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  • Alex Smith suffers Joe Thiesmann-esque leg injury 33 years to the day of Lawrence Taylor's tackle

    11/18/2018 3:33:17 PM PST · by C19fan · 46 replies
    Yahoo ^ | November 18, 2018 | Blake Shuster
    Washington quarterback Alex Smith suffered a season-ending leg injury against the Houston Texans on Sunday. Smith was dropping back to pass in the second half when he was taken down awkwardly by Kareem Jackson and J.J. Watt. Under the weight of both defenders, Smith’s right leg crumbled, leaving him in a heap on the field.
  • Tapper Presses, But Stacey Abrams Won't Acknowledge Kemp 'Legitimate' Georgia Guv

    11/18/2018 3:32:30 PM PST · by governsleastgovernsbest · 43 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    What does it take to get a straight answer from Stacey Abrams? For the second time in two weeks, Jake Tapper has pressed Abrams on an issue, and for the second time, Abrams, the losing Dem candidate in the Georgia governor's race, weaseled away. [snip] The cha-cha continued on today's show. Three times, Tapper pressed Abrams on whether she would recognize as "legitimate" the election of her Republican gubernatorial opponent, Brian Kemp. And three times, Abrams waltzed away. Refusing to pronounce the l-for-legitimate word, Abrams would only concede that Kemp "received an adequate number of votes" and hence would be...
  • [Catholic Caucus]Day by Day -- Saints for All, Dedication - Churches of Saints Peter & Paul,11-18-18

    11/18/2018 2:41:27 PM PST · by Salvation · 4 replies
    FranciscanMedia.org ^ | FranciscanMedia
    Franciscan Media Image: The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican | photo by Fczarnowski / Image: Statue of Saint Paul in front of the facade of the Basilica of Saint Paul outside the Wall, Rome | photo by Berthold Werner Dedication of Churches of Saints Peter and Paul Saint of the Day for November 18  The Story of the Dedication of the Churches of Saints Peter and Paul St. Peter’s is probably the most famous church in Christendom. Massive in scale and a veritable museum of art and architecture, it began on a much humbler scale. Vatican...
  • Stop Complaining About Your Rent and Move to Tulsa, Suggests Tulsa (Free stipend & rent!)

    11/18/2018 2:37:32 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 33 replies
    Citylab ^ | November 16, 2018 | Sarah Holder
    In an effort to beef up the city’s tech workforce, the George Kaiser Family Foundation is offering $10,000, free rent, and other perks to remote workers who move to Tulsa for a year. “I’m a California, New York guy,” Michael Basch tells me. “I figured I’d be really bored here.” “Here” is Tulsa, the second-largest city in Oklahoma, known for its new $465 million public park, the Gathering Place, and its annual Chili Bowl. Since moving there earlier this year, Basch says that he hasn’t been bored at all. The city may be 1,640 miles and a world away from...
  • "The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 11/18 7-11pm est

    11/18/2018 2:27:32 PM PST · by Vision · 14 replies
    WAMU ^ | 11/18/18 | Freak SJW Murray Horwitz
    Friends it's Sunday night again and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana. Listen Live Info *tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow. Official OTR Blog of "The Big Broadcast" thread: http://kallmansalley.com/
  • Gillibrand: Trump ‘Has Created Division and Hate Throughout Society’

    11/18/2018 2:24:24 PM PST · by rktman · 92 replies
    cnsnews.com ^ | 11/16/2018 | Melanie Arter
    Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday accused President Donald Trump of fomenting hate and division, citing an increase in hate crimes through the state of New York. “I think we are in a moment in time where our country and our morality as a country is literally on knife’s edge. We have a president who has blurred, even destroyed the lines between right vs. wrong. He has demonized immigrants. He has created division and hate throughout society,” she said during a speech at the National Action Network Conference. “In New York State, we have more hate crimes than we have...
  • Fashion Notes: How to Recycle a Dress Like First Lady Melania Trump

    11/18/2018 2:20:57 PM PST · by KC_Lion · 34 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 18 November, 2018 | John Binder
    When you are one of the most photographed women in the world like First Lady Melania Trump is, there are only so many times you can wear a dress. Some ensembles are obviously never to be worn again, they are part of a moment in time. Take Mrs. Trump’s Inaugural gown from French-American designer Hervé Pierre. Even if Mrs. Trump wanted to wear the dress again (she never would), she would not be able to as the piece is now a part of the First Lady Smithsonian National Museum of American History collection. Even stand-out, style statements like her recent...
  • Man who fled Texas trial captured in Mexico, returned to US

    11/18/2018 1:58:26 PM PST · by bgill · 9 replies
    CBS Austin ^ | Nov. 18, 2018 | AP
    Hidalgo County officials say 35-year-old Oscar Davila Rodriguez was returned to the U.S. Wednesday. During the 2008 trial in Edinburg, prosecutors presented evidence that Rodriguez in 2005 broke into the McAllen home of his 19-year-old ex-girlfriend, Nydia Maldonado, and killed her. She was strangled and stabbed multiple times.
  • New Virtual Reconstruction Of A Neanderthal Thorax Suggests Another Breathing Mechanism

    11/18/2018 1:56:47 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 24 replies
    EurekAlert! ^ | November 14, 2018 | University of the Basque Country
    While some of the anatomical regions of these extinct humans are well known, others, such as the vertebral column and the ribs, are less well known because these elements are more fragile and not well preserved in the fossil record. In 1983 a partial Neanderthal skeleton (known officially as Kebara 2, and nicknamed "Moshe") belonging to a young male Neanderthal individual who died some 60,000 years ago was found in the Kebara site (Mount Carmel, Israel). While this skeleton does not preserve the cranium because some time after burial the cranium was removed, probably as a consequence of a funerary...
  • Bill Nelson takes shots at Donald Trump in concession to Rick Scott

    11/18/2018 1:55:48 PM PST · by jazusamo · 93 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | November 18, 2018 | James Varney
    Following a protracted recount battle, three-term incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson conceded Sunday, acknowledging GOPGov. Rick Scott has been elected to replace him in January. “Well, things worked out a little differently than Grace and I had hoped,” Mr. Nelson’s statement read. “But let me say, I by no measure feel defeated. And that’s because I have had the privilege of serving the people of Florida and our country for most of my life.” As he left the political stage, Mr. Nelson, 76, also took a parting shot at President Trump. “We have to move beyond a politics that aims...
  • UPDATE: PAC’s use charitable names to try to get your donation dollars

    11/18/2018 1:53:22 PM PST · by NobleFree · 5 replies
    KFOR-TV ^ | NOVEMBER 1, 2018 | SCOTT HINES
    CHOCTAW, Okla. - Debbie Foster didn't recognize the number. She answered anyway. It was one of those pesky automated robocalls that disrupted Foster's day and tugged at her heart strings. The robocaller claimed to be raising money for an organization by the name of Breast Cancer Health Council. “My very, very dearest friend died from [breast cancer], and I was with her during chemotherapy," Foster said. Don’t be fooled. It might sound like a charity, but it is not. Breast Cancer Health Council is registered as a Political Action Committee, an organization that raises and spends money to elect and...
  • Facebook allowed advertisers to target those with interest in 'white genocide'

    11/18/2018 1:52:08 PM PST · by gaijin · 20 replies
    TheInquirer.com ^ | November 18th, 2018 | Chris Merriman
    WELL WE are at least 30 minutes into Monday morning so it's time for the first "Facebook did WHAT?" story of the week. According to a report in The Intercept, Facebook has been offering potential advertisers the chance to target their wares at groups who believe in a "White Genocide". Yes. Really. Just days after a mass-shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, the topic "white genocide consipracy theory" was used by the research team as a "detailed targeting" criterion to aim adverts at the 168,000 users who have interacted with the subject in some way.(continued at link)
  • How a selfie saved a Williamson County man from 99 years in prison

    11/18/2018 1:49:46 PM PST · by bgill · 37 replies
    kvue.com ^ | Nov. 13, 2018 | Tony Plohetski
    The morning of September 22, 2017, Cristopher Precopia went to work at a lumber yard in Georgetown. By the end of the day, he was in jail facing 99 years in prison... She said he broke into her home in Temple. She said he sliced an "X" into her chest with a box cutter... On the night of the alleged attack, he was with his mother, Erin, at a Northwest Austin hotel about 65 miles from the accuser's home... There were pictures to prove it, and they were posted on Facebook. Timestamped. Geo-located.
  • Tim Allen: Liberals have little sense of humor about themselves, 'so I love poking at it'

    11/18/2018 1:46:52 PM PST · by ColdOne · 21 replies
    washingtonexaminer.com ^ | 11/17/18 | Claude Thompson
    Tim Allen thinks nothing is more effective at pissing people off than a "very funny conservative." "I like pissing people off, and I said there’s nothing, especially in this area, that pisses people off more than a very funny conservative, a smart, funny conservative that takes shots and is certainly self-effacing," Allen said in an interview with IndieWire about his show "Last Man Standing," in which he plays a conservative-leaning character. "The left-wing point of view is so pervasive that they don’t even realize it’s a point of view. It is just a point of view," he said. "I think...
  • California regulator lays groundwork for PG&E bailout

    11/18/2018 1:46:25 PM PST · by NoLibZone · 15 replies
    DNC Vetted then the San Franciso Chronicle ^ | Nov 15,2018 YES NOV 15th! | JD Morris
    Capping a wild day on Wall Street in which Pacific Gas and Electric Co. stock crashed and soared as investors weighed the prospect of government aid, California’s top utility regulator said Thursday his agency can help the utility avoid financial catastrophe because of the state’s raging wildfires. Michael Picker, president of the California Public Utilities Commission, said his agency does not want PG&E and the state’s other investor-owned utilities to file for bankruptcy. In a move he conceded was unusual, he briefed investors and analysts on his views before issuing a public statement Thursday, a decision that may have contributed...
  • Trump consoles Californians suffering from twin tragedies

    11/18/2018 1:34:10 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 6 replies
    The Borneo Bulletin ^ | November 19, 2018 | The Associated Press
    PARADISE, Calif. (AP) – President Donald Trump acknowledged Californians suffering from twin tragedies, walking through the ashes of a mobile home and RV park in a small northern town all-but-destroyed by deadly wildfires and privately consoling people grieving after a mass shooting at a popular college bar outside Los Angeles. “This has been a tough day when you look at all of the death from one place to the next,” Trump said on Saturday before flying back to Washington. Trump’s visits to areas of Northern and Southern California in the aftermath of unprecedented wildfires that have killed more than 70...
  • Lion Air: Some are looking where to place the blame, others wonder if their pilot can fly...

    11/18/2018 1:19:55 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 49 replies
    CNN ^ | November 18, 2018 | Kara Fox,
    One of the Max 8's new features is an anti-stalling device, the maneuvering characteristics augmentation system (MCAS). If the MCAS detects that the plane is flying too slowly or steeply, and at risk of stalling, it can automatically lower the airplane's nose. It's meant to be a safety mechanism. But the problem, according to Lion Air and a growing chorus of international pilots, was that no one knew about that system. … Investigators are currently examining whether an angle of attack (AOA) sensor on the outside of the Lion Air plane transmitted incorrect data that could have triggered the MCAS...
  • USC Library Censors Article on ‘Female Privilege in Prison Sentencing’

    11/18/2018 1:18:42 PM PST · by OddLane · 28 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 11/14/18 | TONI AIRAKSINEN
    The University of Southern California (USC) library system has seemingly begun censoring a 2012 academic article documenting that men, on average, get slapped with a 63 percent longer prison sentence than women for the same crimes. The article, “Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal Criminal Cases” is widely accessible online to the public. But after a USC lecturer assigned the article in Spring 2018 class, the article somehow is no longer accessible by search in the USC library system. If you search for the article on the USC library site, you will find a link to a critique of the article...
  • Unfriendly Skies: Look What ‘Literature’ Was Discovered In This Airport Prayer Room

    11/18/2018 1:13:44 PM PST · by deandg99 · 27 replies
    Clash Daily ^ | 11/16/2018 | Wes Walker
    What would you NOT want to find in a Prayer Room in an International Airport? One concerned traveler walked into the Islamic Prayer room in an airport and was shocked by one of the books he found on the shelves there. There were the usual mundane finds. A Koran, as you might expect, was on the shelves. Someone put a Bible in there, too.
  • Bill Nelson concedes Florida Senate race to Rick Scott after hand recount

    11/18/2018 1:12:19 PM PST · by Liberty7732 · 32 replies
    Incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., called Republican challenger Rick Scott on Sunday to concede their race, ending a protracted dispute between the rivals over the results of their tight election. "I just spoke with Senator Bill Nelson, who graciously conceded, and I thanked him for his years of public service," Scott said via a statement of Nelson, who had been vying for a fourth term in office. "Now the campaign truly is behind us, and that's where we need to leave it. We must do what Americans have always done: come together for the good of our state and our...