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Post by mhbruin on Mar 13, 2024 8:47:27 GMT -8
A group of Alabama friends went deer hunting and paired off for the day. That night, one of the hunters returned alone, staggering under the weight of an eight-point buck. “Where’s Henry?” the others asked. “Henry had a stroke of some kind. He’s a couple of miles back up the trail,” the successful hunter replied. “You left Henry lying out there and carried the deer back?” they inquired. “Tough call,” nodded the hunter, “but I figured no one is going to steal Henry!”
Dueling Headlines
Judge in Georgia election interference case dismisses three counts against Trump
Georgia judge dismisses 6 counts against Trump but lets prosecutors refile charges
CNN analyst knocks Willis for ‘screwups’ after some Trump charges dropped
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 13, 2024 8:48:57 GMT -8
He's Dead. She Is Still Alive.
Kelly Rizzo is dating again — and won’t be shamed for being happy.
The widow of late comedian Bob Saget is pushing back after facing criticism online for dating someone new. Saget died in January 2022 from an accidental head injury, and in February, Rizzo revealed she was seeing “Clueless” actor Breckin Meyer. She recently took to TikTok with a message about her personal life.
“I’m gonna start by saying unless you are a widow or widower, you truly have absolutely no place and no right to comment on this because you do not know what it’s like,” she said in the nearly five-minute-long video published Monday.
“You just don’t understand the incredibly complex, and difficult, and dynamic thoughts and feelings that come up during this entire process,” Rizzo continued. “At some point, when it crosses your mind to even think about starting to date again, just having those thoughts, you feel guilty.”
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 13, 2024 8:51:15 GMT -8
The Spat Over the Cat Without a Hat Who Fell Into a Vat
Residents of a city in western Japan have been warned to stay away from a cat after it fell into a tank of poisonous chemicals.
The warning comes after a factory worker found yellow paw prints leading away from the container.
Security footage was then reviewed and the cat could be seen running away, leaving a trail of paw prints.
Officials in Fukuyama have asked the public to stay away from the animal and report any sightings to the police.
It is thought the curious feline had been in a vat of hexavalent chromium, a highly acidic and carcinogenic chemical which is orange and brown in colour.
A member of staff found the paw marks when they arrived for work yesterday at the Nomura Plating Fukuyama Factory, according to news website Asahi.
Fukuyama city's environmental team warned the public not to touch "a cat that seems abnormal" but also said the animal might have died as a result of the incident.
Imagine That!
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 13, 2024 8:52:17 GMT -8
How the US military plans to construct a pier and get food into GazaA US plan to deliver aid to Gaza from a floating pier at sea will be fraught with potential logistical and security challenges. More than 1,000 US troops are expected to participate in the operation although the Pentagon says there will be no "boots on the ground". To help achieve that, the US has partnered with a little-known private firm, Fogbow, which is run by former military and intelligence officials. The goal is to deliver aid equivalent to two million meals a day to Gaza, where the United Nations has warned that famine is "almost inevitable" without urgent action. Here's what we know about this huge logistical exercise.
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 13, 2024 8:54:49 GMT -8
He Knows the Best Words.
Here’s a supercut of the three supercuts presented to the American people by Democratic Reps. Jerry Nadler of New York, Mary Scanlon of Pennsylvania, and Eric Swalwell of California, respectively. Enjoy!
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 13, 2024 8:57:34 GMT -8
Hur Forgot to Mention How Good Biden's Memory is
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 13, 2024 9:00:58 GMT -8
In 1980, Reagan Won by Almost 10%
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 13, 2024 9:03:41 GMT -8
Lisa Kudrow had the best response to Katie Britt --- 10 years ago
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 13, 2024 9:06:19 GMT -8
The Clock is Ticking
The House approved a bill Wednesday that would force TikTok’s parent company to sell the juggernaut social media app or face a practical ban in the U.S.
President Joe Biden has said he would sign it if it makes it to his desk, but the legislation’s fate is uncertain in the Senate, where the bill has proved much more divisive. The bill cleared the House with strong bipartisan support, 352 to 65, with one member voting present.
The legislation’s proponents argue the app, immensely popular with teens and young people for its customized song and dance features on short clip videos, poses national security risks. TikTok's parent company ByteDance, is based in Beijing and may expose American user data to Chinese government surveillance.
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 13, 2024 9:09:47 GMT -8
nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people
Trader Joe’s mini canvas tote is the latest item to cause a stir on social media, so much so that resellers are taking advantage of the hype.
The mini totes are offered in four colors — blue, red, green, and yellow — and they are all in high demand. The bags, retailing for $2.99, are now advertised on platforms like eBay and Facebook Marketplace for many times their original price.
Offers from third-party sellers range significantly, but as of Wednesday, listings ranged from about $20 for a single bag to as high as $999 for a set of four.
Videos shared on social media show crowds of customers visiting Trader Joe’s stores hoping to get their hands on one of the highly-coveted mini totes. Beyond the checkout line, TikTokers have gained tens of thousands of views for sharing and customizing their bags with detail paint, buttons, and embroidery designs.
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 13, 2024 9:11:07 GMT -8
The Nose Knows
The nation’s top public health agency is expanding a program that tests international travelers for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention program asks arriving international passengers to volunteer to have their noses swabbed and answer questions about their travel. The program operates at six airports and on Tuesday, the CDC said it was adding two more — Chicago’s O’Hare and Miami.
Those locations should provide more information about respiratory infections coming out of South America, Africa, and Asia, particularly, CDC officials said.
“Miami and Chicago enable us to collect samples coming from areas of the world where global surveillance is not as strong as it used to be,” said the CDC’s Allison Taylor Walker. “What we really need is a good view of what’s happening in the world so we’re prepared for the next thing.”
The program began in 2021 and has been credited with detecting coronavirus variants faster than other systems. The genomic testing of traveler’s nasal swabs has mainly been focused on COVID-19, but testing also is being done for two other respiratory viruses — flu and RSV.
Participants are not notified of their results. But they are given a COVID-19 home test kit to take with them, CDC officials say.
Samples have come from more than 475,000 air travelers coming off flights from more than 135 countries, officials said.
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 13, 2024 9:13:10 GMT -8
Why?
Two men have been charged after allegedly bombing a woman's home and planning to release "a large python into the victim's home to eat the victim's daughter," according to prosecutors.
Stephen Glosser, 37, and Caleb Kinsey, 34 -- both from Richmond Hill, Georgia -- are alleged to have used electronic communications to place the unnamed woman under surveillance from December 2022 until January 2023 "with the intent to kill, injure, harass, or intimidate," before using an explosive device to blow up her home, according to a statement from the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Georgia.
"The conspiracy charge describes using cell phones to 'create a plan to kill, intimidate, harass, or injure the victim' through methods including shooting arrows into the victim's front door, acquiring and releasing 'a large python into the victim's home to eat the victim's daughter,' mailing dog feces or dead rats to the victim's home, scalping the victim, and blowing up the victim's home," prosecutors alleged when they announced the indictments against the men last Thursday.
The indictment further alleges that Glosser located the victim's home using internet searches, mapped out a path to the victim's residence, and then -- with Kinsey -- acquired and built an explosive device at Glosser's home using Tannerite that Kinsey purchased online, according to the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Georgia.
Officials say the two suspects then "used a destructive device to blow up the victim's home" on or about Jan. 13, 2023.
Glosser and Kinsey are now charged with stalking, use of an explosive to commit another felony offense, conspiracy to use an explosive to commit a felony and possession of an unregistered destructive device.
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 13, 2024 9:14:26 GMT -8
Again, Why?
For more than a decade, Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has been the driving force behind plans to build Titanic II – a replica of the ill-fated ship that sank in 1912 with more than 2,200 people on board.
Only about 700 survived, creating history as the world’s most disastrous voyage – and the light bulb of an idea for a billionaire with an interest in cruising and cash to burn.
Palmer first launched plans for Titanic II in 2012, and again in 2018.
Six years later, he’s done it again, relaunching the project on Wednesday during a press briefing at Sydney Opera House against the backdrop of the city’s famed harbor.
Once again, the question is why?
“It’s a lot more fun to do the Titanic than it is to sit at home and count my money,” Palmer reportedly told local media with the blunt honesty of man who earns almost half a billion dollars in mining royalties every year.
For Palmer the question is not how to earn money, but where to spend it.
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 13, 2024 9:15:53 GMT -8
Tax Dodging for Fun and ProfitCorporate tax dodging and excessive executive pay have grown so rampant that dozens of major American companies now pay more money to their top executives than they pay in federal income taxes, a new report has found. The progressive nonprofit Americans for Tax Fairness and the nonprofit wealth gap watchdog Institute for Policy Studies examined executive pay from 2018 to 2022 at the country’s most successful corporate tax dodgers. They found that at 64 major companies, compensation outstripped their corporate tax bills at least two years out of five. “Corporate boards have more money to spend on their highest-paid employees when they don’t have much or anything to pay in taxes,” read the report. “Executives are in part reaping rewards for the corporate tax avoidance strategies they pursue.” At 35 companies — including Netflix, Ford, Tesla, T-Mobile, DISH Network, and more than a dozen energy companies — the top five executives took home more money than those companies paid in taxes for all five years of the study. About half paid no federal corporate income taxes at all and received substantial tax refunds. MORE FOR THEM, LESS FOR US
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 13, 2024 9:17:54 GMT -8
The incredible Shrinking Majority
Colorado Rep. Ken Buck, just announced that he’s resigning next week. How least-favorite? Johnson says that Buck—who had already said back in November that he wouldn’t seek reelection—didn’t even inform him ahead of time, reports Politico’s Olivia Beavers.
At the moment, there are 219 Republicans in the House and 213 Democrats. This means that on any given vote, the GOP can afford a maximum of two defections. If three Republicans switch sides to join with Democrats on a particular roll call, then whatever is up for a vote dies, because a 216-216 tie is the same as a loss.
When Buck leaves, that margin will slip to 218-213. But on April 30, Democrats are the heavy favorites to regain one seat in the special election for upstate New York’s vacant 26th District, a solidly blue seat in the Buffalo area. That would take the House to 218-214, and then things get really interesting.
That’s because it would take just two Republicans to tank any vote as long as Democrats stick together, which they have with remarkable consistency. Once again, a 216-all tie sinks any GOP bill, resolution, impeachment—what have you.
In other words, Johnson’s magic number would shrink to exactly one vote. That is to say, if more than one Republican representative has some kind of grievance with the speaker, or the legislation being proposed, or just woke up grumpy that morning, then boom, dead, done. To the extent Johnson has any agenda he might hope to advance, it would take only two dissenters to derail it.
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