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Today in History

1666
The Great Fire of London, which devastates the city, begins.
1789
The Treasury Department, headed by Alexander Hamilton, is created in New York City.
1792
Verdun, France, surrenders to the Prussian Army.
1798
The Maltese people revolt against the French occupation, forcing the French troops to take refuge in the citadel of Valletta in Malta.
1870
Napoleon III capitulates to the Prussians at Sedan, France.
1885
In Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory, 28 Chinese laborers are killed and hundreds more chased out of town by striking coal miners.
1898
Sir Herbert Kitchener leads the British to victory over the Mahdists at Omdurman and takes Khartoum.
1910
Alice Stebbins Wells is admitted to the Los Angeles Police Force as the first woman police officer to receive an appointment based on a civil service exam.
1915
Austro-German armies take Grodno, Poland.
1944
Troops of the U.S. First Army enter Belgium.
1945
Japan signs the document of surrender aboard the USS Missouri, ending World War II
1945
Vietnam declares its independence and Nationalist leader Ho Chi Minh proclaims himself its first president.
1956
Tennessee National Guardsmen halt rioters protesting the admission of 12 African-Americans to schools in Clinton.
1963
Alabama Governor George Wallace calls state troopers to Tuskegee High School to prevent integration.
1963
The US gets its first half-hour TV weeknight national news broadcast when CBS Evening News expands from 15 to 30 minutes.
1970
NASA cancels two planned missions to the moon.
1975
Joseph W. Hatcher of Tallahassee, Florida, becomes the state’s first African-American supreme court justice since Reconstruction.
1992
The US and Russia agree to a joint venture to build a space station.
1996
The Philippine government and Muslim rebels sign a pact, formally ending a 26-year long insurgency.
1998
Jean Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, is found guilty of nine counts of genocide by the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

A magic formula to predict attraction is more elusive than ever

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The Ignorance of Climate Deniers About Hurricane Harvey Boggles the Mind

Face It, the Flooding Disaster Is Climate Change

Get Off Your Ass For 21 Minutes A Day

Get off your ass for 21 minutes a day
Get Off Your Ass For 21 Minutes A Day, Says Science
You don't need to make a major life change to see results

Things Everyone Gets Wrong About Marijuana's Key Medical Ingredient

This Lingerie Company Freed the Nipple

Well, Whaddya Know ...

Walmart Fight Over School Supplies Ends in Horror as Woman Pulls out Gun

Sexual Harassment and the Sharing Economy

Female entrepreneurs create fake male cofounder to avoid sexism

Penelope Gazin and Kate Dwyer faced the typical onslaught of sexist doubt and criticism when the Los Angeles-based duo set out to launch their own digital marketplace for quirky art. They were often viewed as hobbyists instead of entrepreneurs, even though their business model improved on some of the standards already established by tech industry giants like Etsy.

Dumbass Trump shows more compassion for rich people’s tax cuts than for homeless storm victims

Dumbass Trump was criticized on Tuesday for not showing enough empathy for storm victims when he visited Texas. But during Wednesday’s speech on tax reform, the Dumbass was passionate about taking care of rich business owners.

Dumbass Trump Is Serious About Turning Your Town into Looking Like a Warzone

'Nuns' on the run after failed US bank heist

Police are searching for two would-be robbers disguised as nuns, after a failed bank heist in a sleepy Pennsylvania town.

White supremacist police chief’s resignation rejected by town leaders

The town of Colbert, Oklahoma is facing a crisis of confidence in local law enforcement as city officials continue to employ a Police Chief linked to White Power websites.

‘I’m a goddamn human being’

Christopher “Crying Nazi” Cantwell gave his first post-arrest interview to The Daily Beast’s Spencer and said that his new nickname makes him really, really upset.
*No you are not you're a fucking Nazi

How the universe became filled with light

Researchers hypothesize how the universe became filled with light
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Soon after the Big Bang, the universe went completely dark. The intense, seminal event that created the cosmos churned up so much hot, thick gas that … Read more

Alien laser blasts?

Alien laser blasts? Distant galaxy sends out 15 high-energy radio bursts
Distant galaxy sends out 15 high-energy radio bursts
Breakthrough Listen, an initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the universe, has detected 15 brief but powerful radio pulses emanating from a mysterious … Read more

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