Saturday, November 11, 2017
What is melting Antarctica from beneath?
Carrier to lay off hundreds more workers
Dumbass Trump last year struck a deal
with the Carrier Corporation last year that was supposed to save
American manufacturing jobs at the company and prevent it from moving
them overseas.
TripAdvisor to flag reports of sexual assault
The site will now put red badges on the pages for locations that have faced allegations, and they will remain there for up to three months. The badges will not include the words “sexual assault,” but will encourage customers to beware, similar to notices for fake reviews or recent violent incidents.
Police lieutenant says Memphis neglected rape cases
Retired Lt. Cody Wilkerson, a 26-year veteran of the force, gave “bombshell” testimony he complained to top brass, who ignored his calls for reform, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reported.
Wilkerson testified that police administrators went so far as to muzzle him from talking to an advocate for victims at the Rape Crisis Center.
Elizabeth Smart speaks out against religious fanatics
Smart’s abduction was followed carefully across the United States when she was kidnapped from her bedroom by a homeless street preacher at the age of 14. In a conversation with Reddit users on Monday, Smart talked openly about her nine months in captivity in 2002, and about integrating back into society after she was rescued by police.
94-year-old escapes trunk of kidnapper's car after 7 hours
Wingnut criminal O’Keefe is fighting his insurance company for not paying his massive legal bills
It turns out criminal wingnut 'filmmaker' James
O’Keefe, who is best known for his infamous phony “sting” into Planned
Parenthood, is fighting a new battle — against his insurer.
Florida cop quits after being busted for drunken road rage incident
According to News4Jax, Baker County sergeant Christopher Ariail was taken into custody and charged after police followed up on a report that he had pulled his service revolver after a traffic dispute while he was driving drunk.
'So vile, so demeaning'
“Niceties aside, what is your blunt take on Dumbass Trump and what he is doing?” Allen asked.
Referencing an article by wingnut columnist David Brooks, Biden argued “there is an invisible moral fabric that glues and holds up this society, and you know what it is: It’s decency, treating people with respect.”
“This has gotten so coarse, so vile, so demeaning, and our children are listening,” Biden warned.
Nazi Richard Spencer bounced a $10,000 check
Emails between the University of Florida and
Nazi Richard Spencer’s National Policy Institute think tank show that the
white nationalist provocateur didn’t get his ducks in order before his
speech in Gainesville last month — and that his $10,564 check bounced.
Friday, November 10, 2017
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Today in History
| 1493 | Christopher Columbus discovers Antigua during his second expedition. | |
| 1556 | The English explorer Richard Chancellor is drowned off Aberdeenshire on his return from a second voyage to Russia. | |
| 1647 | All Dutch-held areas of New York are returned to English control by the treaty of Westminster. | |
| 1775 | The U.S. Marine Corps is founded. | |
| 1782 | In the last battle of the American Revolution, George Rogers Clark attacks Indians and Loyalists at Chillicothe, in Ohio Territory. | |
| 1871 | Henry M. Stanley finds Dr. Livingstone at Ujiji near Unyanyembe in Africa. | |
| 1879 | Little Bighorn participant Major Marcus Reno is caught window-peeping at the daughter of his commanding officer—an offense for which he will be courtmartialed. | |
| 1911 | President Howard Taft ends a 15,000-mile, 57-day speaking tour. | |
| 1911 | The Imperial government of China retakes Nanking. | |
| 1917 | Forty-one US suffragettes are arrested protesting outside the White House. | |
| 1938 | Fascist Italy enacts anti-Semitic legislation. | |
| 1941 | Winston Churchill promises to join the U.S. “within the hour” in the event of war with Japan. | |
| 1942 | Admiral Jean Darlan orders French forces in North Africa to cease resistance to the Anglo-American forces. | |
| 1952 | The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the decision barring segregation on interstate railways. | |
| 1961 | Andrew Hatcher is named associate press secretary to President John F. Kennedy. | |
| 1962 | Eleanor Roosevelt is buried. She had died three days earlier. | |
| 1964 | Australia begins a draft to fulfill its commitment in Vietnam. | |
| 1969 | The PBS children’s program Sesame Street debuts. | |
| 1971 | Two women are tarred and feathered in Belfast for dating British soldiers, while in Londonderry, Northern Ireland a Catholic girl is also tarred and feathered for her intention of marrying a British soldier. | |
| 1972 | Hijackers divert a jet to Detroit, demanding $10 million and ten parachutes. | |
| 1975 | The iron ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald breaks in half and sinks at the eastern end of Lake Superior–all 29 crew members perish. | |
| 1986 | Reagan refuses to reveal details of the Iran arms sale. | |
| 1989 | German citizens begin tearing down the Berlin Wall. | |
| 1997 | WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a merger, the largest in US history up to that time. | |
| 2008 | NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after losing communications with the lander, five months after it began its exploration on the surface of Mars. | |
| 2009 | North Korean and South Korean ships skirmish off Daecheong Island. |
2,300 year-old Hellenistic gymnasium discovered in Egypt
What are the side effects of magic mushrooms?
Dumbass Trump’s Justice Dept. Realizes Prosecuting Woman For Laughing Is Stupid
Well that’s one less dumb thing we’re wasting tax dollars on.
Oklahoma collections firm is making sheriffs rich by sending poor people to jail
Russians offered Dumbass Trump ‘five women’ for group sex
Keith Schiller — longtime bodyguard to Dumbass Trump — said on Thursday that after a meeting about the
2013 Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow, a Russian associate offered to
send “five women” to Dumbass Trump’s hotel room.
Suspected serial killer arrested in Florida
Police arrested a possible serial killer in Florida Wednesday who was
accused of murdering three homeless people. Nathaniel Petgrave, 22, was
also homeless and worked as a security guard, according to the Sun-Sentinel. Man gouged out teen's eyes and broke her neck when she refused to marry him
Mariah Carey accused of sexual harassment
The singer is accused of behaving in a sexual way toward her former personal security, Michael Anello. TMZ reports that Anello is also accusing Carey of denigrating him by calling him a skinhead, a Nazi and a white supremacist.
There was a terror attack in Colorado last week — but no one is talking about it
Scott Ostrem, a 47-year-old, white man, walked
into a Walmart north of Denver on Nov. 1 and opened fire. Eyewitnesses
described him as “nonchalantly” shooting shoppers with a handgun,
killing three.
American hyper-capitalism breeds the lonely, alienated men who become mass killers
Despair, rage and lack of human connection among white men are key culprits in America's mass shooting epidemic.
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