Hmmm. The native Europeans were unable to adapt to changing circumstances, and invaders from the south simply replaced them. Interesting. I wonder if there’s a lesson to be learned.
Sometimes stereotypes exist for a good reason. Take, for example, this video of a very large crane falling in Manhattan yesterday. Listen to the commentary by the witnesses, and see if you can detect the subtle hints that might let you know that this happened in New York. If you are in a business, make sure to crank up the volume to 11; if management complains, simply say that you are spreading a message of tolerance of all cultures, including terminology and modes of speech, and if they have a problem then they are a racist.
Yes, he really is that big.
Turns out that small explosion on the Somali Airbus that blew a hole in the fuselage and sucked one passenger out to his doom was probably caused by a bomb. A bomb carried by the one passenger who got ejected from the plane.
So, huzzah, I guess. Best of all possible outcomes to a suicide bombing… the bomber was the only one to die.
Color me stunned: a nation that went so socialist that they nationalized just about everything is facing some economic issues. Their new “economic czar” believes that simply printing more money *doesn’t* result in inflation. Just… shocking.
What’s especially entertaining is that when the socialists took over the economy, Venezuelas oil reserves were a massive source of national income. Essentially free money. And what did the Chavez socialists do with this? Did they build up the national infrastructure and invite foreign investment? Did they make Venezuela an inviting place to do business? No… they did the bread and circuses thing with welfare spending. And while Venezuela had a whole bunch of the sort of poor people that American poor people only *think* they’re as poor as, the Venezuelan welfare state did squat to raise the poor out of poverty. By embracing the nationalization of foreign businesses, the socialists made sure that nobody would want to do business there.
Probably some lessons worth learning here.
… which basically boils down to the author of the piece attempting to make fun of the SecDef because the author believes that all DoD weapon system spending from here on out should be directed solely at fighting ISIS, because obviously the US will never face any other geopolitical threats.
There I was, driving through the dreary interior of California on a 200-mile trip to go out on a date, when I turned on the radio to hear that the Space Shuttle Columbia had exploded on re-entry. There followed at least an hour of the dusty nothingness that is the road to Sacramento, and then the date, which involved meeting the young ladies mother. Neither of them gave a rats ass about the Shuttle, while I was kinda desperate to see the news on the TV. Yeah, not what you’d call a great social success story. Oh well.
Anyway, there has long been debate on whether if, with enough knowledge and effort, the crew could have been saved. I’m of the opinion that the moment the foam smacked the wing, the crew was pretty much doomed. But maybe…
Well, how about that: Cruz won the Iowa caucus with 28%; Trump got 24%. The big surprise is that Rubio got 23%.
On the other side, Clinton (D:Dishonesty) has 49.8 %, while Crazy Uncle Bernie got 49.6%. The third guy got 0.5%, so the Dems can’t claim that they are torn between two bad candidates… they had three to choose from, along with (I suppose) write-ins and “None Of The Above.” The third guy has dropped out, not that anyone is going to notice.
OK, so we’ve got a white guy in charge of an Arizona branch of the NAACP. If that’s not hi-larious enough, he used the F-word to apologize for using the T-word to describe a portion of a female reporter while at a protest over some students using the N-word. Throw in: a preacher wanting to remove the guy from his position at the NAACP due to his “white privilege.”
Here’s a new one:
I’ve heard of using “performance enhancing drugs” in bicycle races before, but not actual motors. And if I had, I don’t think I’ve heard of it referred to as “doping.”
Sadly the article does not provide design of the motorized bike. The motor, and presumably batteries or fuel tank or whatever it uses, are hidden within the frame (which would not seem to provide a whole lot of volume for such things), and it’s unclear just how a hidden motor provides power to the wheel. In order to be of use to a racer the motor would have to provide a fair bit of power and at least some meaningful duration; if this was done with a system that can be safely hidden within a racing bicycles frame it must be a technological marvel.
Entertainingly, the racer caught using the motorized bikes claims: “I didn’t know anything about it. I don’t know how that bike got there. I was surprised to see that bike standing there. It’s not my bike. There’s been a mistake.”
Yeah.