Paul Waldman: Republicans will run the Hillary Clinton playbook against Trump's opponent (Washington Post)
When Hillary Clinton was running for president in 2016, Republicans became convinced not only that the fact that she used a private email server for government business was the greatest crime the world had seen since the Cambodian genocide, but also that the Clinton Foundation - which spent millions on "suspicious" activities such as disaster relief and distributing AIDS drugs - was the source of a deep and profound corruption.
Nuuk is the capital and largest city of Greenland. It is the seat of government and the country's largest cultural and economic centre. The major cities closest to the capital are Iqaluit and St. John's in Canada and Reykjavík in Iceland. Nuuk contains almost a third of Greenland's population and its tallest building. Nuuk is also the seat of government for the Sermersooq municipality. In January 2019, it had a population of 17,984.
The city was founded in 1728 by the Dano-Norwegian governor Claus Paarss when he relocated Hans Egede's earlier Hope Colony (Haabets Koloni) to the mainland, and was named Godthåb ("Good Hope"). The city officially adopted its current name in 1979, although the name "Godthåb" remained in use in Danish. "Nuuk" is the Kalaallisut word for "cape" (Danish: næs). It is so named because of its position at the end of the Nuup Kangerlua fjord on the eastern shore of the Labrador Sea. Its latitude, at 64°10' N, makes it the world's northernmost capital, only a few kilometres farther north than the Icelandic capital Reykjavík.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Greenland.
Randall wrote:
Greenland
Mac Mac said:
Greenland
Alan J answered:
Greenland.
Dave replied:
Greenland. Donald J (for Jenius) Trump wants to buy it from Denmark and is super pissed everybody laughed at him. It wasn't clear if Trump wants the USA to make the purchase or if it was to be Trump's personal property? Probably good for the Danes that for the moment Trump is obsessed with the middle east and impeachment. Although Denmark being a member of NATO might keep Trump from making war on it? Or not.
Photos: Greenland is mostly white although global warming is melting the ice | Mean people mocked Trump for being stupid enough to think he wanted to buy the world's largest Island | A diver inspecting a Greenland Shark, one of the largest sharks in the world's oceans (up to 21 feet long) and the longest lived vertebrate on earth (some are 300-500 years old). The sharks live in the depths of the northern arctic oceans.
zorch responded:
Greenland. Nuuk's original name was Godthab.
Micki said:
Greenland.
Our Libtard Snowflake friend, Roy, In Tyler, TX wrote:
In my 28 years with the US Air Force, I was blessed to have never been stationed in countries that are known for being iceboxes year-round. I did have coworkers, however, who had been stationed at Thule, Greenland, so I've definitely heard about the Capitol city, Nuuk.
Deborah replied:
Nuuk is the capital of Greenland. I'd forgotten that fact.
Sunny and chilly, pretty much seasonal and nice enough to be outside comfortably. I'll take it.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Nuuk is the capital and largest city of Greenland
John I from Hawai`i says,
Nuuk, Greenland
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame wrote:
The answer is Greenland.
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• Soprano Emma Eames was often asked to sing at benefits, and occasionally she got annoyed at society ladies who expected much for charity from her but little from themselves. She once made a proposal to some such society ladies who asked her to perform free at a benefit concert: "I will, on one condition. You are all wealthy ladies, far wealthier than I. Now, my usual [fee for singing] is £300. I will contribute that by singing, on condition that each of you will sign for the same amount." The society ladies said that they would think about it, and they did not bother her again. Music critic Henry T. Finck, a friend to Ms. Eames, wrote in My Adventures in the Golden Age of Music, his autobiography, "The charity of society women too often resembles Mark Twain's climbing of the Swiss mountains - by proxy." Ms. Eames was an independent spirit who was not afraid of offending people. She once said to Mr. Finck's wife, "I love to give parties for the pleasure of leaving out certain persons who want to come."
• United States painter and teacher William M. Chase knew art. A Congressman who did not know art went around telling people about a bad painting that he owned, "Isn't that grand? A great bargain, too. Got it for four hundred dollars, and William M. Chase says it is worth ten thousand dollars." A friend of the painter heard what the Congressman had said, and the friend asked Mr. Chase about it. Mr. Chase explained, "He cornered me one day and wanted me to fix a value on it, but I told him I couldn't do it. He then came at me with a question I couldn't dodge: 'Well, Mr. Chase, how much would you charge to paint a picture like that?' I assured him most honestly that I wouldn't paint one like it for ten thousand dollars."
• Soprano Kirsten Flagstad was good friends with her accompanist, Edwin McArthur, and often relied on him when she needed help. Following World War II, she left Norway and journeyed to Sweden, but she was not allowed to take much money with her. From the Carlton Hotel in Stockholm, she cabled Mr. McArthur, "I Am Here Without Funds. Please Do Something." Fortunately, Mr. McArthur was able to arrange for her to receive money. By the way, the first time Ms. Flagstad heard Tristan und Isolde, she was very bored and could barely keep awake. Later, she became famous for her singing of Wagnerian roles, including the role of Isolde.
• John Phillip Sousa had a very difficult time selling his first composition. He trudged from one music company to another hoping to make a sale, but had no success. Finally, he made up his mind to either make a sale at the next music company, or give up entirely. He went inside, made his pitch to sell the composition for $25, but the manager said he would not pay 25 cents for it. Ready to give up, Mr. Sousa turned to leave, then noticed several dictionaries by the door. He asked the manager, "Will you give me a dictionary for it?" The manager was willing, and so Mr. Sousa sold his first composition for a dictionary.
• At the sale of the pictures that belonged to Henri Rouart, a journalist asked artist Edgar Degas, "Do you know how much your picture of two dancers at the bar, with a watering can, just sold for?" Mr. Degas replied, "No, I don't." The journalist told him the very high figure: 475,000 francs! Mr. Degas admitted, "That isa nice price." The journalist then asked, "Don't you think it outrageous that this picture will never bring you more than the five hundred francs you were paid for it?" Mr. Degas replied, "Monsieur, I am like the racehorse that wins the Grand Prize: I am satisfied with my ration of oats."
Sumo has had a couple of big upsets and it's only day 3.
Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'FBI', then a FRESH'FBI: Most Wanted'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert is Michael Bloomberg.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth, and SHAED.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Ellen's Game Of Games', followed by a FRESH'This Is Us', then a FRESH'New Amsterdam'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Tyler Perry, Yara Shahidi, and Black Pumas.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Will Smith and Michael Cruz Kayne.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh are Francia Raisa and Debby Ryan.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Jeopardy GOAT', followed by a FRESH'mixed-ish', then a FRESH'black-ish', followed by a FRESH'Emergence'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Allison Janney, Ilana Glazer, and ScaryPoolParty.
The CW offers a FRESH'Arrow', followed by a FRESH'DC's Legends Of Tomorrow'.
Faux has a FRESH'The Resident', followed by a FRESH'Gordon Ramsey's 24 Hours To Hell & Back'.
MY recycles an old 'Chicago PD', followed by another old 'Chicago PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen', followed by the movie 'Home Alone', then the movie 'Home Alone 2: Lost In NY'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] CHIMPS OF THE LOST GORGE
[7:00AM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - An Epic Journey
[8:00AM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - The Ends of the Earth
[9:00AM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - Spring
[10:00AM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - Summer
[11:00AM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - Autumn
[12:00PM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - Winter
[1:00PM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - The Last Frontier
[2:00PM] WILD ALASKA - Spring
[3:00PM] WILD ALASKA - Summer
[4:00PM] WILD ALASKA - Winter
[5:00PM] WILD WEST - Desert Heartlands
[6:00PM] WILD WEST - The High Country
[7:00PM] WILD WEST - Restless Shores
[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH: YELLOWSTONE - Winter
[9:00PM] PLANET EARTH: YELLOWSTONE - Summer
[10:00PM] PLANET EARTH: YELLOWSTONE - Autumn
[11:00PM] WILD ALASKA - Spring
[12:00AM] WILD ALASKA - Summer
[1:00AM] WILD ALASKA - Winter
[2:00AM] PLANET EARTH: YELLOWSTONE - Winter
[3:00AM] PLANET EARTH: YELLOWSTONE - Summer
[4:00AM] PLANET EARTH: YELLOWSTONE - Autumn
[5:00AM] WILD WEST - Desert Heartlands (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Vanderpump Rules', another 'Vanderpump Rules', followed by a FRESH'Vanderpump Rules', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
Comedy Central has 2 hours of old 'The Office' and 2 hours of old 'Drunk History'.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show is Rick Wilson.
Scheduled on a FRESHLights Out with David Spade are Jim Gaffigan, Chris Hardwick, and Whitney Cummings.
FX has the movie 'X-Men: Apocalypse', followed by the movie 'Transformers: The Last Knight'.
History has 'The Curse Of Oak Island', followed by a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island: Digging Deeper', then a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island', followed by a FRESH'Kings Of Pain'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - They Stooge to Conga
[6:15A] Java Heat
[8:30A] Grindhouse Presents: Death Proof
[11:00A] Machete Kills
[1:30P] Tropic Thunder
[4:00P] We Were Soldiers
[7:00P] Full Metal Jacket
[9:45P] Full Metal Jacket
[12:30A] Tropic Thunder
[3:00A] Java Heat
[5:15A] Grindhouse Presents: Death Proof (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:35am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:10am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:45am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:15am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:45am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:15am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:45am] Bridget Jones's Diary
[12:00pm] Sleepless in Seattle
[2:30pm] Last Holiday
[5:00pm] The Firm
[8:00pm] The Devil's Advocate
[11:00pm] Basic Instinct
[2:00am] The Devil's Advocate
[5:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:35am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows: Part 1', followed by the movie 'Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows: Part 2', then the movie 'Captain America: Civil War'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Walton Goggins and Fahim Anwar.
Barack and Michelle Obama are celebrating an Oscars nod after the first film released by their production company was nominated for Best Documentary on Monday morning.
The film, titled American Factory, was the first release of the Obama's producing deal with Netflix, which was just announced back in May 2018, and has received critical acclaim since its August 2019 release. However, the nomination for the 2020 Academy Awards is its biggest accolade yet and has both Michelle and Barack expressing congratulations to the team of producers nominated.
"I like this film for its nuanced, honest portrayal of the way a changing global economy plays out in real lives," Barack noted in his Instagram post. "It offers a window into people as they actually are and it's the kind of story we don't see often enough."
The former president previously praised the film about a Chinese billionaire reopening an automatic plant in Ohio as one that "gives you the chance to better understand someone else's life" and help people to "find common ground." He even mentioned it in his list of favorite movies of 2019.
The Oscars nomination sets high expectations for what's to come with the Obamas' multiyear agreement with Netflix.
Snoop Dogg has put a sweet spin on Dunkin's Beyond Sausage Sandwich.
Through Sunday, Jan. 19, the sandwich, which has Beyond Meat's plant-based sausage, will be served on a glazed donut and has been dubbed the "Beyond D-O-Double G Sandwich."
In a news release, Dunkin' said the limited-time sandwich was inspired by the rap legend's "passion for plant-based protein and love of glazed donuts."
It features a Beyond Breakfast Sausage patty with egg and cheese, served on a sliced glazed doughnut. While the plant-based patty is vegan-friendly, this sandwich isn't for vegans because it includes egg and cheese.
The Beyond D-O-Double G Sandwich can be ordered at the counter or drive-thru at participating restaurants nationwide.
Author Jason Reynolds was revealed as the Library of Congress' newest national ambassador for young people's literature on "CBS This Morning" Monday. The two-year position aims to raise the nation's appreciation of youth literature, as it relates to literacy, education and the development and betterment of lives.
Reynolds is the bestselling and award-winning young adult author and poet whose work includes "Patina" and "As Brave As You" (both published by Simon & Schuster, a division of ViacomCBS).
As the ambassador, Reynolds said he plans to focus on children in rural areas and small towns across the country.
Reynolds said the book that finally hooked him was Richard Wright's "Black Boy."
"What lit me up about it was that it wasn't a 50-page exposition. Page two, you're in the midst of the drama," he said. "I think it's interesting that we expect young people to want to read 50 pages of exposition when they live in two-minute worlds where things are happening rapidly. So my job as a writer is to write something that has a hook in the beginning."
While Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was mostly ignored in the top categories by the Academy this morning, that was not the case for tunesmith John Williams. He was nominated for Best Original Score for the movie. That makes the 52nd Oscar nomination of his storied career, bettering his tally for most noms for anyone still here on planet Earth. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker also got noms for Visual Effects and Sound Editing.
Williams has won the Oscar five times - the original Star Wars, Schindler's List, E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial, Jaws and Fiddler On The Roof - and this becomes the sixth time he has won or been nominated for a Star Wars film in an unprecedented list of nominations that goes back to 1968's Valley of the Dolls. Only the late Walt Disney had more nominations: he won 22 of the 59 Oscars he was nominated for. To put Williams' record in perspective, the most acting nominations record belongs to Meryl Streep, with 21 noms and three wins.
Original Score is a stacked category this year, and Williams will have his work cut out for him. He is up against Hildur Guonadottir for her brooding Joker score, Alexandre Desplat for Little Women, Randy Newman for Marriage Story, and Thomas Newman for 1917. All of those competitors in the Best Original Score field are up for Best Picture, which could swing attention and momentum toward those films.
The world's oceans hit their warmest level in recorded history in 2019, according to a study published Monday that provides more evidence that the Earth is warming at an accelerated pace.
The analysis, which also found that ocean temperatures in the past decade have been the warmest on record, shows the impact of human-caused warming on the planet's oceans, and suggests that sea-level rise, ocean acidification and extreme weather events could worsen as these enormous bodies of water continue to absorb so much heat.
"The pace of warming has increased about 500 percent since the late 1980s," said John Abraham, a professor of thermal sciences at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and one of the study's authors. "The findings, to be honest, were not unexpected. Warming is continuing, it has accelerated and it is unabated. Unless we do something significant and quickly, it's really dire news."
Abraham and his colleagues found that the rate of ocean warming has accelerated from 1987-2019 to nearly four and a half times the rate of warming from 1955-1986.
According to the study, published Monday in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, average ocean temperatures in 2019 were 0.075 degrees Celsius (0.135 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 1981-2019 average. While this may seem like a miniscule amount, it represents an enormous amount of heat spread out across the world's oceans, according to Lijing Cheng, an associate professor at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics in Beijing, and the lead author of the study.
Eve Dubois' wrong answer on Family Feud Canada may have cost her family $10,000, but now she gets $10,000 worth of free chicken thanks to her now-viral wrong answer.
On Thursday night's episode, the game show entered the "sudden death" round, and the stakes were high - whoever answered correctly won the show.
"Alright, real simple. There's one question, only one answer. Whoever gets it, you're playing for $10,000. Whoever guesses this wins the game," say Gerry Dee, host of Family Feud Canada.
Dee continues to read the prompt: "Name Popeye's favorite food." He barely finishes the question before Dubois slaps the buzzer and sings "Chiiiiicckkkkennn!" and proceeds to do a hilarious happy dance.
Family members are left stunned as the audience and host struggle to contain their laughter - everyone else seemed to understand that Dee was referencing the cartoon character and not the Popeyes fried chicken chain.
Scientists recently identified the oldest material on Earth: stardust that's 7 billion years old, tucked away in a massive, rocky meteorite that struck our planet half a century ago.
This ancient interstellar dust, made of presolar grains (dust grains that predate our sun), was belched into the universe by dying stars during the final stages of their lives. Some of that dust eventually hitched a ride to Earth on an asteroid that produced the Murchison meteorite, a massive, 220-lb. (100 kilograms) rock that fell on Sept. 28, 1969, near Murchison, Victoria, in Australia.
Though the universe abounds with floating stardust, no presolar grains have ever been found in Earth's rocks. That's because plate tectonics, volcanism and other planetary processes heated and transformed all the presolar dust that may have collected during Earth's formation, said lead study author Philipp Heck, the Robert A. Pritzker Associate Curator of Meteoritics and Polar Studies at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
Grinding and analyzing bits of space rock also presented the researchers with an unusual by-product - a strong and very pungent smell. The paste of ground-up meteorite released a stench "like rotten peanut butter," study co-author Jennika Greer, a graduate student at the Field Museum and the University of Chicago, said in a statement.
And Murchison was an especially smelly meteorite, Heck said. When he visited the town of Murchison in 2019 for the 50th anniversary of the meteorite's landing, he spoke with people who had witnessed the event or collected fragments of the space rock. Many of them had tales to tell about the meteorite's distinctive aroma.
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