Have y'all heard about the dog groomer that dyed a dog green without the owners consent?
The post started circulating in my pet industry groups and now it’s hit the news, shit is bananas
I fell down this rabbit hole so hard and it just gets worse and worse. Like at the end of the news article about it they have a response from her and…
“UpNorthLive reached out to Boyles to see if she was interested in explaining her side.
This is the statement she sent in response:
‘I would like to address some recent comments regarding my actions. Throughout my career, I have always aimed to maintain a positive and respectful environment. I acknowledge that my decision regarding the splash of color may have crossed certain boundaries, and for that, I sincerely apologize.
When the family left my establishment, they appeared to be happy, and I received no indication of any dissatisfaction at that time. I even provided them with a card and additional treats as a gesture of goodwill. In an effort to resolve any concerns, I issued a refund prior to the online comments made about me.
I understand that my initial apology may not have been perfect, but my intention was to minimize conflict and ensure a positive outcome. It’s disheartening to see how some individuals choose to diminish others rather than support them.’”
How can anyone be this stubbornly unable to admit fault? How can you possibly, with hindsight and SO much backlash, not understand how egregious this is??? Completely bananas!
Perhaps the wildest thing though is that the instance that went viral isn’t even the most bonkers one? Like look at this one!
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It’s so bad that other grooming businesses with similar names are needing to post to explain that they are not the one that dyes dogs bright colours without owners’ consent! Bonkers.
someone else notes in another chain that there’s unlikely to be actual “permanent” (chemical process) color that is pet safe and confirms that Opawz is not actually permanent, it appears to just be a particularly pigmented semipermanent. the difference between permanent and semipermanent dye has to do with whether you are just depositing pigment into the hair shaft, or actually creating some sort of chemical process with the hair protein at the same time. neither 7 hours nor 13 hours are appropriate or reasonable amounts of time to groom or dye a dog of these two types unless they are rescue cases with severe matting so i have to assume based on the photo of the groomer with her entire hand covered in dye and no glove (???) that she was just applying and reapplying dye badly on these poor dogs over and over again anyway its a matte of time until she poisons or injures someone’s animal if she hasnt done it already
If you had unlimited funds to fix it up, this island could be spectacular. Look, it has a lighthouse. The current owner started to renovate, didn’t get very far, and clearly gave up.
There’s more than one house on it. Located just a few miles offshore from Rockport Harbor and north of the charming town of Alpena, MI this 227-acre island is in the crystal-clear waters of Lake Huron, offering over 10,000 feet of pristine waterfront and panoramic views. $3.699m.
Please take a moment to read this. A Canadian company wants to build a sulfide copper mine near Lake Superior, which holds 21% of the world’s freshwater. The mine would produce 98.5% toxic waste, stored in a dam just two miles from the lake. The dam can only withstand a 1-in-100-year storm, but the area has had two 1-in-1,000-year storms in the past decade. If it breaks, toxic water could flood the lake. Copper sulfide mines in the U.S. have consistently contaminated nearby water sources, and this mine could hurt local communities with lower employment, income, and property values. The company wants $50 million in taxpayer funding to move forward. The Michigan Senate is about to vote, if they don’t get the funding they can’t build it.
Sign this petition if you want to prevent this disaster by searching “Protect the Porkies, Protect Lake Superior— Stop the Copperwood Mine!” at change.org.
Crowds of families, tourists and local folks paused on that sunny Saturday in September, watching the group curiously as it passed. Was this a protest or a celebration, they wondered.
It was neither. It was ceremony, a walking prayer of gratitude and acknowledgement of the essential role clean water plays in life on the planet. Such a message would seem to offer a universal spiritual appeal. But deep in the Upper Peninsula’s mining country where generations of European immigrants have depended on digging copper and iron ore from the earth for more than a century, such a prayer had a whiff of blasphemy.
“This goes all the way back to the 19th century with fur trading, timber, iron and copper mining; if there’s any environmental fallout the folks who ran the operation aren’t around to pay for the cleanup,” said Tom Grotewohl, a resident of Wakefield Township and founder of Protect the Porkies, a nonprofit organization opposing the mines that draws its name from the Porcupine Mountains, known as the Porkies, in the Upper Peninsula.
“Mining is a false tradition,” Grotewohl told ICT. “A tradition is something that everyone can benefit from and share equally.”
The Copperwood Mine Project is emblematic of a global struggle to address climate change and support the clean energy industry without further damaging the environment and treading on Indigenous rights. The demand for energy transition minerals such as copper, lithium, cobalt and nickel disproportionately affects Indigenous peoples and lands.
desperately texting my mom over whether she voted for no reason other than the fact that michigan’s sticker fucks so hard and they didn’t send me one for my mail in
SHE DIDNT GET ONE EITHER FUCK
my white whale……
any michiganders out there get an extra sticker i Will send my address to strangers over this
starting tomorrow, you can go to your local secretary of state office to pick one up if you didn’t get one!!! (source)
“Michigan has officially banned the ”LGBTQ+ panic" defense following Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s signature on the historic piece of legislation.
HB 4718 prohibits using the “sexual orientation or gender identity of a victim as a defense to a crime.” The bill recently passed the state House of Representatives in a narrow 56 to 54 vote, making it through the state Senate by a larger margin of 24 to 14, with two Republican joining Democrats in support. Whitmer signed the bill into law Tuesday, saying: “No one should fear violence because of their sexuality or gender identity.”
“Since I took office, we expanded the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act to cover the LGBTQ+ community, established the Michigan LGBTQ+ Advisory Council, and banned conversion therapy for minors,” Whitmer told The Advocate. “Our work is not done as we continue to make progress and move Michigan forward. I look forward to reviewing the legislation and continuing to work alongside the LGBTQ+ community to ensure justice.”
The so-called “gay panic” defense has been used “to partially or completely excuse crimes such as murder and assault on the grounds that the victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity is to blame for the defendant’s violent reaction,” according to the American Bar Association. Only nineteen states and Washington D.C. now prohibit the “gay panic” — or “gay and trans panic” — defense, according to the Movement Advancement Project, with Michigan being the most recent.
While “no state recognizes gay and trans panic defenses as freestanding defenses under their respective penal codes,” according to research by the Williams Institute, defendants have used panic defenses alongside other strategies to reduce their charges or sentencing.
The bill was introduced by out State Representative Laurie Pohutsky, a Democrat and current speaker pro tempore of the Michigan House of Representatives, who told Michigan Public that she was motivated to propose the legislation by the 1998 murder of gay teenager Matthew Shepard.
“I wanted to introduce this bill because I was a young queer person when Matt Shepard was murdered, and it was the first time, although I was not out yet, that I realized, 'Oh, this could be very dangerous for me,’” she said, adding, “At its core, the defense asserts that crimes against the LGBTQ community carry less weight because we are inherently less human and therefore less valuable.”“
“Michigan has officially banned the ”LGBTQ+ panic" defense following Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s signature on the historic piece of legislation.
HB 4718 prohibits using the “sexual orientation or gender identity of a victim as a defense to a crime.” The bill recently passed the state House of Representatives in a narrow 56 to 54 vote, making it through the state Senate by a larger margin of 24 to 14, with two Republican joining Democrats in support. Whitmer signed the bill into law Tuesday, saying: “No one should fear violence because of their sexuality or gender identity.”
“Since I took office, we expanded the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act to cover the LGBTQ+ community, established the Michigan LGBTQ+ Advisory Council, and banned conversion therapy for minors,” Whitmer told The Advocate. “Our work is not done as we continue to make progress and move Michigan forward. I look forward to reviewing the legislation and continuing to work alongside the LGBTQ+ community to ensure justice.”
The so-called “gay panic” defense has been used “to partially or completely excuse crimes such as murder and assault on the grounds that the victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity is to blame for the defendant’s violent reaction,” according to the American Bar Association. Only nineteen states and Washington D.C. now prohibit the “gay panic” — or “gay and trans panic” — defense, according to the Movement Advancement Project, with Michigan being the most recent.
While “no state recognizes gay and trans panic defenses as freestanding defenses under their respective penal codes,” according to research by the Williams Institute, defendants have used panic defenses alongside other strategies to reduce their charges or sentencing.
The bill was introduced by out State Representative Laurie Pohutsky, a Democrat and current speaker pro tempore of the Michigan House of Representatives, who told Michigan Public that she was motivated to propose the legislation by the 1998 murder of gay teenager Matthew Shepard.
“I wanted to introduce this bill because I was a young queer person when Matt Shepard was murdered, and it was the first time, although I was not out yet, that I realized, 'Oh, this could be very dangerous for me,’” she said, adding, “At its core, the defense asserts that crimes against the LGBTQ community carry less weight because we are inherently less human and therefore less valuable.”“
I went to this Sicilian pizza joint yesterday and it’s literally so underground and such a big hole in the wall that their parking lot is wrecked, their front door is bolted up, and you have to enter through the kitchen and walk to the front end past all the ovens and down a narrow ass hallway and then all the tables and chairs are fold ups and the ceiling is all saggy and it looks awful but fuck me it’s been there for 70+ years and makes the best damn thin crust pizza in the city and no one hardly knows about it because it looks like an abandoned building
3805 S Saginaw St in Flint
If it looks like an abandoned building you’ve got the right place
That’s the place
There’s no way this isn’t a mob front
Mob fronts always have the BEST pizza. Visit your local mob front eatery today
No mob boss wants to eat bad pizza while they meet to discuss crime. Even if it is unprofitable to sell really good pizza there, the mob will put up the funds to get top quality ingredients and a good chef and make up the difference in money laundering.
it’s true, i grew up in nj and you could tell how good the food was by how many insurance frauds the place did. one of my favorite pizza places in my home town staged an arson to collect on insurance money, the owner got caught tho
Ted Yoho, House Rep, R-FL, 3rd district. He is not running for re-election in 2020.
Thomas Massie, House Rep, R-KY, 4th district. He is running for re-election in November 2020, if he wins the candidacy in the republican primary on June 23.
Justin Amash, House Rep, Libertarian-MI 3rd district. He is running for re-election in November 2020, and ran an unsuccessful campaign for president this year as well.
Louie Gohmert, House Rep, R-TX, 1st district. He is running for re-election in November 2020, and has already been declared the Republican nominee.
So to our friends in (click the link to see a map and find what district you are in!):
(not included in the article is his height which is around 5’8)
UPDATE:
Tymere disappeared 06/15/2020 at 3:30 p.m. as of right now 06/16/2020 at 6:00 p.m. he is still missing. Below I will link 2 videos which may be helpful if you see him.
I couldnt tell if this was one of those “this is year is getting dramatically worse” memes or if something else actually happened so I looked it up.
Turns out Michigan is actually flooding.
Yep. Dam burst cause the jackass who owns them didn’t pay to keep up maintenance, or so I’ve heard. It’s as likely a story as any.
But I’m sure that this has nothing at all to do with the govt not keeping up on infrastructure and not imposing regulations.
Friendly reminder that this is the second time michigan has flooded like this in recent years. Last time it was in 2017. The worst flooding before that was in the 1980s.
Less friendly reminder that this is happening while water crises like in Flint, Michigsn are still happening.
Not friendly reminder that this flood occurred in Midland, Michigan. Which houses Dow Chemical and has been the source of chemical pollution to Michigan water for decades. Reports say that flood waters mixed into the contamination pools.
Unfriendly reminder that Michigan is among the top 5 worst virus case states in the US. And our governor is being falsely discredited by Trump and our state government is being threatened by people carrying firearms.
In case you’re wondering how Michigan residents are doing: not good
Comedian and vlogger Elijah Daniel became mayor of Hell, Michigan, proceeded to ban all heterosexuals, and then was impeached. This singlehandedly saved 2017
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