“Peaceful protesters” disrupt ceremony for 100 yr old war veteran.
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Tonight, John Prine finds himself a victim of The Great Compromise.
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Heh
Stunned Toronto hockey fans are now looking at each other saying, "Hockey has trophies?!" #WJC2015
— randy turner (@randyturner15) January 6, 2015
Congrats Juniors!
Honey, I Finished The Internet
1.3 million views, so you know it’s bound to be exciting: Macaw taking a shower.
Trey Gowdy’s Greatest Hits
Paging Dr. Schaedenfreude
For years, Harvard’s experts on health economics and policy have advised presidents and Congress on how to provide health benefits to the nation at a reasonable cost. But those remedies will now be applied to the Harvard faculty, and the professors are in an uproar.
Forward!
As the bailout concludes, the Treasury Department’s accounting of auto bailout loans shows taxpayers only recovered $70.42 billion of the $79.69 billion loaned through AIFP, a loss of $9.6 billion, or about $65.75 per taxpayer.
We Need A Famine
If it saves one lawsuit: It’s been a beloved winter pastime for untold generations of children, but tobogganing is coming under threat in cities across the U.S. and Canada.
We Don’t Need No Stinking World Wildlife Fund
Another great post at Energy Matters: Masters of Spin
The Sound Of Settled Science
Protein deniers defy consensus;
Open any introductory biology textbook and one of the first things you’ll learn is that our DNA spells out the instructions for making proteins, tiny machines that do much of the work in our body’s cells. Results from a study published on Jan. 2 in Science defy textbook science, showing for the first time that the building blocks of a protein, called amino acids, can be assembled without blueprints — DNA and an intermediate template called messenger RNA (mRNA). A team of researchers has observed a case in which another protein specifies which amino acids are added.
“This surprising discovery reflects how incomplete our understanding of biology is,” says first author Peter Shen, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in biochemistry at the University of Utah. “Nature is capable of more than we realize.”
Baby Boomers
ISIS targets young mothers to groom ‘jihadi babies’
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In tonight’s decidedly non-musical tips video Professor Janice Fiamengo answers questions after her lecture “What’s Wrong With Women’s Studies.”
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“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”
I Felt A Great Disturbance In The Narrative
Thousands of officers turn their backs as Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at Officer Wenjian Liu's funeral. pic.twitter.com/8NLELidFeZ
— Mike Balsamo (@MikeBalsamo1) January 4, 2015
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
BREAKING: from the “DPRK News Service”.
… better known as “Popehat” – “The feed’s actual author, me1, has never been to the Korean peninsula at all, and cannot read a word of the language.”
(h/t John Groves)
Those Moderate Muslims!
Not Showing Up To Riot Is A Failed Conservative Policy
“In the past, the more the mob chanted, burned, and raged, the more it swayed public opinion.” – Welcome back, Cjunk.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Newly released research, primarily from NASA and the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences, indicates that melting of selective Greenland Glaciers is related to geologically induced heat flow, and not manmade atmospheric global warming.
Those Moderate Muslims!
A new name added to the Dead Pool;
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi made an extraordinary speech on New Year’s Day to Cairo’s Al-Azhar and the Awqaf Ministry calling for a long overdue virtual ecclesiastical revolution in Islam. This is something no Western leader has the had the courage to do, certainly not Barack Obama, despite his Muslim education.
Accusing the umma (world Islamic population) of encouraging the hostility of the entire world, al-Sisi’s speech is so dramatic and essentially revolutionary it brings to mind Khrushchev’s famous speech exposing Stalin. Many have called for a reformation of Islam, but for the leader of the largest Arab nation to do so has world-changing implications.
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Tonight, a short clip from the 1952 Paramount Pictures release Son Of Paleface. (Trigger warning.)
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