Garrison Keillor: Sitting in a boat on the Niagara River
Half the country seems fully committed to lousy public education and spotty health care and the freedom to pollute air, water, and soil as you please, leaving our children to face desperate crises by 2050 if not sooner.
Greg Sargent: New ads from Democrats hint at a strong argument against Trump (Washington Post)
It's been widely observed that to undermine President Trump on one of his key strengths - the good economy - Democrats will have to argue that despite the booming stock market and low unemployment rate, many people's daily experience of the economy continues to be pretty brutal. But there's another layer that Democrats might add to this argument that might make it more potent. They can also point out that Trump's nonstop boasting about the economy betrays a lack of awareness of this daily experience.
Paul Waldman: Why Trump is letting a corrupt Democrat out of prison (Washington Post)
So this spectacularly corrupt candidate accused his 2016 opponent of being "crooked." The man who had been accused of various degrees of sexual misconduct and assault by two dozen women held a news conference with women who had made similar accusations against Bill Clinton. And the president who appointed his own daughter and son-in-law to key White House positions argues that it's just awful that Joe Biden's son got to sit on a corporate board while his father was vice president. The point was never to say that he was innocent. It was to say that everyone's guilty. […] The worldview Trump wants us to accept is one in which there are no rules, no morals and no principles that must be obeyed.
"Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" is a 1969 song recorded by Sly and the Family Stone. The song, released as a double A-side single with "Everybody Is a Star", reached number one on the soul single charts for five weeks, and reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1970. Billboard ranked the record as the No. 19 song of 1970.
"Thank You" was intended to be included on an in-progress album with "Star" and "Hot Fun in the Summertime"; but the LP was never completed, and the three tracks were instead included on the band's 1970 Greatest Hits LP. "Thank You" and "Star", the final Family Stone recordings issued in the 1960s, marked the beginning of a 20-month gap of releases from the band, which would finally end with the release of "Family Affair" in 1971.
The song was ranked number 402 on Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
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Sly and the Family Stone. I had no idea and had to play it on Youtube but I remember the song. I never knew the full title. The group formed in 1966, and included Sylvester Stewart (Sly Stone) and a brother a sister and others, and had great success for a time. As one of the most successful pop bands of 1969, Sly and the Family Stone played at Woodstock. The original lineup broke up in 1975, leaving Sly Stone to continue on with other bandmates until 1983. Sly had "drug problems" and virtually retired in 1987. Regardless of his drug use, Stone is still alive at age 76. Nine years ago he was living in a van parked on the street in Compton, CA. A few years ago he lost a court fight for royalties he claimed he was owed. Unknown if he's still homeless?
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The Royal Baeby is Storeetellers' first full-length album.
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• One of the heroes of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting was Waleed Shaalan, a 32-year-old engineering graduate student and Muslim who came to the United States from northern Egypt. Randy Dymond, a civil engineering professor at Virginia Tech, said that an email from a student who wished to be anonymous, but who was in the same room with Mr. Shaalan when the gunman attacked, told the story of Mr. Shaalan's heroism. Mr. Shaalan was badly wounded, but the student who later emailed Mr. Dymond was unharmed and played dead as he lay by Mr. Shaalan. The gunman left the room but later returned and looked around. Just as the gunman was about to discover the unharmed student, Mr. Shaalan deliberately attracted the gunman's attention. The gunman shot and murdered Mr. Shaalan, and he left the room, leaving the unharmed student alone. Mr. Dymond says that the anonymous student wanted the story to be known "so that the family of Waleed understands the sacrifice." Hearing Mr. Dymond's account of Mr. Shaalan's last moments of life, Mr. Shaalan's mother said, "He was trying to save someone else."At Virginia Tech, Mr. Shaalan was active in the Muslim Student Association.
• In 1986, the Crites family took off in a Cessna 172 airplane from Banff National Park in Canada. However, the winds were high and the airplane crashed in a stream soon after takeoff. Dr. Darrell Crites, who was piloting, and his wife, Gloria, were killed instantly. Their two daughters, six-year-old Tammy and 11-year-old Korrina, were still alive. Korrina was badly injured with a broken jawbone, wrist, and cheekbone and fractured skull; Tammy had a broken collarbone. Korrina could barely move, so Tammy used luggage to float Korrina to shore. Korrina could not move any further, so Tammy set out to find help. She walked through the woods, shouting for help. Three women hikers heard her, but they couldn't find her, so they telephoned Scott Ward, the park warden, who used a helicopter to find Tammy, who then led him to Korrina. Mr. Ward said later, "When the plane crashed, her father's body was lying on top of Korrina. Apparently, Tammy pulled her sister out from under her father, got her up onto the creek bank and then headed off for help. Isn't that something for a 6 1/2-year-old girl?"
• On Friday, 4 February 2011, a mentally ill Hispanic man started stalking Sabrina Scott, an African-American single mother in a New York subway. Ms. Scott said, "I tried to get away, and he started chasing me. I panicked." As he chased her, the mentally ill man hissed, "Are you scared of me?" Ms. Scott cried out for help, which arrived in the form of a tall African-American man wearing a baseball cap and headphones. As the two men fought, Ms. Scott fell onto the subway tracks. When she regained consciousness, paramedics were taking care of her. The Good Samaritan who had come to her aid had chased off the mentally ill man and then had gotten Ms. Scott off the subway tracks before he himself left.While recovering in the Bellevue Hospital Intensive Care Ward with a concussion and a dislocated thumb, Ms. Scott said, "I want to say thank you to whoever it was. I have a son that I need to be here for, so thank God I'm still alive. Thank God." Ms. Scott's father, Ben, said about the Good Samaritan, "He really saved my daughter. We're all so glad that no train was coming. That would have been devastating." Constance Zuniga, Ms. Scott's sister, added, "We'd like to thank him personally and take him out to dinner."
Two years ago today the kid & I were 'swatted' by the local cops.
A most unpleasant experience.
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Young Sheldon', followed by a FRESH'The Unicorn', then a FRESH'Mom', followed by a FRESH'Carol's Second Act', then a FRESH'Tommy'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 1/14/20) is Michael Bloomberg.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Justin Bieber, Lucy Hale, Scott Bakula, and Wajatta.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Superstore', followed by a FRESH'Brooklyn Nine-Nine', then a FRESH'Will & Grace', followed by a FRESH'Indebted', then a FRESH'L&O: SVU'.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 1/9/20) are Will Smith and Patti Smith.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 1/22/20) are Gwyneth Paltrow, Terry Crews, Philip Rucker, Carol Leonnig, and Adam Marcello.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 2/3/20) is Ilana Glazer.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Station 19', followed by a FRESH'Grey's Anatomy', then a FRESH'A Million Little Things'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 2/12/20) are Luke Bryan, Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, Lucy Hale, and Andy Shauf.
The CW offers a FRESH'Katy Keene', followed by a RERUN'Dogs Of The Year'.
Faux has a FRESH'Last Man Standing', followed by a FRESH'Outmatched', then a FRESH'Deputy'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.
A&E has 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then another old 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'60 Days In'.
AMC offers the movie 'Rocky IV', followed by the movie 'The Book Of Eli', then the movie 'Total Recall'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] MAN VS. WILD - Romania
[7:00AM] MAN VS. WILD - Turkey
[8:00AM] MAN VS. WILD - Belize
[9:00AM] MAN VS. WILD - Dominican Republic
[10:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS - Episode 6
[11:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS - Episode 7
[12:00PM] WEIRD WONDERS - Episode 8
[1:00PM] WEIRD WONDERS - Episode 1
[2:00PM] WEIRD WONDERS - Episode 2
[3:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Hide And Seek - Jungles
[4:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Hunger At Sea - Oceans
[5:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Nowhere To Hide - Plains
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Race Against Time - Coasts
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - The Hardest Challenge
[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - In The Grip of Seasons - Arctic
[9:00PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - Europe
[10:29PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Hide And Seek - Jungles
[11:30PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Hunger At Sea - Oceans
[12:30AM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - Europe
[1:59AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - The Hardest Challenge
[3:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - In The Grip of Seasons - Arctic
[4:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Nowhere To Hide - Plains
[5:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Race Against Time - Coasts (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Below Deck', 'Project Runway', followed by a FRESH'Project Runway', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'X-Men: Apocalypse', followed by the movie 'Fast & Furious 6'.
History has 'Swamp People', another 'Swamp People', followed by a FRESH'Swamp People', and another 'Swamp People'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Details
[8:15A] AVP: Alien vs. Predator
[10:15A] Saving Private Ryan
[2:15P] We Were Soldiers
[5:15P] Full Metal Jacket
[8:00P] Gladiator
[11:30P] Full Metal Jacket
[2:15A] We Were Soldiers
[5:15A] Year of the Rabbit
[5:48A] The Three Stooges - Three Little Pigskins (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[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] Road to Perdition
[10:30am] Deliverance
[1:00pm] Law & Order
[2:00pm] Law & Order
[3:00pm] Law & Order
[4:00pm] Law & Order
[5:00pm] Law & Order
[6:00pm] Law & Order
[7:00pm] Law & Order
[8:00pm] Law & Order
[9:00pm] Law & Order
[10:00pm] Law & Order
[11:00pm] Law & Order
[12:00am] Law & Order
[1:00am] Law & Order
[2:00am] Eraser
[4:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:05am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:40am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'The Hitman's Bodyguard', followed by the movie 'The Transporter', then the movie 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters'.
Let there be no more doubt - if ever there was - that Neil Young really, really, really does not like President Donald Trump (R-Grifter).
The legendary rock 'n' roller, who has not been shy about his anti-Trump feelings, spelled them out even further in a scathing open letter published on his website Tuesday.
"You are a disgrace to my country," Young began his letter before assailing the president for, in Young's words, "mindless destruction of our shared natural resources, our environment and our relationships" as well as empty bravado and lying to the American voters.
"Our first black president was a better man than you are," Young wrote, continuing: "The United States of America, my country, is not a green on one of your branded golf courses that you can ride around on and damage so that other players cannot shoot straight."
Last month, Young, who was born in Canada, became an American citizen and said he had registered to vote.
In a turn that we can only imagine will lead Michael Che to launch a vitriol-filled Instagram Stories attack on reality itself, Colin Jost has suggested that he might soon step down from his 15-years-and-counting tenure atop the Saturday Night Live pulpit. Per Variety, early galley proofs from Jost's new memoir, A Very Punchable Face, include his musings on whether he might soon be departing the series, where he's served in a variety of roles-including writer, performer, co- head writer, Weekend Update host, and all around symbol of generic white guy energy-ever since he joined the series directly out of his time at Harvard.
These being early proofs and all, there's no real way of knowing whether Jost's comments-in which he muses on sticking around at least through the 2020 election, after which his impression of old dorm-mate Pete Buttigieg will hopefully no longer be in much demand-will actually appear in the final product. At the same time, NBC has issued a blanket "No comment" on the hypothetical departure, which is fair enough, because it doesn't sound like Jost has said anything definitive about leaving just yet, and "When is so-and-so finally going to leave SNL?" has become a high-profile talking point for a number of cast members in recent years. (You can do it, Kenan! Leave the nest!)
Jost has been co-head writer of Saturday Night Live since 2017, and before that, from 2012 to 2015. He's also been anchoring the Weekend Update desk since 2014, giving him the second-longest run in the role in the show's history, after Seth Meyers, from whom he inherited the job. Per the galleys, he is "preparing mentally" for leaving a tenure that's seen SNL weather the same accusations of having turned to crap it's been fielding since pretty much the second episode ever aired, albeit with more of a focus on the show's increasingly milquetoast centrist leanings. Jost, in particular, has come under fire over the years for having the facial condition noted in his memoir's title, as well as his tendency to do things like suggest that poorer, non-Manhattan-private-school-attending New Yorkers were ungrateful for not liking the idea of Amazon dropping its massive and disruptive headquarters on the city's infrastructure. He's supposedly hoping to focus his energy on larger projects; he previously wrote 2015's State Island Summer.
An experienced hurricane hunting crew chasing a winter storm came across a far different discovery this past weekend. In what is know as St. Elmo's fire, footage of the forking electric discharge was captured on Saturday by pilots as the spectacle flashed throughout the cockpit.
The video, captured by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Aircraft Operations Center (AOC), was taken as pilots flew across the Atlantic Ocean amid thunderstorms. NOAA deployed the hunters to support a project analyzing ocean surface winds in winter storms over the North Atlantic.
The flight took place as Storm Dennis chugged along in the North Atlantic approaching Ireland and the United Kingdom.
While frightening and shocking on camera, AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Dave Samuhel said the actual charge from the weather phenomenon is harmless, especially for those surrounded by the metal shell of the aircraft.
"St. Elmo's fire is a phenomena that has occurred throughout human history. Before it was reported on planes, it happened on ships in the open ocean," Samuhel said. "It happens when the charge of an object is much different than the charge of the air. Unlike lightning when huge bolts of electricity jump across a large distance from one charge to another, St. Elmo's fire happens on a very small scale."
Scientists have released their initial analysis of a meteorite that fell over Europe last September. They report that the rock, the remnant of a daytime bolide that impacted Earth with an energy of 0.48 kilotons of TNT (around this much), is a carbonaceous chondrite-the kind of meteor that contains material from the earliest epoch of the solar system.
On September 12, 2019, more than 500 people across the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, and the UK reported seeing a flash of light across the sky in broad daylight. The next day, a man named Erik Due-Hansen in Flensburg, Germany stumbled upon a smooth, black, 24.5-gram meteorite chunk on his front lawn and reached out to authorities, who brought the rock to the Institut für Planetologie at Münster University in Germany, where professor Addi Bischoff and PhD student Markus Patzek analyzed the specimen, now nicknamed Flensburg.
The pair's scanning electron microscope analysis revealed that the meteorite contains 0.05- to 1-millimeter spheres called chondrules with abundant levels of minerals called phyllosilicates and carbonates, minerals that require water to form. They classified the meteorite as a a carbonaceous chondrite-a kind of ancient rock that could be made up of the same material as the planetesimals that formed and delivered water to early Earth.
Finds like these are exciting for a lot of reasons; they represent only 3 percent of the meteorites found on Earth but are among the most important to scientists, since they contain a record of the material that could have existed in the solar system 4.5 billion years ago. Perhaps the most famous carbonaceous chondrite is the 220-pound Murchison meteorite, which contains surprising molecules like amino acids and sugars.
Lawyers representing a writer who accuses Donald Trump (R-Amoral) of raping her in the 1990s have said Mr Trump is doing "everything he can to stop the truth from ever coming out".
Specifically, lawyers acting for E. Jean Carroll have said the president is delaying the case with efforts to avoid providing DNA evidence and an insistence on waiting for a judgment in a different case which could take months to be handed down.
Ms Carroll is suing Mr Trump for defamation after he accused her of "totally lying" in a book she released last year, in which she alleged he raped her in the 1990s.
As part of the evidence-gathering process for her case, Ms Carroll's team are seeking a DNA sample from Mr Trump to test against genetic material on a dress she says she wore during the alleged rape - and which she claims not to have worn or laundered since, except for a photoshoot last year.
Mr Trump's lawyers have called Ms Carroll's requests for evidence "extensive and burdensome". They are also asking the court to wait for a decision in another defamation case, in which it will be decided whether the incumbent president can be sued in the state courts.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to claim during an extradition hearing that the Trump administration offered him a pardon if he agreed to say Russia was not involved in leaking Democratic National Committee emails during the 2016 U.S. election campaign, a lawyer for Assange said Wednesday.
At a preliminary hearing held Wednesday in London, lawyer Edward Fitzgerald said that now-former Republican congressman, Dana Rohrabacher (R-Taliban), visited Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in August 2017.
Fitzgerald said a statement from another Assange lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, recounted "Mr. Rohrabacher going to see Mr. Assange and saying, on instructions from the president, he was offering a pardon or some other way out, if Mr. Assange ... said Russia had nothing to do with the DNC leaks."
Responding to the the lawyer's claims, White House press secretary spokestart Stephanie Grisham said, "This is absolutely and completely false."
U.S. President Donald Trump "barely knows Dana Rohrabacher other than he's an ex-congressman. He's never spoken to him on this subject or almost any subject," Grisham said. "It is a complete fabrication and a total lie. This is probably another never-ending hoax and total lie from the DNC."
Over the years, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has drawn ire for its alleged treatment of immigrant detainees. Reports of the "horrifying" conditions within its detention centers, allegations of ICE employees sexually assaulting detainees, and cases of inadequate medical care that lead to the deaths of some detainees have shocked the public. In 2019 DHS Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Office admitted that ICE "systematically provided inadequate medical and mental health care and oversight to immigration detainees in facilities throughout the US."
Now, ICE has received approval to destroy years of records that would effectively erase a paper trail of the agency's wrongdoing, advocacy groups say.
"These documents are often the only record left of the suffering faced by people in detention," Eunice Cho, a senior staff attorney with the ACLU, told Insider. "Destroying these records will further allow these abuses to be erased from public view."
In December 2019, the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) approved a schedule to destroy ICE records related to its immigration detention efforts, including years of records related to detainee deaths, sexual assaults, and abuses.
ICE first proposed the schedule for destruction to NARA on October 26, 2015, under the Obama administration. NARA received a record number of public comments on the proposed schedule and made a few revisions with ICE based on those comments.
For nearly two decades, workers for a company building gas lines across Peru's capital have found themselves unearthing a treasure trove of history.
On one recent afternoon, a team came across four burials accompanied by ceramics from a pre-Incan civilization. Two years earlier, they found the bodies of farmers who had been among the first wave of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century.
"Lima literally sits atop a cultural bank," with one layer of history atop another, said Alexis Solis, one of 40 archaeologists who work for the Calidda national gas company that is installing lines across the city.
The cooperation is a step forward for preservation in a metropolis whose rapid growth over the past century led to the destruction of many important sites.
Gas line worker Segundo Chávez last year found the body of a child inside a base - a burial characteristic of the pre-Incan Chancay people who flourished from about 1200 to 1470 b- and he recalled how his shouts of discovery attracted nearby residents from their houses.
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