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If there's any good that's come from the government shutdown, it's exposing all the fraud being committed to exploit the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. To be sure, there are millions of needy Americans who were hurting from being deprived of SNAP as they tried to support children and keep their...

A horrific 2005 chimpanzee attack on former NASCAR driver St. James Davis exposes the deadly consequences of treating wild animals as family members, leaving one man catastrophically disfigured and fighting for his life. The Savage Birthday Attack St. James Davis and his wife LaDonna arrived at Animal Haven Ranch in Bakersfield, California on March 3, 2005, carrying birthday cake and gifts for Moe’s 39th birthday celebration. The couple had raised Moe from infancy and treated him like their own child for nearly four decades. As they prepared to celebrate inside Moe’s enclosure, two younger male chimps named Buddy and Ollie suddenly appeared, having escaped their cage. Within seconds, one chimp charged the couple, knocking them to the ground and beginning a brutal five-minute assault. St. James Davis Chimpanzee Attack: A Tragic Story of Domesticated Wild Animals. The story began in 1967 when the Davises “St. James and his wife LaDonna” adopted Moe “a chimp” after his mother was killed by Tanzanian poachers when he was just one day old. The Davises raised Moe… pic.twitter.com/XQY4yKbHyu — Amer Salem (@AmerYaaqoub) July 6, 2023 Heroic Protection Turns Into Nightmare Davis immediately pushed his wife LaDonna under a picnic table and faced the attacking chimps alone. The animals systematically destroyed his face and body, gouging out his right eye, tearing off his nose and lips, and severing his genitals. Despite being 6’2″ and physically strong, Davis was no match for the frenzied chimps who clawed skin from his face, bit through his skull, and gnawed a gaping hole in his left foot. The attack only ended when sanctuary worker Mark Carruthers shot both chimps dead with a revolver. Devastating Injuries and Long Recovery Davis spent six months in the hospital, including time in a coma, and underwent more than 60 surgeries over four years. His face became nearly unrecognizable, with only a red patch with slit-like holes where his nose had been. A prosthetic nose held by magnets constantly fell off, and his shattered facial bones could not properly support reconstructed skin. He lost most of his fingers, required a glass eye, and needed a wheelchair after his foot was so severely damaged that amputation remained a possibility. On February 16, 2009, a distressing call was made to 911 dispatchers in Stamford, Connecticut. Sandra Herold, in a state of panic, reported that her friend, Charla Nash, was being brutally attacked and partially eaten by Herold's pet chimpanzee, Travis. When emergency services… pic.twitter.com/UYSLPBvKfO — Morbid Knowledge (@MorbidKnowledge) June 26, 2024 Sanctuary Negligence and No Accountability Investigation revealed that Buddy and Ollie escaped because sanctuary staff failed to properly lock their cage doors. Despite the life-altering injuries caused by this negligence, Davis chose not to sue Animal Haven Ranch because the facility lacked liability insurance. Davis had no health insurance and faced mounting medical bills while dealing with permanent disabilities. He told Esquire magazine in 2009 that he could no longer do anything independently, describing himself as sitting “around like a potted plant.” A Dangerous Bond That Began in Africa Davis first encountered Moe in 1967 during a trip to Tanzania, where he witnessed a mother chimp being killed during a hunt. Taking pity on the orphaned infant, Davis spent weeks caring for the baby chimp before bringing him back to California on a 19-hour flight. The chimp even served as best man at Davis and LaDonna’s 1970 wedding and became a celebrity during a 1971 court case that made him an honorary citizen of West Covina. However, Moe’s violent incidents in the late 1990s, including injuring a police officer and biting a woman, forced his relocation to the sanctuary where the tragic attack later occurred.

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Even if you have never heard of Samaritan’s Purse, you have likely seen images of children around the world receiving their red and green Christmas shoe boxes filled with little gifts and hygiene products.  Every year, children in more than 100 nations receive the boxes at Christmastime. While Samaritan’s Purse Vice President Ken Isaacs says he would like to one day see children in Gaza opening their own Christmas shoe boxes, “we may be a while off from that happening.”   It has been about two months since Isaacs was last in Gaza, and about a month since the ceasefire took effect and Israeli troops were pulled back to the designated “yellow line.” Right now, it remains unclear who will rule Gaza, but Samaritan’s Purse hopes to one day reenter and again provide aid to the people there.   Samaritan’s Purse arrived in Israel on Oct. 10, 2023, three days after the Hamas terrorist attack that left 1,200 people in Israel dead. The humanitarian group later entered into Gaza and partnered with groups, such as the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, to distribute needed aid.   On trips into Gaza, Isaacs said Palestinians were afraid Hamas was going to kill them for visiting the distribution sites for food.   Despite the fear, thousands of Palestinians arrived at the sites daily where Samaritan’s Purse was helping to distribute food and other resources during the two-year war between Israel and Hamas. While Isaacs says there was fear, there was also great gratitude among locals for the help.   Samaritan’s Purse distributes aid to locals in Gaza. (Courtesy of Samaritan’s Purse.) Palestinians were “thanking us for being there, thanking America, thanking President [Donald] Trump,” Isaacs, who was most recently in Gaza in September, said.   Amid the ceasefire that went into effect in October, Isaacs says he is concerned “every day that goes by now, Hamas consolidates their position and grows stronger, and it breaks my heart to be aware that Hamas has built their military position out of a pattern of victimizing the Palestinians.”  The U.N. continues to conduct aid operations in Gaza, and Samaritan’s Purse is funneling aid to partner organizations inside Gaza for distribution. When it is safe to do so, Isaacs says the Christian humanitarian group hopes to reenter Gaza to provide medical aid, food, and shelter to those in need.   The phase of the peace deal, which is based on President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan, between Israel and Hamas is expected to include the disarmament of Hamas and the official end to the war. The timing of these actions remains unclear.   Samaritan’s Purse distributes aid to locals in Gaza. (Courtesy of Samaritan’s Purse.) In the meantime, Samaritan’s Purse is working in more than 20 nations around the world amid international emergency situations, including Ukraine.   Working with churches in Ukraine, Samaritan’s Purse is providing needed aid and resources to those on the front lines.   The Samaritan’s Purse model, as Isaacs explains, is based on the biblical parable of the “good Samaritan” in the Gospel of Luke and is providing the practical needs to those in need.   Now in his 70s, Isaacs has spent over 30 years serving the poor and needy through the work of Samaritan’s Purse and has traveled to about 150 nations to provide humanitarian assistance. His call to serve others began when he was in his 30s and chose to go on a trip to West Africa to drill a well.   “I came back [and] I had this feeling in me—I felt called to the world,” Isaacs said, adding that his wife thought he was crazy, explaining his family was from a single county in North Carolina.   “We weren’t international people at all, but I prayed for about 18 months about, ‘if you’ll open a door, I’ll go through it, and the door opened.’”   Isaacs has now traveled to about 150 nations to deliver humanitarian assistance to those in need. He recounts his experiences of serving the needy around the world in his new book, “Running to the Fire.”  “It’s a memoir of the things that I have seen in my life that I can testify to first person that God has done in some of the wildest circumstances that you could imagine in the world, from wars and genocides to earthquakes and, famines and epidemics,” he said. “Through all of it, I can say that I have, even in the times of great darkness, I’ve seen [the] miracles that God does.”   The post Future of Gaza: Humanitarian Group Eager to Reenter and Serve Thankful Palestinians   appeared first on The Daily Signal.

In its efforts to find every anti-Trump story line it can, the PBS News Hour is touting members of the military who are seeking outside legal advice about whether the missions assigned by the Trump administration are legally justified, starting with the drug-boat bombings. Brett T. at Twitchy cracked: "It seems as though PBS got a press release from 'The Orders Project,' an outfit run by a former Army lawyer. We're sure it's nonpartisan." It's part of the National Institute of Military Justice, founded in 2020 to question the legality of military matters through pro bono legal consultations. Military service personnel have been seeking outside legal advice about some of the missions the Trump administration has assigned them. https://t.co/vFrl9tJg9a — PBS News (@NewsHour) November 14, 2025 Is it ideological? Well, they also have a "Trans Representation Project," touted as "a pioneering initiative dedicated to defending the rights of transgender, nonbinary, intersex, and other gender-diverse service members facing adverse actions due to their gender identity." So they are a beautiful fit for PBS, which is a press-release service for LGBTQ activism. The drug-boat bombings have been conducted without much public disclosure, so it's a worthy subject for journalist questions. But our first question is: Has this Orders Project ever protested a Biden military action, like droning a family in Afghanistan shortly after its withdrawal fiasco? Hitting the search engines says No.  On his LinkedIn page, Frank described the subject as "the risk military members face with assurances of immunity when the subject matter includes the commission of atrocity crimes." Anchor Amna Nawaz began with the softball: "Tell me about the calls you have been receiving specific to those U.S. military strikes on boats. How many calls and what are people asking?" He said some officers have questioned "the new military activities in the Caribbean," so Nawaz followed up: "In other words, pressure to get on board with the decision to carry out the strikes. Is that what you're saying?" The flavor of all this is they're looking for heroes who will disobey this commander-in-chief.  She also asked, "there's a DOJ memo that basically says soldiers would be immune from prosecution if involved in these boat strikes, how do you react to that?" This is where the "atrocity" talk came in from Rosenblatt: "For example, if a service member relies on DOJ immunity, that doesn't mean that a state may not prosecute them for any crimes they commit, or if they travel to another country. If there are allegations that they have committed atrocity crimes, then other countries are — could invoke their own universal jurisdiction and put them before the national courts of another country." Nawaz also questioned domestic deployments, of the National Guard being ordered to protect citizens in big cities with crime problems. "And then related to the National Guard deployments, you told my colleague earlier you're also fielding calls related to that. What are those questions?" Rosenblatt replied:  We're getting an appropriate level of curiosity, because anybody who's been following the courts, it's like watching a tennis match right now, back and forth every day between a district court enjoining the president's actions and a court of appeals lifting that, and the Supreme Court acting on their emergency docket. So when people are being told or to anticipate a deployment to an American city, they do have some questions about this. And we just try to help them figure out what's right for them, to help them feel better about what they're doing or where they need to raise questions, to ask the right questions of their leaders to make sure that they are remaining compliant with their — not only their legal obligations, but so that there's no moral injury later on that they don't do something that they knew was wrong at the time. This is a curious argument, since liberals usually complain that the National Guard members stand around a lot, which doesn't sound like a "moral injury" question.