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Obama’s First Round of Endorsements Omits Ocasio-Cortez
by Shifra on August 1, 2018Could it be that Obama is concerned about how “toxic” Ocasio-Cortez might be to the Democrat midterms? Or, maybe since Celebrity Net Worth reported both Barack and Michelle Obama’s net worths as $40 million (each!), and according to data collected by Analytics@American, they could make as much as $242.5 million post-presidency, that whole “socialist-income-inequality-wealth-distribution” thing isn’t looking quite so appealing now. Via Free Beacon. Former President Barack Obama announced his endorsement Wednesday of dozens of Democratic candidates running for office in the November 2018 midterms. A statement released by the former president’s office said Obama will strive to help the Democratic Party retake control of the House of Representatives and increase the number of Democratic senators. “I’m proud to endorse...
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Flashback: Schumer Shares Donut and Coffee With Vladimir Putin
by Shifra on July 19, 2018Now that the Dems have changed the definition of “treason” to mean “any idea that you may have that does not totally conform to theirs,” can we now accuse Chuck Schumer of treason for enjoying a Krispie Kreme with Putin? Via Daily Wire. The Senate’s Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, ramped up to Defcon 1 after President Trump met with Vladimir Putin. “I’m from Brooklyn,” the New York Democart said on the Senate floor on Tuesday. “We learned one thing there, if we learned anything: when there’s a bully around, as Putin is, you show strength. But President Trump showed abject weakness. You know what that means? The bully will continue to take advantage of him. If President Trump was such...
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Pickle Juice-Drinking People Go Public
by Shifra on July 1, 2018Did you ever discover a half-eaten jar of pickles in the fridge, with all the liquid gone? You probably assumed it was because you placed the jar on its side, and the liquid somehow leaked out. Well, you might want to consider an alternative reason for the missing liquid: Perhaps someone in your household is a pickle juice drinker. Via WSJ. ….Sour reactions have long driven an untold population of Americans to swig the stuff covertly. “I am a closeted pickle-juice drinker,” says Dawn Crosswhite, 51, a therapist and clinical-social-work professor in Denver, who recently admitted her habit to friend Millete Birhanemaskel…. But now there’s hope. People who privately partake of pickle juice are finding it easier to go public,...
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Google Finds ‘Beautiful’ Is Top Misspelled Word in America
by Shifra on June 3, 2018Americans don’t know how to spell “beautiful” ? This is so embrrasing, er, embarrassing. Via CNET. Yacht. Chaos. Apparel. Connecticut. These are some of the words America most needs help spelling, according to a Google Trends visualization released this week. The chart breaks down to most-searched words by state. By the way, it’s Maine that’s asking how to spell “Connecticut.” In case you’re overly worried about America’s informal online spelling bee, keep in mind that Google’s data comes from top-searched “how to spell” queries. So it’s possible a lot of these searchers knew how to spell the words right, but just wanted to double check. Perhaps more interesting here is comparing the 2018 results with those from 2017. My state...
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Twitter Removes Pistol Emoji… For Green Water Gun
by Shifra on April 16, 2018Warning to fans of the board game Clue: Next, they’ll be gunning for the knife, rope, and candlestick. Via TechCrunch. Twitter has now followed Apple’s lead in changing its pistol emoji to a harmless, bright green water gun. And in doing so, the company that has struggled to handle the abuse, hate speech and harassment taking place across its platform, has removed one of the means for online abusers to troll their victims. The change is one of several rolling out now in Twitter’s emoji update, Twemoji 2.6, which impacts Twitter users on the web, mobile web and on Tweetdeck. The decision to replace an emoji of a weapon to a child’s toy was seen as a political statement when...
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Los Angeles Painting Streets White Because… Climate Change!
by Shifra on April 11, 2018So happy that LA has solved its growing homeless problem. And now they can focus on painting the streets white. To change the climate. Or something. Via Fox News. California officials are hoping their latest attempt to stem the rising tides of climate change leads to a more socially conscious — and cooler — summer. Officials in Los Angeles have been painting streets white to reduce the effect of urban “heat islands” and combat the effects of climate change. The LA Street Services began rolling out the project last May, which preliminary testing shows has reduced the temperature of roadways by up to 10 degrees. The project involves applying a light gray coating of the product CoolSeal, made by the...
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Award for Most Nonsensical Sign At Anti-Gun Rally Goes to…
by Shifra on March 15, 2018In the nineteenth century, high school students learned Latin, philosophy, the Greek classics. Now? Even a little civics or history would be nice, but no such luck… I look at this sign and had no idea the Secret Service had been disarmed! Or maybe not? HT Weazel Zippers. What? pic.twitter.com/Dl2FC66FvI — EducatédHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) March 14, 2018 The selective hypocrisy of the anti-gun National Walkout Day MTV, Other Viacom Channels Go Dark to Stand With Students ‘Against Gun Violence’
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MIT Librarian: Star Trek Posters In Workplace Could Be Sexist
by Shifra on March 14, 2018MIT — Massachusetts Institute of Technology — is a top-tier university focusing on STEM — science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The woman who claims Star Trek posters can be sexist is the chief librarian at MIT. Throughout her blog, (which you can read in its entirety here), the usual lib buzzwords are thrown around — “mansplaining,” whitesplaining,” “white privilege,” ad nauseam. But, while she thinks she is preaching “tolerance” and “inclusivity,” she sounds like a fascist. HT Accuracy in Academia. ….One thing men can do, and white people can do in mixed race interactions, is stop mansplaining, and stop whitesplaining. Just stop. Stop doing it in person, and stop doing it online. What I mean is simply this — if...
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Florida Senate Approves Bill for Year-Round Daylight Saving Time
by RedeemtheTime on March 7, 2018**Bumped Up From TAM Wire. Posted by RedeemtheTime** The Sunshine State moves to observe daylight saving time year-round. Via WFLA.com. Florida is a step closer to living up to its nickname as “The Sunshine State.” A bill to let Florida remain on Daylight Saving Time year-round is headed to Governor Rick Scott’s desk after the state Senate approved it 33-2 on Tuesday. If Scott signs the “Sunshine Protection Act,” Congress would need to amend existing federal law to allow the change. While the rest of the Eastern United States would set their clocks back in the fall, Florida wouldn’t, leaving it with more sunshine in the evening during the winter. Northwest Florida is currently in the Central time zone. For...
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IOC: U.S. Women’s Hockey Team Violated Rules With Patriotic Design
by Shifra on February 13, 2018The IOC might ask the women to change their masks to something “more neutral” than an image of a bald eagle and the Statue of Liberty. My suggestion: Maybe a pic of Otto Warmbier dragged off in chains by N. Korean guards. Via Washington Times. Team USA women’s hockey goalies Nicole Hensley and Alex Rigsby are playing in the 2018 Winter Olympics wearing goaltender masks with a patriotic design. It includes an American-themed shield, a bald eagle and an image of the Statue of Liberty. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) says that runs afoul of their rules. Hensley and Rigsbymay be told to change their masks to something more neutral, according to reports. The IOC has guidelines for what athletes...
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Breaking: FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe Stepping Down From Bureau
by Shifra on January 29, 2018McCabe was planning to step down sometime in 2018, but why now? Earlier today, it was reported that FBI Director Wray viewed a controversial memo on Obama administration spying Or maybe this has something to do with his sudden departure: Comey, Rosenstein, McCabe All Named In FISA Memo, First Leak Reveals Via Fox News. Top FBI official Andrew McCabe has been “removed” from his post as deputy director, Fox News is told, leaving the bureau after months of conflict-of-interest complaints from Republicans including President Trump. A source confirmed to Fox News that McCabe is taking “terminal leave” – effectively taking vacation until he reaches his planned retirement in a matter of weeks. As such, he will not be reporting to...
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Scary and Compelling: Navy Jet Encounters Unknown Object
by Tammy on December 16, 2017David Fravor is a former Navy pilot who says he was “pretty weirded out” by an unexplained episode [in 2004] over the Pacific. His story has captured the attention of a Pentagon program investigating UFOs. / M. Scott Brauer for the NYT. This is a Must Read for your weekend. Important enough, it’s one of the few times I’ll be linking to the New York Times. Via NY Times. Commander Fravor, in a recent interview with The New York Times, recalled what happened next. Some of it is captured in a video made public by officials with a Pentagon program that investigated U.F.O.s. “Well, we’ve got a real-world vector for you,” the radio operator said, according to Commander Fravor. For...
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New College Degree Offered at N. Michigan U: ‘Marijuana Studies’
by Shifra on November 12, 2017The *perfect* college major to put on your resume…for a job where you get to ask, “You want fries with that?” Via College Fix. Northern Michigan University now offers a degree in Medicinal Plant Chemistry in what seems to be the first four-year undergraduate degree program of its kind. “The historical stigma associated with cannabis is quickly vanishing, and although there is a surge in businesses related to the marijuana economy, there is a major gap in educational opportunities available to prepare people for this field,” the university’s website states. “No other 4-year undergraduate degree program in the world combines rigorous coursework in chemistry and biology with research and hands on instrumental analysis built into the curriculum to prepare its...
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Spike In Airborne Radioactivity Detected In Europe
by Tammy on October 5, 2017Hmm… Not sure what to make of this at this point, but it’s good to be aware of. Via Phys.Org German officials say that a spike in radioactivity has been detected in the air in Western and Central Europe but there’s no threat to human health. The Federal Office for Radiation Protection said Thursday that elevated levels of the isotope Ruthenium-106 have been reported in Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and France since Sept. 29. Spokesman Jan Henrik Lauer told The Associated Press the source of the Ruthenium-106 isn’t known but calculations indicate it may have been released in eastern Europe. Ruthenium-106 is used for radiation therapy to treat eye tumors, and sometimes as a source of energy to power satellites....
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German Court Finds Syrian Refugee Guilty of Trying to Defraud… ISIS
by Shifra on August 14, 2017Granting legal protection to ISIS? Hey, great ruling, Germany! Via Jerusalem Post. A German court has found a Syrian refugee guilty of attempting to defraud Islamic State, a court spokeswoman said on Monday, granting legal protection to a group viewed as terrorists by the European Union. A judge in the district court in the southwestern city of Saarbruecken sentenced the 39-year old hairdresser from Damascus to two years in prison for trying to get Islamic State operatives to transfer him up to 180,000 euros ($212,400.00). The judge ruled that the man used the false pretense that he would carry out attacks in Germany for Islamic State using explosives. The money was never transferred to the man….