"My colleagues and I did a study about 10 years ago looking at the two different parties in the United States"not in terms of ideology or policies but purely in terms of violent death rates"and, astonishingly, we found that over a 110-year period, almost without exception, whenever there was a Republican president who was elected, the murder and suicide rates would double, and whenever there was a Democratic president elected, the murder and suicide rates would halve."
Research by Forbes magazine found there were 15 billionaires aged 30 or under but that none had created their own wealth, instead benefitting from huge inheritances. read more
Project 2025's 180-Day Playbook is a remarkably detailed guide to turning the United States into a fascist's paradise. read more
Israel's far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, announced the seizure of 10 square kilometers (3.8 square miles) of Palestinian territory in the West Bank on Friday. read more
Israeli media reported in January that Israel had destroyed 1,100 of the 2,800 buildings in the border areas. In that same month, 21 Israeli soldiers were killed while working to demolish a building after a Hamas rocket detonated explosives IDF soldiers had planted. ... The Israeli military insists it needs to create the buffer zone to prevent future October 7-style attacks. But the plan also advances Israel's seizure of Gaza's territory, and many ministers in the Israeli government favor re-establishing Jewish settlements in the Strip.
The attitude that other living things aren't sentient is a convenient lie to make it okay to kill them with no regard.
It shouldn't come as a surprise, though. A few hundred years ago Western scientists (is there any other kids) would tell you Blacks are an inferior species.
The myth persists to this day, that black people have a much higher pain threshold than white people. And this is demonstrated in medical records.
Specifically, this work reveals that a substantial number of white laypeople and medical students and residents hold false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites and demonstrates that these beliefs predict racial bias in pain perception and treatment recommendation accuracy.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Paper is from 2016
Looks like somebody should have spent a little more time working an office job with nothing to do.
Microsoft Minesweeper (formerly just Minesweeper, and also known as Flower Field) is a minesweeper-type video game created by Curt Johnson, originally for IBM's OS/2, that was ported to Microsoft Windows by Robert Donner, both Microsoft employees at the time.
en.m.wikipedia.org
Scout Oath or Promise
On my honor, I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.
www.usscouts.org
If you want to get into West Point or Annapolis a good path is to become an Eagle Scout.
The alias?
I'm talking about the Flip Flopper Speaker of the House, not some re-re Putin troll.