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Police enter Al-Aqsa Mosque, clash with worshipers in Temple Mount riots
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Behold the Amazonian eco-warrior drag queen
[YAHOO] Bare chested, wearing an ankle-length dress, painted yellow, green and red, with flowers or leaves in his hair, it takes Brazil's Emerson Munduruku two hours to transform into Uyra Sodoma, his drag queen alter ego.
This is news. Really. You should pay attention.
Whether carrying seeds, branches and other natural materials, Munduruku's creation Uyra, often submerged up to the waist in water, is a colourful extension of the earth and nature.
It's all natural, like silt and stuff. And it's beee-autiful, 'cuz he's a drag queen.
His mission: to travel around Amazon villages, teaching conservation through performance art.
Yeah. Performance art. Too highbrow for the likes of us. Civilizations rise and fall on the quality of their performance art.
Posted by: Fred || 07/28/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "That violence rocked me to my core... I started to get closer to women, transvestites, and understand more about racism and homophobia. I became closer to the city and the people."

I'll lead up to it, with what might be the best combination of funny and obnoxious lyrics of all time - 'Eventually me and a friend, sort of drifted along into S & M...

Just a guess - it didn't take much to nudge him in that direction. This article does lend itself to much snark bait - have at it, folks!
Posted by: Raj || 07/28/2018 0:40 Comments || Top||

#2  I. Don't. Care.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/28/2018 2:51 Comments || Top||

#3  You want to help the ecology? Feed yourself to the fishes. There are lots of them in the Amazon that would do their part.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/28/2018 7:40 Comments || Top||

#4  "Our stories can be told through the prism of pain and an immediate metamorphosis. But our stories are much more complex fooked up than that," he said. "Also, I talk about myself in third person a lot, so that's intense"
Posted by: Frank G || 07/28/2018 10:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Hello my name is Uyra Sodoma, (his drag queen alter ego.)

And with that utterance, the villagers screamed "Hide the children and watch your butts!"
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2018 10:48 Comments || Top||

#6  Why are the biggest screw ups attracted to the environmental religion?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/28/2018 11:11 Comments || Top||

#7  ^Because you can make it up as you go along?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2018 11:59 Comments || Top||

#8  Al Gore a decade from now.
Posted by: ruprecht || 07/28/2018 12:40 Comments || Top||

#9  Who would have bet that the way to save the planet was more toxic garbage?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/28/2018 13:31 Comments || Top||

#10  His head will be on a stick in six weeks tops
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 07/28/2018 23:44 Comments || Top||


Economy
"SEC May Want To Take A Look": Facebook Insiders Dumped $4.1 Billion Weeks Ahead Of Record Crash
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2018 02:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good find.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/28/2018 7:30 Comments || Top||

#2  More evidence the market is gamed. As if additional evidence was needed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2018 9:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Wonder how many dumpers were our elected representatives?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/28/2018 10:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Farcebook is seriously overvalued; but then, advertising in general usually is (that's FB's core product).
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/28/2018 10:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe Trey Gowdy (or whatever wind bag serves on the appropriate committee) can get right on it.

What happened to the slime ball insiders a year or so ago who sold their stock just before the announcement of their company's massive data breach? Uh, like, zero.

FB (and their German, Chinese, and other statist bums and buddies) is a disgusting lot.
Posted by: Clem || 07/28/2018 10:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Our elected officials that dumped the stocks are protected against insider trading laws...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/28/2018 10:54 Comments || Top||

#7  #6 - That speaks volumes, doesn't it?
Posted by: Clem || 07/28/2018 11:25 Comments || Top||

#8  Reminds me of all those old PC games of Railroad Tycoon™: issue railroad stock, Pump N' Dump....
And all of this from people that call themselves paragons of the Left, hmmm?
Posted by: magpie || 07/28/2018 11:35 Comments || Top||

#9  I'd say investigate but not unless prosecution is a part of this. Also, not as long as Peter Strzok's wife, SEC Director Melissa Hodgman is still in place. It has been said that she has blocked the FBI's probe of the Clinton Foundation for more than 21 months and still counting.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2018 12:15 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
The murky web of Chinese tech workers, high-end Russian prostitutes and foreign students accused of stealing US trade secrets and swaying local politics
[DailyMail]
  • Ex-US spies described a network of Russian and Chinese agents in Silicon Valley

  • Claim they are infiltrating companies to try and steal their technology secrets

  • Major companies including Google and Apple have been targeted, report says

  • They are also trying to sway politics by recruiting influential figures, it is claimed
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/28/2018 01:59 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

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Posted by: Jack Chaiter7913 || 07/28/2018 16:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Gee, good thing we don't get anything made in China.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/28/2018 23:37 Comments || Top||


Cannabis Oil Helped 80 Percent of Autistic Children, Israeli Study Finds
h/t Instapundit
An Israeli study recently published in the prestigious journal Neurology examined the effect of medical cannabis therapy on children on the autistic spectrum.

The study, led by Dr. Adi Aran, director of the pediatric neurology unit at Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, found that cannabis treatment with a high concentration of CBD (the non-psychoactive substance considered to have medicinal properties) improved the condition of 80% of the children in the study.

The study included 60 children, with an average age of 12, whose condition had not improved with conventional drug therapy.
60, IMO, a bit small sample size
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2018 01:53 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Putting pot on schedule 1 made it nearly impossible to do studies. Now that things have loosened up a bit, expect to see a flood of therapeutic uses, especially for CBD.
Posted by: Iblis || 07/28/2018 10:00 Comments || Top||

#2  (doing Groucho Marx cigar bit): "It also helped with the Therapist's problems. (rim shot)
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/28/2018 10:27 Comments || Top||

#3  60, IMO, a bit small sample size

Bit there is a huge amount of anecdotal evidence. ;-)
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2018 10:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Still hard to understand how Big Pharma missed making bazillions on derivatives from a weed that's so easy to grow. Either the claims are bogus or somebody missed the boat a couple hundred years ago.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/28/2018 13:19 Comments || Top||

#5  No, Murcek, that's the really the reason it's been illegal all these years.
Anybody can grow it.
How do you overcharge somebody for something they can get from a windowbox? (Unless, of course, they're in California...)
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/28/2018 14:37 Comments || Top||

#6  How do you overcharge somebody for something they can get from a windowbox?
Get the FDA involved. They'll figure out a way, like they did with colchicine.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 07/28/2018 14:51 Comments || Top||

#7  60, IMO, a bit small sample size

Agreed. That enough to support doing a study of at least 1,000, at which point meaningful research can begin.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/28/2018 20:46 Comments || Top||


Government
Second-quarter GDP jumps 4.1% for best pace in nearly four years
[CNBC]
  • Gross domestic product increased 4.1 percent in the second quarter, matching Reuters estimates.

  • Strong consumer and business spending as well as a surge in exports ahead of retaliatory tariffs from China helped drive economic growth.

  • THE LAST TIME the economy grew this quickly was in the third quarter of 2014.

Posted by: Fred || 07/28/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Obama: "That's unpossible"
Posted by: Frank G || 07/28/2018 10:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Totally unpossible. Besides, Trump will never be President. Everyone knows this. Just look at the polls!
Posted by: SteveS || 07/28/2018 11:55 Comments || Top||

#3  The fact that the numbers are not being fudged downwards says something. I'll wait for the next-quarter revision before I even try to guess what's going on.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/28/2018 13:16 Comments || Top||

#4  The point of comparison is: what would the number be if HRC had won? But then again, I don't want to even think about that alternate universe.
Posted by: Matt || 07/28/2018 13:29 Comments || Top||

#5  .. a lot of the Left still lives there, they just share an intersection with us here at the moment.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/28/2018 21:35 Comments || Top||



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  Police enter Al-Aqsa Mosque, clash with worshipers in Temple Mount riots
Fri 2018-07-27
  Imran to be next PM
Thu 2018-07-26
  Houthis send missiles at tankers transiting from the Red Sea
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