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Post by mhbruin on Oct 23, 2022 8:49:50 GMT -8
A psychiatrist was conducting a group therapy session with three young mothers and their small children.
"You all have obsessions," he observed.
To the first mother, he said, "You are obsessed with eating. You've even named your daughter Candy."
He turned to the second mom. "Your obsession is money. Again, it manifests itself in your child's name, Penny."
At this point, the third mother got up, took her little boy by the hand and whispered, "Come on, Dick, let's go."
Life May Have Been Terrible, But The Russians Got Rid of the Nazis, Nargles, and Crumple-Horned Snorkacks
There are moments when this war feels utterly mindless. Witnessing the visible trauma in the village of Kreshchenivka is one of those instances.
"Those Russians said they were liberators, they just started robbing us!" says a tearful Fedir. He says they took his car, furniture and mattresses. Nearly every house on his street has been damaged. Fedir says he "nearly died from hunger" during Russian occupation
The 69-year-old lives in a part of the southern Kherson region which has been liberated by Ukrainian troops earlier in October. "My head aches from all the shelling, we almost starved to death in the first few months," he said.
There is still no power, water, and the locals rely on volunteers for food. Our journey to him took us along poorly surfaced roads, which only deteriorated as we continued south towards the front line.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 23, 2022 8:53:17 GMT -8
Do They Take Points Off If You Look Like an Idiot?Images of students wearing so-called "anti-cheating hats" during college exams have gone viral on social media in the Philippines, sparking amusement. Students at one college in Legazpi City were asked to wear headgear that would prevent them peeking at others' papers. Many responded by creating homemade contraptions out of cardboard, egg boxes and other recycled materials. Their tutor told the BBC she had been looking for a "fun way" to ensure "integrity and honesty" in her classes. Mary Joy Mandane-Ortiz, a professor of mechanical engineering at Bicol University College of Engineering, said the idea had been "really effective". It was implemented for recent mid-term exams, which were sat by hundreds of students at the college in the third week of October. 
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 23, 2022 8:57:13 GMT -8
Did He Hope Cars Would Grow in His Yard?
Three decades after a car was reported stolen in Northern California, police are digging the missing convertible out of the yard of a $15 million mansion built by a man with a history of arrests for murder, attempted murder and insurance fraud.
The convertible Mercedes Benz, filled with bags of unused concrete, was discovered Thursday by landscapers in the affluent town of Atherton in Silicon Valley, Atherton Mayor Rick DeGolia said, reading a statement from police.
Although cadaver dogs alerted to possible human remains on Thursday, none had been found more than 24 hours after technicians with the San Mateo County Crime Lab began excavating the car, DeGolia said.
Police believe the car was buried 4 to 5 feet (1.2 to 1.5 meters) deep in the backyard of the home sometime in the 1990s — before the current owners bought the home. The car was reported stolen in September 1992 in nearby Palo Alto, he said.
By Friday, the technicians had been able to excavate the passenger side of the convertible, which was buried with its top down. They also opened the trunk where they found more bags of unused cement. Cadaver dogs were again brought back to the house and again “made a slight notification of possible human remains,” DeGolia said.
Atherton Police Cmdr. Daniel Larsen said the dogs could be reacting to human remains, old bones, blood, vomit, or a combination of those things.
He said the possible owner of the car is believed to be deceased but officials are waiting for DMV records to confirm that.
Larsen said the current homeowners were not under investigation.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 23, 2022 9:02:30 GMT -8
The Hangnail on the Finger Lakes
An upstate New York power plant used solely for crypto mining faces ongoing pushback from the Finger Lakes community, yet remains in operation despite the state Department of Environmental Conservation denying the renewal of its Title V air quality permit. The Greenidge Generating Station on Seneca Lake opened its doors more than 80 years ago as a coal-fired power plant. It closed in 2011 owing to lack of demand and a lifetime of polluting the surrounding upstate region before reopening in 2016 as a natural gas facility meant to serve the community during peak demand. Since 2020, reports the Columbia Climate School, all the Greenidge Generation Station does is power on-site proof-of-work cryptocurrency mining.
Greenidge Generation, the company at the helm of the upstate plant as well as a data center in South Carolina, swears it’s “a leader in environmental stewardship” and offsets the emissions it produces through credits, which one expert told Wired in 2020 “is better than doing nothing.” (It's not better than doing nothing. Offsets and credits are a hoax.) But it doesn’t negate the very real effects of skyrocketing greenhouse gas emissions from this facility. Residents have long been fighting its very existence as a blight on Seneca Lake that benefits a select few, and still have an opportunity to voice their opposition.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 23, 2022 9:04:26 GMT -8
No Wonder the QOP Hates Helping College Graduates with their Loans
In 2016, Donald Trump won 29% of all Hispanic voters – 2 points higher than Mitt Romney had done in 2012, according to exit polling by Edison Research. Then in 2020, Mr. Trump improved on his own performance, winning 32% of Hispanic voters.
Republicans have hit high-water marks with the Latino electorate before: In 1984 Ronald Reagan won 37%, and in 2000 and 2004, George W. Bush won 35% and 40% respectively. “Trump’s performance isn’t out of line with what we’ve seen historically,” says Mark Hugo Lopez at Pew Research. The big question is whether the Republican Party can keep, or continue to grow, Mr. Trump’s margins over the next few election cycles.
Many of these new Latino Republicans say their conversion is for good. Yes, it was former President Trump who brought them into the GOP – in part because he made them start paying attention to politics. Whenever they turned on the TV, it seemed, he was there, and they often found themselves agreeing with him. But they also came to see Mr. Trump’s party as reflecting their own values on economic and cultural matters. Notably, the shift has largely tracked with the nation’s growing education polarization: The Republican Party is making its biggest inroads among non-college-educated Hispanics, who make up more than 80% of the Hispanic population, just as it has with white voters without college degrees.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 23, 2022 9:06:16 GMT -8
Who Won the Week?
President Biden: hearing aids now available w/o prescription; announces online application for student loan debt relief; jobs plentiful; inflation forecasts trending down
Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) and her whiteboard, for proving that a lot of U.S. inflation is being used as cover by out-of-control corporations fleecing consumers to increase their profit margins
Socialism, as the federal government provides $1.3 billion debt relief for 36,000 farmers who fell behind on loan payments
All the Democratic candidates and their staff and supporters workin' their hearts out to keep the MAGA barbarians on the other side of the gate, and all the early voters doing the same
The head of lettuce, for outlasting British prime minister Liz Truss, who resigned in disgrace after 44 days
Ukraine, for efficiently cleaning up after Putin's kamikaze terror attacks on civilians, while crushing the drunk & disorderly Russian military and its supply chain in the Kherson region
The nerds at NASA, for releasing yet another mind-blowing photo from the Webb Space Telescope---this time the Pillars of Creation
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), for releasing a startling ad called "Lock Her Up" that shows how abortion bans in red states are terrorizing American families
The employees at the Starbucks in Portland, Maine's Old Port district, for becoming the second in the country to vote in favor of unionization
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 23, 2022 9:08:30 GMT -8
Who Lost the Week
Arizona GOP candidate Randy Kaufman, suspending his campaign for a community college governing board after his arrest for public indecency in his truck on campus and in full view of … a nearby child care center
Kanye West, as the iconic fashion brand Balenciaga is the latest to cut business ties over his rants and served with a lawsuit by the family of George Floyd for claiming that he died of fentanyl
Liz Truss, forced out as UK prime minister after only forty-four days
Steve Bannon, sentenced to four months in prison for contempt of Congress
Alabama pastor Kenneth Daniel, arrested on charges of sexually abusing a 7-year-old girl at his house, at a pool party, and at his church
John Durham, as a jury in Alexandria, Virginia found Igor Danchenko not guilty of making false statements to the FBI, the second straight prosecution Durham has lost
Goldman Sachs, forced to end its disastrous attempt at a retail bank (which it launched in 2016) and instead launch an expensive restructuring plan
Suzanne Scott, who succeeded Roger Ailes at Fox, expected to be deposed in the $1.6b defamation lawsuit (filed by Dominion Voting Systems) after a judge allowed access to her e-mails (at odds with what on-air hosts said)
Lara Logan, formerly forced-out at Fox for conspiracy theories, now dumped at Newsmax after on-air remarks that the world's elites "want us eating insects and cockroaches" while they "dine on the blood of children"
Arne Schönbohm, the head of Germany’s cyber-security authority, sacked for having close ties with Russian intelligence officers (beginning with a private cyber-security firm that he established a decade ago)
Former gynecologist Dr. James Heaps, convicted on five counts of sexually abusing his patients (among numerous claims) for which UCLA has spent $700 million in lawsuit settlements for its alleged role in concealing the abuse
Suella Braverman, forced-out as the UK’s Home Secretary (after just 43 days) for sending official Conservative government proposals out via her personal e-mail account
Former Louisville police officer Bryan Wilson, sentenced for committing cyberstalking by using police technology to get explicit photos of women and use them for blackmail
Social media outfit Parler (owned by Candace Owens’ husband George Farmer), so eager to announce that Kanye West was becoming an investor they forgot to BCC all of the emails: with subscribers’ personal email addresses exposed
Trump lawyer Ken Chesebro, one of the architects of the fake electors scheme, reported to the NY State Judicial Ethics Committee, who have the power to censure/suspend/revoke law licenses of unethical lawyers
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 23, 2022 9:13:48 GMT -8
Today's Dose of Crazy
Some wild shit went down at the ReAwaken America Tour this weekend in East Hempfield Township, Pennsylvania, and in attendance were the actual son of the actual former president of the United States, the actual GOP nominee for Pennsylvania governor, and the actual ex-national security adviser of the most powerful nation in the history of the planet.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 23, 2022 9:16:17 GMT -8
I Doubt He Can Find a Lawyer Dumb Enough to Do This
Donald Trump announced at his Texas rally Saturday that he is going to “sue” within two weeks to snatch away Pulitzer Prizes from The Washington Post and The New York Times for coverage of the Kremlin’s interference in America’s 2016 presidential election.
“Within the next two weeks, we’re suing the Pulitzer organization to have those prizes taken back,” Trump crowed at a rally in Robstown, where he stumped for MAGA candidates.
He said Pulitzer Prizes should be going to Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Jeanine Pirro.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 23, 2022 9:17:26 GMT -8
He Also Invented the Internet and Wrote All of Shakespeare's Plays
Kanye West is asserting that he birthed the idea for filmmaker Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 movie “Django Unchained.”
During an interview Friday with broadcaster Piers Morgan, the rapper, who is legally known as Ye, said that he had originally shared the premise for the slavery-themed blockbuster as the concept for a music video.
“The idea for ‘Django’ I pitched to [actor] Jamie Foxx and Quentin Tarantino as the video for ‘Gold Digger,’” the rapper said, referring to his hit 2005 song. “And then Tarantino turned it into a film.”
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 23, 2022 9:18:42 GMT -8
And Iran, Iran So Far Away
Iran's atomic energy agency alleged on Sunday that hackers acting on behalf of an unidentified foreign country broke into a subsidiary's network and had free access to its email system.
An anonymous hacking group claimed responsibility for the attack on Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, demanding Tehran release political prisoners arrested in the recent nationwide protests. The group said it leaked 50 gigabytes of internal emails, contracts and construction plans related to Iran’s Russian-backed nuclear power plant in Bushehr and shared the files on its Telegram channel. It was unclear whether the breached system contained classified material.
The hack comes as Iran continues to face nationwide unrest first sparked by the Sept. 16 death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman in police custody for allegedly not adhering to the country's strict Islamic dress code. On Sunday, Iran's leading teachers’ association reported that sit-ins canceled classes at multiple schools across the country in protest over the government’s crackdown on student protesters.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 23, 2022 9:20:31 GMT -8
The Mosquitos Shall Inherit the Earth
First, the storm. Then, a plague of insects.
Hordes of mosquitoes have proliferated in floodwater and debris left in Hurricane Ian’s wake, and now swarm Florida communities.
State and local officials are waging a multimillion-dollar war against the bloodsucking insects — which are known to spread diseases like West Nile virus and St. Louis encephalitis — as they try to keep residents safe and prevent the voracious insects from slowing down the recovery crews working to fix power lines and rebuild infrastructure.
"The mosquitoes are out there, and they’re biting," said Eric Jackson, the deputy director of the Lee County Mosquito Control Division. "It is just a constant effort to knock down as many of those flying, adult mosquitoes as fast as we can."
After the initial devastation from a hurricane or flood, other threats follow, including bacterial infections, respiratory diseases and illnesses spread by pests that proliferate in standing water. Mosquitoes are an expected, annoying and sometimes dangerous secondary consequence of a storm, one that can hinder rebuilding and raise the risk of an outbreak if left uncontrolled.
"Imagine a couple thousand coming at you. That’s the big concern after hurricanes and large flooding events," said Daniel Markowski, a technical adviser for the American Mosquito Control Association. "The sheer number of mosquitoes can make any daily life activity horrendous."
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 23, 2022 9:24:07 GMT -8
Here Comes the QOP. Here's What They Are Going to Do to Combat Inflation and Reduce Crime
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Post by hasben on Oct 23, 2022 13:32:36 GMT -8
federal government provides $1.3 billion debt relief for 36,000 farmers who fell behind on loan payments
Anyone ask why we should bail out farmers in debt and not college victims of predatory lenders?
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 24, 2022 9:39:24 GMT -8
federal government provides $1.3 billion debt relief for 36,000 farmers who fell behind on loan payments Anyone ask why we should bail out farmers in debt and not college victims of predatory lenders? What are the odds those are big corporate farms? |
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