Jul 27
How many species of North American wolf are there? Trick question. There’s actually only one, and he’s angry that you’re infringing on its territory (or so I’ve heard).
Jul 27
European car companies are starting to invest more heavily in green vehicles. Audi unveiled three more electric cars on Monday and Porsche added 400 jobs to how many it estimates it will create to make its electric Model E come to life. Today, Daimle…
Jul 27
Despite its distance from the sun, Jupiter is a surprisingly hot planet with temperatures ranging around 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit in the middle latitudes. According to new findings published today in the journal Nature, temperatures over the planet’s…
Jul 27
The New York Daily News came out swinging this week after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump issued a plea for Russia to hack Hillary Clinton.
The tabloid described “Comrade Trump’s” call for foreign intelligence to attack his rival as “treasonous.” Then, the paper took the cry used against Clinton at the Republican National Convention and turned it on the reality TV star:
The newspaper has been feuding with Trump for months, depicting him as a clown, blasting him as a racist, calling him “stupid” and mocking the fact that black voters have abandoned his campaign.
Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.
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Jul 27
Bill O'Reilly Defends 'Well-Fed' Slaves Remark, Blames 'Far-Left' Media For Attacks
Posted in: Today's ChiliBill O’Reilly defended his remarks about the treatment of the slaves who helped build the White House on Wednesday, saying his statement about them being “well-fed” with “decent lodgings” was grounded in fact and held no justification for slavery.
The Fox News host came under fire earlier this week after he commented on Michelle Obama’s powerful Democratic National Convention speech in which she addressed waking up “every morning in a house that was built by slaves.” On Tuesday, O’Reilly, a prolific historian, provided context for the remarks.
“Slaves did participate in the construction of the White House,” he said. “Slaves that worked there were well-fed and had decent lodgings provided by the government, which stopped hiring slave labor in 1802.”
He was soundly slammed by critics he labeled “far-left loons” and “smear merchants” before taking to his show to reiterate the point that “any honest historian” knows slaves were kept “strong.”
“In order to keep slaves and free laborers strong, the Washington administration provided meat, bread and other staples, also decent lodging on the grounds of the new presidential building,” he said. “That is a fact. Not a justification, not a defense of slavery. Anyone who implies otherwise is beneath contempt … Reporting the story behind Mrs. Obama’s very valid points does not diminish the horror of enslavement as these dishonest critics allege.”
The White House Historical Association has said slaves did in fact help build the White House. But The New York Times notes “there’s no historical evidence either way on the question of how well fed the slaves were.”
Social media once again erupted, claiming O’Reilly’s comment’s detracted from the horrors of slavery.
Take a look at the entire clip above.
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Jul 27
PHILADELPHIA ― Vice President Joe Biden offered a counterargument to the premise of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s case for the White House with an emphatic declaration that the America is great already ― and that a Trump presidency would jeopardize that.
“We’ve had candidates before attempting to get elected by appealing to our fears, but they’ve never succeeded because we do not scare easily. We never bow, we never bend, we never break, when confronted with crisis. No, we endure! We overcome and we always, always, always move forward,” Biden said amid cries of “U.S.A.!” from the Democratic National Convention crowd Wednesday.
Biden enthused about American workers, the economy and the military; blasted Trump’s ignorance of domestic and world affairs; and issued grave warnings about the consequences of the real-estate billionaire’s vision for the world.
“This is a complicated and uncertain world we live in. The threats are too great, the times are too uncertain to elect Donald Trump president of the United States,” Biden said. “No major party nominee in the history of the nation has ever known less or been less prepared to deal with our national security.”
Biden’s address to the convention was founded on a two-part argument that Democrats are making to persuade voters ― however skeptical they may be of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton ― that Trump’s negative outlook on America is misplaced and that his strongman approach to problems at home and abroad will threaten the foundation of the nation’s strengths.
Trump’s strident views about national security, terrorism, America’s relationship with allied nations and other issues would lead to catastrophe if he were in the White House, Biden said.
“We cannot elect a man who exploits our fears of ISIS and other terrorists, who has no plan whatsoever to make us safer, a man who embraces the tactics of our enemies, torture, religious intolerance,” Biden said.
“It betrays our values. It alienates those who we need in the fight against ISIS. Donald Trump, with all his rhetoric, would literally make us less safe,” Biden said. “We cannot elect a man who belittles our closest allies while embracing dictators like Vladimir Putin ― I mean it ― a man who seeks to sow division in America for his own gain and disorder around the world. A man who confuses bluster with strength.”
The vice president also endeavored to use Trump’s reality TV stardom against him.
“His cynicism is unbounded. His lack of empathy and compassion can be summed up in the phrase I suspect he is most proud of making famous: ‘You’re fired,’” Biden said. “Think about everything you learned as a child. No matter where you were raised, how can there be pleasure in saying, ‘You’re fired’? He is trying to tell us he cares about the middle class? Give me a break. That’s a bunch of malarkey.”
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Jul 27
PHILADELPHIA ― A video recapping the highs and lows of President Barack Obama’s presidency played ahead of his speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention Wednesday night.
The video touched on everything from the financial crisis and the Osama bin Laden raid, to gun violence and the legalization of gay marriage.
Watch the video above.
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Jul 27
Wednesday evening, several news outlets announced that Wikileaks had JUST RELEASED 29 new Democratic National Committee voicemails, a brilliant bit of counter-programming against tonight’s Democratic convention events if true.
Jul 27
When you have an important guest over to your home, it’s good etiquette to give them a gift to show them your gratitude. Even though redditors don’t have the reputation for being the nicest
people online, they apparently have good manners. During his AMA on Wednesday evening, Donald Trump was gifted hundreds and hundreds of dollars of useless Reddit gold, also known as gilding, presumably as token of alt-right redditors’ appreciation for the massive-handed Republican nominee.
Jul 27
Don’t let anyone tell you that the modern diet is significantly worse than the diets of ancient populations. Apparently, even the wealthiest of our ancestors could’ve been lazy and fat too.
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