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11/30/2017

Just Thank Your Lucky Satars
How Does Costco Sell 18-Year-Old Single Malt Scotch for $38?

Agreed
How do wine, beer, and spirits impact our mood? New research suggests that different types of alcohol may be tied to distinct emotions. Wine or beer? The differing effects of alcohol on mood

Moderate alcohol consumption improves foreign language skills. (Vaping makes you fluent...)

They treat friends as possessions.
People With Loads of Facebook Friends Share an Interesting Trait, Says Study

It’s shaping up to be a “Watch the Ax Fall” kind of a week as more big name media personalities are getting fired over allegations of sexual misconduct.

On Tuesday, National Public Radio has parted ways with chief news editor David Sweeney who was accused of inappropriate sexual conduct by at least three females who are either currently at NPR or are former employees.

Then on Wednesday, Today Show host Matt Lauer, the biggest name on morning TV got the ax for sexually inappropriate conduct with unnamed coworkers. That was followed later in the day by Garrison Keillor. He is the creator of the long-running NPR show A Prairie Home Companion and author of several books including the bestseller Lake Wobegon Days was fired by Minnesota Public Radio over allegations that he groped a number of females

And The Beat Goes On

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11/29/2017

Cancer cell growth halted with Cold and Flu Drug

A PhD student in Ontario has made a groundbreaking discovery that may have the potential to prevent cancer cells from spreading. PhD student makes groundbreaking discovery that may prevent spread of cancer

"Nine Meals from Anarchy"
In 1906, Alfred Henry Lewis stated, “There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.” Since then, his observation has been echoed by people as disparate as Robert Heinlein and Leon Trotsky.
The key here is that, unlike all other commodities, food is the one essential that cannot be postponed. If there were a shortage of, say, shoes, we could make do for months or even years. A shortage of gasoline would be worse, but we could survive it, through mass transport or even walking, if necessary.

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11/28/2017

He Should Be Tarred and Feathered
Hunter shoots pickup truck after mistaking it for a deer

A Florida man chose the wrong vehicle to try to break into.
Surveillance video appeared to capture 49-year-old Stephen Titlan going from car to car along a residential block in Tampa earlier this month. Seven times he was stymied as the doors were locked. The next day, Titland – who was already on felony probation for a burglary and criminal mischief conviction – had more success when he found an unlocked door.

Probe Into Harvard's Affirmative Action
Harvard Being Investigated By DOJ Over Admissions Policies

The Unsung Role That Ordinary Citizens Played in the Great Crime Decline.

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11/27/2017

The Times Are A-Changin
Tom Brady’s wife, Brazilian uber-model Gisele Bündchen is no longer the highest-grossing model on the planet. That’s right; the world’s most perfect woman for the last 17 years has now been upstaged by… Kendall Jenner?

Ohhh….We Were Bad
The Pentagon is likely to announce in the coming days that there are about 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria, two U.S. officials said on Friday, as the military acknowledges that an accounting system for troops has under-reported the size of forces on the ground.
The U.S. military had earlier publicly said it had around 500 troops in Syria, mostly supporting the Syrian Democratic Forces group of Kurdish and Arab militias fighting Islamic State in the north of the country.

WASHINGTON — The FBI was flooded Friday with more than 200,000 background check requests for gun purchases, setting a new single day record, the bureau reported Saturday.
In all, the FBI fielded 203,086 requests on Black Friday, up from the previous single-day highs of 185,713 last year and 185,345 in 2015. The two previous records also were recorded on Black Friday. MORE

Enjoy Your Cup a Little More Today
Drinking coffee is "more likely to benefit health than to harm it"
From the BMJ Today, evidence from over 200 studies and find that drinking three to four cups of coffee a day is associated with a lower risk of death and getting heart disease compared with drinking no coffee.
Coffee drinking is also associated with lower risk of some cancers, diabetes, liver disease and dementia. However, they say drinking coffee in pregnancy may be associated with harms, and may be linked to a very small increased risk of fracture in women. Story provided by BMJ.

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11/26/2017

Lord Loves a Thinkin Man
Burglar Climbs In Through Window Of A Garage With No Door

Nothing makes people more sympathetic to your cause than attempting to sabotage their annual beloved holiday tradition. The NY Daily News reports:

Happy Holidays
Sales of erectile dysfunction drugs DOUBLE in the run up to the festive period

Just a Bad Day
NJ Woman Stuck for 3 Hours Inside Septic Tank Rescued

His Personal Goal Was Achieved
Grandpa's final wish granted: Bury me with Pat's cheesesteaks

Lucky Boys who planned to commit a burglary were surprised by the Homeowner
Four men who forced their way into a Milford Ma home Sunday armed with machetes, a pipe and a crowbar. They just didn’t plan on an armed response by the homeowner with a gun. The lucky boys fled with not to many holes in them after the resident pulled a gun and a dog only got the chance to bite
one of the intruders.

Just a Good Wholesome Community
At a University of Wisconsin Madison panel dealing with “Best Policing Practices,” UW Director of Community Relations Everett Mitchell recommended that police stop responding to shoplifting and theft at Wal-Mart and Target as a way to reduce what he refers to as, “over policing” of the community.

Can I have some more of that Kool-Aid, Please?

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11/25/2017

What Turns Black Friday Shoppers Into Raging Hordes?
What makes Black Friday shoppers behave so badly? Social scientists and psychologists are trying to find out.
Everyone Can Make a Difference
It started because I didn't want to go to summer camp." Instead, this 10 year-old started feeding the homeless. One meal at a time.

They Can Fly
The FAA Can't Stop People From Throwing Live Turkeys Out Of Planes

Let The Snowflakes Be Calm
Brooklyn College is kowtowing to cop-hating students by directing officers who need a bathroom break to the broken-down facilities in a building on the far edge of campus. Amid a planned petition drive to ban cops from the taxpayer-funded campus, Donald Wenz, the school’s director of public safety, told the student newspaper The Excelsior that he’s trying to keep New York’s Finest out of sight. The NY Post

Fridays Open Road

11/24/2017

“It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed is you.”
— Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Happy Thanksgiving

11/23/2017

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
John F. Kennedy

"                                                Don’t Just Give Thanks

                                Pay It Forward One Act of Kindness at a Time”

                                                    by John W. Whitehead

"It’s been a hard, heart-wrenching, stomach-churning kind of year filled with violence and ill will. It’s been a year of hotheads and blowhards and killing sprees and bloodshed and takedowns. It’s been a year in which tyranny took a step forward and freedom got knocked down a few notches. It’s been a year with an abundance of bad news and a shortage of good news. It’s been a year of too much hate and too little kindness. More

Travel Day

11/22/2017

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11/21/2017

Not Much in The Creativity Department
Police in Massachusetts are warning drivers not to make their own license plates after one car was recently spotted with a homemade one.
On the Hopkinton Police Department's Facebook page, police posted a picture of a green Buick Century with a "fake" license plate they said was made from a pizza box and had the numbers drawn in with magic markers.

Police bust 'Hamburglar' who climbed into drive-through window
Police in Maryland said a "Hamburglar" who crawled into a McDonald's drive-through window to burglarize the eatery was arrested after being caught on camera. Police did identify her said they were able to make contacted with her and she agreed to turn herself in.

Precision Flying
Navy pilots 'draw' penis in sky over Washington State

Can Pigs Fly?
Not anymore, A woman was kicked off US Airways flight after her emotional support PIG became too rowdy.