Thursday, April 27, 2017
Gutfeld Puts Out A Call For Anti-Choice Violence
He's stepping right into O'Reilly's shoes, calling for violence against pro-choice people. All in good fun, of course.
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
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Today in History
| 757 | Stephen II ends his reign as catholic pope. | |
| 1478 | Pazzi conspirators attack Lorenzo and kill Giuliano de’ Medici. | |
| 1514 | Copernicus makes his first observations of Saturn. | |
| 1564 | William Shakespeare is baptized. | |
| 1607 | The British establish a colony at Cape Henry, Virginia. | |
| 1865 | Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to General William T. Sherman. | |
| 1915 | Second Lieutenant William Rhodes-Moorhouse becomes the first airman to win the Victoria Cross after conducting a successful bombing raid. | |
| 1929 | The first non-stop flight from England to India is completed. | |
| 1931 | New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hits a home run but is called out for passing a runner, the mistake ultimately costs him the home run record. | |
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| 1941 | The first organ is played at a baseball stadium in Chicago. | |
| 1968 | Students seize the administration building at Ohio State University. | |
| 1983 | The Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks 1,200 for first time. | |
| 1986 | The world’s worst nuclear disaster occurs at the Chernobyl power plant in the Soviet Union. | |
| 1994 | Nelson Mandela wins the presidency in South Africa’s first multiracial elections. |
'We Want To Lead The World In Preventing Tourism'
Measures like Brexit will help, but Theresa May has much to learn from Dumbass Trump in preventing the scourge of tourism ...
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Wingnuts are just stupid - no matter where they are.
ProPublica Is Investigating Hate Across The U.S.
Nebraska Farmer Politely SHREDS Every Shrieking Point Fox 'News' Hack Has
He had a well-thought out, informed reply for everything in this interview.
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
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Today in History
| 1590 | The Sultan of Morocco launches a successful attack to capture Timbuktu. | |
| 1644 | The Ming Chongzhen emperor commits suicide by hanging himself. | |
| 1707 | At the Battle of Almansa, Franco-Spanish forces defeat the Anglo-Portugese forces. | |
| 1719 | Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe is published in London. | |
| 1792 | The guillotine is first used to execute highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier. | |
| 1859 | Work begins on the Suez Canal in Egypt. | |
| 1862 | Admiral David Farragut occupies New Orleans, Louisiana. | |
| 1864 | After facing defeat in the Red River Campaign, Union General Nathaniel Bank returns to Alexandria, Louisiana. | |
| 1867 | Tokyo is opened for foreign trade. | |
| 1882 | French commander Henri Riviere seizes the citadel of Hanoi in Indochina. | |
| 1898 | The United States declares war on Spain. | |
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| 1925 | General Paul von Hindenburg takes office as president of Germany. | |
| 1926 | In Iran, Reza Khan is crowned Shah and chooses the name “Pahlavi.” | |
| 1926 | Puccini’s opera Turandot premiers at La Scala in Milan with Arturo Toscanini conducting. | |
| 1938 | A seeing eye dog is used for the first time. | |
| 1945 | U.S. and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on Elbe River. | |
| 1951 | After a three day fight against Chinese Communist Forces, the Gloucestershire Regiment is annihilated on “Gloucester Hill,” in Korea. | |
| 1953 | The magazine Nature publishes an article by biologists Francis Crick and James Watson, describing the “double helix” of DNA. | |
| 1956 | Elvis Presley‘s “Heartbreak Hotel” goes to number one on the charts. | |
| 1959 | The St. Lawrence Seaway–linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes–opens to shipping. | |
| 1960 | The first submerged circumnavigation of the Earth is completed by a Triton submarine. | |
| 1962 | A U.S. Ranger spacecraft crash lands on the Moon. | |
| 1971 | The country of Bangladesh is established. | |
| 1980 | President Jimmy Carter tells the American people about the hostage rescue disaster in Iran. | |
| 1982 | In accordance with the Camp David agreements, Israel completes a withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula. | |
| 1990 | Violeta Barrios de Chamorro begins a six year term as Nicaragua’s president. |
What A Mastectomy Really Looks Like
"The Bachelor’s" Lesley Murphy tested positive for the BRCA2 gene mutation.
"How Western civilization could collapse"
From the BBC:
The political economist Benjamin Friedman once compared
modern Western society to a stable bicycle whose wheels are kept
spinning by economic growth. Should that forward-propelling motion slow
or cease, the pillars that define our society – democracy, individual
liberties, social tolerance and more – would begin to teeter. Our world
would become an increasingly ugly place, one defined by a scramble over
limited resources and a rejection of anyone outside of our immediate
group. Should we find no way to get the wheels back in motion, we’d
eventually face total societal collapse...
...there are two factors that matter: ecological strain and economic stratification. The ecological category is the more widely understood and recognized path to potential doom...
That economic stratification may lead to collapse on its own, on the other hand, came as more of a surprise to Motesharrei and his colleagues. Under this scenario, elites push society toward instability and eventual collapse by hoarding huge quantities of wealth and resources, and leaving little or none for commoners who vastly outnumber them yet support them with labor. Eventually, the working population crashes because the portion of wealth allocated to them is not enough, followed by collapse of the elites due to the absence of labor...
According to Joseph Tainter, a professor of environment and society at Utah State University and author of The Collapse of Complex Societies, one of the most important lessons from Rome’s fall is that complexity has a cost. As stated in the laws of thermodynamics, it takes energy to maintain any system in a complex, ordered state – and human society is no exception. By the 3rd Century, Rome was increasingly adding new things – an army double the size, a cavalry, subdivided provinces that each needed their own bureaucracies, courts and defenses – just to maintain its status quo and keep from sliding backwards. Eventually, it could no longer afford to prop up those heightened complexities. It was fiscal weakness, not war, that did the Empire in...
Whether in the US, UK or elsewhere, the more dissatisfied and afraid people become, Homer-Dixon says, the more of a tendency they have to cling to their in-group identity – whether religious, racial or national. Denial, including of the emerging prospect of societal collapse itself, will be widespread, as will rejection of evidence-based fact. If people admit that problems exist at all, they will assign blame for those problems to everyone outside of their in-group, building up resentment. “You’re setting up the psychological and social prerequisites for mass violence,” Homer-Dixon says. When localized violence finally does break out, or another country or group decides to invade, collapse will be difficult to avoid...
...there are two factors that matter: ecological strain and economic stratification. The ecological category is the more widely understood and recognized path to potential doom...
That economic stratification may lead to collapse on its own, on the other hand, came as more of a surprise to Motesharrei and his colleagues. Under this scenario, elites push society toward instability and eventual collapse by hoarding huge quantities of wealth and resources, and leaving little or none for commoners who vastly outnumber them yet support them with labor. Eventually, the working population crashes because the portion of wealth allocated to them is not enough, followed by collapse of the elites due to the absence of labor...
According to Joseph Tainter, a professor of environment and society at Utah State University and author of The Collapse of Complex Societies, one of the most important lessons from Rome’s fall is that complexity has a cost. As stated in the laws of thermodynamics, it takes energy to maintain any system in a complex, ordered state – and human society is no exception. By the 3rd Century, Rome was increasingly adding new things – an army double the size, a cavalry, subdivided provinces that each needed their own bureaucracies, courts and defenses – just to maintain its status quo and keep from sliding backwards. Eventually, it could no longer afford to prop up those heightened complexities. It was fiscal weakness, not war, that did the Empire in...
Whether in the US, UK or elsewhere, the more dissatisfied and afraid people become, Homer-Dixon says, the more of a tendency they have to cling to their in-group identity – whether religious, racial or national. Denial, including of the emerging prospect of societal collapse itself, will be widespread, as will rejection of evidence-based fact. If people admit that problems exist at all, they will assign blame for those problems to everyone outside of their in-group, building up resentment. “You’re setting up the psychological and social prerequisites for mass violence,” Homer-Dixon says. When localized violence finally does break out, or another country or group decides to invade, collapse will be difficult to avoid...
Race To The Bottom
The Walton family releases its 2020 plan to take control of your kid's education.
‘I miss having a human president’
DHS Secretary Doesn't Know How To Stop Home-Grown Terrorists
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