Marc Dion: Shaving to the Bone (Creators Syndicate)
In World War I, when the combatants hunkered down fearfully in miles of opposing trenches, everything took on the name of the trench. There was trench foot, a disease, and a weapon called a trench knife. And there was trench shaving.
Ted Rall: Bernie Should Own the Socialism Label (Creators Syndicate)
If nothing else, even if he loses, Bernie could rehabilitate socialism as an acceptable economic alternative. In the long run, that would be a greater accomplishment than anything he could accomplish in eight years as president.
Froma Harrop: Nevada Nastiness Could Hurt Sanders (Creators Syndicate)
"Harassment of all forms is unacceptable to me," Sanders recently said, "and we urge supporters of all campaigns not to engage in bullying or ugly personal attacks." But supporters of all campaigns aren't engaging in bullying or ugly personal attacks. Just his. I'm convinced that the Bernie brutes played a part in Sanders' mediocre performance in Iowa and New Hampshire. Sanders was supposed to win handily in both. Such conduct may dampen an expected Sanders win in the Nevada caucuses.
Froma Harrop: Before Fixing Tomorrow, Democrats Must Fix Today (Creators Syndicate)
Like all candidates, Democrats focus their campaigns on what they will do if elected. Progressives often accuse Joe Biden in particular of wanting to take America back to the Barack Obama years. And it's true that Biden often portrays his candidacy as a restoration of the era in which he served as Obama's vice president. But that's not a bad stance for any of the Democrats to take. They and their followers must understand that to move forward, America must first move back. The next president must reverse much of the damage President Donald Trump has wrought. The work will be considerable.
Mark Shields: Improving Debates (Creators Syndicate)
Nobody is ever going to ask me to ask questions in a presidential debate. But that doesn't stop me from having questions I would like to have asked. Here are a few: Without mentioning the name of any opponent, tell the nation - in two minutes - why, of the 329 million of us Americans, you should be the president of the United States.
Lenore Skenazy: America's Favorite Story (Creators Syndicate)
A Springfield, Ohio, man spotted a van - guess what color - that he thought was trying to kidnap a girl, and he ran off to chase it in the most modern of ways: livestreaming the whole thing on Facebook. The van got away, but the man posted the video, which went locally viral. Here we must commend Springfield's WHIO TV 7 for checking to see if, indeed, there had been any substantiated reports of actual or near-kidnappings. Police lieutenant Lou Turner told reporter Katy Andersen that the cops had received not a single complaint. Let's hear it for a reality check!
This popular American novelist and short-story writer was born Louis Dearborn LaMoore in Jamestown, North Dakota. By what name is he more famously known?
Canasta (Spanish for "basket") is a card game of the rummy family of games believed to be a variant of 500 Rum. Although many variations exist for two, three, five or six players, it is most commonly played by four in two partnerships with two standard decks of cards. Players attempt to make melds of seven cards of the same rank and "go out" by playing all cards in their hand. It is the only partnership member of the family of Rummy games to achieve the status of a classic.
The game of Canasta was devised by Segundo Santos and Alberto Serrato in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1939. In the 1940s the game quickly spread in myriad variations to Chile, Peru, Brazil and Argentina, where its rules were further refined before being introduced to the United States in 1949 by Josefina Artayeta de Viel (New York), where it was then referred to as the Argentine Rummy game by Ottilie H. Reilly in 1949 and Michael Scully of Coronet magazine in 1953. In 1949/51 the New York Regency Club[9] wrote the Official Canasta Laws, which were published together with game experts from South America by the National Canasta Laws Commissions of the USA and Argentina.
Canasta became rapidly popular in the United States in the 1950s with many card sets, card trays and books being produced. Interest in the game began to wane there during the 1960s, but the game still enjoys some popularity today, with Canasta leagues and clubs still existing in several parts of the United States.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Uruguay.
Mac Mac said:
Montevideo, Uruguay
Cal in Vermont wrote:
Canasta is one of the rummy family of card games. It was devised in 1939 by people with time on their hands in Montevideo, Uruguay thus becoming the first "video" game. I will see myself out...
Alan J answered:
Uruguay.
Dave replied:
Uruguay.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Canasta is a card game from Uruguay.
Deborah wrote:
I looked this up - I've heard of Canasta but never played - and read that it's a form of 500 Rummy. One summer in high school my brother and I picked blueberries at our cousin's blueberry farm in South Jersey. When we were rained out we played cards. That summer we played 500 Rummy to 10,000,and it was fun and crazy. And now I want to learn Canasta.
Oh, apparently it comes from Uruguay. I had no idea.
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• Baseball manager Casey Stengel was known for speaking Stengelese, which occasionally sounded like sensible speech but often was not. Following an interview with Mr. Stengel, Joe McGuff, a sports reporter, asked Ernest Mehl, a sports editor, "What did he say?" Mr. Mehl replied, "I haven't the faintest idea, but it must be a heck of a story, and I'm going to write it."
• Ludwig van Beethoven was capable of making good puns and of giving credit where is due. After hearing an overture by Carl Maria von Weber, he said, "S'ist eben gewebt" or, in English, "It is nicely woven." ("Weber" means "weaver.")
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• Kevyn Aucoin had adventures in makeup even before becoming a rich and famous Hollywood makeup artist.
1) When he was in the 7th grade, a friend named Michelle came to class with new and interesting eyes that sparkled and glistened. He was amazed and asked, "What did you do to your eyes?" She replied, "I plucked my eyelashes." He thought that if that had worked for her, it would surely work for him, so he plucked a few eyelashes with painful and swollen results. Of course, he soon realized that Michelle had plucked her eyebrows, not eyelashes.
2) When he was even younger, he and his brother often played outside and got mosquito bites, resulting in the application of an anti-itch calamine lotion that dried into a cakey paste with a whitish-pink color. When his mother took him shopping for school clothes, young Kevyn saw a woman who seemed as if she had been bitten by many mosquitoes and had to smear calamine lotion all over her face. He said, "Ma'am, look! My legs have calamine lotion all over them, too!" His mother hushed him and took him outside, where she explained that the woman had been wearing foundation makeup, not calamine lotion. As an adult, Kevyn realized that the choices in makeup in 1967 were quite limited.
3) The adult Kevyn learned that applying liquid eyeliner to your own eyes can be quite difficult. He once tried to teach his mother to do that with the result that she used up a large bottle of makeup remover. Actually, the two - mother and son - used up two large bottles of makeup remover. Kevyn was used to applying liquid eyeliner to other people's eyes, and he did not believe that applying it to your own eyes would be difficult, so his mother made him try to apply it to his own eyes.
4) The very young Kevyn once got into the family medicine cabinet in search of his mother's orange lipstick, which he thought would taste like candy. He took a bite and discovered that it did not taste like candy, then he tried to give the lipstick the shape it had had before he took a bite out of it. The lipstick ended up in one hand, and the lipstick tube ended up in another hand. One thing led to another, and the adult Kevyn wished that he had a photograph of his mother when she walked into the bathroom and discovered that everything was orange.
The attached made me laugh for no reason at all. Predator makes life so stressful & awful that I take laughs where I can find them.
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We are all only temporarily able bodied.
Thanks, Linda!
FWIW, that hairstyle is a Chonmage, commonly associated with samurai, and more recently, with sumo - and that reminds me, only 2 weeks until the next basho!
Some rolling thunder and a brief, intense downpour, all while the sun shone.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night, as usual, with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'God Friended Me', then a FRESH'NCIS: The Expendable One', followed by a FRESH'NCIS: The 3rd One'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'America's Got Talent: The Champions', followed by a FRESH'Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist', then a FRESH'Good Girls'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'American Idol', then a FRESH'The Rookie'.
The CW offers a FRESH'Batwoman', followed by a FRESH'Supergirl'.
Faux has a RERUN'Lego Masters', followed by a FRESH'The Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'Duncanville', then a FRESH'Bob's Burgers', followed by a FRESH'Family Guy'.
MY recycles an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
A&E has the movie 'White House Down', followed by the movie 'Hacksaw Ridge'.
AMC offers 3 hours of old 'The Walking Dead', followed by a FRESH'Better Call Saul', then a FRESH'Talking Dead'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - Dinsdale
[6:45AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - The Naked Ant
[7:30AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - Untitled
[8:15AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - Full Frontal Nudity
[9:00AM] PREMIER LEAGUE DARTS 2020 - Episode 3
[10:00AM] MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR (1981)
[12:00PM] CLOVERFIELD
[2:00PM] X-MEN: THE LAST STAND (2005)
[4:30PM] TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN (2009)
[8:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Ascension of the Cybermen
[9:11PM] TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN (2009)
[12:40AM] X-MEN: THE LAST STAND (2005)
[3:10AM] DOCTOR WHO - Ascension of the Cybermen
[4:20AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - The War Against Pornography
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - For the Uniform (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', then a FRESH'Shahs Of Sunset', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Father Figures', followed by the movie 'The Hangover', then the movie 'Horrible Bosses 2'.
FX has the movie 'Despicable Me 3', followed by the movie 'Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle'.
History has all old 'The Men Who Built America' all night.
IFC -
[6:15A] Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
[8:15A] Grindhouse Presents: Death Proof
[10:45A] Mortal Kombat
[1:00P] Mission: Impossible II
[4:00P] Argo
[6:45P] Homefront
[9:00P] American Sniper
[12:00A] Argo
[2:45A] Homefront
[5:00A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Miss Yvonne's Visit
[5:30A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Rebarella (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00am] Law & Order
[7:00am] Law & Order
[8:00am] Law & Order
[9:00am] Law & Order
[10:00am] Malcolm X
[2:30pm] Roots: The Gift
[4:30pm] Ghosts of Mississippi
[7:30pm] The Color Purple
[11:00pm] The Color Purple
[2:30am] Roots: The Gift
[4:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:30am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Gods Of Egypt', followed by the movie 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider'.
Clint Eastwood, who spoke at the 2012 Republican National Convention and endorsed Donald Trump (R-Slovenly) in 2016, is apparently switching sides, endorsing Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg.
The 89-year-old actor/director was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal on a wide range of topics, but his most surprising was the political endorsement he handed out.
"The best thing we could do is just get Mike Bloomberg in there," Eastwood said. He claimed to be a Libertarian who respected other ideas, but said he would like to see President Donald Trump act "in a more genteel way, without tweeting and calling people names."
"I would personally not like for him [Trump] to not bring himself to that level," Eastwood said.
Hundreds of people including Roger Waters, co-founder of the Pink Floyd rock group, and designer Vivienne Westwood, marched through central London on Saturday demanding that jailed Wikileaks founder Julian Assange be released.
A London court begins hearings on Monday to decide whether the Australian-born Assange should be extradited to the United States, almost a decade after WikiLeaks enraged Washington by publishing secret U.S. documents.
The 48-year-old, who spent seven years holed up in Ecuador's London embassy before being dragged out last April, is wanted by the U.S. on 18 criminal counts of conspiring to hack government computers and violating an espionage law and could spend decades in prison if convicted.
A hero to admirers who say he has exposed abuses of power, Assange is cast by critics as a dangerous enemy of the state who has undermined Western security. He says the extradition is politically motivated by those embarrassed by his revelations.
Waving placards declaring "Journalism is not a crime" and "The truth will set you free", the protesters on Saturday marched from Australia House to Parliament Square where they were addressed by Assange's father, John Shipton.
Quentin Tarantino is a dad! The Oscar-winning filmmaker, 56, welcomed his first child - a baby boy! - with wife Daniella on Saturday.
"Daniella and Quentin Tarantino are happy to announce the birth of their first child," his rep said in a statement to TMZ and E! News.
The Jerusalem Post reported that the child was born in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Tarantino and Daniella, who is the daughter of Israeli singer and songwriter Tzvika Pick, first met in 2009 while the director was in Israel promoting his film, Inglourious Basterds.
They later got engaged in June 2017, and married in November 2018 in an intimate Los Angeles ceremony. Tarantino had never been married, previously explaining that work monopolizes his time.
'Mad' Mike Hughes has died after crashing his rocket while filming new series "Homemade Astronauts" for Science Channel. He was 64.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to Mike Hughes' family and friends during this difficult time," a Science Channel spokesperson said in a statement. "It was always his dream to do this launch, and Science Channel was there to chronicle his journey."
"Homemade Astronauts" is also following two other self-financed teams, led by amateur rocketmen Ky Michaelson and Cameron Smith.
Hughes and teammate Waldo Stakes were "working on a manned rocket to space, designing a 'Rock-oon' - part rocket, part balloon - that they hope to use to get Mike to the Karman line, the border between Earth's atmosphere and outer space at about 62 miles high," according to Science Channel's series description.
"To raise money and awareness for that pricey venture, they plan to first launch Mike 5,000 feet high in a steam-powered rocket," it continued.
Earlier this month, temperatures in Antarctica appeared to reach a record-breaking 64.9 degrees Fahrenheit, matching the temperature in Los Angeles that day. New images released by NASA show the dramatic ice melt caused by the heat wave, a phenomenon that is becoming more and more common in the peninsula.
NASA's Earth Observatory released two new images Friday by the Operational Land Imager on Landsat 8 that show the difference on the Eagle Island ice cap between February 4 and February 13.
The before-and-after snapshots show a dramatic decrease in ice and snow along the northern tip of the Antarctic peninsula. In the later shot, a large portion of the ground is visible, as are bright blue melted ponds in the center of the island.
Eagle Island is only about 25 miles from Argentina's Esperanza research base, which recorded the potentially record-high temperature on February 6. According to NASA climate models, the island experienced peak melt - about 1 inch - on that same day, leading to a loss of 4 inches total in a one-week period.
Eagle Island lost around 20% of seasonal snow accumulation in that single event, NASA said.
Greyhound, the nation's largest bus company, said Friday it will stop allowing Border Patrol agents without a warrant to board its buses to conduct routine immigration checks.
The company's announcement came one week after The Associated Press reported on a leaked Border Patrol memo confirming that agents can't board private buses without the consent of the bus company. Greyhound had previously insisted that even though it didn't like the immigration checks, it had no choice under federal law but to allow them.
In an emailed statement, the company said it would notify the Department of Homeland Security that it does not consent to unwarranted searches on its buses or in areas of terminals that are not open to the public - such as company offices or any areas a person needs a ticket to access.
Greyhound said it would provide its drivers and bus station employees updated training regarding the new policy, and that it would place stickers on all its buses clearly stating that it does not consent to the searches.
Greyhound has faced pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union, immigrant rights activists and Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson to stop allowing sweeps on buses within 100 miles (160 kilometers) of an international border or coastline. In many cases, the buses being checked were not crossing or even approaching an international boundary.
An 11-year-old girl who was allegedly raped by her brother gave birth at home, and now he and their parents are facing criminal charges.
The girl gave birth to a boy in a bathtub in St. Charles, Missouri, according to a probable cause statement.
Her biological brother, who is 17, was charged last week with incest, statutory rape and statutory sodomy of a person younger than 12, while her parents were charged with child endangerment. Police say the girl's parents did not provide medical care to their daughter after she gave birth.
The girl's father initially claimed the baby was his and had been dropped off on their porch by an ex-girlfriend. He later told investigators his daughter had given birth to the boy and that his son was the father, a probable cause statement states. The girl's parents claimed they were not aware she was pregnant or that she was allegedly being sexually assaulted by her brother, according to the statement.
During questioning, the brother told police he had sex with his sister about 100 times but did not know she was pregnant, according to a probable cause statement. He also said he did not know how long it had been going on for, the statement said.
Donald Trump Jr. (R-Feckless) has been granted the right to hunt a grizzly bear in northwestern Alaska near the Bering Sea town of Nome, a state official said on Friday.
The son of U.S. President Donald Trump (R-Fecked Up) was one of three people who applied for 27 spots for non-resident hunters targeting grizzlies in a designated region of northwestern Alaska's Seward Peninsula, said Eddie Grasser, the wildlife conservation director for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
The state conducts periodic drawings for permits to hunt bears, caribou, moose and other animals in various regions. Winners are chosen by a lottery, and there are typically many more applications than hunting tags awarded.
To follow through with the Nome-area bear hunt, Trump must pay a $1,000 non-resident tag fee and buy a $160 non-resident hunting license, Grasser said.
The Safari Club this month raffled off a $150,000 seven-day "dream hunt" expedition with Trump Jr. The raffle winner got the right to accompany the president's son on a yacht traveling in November along coastal areas of the Tongass National Forest.
India, the world's second-biggest gold consumer, has discovered gold fields with reserves of over 3,000 tonnes in its most populous northern state, a government official said on Saturday.
India mines between 2 to 3 tonnes of gold annually, relying on expensive imports to fulfil nearly all of its demand, which averaged 843 tonnes per year over the past 10 years.
Its hunger for gold - used extensively in jewellery, as offerings to Gods and in lavish weddings - cost India more than $31 billion on imports last year, making the metal its second-biggest import item after crude oil.
Federal and state departments have discovered traces of gold in northern Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra district after surveying the area for more than 10 years, said Roshan Jacob, the head of the mining department in Uttar Pradesh state.
The concentration level of gold in the area is about 3 grams per tonne of ore and the state is working with the Geological Survey of India to determine how much gold can be extracted from the fields, she added.
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