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Veterinarians Are Killing Themselves. An Online Group Is There To Listen And Help : NPR
Dr. Carrie Jurney is on the board of an online organization that works to prevent suicides. It’s called Not One More Vet. This isn’t a mental health support group for veterans — it’s for veterinarians. Veterinarians are killing themselves in alarming numbers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found male vets are 2.1 times as likely and…
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Hurricane Dorian floods island as it swipes North Carolina then heads north – Reuters
KITTY HAWK, N.C. (Reuters) – Hurricane Dorian briefly made landfall on the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Friday, hitting the beach-fringed barrier islands with powerful winds and battering waves days after reducing parts of the Bahamas to rubble. Source: Hurricane Dorian floods island as it swipes North Carolina then heads north – Reuters
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Sinéad O’Connor: ‘I have been a Muslim all my life and I didn’t realise it’
Does anybody really care? Source: Sinéad O’Connor: ‘I have been a Muslim all my life and I didn’t realise it’
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Amanpour presses Mattis: Why didn’t you resign when Trump said this?
Here is my take on this. But, feel free to listen to the report on CNN if you can get past all the ads. Mattis is promoting his new book. He’s making all the important cable television news shows. Most of those cable outlets have somewhat of a liberal bias. That’s okay, we’ve come to…
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Biden campaign says he doesn’t have to win Iowa | TheHill
Former Vice President Joe Biden doesn’t have to win the Iowa caucuses to capture the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, a senior adviser to his campaign said Tuesday. “Do I think we have to win Iowa? No,” the senior adviser told reporters in a briefing, according to Politico. “We think we’re going to win,” the adviser added. “We…
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‘Warranty Void If Removed’? As It Turns Out, Feds Say Those Warnings Are Illegal : The Two-Way : NPR
I did not know this. Source: ‘Warranty Void If Removed’? As It Turns Out, Feds Say Those Warnings Are Illegal : The Two-Way : NPR
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Biden fundraises from lobbyists despite pledge | PBS NewsHour
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden entered the Democratic primary promising “from day one” to reject campaign cash from lobbyists. “I work for you — not any industry,” he tweeted. Yet hours after his April campaign kickoff, the former vice president went to a fundraiser at the home of a lobbying executive. And in the months…
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez preaches doom and gloom from the plot of a science fiction movie
You’d think she would learn, huh? In a nutshell, AOC got on a social media channel while making mac and cheese. She ranted about her ‘green new deal’ and how global warming could bring back ancient bacteria and viruses that have been frozen. As it turns out, most of her rant came from the movie…
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VA deaths: Authorities investigating string of 10 patient deaths
WASHINGTON – Authorities are investigating a string of about 10 suspicious deaths of patients, including one ruled a homicide, at a Veterans Affairs hospital in West Virginia out of concern they were targeted, according to three people familiar with the probe. In October, the body of Felix Kirk McDermott, an 82-year-old Army veteran who died…
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NYT newsroom faces evidence of bedbug infiltration | TheHill
Bedbugs can get anywhere – and they are hard to irradiate. I would assume no reporters where harmed in what the Times called a ‘professional cleaning.’ How exactly would you differentiate between an Op/Ed diatribe and a bedbug? Secret handshake? Source: NYT newsroom faces evidence of bedbug infiltration | TheHill