Gilead takes another step closer...Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images In states including North Dakota, Mississippi, Alabama and West Virginia, half or nearly half of residents support the view that Christians should dominate all areas of American society, including its...See More »
Remember all those rabid posts about Hunter Biden?"A former FBI informant charged with making up a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company had contacts with officials affiliated with Russian intelligence, prosecutors said in a court paper...See More »
For those who wonder about the Australian character... Article extract from the guardian about a statue found hidden in the archives of a Tasmanium museum... The sandstone statue dates from the 1830s The statue, created by a convict in the 1830s, depicts what researchers say is very probably Lieutenant...See More »
And in breaking news ...From the "what were they thinking " department... An Italian culture minister has been accused of having a torch painted on to a stolen 17th-century artwork so he could conceal it from investigators and keep it for himself. The oil painting,...See More »
An extract from a video Trump posted recently ..."A narrator intones: “God said, ‘I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, fix this country, work all day, fight the Marxists, eat supper, then go to the Oval Office and stay past midnight at a meeting of the heads of state,’” topping off a...See More »
And in breaking news...Rudy Giuliani files for bankruptcy with $225 million in debt Donald Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani has filed for bankruptcy, days after being ordered to pay $US148 million in a defamation lawsuit brought by two former election workers in...See More »
Dinner party guests...Who would you like to invite to a dinner party for some sparkling and heated conversation... I'm imagining the following. Karl Marx... For his views on communism as imagined Stalin. .. Communism as an excuse Henry Ford.. To try to counter the above...See More »
And in breaking news ....The Great Aussie Donut Heist bought to a sticky end .... Woman who stole 'truck filled with donuts' arrested after being on the run for more than 2 weeks A woman has been arrested and charged more than two weeks after she allegedly stole a truck...See More »
Scared yet?Former President Donald Trump and his allies are preparing for an aggressive expansion of his powers should he take back the White House. That includes more power to crack down on immigration and overhaul the Justice Department to punish opponents....See More »
And in breaking news ....Kentucky two-year-old’s high IQ makes her youngest female member of Mensa Isla McNabb’s ability to read back words written on an erasable tablet led her parents to contact Guinness World Records
Rednecks .... And derivationI saw here recently a question about redneck capitals.... Without looking it up, who knows where the term rednecks derives from.... Anyone?
I thought these lyrics rather pertanent right now ...Histories of ages past Unenlightened shadows cast Down through all eternity The crying of humanity 'Tis then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man Comes singing songs of love
For the romantics amongst us ... Unopened 18th-century love letters to French sailors read for first time, A forgotten bundle of love letters sent to French sailors more than 260 years ago – but never before opened or read – has been discovered among British naval archives,...See More »
A great example of attacking the wrong problemScience says teens need more sleep. So why is it so hard to start school later? Npr article... The problem is not school start time but kids spending all night on screens
I love it when someone comes up with a novel solution to a problem Curbside trash is a problem in NYC. Officials have a not-so-novel fix: plastic bins Thinking outside the box 🤣
Gilead gets one step closer...Mike Johnson, theocrat: the House speaker and a plot against America The new House speaker, Mike Johnson, knows how he will rule: according to his Bible. When asked on Fox News how he would make public policy, he replied: “Well, go pick up a Bible o...See More »
Little known horological fact ...Clocks are cleverly designed to hide the fact that the last hour of the working day contains 78 minutes. You're welcome