A keyword search for “Richard Parsons” generated a flood of stories about the executive, accompanied by a photo of two rhesus monkeys. Clicking on the image linked users to a story on neither monkeys nor Parsons. Instead, a speculative account on O’Neal’s waning support among Merrill directors appeared on screen. Other than the lynch mob’s noose and the Klansman’s hood, few images of racism are as offensive to African-American as monkeys....
Fans of the original Space Jam with Michael Jordan will recall the villains in the movie being “a quintet of aliens who work for their evil galactic carnival worker Mr. Swackhammer,” as Fandom notes. The group was featured early on in the movie as small aliens. But then they stole talent of NBA stars at the time, including Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Larry Johnson, Shawn Bradley and Muggsy Bogues....
Her break-in attempt was unsuccessful; however, Amelia, not wanting to leave her partner’s side, remained at the door throughout the entire surgery. The New England Wildlife Center posted the story to their Facebook page on July 14. According to their post, the mated pair of wild geese live on a pond near the facility. One morning, the staff noticed Arnold had developed a limp and was “continuously falling over.” Concerned, they worked together to catch the goose and bring him in for a quick exam....
Wichmann appeared on Jeff Pedersen’s podcast on the July 30 episode titled Stand Up Without Fear,on which the host threw his support behind the gubernatorial hopeful. During the podcast, Pedersen backed the “America First” candidate and offered his “full and total, complete endorsement,” to which Wichmann replied he was “honored.” Pedersen also was heard using a number code that is associated with the QAnon conspiracy when encouraging listeners to donate money to Wichmann’s campaign....
“The impeachment hearings in the House of Representatives have presented startling evidence that the President of the United States abused his power, strong-arming a foreign government to interfere on his behalf in the upcoming election, and damaging national security in the process,” said RRL Executive Director Sarah Longwell in a statement. “The president denies the allegations, but won’t let key administration officials—including Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, and White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney—testify to Congress....
In a post on Facebook, Representative Candice Keller, who lives in Middletown, around 30 miles south of Dayton, said that after every mass shooting “the liberals start the blame game,” and asked “why not place the blame where it belongs?” Keller attributed the killings to various problems that she said stemmed from the “breakdown of the traditional American family (thank you, transgender, homosexual marriage, and drag queen advocates).” She also listed video games, “fatherlessness” and “the acceptance of recreational marijuana” as other ills that contributed to the shootings....
The Fair Tax Act, which has been introduced by Representative Earl “Buddy” Carter and is supported by 30 other GOP members of the House, would abolish income, payroll, estate and gift taxes. Instead, the legislation proposes a 23 percent national sales tax, but the effective rate would be 30 percent, according to the Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). The plan has little chance of passing the House as three Republican members have already said they will vote against it and Speaker Kevin McCarthy indicated on Tuesday that he was also opposed....
Hawley has drawn criticism for his decision to contest the electoral votes by lawmakers from both sides of the aisle. Washington D.C. police are anticipating protests in the city on Tuesday and Wednesday in connection with the electoral vote count. In a tweet, Hawley said that the incident occurred while he was in his home state of Missouri. “Tonight while I was in Missouri, Antifa scumbags came to our place in DC and threatened my wife and newborn daughter, who can’t travel,” Hawley tweeted....
Top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani was killed in a U.S. led drone strike at an airport in Baghdad, Iraq. The attack was authorized by Trump, but Congress was not informed before the military action took place. After telling Blitzer that Congress was looking at Kaine’s War Powers Resolution, Rand said that he has always been in support of declarations of war, but that saying Soleimani posed an imminent threat to U....
Daines, one of several vulnerable Republicans in the upper chamber this election cycle, co-sponsored the Lower Costs, More Cures Act on July 2, which sought to lower the cost of prescription drugs while providing greater price transparency. The bill was introduced in December 2019 and has not advanced. In the weeks before and after Daines threw his weight behind the proposal, he received a total of $18,500 from seven different Big Pharma political action committees (PACs)....
Although Biden has not officially named Yellen to lead the Treasury Department, her expected nomination was first reported by The Wall Street Journal on Monday and later confirmed by multiple news outlets. Yellen served as the chair of the Federal Reserve under Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, from 2014 until 2018. However, some Republicans, including Barrasso, opposed her nomination to that post as well. “I voted against her when she was brought up to be confirmed for the Federal Reserve,” Barrasso, chair of the Senate Republican Conference, responded during a Wednesday interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box, when asked if he’d vote against Yellen’s nomination to lead the Treasury Department....
Utah Senator Romney questioned Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Anthony Fauci about the validity behind President Donald Trump blaming former President Barack Obama for the lack of a coronavirus vaccine in remarks last month. Fauci debunked Trump’s claim and extended that defense to the current president as well, noting that the unprecedented process jolted the system as a whole. During the same virtual Senate hearing, Maine Senator Collins asked why so much of the decision-making from top federal government health officials is consistently unclear....
McCollister, who was elected to the Nebraska legislature in 2015, appeared for an interview with MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Wednesday morning after his party rejected his concerns as well as him as a politician. The state senator argued, along with the morning show’s host Joe Scarborough––who previously served as GOP congressman but now identifies as independent––that Trump was not even a real conservative. “Donald Trump has hijacked the Republican party in Nebraska as well as in the rest of the country,” McCollister said....
K’Ogalo have donned jerseys from seven different companies since 2011 and the management is now thinking of having one direct supplier for a long period of time. Gor Mahia tipped to reclaim 2017 league title Secretary General Ben Omondi has explained to Goal that they are currently in talks with two manufacturers and that they will pick one by the end of the league’s first leg. “We have not had a proper jersey supplier for quite some time and we think it will be prudent if we get one now....
And then he let him go. The four-time Cup champion could have turned Edwards in the final corner and hoped he would be able to not wreck himself and keep enough momentum to win the Toyota/Save Mart 350. “It’s not worth wrecking the guy because, hey, if you’re racing the guy and you get a couple runs on him, he blocks you and he blocks you here and he blocks you there and you’re faster, then you might not give an inch,” Gordon said after his second-place finish....
For Clinton, there are more reasons than ever to “talk to Al.” In the transition to a second term, the vice president has become Clinton’s most important adviser, sounding board and troubleshooter. The result will be a Clinton-Gore administration in more than name: Gore’s allies will play an increasingly pivotal role. It’s the Gore White House in chrysalis–if he can navigate the tricky course from here to the year 2000....
Created sometime between 1399 and 1407, the Sherbone Missal was commissioned by the abbot of the Abbey of St. Mary, in the southwest English market town of Sherborne. Known as a missal, the illuminated manuscript was a book of services that included all the texts needed to celebrate Mass throughout the year, including on feast days, holidays and commemorations of saints. The British Library’s Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts Eleanor Jackson announced the digitization of the Sherborne Missal in a Thursday blog post....
We humans live in complex social structures, which are thought to have emerged as small autonomous groups grew into networks made of multi-layered hierarchies. Scientists believe humans have what is known as a unique “social brain.” It is thought these formed as our brains grew after the chimpanzee-human split. Dr. Robin Morrison, a biological anthropologist at the University of Cambridge, and her team believe complex societies could have evolved earlier than previously thought....
I thought about Juicycampus as I prepared for a class in a journalism course I teach at Princeton. This week we are discussing ways in which the press can be used for good or evil. Juicycampus reminds me of the phenomenon of Sen. Joe McCarthy, the demagogue from Wisconsin who fed a Red Scare in the early 1950s by smearing government officials, who were usually innocent, as Communists or security risks....
LEE: Why do so many multi-nationals struggle to make money in China? YUN: You cannot survive in China without becoming a Chinese company. That includes local technology development, product design, procurement, manufacturing and sales. If we try to sell products developed in Korea, we might fail because the same products can be developed in China much more cheaply. Our profitability in China varies according to the product. Semiconductor profitability is higher in other countries, but in other areas our productivity in China is OK....
