“I was given a sedative at the time of the video. I have zero recollection of the video and the disturbing language used during it.” - her so-called honor
Oh, so that’s supposed to make it OK, is it? Riiiiight. Then drunken drivers shouldn’t go to jail for plowing into someone if they can’t remember getting in the car. Same “logic.”
“I don’t know of any medicine that makes you call somebody the n-word.” - Gary Chambers, community activist
Me neither, Gary. Me neither. Step down, racist asshole.
On this day, 19 December 1925, Lepa Svetozara Radic was born in Bosanska Gradiska, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Lepa became a communist and joined the anti-Nazi partisans aged 15 in 1941. She was captured in 1943 while organising a rescue of around 150 women and children attempting to escape the fascists. The Germans offered to spare her life if she gave up the names of her comrades, but she responded that she was not a traitor and her comrades would reveal themselves when they avenged her death. The executioner subsequently reported that the “bandit” had “shown unprecedented defiance”. The Yugoslav partisans eventually successfully defeated the Nazis the fascist Ustashe regime.
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The Battle of Actium: Birth of an Empire
The battle of Cynoscephalae in 197 BCE concluded the Second Macedonian War (200-197 BCE) and consolidated Rome’s power in the Mediterranean, finally resulting in Greece becoming a province of Rome in 146 BCE. This engagement is sometimes cited as the birth of the Roman Empire in that it proved th…
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As a catastrophic tornado approached this city Friday, employees of a candle factory — which would later be destroyed — heard the warning sirens and wanted to leave the building. But at least five workers said supervisors warned employees that they would be fired if they left their shifts early.
For hours, as word of the coming storm spread, as many as 15 workers beseeched managers to let them take shelter at their own homes, only to have their requests rebuffed, the workers said.
Fearing for their safety, some left during their shifts regardless of the repercussions.
At least eight people died in the Mayfield Consumer Products factory, which makes scented candles. The facility was leveled, and all that is left is rubble. Photos and videos of its widespread mangled remains have become symbols of the enormous destructive power of Friday’s tornado system.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said Monday that 74 people were confirmed dead in the state.
McKayla Emery, 21, said in an interview from her hospital bed that workers first asked to leave shortly after tornado sirens sounded outside the factory around 5:30 p.m.
Employees congregated in bathrooms and inside hallways, but the real tornado wouldn’t arrive for several more hours. After employees decided that the immediate danger had passed, several began asking to go home, the workers said.
“People had questioned if they could leave or go home,” said Emery, who preferred to stay at work and make extra money. Overtime pay was available, but it wasn’t clear whether those who stayed were offered additional pay.
Supervisors and team leaders told employees that leaving would probably jeopardize their jobs, the employees said.
“If you leave, you’re more than likely to be fired,” Emery said she overheard managers tell four workers standing near her who wanted to leave. “I heard that with my own ears.”
About 15 people asked to go home during the night shift shortly after the first emergency alarm sounded outside the facility, said another employee, Haley Conder, 29.
There was a three- to four-hour window between the first and second emergency alarms when workers should have been allowed to go home, she said.
