Airlines Have Basically Given Up On Trying To Make Us Comfortable By Suzy Strutner and Ben Walsh Now one major carrier is taking legroom to new lows. [...]
Archive for May, 2017
May 4th, 2017 - 12:34 am § in Science, The Ave Scene
IS REDMOND THE HOME OF HANS ZARKOV?
Cape Canaveral, FL – SpaceX launched a top-secret spy satellite for the U.S. government Monday morning and then successfully landed the booster for recycling. The unmanned Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from its NASA-leased pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The company, owned by Elon Musk, s[...]
May 3rd, 2017 - 6:15 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
CNBC calls for Trump’s ouster
It’s time for Congress to say, “You’re fired!” to Trump, America’s leading financial network says. Apparently his call to do away with the First Amendment hit a journalistic nerve, although CNBC also cites a litany of other grievances against him. You’re already f[...]
May 3rd, 2017 - 5:31 pm § in Donald Trump
BREAKING NEWS: HO– USE TO VOTE ON HEALTH CARE REPEAL
House Republicans passed their revised bill to repeal major portions of Democratic President Barack Obama’s health care law with 1 vote to spare. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters “yes” Wednesday night when asked if the GOP leaders have enough votes to pass the re[...]
May 3rd, 2017 - 2:34 pm § in Misc.
The law student she didn’t marry
Sheila Miyoshi Jagar, a professor of East Asian Studies at Oberlin College, twice turned down marriage proposals from this man — the first time because her parents thought she was too young (she was 23), the second time when he was heading to Harvard Law School because she thought his politica[...]
May 3rd, 2017 - 9:00 am § in Misc.
CHINA: Quantum Computing
Chinese scientists make quantum leap in computing Chinese scientists have built world’s first quantum computing machine that goes beyond the early classical — or conventional — computers.[...]
May 3rd, 2017 - 7:12 am § in Uncategorized
Is Snowden Part of the KGB Attack?
Mike James There was no apparent reason to say no when those daily drip-drips of Clinton emails were offered to the American press, and no newsroom said no – nor did they when Edward Snowden started unpacking the national security secrets he’d stolen. Eager to print is the true takeaway.[...]
May 3rd, 2017 - 1:37 am § in Politics, The Ave Scene
PRAMILA JAYAPAL’S OH SO EXCELLENT 100 DAYS
By Pramila Jayapal to Seattle Met We are in a fight for the soul of our country right now. Donald Trump came into office scapegoating immigrants, bragging about sexual assault and making promises to “Make America Great Again.” He has surrounded himself with people who have no experience to l[...]
Chart: Military spending by country
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