the "Headline That Caught My Attention or the WTF" thread

[CELLFISH]

fox news lies… cellie…

 

[Rick67]

WATCH: Zelenskyy Trashes Americans Who Oppose Giving More of Our Money to Ukrainian Regime

www.thegatewaypundit.com

 

[Rick67]

fox news lies… cellie…

This happened.

NY teacher 'manipulated' fifth-grade student into changing gender

 

[CELLFISH]

i know, i know, just kiddin bout fox news…

anyway: i hear now on Fox, the republicans establishing a Chinese Select Committee, digging deep of our enemy attempting to take over this country… while the Dems never considered anything…

i luv it… cellie…
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[movetheboat]

SOME GAYS ARE EFFED UP AND SOME TEACHERS...JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER SECTOR OF SOCIETY INCLUDING WHATEVER YOU/WE FIT INTO

scuse mea caps..whoops

 

[Jaws1948]

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Two chances of NY cutting taxes, Slim & None

And Slim just left town.

 

[wader]

We Have a Real UFO Problem. And It’s Not Balloons.

America’s fixation on the recent objects floating over the country overlooks a much more serious problem with advanced technology aircraft that we can’t explain.

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We Have a Real UFO Problem. And It’s Not Balloons.​

On a clear, sunny day in April 2014, two F/A-18s took off for an air combat training mission off the coast of Virginia. The jets, part of my Navy fighter squadron, climbed to an altitude of 12,000 and steered towards Warning Area W-72, an exclusive block of airspace ten miles east of Virginia Beach. All traffic into the training area goes through a single GPS point at a set altitude — almost like a doorway into a massive room where military jets can operate without running into other aircraft. Just at the moment the two jets crossed the threshold, one of the pilots saw a dark gray cube inside of a clear sphere — motionless against the wind, fixed directly at the entry point. The jets, only 100 feet apart, zipped past the object on either side. The pilots had come so dangerously close to something they couldn’t identify that they terminated the training mission immediately and returned to base.

“I almost hit one of those damn things!” the flight leader, still shaken by the incident, told us shortly after in the pilots’ ready room. We all knew exactly what he meant. “Those damn things” had been plaguing us for the previous eight months.

I joined the U.S. Navy in 2009 and underwent years of rigorous training as a pilot. Specifically, we are trained to be expert observers in identifying aircraft with our sensors and our own eyes. It’s our job to know what’s in our operating area. That’s why, in 2014, after upgrades were made to our radar system, our squadron made a startling discovery: There were unknown objects in our airspace.

 

[Rick67]

Drag queen forces child to leave class for denying 73 genders, school teaches anal sex to 11-year-olds: report | Fox News

The Isle of Man government has suspended sex education in schools after reports that a drag queen discussed sex acts with students, according to a new report.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Chinacat]

I don't understand the logic
Kids, and lots of them, get killed in school shootings on a regular basis and some peeps shrug their shoulders and say the damn whacko liberals are politicizing things
Now the same peeps get their knickers in a twist over a random kid in school being harassed or threatened by an unarmed gay person???
I'm not saying what happened here is right or that I in any way like it but why not the same call to action when LOTS of kids are getting killed rather than coming from home school to their families at the end of the day??

 

[wader]

Ford files patent for cars that can repossess themselves

Ford filed an application in 2021 to patent features that will make it easier for banks to coerce payments out of delinquent buyers.

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Ford files patent for cars that can repossess themselves​

Ford is paving the way for autonomous cars that can functionally repossess themselves, as evidenced by a patent application spotted by the folks at The Drive. Submitted back in 2021 but recently published, the application says that Ford seeks to patent "Systems and Methods to Repossess a Vehicle," but from the description, that's just the tip of the iceberg.

If Ford's accounting department decides you're delinquent, there are myriad ways the company could have the car help coerce a payment from you, because nothing beats being broke and miserable. Such as? For starters, it can geofence the area where you're allowed to operate the car (Better turn left, Marcy, or you won't be turning at all). Failing that, Ford says it could command the audio system to "emit an incessant and unpleasant sound every time the owner is present in the vehicle," for example, or disable other key features, such as climate control.

From there, the car's other systems can be commandeered to help the bank locate your car. Camera and sensor data about the surroundings could be transmitted to the repossessing agency. And if none of this does the trick, vehicles with self-driving features could simply be summoned to the holding yard of the bank's choosing as the repossession process begins.


more at the link................

 

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Eli Lilly To Lower Insulin Prices And Introduce A $35 Out-Of-Pocket Monthly Cap For Commercially Insured And Uninsured Diabetics​

 

[Roccus7]

A smart microbiologist would secure his name in culinary history if he could take the appropriate genes from this fungus and insert it into truffles. Imagine the sublime pleasure of Jack Black Truffles!!​

Whiskey Fungus Fed by Jack Daniel’s Encrusts a Tennessee Town​

The dark growth, fed by alcohol vapors from barrels of aging Jack Daniel’s whiskey, has coated homes, cars, patio furniture and road signs in a sooty crust, residents said. One woman is suing Lincoln County.

The ethanol-fueled fungus known as whiskey fungus has thrived for centuries around distilleries and bakeries. It’s been the source of complaints from residents who live near Kentucky bourbon distilleries, Canadian whiskey makers and Caribbean rum manufacturers.

Now, it is driving a wedge between some residents of Lincoln County, Tenn., and Jack Daniel’s, the famed distillery founded in 1866 in neighboring Moore County.

For months, some residents have complained that a sooty, dark crust has blanketed homes, cars, road signs, bird feeders, patio furniture and trees as the fungus has spread uncontrollably, fed by alcohol vapors wafting from charred oak barrels of aging Jack Daniel’s whiskey.

Jack Daniel’s has built six warehouses, known as barrelhouses, to age whiskey in the rural county, which is home to about 35,000 residents, and is building a seventh on a property that has room to house one more, a company spokesman said. The distillery has asked the county to rezone a second property where it could build six additional barrelhouses.

A company representative, Donna Willis, told county officials in November that 14 barrelhouses would generate $1 million in annual property tax revenue for the county, which had approved about $15 million in general fund spending for the 2022 fiscal year.

But not all residents are happy about the expansion.

Christi Long, the owner of a local mansion built in 1900, which she operates as a venue for weddings and other events, sued the county in January, contending that barrelhouses near her property lacked the proper permits. Insider previously reported on the dispute.

A judge last week ruled that one barrelhouse currently under construction had not been properly approved and that its building permit would have to be rescinded until Jack Daniel’s obtained the necessary permits.
Ms. Long’s lawyer, Jason Holleman, said he planned to ask the judge and the county to stop Jack Daniel’s from using other barrelhouses near Ms. Long’s 4,000-square-foot mansion, known as the Manor at ShaeJo.

Ms. Long and her husband, Patrick Long, said that whiskey fungus had already inundated the property, darkening the copper roof and exterior walls, creeping over the rock garden and metal gate and encrusting the branches of magnolia trees. Nearby, it blackens metal road signs, they said.

The Longs said they use a high-pressure hose to wash the property every three months with Clorox bleach and water, but the fungus always returns.

“If you take your fingernail and run your fingernail down our tree branch, it will just coat the tip of your finger,” Mr. Long said. “It’s just disgusting.”

Ms. Long said her corner of Lincoln County “is going to be black as coal” unless Jack Daniel’s installs air filters in the barrelhouses, one of which sits about 250 yards from her property.

“This fungus now is on steroids,” she said.

A lawyer who represents Lincoln County declined to comment, citing the continuing litigation.

Melvin Keebler, general manager of the Jack Daniel Distillery, said in a statement that the company “complies with all local, state, and federal regulations regarding the design, construction, and permitting of our barrelhouses.”

“We are committed to protecting the environment and the safety and health of our employees and neighbors,” Mr. Keebler said.

At a county commission meeting in November, Ms. Willis, the director of technical services, maintenance and barrel distribution at Jack Daniel’s, said that studies have shown that the fungus is not hazardous to human health and does not damage property.

“Could it be a nuisance?” Ms. Willis said. “Yeah, sure. And it can easily be remedied by having it washed off.”

She said the company would not agree, however, to power-wash homes, saying Jack Daniel’s could be held liable for any damage.

Ms. Willis also said that air filters could hurt the flavor that Jack Daniel’s whiskey acquires during the aging process. Distillers refer poetically to the liquor that evaporates during that process as “the angel’s share.”

The fungus that thrives off the lost alcohol has been noted at least since the 1870s, when Antonin Baudoin, the director of the French Distillers’ Association, observed a “plague of soot” blackening the walls of distilleries in Cognac, France.

James A. Scott, a professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto who has studied the fungus since 2001 — and helped name its genus, Baudoinia, in honor of Baudoin — said he was not aware of any research specifically looking at the health effects of exposure to the fungus.

But the fungus can destroy property and can cling to almost any surface, he said. A puff of alcohol, Dr. Scott said, makes it remarkably resistant to temperature changes, allowing it to withstand hot summers in Tennessee.

“The fungus is pretty destructive, and the only way to stop it is to turn off its alcohol supply,” Dr. Scott wrote in an email. “It wrecks patio furniture, house siding, almost any outdoor surface. I’ve seen trees choked to death by it. It is a small mercy that it does not also appear to have a negative impact on human health.”

Tracy Ferry said she and her husband, Warren Ferry, who bought a home in Lincoln County three years ago, were hoping that Jack Daniel’s would install air filters.

Ms. Ferry said that since Jack Daniel’s built a barrelhouse next to her house in December, whiskey fungus had been accumulating on the roof of her home and car and on trees on her property. She said she had scrubbed the paint off wooden patio furniture while trying to remove the dark growth.

“I could try and sell, but what am I going to get?” Ms. Ferry said. “Who’s going to want to live here?”

 

[Rick67]

“Get’em Dilbert!”

‘Dilbert’: After racist tirade from creator Scott Adams hundreds of newspapers drop comic strip | CNN Business

Newspapers across the country dropped the “Dilbert” comic strip over the weekend after the creator of the satirical cartoon went on a racist tirade, calling Black Americans a “hate group” and suggesting that White people should “get the hell away” from them.

amp.cnn.com

 

[wader]

To survive nuclear apocalypse, you may have to eat nothing but mushrooms, rats, and insects​

To survive nuclear apocalypse, you may have to eat nothing but mushrooms, rats, and insects

Nuclear Armageddon survivors could start a new food system with mushrooms. The other options, like eating rats, might not be as appetizing.

www.yahoo.com

This won't go down well with Chebby at all.

 

[wader]

The Air Force Grounded Hundreds of Jets Because Their Tails May Fall Off​

The Air Force Grounded Hundreds of Jets Because Their Tails May Fall Off

The U.S. Air Force grounded hundreds of jets last month because something was off with a key component used to literally hold many Air Force aircraft together.

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Something was off with a key component used to literally hold many U.S. Air Force aircraft together—and it resulted in the service grounding 207 vital aircraft according to a Time Compliance Technical Order issues in February.

No—it’s wasn’t the Air Force’s numerous F-16 tactical fighters. Nor its new F-35 stealth jets, or venerable B-52 bombers and A-10 ground attack jets.

Foremost, it was the workhorse keeping all of those planes refueled in the sky: the service’s airliner-based KC-135 Stratotanker. It also affected RC-135 and WC-135 surveillance aircraft extensively deployed to monitor the activity and technologies of foreign militaries (particularly China, North Korea, and Russia).

 

[Chinacat]

To survive nuclear apocalypse, you may have to eat nothing but mushrooms, rats, and insects​

To survive nuclear apocalypse, you may have to eat nothing but mushrooms, rats, and insects

Nuclear Armageddon survivors could start a new food system with mushrooms. The other options, like eating rats, might not be as appetizing.

www.yahoo.com

This won't go down well with Chebby at all.

I’d be fine on just ‘shrooms
The rats and insects?
Not so sure

 

[OVERBORED]

Do as I say not as I do....... Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

 

[wader]

Biden awards Medal of Honor to Black Vietnam War hero after paperwork 'lost' twice​

MATT SEYLER
Fri, March 3, 2023 at 12:04 PM EST


President Joe Biden on Friday awarded the Medal of Honor to a Black Army Special Forces hero from the Vietnam War who has waited close to 60 years to receive the nation's top award for valor after the Army said the paperwork couldn't be found.

Then a 26-year-old captain, Paris Davis, now 83, led a company tearing through a larger enemy force, pushing the attack despite being shot, absorbing shrapnel and another bullet to get wounded comrades to safety, refusing to join them on the evacuation helicopter, choosing rather to stay and continue destroying the remaining adversaries.

PHOTO: President Joe Biden stands with Vietnam War veteran, Retired US Army Colonel Paris Davis, before awarding him the Medal of Honor, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 3, 2023. (ABC News)
At a White House ceremony, Biden called Davis "an incredible man."

Picking up the story, Biden continued, "And although the men who were with him in that June day immediately nominated Captain Davis to receive the Medal of Honor, somehow the paper -- the paperwork was never processed, not just once, but twice. But, you know what Captain Davis said after learning that he would finally receive the Medal of Honor? Quote, 'America was behind me.'"

A colonel by the time he retired from the Army, Davis' first name "Paris" is inspired by the mythological figure featured in Homer's epic war poem "The Iliad."

PHOTO: Col. Paris Davis speaks with ABC News on the day before his Medal of Honor ceremony. President Joe Biden is scheduled to award Davis with the Medal honor March 3, 2023. (ABC News)
In 1965, already having served in Korea and Vietnam, Davis was told by his company commander he was destined for the treacherous Binh Dinh province.

"He said that it was overrun by the Viet Cong. He thought through my training and the way that I handled myself that I could handle being in a situation where there were more enemies than there were friends," Davis told ABC News during an interview Thursday.

In the summer, Davis led three other Green Berets and what the Army calls "an inexperienced company of the 883rd South Vietnamese Regional Force" on an audacious raid against a North Vietnamese base.

PHOTO: Capt. Paris Davis, Vietnam, 1965. (Ron Deis)
Davis personally captured two enemy combatants.

"We caught the guards that were sleeping," Davis said. "They gave us some information -- exactly where the preponderance of the troops were."

According to the Army, "he learned [from the captives] that a vastly larger enemy force was operating in the area."

Not that Davis was surprised, he said.

"We knew that we were going to run into a hornet's nest," he recalled.

Davis took this not as a warning to withdraw, but as an opportunity to attack. On the night of June 17, he readied his men for a surprise raid, and at dawn led them through what would stretch into a grinding 19-hour battle.

PHOTO: Davis leads assault in the early morning at Bong Song, clearing an enemy headquarters hut. He is wounded in the forearm. (Illustration by The Paris Davis Interactive Medal of Honor Story)
"Davis was wounded leading the initial assault, but continued moving forward, personally engaging the enemy in hand-to-hand combat and killing several enemy soldiers," the Army said in a release.

When the noncompliant enemy rallied with a counteroffensive, a bleeding Davis led a small team onward, destroying gun emplacements and earning more captives, the Army said.

He then consolidated his men to pull back and, while calling for artillery and aircraft attacks against the defenders, was hit by automatic weapons fire.

PHOTO: Reconstructed battle map of the battle of Bong Song, Vietnam, June 18, 1965. (The Paris Davis Interactive Medal of Honor Story)
Davis was wounded again when an enemy soldier "engaged him at close range with his rifle," the Army said. Davis tackled the enemy and "defeated" him -- as the Army euphemistically puts it -- with his bare hands.

Now injured several times over, Davis saw two American comrades seriously hurt, but across enemy lanes of fire.

"Davis made it to the first soldier under a hail of enemy fire and was shot once again. Despite his grievous wounds and with no regard for his own safety, Davis saved the soldier and returned him to the company's perimeter. Davis again broke cover, braving enemy fire, to retrieve the second soldier. Crawling nearly 150 yards and wounded by enemy grenade fragments, he rescued the soldier and returned him to the company perimeter," according to the Army.

At one point during the battle, Davis said he recalled a general observing the fight from a helicopter ordering him to leave before one of the wounded soldiers was flown out. He refused.

"He said, 'You know you're disobeying an order?' And I said, 'Yes, sir, I understand that. But I'm not leaving,'" Davis told ABC News.

PHOTO: As Billy Cole, Davis' commanding officer, arrives on the battlefield, Cole spots Davis carrying Waugh fireman-style. Noting Davis' wounds, Cole tells Davis to leave with the wounded. (Illustration by The Paris Davis Interactive Medal of Honor Story)
Davis described a war of words with the senior officer.

"The general said ... 'If I was down there, I'd probably kick your ass.' And I said, 'You know what, general, there's a lot of room down here.' And that was the end of the conversation. He never landed, and I never kicked his ass," Davis said.

ABC News asked Davis what would have happened had he obeyed.

"If we had obeyed that order, there would have been soldiers that would have been just mutilated, because there [were] no other free forces available," he said.

The Army credits Davis for having saved three men from enemy capture: Robert Brown, John Reinberg and Billy Waugh.

PHOTO: Capt. Paris Davis poses for an official U.S. Army service photo circa early 1960s. (U.S. Army photo)
For his actions, he was awarded the nation's third-highest military decoration, the Silver Star. But according to Davis, requests for his award to be upgraded to a Medal of Honor were inexplicably lost by the Army twice over the years.

Davis has speculated his race could have played a factor.

"I wish I could say that this story of Paris’ sacrifice on that day in 1965, was fully recognized and rewarded immediately," Biden said. "But sadly, we know they weren't. At the time Captain Davis returned from war, the country is still battling segregation. He returned from Vietnam to experience some of his fellow soldiers crossing to the other side of the street when they saw him in America."

Army officials said they cannot determine whether any records were lost, or under what circumstances.

"Due to lack of records, we cannot say for sure, but we are pleased that the president will soon bestow this overdue honor to Col. Paris Davis and his family," Army spokeswoman Madison Bonzo told ABC News on Wednesday.

PHOTO: Capt. Paris Davis is awarded a Silver Star on Dec. 15, 1965. Davis received the award for his actions during a battle in Bong Son, Republic of Vietnam, June 17-18, 1965 (U.S. Army photo)
Davis credits a group of friends and comrades for refusing to let the Army forget his case.

Davis, with his first name inspired by the ancients, alluded to Greek tragedy when explaining the resolution to his decades-long case.

"The soldiers that you served with, the soldiers you were in the war with, become that Greek chorus. They pick up the voice of saying 'We aren't gonna let this rest, we are going to keep after it until we get it done.' And that's the saving grace I'm so thankful for," he said.

 

[wader]

'Aber-clam Lincoln', a 214-year-old clam born same year as Abraham Lincoln, found in Florida​

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Aber-clam Lincoln, a quahog clam believed to be 214 years old, was released into the Gulf of Mexico last week by his caretakers at the Gulf Specimen Marine Lab.

Americorps member Blaine Parker dug up the 2-century-old mollusk at Florida's Alligator Point, while collecting shellfish to make chowder.

Parker said the clam is hefty enough to make two servings – and has shells large enough to use as bowls to serve it in.

“We were just going to eat it, but we thought about it a while and figured it was probably pretty special. So, we didn’t want to kill it,” Parker said.

Instead, he took it to the aquarium at the Gulf Specimen Marine Lab, where he works as a specimen collector.


While most Ocean quahogs are 2.8 to 4.3 inches long and weigh up to a half pound, Lincoln checks in at 6 inches and weighs 2.6 pounds.

Parker said a clam, like a tree, lays down annual growth bands, alternating bands of light on its shell, which scientists used to estimate its age.

There are 214 layers on the shell of the clam he found, which would mean it was probably born in 1809 – the same year as Abraham Lincoln. It was also discovered on Presidents Day weekend. So, Parker named his find Aber-clam Lincoln.

'Aber-clam Lincoln', a 214-year-old clam born same year as Abraham Lincoln, found in Florida

Believed to be born the same year as President Lincoln, the Quahog clam was named "Aber-clam Lincoln." He may be the fourth-oldest clam on record.

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NYC sees 5.6% overall crime drop in February​

By Erica Brosnan and Spectrum News NY1 New York City
PUBLISHED 9:05 AM ET Mar. 03, 2023

Statistics from the NYPD show a decrease in almost all major crimes in February compared with 2022, including a 15% drop in shootings.
New numbers from the department show an overall crime decrease of 5.6% year over year.
“We are very encouraged about the trends that we are seeing, and it is due to the hard work of the women and men of the NYPD,” Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said Friday during an appearance on “Mornings On 1.”