Tom Danehy: Tom's old questions of 2019 make way for his new questions of 2020 (Tucson Weekly)
New Question: What does Donald Trump have on Lindsey Graham? Graham was one of Trump's most vocal critics back in 2016, but now...it's really embarrassing. The late Emil Franzi used to say that a (male) politician should never get caught with a live boy or a dead girl. Lord only knows what Trump has on Graham. There's just no way that the Senator would have negotiated that 180 with a g-force of 12 without some serious outside motivation.
Helaine Olen: Trump just gave away the Republican game on Social Security and Medicare (Washington Post)
During an interview with CNBC on Wednesday, Trump was asked, "[Would] entitlements ever be on your plate?" Entitlements are, of course, Washington-speak for Medicare and Social Security. Trump responded, "At some point they will be," adding, "It'll be toward the end of the year." Just in case Trump misunderstood, Joe Kernen followed up, reminding him this was something he had "said you wouldn't do in the past" and specifically mentioning Medicare. Trump cut him off. "Well, we're going to look."
"Once upon a time there was an engineer,
Choo-Choo Charlie was his name we hear.
He had an engine and it sure was fun,
He used _______?_______, to make his train run."
Good & Plenty is a brand of licorice candy. The candy is a narrow cylinder of sweet black licorice, coated in a hard candy shell to form a capsule shape. The pieces are colored bright pink and white and presented in a purple box or bag.
Good & Plenty was first produced by the Quaker City Confectionery Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1893 and is believed to be the oldest branded candy in the United States.
Beginning around 1950, a cartoon character named "Choo-Choo Charlie" appeared in Good & Plenty television commercials. Choo-Choo Charlie was a railroad engineer. He would shake a box of the candy in a circular motion, imitating a train's pushrods and making a sound like a train. Advertising executive Russ Alben wrote the "Choo-Choo Charlie" jingle based on the popular song "The Ballad of Casey Jones".
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"Once upon a time there was an engineer,
Choo-Choo Charlie was his name we hear.
He had an engine and it sure was fun,
He used Good & Plenty candy, to make his train run.
Charlie says, 'Love my Good & Plenty!'
Charlie says, 'Really rings the bell!'
Charlie says, 'Love my Good & Plenty!'
Don't know any other candy, that I love so well!'"
Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Good 'N Plenty.
Alan J answered:
Good & Plenty Candy.
mj wrote:
The one candy I dreaded in my bag on Halloween
The licorice bits with the cloying sugar coating were pink and white
nightmares. I despised Good and Plenty.
zorch said:
He used Good 'n Plenty to make his train run.
Cal in Vermont replied:
Choo-Choo Charlie used Good & Plenty Candy to make his train run.
Deborah responded:
Oh, I know this: Good 'n' Plenty, a pink and white licorice candy. I hate licorice, so I found G & P disgusting, but my siblings liked them.
Warm almost to springtime temps. Nice, but nobody's ready for it.
Dave wrote:
Good and Plenty candy.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Good & Plenty candy
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, replied:
Good & Plenty candy.
Daniel in The City responded:
Good n Plenty
Rosemary in Columbus wrote:
Good & Plenty candy
Never heard this jingle in my life.
Billy in Cypress U$A said:
I had to look this one up since I had never heard the jingle or any other advertising for the "Good & Plenty candy". And, if I had, I would not have wanted it since I am not a fan of licorice.
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Song: "Dead Bikini" from the album SONIC NIGHTMARE
Artist: Sonic Nightmare
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Info: "Sonic Nightmare is an amazing international trio with a monster (El Huergo), a demon (Faust Federel) & a churchman (Rev. Jesse Custer) playing instrumental horror surf music!"
Price: Name Your Price (Includes FREE) for eight-track album
• Judy Blume has written a number of books about the lovable boy called Fudge, who is based on her son Larry when he was young. Judy and a grown-up Larry once ate dinner with a little boy whose father read to him from the Fudge books each night. The little boy's father said to the little boy, "Do you know who this is? This is Judy Blume, who writes the Fudge books." The little boy's jaw dropped. Judy then said about Larry, "And guess who this is?" Larry said, "I was Fudge." The little boy's jaw dropped further.
• World-famous make-up artist Kevyn Aucoin wrote three books. In his book Making Faces, he used his mother, Thelma, and his sisters, Carla and Kim, as models. After the book was published, people approached Thelma, Carla, and Kim and asked them for autographs. The book became a bestseller, and Kevyn was amused: "I'm a high school dropout with a New York Times bestseller, so the irony of that is hilarious.
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• In January 2011, Cynthia Mello's water broke in Hartford, Connecticut. The weather was very bad and very snowy, but she needed to get to the hospital to give birth. She said, "I didn't think we were going to make it to the hospital on time. I told my husband to start shoveling the driveway. He came back in minutes later and told me there was too much snow." Her husband called 911, but of course the snow was a problem for the ambulance as well as for regular automobiles. What to do? Some people are problem-solvers, and this problem was solved. The ambulance made it to their home, and so did a snowplow. Mrs. Mello said, "The ambulance driver told me he had such a hard time getting to us. We live up on a hill, and they had a plow with them leading the way. The driver led us all the way to the hospital." They made it to the hospital, but the trip took two hours instead of the usual 20 minutes. Mrs. Mello said, "We were on I-84, and there were four tractor-trailers that had jackknifed. We had to turn around and take back roads to the hospital." Without the snowplow, they never would have made it. Pat McDonald, a nurse, said, "She called the ambulance because her water broke, and the next thing we know we have a snowplow leading her in the ambulance so she can have her baby on time." Baby Jack was born in the hospital, and he was immediately given a nickname: Jack Frost. (In a comment on this story, Bedford Brown wrote about a similar incident. At 2:30 a.m. on 27 January 2011, her son, Danny Brown, who lives in Danbury, Connecticut, called 911 because his wife, Stacey, was having labor pains. Mr. and Mrs. Brown received lots of help. An ambulance arrived, along with the Danbury Fire and Police departments, and fourcity snowplows to clear the way to the hospital, where a baby girl, Cameron Noelle Brown, was born at 5:42 a.m. Mother, daughter, and father are all doing well.)
• As a famous comedian who performed in nightclubs, Danny Thomas traveled a lot. Often, his family would visit him for long weekends, staying in suites provided by the nightclub - Danny was a headliner. During one weekend visit, Danny was eager to be with his wife, but Tony, their son, developed a cold, and his wife insisted on sleeping in one of the twin beds in Tony's bedroom so that she could keep an eye on him. This went on for a couple of nights, with Danny becoming more and more frustrated. The morning of the third day, Tony was playing with a bucket of sand and a shovel, and he suddenly threw the bucket off the terrace, and the bucket dropped 12 stories to the ground. This frightened Danny, who told Tony, "Bad boy! Don't you know you could have hurt somebody by throwing that bucket off the terrace? Now go to your room and be quiet until I tell you to come out!" Tony started for his room, and then he turned around and said to his father, "Just for that, tonight she sleeps with me." Danny laughed and gave Tony a kiss. Tony's sister Marlo says about her brother, "Four years old and the kid's timing was impeccable."
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Hawaii Five-0', followed by a FRESH'Magnum PU', then a FRESH'Blue Bloods'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Edie Falco and Fortune Feimster.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 1/13/20) are Rachel Brosnahan and RuPaul.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Lincoln Rhymes: Hunt For The Bone Collector', followed by the FRESH'The Road To F9: Fast & Furious Fan Fest', then 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Ewan McGregor, Fran Lebowitz, and Mustard & Roddy Ricch.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 1/21/20) are Aidy Bryant, the Jonas Brothers, Rep. Eric Swalwell, and Adam Marcello.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 1/20/20) is Awkwafina.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'American Housewife', followed by a FRESH'Fresh Off The Boat', then '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 1/23/20) are Kumail Nanjiani and Sting.
The CW offers a FRESH'Charmed', followed by a FRESH'Dynasty'.
Faux fills the night with FRESH'WWE Friday Night SmackDown'.
MY recycles an old 'CSI: Miami', followed by another old 'CSI: Miami'.
A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', then a FRESH'Live PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen', followed by the movie 'Elysium', then the movie 'Deep Impact'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY - Space Rabbit
[7:00AM] DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY - Fans of Wet Circles
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - The Empty Child-Part 1.
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - The Doctor Dances-Part 2.
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Boom Town
[11:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Bad Wolf-Part 1.
[12:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - The Parting Of the Ways-Part 2.
[1:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Utopia
[2:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - The Sound Of Drums-Part 1.
[3:05PM] DOCTOR WHO - Last of the Time Lords-Part 2.
[4:10PM] DOCTOR WHO - The Stolen Earth-Part 1.
[5:15PM] DOCTOR WHO - Journey's End-Part 2.
[6:20PM] DOCTOR WHO - Ep 5
[7:30PM] THE PATRIOT (2000)
[11:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW
[12:00AM] MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR (1981)
[2:01AM] ENDER'S GAME (2013)
[4:33AM] DOCTOR WHO - Ep 5
[5:44AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - The Ant, An Introduction (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'Just Friends', followed by the movie 'The Replacements', then the movie 'The Replacements', again.
Comedy Central has 2 hours of old 'South Park', followed by 'The Comedy Central Roast Of Justin Bieber'.
FX has the movie 'Transformers: The Last Knight', followed by the movie 'American Made', then the movie 'American Made', again.
History has 'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'Ancient Aliens: Declassified'.
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[6:00A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Spring
[6:30A] National Lampoon's European Vacation
[8:30A] National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
[10:45A] Vegas Vacation
[12:45P] National Lampoon's Vacation
[3:00P] That '70s Show
[3:30P] That '70s Show
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[7:30P] Two and a Half Men
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[9:30P] Two and a Half Men
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men
[1:00A] That '70s Show
[1:30A] That '70s Show
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[2:30A] That '70s Show
[3:00A] That '70s Show
[3:30A] That '70s Show
[4:00A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Spring
[4:30A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Playhouse in Outer-Space
[5:00A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Spring
[5:30A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Playhouse in Outer-Space (ALL TIMES EST)
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[6:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:00am] Ministry of Evil: The Twisted Cult of Tony Alamo - Episode 1
[10:00am] Ministry of Evil: The Twisted Cult of Tony Alamo - Episode 2
[11:00am] Ministry of Evil: The Twisted Cult of Tony - Episode 3
[12:00pm] Ministry of Evil: The Twisted Cult of Tony Alamo - Episode 4
[1:02pm] Law & Order
[2:01pm] Law & Order
[3:00pm] Law & Order
[4:00pm] Law & Order
[5:00pm] Law & Order
[6:00pm] Law & Order
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[11:00pm] Law & Order
[12:00am] Law & Order
[1:00am] Law & Order
[2:00am] Law & Order
[3:00am] Stir Crazy
[5:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:30am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Hancock', followed by the movie 'King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword'.
Jim Carrey says his days of making politically-motivated pictures of President Donald Trump (R-Unfit) are over.
"To me, that was like a time, and it's been a time, where I just wanted to be the lighthouse that was saying, 'Hey, stay off the rocks, you're headed for the rocks,'" Carrey told Yahoo Entertainment while doing press for his new film "Sonic the Hedgehog."
"We're still headed for the rocks, but I've decided, 'You understand my message, I don't need to be steeped in it anymore.' I think after a while … you get stuck in that kind of stuff."
"What I want to tell people is, 'It's never been a matter of hating anyone,'" Carrey said. "I can sit down with anybody in this country and break bread. I love people. To me, I think we got tricked by politicians and by weird corporate concerns to believe that disagreement is hatred. And I will never go for that."
After claiming that the rumors were "fake news," he shared a clip of him and Justin Bieber filming a "Carpool Karaoke" segment. The clip showed that Corden was not driving the car - the SUV was instead being towed by a production truck.
"I know this looks bad. But I just want to say right now that I always drive the car unless we're doing something where we think it might not be safe, like a dance routine or a costume change, you know. Or if I'm drunk," he said. "But in the case of Justin Bieber, it was a safety issue, where we thought it was best to tow the car. Frankly, I just kept getting lost in his eyes."
Corden noted that the viral video garnered over 13 million views, which is more than some of his "Carpool Karaoke" segments. He added that the clip caused a "media frenzy" and shared headlines that called him a liar.
A newly discovered neon-green spider that uses math to build its incredibly precise and consistent webs has just been named after the "Lady Gaga of mathematics." The bright-green arachnid is part of the orb-weaver spider family (Araneidae), whose members "tend to build beautiful and architecturally aesthetic webs" that look like they adhere to the golden ratio, study lead researcher Alireza Zamani, a doctoral student in the Biodiversity Unit at the University of Turku in Finland, told Live Science.
In fact, a close relative - the garden orb-weaver spider (Araneus diadematus) - creates about 30 radial threads (the spoke-like lines extending from the web's middle) that form "an astonishingly constant angle of about 15 degrees, which the spider carefully measures using its front legs," Zamani said.
The newfound spider has similarly precise webs, he noted. To highlight the spider's fastidious weaving, Zamani named the newly discovered species Araniella villanii, after French mathematician Cédric Villani - the winner of the 2010 Fields Medal, a prize awarded to mathematicians under the age of 40. Villani is also apparently a huge spider fan.
"Villani's love for spiders is evident by the constant presence of a spider brooch on his lapel," Zamani said. "Although he has never explained the reason behind his appreciation of these arachnids, we decided to make a connection between them in real life and name a mathematical spider after the spider-man mathematic!"
The infamously aloof Mr. Darcy had a hard time attracting members of the opposite sex in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. But the same cannot be said for a sex pheromone named for him, called darcin. In a new study, a Columbia University-led team of researchers has now uncovered the process by which this protein takes hold in the brains of female mice, giving cells in the brain's emotion center the power to assess the mouse's sexual readiness and help her select a mate.
These findings, published today in Nature, illustrate the power of a single protein to change the brain and drive behavior. They also demonstrate how a cluster of cells in one brain area integrates information from the outside world with the animal's own internal state.
"Pheromones act as powerful scent messages to signal the presence of danger, food or prospective mates," said Ebru Demir, PhD, the paper's first author. "With today's study, we've mapped the route that the pheromone darcin takes from the nose to the brain, bringing much-needed understanding to the mechanisms by which animals use scents to communicate," added Dr. Demir, who is an associate research scientist in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Richard Axel, MD, at Columbia's Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute.
While the existence of pheromones in humans is controversial, rodents and many other animals rely on pheromones as a way to signal everything from potential danger to a willingness to mate.
Darcin is one such pheromone, discovered in 2010 by Robert Beynon, PhD, and Jane Hurst, PhD, and their team at the University of Liverpool. Dr. Hurst and her colleagues found that male mice release darcin in their urine to mark their territory and to initiate courtship displays. Sniffing a male's darcin helps a female to both identify him and decide whether to mate with him. This entire process is initiated in a biologically unusual way.
The lawyers of E Jean Carroll have asked Donald Trump to provide a DNA sample after the celebrated journalist publicly accused the president of raping her. They want to compare it with an unidentified male sample on a dress Carroll wore to a New York department store in the mid-1990s. This is according to an exclusive report from the Associated Press, which was published as the president's lawyers stood in front of the Senate and defended him against being removed from office.
Carroll claims the president pulled down her tights in a Manhattan dressing room, and raped her. "The Donna Karan coat-dress still hangs on the back of my closet door, unworn and unlaundered since that evening," she wrote in a New York magazine piece last June. Trump denies this ever happened, and says she's "not his type".
It will never cease to be unbelievable to write, but this is of course not the first time an American president has been asked for DNA in order to compare with a woman's soiled dress. In 1998, Bill Clinton was asked to provide exactly this by Ken Starr.
Yes, Ken Starr - Trump's very own partisan guard dog. The man who - without even a hint of irony - recently claimed that impeachment has become nothing more than "a weapon to be wielded against one's political opponent." The man who pushed for Clinton to be removed from office. The man whose report stated that having an extramarital affair was enough for a president to lose his job.
The fact that the same man can demand a sample from one president and lambast him for his affair then defend another president accused of rape shows just how little politics cares about allegations of sexual misconduct. Whenever a politician is accused of such things, the alleged victims become pawns in a game of chess us girls aren't allowed to play. Their voices are often drowned out in favor of brazen, blatant, embarrassing party politics, with people like Starr leading the pack.
The German cabinet on Wednesday backed plans to exit coal as an energy source by 2038 as part of efforts by Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition to protect the climate and restore its green credentials.
The government is spurring a shift toward renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power with exits from nuclear power by 2022 and coal-fueled power sources by 2038.
"This is not just an exit from coal, it's an entry into renewable energy," Environment Minister Svenja Schulze told reporters.
Of the coal exit, she said: "We will cut a quarter of all CO2 emissions in Germany - that is a very important sign, internationally too, that Germany is taking its responsibility here."
Germany aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 55% of its 1990 level by 2030. Last year, Merkel acknowledged her coalition's credibility on climate policy had been hurt by abandoning an earlier 2020 emissions cut target.
Amateur astronomers have helped discover a new kind of northern lights, known as "dunes".
Citizen scientists teamed up with space researchers to find the "new auroral form", which consists of spectacular glowing waves.
The "dunes" are thought to be created when particles released by the sun cause oxygen atoms in our atmosphere to light up and glow.
While the northern lights are often seen as one phenomenon, they are something like clouds: there are a whole host of different kinds, each of which are formed in their own particular ways.
The new discovery began when the University of Helsinki's Minna Palmroth looked to collect these different kinds of northern lights, in collaboration with enthusiasts. Those hobbyists took photographs of thousands of different examples of the northern lights, which she picked through and categorised for a book to guide those watching the aurora borealis.
The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers. Week of (January 29, 2020:
1. Elton John; $3,281,046; $141.53.
2. Post Malone; $2,087,130; $118.90.
3. Andrea Bocelli; $2,026,131; $158.40.
4. Celine Dion; $1,790,539; $130.09.
5. Little Mix; $1,757,761; $59.03.
6. Cher; $1,597,688; $127.90.
7. André Rieu; $1,553,998; $87.28.
8. Jonas Brothers; $1,531,669; $101.16.
9. Tool; $1,528,793; $106.51.
10. Ariana Grande; $1,525,498; $102.60.
11. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band; $1,519,110; $119.17.
12. Eric Church; $1,475,153; $87.24.
13. John Mayer; $1,339,702; $78.36.
14. Michael Bublé; $1,214,470; $105.11.
15. Marc Anthony; $1,148,820; $106.39.
16. Shawn Mendes; $1,131,851; $74.19.
17. Bad Bunny; $1,069,129; $87.70.
18. Chris Stapleton; $1,029,320; $79.88.
19. Hugh Jackman; $973,643; $83.08.
20. The Black Keys; $923,429; $101.81.
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