The Trump Administration’s Own Data Says Obamacare Isn’t Imploding Xi: Challenges to Beijing in HK “Absolutely Impermissible” Norway’s ‘troll penis’ rock re-erected Vietnam seizes 3 tons of ivory smuggled from South Africa Austria’s burqa ban kicks in th[...]
Archive for July, 2017
July 12th, 2017 - 12:14 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: 7/12
July 11th, 2017 - 10:26 pm § in Donald Trump
Oops. Trump Just Invented Socialized Medicine
Trumpcare Is Like Obamacare, but Even Worse The GOP health plan tacitly accepts Obamacare’s central premise: that governments should micromanage insurance markets.[...]
July 11th, 2017 - 4:44 pm § in Politics
Senate “health care” bill favors the rich, screws the poor
Analysis by two Washington think tanks reveals the Senate “health care” bill (put in quotes because it’s really a disguised tax cut from the rich) is indeed skewed to the rich; it would benefit only households with income exceeding $75,000 a year, with most of the benefit going to [...]
July 11th, 2017 - 2:46 pm § in Science
The Earth in 1893
And some people’s knowledge of science hasn’t changed much since then. The blurb reads: “MAP OF THE SQUARE AND STATIONARY EARTH. BY PROF. ORLANDO FERGUSON, HOT SPRINGS, SOUTH DAKOTA. Four Hundred Passages in the Bible that Condemns the Globe Theory, or the Flying Earth, and None Su[...]
July 11th, 2017 - 1:30 am § in Misc.
A Nigerian Talks Of Being Black In America
Hi! I’m Vincent, a Nigerian citizen fortunate enough to be a member of the MIT Class of 2017. » ** I moved to the United States of America three years ago. Packed all my belongings into four luggage bags, rolled into a car with my five siblings and my mom and my dad. Suddenly, I […][...]
July 11th, 2017 - 12:25 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: 7/11
US lawmakers are trying to stop the sale of the Chicago Stock Exchange to Chinese buyers JARED KUSHNER TRIED AND FAILED TO GET A HALF-BILLION DOLLAR BAILOUT FROM QATAR Donald Trump Jr. Defends His Meeting With A Kremlin-Connected Lawyer ‘NEVER HAPPENED, WOULD NEVER HAPPEN’ … After Trum[...]
July 11th, 2017 - 12:17 am § in Donald Trump, Environment
Where Climate Denial Leads
When Will the Planet Be Too Hot for Humans? Much, Much Sooner Than You Imagine. Plague, famine, heat no human can survive. This is not science fiction but what scientists, when they’re not being cautious, fear could be our future. NYMAG.COM Long but worth a read. The author tries to show a range[...]
July 10th, 2017 - 12:35 pm § in Misc.
Bernie Scandal?
Bernie Sanders’s wife pushed for a loan that crippled a Vermont college. A federal probe is gathering steam.[...]
July 10th, 2017 - 11:33 am § in Misc.
Try Using Climate Denial as a Shark Deterrant
Boaters and Swimmers Wary of Lake Washington Bull Shark Lake Forest Park, WA – Wednesday, a 10 Ft. Bull Shark was seen in Lake Washington near the Lake Forest Park Civic Club. Cutty Briar, Washington… BREAKINGNEWS365.NET[...]