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Archive for June, 2017
June 21st, 2017 - 11:48 am § in Misc.
New Technology
The Isolator, A Bizarre Helmet Invented in 1925 Used to Help Increase Focus and Concentration The Isolator is a bizarre helmet invented in 1925 that was used to help increase focus and concentration by rendering the wearer deaf, piping them full of oxygen,… LAUGHINGSQUID.COM|BY E.D.W. LYNCH[...]
June 21st, 2017 - 9:23 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: 6/22
TRUMP TWEETS: Doesn’t Have Tapes of His Conversations With Comey Supreme Court limits ability to strip citizenship ‘Something is coming’: Fox News’ Napolitano hints that big Trump-Russia news is on the way Islamic State blows up Mosul mosque where it declared ‘caliphate’ Tr[...]
June 21st, 2017 - 9:14 am § in Donald Trump
AFTER TRUMP: Ford Moves Jobs to China
Ford Motor Co. is moving production of its Focus model to China after production at its Michigan plant ends in 2019. Trump thanked Ford on Twitter for its decision to scrap the Mexican plant. The move, which Ford estimates will save it $500 million in production costs for the car, comes after Tru[...]
June 21st, 2017 - 1:44 am § in Donald Trump
SPICER: I Know Nuthing
As White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s prepares to move on to some other job, the subject of so much SNL humor seems to not have any contacts with his boss. When asked yesterday if Trump believed Russia interfered with the 2016 presidential election,: “I have not sat down and talked to him[...]
June 20th, 2017 - 9:42 pm § in Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia
BREAKING NEWS:new crown prince will be confirmed by a public pledging of loyalty to Mohammed bin Salman on Wednesday evening in Mecca.
Al Arabiya television reported that the promotion of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef has been relieved of his post and replaced by Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a royal decree said on Wednesday, in a promotion for King Salman’s 31-year-old son that confirms him as next rul[...]
June 20th, 2017 - 7:31 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: 6/21
US spy satellites detect activity at NK nuclear test site… Republicans Hold Georgia House Seat, Dashing Democrats’ Hopes Study looked at how different developed nations’ health care systems affect drug prices. Points To Single-Payer As The Answer To High Drug Costs No sooner end [...]
June 20th, 2017 - 10:42 am § in Donald Trump, Politics, Schools & Colleges, Science, The Ave Scene, UW
Major Threat To UW and Hutch By Trump
The Trump administration wants to make massive cuts in research while claiming to spend MORE money on science. The TRUMP Government, led by The Secretary of HHS and the Director of the OMB, have previously proposed draconian cuts to the NIH budget. Now we know the vehicle for the cuts .. an att[...]
June 20th, 2017 - 10:03 am § in Donald Trump
How to Follow the Georgia Race
THE HILL Turnout is booming in the district, and polling indicates that the winner could be decided by just a small fraction of votes. Here’s where each candidate needs to come out on top. Ossoff DeKalb County Ossoff should do well in DeKalb, a Democratic stronghold, but it also has the few[...]