Wednesday, December 6, 2017
The wingnut tax scam bill will make Americans less healthy
Man arrested for drawing mass shooting scene on student's homework
A man from Florida was arrested Friday because he reportedly drew a
disturbing and threatening picture on an elementary school student’s
homework. The drawing showed a schoolhouse on fire as a man shoots with
his gun. 
‘You going to go gangster on me?’
Police in Portland Oregon on Monday arrested
white patron of the Mystic Gentlemen’s for pulling out a gun in the
strip club parking lot last Wednesday and firing nine rounds.
Kansas official goes off on bizarre racist rant during holiday calendar discussion
A Leavenworth County official went off on a
bizarre racist rant during a debate about the holiday schedule during a
County Commission meeting last week.
Teen arsonist who torched his girlfriend's house tried to blame a 'random black guy' for his crimes
Feminist-bashing alt-right agitator upset to learn her 'movement' is full of angry misogynistic men
“Ethno-nationalist” and anti-feminist YouTube
vlogger Tara McCarthy took to Twitter to vent about the men in the
alt-right movement — and appeared to come to the realization that they
are, in fact, misogynists.
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
The Daily Drift
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Today in History
| 1484 | Pope Innocent VIII issues a bull deploring the spread of witchcraft and heresy in Germany. | |
| 1776 | Phi Beta Kappa is organized as the first American college Greek-letter fraternity, at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va. | |
| 1791 | Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies in Vienna. | |
| 1861 | In the U.S. Congress, petitions and bills calling for the abolition of slavery are introduced. | |
| 1862 | Union General Ulysses S. Grant‘s cavalry receives a setback in an engagement on the Mississippi Central Railroad at Coffeeville, Mississippi. | |
| 1864 | Confederate General John Bell Hood sends Nathan Bedford Forrest‘s cavalry and a division of infantry toward Murfreesboro, TN. | |
| 1904 | The Japanese destroy a Russian fleet at Port Arthur in Korea. | |
| 1909 | George Taylor makes the first manned glider flight in Australia in a glider that he designed himself. | |
| 1912 | Italy, Austria and Germany renew the Triple Alliance for six years. | |
| 1916 | David Lloyd George replaces Herbert Asquith as the British prime minister. | |
| 1921 | The British empire reaches an accord with the Irish revolutionary group Sinn Fein; Ireland is to become a free state. | |
| 1933 | The 21st Amendment ends Prohibition in the United States, which had begun 13 years earlier. | |
| 1934 | Italian and Ethiopian troops clash at the Ual-ual on the disputed Somali-Ethiopian border. | |
| 1936 | The New Constitution in the Soviet Union promises universal suffrage, but the Communist Party remains the only legal political party. | |
| 1937 | The Lindberghs arrive in New York on a holiday visit after a two-year voluntary exile. | |
| 1945 | Four TBM Avenger bombers disappear approximately 100 miles off the coast of Florida. | |
| 1950 | Pyongyang in Korea falls to the invading Chinese army. | |
| 1953 | Italy and Yugoslavia agree to pull troops out of the disputed Trieste border. | |
| 1955 | A bus boycott begins under the leadership of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Montgomery, Alabama. | |
| 1966 | Comedian and political activist Dick Gregory heads for Hanoi, North Vietnam, despite federal warnings against it. | |
| 1978 | The Soviet Union signs a 20-year friendship pact with Afghanistan. | |
| 1983 | A military junta dissolves in Argentina. | |
| 2006 | Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji. | |
| 2007 | A gunman armed with a semi-automatic rifle kills 8 people at Westroads Mall, Omaha, NE., before taking his own life. |
NASA releases stunning new image of Jupiter
Monster heat wave reaches Greenland
It’s been unusually warm in the United States in recent days, with
records being set across the country. But it’s been scorching in
Greenland, with temperatures as much as 54° above normal, which means above freezing in many places.
Governments are using Dumbass Trump’s fake news claim to hide ‘ethnic cleansing’
Dumbass Trump’s bombastic, self-serving rhetoric is costing lives
Researcher on LGBTQ family acceptance reflects on lessons from AIDS epidemic
This year, the Family Acceptance Project (FAP) celebrates its 15th anniversary,
marking a decade and a half of research and culturally competent
resources to help families learn to support and protect their LGBTQ
youth. FAP was the vision of Caitlin Ryan, a clinical social worker,
researcher, and educator who still leads the organization. It was her
work on the front lines of the AIDS epidemic that inspired her to pursue
this vital work
University accused of keeping rapist in classes with his victim
This is the third Title IX lawsuit against the University of South Florida.
Wisconsin mom convicted for swearing at son over burnt popcorn
NSA employee pleads guilty of taking classified info that was later stolen by hackers
Wingnuts tucked an irrelevant anti-abortion provision into the tax scam bill
The far-reaching implications of the wingnut tax scam plan may include a
sneaky attempt to use the sweeping piece of legislation to attack
abortion rights. Wingnuts sneak provision into tax bill to benefit one college favored by wingnut billionaires
Late Friday night, wingnuts released a 479-page amendment to their
tax scam bill. Someone should have read it first.
Tucked away on page 289 is a provision that would exempt certain colleges from a special tax on university endowments. It would only apply to colleges that: 1. Did not accept federal funds, and 2. Had an endowment of at least $500,000 per student.
There appears to be only one educational institution in the entire country that would benefit: Hillsdale College.
Wingnut Grassley Says Working Class People Don’t Deserve Tax Cuts
Grassley (r-IA) suggested that rich people deserve
tax cuts more than working class people because working class people
spend all of their money on booze, women, or movies.…
The EPA’s one and only hearing to repeal Obama’s climate rule was a sham
Testimony during the EPA's two-day hearing in Charleston favored keeping the plan in place. Scott Pruitt won't care.
Arctic drilling provision in Senate tax bill meets opposition from an unexpected source
A dozen House wingnuts have penned a letter raising concerns
about allowing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Monday, December 4, 2017
The Daily Drift
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Today in History
| 771 | With the death of his brother Carloman, Charlemagne becomes sole ruler of the Frankish Empire. | |
| 1861 | The U.S. Senate, voting 36 to 0, expels Senator John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky because of his joining the Confederate Army. | |
| 1861 | Queen Victoria of Britain forbids the export of gunpowder, firearms and all materials for their production. | |
| 1862 | Winchester, Va., falls into Union hands, resulting in the capture of 145 Southern soldiers. | |
| 1863 | Seven solid days of bombardment ends at Charleston, S.C. The Union fires some 1,307 rounds. | |
| 1872 | The U.S. brigantine Marie Celeste is found adrift and deserted with its cargo intact, in the Atlantic Ocean between the Azores and Portugal. | |
| 1900 | The French National Assembly, successor to the States-General, rejects Nationalist General Mercier’s proposal to plan an invasion of England. | |
| 1914 | The first Seaplane Unit formed by the German Navy officially comes into existence and begins operations from Zeebrugge, Belgium. | |
| 1918 | France cancels trade treaties in order to compete in the postwar economic battles. | |
| 1941 | Operation Taifun (Typhoon), which was launched by the German armies on October 2, 1941 as a prelude to taking Moscow, is halted because of freezing temperatures and a lack of serviceable aircraft. | |
| 1942 | U.S. planes make the first raids on Naples, Italy. | |
| 1947 | Tennessee William’s play A Streetcar Named Desire premieres on Broadway starring Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy. | |
| 1950 | The University of Tennessee defies court rulings by rejecting five Negro applicants. | |
| 1952 | The Grumman XS2F-1 makes its first flight. | |
| 1959 | Peking pardons Pu Yi, ex-emperor of China and of the Japanese puppet-state of Manchukuo. | |
| 1981 | Reagan broadens the power of the CIA by allowing spying in the United States. | |
| 1985 | Robert McFarland resigns as National Security Advisor. Admiral John Poindexter is named to succeed him. | |
| 1991 | The last American hostages held in Lebanon are released. | |
| 1992 | George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 troops to Somalia during the Somali Civil War. |
How Long Will the Gävle Goat Last in 2017?
The Rohingya tragedy shows human solidarity is a lie
According to international reports, the number of people who have fled Myanmar military operations in Rakhine state have reached approximately 600,000 refugees by October.
The crisis continues to get worse, fanned on one hand, by the Myanmar government's intolerance and insistence on continuing their racist exclusionary policies, and on the other hand, by the fact that the world's interest in what is happening in Myanmar is just not deep enough.
More states hatch plans to recycle drugs being wasted in nursing homes
Waffle House customer finds staff sleeping, cooks for himself
That Time When a City and a Bishop Went to War Over Beer
The Rata tried diplomacy first. The council sent representatives to the island to explain their disappointment, but also, Van Reed writes, threatened confiscations and sanctions if things did not change.Wrocław's Rata responded by calling up an army. However, that army was made up of citizens who already preferred the monastic beer, and continued to drink during the war. Read about the Wrocław Beer War at Atlas Obscura.
The Bishop responded to the provocation with a bunker-buster: He placed the entire city under interdict, which meant that no religious service could be conducted within it. Basically, he cut Wrocław off from God so he could keep selling beer.
First uterus-transplant baby born in US
The birth took place as a result of a clinical trial at Baylor University Medical Center in Texas, in which 10 women, aged 20 to 35, received wombs donated by women between the ages of 35 and 60. The first birth via transplanted uterus took place in 2014 in Sweden, where several more children have resulted from the procedure.
DNR Tattoo Put to the Test
While the DNR tattoo may seem extreme, the request to not be resuscitated during end-of-life care is most certainly not. Roughly 80 percent of US Medicare patients say “they wish to avoid hospitalization and intensive care during the terminal phase of illness.” Revealingly, a 2014 survey showed that the vast majority of physicians would prefer to skip high-intensity interventions for themselves. Of the 1,081 doctors polled, over 88 percent opted for do-not-resuscitate status. Indeed, measures to keep a patient alive are often invasive, painful, and costly. DNRs, which hospital staff refer to as “no-codes,” are an explicit request to forego high-intensity interventions like CPR, electric shock, and intubation tubes. More implicitly, it’s a request to not be hooked up to a machine.There's always someone in the bunch who will ruin it for everyone. The patient in Florida died later, as extraordinary lifesaving measures were discontinued per the decision of the ethics team. But should the staff have honored the request when they first found it? Read more on the incident at Gizmodo.
Typically, DNRs are formal, notarized documents that a patient gives to their doctor and family members. Tattoos, needless to say, are a highly unorthodox—but arguably direct—means of conveying one’s end-of-life wishes. That said, this patient’s tattoo presented some undeniable complications for the hospital staff. Is a tattoo a legal document? Was it a regretful thing the patient did while he was drunk or high? Did he get the tattoo, but later change his opinion? On this last point, a prior case does exist in which a patient’s DNR tattoo did not reflect their wishes (as the authors wrote in this 2012 report: “...he did not think anyone would take his tattoo seriously...”).
Tax bill's attack on higher education undermines America's economic vitality
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