https://www.livescience.com/59473-what-is-hirschsprung-disease.html

 

They get their day in court.
http://www.scotusblog.com/2016/12/symposium-free-speech-argument-registering-disparaging-trademarks/

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/448771/free-speech-wins-again-supreme-court

If you’re a lawyer arguing against free speech at the Supreme Court, be prepared to lose. Today the Court affirmed once again the Constitution’s strong protections against governmental viewpoint discrimination, even when the viewpoint discrimination is directed against “offensive” speech. In Matal v. Tam, the Court considered the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s refusal to register a trademark for a band called “The Slants” on the grounds that the name violated provisions of the Lanham Act that prohibited registering trademarks that “disparage . . . or bring into contemp[t] or disrepute” any “persons, living or dead.”
...
Time and again, SCOTUS has defended free expression. Today was no exception. Writing for a unanimous Court, Justice Alito noted that the Patent and Trademark Office was essentially arguing that “the Government has an interest in preventing speech expressing ideas that offend.” His response was decisive: [A]s we have explained, that idea strikes at the heart of the First Amendment. Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express “the thought that we hate.” Quick, someone alert the snowflakes shouting down speeches on campus or rushing stages in New York. There is no constitutional exception for so-called “hate speech.” Indeed, governments are under an obligation to protect controversial expression. Every justice agrees.

 

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/448771/free-speech-wins-again-supreme-court

Does that include right wing snowflakes?
"Pro-Trump Protesters Interrupt 'Shakespeare in the Park' Performance of 'Julius Caesar'"
http://time.com/4822840/shakespeare-in-the-park-donald-trump-protests/

 

"Quick, someone alert the snowflakes shouting down speeches on campus or rushing stages in New York. There is no constitutional exception for so-called “hate speech.”

 

Deliciously lethal:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170620-the-delicious-flavour-with-a-toxic-secret
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“As long as you don’t use a copious amount of it – obviously a copious amount could cause death – it really is delicious,” says Thomas Raquel, head pastry chef at the Michelin-starred Le Bernardin in New York, not particularly reassuringly.

Selling tonka beans to eat has been illegal in the US since 1954. Foods containing tonka are considered to be ‘adulterated’, though that hasn’t stopped them appearing on the menus of Michelin-starred restaurants, from New York to California. In fact, the United States is the biggest importer of tonka on the planet.

 

Here's something weird. Students at Evergreen State College have gone completely nuts. Look at the video to see the worst case of, "disconnected from reality" I have ever seen.
https://reason.com/blog/2017/06/17/if-you-think-campus-free-speech-is-no-bi

 

Here's something weird. Students at Evergreen State College have gone completely nuts. Look at the video to see the worst case of, "disconnected from reality" I have ever seen.
https://reason.com/blog/2017/06/17/if-you-think-campus-free-speech-is-no-bi

Welcome to what pretends to be free expression and thought in the PNW young liberal world. This is a mental illness where the rejection of race based actions is racism and any free speech not in that young liberal world is alt-right Nazism.

This is not a College, Evergreen State is child-care.

 

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/cri...an-toe-served-in-famous-dawson-city-cocktail/

Lee said the cocktail comes with one key rule: "You can drink it fast, you can drink it slow, but your lips have gotta touch the toe."

 

http://www.kgw.com/news/man-struck-by-two-trains-in-se-portland/450845824

PORTLAND, Ore. -- A man struck by two trains in Southeast Portland Tuesday night suffered life-threatening injuries.

On Tuesday June 20, 2017, at 8:23 p.m., police officers responded to Southeast 8th Avenue and Southeast Division Street on the report of a pedestrian struck by a train.

Officers and medical personnel arrived and located a man with life-threatening injuries.

The man was transported to a Portland hospital by ambulance.

 

http://www.kgw.com/news/man-struck-by-two-trains-in-se-portland/450845824

The weird part about this news is not that he got struck by two different trains, but that he actually survived!

 

The weird part about this news is not that he got struck by two different trains, but that he actually survived!

He must have been a drunk Russian.

 

He must have been a drunk Russian.

Tough fellas, them ruskies...

 

was the truck ok

 

was the truck ok

Was this car?
https://www.facebook.com/MikeRMathews/videos/10210252783458543/

http://www.oregonlive.com/trending/2017/06/oregon_mans_dashcam_footage_of.html#incart_river_home

According to the Albany Police Department, the driver of the vehicle, Albany resident Mariano Acosta Aguilera, 51, was arrested on charges of DUII alcohol and reckless driving. He was also cited for not having a driver's license.

 

This is awful, I didn't know about the risks these devices involved:

A well-known lifestyle blogger in France has been killed by an exploding whipped cream dispenser.​

 

Here's my weird for today: If you offered the U.S. Congress a bill to outlaw American funding of ISIS and Al-Qaeda, what would happen?

No need to wonder. It already happened and H.R.608 received 13 votes in favor, out of 247 Representatives.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/co...esentatives-sign-bill-stop-arming-terrorists/

What? I thought people were being locked up for decades for sending money to those terrorists!
Well, American citizens are, but our government wouldn't pass a law against it if it applied to them.
That tells me a lot about who is running our country...and it isn't us.

 

Home Depot being sued for selling 3.5"x3.5" lumber as 4x4.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/money...uits-over-descriptions-lumber-size/405300001/

Doesn't everyone know that a 4x4 actually measures 3.5x3.5?

 

Here's my weird for today: If you offered the U.S. Congress a bill to outlaw American funding of ISIS and Al-Qaeda, what would happen?

No need to wonder. It already happened and H.R.608 received 13 votes in favor, out of 247 Representatives.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/co...esentatives-sign-bill-stop-arming-terrorists/

What? I thought people were being locked up for decades for sending money to those terrorists!
Well, American citizens are, but our government wouldn't pass a law against it if it applied to them.
That tells me a lot about who is running our country...and it isn't us.

As bad or worse than the whole heroin and cocaine debacle. Allowing the military and CIA to bring those drugs into the US and then starting the 'war on drugs'. I'd say worse, because the drugs had a real consequence in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs

The History Channel had a mini-series on it this week.
http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/8-times-americas-war-on-drugs-was-stranger-than-fiction

 

Home Depot being sued for selling 3.5"x3.5" lumber as 4x4.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/money...uits-over-descriptions-lumber-size/405300001/

Doesn't everyone know that a 4x4 actually measures 3.5x3.5?

The lumber industry here does the same thing. But they claim they do that because that's the lumber real measurement before plaining.

 

Home Depot being sued for selling 3.5"x3.5" lumber as 4x4.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/money...uits-over-descriptions-lumber-size/405300001/

Doesn't everyone know that a 4x4 actually measures 3.5x3.5?

Chocolate milk, brown cows?