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Microsoft’s self-installing Windows 10 operating system has reached the 400 million mark, the firm announced at its Ignite conference in Atlanta this week, up from the previous high of 350 million in August. This adoption rate means the firm’s self-imposed target of a billion devices by mid-2018 looks increasingly unlikely, but the Redmond giant can take some consolation in the fact that business enthusiasm seems to be growing. The latest version of Windows hit its one-year anniversary on July 29, a date that also marked the ending of the free upgrade offer period for users of Windows 7 and Windows...

The host of the first presidential debate on Monday night, Hofstra University in New York, may have broken the law and could be in line for a huge fine. Reporters at the event were appalled to find that among the heavily marked-up items they were offered – $150 to rent a lamp, anyone? – was a $200 charge for a "secure wireless internet connection." Worse than the clear effort to price-gouge people trying to file stories, however, was the fact that the university decided that only its wireless access points were allowed to be used, and even sent someone around...

We might be stating the obvious here: You should always approach an animal with caution after it has been shot, especially a ticked-off black bear. In all fairness, who would think a bear could survive a fall out of a tree that high after being shot three times? But regardless, this young man learned the hard way . . . never jump the gun too fast after shooting a bear. Bears will often let out what is known as a death moan as the animal is taking its last breaths, so it’s a good idea to wait for that signal...

Call it “mansplaining,” “bropropriating,” or “Kanye at the VMAs,” women are familiar with being interrupted by men when they speak. So when Donald Trump repeatedly interrupted Hillary Clinton at Monday night’s debate — 51 times, according to Vox — it hit home for much of the audience. Women have been interrupted by men in professional settings for decades. Whether it’s Kanye West cutting off Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards or an executive halted midsentence by her peer in a corporate meeting, studies have found that men are more likely to block women from talking entirely, to correct...

Excellent one minute YouTube video compiliation captures Hillary's WEIRD INVOLUNTARILY WIGGLING FINGER during the debate..! No whacko pixel pusher BS, here. Another spooky, subtle piece of the neurogenerative puzzle falls into place...?!

Yeah, it would be terrible to have a wall. What right have we to be a sovereign nation. How can illegal immigration possibly be an issue. Well, if you wanna get all nit-picky, OK it cost hundreds of billions of dollars, crime, murder, child molestation, overwhelming the the healthcare system & flooding the prisons etc. The audacity to pause muslim immigration ... look how well the euro-peons are benefitting from the influx. And since when have muslims been a problem ... well, except for the last 1400 years. Cutting corporate taxes just because weÂ’re the highest in the western world!...

American tennis player Serena Williams took to Facebook on Tuesday to say she "won't be silent" about race relations and tension with police. Williams, 35, said she had the moment of reflection while riding with her 18-year-old nephew. She wrote that she saw a cop on the side of the road and checked to make sure her nephew was driving at the speed limit, prompting her to think about the case of Philando Castile, who was shot after being pulled over in Minnesota.

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Starts LIVE at 7 PM ET. Last time I posted a link to his live show, it had 20 minutes of the worst, F-bomb riddled rap opening that I ever saw. Hopefully, this one, like all of the others except for that one, will be "opening act-free."

A (mostly) daily posting for those interested in history and the day to day news, politics and culture of a bygone world; the full edition of the New York Tribune from today's date in 1896 (digitized).

Te retirement tour of Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz is nearing its emotional conclusion, and the universal praise for the accomplishments of perhaps the most beloved ballplayer ever to call Fenway Park home has been lavished on Big Papi from opposing teams, fans, and a press corps that has long elevated the slugger to folk hero status. You can't argue with Ortiz's legacy in Boston. He was a monster producer in all three of their World Series championships since breaking an 86-year "curse" in 2004, including a number of iconic game-winning hits, and a seemingly inexhaustible supply of...

Some are speculating this could be it, Hillary had a working microphone in front, why be wired?

Faster, brighter, water resistant and far more versatile I am not the world's best surfer, or passionate kayaker, but I quite enjoy a gentle swim from time to time. Credit: Apple I’ve been using my Apple Watch Series 2 for over a week. I thought I should share a few observations about my experience and try to explain why I think now is a good time for people who may have been curious about the product to take a look. A little history Introduced in a blaze of glory after years of speculation, Apple Watch quickly became King of the...

You might think you have sexy down to a science. But do you know what real men actually want.

As we have reported before, the topic of married priests seems to be on the agenda of Pope Francis. Not only did Sandro Magister report on this matter right after the second Synod on the Family last year, but also Bishop Erwin Kräutler of Brazil declared, after his private audience with Pope Francis in 2014, that the pope had encouraged him to further explore this matter and to be “courageous” in doing so. This month of September has seen again two more articles announcing that Pope Francis intends to foster the idea and practice of married priests: one having been...

The Exorcist: The Television Series Did anyone catch the premier of The Exorcist TV series this past Friday on Fox? I did and I was pleasantly surprised, despite the presence of Geena Davis in the cast. Here are some helpful links about the show: Official site, where you can also watch the episodes online. Wikipedia article IMDb page Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic

As scientists continue finding evidence for life in the ocean more than 3 billion years ago, those ancient fossils pose a paradox. Organisms, including the single-celled bacteria living in the ocean at that early date, need a steady supply of phosphorus, but "it's very hard to account for this phosphorus unless it is eroding from the continents," says Aaron Satkoski, a scientist in the geoscience department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "So that makes it really hard to explain the fossils we see at this early era." Satkoski, who is first author of a new report on ocean chemistry from...

Bennison's Bakery conducted an unscientific "Cookie Poll" with reference to the upcoming Presidential Election. 920 specialty cookies were sold with the likeness of Hillary Clinton 708 decorated cookies were sold with the likeness of Donald Trump. Bennison's Bakery is located in downtown Evanston, Illinois, which is commonly called "The People's Republic of Evanston." The US Representative (Comrade Jan Schakowsky) for the 9th Congressional District is a crypto-Marxist who poses as an Obama Democrat. Hillary has reason to worry if the cookie poll is any reflection of reality in La la land. She ought to be outpolling 8-1 in Evanston.

Animal abuse is a growing problem and one city councilman is doing what he can to fight it. Cincinnati City Councilman Chris Smitherman has proposed legislation making it illegal to keep dogs chained when it’s above 90 degrees outside, or below 20 degrees if they do not have proper shelter. The proposal also includes not chaining dogs from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. to help cut down on barking. Dog owners who violate the new law will face a hefty fine. “We are going to educate people that tethering your dog and keeping their dog out as we go into...

Why? Are Wisconsin, New Hampshire and Michigan in play?

Full Title: After two jihad attacks in NYC in September, de Blasio names September 25 “Muslim Parade Day” A Muslim slashed a New York cop with a meat cleaver on September 15. Another Muslim planted bombs in New York and New Jersey; one went off, wounding 29 people in Chelsea on September 17. In response, the city of New York is honoring all the contributions Muslims make to the city. Mayor Bill de Blasio seems to think that his primary responsibility after every jihad attack is to make sure that no one thinks ill of Islam. Stopping jihad attacks? That’s...

Today, “criminal content” means having an opinion that is other than what the mainstream “orthodoxy” says “truth” is even when the opposite is plainly apparent. Here at Shoebat.com, we express a lot of opinions, and as we note in our articles, we are very familiar with harassment from Facebook thought police. We have all been banned in one way or another from Facebook, and it is only a matter of time before our temporary bans become permanent. All of this is because we have opinions that are considered “controversial” in our current day. Many people agree with us, and many...

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Anti-war activist, author and podcast host Cindy Sheehan is probably best known for pitching a tent near then-President George W. Bush’s summer house in Texas in 2005 as she continued to request meetings with Bush about the death of her son during the Iraq War. Her son, U.S. Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, was killed by enemy action near Baghdad in April 2004. Cindy Sheehan, who lives in Vacaville, Calif., was honored Saturday night with the 2016 Eugene V. Debs Award during a ceremony inside the Sycamore Banquet Center on the Indiana State University campus. For those not familiar with Debs,...

Hillary Clinton is HIV positive, according to a shock claim by a Washington D.C. call-girl who says she was diagnosed with the virus after a pay for play fling with former President Bill Clinton in April of last year. “Bill Clinton visited me one night when he was in town, and he left me with more than a cash payment,” said Mandy Cloud, the pseudonym the former D.C. call-girl chose for her book set to be published next month. Cloud says she worked as a high-end call-girl in the world’s most powerful city for 14 years, and claims she went...

After finding out his teenage sister had been killed in a car accident over the weekend, Mark Ross said he wanted to be with his mother as soon as he could. Without a vehicle, Ross said that he convinced someone he knew to drive, and jumped in the man's car just after 3 a.m. Sunday in Indiana. Ross wrote in a Facebook post that they were speeding through Ohio, bound for Detroit, when the lights flashed behind them. "I knew I was going to jail due to a petty warrant," Ross wrote. Ross was in the passenger seat of the...

OKLAHOMA CITY — A New Jersey woman who was arrested during a 2014 protest of a satanic “Black Mass” has sued Oklahoma City and police a month after her municipal convictions were thrown out. Joan Bell, a longtime activist who said she has been arrested hundreds of times, claims that her civil rights were violated when she was wrongfully arrested. Bell, 68, was arrested during the protest after she refused to cease kneeling while saying the rosary on a landing at the top of the north steps of the Civic Center Music Hall. She said she attended the Sept. 21,...

A big day for an Arizona veteran who is 101 years old. He was taken on a special ride in Prescott Valley. It was called “One Last Ride” and for Ray Weser it was a ride of a lifetime. “I’ll be 102 in December,” Weser said. Weser says he fell in love with Harley-Davidson motorcycles as a young teen when he was working on a Harley. “Harley dripping oil, smoke coming out of everywhere and I fell in love with motorcycles right there!” Weser said.

Full title : Demand for exorcisms rises while Christian faith in the US declines - Exorcists cite spiritual void, failure of mental healthcare system and rise in pagan and demonic activities as causes After the recent news of Father Gabriele Amorth’s death and the recent unveiling of Fox’s new “Exorcist” miniseries, the Catholic rite of exorcism is once again in the news. Often looked at as a prayer service seen only in the movies, the rite of exorcism is something more and more people in the US are looking to priests to perform, believing that evil has infiltrated their lives...

1. What time did Killary get out of bed today? Assumes she has gotten up by now. 2. Where did she sleep last night? Maybe at home? Maybe in Chelsea's emergency room?

If you watched the debate last night, you noticed that Hillary Clinton seemed to be looking down quite a bit, and a closer look at the video may reveal why. One thing that didn’t go unnoticed was that Hillary seemed to know the questions to the answers before they were even asked. It was almost as if they were leaked to her campaign so she could prepare or she had someone feeding her information in real-time. She was busted with an ear piece at the first presidential forum, so it would have been hard for her to pull that off...

Ankara’s tanks have been in the news a lot this year, whether prowling the streets of the Turkish capital in a failed coup attempt, or taking missile fire from rebel fighters on the Syrian border. Recently, Turkish armor crossed over into Syria and drove the Islamic State terrorist group from its last holdings along the Turkish border — and also fought with U.S.-backed Kurdish rebels, creating a frustrating diplomatic quandary for the White House.

Attention NBA! Attention Olympics! Attention everyone on the internet! This woman is destined for athletic greatness after having “swished” a sandwich into a car sunroof from her balcony! After her husband forgot his lunch at their high-rise apartment, this wife saved herself a trek down to the lobby, and instead tossed a sandwich from the balcony down to her husband’s open sunroof. With a quick “heeya!” she launched the sandwich into the open air and by way of magic, luck or extreme skill, the sandwich landed in the passenger seat next to her husband, who drove away seemingly as if...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City will open an exhibition this weekend, “Jerusalem: 1000-1400: Every People Under Heaven.” For the most part, it promises to be an excellent presentation featuring 200 pieces from many international collections. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, of course, have historical roots in Jerusalem. There is one part of the exhibition, “Holy War and the Power of Art,” that appears problematic. Holland Cotter of the New York Times offers a familiar interpretation of the medieval world that touches on this theme: he states that in the 11th century, it was not a good time...

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Oh my gosh!! Beck goes completely nuts in this video. It's a must watch. http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_57e9ce67e4b024a52d2a1071

A University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student had a serious complaint for his campus’ official “Hate Response Team”: he was “very upset” by a Harry Potter mural in a college dorm. The mural, in the Laux Residence Hall, depicts Neville Longbottom, a character from the Harry Potter films. The nerdy Neville was played by actor Matthew Lewis, who blossomed into a notable hunk post-puberty. The mural shows him as both a geeky boy and an attractive young man — transformed, according to the mural’s caption, by a stay at the Laux Residence Hall itself. The depiction of this metamorphosis “represents our...

The one line or question you would have like to have heard from Trump. My line: "Hillary is an arsonist telling the American people they should be afraid of the firefighter...." Your're turn!

Remember the 80s... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH9O2fOcuEw

Get it? 'Cause their website is BeCandid. Ha.

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The ad cuts to footage of Clinton in Nevada earlier this year, barking to mimic an ad she'd been describing to supporters.

Dear Mr. Trump: I would wager that you are not one who suffers lengthy preambles gladly, so I will get straight to the point: You could have crushed Hillary's "tax returns" ambush with one sentence. Here it is: "The Middle East is in chaos, our allies are endangered, our enemies are emboldened, our reputation among our international neighbors is sullied, and our nation's citizens are robbed of work and imperiled on their own soil by immigrant criminals and islamic terrorists thanks to the foreign policies that YOU executed during your tenure as Secretary of State in the first four years...

EFFERSON DAVIS COUNTY, MS (WDAM) - Prentiss High School was put on lockdown Monday afternoon after a clown called making threats to students. According to Sheriff Ron Strickland with The Jefferson Davis Sheriff's Department, a person called from a private number identifying as a clown. Strickland said the clown threatened to do inappropriate things to the kids at the school. Strickland said the school has been searched and secured and that the lockdown will be lifted soon. Strickland said the sheriff's department is working now to trace the phone number to the caller.

A string of frightening encounters involving children and clowns has officials warning people to be on the lookout for these characters this Halloween season. The Tennessee Highway Patrol says this October, if you see something, say something.

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Asked of Hillary by fawning reporter aboard her campaign plane. She replied, 'Well, I'll be there for the second and the third debate. Donald Trump can run his campaign any way he likes.' Where did this nonsense come from?

So what’s a Black Moon? It’s the second new moon in a single month. It’s an unusual lunar event that won’t happen again in the western hemisphere until July 2019. This Black Moon will rise Friday at 8:11 p.m. but you won’t see much. That’s because new moons are the beginning cycle of the moon phase, when it is not visible because of the position of the Sun, Earth and Moon. ... Black Moons only occur about once every 32 months. The opposite of a Black Moon is a Blue Moon which is the second full moon in a single...

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We don’t want to be dramatic, but NASA just ruined our lives. For the first time in 3,000 years, they’ve decided to update the astrological signs. This means that the majority of us are about to experience a total identity crisis. Apparently, these changes are due to the fact that the constellations are not in the same position in the sky that they once were, and the star signs are about a month off now, as a result. To further confuse things, there is now a new, 13th sign, called Ophiuchus, which those born between November 29 and December 17...