August 10, 2023

Pence mocked, by repubs, for gas station fill up cosplay

Doesnt pay for the gas..it keeps beeping for payment. 😀

Keeps his hand on pump rather than clipping it in

August 7, 2023

Newly minted ny doctor is a serial rapist, used anesthesia to abuse at hospital

This monster is going away for life

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/nyregion/queens-doctor-rape-sexual-abuse.html

Queens Doctor Charged With Drugging and Assaulting Patients on Camera
Zhi Alan Cheng, a former doctor at a prominent New York hospital, recorded dozens of videos as he raped and sexually abused women, prosecutors said.

Aug. 7, 2023

The grim accusation rocked a major New York City hospital late last year: An emerging gastroenterologist had been charged with first-degree rape. Prosecutors said he had drugged a girlfriend and filmed the assault at his apartment.

The doctor, Zhi Alan Cheng, 33, was fired from the medical center, NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, in December after his arrest.

Then, when investigators searched his electronic devices, they uncovered a disturbing stash: dozens of short videos showing Mr. Cheng sexually abusing other women at his home in Astoria and at the hospital where he worked, prosecutors said.

On Monday, Mr. Cheng was charged with 50 new counts, including rape, sexual abuse, assault, misdemeanor drug possession and unlawful surveillance, in criminal court in Queens. He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment.

August 2, 2023

Somalians outraged that bigwig's niece was allowed to run in intl competition, ran record slow time

August 2, 2023

DeSantis Has Discovered No One Likes a Copycat

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/08/02/desantis-trump-copycat-00109210

DeSantis Has Discovered No One Likes a Copycat
The Florida governor tried to execute the master’s playbook but voters don’t want imitations when they can have the real thing.


Like something conjured in a mirror, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis copies every political stance and gesture Trump has made in the past eight years. |

The campaign strategists at the Ron DeSantis for president headquarters must be dosing their aching heads with Tylenol-Aleve-codeine cocktails and sobbing into their “DeSantis 47” monogrammed hankies.

Like their cousins in commerce, they studied the leading brand in their market — Donald Trump — and then devoted themselves to 1) imitating him, and 2) expanding on what he does. Trump rarely backs down? DeSantis stands his ground with a flame thrower. Trump growled at the press? DeSantis sneered and barely spoke to it.

Trump demands allegiance? DeSantis requires worship. Trump picked fights with immigrants? DeSantis paid to fly them out of state. Trump shamed NFL owners for allowing their players to kneel? DeSantis went after Disney.

Trump coddled the Russians? DeSantis dismissed the Ukraine war as a “territorial dispute.”

Trump stands like a forward-leaning rusted robot on stage? DeSantis does the same, says New York magazine.

July 26, 2023

Trial begun for that cop who left handcuffed woman in police cruiser on railroad tracks..

Vudeo below shows event and trial

Train came along and smashed cruiser with woman in it as cops ran for safety.

Woman lived with injuries..now suing civily

Cop charged with two misdemeanors..she us saying she disnt know she parked on railroad crossing..it was dark, lots happening and relied on other cop that she parked safely

July 21, 2023

Belief in Five Spiritual Entities Edges Down to New Lows

https://news.gallup.com/poll/508886/belief-five-spiritual-entities-edges-down-new-lows.aspx


Belief in Five Spiritual Entities Edges Down to New Lows
BY MEGAN BRENAN

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
74% believe in God, 69% angels, 67% heaven, 59% hell, 58% the devil
Nearly three in 10 do not believe in hell or the devil

Belief greatest among frequent churchgoers, Protestants, Republicans
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The percentages of Americans who believe in each of five religious entities -- God, angels, heaven, hell and the devil -- have edged downward by three to five percentage points since 2016.

Still, majorities believe in each, ranging from a high of 74% believing in God to lows of 59% for hell and 58% for the devil. About two-thirds each believe in angels (69%) and heaven (67%).

July 19, 2023

Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne resigns after student investigation

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/stanford-president-marc-tessier-lavigne-resigns-18208987.php



Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced Wednesday that he will resign following allegations he committed scientific research misconduct. An investigative report released by a university special committee concluded that while he “did not personally engage in research misconduct for any of the twelve papers about which allegations have been raised … several of these papers do exhibit manipulation of research data.”

An investigation by Stanford Daily, the university’s student newspaper, last year alleged that a number of papers co-authored over the past few decades by Tessier-Lavigne — a neuroscientist — contained potentially altered images, spurring the university investigation.

“Although the report clearly refutes the allegations of fraud and misconduct that were made against me, for the good of the University, I have made the decision to step down as President effective August 31,” Tessier-Lavigne said in a statement released Wednesday. “The Panel’s report identified some areas where I should have done better, and I accept the report’s conclusions.”

July 18, 2023

They're Outsmarting Us': Birds Build Nests From Anti-Bird Spikes

They’re Outsmarting Us’: Birds Build Nests From Anti-Bird Spikes
Strips of sharp metal pins are meant to keep birds away from buildings. Some birds are stealing them to build their nests.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/13/science/magpies-birds-nests.html



July 13, 2023
Auke-Florian Hiemstra, a biologist who studies how wild animals repurpose human materials, thought he had seen everything. In his research on the common coot, a water bird often found in Dutch canals, he had discovered nests containing windshield wipers, sunglasses, plastic carnations, condoms and envelopes used to package cocaine.

“So my definition of what is nesting material was already quite a broad one,” said Mr. Hiemstra, a doctoral student at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands. “Almost anything can become part of a bird nest.”
“I couldn’t believe my eyes,” he recalled. “These are birds making a nest with anti-bird spikes.”

Rows of these sharp metal pins have become a common feature of the urban environment, installed on rooftops and ledges to discourage birds from perching or nesting on buildings. But outside the Antwerp hospital — where, as it happened, many of the rooftop spikes had gone missing — the magpies had managed to convert hostile architecture into a home.

“They’re outsmarting us,” Mr. Hiemstra said. “We’re trying to get rid of birds, the birds are collecting our metal spikes and actually making more birds in these nests. I think it’s just a brilliant comeback.”

July 10, 2023

Record percent of Americans live alone..30% "It's just a stunning social change,"

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4085828-a-record-share-of-americans-are-living-alone/


Nearly 30 percent of American households comprise a single person, a record high.

Scholars say living alone is not a trend so much as a transformation: Across much of the world, large numbers of people are living alone for the first time in recorded history.


“It’s just a stunning social change,”

said Eric Klinenberg, a sociologist at New York University and author of the book “Going Solo.” “I came to see it as the biggest demographic change in the last century that we failed to recognize and take seriously.”

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The U.S. Census shows that “solitaries” made up 8 percent of all households in 1940. The share of solo households doubled to 18 percent in 1970 and more than tripled, to an estimated 29 percent, by 2022.

The solo-living movement intersects with several other societal trends. Americans are marrying later, if at all. The nation is aging. The national birthrate is falling. People are living longer — or they were, until the pandemic arrived.

More than anything, perhaps, the rise of single-person households is about women entering the workforce and achieving economic self-sufficiency. The share of adult women participating in the labor force reached 50 percent around 1980.

Historically speaking, “you don’t really see people living alone until women have control of their own lives and their own bodies,” Klinenberg said.

July 10, 2023

Report: 38% of Brown University Students Identify as LGBTQ+

https://www.themainewire.com/2023/07/report-38-of-brown-university-students-identify-as-lgbtq/


Report: 38% of Brown University Students Identify as LGBTQ+



LGBTQ+ student self-identification at Brown University has reached 38 percent of the student body, according to polling data collected by school’s student newspaper, the Brown Daily Herald.

The Herald first collected data on Brown University students’ sexual orientation in 2010, when it found that around 14 percent of respondents said they were not straight, a proportion which has now more than doubled.

Brown University’s percentage of LGBTQ+ identifying students is more than five times the national rate, according to a 2022 Gallup survey which found 7.1 percent of U.S. adults, and 19.7 percent of those aged 18 to 25, identify as LGBT.

The student paper’s semesterly poll has expanded its identification options since 2010—in the Spring 2022 poll the Herald added “Queer,” “Pansexual,” “Asexual,” and “Questioning/Unsure” as possible responses.

Bisexual was the most common identification among LGTBQ+ responses at 53.7 percent.

Only 22.9 percent of self-identified LGBTQ+ respondents described themselves as gay or lesbian in the 2023 poll, which the Herald notes is down from 46 percent from their Fall 2010 survey.