Year: 2017

ABC News

Six people are dead after Hurricane Irma knocked out air conditioning at a nursing home in Hollywood, Florida, according to ABC affiliate WPLG.

While the causes of their deaths were not immediately clear, the facility, Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, was evacuated due to the cooling issues.

Dr. Randy Katz, director of emergency services at Memorial Regional Hospital, which is next to the nursing home, said there were extremely hot temperatures on the nursing home’s second floor.   Continue reading “6 dead after Irma knocks out air conditioning at Florida nursing home”

Fellowship of the Minds – by DCG

Why is following the law so hard for folks to understand? I hope this series bombs.

From LA Times: By all appearances, Rafael Agustin had been the all-American high school student: he was class president, prom king and an honor roll student. But there was one hitch: he was also in the country illegally.

It was a discovery Agustin learned while applying for college in 1998 — before there was a program like the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).   Continue reading “Hollyweird is stuck on stupid: Gina Rodriguez’s “Dreamers” series hopes to rid America of the term “illegal””

College Fix – by Andrew Johnson

As colleges across the country struggle with questions related to free speech on campuses, some schools have implemented policies that appear to give administrators significant latitude to discipline students for speaking in unpopular ways.

Most recently, the dean’s office of Utah Valley University, a public institution located in the north-central part of Utah, distributed a guidance letter to all faculty encouraging them to report to the school’s Behavior Assessment Team any students who use “inappropriate language,” are “argumentative,” or who speak “loudly.”  Continue reading “Professors told to report students who make campus ‘less inclusive’ to Behavior Assessment Team”

Campus Reform – by Toni Airaksinen

Duke University is recruiting male students for a nine-week program that pledges to “destabilize masculine privilege” and “interrogate masculinity.”

The program, known as the Duke University Men’s Project, seeks to help men examine how their masculinities exist “often in toxic ways” while beginning “the work of unlearning violence.”   Continue reading “Duke recruits men for program to fight ‘toxic’ masculinity”

Mail.com

BOSTON (AP) — Self-driving cars may not hit the road in earnest for many years – but autonomous boats could be just around the pier. Spurred in part by the car industry’s race to build driverless vehicles, marine innovators are building automated ferry boats for Amsterdam canals, cargo ships that can steer themselves through Norwegian fjords and remote-controlled ships to carry containers across the Atlantic and Pacific. The first such autonomous ships could be in operation within three years.

One experimental workboat spent this summer dodging tall ships and tankers in Boston Harbor, outfitted with sensors and self-navigating software and emblazoned with the words “UNMANNED VESSEL” across its aluminum hull.   Continue reading “Self-driving boats: The next tech transportation race”

Mail.com

NORTH HAVERHILL, N.H. (AP) — A Rhode Island man accused of fatally shooting his mother in the intensive care unit of New Hampshire’s largest hospital was set to be arraigned Wednesday on murder charges.

Travis Frink signed into the visitor center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon on Tuesday afternoon and went to the intensive care unit, authorities said. Soon after, Lebanon police received an emergency call reporting shots had been fired there.  Continue reading “Man accused of killing his mom in hospital to be arraigned”

Mail.com

NEW YORK (AP) — A puzzling study of U.S. pregnancies found that women who had miscarriages between 2010 and 2012 were more likely to have had back-to-back annual flu shots that included protection against swine flu.

Vaccine experts think the results may reflect the older age and other miscarriage risks for the women, and not the flu shots. Health officials say there is no reason to change the government recommendation that all pregnant women be vaccinated against the flu. They say the flu itself is a much greater danger to women and their fetuses.   Continue reading “Study prompts call to examine flu vaccine and miscarriage”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans would get health coverage simply by showing a new government-issued card and would no longer owe out-of-pocket expenses like deductibles, according to legislation Sen. Bernie Sanders released Wednesday charting a stem-to-stern reshaping of the country’s health care system.

But the Vermont independent’s description of his measure omitted specifics about how much it would cost and final decisions about how he would pay for it. Sanders was releasing his bill the same day Republican senators were rolling out details of a last-ditch effort to repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s health care law.   Continue reading “Sanders bill expands Medicare for all, lacks details on cost”

Illinois Policy – by Amy Korte

On Sept. 5, two lawsuits were filed in Cook County Circuit Court alleging that Wow Bao, a restaurant chain owned by Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises Inc., and gas station and convenience store chain Speedway LLC violated Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act, or BIPA, by collecting and storing people’s biometric, or biologically derived, information without complying with the consent and notice procedures mandated by the law.

In the suit against Wow Bao and Lettuce Entertain You, the plaintiff has alleged the restaurant violated the BIPA by improperly collecting and storing customers’ facial scans through self-order kiosks.  Continue reading “Two More Companies Sued Under Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act”

ABC News

A judge on Tuesday dismissed criminal charges against the engineer in an Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia that killed eight people, citing a lack of evidence in a case that prosecutors initially refused to pursue.

Brandon Bostian, 34, had faced charges that included involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment after his Washington-to-New York train rounded a curve at more than twice the speed limit and flew off the tracks in a violent derailment that crumpled cars and flung passengers into the woods. About 200 people were hurt.  Continue reading “Judge tosses charges against Amtrak engineer in deadly wreck”

Reuters – by Devika Krishna Kumar

HOUSTON, Sept 12 (Reuters) – Texas has launched aerial attacks on mosquitoes swarming coastal regions of the state and threatening to spread disease and hinder disaster recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.

U.S. Air Force C-130 cargo planes began spraying insecticides over three eastern Texas counties over the weekend and will expand to other areas over the next two weeks, officials from the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) said. About 1.85 million acres have been treated as of Tuesday, according to the department.   Continue reading “Texas calls in U.S. Air Force to counter post-storm surge in mosquitoes”

A lawsuit turned out not to be necessary. An HSLDA attorney contacted the busybody the next day on Hope’s behalf and persuaded him to abandon the unreasonable (and illegal) parts of his demands. (Just click on the second link in article above for the details.)

Intellectual Takeout – by Annie Holmquist

The Great Solar Eclipse of 2017 was met with a variety of responses by schools across the country. Some announced they would close for the day for fear that the children under their care would accidentally look at the sun and encounter eye damage. Others remained open out of fear that children would not be safe at home by themselves during the great event.   Continue reading “Homeschool Mom Receives Visit from the State Over Field Trip”

The Daily Sheeple – by John W Whitehead

“I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking life.”—Osama bin Laden (October 2001)

Ironically, during the same week that we mark the 16^th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we find ourselves commemorating the 230^th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution.   Continue reading “Let’s Make America Free Again: 230 Years After The Constitution, We’re Walking A Dangerous Road”

Gateway Pundit – by Carter

Psycho Hillary Clinton was so peeved about the media coverage over her private email server that she was considering making voodoo dolls in the image of “certain members” of the news and Congress with the intention of “[sticking] them full of pins.”

That sounds sane . . .   Continue reading “Hillary Clinton Wanted to Make ‘Voodoo Dolls’ of Reporters, Lawmakers to Stick Them With Pins”

Breitbart – by John Nolte

You and I, meaning Normal People, we look at our Thought Leaders, our Media and Cultural Overlords, our Ruling Class, and oftentimes wonder how they can be so venal and dishonest in pursuit of what they want — and what they want most of all is control over the lives of us Normal People, those of us who do not want to control anyone. We just want to be left alone.

How many times have we asked, How do they live with themselves? All the lies they tell, the innocent people they destroy, the fake news they publish, the character assassination, the stoking of racial conflict, the hate campaigns, the advocating of violence, the unending cultural bigotry against those of us just minding our own business… How do they sleep at night?   Continue reading “Gatekeeper of DC Society Sally Quinn Comes Out as Occultist, Used Hex to Kill People”