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Hope you enjoy. ”Tijuana Taxi”

The universe is a crazy place... It's full of exploding stars and immortal jellyfish and it's been kicking around for almost 14 billion years. Here are 14 awesome facts to put it all into perspective. If you unraveled all of the DNA in your body, it would span 34 billion miles, reaching to Pluto (2.66 billion miles away) and back ... 13 times.Source: Business InsiderIn fact, your body contains cosmic relics from the creation of the universe. Almost all of your hydrogen atoms were formed in the Big Bang, about 13.7 billion years ago.Source: PBSAnd when you tune your TV...

A Maryland school district is instructing teachers and administrators not to tell parents if their daughters are bunking with male transgender students on overnight field trips. Bob Mosier, chief communications officer for the Anne Arundel County public school system, says in a training video on how to accommodate transgender students that privacy issues prevent the district from informing parents about such arrangements. “So, many of you might be asking yourselves, ‘So I’m at an overnight field trip, and I have student who’s biologically a male, identifies as a female, and we’ve worked with that student and her family, and that...

...Film-making today, whether massively expensive or made with tiny budgets, shot on celluloid or video, is thriving artistically as much as it ever has. But today you’ll find greater diversity in the kinds of films being made, if not in the people who are making them. That’s why we, the editors of BBC Culture, decided to commission a poll of critics to determine the 100 greatest films of the 21st Century. Last year, we asked critics to name the greatest American films of all time, and we were surprised that only six films made since 2000 made the top 100....

A Harley Biker is riding by the zoo in Washington, DC when he sees a little girl leaning into the lion's cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the collar of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, under the eyes of her screaming parents. The biker jumps off his Harley, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch. Whimpering from the pain the lion jumps back letting go of the girl, and the biker brings the girl to her terrified parents, who thank him endlessly. A reporter...

Hope you enjoy. I Love How You Love Me.

The upcoming release of the new batch of previously undisclosed 15,000 Hillary emails by the State Dept. doesn't smell right. I have a feeling Team Hillary ordered the State Dept. to cough them up because they've lost sleep at night worrying that Assange over at Wikileaks has them and will release them FIRST if they don't act now. If Assange releases them first, especially given the fact they have been kept hidden from everyone including the FBI, the impact to her campaign would be greater than if she released them voluntarily. I believe this was a preemptive move by Team...

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). Sunday edition- 28 Pages

The small press-on designs also sport angel-like wings and are part of a new prevention campaign launched in the Bodensee district in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg. Veronika Wascher-Goggerle, the Women's and Family representative of the district, is behind the launch and said the press-on tattoos would also help raise awareness over the growing issue of sex attacks in swimming pools.

On this day in 1902, pioneering cookbook author Fannie Farmer, who changed the way Americans prepare food by advocating the use of standardized measurements in recipes, opens Miss Farmer’s School of Cookery in Boston. In addition to teaching women about cooking, Farmer later educated medical professionals about the importance of proper nutrition for the sick.

Comedian Dom Irrera shares a short primer with you (under 2 minutes) on how he learned to speak "Italian" along with certain mannerisms while growing up in South Philly as a child. Includes handy Italian-vowel "greetings" that were a must on the stoops and streets of Philly, Brooklyn, Newark, NJ, etc. Back in the day, these valuable techniques in mastering "Italian" could apply in nearly every city on the east coast. (bit is old, but funny from a Rodney Dangerfield Young Comedian's special on HBO years back)

A Friendswood area real estate agent is accused of trespassing inside a home she had just sold and having sex inside the vacant residence, according to reports. According to a Friendswood police report, both Kayla Marisa Seloff, 22, and Joshua Gene Leal, 27, were charged with criminal trespass just before 5 a.m. Saturday in the 200 block of E. Castle Harbour. Neighbors who live next to the home, which was just sold and closed on the day before, called police after seeing a man and a woman enter in the early morning hours. The neighbor saw a flashlight moving around...

Cinema in the early years of the 21st Century has experienced something of an existential crisis. Terms such as ‘TV-like’ or ‘television-esque’ were once intended as insults; now, in a period most commentators consider a new ‘golden age of television’ – a Don Draper here, a Walter White there – that is no longer the case. So, if television has evolved to a point where it is no longer considered an inferior art form, what does this mean for cinema? Perhaps it is no coincidence that David Lynch’s mind-bending mystery-drama Mullholland Drive has been named by BBC Culture’s critics’ poll...

Following flash PMI's drop, another early August indicator has collapsed as Richmond Fed's manufacturing survey plunges to -11 (lowest since Jan 2013) missing expectations of +6. The plunge from July's +10 to August's -11 is the largest on record - back to 1993. Weakness was across the board with new orders crashing from +15 to -20, order backlogs and capacity utilization collapsed, and average workweek slumping. â—¦Forecast range from 5 to 9 from 10 economists surveyed â—¦Shipments fell to -14 after 7 the prior month â—¦New order volume slowed to -20 after 15 the prior month â—¦Order backlogs fell to...

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Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2016 August 23 Gigantic Jet Lightning over China Image Credit & Copyright: Phebe Pan Explanation: That's no meteor. While watching and photographing this year's Perseid Meteor Shower, something unexpected happened: a gigantic jet erupted from a nearby cloud. The whole thing was over in a flash -- it lasted less than a second -- but was fortunately captured by an already-recording digital camera. Gigantic jets are a rare...

From a post below, a Texas teacher is not assigning homework http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3462049/posts She claims they are unable to prove homework improves performance. This is hard to believe. Repetition and further study doesn't improve performance? Somebody better tell major league athletes and professional musicians. Just because you can perform something right once does not mean that performance is ingrained or repeatable. I know professional musicians who are studying, practicing, refining 8-14 hours a day, same with athletes. Why would my friend earning his pro card drive bucket after bucket of balls down range if homework did not help? Why would actors...

Is it just me or do you see the outline of something inside Hillary's pants leg in the current photo featured on the Drudge Report? Take a look and you be the judge.

It is 150 days, 2 hours, 51 minutes, 34 seconds until the stuttering enemy-agent Muslim-excusing pusillanimous lawless defiling unctuous disgusting election-corrupting formulaic callous puerile sickening wicked sullen wretched venal grifting furious (and fast), conniving Marxism-loving America-surrendering abominable stomach-turning meddling corrupt impoverishing personal-history-concealing spsthetic absurd unaccomplished putrescent contemptible megalomaniacal disruptive perjurious taxing nauseating blasphemous race-baiting crazed trash-talking cynical arrogant vacuous sanctimonious foul exploitive mercurial mocking Christophobic nefarious uncaring vile Republican-enabled wimpy prevaricating raging hoplophobia-consumed irresponsible belligerent repellent childish insolent felonious illegitimate jejune panic-encouraging contentious creepy effete deleterious self-important chaos-creating lying robotic repulsive terrible pugnacious secretive brazenly-hypocritical imperious globalist preening maniacal disdainful...

The time had come to fire Khloé Kardashian. But first, Donald Trump had a question. “What’s your charity?” Trump asked. They were filming “The Celebrity Apprentice,” the reality-TV show where Trump schooled the faded and the semi-famous in the arts of advertising, salesmanship and workplace in­fighting. Most weeks, one winner got prize money for charity. One loser got fired. ... “I’m going to give $20,000 to your charity,” Trump said, according to a transcript of that show. He didn’t. After the show aired in 2009, Kardashian’s charity did receive $20,000. But it wasn’t from Trump. Instead, the check came from...