Civil rights enforcement dies under Dumbass Trump not with a bang, but a whimper.
Saturday, June 17, 2017
Verdict Rendering
Michelle Carter, now 20, is accused of involuntary manslaughter for sending a series of texts to her 18-year-old boyfriend, Conrad Roy, urging him to kill himself, which he did by running a generator in his truck as he sat in a parking lot in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, about 60 miles (96 km) south of Boston.
Update:
A judge found a Massachusetts woman guilty Friday of involuntary manslaughter in the suicide of her boyfriend.
Michelle Carter, now 20, sent 18-year-old Conrad Roy III hundreds of text messages before he killed himself in July 2014 by inhaling carbon monoxide in his pickup truck, reported CNN.
Many of those messages encouraged Roy to take his own life, and prosecutors argued that she berated the vulnerable young man after he developed second thoughts about suicide.
She encouraged Roy to get back into his truck at one point, and she listened by phone to his last breaths.
Prosecutors argued that Carter used her boyfriend’s suicide to get the attention from her friends.
‘No one is safe’
The St. Anthony police officer who fatally
shot Philando Castile in an event broadcast live on Facebook, escaped
all criminal charges resulting from the death.
‘I will make you disappear’
Russia claims they have killed ISIL leader Baghdadi
Mammoth Tusk Hunt in Siberia
That's me :). I needed to show how big a deal the mozzies were, that was the most effective way I could do it in a photo.The things a photographer will go through for the right image! You can read the extensive story of the expedition here, or a shorter form in an imgur album.
I fell in the river. When I took one shoe off to squeegee my sock the mozzies descended - then I realized it was a good photo so I took the other shoe off, waited for 40 hellish seconds & took this pic.
Friday, June 16, 2017
The Daily Drift
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Oh, Fudge ... !
Today is - Fudge Day
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Today in History
| 455 | Rome is sacked by the Vandal army. | |
| 1815 | Napoleon defeats the Prussians at the Battle of Ligny. | |
| 1858 | Lincoln, in accepting the wingnut nomination for the U.S. Senate in Illinois, declares that, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” | |
| 1864 | The siege of Petersburg and Richmond begins after a moonlight skirmish. | |
| 1907 | The Russian czar dissolves the Duma in St. Petersburg. | |
| 1910 | The first Father’s Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington. | |
| 1925 | France accepts a German proposal for a security pact. | |
| 1932 | The ban on Nazi storm troopers is lifted by the von Papen government in Germany. | |
| 1935 | President Franklin Roosevelt‘s New Deal legislation is passed by the House of Representatives. | |
| 1940 | French Chief of State, Henri Petain asks for an armistice with Germany. | |
| 1952 | Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl is published in the United States. | |
| 1955 | The U.S. House of Representatives votes to extend Selective Service until 1959. | |
| 1961 | Ballet star Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union while in Paris. | |
| 1971 | An El Greco sketch, “The Immaculate Conception,” stolen in Spain 35 years earlier, is recovered in New York City by the FBI. | |
| 1977 | Leonid Brezhnev is named president of the Soviet Union. |
Czech cave sheds light on Neanderthal-Homo Sapiens transition
The Pod Hradem Cave in the eastern Czech Republic was first excavated in 1956-1958, and again in 2011-2012. The advanced techniques used during the second excavation revealed portable art objects, never-before-seen in the region, as well as raw materials that suggest long-distance travel. The dig turned up over 20,000 objects that include animal bones, stone tools, and weapons, as well as an engraved bone bead — the oldest of its kind found in Central Europe.
This is what Alzheimer’s disease does to the brain
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive brain disease and the 6th leading cause of death
in the U.S. While symptoms of AD such as memory loss and impaired
judgement are widely recognized, we know less about what the disease
does to the brain. Science still has a long way to go when it comes to
understanding AD, but here’s what we know so far. This genetic mutation makes you more prone to colds
Just weeks after her birth, the young girl started to experience life-threatening colds, the flu, and other respiratory infections. Her doctors suspected she had an immune deficiency, so they went on to do further testing.
Turns out, she has a rare genetic mutation, according to researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Her case is published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine.
State attorneys general probe opioid drug companies
Minnesota man arrested for torturing baby
A 31-year-old Moorehead, MN man is accused
of rubbing hot sauce and cayenne pepper in his 2-month-old daughter’s
eyes and throwing fireworks in her face to punish her.
United Airlines employee kicks woman in the head
A traveler said she was kicked in the head
by a United Airlines employee at the Houston airport — the site of
several other recent highly publicized incidents involving alleged
mistreatment of customers by the embattled carrier.
Department of Justice seizes rights to ‘Dumb and Dumber To’
On Thursday, the Department of Justice
seized the rights to the 2014 Jim Carrey movie “Dumb and Dumber To” as
part of an investigation into a state-sponsored Malaysian money
laundering operation.
Fugitive polygamous sect leader arrested
Jeffs, 57, was captured in South Dakota on Wednesday night and was being held in jail without bond.
Two men describe homophobic torture in Chechnya
The men, who were granted anonymity over fears of reprisal, gave Reuters accounts of their horrific ordeals at the hands of the authorities.
One of the men described being beaten by police after he refused to hand over the names of other gay men he knew, only escaping further torture after telling the authorities he was related to a policeman. He was taken to his family, and was then handcuffed to a radiator before his sister helped him escape.
"There was only one thing left to do: to get rid of me,” he said. “Because it was such a shame for a military family, for a rather big family. We [in Chechnya] have only one way to resolve this.”
ISIL moves into Osama Bin Laden's old home of Tora Bora
ISIL, the foremost killer of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan this year, captured Wednesday the complex of caves known as Tora Bora, located in the country's eastern, restive Nangahar province. The advance reportedly followed a weeklong battle with the Taliban, a rival ultraconservative Sunni Muslim group whose affiliation with Al-Qaeda prompted the U.S.'s post-9/11 invasion of the country in 2001.
Fox 'News' Is Dropping Its 'Fair & Balanced' Slogan
As Fox 'News' tries to move past its Ailes era.
Of course they have never been "fair" or "balanced" anyway.
Of course they have never been "fair" or "balanced" anyway.
Thursday, June 15, 2017
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Dawn Deer ... !
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Today in History
| 1184 | King Magnus of Norway is defeated by his rival, Sverre. | |
| 1215 | King John signs the Magna Carta. | |
| 1381 | The English peasant revolt is crushed in London. | |
| 1389 | Ottoman Turks crush Serbia in the Battle of Kosovo. | |
| 1607 | Colonists in North America complete James Fort in Jamestown. | |
| 1752 | Benjamin Franklin and his son test the relationship between electricity and lightning by flying a kite in a thunder storm. | |
| 1775 | George Washington is named Commander-in-Chief by Congress. | |
| 1779 | American General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, New York. | |
| 1836 | Arkansas is admitted into the Union as the 25th state. | |
| 1846 | Great Britain and the United States agree on a joint occupation of Oregon Territory. | |
| 1849 | James K. Polk, the 11th president of the United States, dies. | |
| 1862 | General J.E.B. Stuart completes his “ride around McClellan.” | |
| 1864 | The Battle for Petersburg begins. | |
| 1866 | Prussia attacks Austria. | |
| 1877 | Henry O. Flipper becomes the first African American to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. | |
| 1898 | The U.S. House of representatives approves the annexation of Hawaii. | |
| 1904 | Fire aboard the paddle steamer General Slocum on New York’s East River kills 1,021, mostly German-Americans. | |
| 1916 | President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America. | |
| 1917 | Great Britain pledges the release of all Irish captured during the Easter Rebellion of 1916. | |
| 1920 | Three African Americans are lynched in Duluth, Minnesota, by a white mob of 5,000. | |
| 1928 | Wingnuts, convening in Kansas City, name Herbert Hoover their candidate for Pretender. | |
| 1932 | Gaston Means is sentenced to 15 years for fraud in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. | |
| 1940 | The French fortress of Verdun is captured by Germans. | |
| 1944 | U.S. Marines begin the invasion of Saipan in the Pacific. | |
| 1947 | The All India Congress accepts a British plan for the partition of India. | |
| 1958 | Greece severs military ties to Turkey because of the Cyprus issue. | |
| 1964 | The last French troops leave Algeria. | |
| 1977 | The first general election in Spain since 1936 results in victory for the UCD (Union of Democratic Centre). |
New York City, Then and Now
The
New Yorker put together a side-by-side comparison of New York City in
the 1930s and how it looks today. While there are plenty of changes (not
to mention New York is now in color), there are a lot of things that
remain from 80 years ago.
How to Get to Know Someone
Many of these questions are deceptively revelatory, such as “who or where would you haunt if you were a ghost?” It may seem like harmless fun, but this question might reveal if your conversation partner has a sentimental or a vengeful streak, for example. The best part is that asking just one of these questions can open and carry an interesting conversation that will leave you far better acquainted with a new contact than everyday small talk.One question might work, but in this list at Gentlemen's Gazette, there are 53 to select from, so you can pick and choose what might work in a given situation.
Things Only Poor Teens Understand About Poverty
Which is why I appreciated and enjoyed reading this article revealing 5 Things Only Poor People Understand About Poverty by Cracked's John Cheese, a guy who understands there's broke and then there's BROKE.
The Case for Prescription Heroin
Crosstown represents an international move toward providing a full spectrum of care for people who are addicted to drugs. It isn’t a first-line defense against opioid addiction, and it’s not going to solve the crisis by itself. But for a fraction of opioid users suffering from addiction (maybe about 10 to 15 percent), other treatments won’t produce good results, almost certainly leading users to relapse — and possibly overdose and die.Read about Vancouver's heroin program at Vox
To combat this cycle, Crosstown offers these opioid users medical-grade heroin (called “diacetylmorphine”). Under supervision, nurses are at the ready with the overdose antidote naloxone and oxygen tanks in case of an emergency. These patients are the people for whom other treatments have failed. It’s a last resort. And it works.
Since 2011, the clinic has seen about 200 patients. None of them, MacDonald said, have died under the clinic’s supervision. In fact, as far as he can tell, no one has died at any prescription heroin facility due to an overdose — not in Canada, Switzerland, Germany, or the Netherlands.
Delta Airlines let drunk ‘roam freely’ while he exposed himself and groped woman on flight
A Michigan woman is suing Delta Airlines for
allegedly allowing a fellow passenger who sexually assaulted her and
masturbated next to her to “roam freely” on a flight despite staff’s
knowledge of the man’s misconduct.
NUTJOB Missouri Wingnut Beheads Live Chicken On Facebook
Hopefully, the backlash from this stunt will make Mr. Moon realize
that women deserve access to healthcare, regardless of what he likes to
do to chicken in the privacy of his own home.
Coral reefs show signs of climate stress, but there's still hope
They show signs of stress, but also resilience.
Fox Gets a New Tunnel
Watch Riot play tag and peek-a-boo and hide and seek! See more of Riot and his animals friends at Instagram.
4 facts about ghost sharks
It’s also known as a chimaera or ratfish.
Scientists released video of the marine animal some months ago, which had been shot a few years earlier, and it was believed to mark the first time candid footage of the creature alive in the wild had been documented.
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