He looks at this problem that has got so bad that I now never answer the phone if the number is unrecognized, though even there it is possible to be spoofed.
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He looks at this problem that has got so bad that I now never answer the phone if the number is unrecognized, though even there it is possible to be spoofed.
The British parliament today resoundingly defeated by a margin of 391 to 242 prime minister Theresa May’s revised plan for Brexit. The feeling seemed to be that the new deal did not significantly differ from the previous one that she lost by an even heavier margin. Apparently she had expected a loss but hoped to contain the margin of defeat to less than 50 so this has got to hurt. Again the main sticking point was the so-called ‘backstop’ on Northern Ireland.
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I wrote before about the problem of single-use plastic pollution where plastic items are thrown away after being used just once. One of those items is straws and a movement began to have restaurants only provide them on request. That seemed to have caught on quickly because I have noticed that the places I go to no longer hand out straws as the default option.
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In response to my earlier post about how Bernie Sanders, despite a contrary narrative promoted by the Democratic party establishment that dislikes his progressive stances, has considerable support in the black community, hyphenman wrote the following comment: “I don’t have a candidate, but I do have a hierarchy with African American Women at the top of my list and European American Males on the bottom.”
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How can we laugh at the absurd things that Donald Trump does, given that he is such a dangerous and despicable person?
If you cannot see the embedded video, try here.
I got a message from an acquaintance in Sri Lanka forwarding a video that said that the BBC had reported yesterday that there had been fish raining from the sky in Mumbai, India. This is one of those things that are circulated widely and was accompanied by a message that claimed that this was proof of a miracle and of a god in action. The acquaintance who forwarded it to me (who is a Roman Catholic believer) asked me if this could be a miracle. My acquaintance likely asked me because he knows I am a scientist and since I have not had any contact with him for decades, he probably thinks I am still religious and thus likely to support his beliefs.
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This Fox News personality has a long and ignominious history as an utter hack. But new audio has emerged that has him saying the most reprehensible things. Here are some of the comments, as compiled by David Badash.
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I expect that most people have seen this photo that shows shipping containers blocking a bridge.
Western media reports have said that these containers were placed by Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro across the Santander bridge connecting Venezuela to Colombia to prevent food and medicines and other humanitarian aid from reaching the people there. The photo has been widely used to depict Maduro as a callous leader willing to see Venezuelans suffer rather than acknowledge that the country is facing serious shortages. The US government promoted this and the media obligingly repeated it unquestioningly
That is a lie.
Because if you do, he turns into something much more frightening than the Incredible Hulk.
(If you can’t see the embedded video, try here.)
In the county I live in, one police officer is called the top person for catching OVI (Operating Vehicle while Intoxicated) offenses. But a cell phone video taken by one of the people he stopped showed that not only did he lie in his official reports about the results of a field test he administered that he claimed showed the driver was impaired, but that he was even willing to lie even in court.