Jasonisms

Just went over to Twitter ... I prefer it here.

Watching old Twilight Zone episodes on SYFY right now. This one, Bill Shatner's first role, I believe, is on right now. These old episodes are great. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5f8u91

No collusion here, folks. Move along. Less than two weeks before Trump accepted the Republican nomination, Manafort offered in emails to a middleman, his former business associate Konstantin Kilimnik, to brief Deripaska on the 2016 presidential race, The Washington Post and The Atlantic reported last year. In the emails, Kilimnik wrote to Manafort about an associate "our friend V" with ties to Deripaska, The Atlantic reported. According to Time, Boyarkin was the "friend." #DonaldTrump #TrumpNation https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/12/29/politics/russian-former-spy-paul-manafort-trump-campaign/index.html?r=https://plus.url.google.com/mobileapp

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#DonaldTrump and the #GOP don't seem to be worried about their legacy - of how history will judge our times. Historians, on the other hand, we're asked to show us how future generations would judge 2018 and it's not good: The year 2018 marked the moment when America’s abdication of its role of leadership in the world, begun in 2017, grew more pronounced and irreversible. Trump called into question or flatly rejected America’s commitments to its allies, to free trade, to the rule of law, to democratic norms and to a global effort to avert the most dire consequences of climate change. He made America, in the eyes of much of the rest of the world, a rogue state. The president of the United States had long been the most consequential person in the world; that distinction shifted to the president of China in 2018. The world has never been the same. #TrumpNation is the culmination of 40 years of GOP propaganda and the beginning of the end of that shining beacon of light in the d

At #DonaldTrump's resort(s) he's handing out fake Green Cards to illegal immigrants so they can keep working for lower wages. Originally shared by Chris Kim A Supervisors at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey provided fake green cards and Social Security numbers to undocumented employees. A lawyer representing five immigrants who were undocumented while working at the Trump property said he turned the fraudulent documents over to the FBI. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/fake-green-cards-trump-773721/

So many missed opportunities to prevent a tragedy. All it would have taken was a handful of people to do the fucking effing job they were hired to perform. This is a perfect example of a systematic failure from Point t A to Point Z. http://projects.sun-sentinel.com/2018/sfl-parkland-school-shooting-critical-moments/

The whiskey I'll give you, they don't call it the Water of Life for nothing, but cigars? Um, no. Richard Overton was in his 30s when he volunteered for the Army and was at Pearl Harbor just after the Japanese attack in 1941. He once said that one secret to his long life was smoking cigars and drinking whiskey, which he often was found doing on the porch of his Austin home. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/richard-overton-nation-s-oldest-world-war-ii-veteran-dies-n952541

I seem to remember #DonaldTrump sitting on a golden chair talking about how he's humble. https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/queen-elizabeth-christmas-message-sparks-backlash-on-twitter-for-featuring-gold-piano

#HaHaHa #CenturyLink sucks as a service provider, at least for consumer users. I can't tell you how many times we dropped service or it slowed to a crawl for no apparent reason and now they're going to send a lot of people to their next ISP. The issue began early Thursday morning for some customers. On downdetector.com , some customers commented that their internet service was intermittent, while others complained about the lack of communication about the outage and how long it would last. Customers also vented their frustration on Twitter with the hashtag "#CenturyLinkDown." https://amp.businessinsider.com/centurylink-phone-and-internet-outages-reported-nationwide-2018-12

In #TrumpNation even the troops are lied to by #DonaldTrump. "We should never get used to the president not being straightforward and not telling the truth," he said on MSNBC. "The pay raise statements were not factually accurate. The president should know better than that. We should never sort of get used to this president with his looseness on the facts." https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fact-check-trump-brags-troops-about-10-percent-pay-raise-n952336

Yeah, there was no collusion. Sure ... Let me be clear: innocent people don't have to run around covering their asses tracks all the time. I"m just sayin ... In April, Peter Stone and Greg Gordon reported for McClatchy that Robert Mueller had obtained evidence that Cohen did indeed visit Prague. Today the pair have a new report with much more detail. Cohen’s phone pinged off cell-phone towers in Prague during that period, according to four sources. Also during that period, an Eastern European intelligence agency electronically surveilled a conversation in which one Russian said that Cohen was in Prague, according to two more sources. The reporting is the opposite of thin. If the conclusion is wrong, it is a massive journalistic error. Originally shared by MTD Funny how that "fake dossier" keeps being verified one bit at a time. http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/report-michael-cohen-prague-trump-collusion-russia.html?utm_source=undefined&utm_medium=undefined

Yeah, there was no collusion. Sure ... Let me be clear: innocent people don't have to run around covering their asses tracks all the time. I"m just sayin ... In April, Peter Stone and Greg Gordon reported for McClatchy that Robert Mueller had obtained evidence that Cohen did indeed visit Prague. Today the pair have a new report with much more detail. Cohen’s phone pinged off cell-phone towers in Prague during that period, according to four sources. Also during that period, an Eastern European intelligence agency electronically surveilled a conversation in which one Russian said that Cohen was in Prague, according to two more sources. The reporting is the opposite of thin. If the conclusion is wrong, it is a massive journalistic error. Originally shared by MTD Funny how that "fake dossier" keeps being verified one bit at a time. http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/report-michael-cohen-prague-trump-collusion-russia.html?utm_source=undefined&utm_medium=undefined

When was the last time you saw Google's black bar? I just saw it today on Drive with a file being shared with me. #BlastFromthePast #ResetTheMatrix

Is this how we #MAGA? Of course, this isn’t Trump’s first failure in operational security. In October, the New York Times reported that when Trump calls friends on his personal iPhone — a device he was supposed to ditch for security measures — Russian and Chinese spies eavesdrop to gauge the president’s mood and who might have his ear on policy matters. Other low-tech security risks emerged in the report: Last year, Trump left his cell behind in a golf cart at his course in New Jersey, causing “a scramble” to find it. Nor is it Trump’s first impromptu revelation of national security interests: In April 2017 phone call, Trump told Rodrigo Duterte, the authoritarian president of the Philippines, that the U.S. had sent two nuclear submarines to the waters off the coast of North Korea. And, in May 2017, hours after the dismissal of James Comey, Trump revealed Israeli intelligence assets to the Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, jeopardizing the Israeli-American intelligence link and leavin

First Christmas without Rufus in 12 years.

Watching ... #TheGuardians https://youtu.be/AH_D8COMbhc

True story. #Christmas Originally shared by Ole Olson Want to keep Christmas traditional, eh? Fine with me!

Saying goodbye ... Originally shared by MTD The very last Merry Christmas from Mr. Jingles.

There is a lot going on in this article, to include the chastising of the more liberal arm of the Democratic party and calling out #DonaldTrump for his never-ending tirade of all things batshit crazy, but this stands out: "Now they'll tell you, if it's just the two of you, 'The guy is nuts, he doesn't have a grasp of the issues, he's making rash decisions, he's not listening to people who know the subject matter,' " she said. "But in public if they go after him ... they know they get a primary, and they know that's tough." If true, the Republicans are willfully subjugating democracy for demagoguery and party over country. https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/24/politics/mccaskill-exit-interview/index.html

Just now, while ordering food at a deli, I had an incident that didn't need to happen Here's how it all went down: This particular deli you walk up to the counter, order your food, they bring it to you right then and there and then you go find your seat. Easy, right? Well, usually. Today it was far less busy than I thought it would be and I stepped up at my turn and ordered what I wanted. The girl behind the counter grabbed my food and a cup for the soda machine and slid them out to me. As I was paying I noticed my cup had a misshapen rim that wouldn't be conducive to a lid, so I asked, "Can I get a cup a lid will go on?" The woman who as taking my money pointed to the soda fountains, "Lids are over there." So, I tilted the cup down and showed her the rim that looked like it had been squished at some point or another, "No, I need a cup that a lid will go on." She looked at me again, indicated the general direction of the soda fountain a

via Olaf Fichtner #racism Originally shared by Laura Natale

Dr. Mike usually watches medical shows and (medically) reviews them. He's quickly becoming a fan of Scrubs by the way. In the meantime, he's reviewing medical memes. https://youtu.be/JNaY_b8eZds

Picked up this badboy yesterday. I haven't started it yet I'm hoping it's good. #SixGunTarot #WildWestFantasy https://www.amazon.com/Six-Gun-Tarot-Golgotha-R-Belcher/dp/0765367513/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1545614264&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=six+gun+tarot&dpPl=1&dpID=51EJ4ULvgAL&ref=plSrch

A few weeks ago I finally broke down and took my friend's mom up on her offer to stay with her (in her basement) until I "get back on my feet." The weather was turning ever colder and was supposed to top out in the 30s (Fahrenheit) for about a week, which meant teens overnight. I probably could have lasted a day or two, but not for the foreseeable future. As it turns out, that cold front barely lasted a week. I'd held off due to her stipulations about moving in with her. No alcohol, to include coming home from the bar; no porn and no women. Yes, really. In fact, out conversation went something like this: Her: "Do you drink?" Me: "I have the occasional drink, but am I a drinker ? No." Her: "Well, there's no alcohol at my house. I won't have it [in there]. And there's no going out drinking and coming home drunk, either." Me: "Okay ..." It wasn't a big deal because I really don't drink that often, especia

That's your "Merry Christmas" loving, religious nutjob appealing president right there, folks. After Trump bought a building close to Central Park in 1981, he refused to decorate the lobby for Christmas – part of a concerted strategy, according to the New York Times, to hound out residents from the building, so he could knock it down and build a big tower. It wasn’t just a decoration issue. Timeline reported that the day after Christmas 1983, Trump filed an eviction proceeding against a tenant. #DonaldTrump #TrumpNation https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/23/trump-war-on-christmas-happy-holidays-businesses?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

All the political groups on MeWe seem to be #TrumpNation inspired. I'm tempted to start one called "Trump Nation" just to share the news I share here over there.

Oh no! Let us all hope #DonaldTrump doesn't get another SCOTUS nomination. Ginsburg, the eldest member of the court and the senior justice of its liberal wing, underwent a pulmonary lobectomy. Two nodules in the lower lobe of her left lung were discovered incidentally during tests she received while being treated for rib fractures sustained in a fall last month. Both nodules were found to be malignant during an initial evaluation. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/21/supreme-court-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-85-reportedly-undergoes-lung-procedure-.html

On this day, five years ago, Rufus and I went on a 4 mile walk. He came home tired.

And yet, the porn spam bot here on the Ploos can run rampant with no repercussions: “This bill jeopardizes not only classified ads sites but also dating apps, discussion forums, social media sites, and any other service that hosts user-generated content,” said Emma Llansó of the Center for Democracy & Technology in a public statement opposing the bill. “Smaller platforms will also face the real risk that a single lawsuit could put them out of business.” Originally shared by Sarah Rios FYI, this is why Tumblr et al are freaking out and suddenly banning things. https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/4/13/17172762/fosta-sesta-backpage-230-internet-freedom

If you thought #TrumpNation was bad when #DonaldTrump's more basic tendencies we're being subverted by Kelly and Mattis, guess what's going to happen now that the reigns are off and our moronic President is surrounded by sycophants and "yes" men. "One core belief I have always held is that our strength as a nation is inextricably linked to the strength of our unique and comprehensive system of alliances and partnerships. While the US remains the indispensable nation in the free world, we cannot protect our interests or serve that role effectively without maintaining strong alliances and showing respect to those allies." https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/12/20/politics/donald-trump-jim-mattis-resignation/index.html?r=https://www.google.com/

“No one should trust Facebook until they change their business model.” I know many of us over here on the Plus don't use Facebook that frequently, but others do and they gladly turn a blind eye to FB's unethical practices as long as they can share their memes. Originally shared by Aleks Fatuesi Yikes. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-privacy.html

 "I voted for Trump and I'd vote for him again because I think he's the best thing for our country right now, given the choices at hand in the last election. But it certainly has not been good for business." -#TrumpNation Originally shared by Chris Kim A Frontier Justice in Lee's Summit takes a "fashion-oriented destination shopping" approach to court women to buy guns. https://www.kcur.org/post/kansas-city-gun-store-courts-women-shoppers-nordstrom-approach-0#stream/0

#DonaldTrump's unprecedented re-election campaign (remember, he infamously filed for 2020 before he was even sworn in in 2017) is literally gobbling up the Republican Party, preventing any other would-be #GOP Presidential candidates from racing against him. And the Republicans election network is on board with this. Under the plan, which has been in the works for several weeks, the Trump reelection campaign and the RNC will merge their field and fundraising programs into a joint outfit dubbed Trump Victory. The two teams will also share office space rather than operate out of separate buildings, as has been custom. The GOP is truly #TrumpNation now. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/18/trump-machine-swallows-rnc-1067875

At Amazon, unprofitable items are known as "crap". Looks like the senior people at Amazon are tired of the crap and looking to stop the crap from being listed on their site. #crap

One could argue that all of #TrumpNation we're recruited as Russian influence assets. "Recruiting an asset by exploiting a personal vulnerability -- usually a secret that would inspire shame or cause personal or financial harm if exposed -- is a timeless espionage practice," it says. I recall at least one real life conversation (I'll explain those later) where a woman was disgruntled that Facebook "deleted all her favorite groups." https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/17/tech/russia-2016-election-social-media-report/index.html

Went for a walk for the first time in a long time and didn't think I'd catch any good pictures due to the time of day and crystal clear blue skies. But, as happens, I got lucky. The one in color is the original and the different #monochrome ones are the various #blackandwhite treatments I decided to test hoping one would stick out and wow me. Turns out, they all wowed me. Taken with OnePlus and edited with Snapseed .

What is art? It's healthy, is what it is. https://www.businessinsider.com/why-you-should-make-art-even-if-youre-bad-2016-6?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=topbar&utm_term=desktop&referrer=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2zWwygp-eki3GwRdKY3fiBuhjO_mqNLhOTg_6XsKF76Ob2aqNm_9EM5Vo?utm_source%3Dfacebook?utm_source%3Dfacebook

More reminders from #GooglePhotos. #Rufus

True story. As soon as you're explainable thousands of psychologists suddenly go out of business. Originally shared by Chris Kim A https://inspirobot.me/share?iuid=a/Ra6VRYQ6zw.jpg

The paradox of tolerance. Without a doubt the most culturally relevant paradox on this list, the paradox of tolerance is the idea that a society that is entirely tolerant of all things will also be tolerant of intolerance. Eventually, the tolerated intolerant elements of a society will seize control, rendering that society a fundamentally intolerant one. Therefore, in order to remain a tolerant society, intolerance cannot be tolerated. And n short, as we become more tolerant, those who we've become i tolerant of take more power. Which makes sense as we're seeing in modern society and liberal tolerance of the intolerant conservatives. https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/10-bizarre-paradoxes?rebelltitem=10#rebelltitem10

This actually makes some sense. However, the most likely candidate is pollution. Research has shown that chemicals that are commonly found in medicine and pesticides inhibit testosterone. These chemicals are seeping into our water, contributing to fertility problems in fish. The researchers also speculate that this same mechanism is occurring in humans as well. and Good news: The things that are lowering men's testosterone levels may be complicated, but combating this issue is simple and probably what you would have guessed anyways. Eat a healthy diet, exercise more, and get a good night's sleep. If you really want to go the extra mile, avoid eating or drinking from plastic containers. Finally, get political: When environmental regulation goes out the window, so too does your health. Contrary to the stereotype, becoming a treehugger might be the best way to save your masculinity. https://bigthink.com/sex-relationships/men-have-less-testosterone-today?rebelltitem=3#rebelltitem3

I think we've all wanted to do something like this at one point or another. Jackson Racicot, who is 17, quit the Walmart in Grande Prairie, Alberta. He posted a video of his announcement on Facebook on December 6, and it's since gone viral. In the video, he said the store's management lied to employees and insulted them and unfairly cut his pay. https://www.thisisinsider.com/teen-quits-walmart-job-intercom-viral-video-2018-12

#GooglePhotos giving me more reminders. #Rufus

There is some a lot of truth to this. And yes, I grew up calling them "stickers". https://youtu.be/po2RGPkXhIw

Pretty soon, the only people left in the #GOP will be #TrumoNation, reflecting the trend the Republican Party has had for anti-democratic values, pro-fascism and unbridled racism. “I’ve been thinking about it for some time,” Tani Cantil-Sakauye, 59, told CALmatters in an interview published Thursday. She said her husband and friends told her:  “You didn’t leave the party. The party left you.” https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c13240ae4b0860b8b5cc37d

What's the name of that search engine that focuses primarily on research and academia? For some reason I'm spacing it and none of those "top search engine alternates to Google" lists are coming up with the right one.

The more you learn about Facebook the more you realize it's a terrible organization. Originally shared by Amber Mac Not a very encouraging comment by one of the major Facebook fact-checking orgs: “They’ve essentially used us for crisis PR,” said Brooke Binkowski, former managing editor of Snopes, a factchecking site that has partnered with Facebook for two years. “They’re not taking anything seriously. They are more interested in making themselves look good and passing the buck … They clearly don’t care.” https://buff.ly/2Lldvb3

Mike Elgan , I'm sure you meant "despots" here, not depots.

Is the USA seeing a pagan revival? As more and more people are leaving the Big 3, some for atheism and others for agnosticism or spiritualism, we might be inclined to give an emphatic yes . However, we must first define what we mean by "paganism". Are we sticking to the original Latin for 'country bumpkin', going with the far more common definition of 'people who follow non-Abrahamic religions' or the new definition being put forth in this opinion piece: 'secularism and spiritualism without god'? Which is why lately I’ve become interested in books and arguments that suggest that there actually is, or might be, a genuinely post-Christian future for America — and that the term “paganism” might be reasonably revived to describe the new American religion, currently struggling to be born. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/opinion/christianity-paganism-america.html

Baby It's Cold Outside I've never seen JP so faux-angry before. https://youtu.be/yGWsNPfZWx4

This pretty much sums up #DobaldTrump's entire presidency: The whole debacle was already indefensible, but it is even more so now that we know that the whole grand theatrical event is costing US taxpayers such a colossal amount of money. #TrumpNation, where spending is only questioned when Democrats want to see people be healthy or the disenfranchised taken care of. https://www.newstatesman.com/world/north-america/2018/12/trump-s-election-stunt-border-cost-us-taxpayers-210m

It is really hard to try and believe the modern #GOP isn't racist when they repeatedly surround themselves with them. _As the state continues to diversify, Republicans decided they could best learn what the population truly wants by inviting David Horowitz, the leader of a vehemently anti-immigration and anti-Muslim hate group, to keynote the gathering. The Southern Poverty Law Center describes the David Horowitz Freedom Center as “a platform to project hate and misinformation.” But Colorado Republicans welcomed him with open arms – and he gave them what they wanted._ #Colorado #GOP https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/12/right-colorado-elected-gay-governor-state-republicans-huddled-hate-group-leader/

Psst! Remember when I said privatization never results in cost savings? Here's an example. Originally shared by Chris Kim A An audit found that as of Oct. 1, CBP had paid a consulting company approximately $13.6 million to recruit and hire 7,500 applicants — but 10 months in, it had only processed "two accepted job offers." https://www.npr.org/2018/12/11/675923576/customs-border-and-protection-paid-a-firm-13-6-million-to-hire-recruits-it-hired?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2041

So, that's inconvenient. While driving to work this morning (yes, to work) my transmission blew. So, I'm waiting on a two truck to take me to the nearest AAMCO location because I've had good luck with them in the past. No bueno! I'm going to miss a whole day of work and be without a vehicle for a day or more. Gah! And it supposed to snow tonight. And my motorcycle is 60 miles away, in storage. Can't even use that as a backup. And Google+ is closing. Sometimes I think the Universe just wants to see how much I can take.

August was far too far away for Google to sunset the Ploos. New date: April. Yeah, that's four months from now. Boo! Originally shared by Robert Wallis We will never stop .... nah, actually ... fuck it . Every time it's a kick to the guts. 👉 https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/expediting-changes-google-plus/

Um ... Three separate words to be the child's first name only? Any single one of them would make a decent first name, but all three? I think people are correct to call into question whether this woman is on something. https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/mom-cancels-baby-shower-after-family-ridicules-name-choice-he-will-not-be-allowed-to-have-a-nickname

The 'next president' being either Pence, the beer incoming Speaker or the next elected president. "We have been discussing the issue of pardons the president may offer to people or dangle in front of people," Schiff said. "The bigger pardon question may come down the road, as the next president has to determine whether to pardon Donald Trump." For all the regressive policies #DonaldTrump has put t interested place over the past two years, here's to hoping for impeachment and jail time for the head of #TrumpNation. https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/420450-schiff-trump-may-face-real-prospect-of-jail-time

Eeeewww! https://pix11.com/2018/12/08/man-dying-from-heart-failure-coughs-up-blood-clot-shaped-like-lung-passage/

No one, not even the people #DonaldTrump loves the most, give a shit damn what he thinks. In #TrumpNation the curtain is hiding nothing. Originally shared by Chris Kim A Ignoring pressure from President Trump to keep the oil flowing, OPEC, Russia and other producers have agreed to cut production. https://www.npr.org/2018/12/07/674516992/oil-prices-jump-after-opec-agrees-to-bigger-than-expected-production-cut?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=203007

I'm not in a position to donate at the moment, so a #signalboost is what I give. via Amanda Rachelle Warren Originally shared by Julia Thompson Cathy just got home from the hospital after an unexpected bout with pneumonia. If you can donate, then great! If you can't, then signal boost would help! https://www.gofundme.com/cathy-day039s-cancer-fight

Because #DonaldTrump. President Donald Trump launched into a no-holds-barred attack on his former secretary of state on Friday hours after Rex Tillerson gave his own blistering assessment of his time as the president's chief diplomat. Originally shared by NBC News "Rex Tillerson didn't have the mental capacity needed," Trump tweeted. "He was dumb as a rock and I couldn't get rid of him fast enough. He was lazy as hell." https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/tillerson-says-he-often-had-tell-trump-his-directive-violates-n945176

If you are an American you should hate repressive regimes as it goes against everything we believe in as a society. If you're American and you support repressive regimes, you're a poor excuse for an American. via Joseph Milan Originally shared by Gabrielle Aydnwylde Can't unsee... and don't want to. This needs to be shown, and shared. As hard as it is to witness, it is unfathomably harder to live it . https://www.boredpanda.com/award-winning-chinese-photographer-vanished-lu-guang-china-xinjiang/ https://www.boredpanda.com/award-winning-chinese-photographer-vanished-lu-guang-china-xinjiang/

The Captain Marvel trailer dropped the other day and I didn't share it because ... meh . But this, this is Avengers: Endgame where we will see the culmination of 10 years of MCU. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA6hldpSTF8&feature=share

Kelly-Ann Conway's husband is always critical of his wife's boss and now Laura Ingraham's own brother is essentially calling her a Nazi sympathizer. Curtis Ingraham has talked about his displeasure with his sister before. In an interview with VICElast month, he said that he and Laura were raised in an “abusive” household with an alcoholic father who was also a Nazi sympathizer. http://deadstate.org/laura-ingrahams-brother-shes-echoing-our-fathers-anger-and-racism/?fbclid=IwAR1C7ASyyK7SXgTd7cCqFIPkD0E3_-DpYdLlW7_gjFRH_NlKHXY5NXM0Fq4

The researchers believe that drawing led to better memory when compared with other study techniques because it incorporated multiple ways of representing the information–visual, spatial, verbal, semantic and motoric. A long time ago, in a state far far away, I started doodling while the teachers were talking. It's something I kept with me then one day it was just gone. I don't know when or why, maybe because I stopped being a student, but one day I was sitting in a corporate training wondering why i couldn't retain much of the information. Upon wondering why I realized there were few to no doodles in my notebook. So, I started doodling and the information became easier to retain. via Luna Occulta Originally shared by Neuroscience News Drawing is Better than Writing for Memory Retention Older adults who take up drawing could enhance their memory. The research is in Experimental Aging and Research . (full access paywall) https://neurosciencenews.com/drawing-memory-retention-

When you're young and not confident in your eel snorting yet. This phenomenon, eels getting stuck in seals' noses, is rare; the team has observed only three or four cases of eel-nose in the past four decades, said Charles Littnan, a monk seal conservation biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries. But weirdly, the incidence has been increasing in the past couple of years. "In almost 40 years of monitoring, we have actually never observed this until a few years ago," Littnan said. https://www.livescience.com/64249-seal-eel-stuck-nose.html

Here's to my leather riding jacket, faded jeans and old boots. (Yes, I realize this is the Onion) https://www.theonion.com/study-finds-owning-cool-leather-jacket-more-rewarding-t-1819573356

Time to stay out of Ohio. Radioactive waste may be used for de-icing roads and who knows how much of that will run-off into streams, rivers and lakes. That'll create an interstate conundrum after thousands of people get sick, flora and fauna die off and Ohio's agricultural industry takes a dive. But hey, at least they found a use for the used chemical, right? However, the bill has been opposed by a number of environmental groups, which point to a state report showing the salty liquid has radium levels up to 500 times higher than federal drinking-water limits. According to the 2017 memo from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, state officials found high radium levels in samples taken from a suburban Akron company, as well as from de-icers purchased at nearby stores. Originally shared by Joseph Milan This is just stunning https://www.cleveland.com/politics/2018/12/ohio-house-oks-use-of-oil-and-gas-brine-for-road-de-icing.html

Whoa. Fox News 's Tucker Carlson let loose on #DonaldTrump, #TrumpNation and the Republican party. “He knows very little about the legislative process, hasn’t learned anything, hasn’t surrounded himself with people that can get it done, hasn’t done all the things you need to do, so it’s mostly his fault that he hasn’t achieved those things,” he added. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/06/hes-not-capable-trump-has-achieved-nothing-tucker-carlson-says/

When you read this and believe the #GOP in Michigan is even more batshit crazy than you originally thought, consider this as well: the Republican party has been using the states as testing grounds for decades. They try something in one state, see how it plays our and then either adjust or apply to other states. If passed, House Bill 6553 would authorize both houses of the Legislature “to intervene in any action commenced in any court of this state whenever the Legislature or a house of the Legislature deems such intervention necessary in order to protect any right or interest of this state, or of that body.” https://www.mlive.com/news/2018/12/house-approves-bill-allowing-michigan-legislature-to-intervene-in-court-cases.html

Not the exactly the reason, but a good approximation of thereof, why I haven't had Facebook on my devices in 6 or seven years. One of the most revealing lines in a newly released trove of internal Facebook emailscomes from a 2015 discussion about a new type of data that the company wanted to start collecting. Specifically, Facebook wanted to read users’ “call logs” on Android devices—lists of everyone they had called and texted on their phones, even when they weren’t using Facebook. https://amp.slate.com/business/2018/12/facebook-emails-lawsuit-embarrassing-mark-zuckerberg.html?__twitter_impression=true

#DonaldTrump sums up GOP economic policy for the past ... 40 years or so. Rack up the bill, leave and let someone else worry about it, rinse, wash repeat. I remember when Trump was running for President and I posted he would do this. The man has a habit of running up debt and then walking away, from millions of dollars to vendors to millions of dollars in failed business ventures. He is not, has never been and will not be a good business man and yet he was able to dupe - yes, dupe - #TrumpNation. Originally shared by Joseph Milan The Republican Platform https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-on-coming-debt-crisis-i-wont-be-here-when-it-blows-up

More of #GooglePhotos tormenting me. https://photos.app.goo.gl/5QYAEFkKJFYKMNaW7

Need a Whopper for a penny? Burger King wants you to go to McDs first. Originally shared by Gene C I wonder how well this might pan out as a campaign https://read.bi/2EdfAoq

_The FDA has become aware of reports of vitamin D toxicity in dogs that ate dry dog food common contract manufacturer and marketed under several different brand names. This is a developing situation, and the FDA will update this page with additional information as it becomes available. What are the Symptoms of Vitamin D Toxicity? Excess vitamin D in the diet can cause vomiting, loss of appetite, increased thirst, increased urination, excessive drooling and weight loss. Vitamin D at toxic levels can cause kidney failure and death. Pet owners whose dogs have been eating the recalled brands and are showing these symptoms should contact their veterinarians._ https://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/NewsEvents/ucm627485.htm?utm_campaign=12-3-2018-VitaminD&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elqTrackId=B1A4CFFF6FDEE6DE41FBB7CE16615994&elq=5036556be0c94e5ea7613f5dac538a1f&elqaid=6140&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=4977

Where did the term "restroom" originate and why do women get those couches in theirs? Well, that's a story from another time ... The women’s parlor at the Emporium in San Francisco offered visitors periodicals and stationery in addition to a place to rest. Similar impressive but no-longer-existing spaces could be found at Higbee’s in Cleveland, the Jordan Marsh Company in Boston, and at the “rest rooms” at Lansburgh & Bro. department store in Washington, D.C. Today, you can still find seating areas adjacent to the women’s restroom in many Nordstrom stores across the country, as well as at Bloomingdale’s and the St. Regis Hotel in New York City. https://www.citylab.com/design/2018/12/history-womens-bathroom-design-lounge/576742/

While the Democrats were playing race politics, the #GOP was busy enshrining Republican rule across the nation. If you haven't connected the dots yet, this article does a great job of explaining it to you. Taken together, this is a powerful set of tools. Draw maps that let you win even when you lose. Use the resulting power to enact measures to suppress the vote of the other side further. Count on a minority rule president to undercount your opponents in the census, and a minority-rule Senate to confirm justices who will strike down any obstacles to the plan. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/04/america-minority-rule-voter-suppression-gerrymandering-supreme-court?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Google%2B

Seems like everyone's just washing their hands of responsibility here. _According to the family's Facebook page, Finding Carla , officials were not pursuing the matter because Ms Stefaniak had appeared "rational at the time of her disappearance and got into a taxi of her own free will". Airbnb has declined to comment on the matter. The US Embassy in Costa Rica did not immediately return a request for comment._ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46430830

Looks like Tumblr is done with nudity. It was just a matter of time, if you ask me. Yahoo might have been willing to turn a blind eye, but there's no way Verizon was going to keep going that way. And like Google+ before it, they picked a flimsy excuse to make such sweeping changes. Where Google decided a security breach was enough to shutter the Ploos, Verizon decided one case of child pornography was enough to shut down all nudity posts, not just the one account. https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/3/18123752/tumblr-adult-content-porn-ban-date-explicit-changes-why-safe-mode

So, in the past one and a half minutes I have: [1] dropped the laptop battery out of my laptop and now my laptop won't power on. [2] dropped my backpack because one of the straps caught a chair I was sitting in. [3] knocked the chair over due to aforementioned backpack. [4] knocked some chapstick out of a side pocket on the backpack as I tried to wrangle the whole thing back together. It's going to be that day.

Late last night I remembered a post I wanted to make. It's not about me, per se, but more about a pet peeve of mine (and a little public shaming). On Friday I was traveling to an event in Centennial, CO. I was just south of Arapahoe on Lima when, in the distance, a vehicle with "emergency" lights was parked in the center suicide  lane. Not knowing what was going on, but knowing there were some government offices up ahead, I slowed expecting to be told to turn around or that the road was otherwise closed for whatever reason. But no, the vehicle parked in the center lane was not an emergency vehicle, it was a private ambulance company . Not only was there no emergency for the ambulance to be at, especially with it's lights flashing, but there didn't seem to be any remnants of an emergency. No dented cars, no police vehicles or fire trucks; no crash residue on the pavement, flares or orange cones. Nothing. So, why was this guy parked in the middle of the road w

Um, no.

I had to laugh out loud at this: Kleymenov threw in a few more barbs about the age of the U.S. president, claiming that Donald Trump is so incoherent that he had to have "45" embroidered on his cuffs, just so he wouldn’t forget he is President number 45. It seems the Russians no longer consider #DonaldTrump their useful idiot and just consider him an idiot who may still have some uses. In #TrumpNation even your handlers are tired of your shit. Originally shared by John Carroll Now, he’s hated by everyone....Bad boi bad boi what cha gonna do when they come for youuuuu ! https://www.thedailybeast.com/putins-media-roasts-potus-russia-should-spit-on-trump-and-the-united-states https://www.thedailybeast.com/putins-media-roasts-potus-russia-should-spit-on-trump-and-the-united-states

The weather outside is frightful ... In fact, the weather hasn't been too bad these past couple of days. Don't take that the wrong way, the temperatures have been a bit cooler, but the skies have been mostly clear and there hasn't been an ounce of precipitation. Until tomorrow - - Monday (tomorrow) is supposed to continue our cool streak but simultaneously adding snow and other winter-like conditions to life in the Denver metro area. In fact, the snow front was supposed to move in today but for some reason was delayed about 24 hours. From what I understand the ski resorts have been loving the weather snowfall. Much more so than I will be, which is why I took my friend's mom up on her offer to stay in her basement for a while so I can get on my feet. Yes, I've slept the past couple of nights in a "bed." Why the quotes? Because the "bed" is nothing more than a mattress on the ground. The bathroom I have access to is small enough to fit comfor

More of Google's incessantly reminding me of better days. #Rufus https://photos.app.goo.gl/s29bGZkHtbffYbW57

A singlular lion defends against a pack of 20 hyenas. Who wins? https://youtu.be/a5V6gdu5ih8

Is there finally a reason to log in to Facebook? #Firefly Originally shared by Chris Kim A As part of a deal with 20th Century Fox, every episode of these programs from Joss Whedon are available to watch for free on Facebook. Facebook is also hosting some major watch parties since it’s all a promotion to boost the new social viewing feature. You can ... get in on the Firefly Watch Party starting at 3 PM ET on Sunday afternoon. https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/30/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-facebook-watch/

Right there: Deutsche Bank is more concern with what Robert Mueller may uncover in his investigation than they are in Jared Kushner and are willing to throw him under the bus to protect the rest of their business dealings. “What BaFin will do about [the bank’s findings] is not the bank’s greatest concern,” the German magazine reported. “Rather, it’s the noise that U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller … will make in his pursuit of Trump. For he will likely obtain this information—a giant risk to [the bank’s] reputation.” #DonaldTrump is going to love this one. #TrumpNation https://www.newsweek.com/deutsche-bank-willing-report-jared-kushners-suspicious-transactions-robert-786011

So, that happened. A DC court clerk (marriage licenses) thought New Mexico was a foreign country and demanded a passport. https://www.9news.com/mobile/article/news/nation-world/couple-forced-to-prove-new-mexico-is-a-state-while-applying-for-marriage-license/507-618907996?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5c01f4899ebbef0001cd11eb&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter?utm_campaign%3DtrueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5c01f4899ebbef0001cd11eb&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

#SignalFlare I can be found here, for now: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G9hyZEtOeJnlrjpxDZaRVVuYaJIxe5QCRpmgjLCYWok/edit?usp=drivesdk Originally shared by John Lewis #SignalFlare Have your left Google+? PLEASE: On the first of every month, if you have left Google+ for other locations, please set a Signal Flare post, with just the hashtag #SignalFlare and a link to where we can find you. Remember, the first day of the month , every month until Google+ closes. It will help everyone stick together and we'll all know you are okay. Pass this on. Share with friends.

#Caturday Sound on https://twitter.com/Unexplained/status/1068607601951338498?s=09

Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, vs. one, #DonaldTrump, #GlobalIdiot. https://twitter.com/politvidchannel/status/1068901420999499776?s=09