News of the day

he ain't from D.C... no one lives there really... you only work there

spam or not...  women's fashion beats the 1000th iteration of any possible permutation of Genesis or Dull topics any day of the week and twice on Sunday's.

wow... well how about that...

A bit old news, but still outrageous.

http://www.birdlife.no/internasjonalt/nyheter/?id=1713

The Others take these Norwegian "authorities" ....

... to keep it relatively civil and mild, otherwise

Two new police officer shootings in the US this week.  https://www.yahoo.com/gma/video-emerges-deadly-baton-rouge-police-shooting-202050873--abc-news-topstories.html  and  http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/07/us/falcon-heights-shooting-minnesota/index.html

In both cases, the perp/victim had a gun, thus resulting in the officers "fearing for their lives", but in both cases the officers appear to be trigger happy.  The Baton Rouge case seems to have a little more justification (maybe) but is also being portrayed as the officers bullying the perp/victim.  The Minnesota case seems to be a more cut and dry case of police brutality.  Although it is he says/she says on what happened prior to the shooting, this one definitely feels like the officer screwed up. 

I watched the videos of both shootings, I refrain from saying anything more than it made me sick with disgust and rage.

Blacksword wrote: Germans told to stockpile supplies in case of 'national emergency' Germans told to stockpile food and water Scaremongering, or are they expecting something specific, I wonder? Seems quite extreme advice to me.

That's about the strangest thing I've seen in ages

Vompatti wrote: Who doesn't already have at least 10 days of food at their home at all times? You'd have to go outside at least once every ten days if you don't. Also, from what I've read on the Internet, Germany is already under invasion.

I don't think I could fit ten days worth of non perishable food in my kitchen! I usually have about a weeks worth.

In any case this policy is slightly strange and worrying. It appears to be advising people to prep for wide scale energy outages and serious disruption to services. That goes beyond the scope of most probable terrorist attacks, so this suggests an attack by another nation state or maybe...do Germany get their gas from Russia via Ukraine??

Perhaps there is an escalation in that conflict expected in the coming weeks and months that could cut off that supply for some time.

Possible habitable planet, right next door (in cosmic terms).  Dean, feel free to debunk the author if necessary

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/astronomers-have-found-a-habitable-planet-orbiting-our-suns-nearest-neighbor/497117/

Going off the current topic, I saw on one of the (liberal) American news channels that tourism is down a "great deal" in France after the terror episodes. How much of a role does tourism play in the French economy? I assume it's quite substantial.  

^ as of mid July tourism in Paris was down 11% on last year but elsewhere in France it was up by 1%. Reuters quoted someone predicting 30% drop following Nice but that would be an unprecedented drop following a terror attack if that prediction prove true.