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Please, for the love of God, spread these table manner errors so that they might be adopted far and wide. 1 & 3 have driven me to fantasize about punching fellow diners in the throat! Some of the rest of these are benign...

And the FAKE NEWS winners are... https://gop.com/the-highly-anticipated-2017-fake-news-awards/

MORE than anything else, the battlefield at Antietam, site of the bloodiest day in the nation's wartime history, is a monument to the American private soldier who stands in the rear rank on parade but in the front rank on attack. Here, on Sept. 16, 1862, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, commanding the Union's Army of the Potomac, stood in a grassy field atop a hill overlooking the shallow valley of Antietam Creek and watched Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia move into position on the opposite ridge. Then the Union general went back to his headquarters in...

Images of bloodied pensioners and police firing rubber bullets into peaceful crowds shocked the world today as Catalonia attempted to hold a referendum on independence from Spain. The Spanish interior ministry called the referendum illegal and said it will not recognise the result. Meanwhile armed police were called to schools to shut down polling stations and remove voters. As early reports emerged of more than 300 injured citizens and more than 10 police officers, Europeans took to the internet to condemn the silence from the EU.

The cards are always stacked in favor of the casino. Casinos exist for one reason, and one reason alone: to take your money. They do it legally, even if it's under cloudy circumstances. Sorry ma‘am, you didn’t win $43M—there was a slot machine “malfunction” Consider the case of an Alabama man who put $5 into an electronic bingo machine at the Wind Creek Casino in Montgomery, Alabama. The casino is on tribal land operated by the Poarch Band of Creek Indians. To the gambler's amazement, "several noises, lights, and sirens were activated" when the machine announced that Jerry Rape had...

GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Raiders weren’t going to take any chances, so coach Jack Del Rio only used two offensive starters in Saturday night’s preseason-opening 20-10 loss to the Cardinals. Not only did quarterback Derek Carr, receivers Amari Cooper and Michael Crabtree and running back Marshawn Lynch sit this one out, but Lynch sat on the bench during the national anthem.....

Full Title: "Partner of cop who fatally shot bride-to-be 'was STUNNED when his colleague opened fire from inside their squad car' as autopsy reveals she was killed by one bullet to the stomach after she called 911" The partner of a Minneapolis cop who shot dead bride-to-be Justine Damond was 'stunned' when the officer opened fire through a squad car door, sources say. Officer Matthew Harrity, who was in the driving seat, was speaking to Damond after she called 911 to report a sexual assault occurring near her home, when his partner reached across him and fatally shot her in...

Congress could soon throw a monkey-wrench into Barack Obama's retirement finances, yanking his presidential pension since he is reportedly cashing in with six-figure speaking fees. Former presidents currently receive $207,800 per year, the same amount cabinet secretaries are paid. But lawmakers are considering a move to shrink that payment – dollar for dollar – for Oval Office retirees who collect more than $400,000 in income. Last year Obama vetoed a bill that did just that.

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Tuesday that President Donald Trump will not allow "the nutjob" leader of North Korea to develop missiles that could threaten the United States. The South Carolina Republican made his comments about Kim Jong Un on Twitter a day after having dinner with Trump.

CHINA’S push to use its trading clout to hurt North Korea is starting to be felt as new figures show a sharp drop in imports. New figures show that Chinese imports from North Korea fell 35 per cent month-on-month in March, after Beijing suspended coal purchases to punish its nuclear-armed neighbour for missile tests. Total imports from the North by China — Pyongyang’s sole major diplomatic ally and chief trading partner — stood at $US114.56 million ($151 million) last month, down from $US176.7 million ($233 million) in February, according to Chinese customs data.

Senior officials of South Korea, the United States and Japan agreed at a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday to take unbearably strong punitive action against North Korea if the communist country launches a fresh military provocation, the South Korean participant said. The three countries' chief negotiators on the North Korean nuclear issue held a meeting earlier in the day to coordinate their responses to advancing nuclear and missile threats by North Korea. Kim Hong-kyun, special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs at the foreign ministry, represented the South Korean side, vis-a-vis his U.S. and Japanese counterparts, Joseph Yun...

Calphalon Recalls Cutlery Knives Due to Laceration Hazard Name of product: Contemporary Cutlery knivesHazard: The blade on the Contemporary Cutlery knives can break during use, posing a laceration hazard.Remedy: ReplaceConsumer Contact: Calphalon at 800-809-7267 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday or online at www.calphalon.com and click on “Customer Support” at the bottom of the page then “Recalls” for more information.

I decided to escape my Blue City, in a Blue County in the Blue State of Maryland to visit occupied DC for Veterans' Day. There were a couple of scheduled events and a nice walk to some points of interest in between. 9am - WWII Memorial: Wreath Laying Ceremony. 10:30am - Visit to Trump Hotel in DC and miniscule protest with press coverage. 10:45am - Walk by the IRS building. 11:30am - Lunch in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and gift shopping. 1pm - Ceremony for Veterans at the Vietnam Memorial Wall. It was an excellent day for some...

FReepers, I can't recommend this one enough. This book is phenomenal. Here's an effort at a short summary: In the near future, an astronaut is presumed dead and left behind on Mars during a dust storm. Turns out he pulled through and has to figure out how to survive. NASA has several missions planned over the coming years so he meticulously plans and executes his survival with the hopes that the future missions take place. What struck me was that he didn't feel sorry for himself. He conducted himself as a man and even had contempt for fate. He wasn't...

Full Title: Buzz Aldrin developing 'master plan' to begin colonies on Mars by 2040 as he launches partnership with university Buzz Aldrin, 85, is partnering with Florida Institute of Technology. The Buzz Aldrin Space Institute will open in The Fall and focus on Mars Astronaut, the second man to walk on the Moon, has devised plan to get to the red planet using 'cycling pathways' and base on Mars's moon Phobos The second man to walk on the Moon is teaming up with Florida Institute of Technology to develop 'a master plan' for colonizing Mars within 25 years. Buzz Aldrin,...

It is always those in the middle -- and especially what Marxist intellectuals call the petit bourgeois, the aspiring, hard-working workers and savers -- who are hurt the hardest It was Adam Smith who put it best. “There is a great deal of ruin in a nation”, he wrote in reply to an over-excited young man who thought that Great Britain was facing devastation after a setback during the US war of independence. Smith was right about the specifics as well as the general point, of course: America was thankfully soon to win its independence, and both Britain and the...

Ted Cruz live on FNC

I have the good fortune to live near DC and Arlington cemetery on this Memorial Day. The morning was hot, and Dear Leader's presence blocked some of Arlington Cemetery. I told one of the Army sentries that I underestimated this SOB as he could screw up Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery. I had the goal to find the graves of three men who were killed in action this Memorial Day. This first was a man who is familiar to anyone who watched "The Pacific". John Basilone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Basilonehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1-O2QFmy4Y The second was a the grandson of a controversial figure, who nevertheless...

My Dad's been experimenting with ways to prevent squirrels from accessing his bird feeder. Mounting it in another place would be too easy. Any other ideas?

In typical Washington Beltway form, an unconfirmed news report Tuesday morning that President Obama had picked Ashton Carter to be his defense secretary later was repeated by a top Republican senator to another news agency, which then urgently reported it as fact -- sourcing the senator. What Fox News can report is that Carter is a leading contender to replace Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. But it's unclear whether he is the final pick, and it appears lawmakers have not yet been notified of his selection. CNN initially reported that Carter, who was deputy Defense secretary from October 2011 to December...