Rolling Stone: Donald Trump Is Skipping the GOP Debate Because He Hates Women

Donald Trump Is Skipping the GOP Debate Because He Hates Women



http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/donald-trump-is-skipping-the-gop-debate-because-he-hates-women-20160127

Unless he changes his narrow mind in the next day and a half, Donald Trump won't be on the stage at Thursday night's final Republican debate before the Iowa caucuses, because he hates women.

The petty, thin-skinned reality TV star turned presidential frontrunner (frontrunner, my god) is still pouting over a question Megyn Kelly asked him at him at another debate back in August. "You've called women you don't like 'fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals,'" Kelly reminded him.

"Only Rosie O'Donnell," Trump joked. The audience ate it up, because the audience at a GOP primary debate is full of terrible people.

Kelly continued her litany of Trump's misogyny. "Your Twitter account has several disparaging comments about women's looks. You once told a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees. Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president?"

Here's an orange-bordering-on-red Tom Ridge-style alert: "Nickelback Working On New Music"

Shell shareholders approve $50 billion BG takeover

Source: Reuters

Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) shareholders approved its $50 billion takeover of BG Group (BG.L) on Wednesday, clearing the last main hurdle to creating the biggest liquefied natural gas (LNG) trader in the world.

BG shareholders are also expected to approve one of the biggest deals in the energy sector in the past decade at a meeting on Thursday, a vote that would allow the two oil and gas companies to merge on Feb. 15.

Few investors have openly challenged the deal's strategic benefits for Shell. But with oil languishing near $30 a barrel and only a slow recovery forecast, some had questioned the viability of a deal that would increase Shell's debt burden.

Shares in BG were up 1.3 percent at 1325 GMT (8:25 a.m. ET), while Shell's B shares traded 0.5 percent lower, both outperforming a 0.9 percent fall in the European oil and gas index .SXEP and valuing Shell's cash and share offer at about $50 billion.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-bg-group-m-a-shell-idUSKCN0V51I3

Sharif, he don't like it UPDATE: Writer with The New Yorker investigated following Koch article

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/nyregion/what-happened-to-jane-mayer-when-she-wrote-about-the-koch-brothers.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

Out of the blue in the fall of 2010, a blogger asked Jane Mayer, a writer with The New Yorker, how she felt about the private investigator who was digging into her background. Ms. Mayer thought the idea was a joke, she said this week. At a Christmas party a few months later, she ran into a former reporter who had been asked about helping with an investigation into another reporter on behalf of two conservative billionaires.

“The reporter had written a story they disliked,” Ms. Mayer recounts in “Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right,” out this month from Doubleday. Her acquaintance told her, “‘It occurred to me afterward that the reporter they wanted to investigate might be you.’”

As it happened, Ms. Mayer had published a major story in the magazine that August about the brothers David and Charles Koch, and their role in cultivating the power of the Tea Party movement in 2010. Using a network of nonprofits and other donors, they had provided essential financial support for the political voices that have held sway in Republican politics since 2011. “Dark Money” chronicles the vast sums of money from the Koch brothers and other wealthy conservatives that have helped shape public dialogue in opposition to Democratic positions on climate change, the Affordable Care Act and tax policy.

Ms. Mayer began to take the rumored investigation seriously when she heard from her New Yorker editor that she was going to be accused — falsely — of plagiarism, stealing the work of other writers. A dossier of her supposed plagiarism had been provided to reporters at The New York Post and The Daily Caller, but the smears collapsed when the writers who were the purported victims made statements saying that it was nonsense, and that there had been no plagiarism whatsoever. Indeed, as one noted, Ms. Mayer had plainly credited his writing — though this was not mentioned in the bill of particulars that was passed around.

Teens die after drinking mixture of Mountain Dew and methanol racing fuel

Trump's Debate Boycott Throws Fox News Into Chaos

Trump's Debate Boycott Throws Fox News Into Chaos

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/01/trump-debate-boycott-throws-fox-news-into-chaos.html



Tonight, Donald Trump’s months-long war with Fox News entered a chaotic and — for both sides — perilous new phase when Trump called Roger Ailes’s bluff and announced he was boycotting Fox’s debate to protest Megyn Kelly's aggressive coverage of his campaign. Instead, Trump said he would host his own Iowa town hall to raise money for veterans and let other networks cover it. One clear sign of the gravity of tonight’s development is the sense of confusion that is swirling throughout Fox. The network is split between Kelly's allies like Brit Hume and conservative anchors that are furious that Kelly — who graces the cover of Vanity Fair this month — has become the face of the network. An anchor fumed that Kelly hosted Michael Moore on her program tonight and the lefty filmmaker defended her against Trump. “That would be like Rachel Maddow laughing along with Charles Koch as he trashed Hillary Clinton!" the anchor said. One producer speculated that Fox could go “National Review” on Trump and start attacking him.

For Trump, the political risks are obvious: His absence from the Fox stage just four days before the Iowa Caucus provides his rivals with a prime-time platform to tee off on him with no chance for him to fire back. For Ailes, the risks are less immediate, but potentially as consequential to maintaining his power. No matter how loudly GOP candidates complained about Fox’s loutish politics in private, none risked taking Ailes on in public for fear of losing access to this crucial constituency — until Trump, that is. Even if Trump's boycott backfires, he's already achieved a historic victory: Exploding the myth that a Republican candidate can't openly challenge Fox.

How this all ends is anybody’s guess. According to one Trump source, Trump was not taking Ailes’s calls after announcing the boycott. Trump advisers are privately telling people that he will only deal with Rupert Murdoch to resolve the dispute. Having Murdoch dragged into the mess could be a serious problem for Ailes. The CEO earned Murdoch's trust because Fox generates $1 billion in profit, but also because he was always in control. But in recent months Murdoch has been attending news meetings at Fox in the wake of a health scare that forced Ailes to take an extended leave of absence. Succession planning at Fox is very much on Murdoch's agenda. If Ailes loses his grip on the Trump situation — and right now it looks like he is — Murdoch will have another reason to worry about the stability of his most valuable asset.

"Shame On Jeb Bush"...Michael Schiavo calls SuperPac ad featuring Terri Schiavo "disgusting"

Worms found feeding on lining of man’s stomach after consuming homemade sushi

Sometimes, it’s best to leave things to the professionals. One man from Alberta learned this lesson the hard way when he was hospitalized for severe abdominal pain after consuming raw wild salmon he purchased at a Superstore, reports Global News.

X-rays and a CT scan revealed the 50-year-old man’s body was reacting to something, but it was only through an endoscopic procedure that the cause of his discomfort was found. Worms, one to two centimeters long, were feeding on the lining of the man’s stomach. He was suffering from anisakiasis, a parasitic disease caused by worms that adhere to the walls of the esophagus, stomach, or intestine. The man felt almost immediate relief after the worms were surgically removed, according to Dr. Stephen Vaughan.

The case, the first of its kind in Canada involving stomach worms resulting from eating raw fish purchased from a Canadian grocery store, is detailed in the Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, of which Dr. Stephen Vaughan was the lead author. The study doctors say sushi prepared in Canadian restaurants and supermarkets are “very unlikely” to spread parasites as it is typically flash-frozen to -35 C (-31 F) for at least 15 hours, according to CBC News.

The study reads, “Although a skilled sushi chef will recognize the distinctive 'watch coil' appearance of the larval worms (approximately one centimetre to two centimetres) in raw fish, individuals preparing their own sushi may not, and may, inadvertently, become infected after ingestion of the larval nematodes.”

http://www.thedailymeal.com/news/eat/man-hospitalized-after-consuming-homemade-sushi/012516

The movie "Rage" is proof that a Nicolas Cage flick can shift from amusing to WTF in a heartbeat.

It's the old Netflix ploy...you think of a few movies you'd like to watch, they don't offer 'em, so you start browsing for something you'd be willing to watch. Tonight was one of those nights, and even though I would not call myself a Nicolas Cage "fan," the movie "Rage" looked like it might be fun.

And it was.

Until the plot twist, and the ending. I won't give spoilers here, but I was hoping for more of a Steven Segal "as predictable as it gets" experience...some punches, some explosions, some gunplay...and all of these things are in the movie, but there is the ridiculous plot twist, followed by the ridiculous ending.

For the record, it got one star on the Rotten Tomatoes Website.

"I have friends that are in the FBI and they tell me they’re ready to indict." He has "FRIENDS?"