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1/16/2019

The White-Throated Needletail
There had been only eight recorded sightings of the white-throated needletail in the UK since 1846. So when one popped up again on British shores this week, birdwatchers were understandably excited. Later, it was killed by a wind turbine in front of a horrified crowd. More

Ocasio-Cortez’s socialism is Trump’s ticket to 2020
You can thank U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) for ensuring President Trump gets re-elected.
The media has fallen head over heels for this freshman, helping her become the standard-bearer of the hard-left wing of the Democratic party.
Ocasio-Cortez’s socialist policies will be forced upon the Democratic candidates looking to challenge Trump. Progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren already took the bait. She is now embracing Ocasio-Cortez’s tax plan that would have the wealthiest Americans pay a 70 percent rate. More

Opportunistic Outrage
Anger about comparatively rare white-on-black hate lets advocates ignore a far more pervasive reality.

The Art of the NFL Pre-game Flyovers

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1/15/2019

100 years ago in Boston: The day molasses was deadly fast
Slow as molasses? This treacle didn’t trickle. It was a sticky, deadly tsunami that flattened an entire Boston neighborhood within seconds.
On Tuesday, the city marks the 100th anniversary of its most peculiar disaster — the Great Molasses Flood.
It struck without warning at midday on Jan. 15, 1919, when a giant storage tank containing more than 2.3 million gallons (8.7 million liters) of molasses suddenly ruptured, sending a giant wave of goop crashing through the cobblestone streets of the bustling North End.

Big Pharma’s Worst Nightmare, Most Medical Pot Users Quitting Prescription Drug Use
A new survey published this month in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs helps explain why Big Pharma is so afraid of cannabis. The pharmaceutical and alcohol industries, both powerful influences in Washington, have long lobbied against cannabis legalization in order to protect their profits.

The United States, on a per capita basis, spends much more on health care than other developed countries; the chief reason is not greater health care utilization, but higher prices, according to a study from a team led by a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Via Johns Hopkins:

According to Joe Lieberman
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn't the future of the Democratic Party:

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1/14/2019

Double feature: Lunar eclipse and Supermoon this week
Sky watchers across the U.S. will be treated to a total lunar eclipse that will also coincide with a super moon on January 20, and will finish in the early hours of January 21. The eclipse, when Earth's shadow sweeps over the lunar surface will give it a reddish tinge and turn it into what some call a "blood moon." It will be one of two lunar eclipses, and three solar eclipses in 2019. There will be a partial lunar eclipse on July 16, but the next total lunar eclipse won't come until May 26, 2021. Via earthsky

A Manufactured Crisis
Who is really being dishonest with the American people? I hear a lot of talk on how it’s immoral to build a wall. So why do all those wealthy politicians build walls, fences and gates around their homes?
As I see it, the only thing that is immoral is the politicians who have done nothing to come up with a plan to resolve the Border wall funding issue and the subsequent Government shutdown. Instead they continue to allow more innocent families, government employees and others to be victimized by their political and personal hatred for the president.
The reality is, a record number of migrant families are now crossing the border. Via usatoday

The 9th Saturday in a Row
Tear gas and baton charges were used by French police on thousands of Yellow Vest protestors threatening the Arc de Triomphe in Paris today during more mass anti-government demonstrations.
The ugly scenes came on the 9th Saturday in a row of violence that now routinely reduces the capital city to a war zone.
In Paris, epicentre of the fiery street clashes and vandalism that have made global headlines, 5,000 riot police were on hand, using tall barricades and armoured vehicles to lock down the central Place de la Concorde and surrounding districts. More

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1/13/2019

Ashley Keister is a Pennsylvania woman charged with breaking into a police station and assaulting multiple officers after she was asked to stop harassing an officer she apparently wanted to date, WNEP reports.

One Date????
Jacqueline Ades, is accused of stalking a man she met on a dating site allegedly threatened to turn his kidneys into sushi in one of some 159,000 text messages allegedly sent over the course of 10 months. via the Arizona Republic

Woman charged after tying up man and gagging him with pink underwear
Police say the Indiana woman has been charged with criminal confinement and domestic battery for allegedly tying and gagging a man because he was "talking crap."via (WSBT)

I Have no Idea How
Man Denies Ownership Of Syringes Found In His Rectum During Jail Strip Search

Ding Dong!
A California family’s security camera caught some odd behavior one night, when a man they don’t know showed up at their front door early Saturday morning. Rather than trying to break in, however, he apparently decided to hang out and lick their doorbell–for three hours.

Settle a Score
Police say a substitute teacher, angry over a complaint with the school she was working at, sabotaged a little girl’s birthday party by putting human fecal matter on tables and grills at a Sarasota park. to WWSB,

It’s Called, Comfort Zone
‘Heavily intoxicated’ man enters wrong home, sleeps on dog bed with 150-pound Mastiff

News of Those Bad Boys and Their Poor Victim Selection Skills
The occupational hazards of living a dirt bag life, you can develop a severe case of bullet wounds.

A suspected burglar was shot and killed by the resident at his apartment complex
Police say their preliminary investigation shows a 41-year-old suspect tried breaking into an upstairs apartment. The 68-year-old man living in the apartment confronted the alleged intruder and then shot and killed him. Police are calling it self-defense.
“The 68-year-old resident feared for his safety, and he fired striking the suspect,” said CCPD Officer Travis Pace. KRIS TV

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1/12/2019

Former Obama Border Patrol Chief: Trump Is 100% Correct, the Wall Works
Mark Morgan, who was the chief of the U.S. Border Patrol for former President Barack Obama, said that President Trump is 100 percent correct when he says a wall works during an interview with the “Law & Crime Network” on Tuesday.

Even The Washington Post Admits There’s A ‘Bona Fide Emergency’ At U.S. Border more

Sears Chairman Eddie Lampert has submitted a revised bid of roughly $5 billion in a last-ditch attempt to save the retailer from liquidation, according to a person familiar with the matter.
This latest attempt comes one day after Lampert's initial $4.4 billion bid to save Sears was rejected by the company. It faced a number of challenges, including being short of covering Sears' administrative expenses, making it "administratively insolvent." more

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France Moves To Ban All Protests As PM Announces Major Crackdown On Yellow Vests
Via ZERO HEDGE

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French Protesters Want to Set Off Bank Run with Withdrawals
Activists from a French protest movement encouraged supporters Wednesday to set off a bank run by emptying their accounts, while the government urged citizens to express their discontent in a national debate instead of weekly demonstrations disrupting the streets of Paris.
Activists from the yellow vest movement, which started with protests over fuel tax increases, recommended the massive cash withdrawals on social media. One protester, Maxime Nicolle called it the “tax collector’s referendum.” Via: AP:

This Week's Tailgating Recipe
Were staying with the Crock Pot/Slow Cooker for this weeks tailgating / house party recipe. There’s nothing easier than firing up your slow cooker the night before or the morning of game day, and then just tote it with you when you head out for some fun. Todays recipe, Pork Carnitas Get the recipe from La Creme de la Crumb

Fridays Adventure Road

1/11/2019

Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
Haruki Murakami

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1/10/2019

Skin cancer breakthrough: Scientists discover new and simple way to stop the spread of melanoma | Daily Mail Online

Upbeat employment report underscores U.S. economic strength.

New compound shows promise in treatment of Alzheimer’s | YaleNews

Goodbye Surgery? Scientists Just Made Eye Drops that Dissolve Cataracts

The question is no longer 'should we arm teachers?' Now, it's 'how many armed teachers are already out there?'" GQ: When You Give a Teacher a Gun.

A local Vermont newspaper published an editorial this weekend begging its native son, Sen. Bernie Sander (I-VT), to forego another presidential campaign.

Bernie Sanders should not run for president. In fact, we beg him not to.
That is an unfavorable opinion, especially among most Vermonters and progressives who support the platform that has come to define him. But at this point, there are more things about another Sanders run at the White House that concern us than excite us.

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1/9/2019

The video that is now rocketing around social media, humorist Chad Prather lays it out that in these troubled times, many young people have been susceptible to the socialist snake oil that is being peddled by Democrats like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
But the real truth is they are completely ignorant of history and the repression that has inevitably befallen those who took the great leap of faith. All you have to do is look at Venezuela, where the citizens found out much too late that the promises of a utopian society brought nothing more than poverty, violence, disease, and hunger of the type where people stalked and ate zoo animals to survive. Check out the video:

French President Emmanuel Macron intended to start the New Year on the offensive against the ‘yellow vest’ protesters. Instead, the French president is reeling from more violent street demonstrations.
What began as a grassroots rebellion against diesel taxes and the high cost of living has morphed into something more perilous for Macron – an assault on his presidency and French institutions.
The anti-government protesters on Saturday used a forklift truck to force their way into a government ministry compound, torched cars near the Champs Elysees and in one violent skirmish on a bridge over the Seine punched and kicked riot police officers to the ground. via (Reuters)

The most diverse House of Representatives is already the most divisive,
The Democrats have spent the last two years whining like spoiled brats with a sense of entitlement that — poor them! — the GOP was in control of all branches of government and they were left with their powerlessness hanging out like old shorts on a broken line. via NY daily news

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California and Los Angeles County to Remove 1.5 Million Inactive Voters from Voter Rolls – Settle Judicial Watch Federal Lawsuit

California... Officials still can’t say whether non-citizens voted in the June 2018 primary because a confusing government questionnaire about eligibility was created in a way that prevents a direct answer on citizenship. More

California....Apparently, tens of thousands of foreign nationals and other ineligible voters, maybe 16 year olds, got registered to vote at the DMV when they applied for their drivers licenses whether they asked for it or not.

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1/8/2019

The cheapest days to fly in 2019

Israeli company claims it has created new technology that can destroy cancerous tumors

Far side of the moon: China's Chang'e 4 probe makes historic touchdown
A Chinese spacecraft has become the first to land on the far side of the moon in a historic moment for human space exploration.
The successful touchdown was hailed as a major technical feat and is seen as a important step towards China’s wider ambitions in space. MORE...

Get the Popcorn Ready
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is going to defy Nancy Pelosi as soon as she is sworn in as House speaker. Ocasio-Cortez plans to vote against the Democrats’ rules package because it includes a “pay-go” provision that she says will hinder getting progressive legislation passed.

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1/7/2019

Here It Comes
Chargers will provide toughest divisional round matchup for Patriots in years.

Pray for ice, snow and bitter cold at Gillette Stadium..... Yup

Why Tom Brady won’t get $5 million in contract incentives
The Patriots quarterback earned none of his 2018 performance bonuses. via Boston.com,

It Was Never Based on Merits
Former Nobel Commission, secretary Geir Lundestad said that awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama in 2009 failed to achieve what the committee hoped it would.

Let The Good Times Roll
The country’s economic expansion continues as U.S. employers added 312,000 jobs in December as the economy benefited from retail hiring during the busy holiday shopping season.
The increase reported by the U.S. Labor Department on Friday topped estimates of 180,000 new jobs and remained well above the level needed to keep up with inflation. The unemployment rate inched up to 3.9 percent from a nearly 50-year low of 3.7 percent as more people began seeking jobs.

YUMA, Arizona Sheriff: Border Fence Helped Cut Crime by 91 Percent

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1/6/2019

'Because you just can’t make this stuff up' …………..Sunday’s Dose of Enrichment News

Bad Case of the Munchies for Sure
Illegal in Texas Held People Up at Gunpoint on Christmas Eve Because He Desperately Needed Tacos

Not a Great Idea
Man Caught Allegedly Trying To Steal Bike Outside of a Police Station

It Just Went Downhill Fast
Moments After Miss Congo's Hair Caught on Fire Moments After Being Crowned Miss Africa 2018

Florida woman robs postal worker with a plastic gun
A woman was arrested for pointing a plastic gun at people while riding a tricycle and then stealing a package from a postal truck.  local WBBH.

Florida woman robs postal worker with a plastic gun
A woman was arrested for pointing a plastic gun at people while riding a tricycle and then stealing a package from a postal truck.  local WBBH.

True Love Prevails
Man Drove Van into Dollar Tree to Save His Shoplifter Girlfriend. Do you love your significant other enough to drive a car into a building for them?   Fox 4.

More News of Those Bad Boys and Their Poor Victim Selection Skills
The occupational hazards of living a dirt bag life, you can develop a severe case of bullet wounds.

One person is dead and three others are injured after they were shot by a resident of an Arizona home they were trying to burglarize, police said.
The Yuma County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 call at approximately 1:38 a.m. Thursday and discovered that four individuals were shot after breaking into a home. : Fox Nedwa

An intruder was shot and killed after entering a home in Michigan. The intruder was identified as Justin Eddy of Lansing. Police say there is no connection between Eddy and the homeowner, and why Eddy was even in the area. According to Ionia County Sheriff Justin Noll, Eddy entered the home, which is said to have been unlocked, and told the homeowners he was being chased by someone who wanted to kill him.
The homeowner armed himself, called 9-1-1, then went outside to look for a car or someone who could have been chasing Eddy, but they found nothing. While waiting for police to come, the homeowner asked Eddy to wait in their breezeway. Eddy got irritated, confrontational, then attacked the homeowner. The homeowner opened fire on Eddy and he was found dead when police got there.

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1/5/2019

Organizers cancel another Women's March as support drops 'drastically
They canceled a Women’s March event in Eureka, California, on the grounds that participants in the 1.8% black town would be too white. Now the organizers for the Women’s March in New Orleans (Chocolate City) have decided to cancel this year’s event, which was scheduled to take place Jan. 19, due to “drastically” low fundraising and participation interest. …

In the announcement, organizers said controversy with Women’s March national leaders has led to a steep decline in overall interest, including fundraising and participation. Last month, devastating exposés in Tablet Magazine and the New York Times revealed the deep anti-Semitic ties among the most prominent leaders in the Women’s March movement. More

Unprepared and Overwhelmed
Failures by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office and school district cost children their lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
A gunman with an AR-15 fired the bullets, but a series of blunders, bad policies, sketchy training and poor leadership helped him succeed. Information reported over 10 months by the South Florida Sun Sentinel reveals 58 minutes of chaos on campus marked by no one taking charge, deputies dawdling, false information spreading, communications paralyzed and children stranded with nowhere to hide.
To be sure, a number of teachers and police officers performed heroically. But an examination of the day’s events reveals that the Sheriff’s Office and school district were unprepared for the crisis. Here’s a minute-by-minute look at those critical moments on Feb. 14, 2018. Story from the Sun-Sentinel

The Results
Stoneman Douglas commission calls for arming teachers, more school security spending in first report to state leaders

A Time Of Reckoning
Over the past four months, Roman Catholic dioceses across the U.S. have released the names of more than 1,000 priests and others accused of sexually abusing children in an unprecedented public reckoning spurred at least in part by a shocking grand jury investigation in Pennsylvania, an Associated Press review has found.
Nearly 50 dioceses and religious orders have publicly identified child-molesting priests in the wake of the Pennsylvania report issued in mid-August, and 55 more have announced plans to do the same over the next few months, the AP found. Together they account for more than half of the nation’s 187 dioceses. More

This Week's Tailgating Recipe
Were cooking again with the Crock Pot/Slow Cooker for this weeks tailgating / house party recipes. There’s nothing easier than firing up your slow cooker the night before or the morning of game day, and then just tote it with you when you head out for some fun. Todays recipe, Crockpot Chicken Fajitas, from Delish.

Fridays Adventure Road

1/3/2019

It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of course, but sometimes if the person is very unpleasant you can you can hardly stop yourself.
Lemony Snicket

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1/3/2019

Ma. Governor Charlie Baker on Friday signed first-of-its-kind legislation to tax and regulate the short-term housing rental market in Massachusetts, capping years of debate over how to navigate an industry that has exploded through companies like Airbnb.
The new rules will take effect July 1 and could transform a market that spans the state, from Cape Cod summer homes to Boston apartment buildings to Western Massachusetts vacation retreats.
The bill requires every rental host to register with the state, mandates they carry insurance, and opens the potential for local taxes on top of a new state levy. A chief negotiator for the House said the goal is to register every short-term rental in the state by September, and local officials, including in Boston, say the new law will help buttress their own efforts to regulate the booming market. But before Baker’s ink could dry, the law drew a sharp rebuke from Airbnb, which called it “flawed” and unnecessarily complex. Advocates who have closely followed the process — including Airbnb’s decision to sue in federal court to overturn Boston’s municipal regulations — warn a lawsuit against the state could also follow. More

The Paradise California Wildfire was worse because of the ignored warnings
The deadly wildfire last month was "utterly predictable," and forgotten lessons and ignored warnings made the deaths and destruction worse, a Los Angeles Times investigation concluded.

Sears chairman Eddie Lampert reportedly submitted a $4.6 billion bid to buy the company and potentially save it from liquidation on Friday, hours before the deadline, according to CNBC .

NY Black Lawmakers’ Education Charity Didn’t Give Out A Single Scholarship.
A nonprofit run by state lawmakers to raise scholarship money for needy minority students spends most of the cash on its lavish annual soiree — including $6,000 on limos — and gave out no grants the last two years. Via NY Post:

"44 Numbers From 2018 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe"

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1/2/2019

It’s Official
The 2020 presidential race has kicked off
Sen. Elizabeth Warren launched an exploratory committee as a candidate for president on Monday, joining former HUD Secretary Julián Castro who announced his intent to challenge President Trump in 2020.

China allows first-ever U.S. rice imports ahead of trade talks
China has opened the door to imports of rice from the United States for the first time ever in what analysts took to signal a warming of relations between the world’s two biggest economies after a frosty year marked by tensions and tit-for-tat tariffs.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the deal could lead to a boost in U.S. exports to the Asian giant as well as a loosening of regulations that prevent or hamper U.S. firms from operating in China, people familiar with the negotiations said.