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Saturday, June 24, 2017

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It's the Great American Backyard Campout ...!
 
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Today in History

217 BC

Carthaginian forces led by Hannibal destroy a Roman army under consul Gaius Flaminius in a battle at Lake Trasimene in central Italy.
1314
Scottish forces, led by Robert the Bruce, win an overwhelming victory against English King Edward II at the Battle of Bannockburn.
1340
The English fleet defeats the French fleet at Sluys, off the Flemish coast.
1497
Explorer John Cabot lands in North America in present-day Canada.
1509
Henry VIII is crowned King of England.
1664
The colony of New Jersey, named after the Isle of Jersey, is founded.
1647
Margaret Brent, demands a voice and a vote for herself in the Maryland colonial assembly.
1675
King Philip’s War begins.
1812
Napoleon crosses the Neman River and invades Russia.
1859
At the Battle of Solferino, also known as the Battle of the Three Sovereigns, the French army, led by Napoleon III, defeats the Austrian army under Franz Joseph I.
1861
Federal gunboats attack Confederate batteries at Mathias Point, Virginia.
1862
U.S. intervention saves the British and French at the Dagu Forts in China.
1896
Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to receive an honorary MA degree from Harvard University.
1910
The Japanese army invades Korea.
1913
Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria following border disputes over Macedonia and Thrace.
1931
The Soviet Union and Afghanistan sign a treaty of neutrality.
1940
France signs an armistice with Italy.
1941
President Franklin Roosevelt pledges all possible support to the Soviet Union.
1943
Royal Air Force Bombers hammer Muelheim, Germany, in a drive to cripple the Ruhr industrial base.
1948
The Soviet Union begins the Berlin Blockade, America responds with the Berlin Airlift.
1953
John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier announce their engagement.
1955
Soviet MIGs down a U.S. Navy patrol plane over the Bering Strait.
1964
The Federal Trade Commission announces that, starting in 1965, cigarette makers must include warning labels about the harmful effects of smoking.
1970
The U.S. Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Is Coconut Oil Healthy or Not?

How to Handle a Toxic Relationship

If Americans Are So Worried About Pollution, Why Are So Few Willing to Speak Up About It?

Sweltering Summer Heat Makes People Moodier, Unhelpful

 

Devos Just Put A For-Profit Credit Card Exec In Charge Of Federal Student Aid Program

Devos Just Put A For-Profit Credit Card Exec In Charge Of Federal Student Aid Program
Corporations used to bribe politicians to get what they wanted, now the Dumbass Trump junta is cutting out the middleman.

Employment helps white men’s health more than women and blacks

Employment can be a big boost to health, conferring up to 10 extra years of life, but not if you are black or female. In fact, in the United States, employment gives most of its health advantage to white men, particularly those who are most educated.

Appeals court overturns conviction of 'Making a Murderer' inmate

A federal appeals court on Thursday affirmed a decision to overturn the murder conviction of Brendan Dassey, a Wisconsin man serving a life sentence whose case was chronicled in the popular Netflix television documentary “Making a Murderer.”
Some gay couples are making the most of a 2015 Supreme Court ruling that made same-sex marriage legal across the United States, but many LGBT adults are just happy to have their rights without needing to put a ring on it. After the Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that states could not ban same-sex marriages, 10.2 percent of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender adults are now married to their same-sex spouse, according to a Gallup poll published this week.
Before the Supreme Court ruling, less than 8 percent of LGBT couples were married to a same-sex partner. In 2016, about 9.6 percent of LGBT adults said "I do" to their same-sex partner. LGBT Americans over the age of 50 were most likely to be married.

Fourth Grader Makes Heartbreaking Video About Racist Classmates

Wingnuts' Cruel 'Health Care' Bill Goes After Children, the Poor and Veterans

A New Bill In Missouri Would Allow Your Employer To Fire You For Using Birth Control

A New Bill In Missouri Would Allow Your Employer To Fire You For Using Birth Control
Kind of ironic for a state with the motto, “Let the good of the people be the supreme law.”

Texas Wingnut Bringing Two Anti-LGBT Bathroom Bills To The Table

Texas Wingnut Bringing Two Anti-LGBT Bathroom Bills To The Table During Special Legislative Session
‘Abbott is proving everything is bigger in Texas including prioritizing discrimination.’

Texas Cleared To Resurrect Fetal Burial Law

The ACLU Is Suing D.C. Police for Their Brazen Mistreatment of Inauguration Protesters

A Los Angeles police officer was arrested on suspicion of having unlawful sex with a 15-year-old member of the cadet program, and may have had knowledge of the alleged theft of police cruisers and other equipment by cadets in recent weeks, Chief Charlie Beck said Thursday.
Beck said he personally arrested Officer Robert Cain, 31, a 10-year veteran of the department, at the LAPD's 77th Street Division on Thursday.
Investigators learned of the sexual misconduct allegations Wednesday, as part of a larger review of the theft of three LAPD cruisers and other supplies that was revealed last week.
The victim, identified only as a 15-year-old girl, was one of the cadets involved in the thefts, Beck said.

LA sheriff’s deputies shoot at dog — kill Palmdale teenager

LA sheriff’s deputies shoot at dog — firing bullets that bounce and kill Palmdale teenager

A hotter planet might make hurricanes more destructive

In October 2016, Hurricane Matthew killed more than 550 people and caused $15 billion in property damages. The most powerful storm to hit the Caribbean and Southeastern United States in a decade, it whipped winds up to 160 miles per hour and pushed a 10-foot surge of seawater onto the coast. Unfortunately, Matthew might be more of a harbinger than an outlier. Based on computer models and historical records, many climatologists think that warming oceans might make storms like Matthew more common. Research suggests that a hotter planet might create the perfect weather conditions for forming these ­exceptionally strong, dangerous tropical cyclones.

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Friday, June 23, 2017

The Daily Drift

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It's National Eat At A Food Truck Day ...!
 
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Stroking the board ... !
Today is - Typing Day 

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Today in History

1683
William Penn signs a friendship treaty with the Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
1700
Russia gives up its Black Sea fleet as part of a truce with the Ottoman Empire.
1758
British and Hanoverian armies defeat the French at Krefeld in Germany.
1760
Austrian forces defeat the Prussians at Landshut, Germany.
1848
A bloody insurrection of workers erupts in Paris.
1863
Confederate forces overwhelm a Union garrison at the Battle of Brashear City in Louisiana.
1865
Confederate General Stand Watie surrenders his army at Fort Towson, in the Oklahoma Territory.
1884
A Chinese Army defeats the French at Bac Le, Indochina.
1885
Former general and president Ulysses S. Grant dies at the age of 63.
1902
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy renew the Triple Alliance for a 12-year duration.
1934
Italy gains the right to colonize Albania after defeating the country.
1944
In one of the largest air strikes of the war, the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force sends 761 bombers against the oil refineries at Ploiesti, Romania.
1951
Soviet U.N. delegate Jacob Malik proposes cease-fire discussions in the Korean War.
1952
The U.S. Air Force bombs power plants on the Yalu River, Korea.
1964
Henry Cabot Lodge resigns as the U.S. envoy to Vietnam and is succeeded by Maxwell Taylor.
1966
Civil Rights marchers in Mississippi are dispersed by tear gas.

Six ways we've used drugs to try to 'cure' women's sexuality

Female sexuality makes a lot of people uncomfortable—historically, socially, culturally and medically. The reasons for viewing women’s bodies and desires as a problem in need of fixing are often strange and troubling.

Activists Push to Defeat Dumbass Trumpcare

McConnell Finally Releases Summary of Senate Obamacare Repeal

Fate of Secret Documents on JFK's Assassination

Insanity in the Age of Dumbass Trump

We grapple with this question everyday at the office. Dumbass Trump is fucked up and is fucking over the country daily.

Dumbass Trump golf club demands massive tax break from New York town

Some residents of the village of Briarcliff Manor, New York, are up in arms against a local Dumbass Trump golf course, which is demanding that their community cut its property taxes in half.

This San Jose Neighborhood Is Literally Constructing a Wall to Keep Out the Homeless

Woman punched on Istanbul bus for wearing shorts

Turkish prosecutors issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for a man caught on camera punching a woman because she was wearing shorts during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
The attack, which took place a week earlier on June 14, took place on an Istanbul bus and footage of the incident has sparked uproar from Turkish women's activists. University student Melisa Saglam is seen sitting down on the bus when a man gets up to exit the vehicle. As he moves toward the door, he punches Saglam in the face.

Racist Jerk DEMANDS 'A White Doctor' As Her Daughter Suffers Chest Pain

Racist Jerk DEMANDS 'A White Doctor' As Her Daughter Suffers Chest Pain

Vandals set fire to memorial to slain Virginia teen

The memorial erected for Nabra Hassanen, the 17-year-old Muslim girl who was murdered earlier this week, was set on fire Wednesday morning.

How the FBI took down a dozen crooked cops and jail guards

Something was rotten in the state of North Carolina. There were rumors of corruption in the Northampton County Sheriff’s Office and whispers that Lann Tjuan Clanton, an ex-cop from a nearby police department, was selling drugs in the hardscrabble eastern half of the Tar Heel State.

Injustice Is Not a Glitch, It's a Feature

Dashcam Footage Shows Cop Truly Murdered Philando Castile

Dashcam Footage Shows Cop Truly Murdered Philando Castile

Billion-Dollar Natural Disasters Ravage All 50 States Several Times a Year

Dangerous asteroid could hit earth at any moment

According to a prominent astrophysics professor from Queen’s University in Belfast, Ireland, an asteroid strike to Earth is a matter of time, reported the Belfast Telegraph Wednesday.
Professor Alan Fitzsimmons issued this warning because of Asteroid Day, which is held on June 30 to remember the 1908 Tunguska event in Siberia. On June 30, 1908, an explosion hit the region surrounding the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Siberia. It destroyed 800 square miles of the forest and ripped 80 million trees from the ground.

What's the Most Eco-Friendly Pet?

Pumas, panthers terrified of humans

Humans fear predators like mountain lions, but what we often fail to realize is how much they may fear us. After all, humans hunted and extirpated the animal from most of the United States, while fatal puma attacks on humans are rare.
New research shows that the pumas—also known as panthers, cougars, mountain lions or catamounts—immediately flee large deer prey that they’ve killed, upon hearing humans. In a study to be published June 21 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, scientists show that their response to the sound of human voices is immediate and lasting.

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Thursday, June 22, 2017

The Daily Drift

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Flower Girl (1914) in original color photo ...!
 
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Old School Beetle ... !
Today is - Worldwide VW Beetle Day 

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Today in History

1377
Richard II, who is still a child, begins his reign, following the death of his grandfather, Edward III. His coronation takes place July 16.
1558
The French take the French town of Thionville from the English.
1772
Slavery is outlawed in England.
1807
British seamen board the USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to the War of 1812.
1864
Confederate General A. P. Hill turns back a Federal flanking movement at the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, Virginia.
1876
General Alfred Terry sends Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer to the Rosebud and Little Bighorn rivers to search for Indian villages.
1910
German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich announces a definitive cure for syphilis.
1911
King George V of England is crowned.
1915
Austro-German forces occupy Lemberg on the Eastern Front as the Russians retreat.
1925
France and Spain agree to join forces against Abd el Krim in Morocco.
1930
A son is born to Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
1933
Adolf Hitler bans political parties in Germany other than the Nazis.
1938
Joe Louis floors Max Schmeling in the first round of the heavyweight bout at Yankee Stadium.
1940
France and Germany sign an armistice at Compiegne, on terms dictated by the Nazis.
1941
Under the code-name Barbarossa, Germany invades the Soviet Union.
1942
A Japanese submarine shells Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia River.
1944
President Franklin Roosevelt signs the “GI Bill of Rights” to provide broad benefits for veterans of the war.
1956
The battle for Algiers begins as three buildings in The Casbah are blown up.
1970
Nixon signs the 26th amendment, lowering the voting age to 18.
1973
Skylab astronauts splash down safely in the Pacific after a record 28 days in space.
1980
The Soviet Union announces a partial withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.
1981
Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon.
1995
Nigeria’s former military ruler Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo and his chief deputy are charged with conspiracy to overthrow Gen. Sani Abacha’s military government.

Texas couple exonerated after 25 years

In 1992, Fran and Dan Keller were both sentenced to 48 years in prison over accusations of sex abuse crimes related to children they babysat in their home daycare center outside of Austin

People are apparently injecting themselves with blood to get high now?

Because we ran out of other terrible ideas.

Giving People a Second Chance with California's Marijuana Legalization Law