From the Trenches World Report
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The Florida state senate briefly approved a two-year freeze on the sale of AR-15 rifles on Saturday, before overturning the measure 15 minutes after the initial vote.
The vote to pass the bill came on an unrecorded voice vote, in which lawmakers shouted ‘yea’ or ‘nay’.
Senate President Joe Negron, a Republican, ruled that the amendment passed on the voice vote, the Tampa Bay Times reported. Continue reading “Florida senate OVERTURNS a two-year ban on the sale of AR-15s”
Obviously, the global warming con has made many con men rich, as they fly around in carbon eating private jets, giving anybody with enough money the Barnum and Bailey circus bark. This includes the biggest of the circus barkers “BIG AL GORE”, a man with a global warming bent, and a global warming bank account.
Big Al Gore wasn’t present recently when scientist used a hot water drill to bore deep inside the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica recently to find that the floating shelf isn’t melting, but freezing, more proof that the idiots we put our faith in are goddamn liars. Continue reading “Earth Continues To Cool – While Al Gore Lives In Luxury”
Spike Timmons was one of those guys that was incredibly easy to like. Once he got to know you, you were his friend, something that’s hard to find these days. The Trenches World Report was like a second home to Spike, he had many friends here, he loved every damn one of us, and he made that clear on a daily basis.
Spike was very lucky to find his Elizabeth, he loved her dearly. They made their home in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Elizabeth put a huge smile on Spike’s face daily, these two made each other. I saw it firsthand as I was fortunate enough to meet them, and enjoy their awesome company a couple of times. They would pick me up at the truck stop and we would go to dinner. I really had a great time conversing with them and their family. I wish we could have met more. Continue reading “Didn’t Get Much Sleep last Night – Another Death Of Another Hero”
An exotic fruit that tastes like pork and gives off a putrid smell could save millions from starvation.
The ‘miracle crop’, known as a jackfruit, is the biggest tree-borne fruit in the world and grows in south and southeast Asia.
A single fruit, which can weigh between 4.5 and 45 kilograms (10-100lbs), houses hundreds of seeds that are rich in nutritious calcium, protein, iron and potassium. Continue reading “Jackfruit tastes like pork and could help world hunger”
“We got China wrong. Now what?” ran the headline over the column in the Washington Post.
“Remember how American engagement with China was going to make that Communist backwater more like the democratic, capitalist West?” asked Charles Lane in his opening sentence. Continue reading “Fatal Delusions Of Western Man”
Once upon a time airline ticket prices were based purely on demand.
Then, the internet happened – and the way commercial carriers calculated their fares became infinitely more complex with cookies and account details.
Now, according to aviation experts, that looks set to continue with another tactic called ‘dynamic pricing’, based on wealth. Continue reading “Airline tickets could soon be priced on what passengers can AFFORD”
Thomas “Bud” Brown makes his way out the back door and stops a few steps to the right, raising a trembling arm, pointing at something. It’s where he found his boy slumped against the cold back wall of the house around 7:15 a.m. on the last day of 2016, bleeding out.
Brown is telling the story now, about how he was sitting in his chair in the living room when he heard the shot. His son Jarred, 28, had just picked up Bud’s Taurus PT-145 Millennium Pro pistol and headed out to do some shooting near the house in Griffin, Ga., with his best friend, Tyler Haney. Bud figured Jarred had fired at something for the fun of it, like he did sometimes. Continue reading “How Defective Guns Became the Only Product That Can’t Be Recalled”
Six years ago, Jane Mendillo, then head of Harvard’s endowment, spent a week in Brazil, flying in a turboprop plane to survey some of the university’s growing holdings of forest and farmland. That year, Harvard began one of its most daring foreign adventures: an investment in a sprawling agricultural development in Brazil’s remote and impoverished northeast. There, workers would produce tomato paste, sugar, and ethanol, as well as energy after processing crops. The profits, in theory, could outstrip those of conventional stocks and bonds and keep the world’s richest university a step ahead of its peers. Continue reading “Harvard Blew $1 Billion in Bet on Tomatoes, Sugar, and Eucalyptus”
IV bags filled with saline solution are one of the most common items in hospitals. But new research suggests replacing the saline with a different intravenous solution may significantly reduce risks of death and kidney damage among patients.
According to the study, which was discussed at a critical care conference in San Antonio and published by the New England Journal of Medicine, switching from saline could save between 50,000 and 70,000 lives in the United States every year. Ditching the common solution could also reduce cases of kidney failure by 100,000.
Continue reading “Saline in IVs may increase risk of death, kidney failure”
Political philosopher and economist Karl Widerquist, an associate professor at Georgetown University in Qatar, remembers a poll from 10 years ago that showed just 12 percent of Americans approved of a universal basic income.
That’s changed — and quickly. Today, 48 percent of Americans support it, according to a new Northeastern University/Gallup survey of more than 3,000 U.S. adults. Continue reading “More Americans now support a universal basic income”
TAMPA, Fla. — Thousands of gun enthusiasts — more so than ever — flocked to the Florida State Fairgrounds for the Florida Gun Show event.
Organizers say they had a record number of people attend the event on Saturday, Feb. 24, almost 7,000, and expected more Sunday.
The manager for the Florida Gun Show, George Fernandez, says they’ve never seen such a big crowd. Continue reading “Florida Gun Show Sees ‘Record Number’ Of Attendees Despite Gun Control Debate”
A billionaire technology tycoon wants to lock the public out of a stretch of Californian beach his $32.5million mega-mansion sits on so he can have it to himself.
Sun Microsystems co-founder, Vinod Khosla, wants to keep all the sun to himself along Martins Beach near Half Moon Bay where his estate is located.
The owners previous owners had allowed public access to the beach for 70 years but Khosla slammed the gates shut resulting in a long-running dispute. Continue reading “Silicon Valley billionaire fights to block the public from accessing the beach”
A Pennsylvania-based offshoot of the Unification Church is encouraging couples to bring their AR-15 rifles with them to a commitment ceremony in the Pocono Mountains, a half-mile from an elementary school.
World Peace and Unification Sanctuary in Newfoundland, Pennsylvania, says it planned the Feb. 28 ceremony long before last week’s massacre at a Florida high school. Authorities say the alleged shooter used an AR-15. Continue reading “Pennsylvania church to bless couples toting AR-15 rifles”
The Trump administration is considering an offer from Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson to pay for at least part of a new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, four U.S. officials told The Associated Press.
Lawyers at the State Department are looking into the legality of accepting private donations to cover some or all of the embassy costs, the administration officials said.
The discussions are occurring as the new embassy clears its final bureaucratic hurdles. Continue reading “Sheldon Adelson offers to pay millions for new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem”
Ars Technica – by Cyrus Farivar
Last November, a 74-year-old rancher and attorney was walking around his ranch just south of Encinal, Texas, when he happened upon a small portable camera strapped approximately eight feet high onto a mesquite tree near his son’s home. The camera was encased in green plastic and had a transmitting antenna.
Not knowing what it was or how it got there, Ricardo Palacios removed it. Continue reading “Man removes feds’ spy cam, they demand it back, he refuses and sues”
President Trump was right Tuesday in insisting that the federal government ban “bump stocks.” But there’s less than meets the eye to the directive he sent to the Justice Department to rush through a new regulation, already in the works, that would ban the devices, because sure as shooting there will be a legal challenge that probably will succeed. That’s why this problem needs to be addressed by Congress in the form of a more expansive law barring devices crafted by creative gun makers to circumvent the intent of federal gun laws.
A Northern California transit agency on Wednesday released a body camera video recording showing one of its police officer fatally shooting a man tussling with another man.
The 52-second video clip captured Bay Area Rapid Transit officer Joseph Mateu shooting Sahleem Tindle, 28, three times in the back outside the West Oakland BART station on January 3. Continue reading “BART releases bodycam video of man’s fatal shooting”
The Telegraph – by Laura Donnelly
At least a million more Britons should be put on antidepressants, the authors of the largest ever review of the drugs today conclude.
The research led by Oxford University, and published in The Lancet, examined 522 trials involving 21 types of medication over almost four decades.
Continue reading “The drugs do work: anti-depressants should be given to a million more Britons, largest ever review claims”