News from the USA that didn’t make the headlines in Canada.Between a Rock and a conscience.Dwayne Johnson, actor, former wrestler and Calgary Stampeders’ training camp dropout, came clean this week, admitting to stealing Snickers chocolate bars from a 7-Eleven store in Hawaii..He said he had “exorcised this damn chocolate demon” after he returned to the 7-Eleven and bought all of the Snickers in the store..On Instagram, he said his family was “broke as hell” when he was living on the island and for nearly a year when he was 14, he would swipe a Snickers from the store as his pre-workout snack and that he wanted to “right this wrong” for decades..Rock asked the clerk to ring up all of the store’s Snickers, leave them on the counter, telling him to give them to any customers who look like they were going to steal one..He also tipped the clerk and paid $298 for all of the customers’ groceries while he was in the store.. Rock buying all the SnickersRock buying all the Snickers .“And as a bonus it was a lot of fun to take care of everybody who walked into 7-Eleven while I was there. Least I could do considering all the s— I used to steal from here,” he added..Fake news, conspiracies and trolls, oh my!.Merriam-Webster has selected ‘gaslighting’ as its 2022 word of the year. The word, defined as "the act or practice of grossly misleading someone especially for one's own advantage," made the top of the list because of its importance in the current "age of misinformation," which is full of "fake news, conspiracy theories, Twitter trolls, and deep fakes," Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster's editor at large, told The Associated Press. .Searches for gaslighting on Merriam-Webster's website increased 1,740% year over year.."It was a word looked up frequently every single day of the year," said Sokolowski..Well, they are combustion engines.To squire President Joe Biden and his family around the tiny Massachusetts island of Nantucket on the American Thanksgiving weekend, the Secret Service rented five vehicles (none of them electric)..Not long after the First Family left the island, all five vehicles — a Chevy Suburban, Ford Explorer, Infiniti QX80, Ford Expedition and a Jeep Gladiator — burst into flames in a parking lot at the Nantucket Airport, a mere 40 feet from the facility's jet fuel tanks.. Burned Secret Service vehiclesBurned Secret Service vehicles .Curiously, only the presidential fleet caught fire, all in the engine compartments, with no damage to other cars on the lot.."At approximately 5:22 am Airport shift staff observed an active fire in the rental car overflow area through the Airport's Closed Circuit Television System," the airport said in a statement to the Nantucket Current. "Staff activated the Alert system and responded to the fire, where they were met by responding units from Nantucket Fire Department and Nantucket Police Department."."Combined fire resources responded and contained the fire. Several vehicles were damaged. The airport is currently coordinating with rental car agencies and agency partners to ensure scene safety. There is no longer an active fire at this time: the airport is open, and aeronautical operations are not affected. It is currently unknown what caused the fire." .Nothing to see here, folks. Move along..Rumours that swirled for months were confirmed on Thursday, in an ‘exclusive’ from the New York Post’s Page Six gossip column: Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes, hosts of Good Morning America (GMA 3) arrived at ABC TV headquarters, acting, says Page Six, as if “nothing happened” despite news of their alleged affair breaking earlier this week..“While producers had been freaking out and having meetings about whether it was right to put them back on air again together, they showed up as a couple and said they were ready and totally fine to go on air,” a source told Page Six.. Amy Robach and T.J. HolmesAmy Robach and T.J. Holmes .Robach and Holmes hooked up when they were training for the New York City Half Marathon in March, only leaving their respective spouses, Andrew Shue and Marilee Fiebig, in August..“Their attitude seems to be that they are both separated, and now they are together, so there’s nothing to hide,” the source added..Here’s Joey!.Before Biden departed Nantucket, he gave kids in the Lemon Press Juice Shop on the island an up-close and maybe too personal look when he approached the store window and smiled for some photos, shows a social media post from the Nantucket Current..“There’s Joe!” one of the children shouted as he walked down Main Street..He stopped when he heard the shouting and walked directly to a store window and waved..Some social media users lambasted the close encounter with the president as “creepy.”.‘This is not normal. Stop trying to normalize this. If it was any other old man, you would all be freaking out, too,” one Instagram user wrote..“They used to call that a peeping Tom in my day!” wrote another.. Creepy JoeCreepy Joe
