Saturday, July 15, 2017
Racist Chicago Cop Beat A Handcuffed Black Woman
Racist Chicago Cop Who Beat A Handcuffed Black Woman Found With Trove Of Slur-Filled WebsitesWoman awakened by mountain lion crashing through window
“At first, I think she said she thought she was dreaming. It didn’t seem real,” apartment manager Francis Muniz told local KTXL. (The woman was apparently too startled to talk to the media.)
Desperate polar bears may attack more people as Arctic ice melts
Wild lion adopts leopard cub
Friday, July 14, 2017
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Motorcycle Mama ... !
Today is - National Motorcycle Day
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Today in History
| 1223 | In France, Louis VIII succeeds his father, Philip Augustus. | |
| 1430 | Joan of Arc, taken prisoner by the Burgundians in May, is handed over to Pierre Cauchon, the bishop of Beauvais. | |
| 1456 | Hungarians defeat the Ottomans at the Battle of Belgrade, in present-day Yugoslavia. | |
| 1536 | France and Portugal sign the Treaty of Lyons, aligning themselves against Spain. | |
| 1789 | The Bastille, a fortress in Paris used to hold political prisoners, is stormed by a mob. | |
| 1798 | The Sedition Act is passed by the U.S. Congress. | |
| 1864 | At Harrisburg, Mississippi, Federal troops under General Andrew Jackson Smith repulse an attack by General Nathan Bedford Forrest. | |
| 1900 | European Allies retake Tientsin, China, from the rebelling Boxers. | |
| 1933 | Nazi Germany promulgates the Law for the Protection of Hereditary Health–the beginning of the Euthanasia program. | |
| 1938 | Howard Hughes and crew set a new world record for an around-the-world flight. | |
| 1940 | A force of German bombers attacks Suez, Egypt, from bases in Crete. | |
| 1941 | Vichy French Foreign Legionaries sign an armistice in Damascus, allowing them to join the Free French Foreign Legion. | |
| 1945 | American battleships and cruisers bombard the Japanese home islands for the first time. | |
| 1951 | The George Washington Carver National Monument in Joplin, Missouri becomes the first national park honoring an African American. | |
| 1964 | The United States sends 600 more troops to Vietnam. |
Fuck That- An Honest Meditation For Today's World
Jason's meditation video, book and app use the many expletives other meditation courses are afraid to let fly in order to free our spirits from the grips of our modern lives, or some such bulls#@t.
Some claim it worked wonders for their frustrated minds, others say it sounds like an early Eddie Murphy routine. Click play, close your eyes and decide for yourself. (NSFW) Namaste!
The Strange and Righteous History of the Equals Sign
Recorde's symbol didn't catch on at first. The language of Latin still held sway during the 16th century. Latin had a word for the concept, "aequalis," and if more concision was necessary, people could shorten it to "ae" or "oe." But aiding the popularity of the equals sign was Recorde's introduction, to English-speakers, of the German symbols "+" and "-". In combination, these signs allowed people to express, quickly and with a minimum of wasted ink, a mathematical equation in symbols. Instead of writing, "A factore added to a quantitie of thryeye is equalle to a dyffyrynte factore frome whyche is takene awaye a quantitie of foure," a mathematician could write: "x + 3 = y - 4".That opened the door for math to have its own language, understandable by people all over the world. Read about the remarkable Recorde and his legacy at Ars Technica.
2.1 billion people Lack Access to Safe Drinking Water
Asylum seekers turned away at US-Mexico border sue US government
Religio-wingnut 'christian' reality TV hack gets 40 years in prison for child rape
Willis was the patriarch of TLC’s former reality show “The Willis Family.” On Tuesday, he pleaded guilty to four counts of rape and was sentenced to 40 years of imprisonment, People reported.
Hate crimes in America
Oregon man nailed for hate crime cries in court
An Oregon man has been arraigned on hate crime charges for threatening a Muslim couple only days after two men were stabbed to death in Portland after trying to stop an anti-Muslim rant. The National Park That Was Stolen to Death
Unfortunately for Fossil Cycad, its official recognition as an American landmark came at a difficult time for the country overall. “It was a period of economic hardship,” says Santucci. “Fossil Cycad wasn’t really developed like other national parks and monuments were.” That meant no one was hired to watch over the land. While the superintendent of nearby Wind Cave National Park was put in charge of its overall management, “day-to-day surveillance was entrusted to local ranchers,” writes Santucci. The site’s only sign—a 15-inch carved wooden plank—abbreviated both “National” and “Monument,” but made sure to spell out “NO PROSPECTING.”And that is why you've never heard of Fossil Cycad National Monument. Read about the life and death of the national park at Atlas Obscura.
Despite this lack of amenities, tourists continued to swing by, and to take pieces of the monument home with them. “People reading in newspapers about the monument in the Black Hills would come,” says Santucci. Natural erosion meant that new layers of fossils were gradually exposed, creating more buzz and more foot traffic. Such was the Fossil Cycad catch-22: when there weren’t any visible fossils, it wasn’t much of a monument. But whenever there were enough to attract visitors, those same visitors meant they were quick to disappear.
Wingnut groups urge lawmakers to gut climate programs in US military
Flooding Cities
According to a study released Wednesday, cities along the Jersey Shore and in parts of North Carolina, South Louisiana, and neighboring areas that have been known as vulnerable from years are expected to be inundated by 2035.
Scientists Discover the Secret Behind Incredible Ant Towers
Fire
ants, when trapped, will build a tower of ants in order to escape.
Researchers at Georgia Tech, instead of looking for ways to kill the
invasive insects, studied the architecture of ant towers. David Hu and
Craig Tovey observed how ants at the bottom supported the weight of
those above, and how ants reaching to top of the tower stopped to let
others crawl on top of them. They left a video recorder on for an hour
after the tower was completed and went to do something else. Later, not
wanting to watch an hour of ants, they viewed the video at ten times the
normal speed. That's when they discovered that the completed tower kept
sinking, and had to be constantly rebuilt.To confirm the sinking behavior, Tovey and Hu contacted experts at at Lawrence Livermore Labs and other institutes. They were told that the technology did not exist to track individual particles in the interior of a three-dimensional object, at the time and size scales of ant-made towers, without killing the insects. But when they talked to an expert at Georgia Tech, they were referred to Daria Monaenkova, a postdoctoral researcher working in Dan Goldman’s physics lab. Monaenkova, who would subsequently become a co-author of the new study, happened to be working on an x-ray technology that would enable the researchers to peer inside the ant tower itself.And that's where the story gets really neat. They actually fed radioactive iodine to some of the ants in order to track them by X-ray in real time to confirm the sinking tower. They determined that it was because the ants at the bottom understandably got tired and left. You can read the story and see both the original video and the X-ray version at Gizmodo.
Horse slaughter may become legal in US again
Thursday, July 13, 2017
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Today in History
| 1099 | The Crusaders launch their final assault on Jerusalem. | |
| 1534 | Ottoman armies capture Tabriz in northwestern Persia. | |
| 1558 | Led by the Count of Egmont, the Spanish army defeats the French at Gravelines, France. | |
| 1585 | A group of 108 English colonists, led by Sir Richard Grenville, reaches Roanoke Island, North Carolina. | |
| 1643 | In England, the Roundheads, led by Sir William Waller, are defeated by Royalist troops under Lord Wilmot in the Battle of Roundway Down. | |
| 1754 | George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to the French, leaving them in control of the Ohio Valley. | |
| 1787 | Congress, under the Articles of Confederation, enacts the Northwest Ordinance, establishing rules for governing the Northwest Territory, for admitting new states to the Union and limiting the expansion of slavery. | |
| 1798 | English poet William Wordsworth visits the ruins of Tintern Abbey. | |
| 1832 | Henry Schoolcraft discovers the source of the Mississippi River in Minnesota. | |
| 1862 | Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats a Union army at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. | |
| 1863 | Opponents of the draft begin three days of rioting in New York City. | |
| 1866 | The Great Eastern begins a two week voyage to complete a 12-year effort to lay telegraph cable across the Atlantic between Britain and the United States. | |
| 1878 | The Congress of Berlin divides the Balkans among European powers. | |
| 1939 | Frank Sinatra records his first song, “From the Bottom of My Heart,” with the Harry James Band. | |
| 1941 | Britain and the Soviet Union sign a mutual aid pact, providing the means for Britain to send war materiel to the Soviet Union. | |
| 1954 | In Geneva, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China and France reach an accord on Indochina, dividing Vietnam into two countries, North and South, along the 17th parallel. | |
| 1971 | The Army of Morocco executes 10 leaders accused of leading a revolt. |
World Leaders Decide They Don’t Need The U.S.
Since
Dumbass Trump’s colossally stupid decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris
climate accord, it appears that the rest of the world can get along
just fine as a G19.
Why do states keep running out of weed?
Charts Show Why We’re All Screwed Under The Wingnut Health Care Bill
Even
if it isn’t your health care that is directly affected, chances are you
will still feel the ripple effects of the bill on the economy, both on a
state and national level.
Around 40 percent of Americans were harassed online
The survey shows 41 percent of 4,248 respondents have been subjected to online harassing behavior such as offensive name-calling and embarrassment, up from 35 percent in 2014 when the think tank last conducted a similar survey.
Nearly one-in-five said they experienced more severe forms of harassment such as physical threats, stalking and sexual harassment.
While men are more likely than women to experience online harassment overall – 44 percent versus 37 percent – women, particularly young women, are more likely to be the targets of sexualized forms of online abuse. Two-in-ten women ages 18 to 29 said they have been sexually harassed online, and just over half said they have been sent explicit images they did not ask for, according to the survey.
Mexican immigrant sues Chicago police
A Mexican immigrant sued Chicago police in federal court on
Tuesday, saying he was mistakenly listed in a gang database that cost
him federal protections and will lead to his deportation later this
month.Luis Vicente Pedrote-Salinas, 25, of Chicago, argued in a lawsuit filed in U.S. district court in Chicago that his false inclusion on the gang list led immigration agents to raid his home in 2011 and detain him. He was brought to the United States when he was five years old.
U.S authorities denied his application for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, even though he met all the requirements, the lawsuit said. President Barack Obama created DACA to give people brought to the county as children temporary protection from deportation.
Pedrote must leave the country July 20.
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