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Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Pennsylvania high school football players charged as adults in rape of 14-year-old

All three suspects are juniors at Central York High School.

Florida mom’s wildly unhinged response to her son losing an iPad is one for the books

Knives were involved.

Texas dad killed by son during shooting lesson

Texas dad accidentally killed by son during shooting lesson

Brazil Is Giving Its Prisoners One of the World’s Most Powerful Psychedelics

SWAT Team Expos Are Militarizing Police Departments Across the Country

Sex worker leaps to her death while fleeing police officers in Queens

A prostitute jumped to her death from a three-story window in a building in Queens, New York, while she was trying to escape arrest from a New York Police Department (NYPD) officer during a sting operation. 

Woman who killed disabled daughter found dead 2 days before prison stint was to begin

Bonnie Liltz, who was due to report to prison Monday for killing her disabled daughter, has died, and police suspect she took her own life.
Liltz, 57, was found dead in her apartment Saturday evening, according to authorities. It was the same home where in 2015 she administered a fatal dose of medication to her 28-year-old daughter, Courtney, later saying she feared for her daughter's fate as she faced her own serious health problems.
Woman who killed disabled daughter found dead 2 days before prison stint was to begin

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Monday, November 27, 2017

The Daily Drift

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Wingnuts are stupid ...!
 
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Today in History

43 BC
Octavian, Antony and Lepidus form the triumvirate of Rome.
511
Clovis, king of the Franks, dies and his kingdom is divided between his four sons.
1095
In Clermont, France, Pope Urban II makes an appeal for warriors to relieve Jerusalem. He is responding to false rumors of atrocities in the Holy Land.
1382
The French nobility, led by Olivier de Clisson, crush the Flemish rebels at Flanders.
1812
One of the two bridges being used by Napoleon Bonaparte‘s army across the Berezina River in Russia collapses during a Russian artillery barrage.
1826
Jedediah Smith’s expedition reaches San Diego, becoming the first Americans to cross the southwestern part of the continent.
1862
George Armstrong Custer meets his future bride, Elizabeth Bacon, at a Thanksgiving party.
1868
Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer‘s 7th Cavalry kills Chief Black Kettle and about 100 Cheyenne (mostly women and children) on the Washita River.
1887
U.S. Deputy Marshall Frank Dalton, brother of the three famous outlaws, is killed in the line of duty near Fort Smith, Ark.
1904
The German colonial army defeats the Hottentots at Warmbad in southwest Africa.
1909
U.S. troops land in Blue fields, Nicaragua, to protect American interests there.
1919
Bulgaria signs a peace treaty with the Allies at Neuilly, France, fixing war reparations and recognizing Yugoslavian independence.
1922
Allied delegates bar the Soviets from the Near East peace conference.
1936
Great Britain’s Anthony Eden warns Adolf Hitler that Britain will fight to protect Belgium.
1942
The French fleet in Toulon is scuttled to keep it from Germany.
1950
East of the Ch’ongch’on River, Chinese forces annihilate an American task force.
1954
Alger Hiss, convicted of being a Soviet spy, is freed after 44 months in prison.
1959
Demonstrators march in Tokyo to protest a defense treaty with the United States.
1967
Lyndon Johnson appoints Robert McNamara to the presidency of the World Bank.
1967
Charles DeGaulle vetoes Great Britain’s entry into the Common Market again.
1970
Syria joins the pact linking Libya, Egypt and Sudan.
1973
The US Senate votes to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States; the House will confirm Ford on Dec. 6.
1978
San Francisco mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, the city’s first openly gay supervisor, are assassinated by former city supervisor Dan White.
1978
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party and PKK (Parti Karkerani Kurdistan, or PKK) is founded; it is a militant group that fought an armed struggle for an independent Kurdistan.
1984
Britain and Spain sign the Brussels Agreement to enter discussions over the status of Gibraltar.
1999
Helen Clark becomes first elected female Prime Minister of New Zealand.
2001
The Hubble Space Telescope discovers a hydrogen atmosphere on planet Osiris, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
2004
Pope John Paul II returns relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
2005
The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
2006
The Canadian House of Commons approves a motion, tabled by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, recognizing the Quebecois as a nation within Canada.

MIT team takes top prize in Martian city design contest

One day people may live on Mars, but what will their habitat look like? According to researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the future Martian city will rely on a lot of trees.

Want to be more creative?

Not socializing with others may not be so bad after all, according to a new study.
Occasionally distancing yourself from peers is linked to a spark in creativity, researchers from the University of Buffalo found. In a small study, a psychologist from the university analyzed the behaviors of about 300 participants who self-reported various measures including why they were motivated to withdraw from social situations, creativity characteristics, and depressive symptoms, among other measures.

Meat-Eaters Have Significantly Higher Blood Pressure Than Vegetarians, Vegans

That Ethical, Sustainable Chocolate You Love?

Man Living In A Shack Is Saved By 'Worthless' Blanket

According to Krytzer, the blanket had been passed down through his family from generation to generation since his great-grandfather got it in the 1800s.

Amelia Earhart spent days in prison before being killed in Saipan

A man’s newly-shared story provides new information backing the theory that Amelia Earhart was taken prisoner and executed on Saipan after disappearing from her flight around the world 80 years ago.

Who Are the Sufis and Why Does IS See Them as Threatening?

Over 200 people were killed and many more injured in an attack on a Sufi mosque in Egypt’s North Sinai region on Friday. The assault began with a bomb exploding as people were finishing their Friday prayers. As people fled and ambulances arrived, militants opened gunfire on them. It is the deadliest ever attack on civilians in Egypt’s modern history.

Worst Media Moments of Last Week

The Problem With Fake News

US Coast Guard Is Operating Floating Prisons Outside US Legal Protections

US Coast Guard Is Operating Floating Prisons Outside US Legal Protections

Traffic Stop Sex

The Massachusetts State Police and the Worcester District Attorney are facing three separate investigations into why troopers were ordered to scrub the arrest report concerning a judge’s daughter.

This Is What Patriarchy Looks Like

The ugly truth about predatory behavior by unseemly men

From Roger Ailes to Harvey Weinstein, Louis C.K. to Roy Moore, what we are looking at is a type of stunted boy/man whose outward bluster and surface machismo belie their root insecurity and impotence.

How Cult Leaders Like Charles Manson Exploit a Basic Psychological Need

School busted for testing students on whether they would rather have a black or gay person as a neighbor

The mother of an African-Caribbean child was alarmed when her daughter revealed a school test that required students to rank the desirability of living next to marginalized groups.

The Teaching of Evolution Banned in Turkey

Billion-year-old fossils of earliest life form discovered in India

A scientist in India found microfossils that have been dated to be a staggering 2 billion years old. The prokaryotic fossils represent the planet’s oldest-known form of life.

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Sunday, November 26, 2017

The Daily Drift

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Nope, and we never did ...!
 
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Today in History

1688
Louis XIV declares war on the Netherlands.
1774
A congress of colonial leaders criticizes British influence in the colonies and affirms their right to “Life, liberty and property.”
1789
George Washington proclaims this a National Thanksgiving Day in honor of the new Constitution. This date was later used to set the date for Thanksgiving.
1812
Napoleon Bonaparte‘s army begins crossing the Berezina River over two hastily constructed bridges.
1825
The Kappa Alpha Society, the second American college Greek-letter fraternity, is founded.
1863
The first National Thanksgiving is celebrated.
1901
The Hope diamond is brought to New York.
1907
The Duma lends its support to the Czar in St. Petersburg, who claims he has renounced autocracy.
1917
The Bolsheviks offer an armistice between Russian and the Central Powers.
1922
Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter, archeologists, open King Tut’s tomb, undisturbed for 3,000 years.
1938
Poland renews its nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union to protect against a German invasion.
1939
The Soviet Union charges Finland with an artillery attack on its border.
1941
The Japanese fleet departs from the Kuril Islands en route to its attack on Pearl Harbor.
1947
France expels 19 Soviet citizens, charging them with intervention in internal affairs.
1949
India becomes a sovereign democratic republic.
1950
North Korean and Chinese troops halt a UN offensive.
1957
President Dwight Eisenhower suffers a minor stroke.
1975
Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme is found guilty of an attempt on Gerald Ford’s life.
1979
Oil deposits equaling OPEC reserves are found in Venezuela.
1982
Yasuhiro Nakasone is elected the 71st Japanese prime minister.
1983
At London’s Heathrow Airport, almost 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from a Brinks-MAT vault.
1998
Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland’s parliament.
2000
Wingnut candidate the shrub is certified the winner of Florida’s electoral votes, giving him enough electoral votes to defeat Democrat Al Gore Jr. for the US presidency, despite losing the popular vote.
2011
NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani checkpost in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others.

Pussy Riot takes you inside Putin's prison

“I want people to know what it’s like to be behind bars in Russia, where at any moment your rights can be taken from you,” says Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda “Nadya” Tolokonnikova during a break from rehearsals for a new immersive theater experience in London.

Got the Eco-Travel Bug?

Unregulated religious daycares get millions in tax funds

Religious daycares across the country take million in government subsidies — and due to a “Dog Loophole” based in complaints regarding the separation of cult and state, they’re often exempt from typical regulation and even licensing that keeps the children that attend them safe.

Strange pond in Antarctic could explain water on Mars

In Antarctica, there is a pond so salty that it is impervious to freezing and remains liquid throughout the harsh arctic winters. To make matters even stranger, scientists are clueless as to how the lake got there, calling it as rare as a “pink elephant.” However, seeing as Antarctica is as close as we can get to studying Mars without actually going to the Red Planet, scientists are keen to understand the water’s mysterious origins.

Billionaires unite to find aliens

Earlier this week, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner announced at the New Space Age conference in Seattle his plans to sponsor a project to send spaceships to Saturn’s moon Enceladus to search for alien life. Milner appears to be the latest in a recent trend of billionaires setting their sights on the stars and using their money to help man explore the cosmos.

Government shuts down homemade rocket launch by man believes the earth is flat

In an effort to prove the Earth is flat, 61-year-old “Mad” Mike Hughes plans to launch himself thousands of feet in the air in a homemade rocket. But his launch—which was originally set for Saturday—has been postponed, The Washington Post reported Friday afternoon.

Big tobacco forced to admit smoking dangers

They can't lie about it anymore.
Big Tobacco is launching a forced campaign to inform the public of the deadly nature of smoking— and its own tactics—in "corrective statements" running in newspapers and on television as the result of a nine-month civil racketeering trial.

How should we protest neo-Nazis?

After the murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, many people are asking themselves what they should do if Nazis rally in their city. Should they put their bodies on the line in counterdemonstrations? Some say yes.
History says no. Take it from me: I study the original Nazis.
We have an ethical obligation to stand against fascism and racism. But we also have an ethical obligation to do so in a way that doesn’t help the fascists and racists more than it hurts them.

Wingnut consultant and anti-pot advocate sues former opponent for disclosing his medical marijuana card

A wingnut consultant whose firm represents a number of anti-marijuana clients filed suit against his former political opponents for allegedly disclosing his medical marijuana card.
 Again, wingnut hypocrisy rears it's scaly head ...

High Priestess of Hallucinogens Amanda Feilding Is Exploring Microdosing

Funding Big Pharma to Help with Millions of Addicts They Created

'Comfort Women' day bill passes in South Korea

Lawmakers in South Korea OK'd legislation Friday that would create a holiday to recognize the thousands of sex slaves, or "comfort women," used by the Japanese military during World War II—despite the damage the event could do to the country's relationship with Tokyo. 

Reporting a rape can bring doubt, abuse — and even prosecution

The women accusing the wingnut Roy Moore of sexual misconduct have faced doubt and derision. Other women, who have alleged sexual assault or harassment by powerful men in Hollywood, Silicon Valley and elsewhere, have become targets for online abuse or had their careers threatened. Harvey Weinstein went so far as to hire ex-Mossad operatives to investigate the personal history of the actress Rose McGowan, to discourage her from publicly accusing him of rape.
There are many reasons for women to think twice about reporting sexual assault. But one potential consequence looms especially large: They may also be prosecuted.

Colorado Springs minister caught on tape admitting he impregnated a 14-year-old girl

Authorities in Colorado Springs have arrested a licensed minister who allegedly impregnated a 14-year-old, KKTV News reports.
Romello Leach, 22, was arrested on multiple felony counts for Sexual Assault on a Child, Pattern of Abuse.

Virginia youth pastor accused of murdering his family on Thanksgiving

Officers have arrested youth pastor Chris Gattis after they found two women and a man shot to death at a home in Chester, Virginia.

St. Louis police shut down entire mall to violently arrest black lawmaker for protesting racial injustice

Police in St. Louis shut down a large shopping mall on “Black Friday” to arrest activists protesting police violence. The arrests included a state Rep. Bruce Franks Jr. (D), a black lawmaker who could be heard screaming in pain...

Ohio cop arrested twice in less than 3 hours for drunk driving and speeding

Officials released new video on Friday from the arrest of an off-duty Cleveland, Ohio highway patrolman who was pulled over twice in less than three hours for driving under the influence and speeding.

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