogs were not tested for rabies, and there are no plans to run those tests.

    "If there was any possible issue of them biting someone else then it would've been (done)," Dinwiddle told KXII, "but the dogs are deceased as well as the victim so there's just no reason to go spend the thousands and thousands of dollars."

    No arrests have been made.

     
  5. https://nypost.com/2018/05/10/hitler-loving-stalker-sent-guy-65k-texts-after-one-date-cops/

    An Arizona woman who called herself the “new Hitler” was busted this week for allegedly stalking a man — and sending him over 65,000 text messages in less than a year — after they went on a single date, according to reports.

    Jacqueline Ades of Phoenix was arrested Tuesday and slapped with charges of threatening and intimating, stalking and harassment.

    A month ago, the unidentified man called Paradise Valley cops when surveillance footage showed her taking a bath in his tub when he was away on a trip.

    Ades, 31 — who authorities said had a butcher knife in her car — was arrested but later released and never showed up for her court date.

    On Tuesday, she went to the man’s place of work in Scottsdale, and was escorted from the building. Paradise Valley cops got wind of the incident, and busted her in Phoenix. Ades — who told cops she was the victim’s wife — is being held without bond.

    According to court records, Ades became obsessed — visiting the man’s home and office and inundating his phone with texts, sometimes 500 in just one day, after she met him last summer through an online dating website, AZCentral.com reported.

    Last summer, the victim reportedly called the cops when he found Ades parked outside his home. Officers escorted her off the property.

    Ades allegedly proceeded to send the man alarming texts following the incident.

    “Oh what would I do w ur blood! … Id wanna bathe in it,” one text said, according to AZCentral.com, citing court documents.

    According to the news outlet, Ades called herself the “new Hitler” in another text.

    In another message, Ades alleged wrote: “Don’t ever try to leave me…I’ll kill you…I don’t wanna be a murderer.”

    Ades told cops that she never wanted to hurt the man and sent the messages because she did not want him to leave her, AZCentral.com reported.

     

     

     

     

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