Big Breakup Theory: Scientists just found out Earth didn’t shift at quite the crawling, gradual pace we once thought. Instead, the move happened in fits and starts, with continents creeping apart at that single-millimeter-per-year rate for 40 million years, and then suddenly speeding up to 20 times that speed — the rate at which your fingernails grow…
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La Traviata:’Brindisi’ recorded at Sydney Opera House. It has words, so you can sing along.
Tips open.
We Don’t Need No Stinking French Fry Grease
America’s biofuel boondoggle rife with fraud.
Here, Tell These People Something They Don’t Know About Me
FiveThirtyEight: If the election were held Monday, Donald Trump would likely win.
Update.
Holy crap.
Bill’s Wife
Democratic National Committee documents recently released by WikiLeaks include spreadsheets and emails that appear to show party officials planning which donors and prominent fundraisers to provide with appointments to federal boards and commissions.
The documents, which were circulated among top DNC officials in April, could raise legal questions for the party, says Ken Boehm, the chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group.
It’s so very unfair.
Photoblogging: San Francisco
There Blows The Narrative!
BREAKING: Ansbach suicide bomber identified as a 27-year-old asylum-seeker from Syria
— BNO News (@BNONews) July 25, 2016
How To Lose Money In Very Large Quantities
When the foremost printed organ of the British left publishes so many of these things, week after week, that they’re collected and circulated as works of minor surrealism, and are then mistaken for spiteful parodies by the paper’s own contributors, this may not be an ideal business model.
Springtime For Erdogan
In addition to the 62 children being held in prison;
More than 50,000 civil servants — including some 3,000 judges and prosecutors — who are suspected of supporting Fethullah Gülen, the US-based cleric accused of masterminding the plot, have been arrested or suspended in the past week. Tens of thousands of teachers have seen their licenses revoked, while academics have been barred from leaving the country.
On Saturday morning, Turkey issued its first decree under emergency law, extending the maximum length of pre-charge detention from four to 30 days. More than 1,000 private schools and some 1,200 associations and foundations will be shut down.
Turkish ministers have repeatedly denied that the state of emergency would have any impact on people’s rights and freedoms.
Also: Allegations of torture.
h/t Colonialista
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“Drink it down in one breath” — Drink Drink Drink
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More Pavilions At Volkfest
BREAKING… AT LEAST one person has been killed following a suspected suicide bomb attack at a wine bar in Germany.
Earlier:
A 21-year-old Syrian refugee is accused of using a machete to kill a woman and injure two other people in Germany on Sunday, Reuters reported, citing police.
The man was arrested after the attack, which occurred in the southwestern city of Reutlingen…
It’s Not Racial Profiling When The Democrats Do It
#DNCLeak: DNC strategy to "capture" hispanic millenials and their families for a generation https://t.co/CrBZPHhJfT pic.twitter.com/VXD1bi88TM
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 24, 2016
RUN! DEBBIE RUN!
Update! The resignation of Debbie Wasserman Schultz as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee made for a rocky start on Sunday…
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Feel The Bern…
A cache of more than 19,000 emails from Democratic party officials, leaked in advance of Hillary Clinton’s nomination at the party’s convention next week in Philadelphia, details the acrimonious split between the Democratic National Committee and Clinton’s former rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Several emails posted by Wikileaks on its document disclosure website show DNC officials scoffing at Sanders and his supporters and in one instance, questioning his commitment to his Jewish religion. Some emails also show DNC and White House officials mulling whether to invite guests with controversial backgrounds to Democratic party events.
Related.
https://t.co/2kjXgdCpPQ >> NYT tries to coordinate with DNC on Trump hit
— Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) July 23, 2016
More at Drudge.
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
70 Years Ago, the U.S. Military Set Off a Nuke Underwater…
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
The modern multicultural super-tolerant western state of this century takes stock of its strongest point, and decides that it’s not the old industrial machine, which destroys the environment, its traditional heritage, which is problematic, or its problem solving skills, which are too technical, but its values of super-tolerant multiculturalism. And so it wages war on those insane terms.
h/t Larry
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Tonight’s selection was recommended by Jesus Weeps, apparently in retribution for Pants Week — Agadoo – Black Lace. It made it to Number Two on the charts in the UK in 1984, and it’s been downhill ever since.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
How the human body would have to be built to survive a catastrophic car crash.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
“Armed protesters fired at police, lightly wounding five…”