"I truly believe this with every fiber of my being, had they gotten at us they would have gotten us to the ground, we might not have been killed, might just have been injured by being kicked in the head, or kicked in the stomach until we were senseless," he explained.

Who Goes Nazi?

Sometimes I think there are direct biological factors at work--a type of education, feeding, and physical training which has produced a new kind of human being with an imbalance in his nature. He has been fed vitamins and filled with energies that are beyond the capacity of his intellect to discipline. He has been treated to forms of education which have released him from inhibitions. His body is vigorous. His mind is childish. His soul has been almost completely neglected.

At any rate, let us look round the room.

"Fifty years ago we were the only country that could deliver a man to the moon.

"Now we are the only country that can't deliver a letter."

At a Friday evening rally in New Hampshire, Trump again sparked widespread conversation of having difficulty climbing a short set of stairs to the stage while Lee Greenwood's "Proud to be an American" plays:

Fears `Trump has some health issues' after the president has difficulty walking up short set of stairs

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Chadwick Boseman, who played Black American icons Jackie Robinson and James Brown with searing intensity before inspiring audiences worldwide as the regal Black Panther in Marvel's blockbuster movie franchise, died Friday of cancer. He was 43.

Boseman died at his home in the Los Angeles area with his wife and family by his side, his publicist Nicki Fioravante told The Associated Press.

Boseman was diagnosed with colon cancer four years ago, his family said in a statement.

More so because this type of cancer is so easily stopped or defeated.
Please sign up for a colonoscopy if you have never had one.  

Yes, it's not a pleasant experience but the alternative is horrific slow death.  An easy choice if you have seen someone die this way.

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff writes in her new book, Melania and Me, that Melania Trump didn't want to move to the White House right away in part because she didn't want to have to use the same shower and toilet as former First Lady Michelle Obama and was waiting for the bathroom to be renovated, Politico reports.

It is not that the protests are right and justifiable, they are,  but that they play into the Trump campaign to incite conflict on the streets. After all, that is all the Republicans have. Hoaxable law and order.

The police, it seems, as infamously bellowed by Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley in 1968, "the police are here not to stop riots, but to cause them."  By willful action or inaction.

Professional policing should be able to discern between peaceful protesting and unlawful behaviors, such as looting and vandalism. It is not all that hard.

Claudio Sillero, a conservation biologist at Oxford University and the chair of the canid specialist group at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature said that the study confirms the close relatedness between Australian and New Guinea dogs, "the most ancient `domestic' dogs on earth."

James McIntyre, president of the New Guinea Highland Wild Dog Foundation and the researcher whose forays in the field were central to the discovery, first searched for New Guinea Singing Dogs in the forbiddingly rugged highlands of the island, which is split between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, in 1996. He was taking a break from studying intersex pigs in Vanuatu, but that's another story. Mr. McIntyre has degrees in zoology and education, and has worked at the Bronx Zoo and other zoos, private conservation organizations and as a high school biology teacher.

Both candidates have managed to reinvent themselves this race, and frankly I'm fine with that since both of them are chasing left and I don't take issue with politicians that change with the times.  But we have real talent waiting in the wings and neither one of them is it (IMO).  Having said that, neither one of them is a huge problem either - it's weird to me how much attention/animosity this race has gotten for what will ultimately amount to not much changing regardless.

The AG's decision to charge murder on these facts is questionable at best.

"A new online study finds that Republicans and independents are twice as likely as Democrats to say they would not give their true opinion in a telephone poll question about their preference for president in the 2020 election. That raises the possibility that polls understate support for President Trump," Businessweek reports.

"Some 11.7% of Republicans and 10.5% independents said they would not give their true opinion, vs. 5.4% of Democrats."

But getting caught up in the details of an incident or questioning the behavior of a victim misses the point. Innocent Black people don't deserve to be killed by police. Guilty Black people don't deserve to be killed by police. There's due process.

Trump's surprising resilience with Hispanic voters, explained

Biden is doing worse than Clinton among Hispanic voters

"A federal appeals court on Monday dismissed a House lawsuit seeking to force President Trump's former White House counsel Donald McGahn to comply with a Congressional subpoena, saying Congress has not passed a law expressly authorizing it to sue to enforce its subpoenas," the Washington Post reports.

"The divided 2-1 ruling dealt a blow to Congressional oversight powers and came three weeks after the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit affirmed that Congress had standing to sue -- that is, it had shown that the Trump administration's refusal to allow to McGahn to testify harmed the House's long-standing right to compel government officials' testimony."

Russian journalists have discovered data from Michigan voter data rolls-including the personal info of 7.6 million Michigan voters-on a Russian hackers' platform, Julia Ioffe reports.

It also includes voter info from other swing states, including Florida and North Carolina.

In October 1961, the Soviet Union dropped the most powerful nuclear bomb in history over a remote island north of the Arctic Circle.

Though the bomb detonated nearly 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) above ground, the resulting shockwave stripped the island as bare and flat as a skating rink. Onlookers saw the flash more than 600 miles (965 km) away, and felt its incredible heat within 160 miles (250 km) of Ground Zero. The bomb's gargantuan mushroom cloud climbed to just below the edge of space.

This was RDS-220 -- also known as the Tsar Bomba. Nearly 60 years after the bomb's record-shattering detonation, no single explosive device has come close to matching its destructive power. Last week, Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation (Russia's state atomic agency) released 40 minutes of previously classified footage, showing the bomb's journey from manufactor to mushroom cloud. Now, you can watch it all on YouTube. (The countdown to detonation begins at 22:20).

An aerial bomber carried the massive weapon high over the Novaya Zemlya islands in the Russian Arctic, then dropped it via parachute before clearing the area. The explosion was so powerful that it actually knocked the aircraft out of the sky, causing the plane to plummet 3,000 feet (900 m) before the pilot could right it, according to Popular Mechanics.

President Trump on Twitter: "It never ends! Now they are trying to say that your favorite President, me, went to Walter Reed Medical Center, having suffered a series of mini-strokes. Never happened to THIS candidate - FAKE NEWS."

No one has actually reported that Trump had a series of mini-strokes.

We simulate the election 40,000 times to see who wins most often. The sample of 100 outcomes below gives you a good idea of the range of scenarios our model thinks is possible.

Biden Wins 68 out of 100, Trump wins 31 out of 100, 1 tie out of 100.

New data suggest that social distancing and reopening haven't determined the spread.

This is a few years old but I just discovered it.  The reason for that is bad marketing.  Although I understand why.  I guess,

If you say anything at all about what it's really about it's the biggest possible spoiler.  What it's actually about is the whole point.  And if you don't know what it's really about it just doesn't sound very interesting.

I only learned because of my tendency to seek and read spoilers.  For this I thought, wow, that sounds amazing.

And it kind of is.