DN Speak: 12/6/15

Saturday, December 12, 2015

Jordan Klepper sets out to determine the likelihood of another gun owner stopping an active shooter. (5:02)
Interview:

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Jordan Klepper finds out that a good guy with a gun doesn't always stop a bad guy with a gun. (6:14)

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Can conservative Schwarzenegger flip the script on US climate debate?

The former governor of California urges Americans to stop bickering about whether fossil fuels have contributed to climate change. Instead, he says, the US should transition to clean energy because it makes economic sense...
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2015/1211/Can-conservative-Schwarzenegger-flip-the-script-on-US-climate-debate

California’s Oil And Gas Industry Spent $10 Million Getting Rid Of Environmental Review

“Proposed and paid for by the oil industry, the [new regulations] purport to authorize the development of up to 3,647 new oil and gas wells and extensive associated construction and operational activities, each year for 20 to 25 or more years, without any further, site-specific assessment of those activities’ health and other environmental impacts,” the complaint says. “The ordinance jeopardizes the health and well-being of hundreds of thousands of people across Kern County.”...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/12/11/3730723/kern-county-sued-over-environmental-review/

This One Suit Could Take Down Oklahoma's Oil And Gas Industry | ThinkProgress

“You, the industry, needs to pay the cost of your operations,” Geis said. “If that turns out to be uneconomical, than you need to rethink your economic model.”...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/12/11/3730531/oil-gas-doesnt-want-to-pay-for-earthquake-damage/

Does Fear Lead to Fascism? A Culture of Fear and the Epigenetics of Terror

We're being fed a constant diet of fear: fear of terrorists, fear of illegal immigrants, fear of people who are too religious, fear of people who are not religious enough, fear of Muslims, fear of extremists, fear of the government, fear of those who fear the government. The list goes on and on...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-w-whitehead/does-fear-lead-to-fascism_b_8740148.html

Beware the New "Know-Nothings" (and Knowing Nothing)

Even if political correctness is "dangerous," ignorance is even more so...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tanvir-akhtar-ahmed/beware-the-new-knownothin_b_8780224.html

Socotra Island, off the southeast coast Yemen; Kelly Beckta [990 x 742]

http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/932/cache/socotra-island-ngpc2015_93269_990x742.jpg

The Majority of Millennials Have $1,000 or Less in Savings

Millennials are projected to number 75.3 million for 2015, surpassing a projected 74.9 million for Baby Boomers. The Millennials will therefore comprise a greater percentage of the population than Baby Boomers for the first time...
http://howmuch.net

Official Gmail Blog: 2 hidden ways to get more from your Gmail address

I recently discovered some little-known ways to use your Gmail address that can give you greater control over your inbox and save you some time and headache. When you choose a Gmail address, you actually get more than just "yourusername@gmail.com." Here are two different ways you can modify your Gmail address and still get your mail...
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-more-from-your.html

How to Get Your Kindle Highlights into Evernote

Just follow these nine steps...
http://michaelhyatt.com/how-to-get-your-kindle-highlights-into-evernote.html

The Hunt for Alien Molecules - Scientific American

Astrochemists are discovering many compounds in the cosmos that cannot exist on Earth...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-hunt-for-alien-molecules/

Week In The News: San Bernadino Radicals, Trump Talks Muslim Ban, COP21 Hits Deadline (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Fiery clashes this week over what’s national security and what’s rank demagoguery. Republicans calling out one of their own, Donald Trump, for saying he would ban Muslim entry to the U.S. Trump surging in the polls. In San Bernadino, evidence of extremism predating ISIS. Scuba divers now on the case. In Washington, affirmative action, visa waivers, No Child Left Behind, federal finance – all in motion. In Chicago, more heat for Rahm Emanuel. In Paris, the future of the global climate awaits an agreement. This hour On Point, our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines. — Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/12/11/election-2016-muslim-americans-donald-trump-san-bernardino

Friday News Roundup – International (Diane Rehm Show, 2015-12-11)

Negotiators from governments around the world work past a Friday deadline in Paris to forge an agreement limiting man-made, carbon emissions. French authorities identify the third attacker in last month’s Paris attacks, while police search for more suspects in Geneva, Switzerland. Thousands of migrants are stranded in Greece as European nations tighten immigration policies. In Saudi Arabia, Syrian rebel groups agree to form a united bloc ahead of negotiations with the Asaad government. And in Venezuela, the opposition wins control of congress. Guest host Melissa Ross and a panel of journalists analyze this week’s top international news stories.
Interview:
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2015-12-11/friday-news-roundup-international

Friday News Roundup – Domestic (Diane Rehm Show, 2015-12-11)

An FBI dive team is searching a lake for evidence in the San Bernardino shootings. The agency says the couple responsible for the attack may have been in the area that day. The House is expected to follow the Senate in passing a stopgap measure to keep the federal government open. Donald Trump says he has enough support to run as an independent as leading Republicans prepare for the possibility of a brokered convention. The president signs a new national education law that shifts power back to the states. And protesters in Chicago continue to demand Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s resignation.
Interview:
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2015-12-11/friday-news-roundup-domestic

Friday, December 11, 2015

Tom Tomorrow on Ridiculous Conservative 'Compassion' for Refugees

How the right would handle the refugee issue...
http://core2.staticworld.net/images/article/2013/12/gmail-logo-100160576-gallery.png

5 hacks for getting more out of Gmail | Macworld

Easily unsubscribe to bulk emails, manage an inactive account and more with these tips...
http://www.macworld.com/article/3013653/software-productivity/5-hacks-for-getting-more-out-of-gmail.html

Adidas 3-D prints a sneaker from recycled ocean plastic

The company unveiled its new sneaker concept in partnership with environmental group Parley for the Oceans this week in Paris, as some smaller companies are exploring how to reduce the environmental impact of 3-D printing...
http://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2015/1211/Adidas-3-D-prints-a-sneaker-from-recycled-ocean-plastic

Kansas Lawmaker Touts Ability To Help New Employer From His Elected Position

“One of the things that they want to do is impact legislation and so how better to do that than to have the person who handles all of that legislation actually be in the Legislature and actually be chairman of the committee?"...
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/steve-brunk-kansas-lobbyist-lawmaker

Trump Calls For The Death Penalty For 'Anybody Killing A Policeman'

"One of the first things I do, in terms of executive order if I win, will be to sign a strong, strong statement that will go out to the country -- out to the world -- that anybody killing a policeman, policewoman, a police officer -- anybody killing a police officer, the death penalty," Trump said at an event with the New England Police Benevolent Association, a police union, according to CNN. "It's going to happen, OK?"...
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-death-penalty-killing-cop

Majority Of Americans Oppose Trump's Muslim Ban, But Half Of GOPers Favor It

Fifty-eight percent of Americans said the U.S. "should not ban" Muslims from other countries from entering the country. Forty-six percent also opposed a federal database of Muslims in the country...
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/december-cbs-poll-trump-muslim-ban

Public school funding has declined in most states since 2008, report says

Great Recession has had long-term effect on school funding, putting education quality at risk, new study funds...
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/12/10/report-school-funding-cuts-still-affected-by-great-recession.html

Scalia says most black scientists went to 'lesser' colleges | PolitiFact

"Most of the black scientists in this country don't come from schools like the University of Texas. They come from lesser schools."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/dec/11/antonin-scalia/scalia-says-most-black-scientists-went-lesser-coll/

A church that looks like a confused chicken

https://i.imgur.com/z5lTu4H.png

"Straight Wrong": British Climate Economist Responds to Trump's Climate Change Denial

While in attendance at the U.N. climate summit, Lord Nicholas Stern, the prominent British climate economist and former chief economist of the World Bank, weighs in on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s denial of the human impact on climate change. "It’s straight wrong," Stern says. "If he’s got new scientific results that overturn 200 years of science and the vast bulk of the science literature, I’m sure that he ought to be publishing them and that the scientific journals would love to see what he has to write."
Interview:
https://youtu.be/7TpGNAIQLJk

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Greets Syrian Refugees Who Just Arrived In Toronto

Canadians greet the first group of Syrian refugees who just arrived in Toronto: “You are here and you are safe. You are here and you are loved. You are here and you can stay.”
https://youtu.be/4muGwXuYsbY

Does the Soul Control the Body?: Dillahunty v Hernandez part 3

https://youtu.be/4M_NsJ0W48s

Shocking Maps Show How Bad U.S. Sex Ed Is | ThinkProgress

In general, the CDC found that less than half of U.S. high schools and a fifth of middle schools adequate cover the CDC’s recommended sexual health education topics. In no state did more than half of middle schools meet the CDC’s guidelines for “essential components of sexual health education.”
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/12/10/3730534/cdc-sex-education-2014/

Half Of The Country’s Children Have A Parent With A Criminal Record

How The System Punishes Children If Their Parent Has A Criminal Record...
Parental incarceration is frequently linked with behavior problems, educational outcomes, childhood illness, and an increased risk of physical and mental health issues in adulthood. Parents’ poverty and employment insecurity can limit children’s language skills and educational attainment. Frequent moves thanks to a lack of affordable housing can hurt children’s language, mental health, and educational attainment, while homelessness and housing instability is associated with higher rates of childhood hunger, lower access to medical and dental care, and a likelihood of repeating a grade or having emotional and behavioral problems...
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/12/10/3730540/criminal-record-children/

New Poll Reveals Americans' Double Standard About Religious Violence | ThinkProgress

A Public Religion Research Institute poll released Thursday finds that 75 percent of Americans believe that self-identified Christians “who commit acts of violence in the name of Christianity are not really Christian.” Only about 19 percent of respondents said they believe these types of perpetrators are authentic Christians.
However, Americans don’t extend the same logic to the Islamic faith.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/12/10/3730520/americans-prri-statistics-christian-muslim/

Canada's Largest Paper Welcomes Refugees With Front-Page Editorial

"Welcome to Canada. Ahlan wa sahlan. You’re with family now," the editorial opened. "And your presence among us makes our Christmas season of peace and joy just that much brighter."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/toronto-star-refugee-welcome-editorial

Grand Jury Indicts 2 Officers In Fatal Shooting Of 6-Year-Old Autistic Boy

...The indictment handed up Thursday by an Avoyelles Parish grand jury charges 32-year-old Derrick Stafford and 23-year-old Norris Greenhouse Jr. with one count each of second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder...
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/derrick-stafford-norris-greenhouse-indicted

Top New Hampshire Newspaper Shreds Ted Cruz’s 'Texas Tough Guy Act': 'Tough Talk Is All He Has to Offer'

New Hampshire Union-Leader editorial is unflinching in its rebuke of the Texas Senator...
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/top-new-hampshire-newspaper-shreds-ted-cruzs-texas-tough-guy-act-tough-talk-all-he

The Chicago Police Department Has A Long History Of Abuse

Chicago police are under fire for recent revelations about misconduct and cover-ups by cops. But these scandals and brutality are nothing new as history shows. Abuse within the Chicago PD goes way, way back...
https://youtu.be/kTZxDalN9iQ

Alabama’s Neo-Nazi Police Take Racism To The Extreme

For almost a decade, the police department of Dothan, Alabama has been planting drugs and weapons on black suspects in order to secure convictions of these individuals. Not only has this knowledge come to light, but we are also now being told that these officers belonged to a Neo Confederate hate group. Welcome to Alabama...
https://youtu.be/xPeA4wrzNsk

Borrow a sewing machine? Sacramento Public Library to start loaning more than books | The Sacramento Bee

Sacramento Public Library patrons will soon be able to check out a variety of tools, technology and home appliances through a “Library of Things” program...
http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article8920145.html

Top U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, December 11

https://youtu.be/J6wGT2Ibt-8

White House Readies Executive Action On Gun Control

After the mass shooting in Roseburg, Oregon, Obama said his team was looking for ways to tighten gun laws without a vote in Congress. White House officials have said they're exploring closing the so-called "gun show loophole" that allows people to buy weapons at gun shows and online without a background check...
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/obama-executive-action-guns

Lying, Evil Republicans Created The Murderer, Robert Lewis Dear

These so-called pro-life people have gone so far off the deep end, they are guilty of promulgating increasingly violent attacks against innocent people who disagree with their manufactured insanity. They are culpable, they are responsible...
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/12/lying-evil-republicans-created-murderer

School Board Member Wants To Ban Muppets Book

File this under "Why even local elections are important."...
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/12/school-board-member-wants-ban-muppets-book

Ted Cruz Scores Lower Than The Average Kindergartner In Climate Change Interview | Crooks and Liars

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz told NPR this week that there was no science that said the planet was getting warmer, even though the Associated Press recently determined that he knew less about science than the average kindergartner...
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/12/ted-cruz-illustrates-why-hes-dumber

Larry Wilmore Whacks GOP Candidates For Acting Surprised About Trump's Muslim Rhetoric | Crooks and Liars

"Trump, you had me at Mexican racists. That's all I'm saying. Look, this is a country that was founded by people who fled religious persecution, so banning people based on religion goes against the very fabric of this country..."
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/12/larry-wilmore-whacks-gop-candidates-acting

Bernie Sanders: 'Hopeless Poverty Threatens Democracy'

..."I don’t mean to be political here. People are hurting and angry, and they want something to be able to stand up and fight for. That’s what I believe the antidote is to Trumpism."...
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/12/gop-leaders-talking-about-possible

GOP Leaders Talking About Possible Brokered Convention | Crooks and Liars

Republicans are so nervous about the Trump juggernaut they're already planning for the possibility of a brokered convention. Oh please, let it be so...
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/12/gop-leaders-talking-about-possible

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Ready.gov

Prepare for emergencies: advise from FEMA...
http://www.ready.gov

Mystery Of The Bright Spots On Ceres May Have Just Been Solved

NASA also released stunning new flyover images of the dwarf planet.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ceres-bright-spots-salt_5669149be4b009377b23d8cb

Scientists have developed an eye drop that can dissolve cataracts

...A whole lot better than surgery.
http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-developed-an-eye-drop-that-can-dissolve-cataracts-from-eyes

Three Simple Truths about Terror, Religion, and Islam

"Two: Like advertising, terrorism exploits our emotional vulnerabilities..."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/clay-naff/three-simple-truths-about_b_8568518.html

70,000 clerics issue fatwa against terrorism, 15 lakh Muslims support it

BAREILLY: On the last day of Urs-e-Razvi of Dargah Aala Hazrat, nearly 70,000 clerics came together and passed a fatwa against terrorist organizations, including IS, Taliban and al-Qaida. These are "not Islamic organizations," the clerics said to a sea of followers, adding that the members of these outfits were "not Muslims". Around 15 lakh followers who visited the Urs put their signatures to a document circulated at the Urs, protesting terrorist strikes...
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/70000-clerics-issue-fatwa-against-terrorism-15-lakh-Muslims-support-it/articleshow/50100656.cms

Trump cites shaky survey in call to ban Muslims from entering US

Says 25 percent of U.S. Muslims "agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/dec/09/donald-trump/trump-cites-shaky-survey-call-ban-muslims-entering/

Scalia questions need for integration

"There are those who contend that it does not benefit African Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well. One of the briefs pointed out that most of the black scientists in this country don't come from schools like the University of Texas. They come from lesser schools where they do not feel that they're being pushed ahead in classes that are too fast for them..."

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/12/9/scalia-questions-need-for-integration.html

Charter schools are a ‘gravy train,’ say researchers

Charter schools are able to siphon off large quantities of public money for private gain — and only substantial changes to state policies regarding charter schools can stop this, according to the authors of the report from the National Education Policy Center (NEPC) at University of Colorado Boulder...
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/12/10/charter-schools-are-a-gravy-train-say-researchers.html

Debunking Creationists - Dr. Jerry Bergman

In this installment of Debunking Creationists, I examine the claims of young earth creationist Dr. Jerry Bergman, who attempts to show that the fossil record supports creationism, and refutes evolution.
https://youtu.be/qLWLrPhyE74

Emanuel's apology for McDonald shooting brings protesters to Chicago - CSMonitor.com

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel apologized for the 2014 shooting of a black teenager Wednesday during a special City Council meeting that he called to discuss a police abuse scandal at the center of the biggest crisis of his administration, and promised "complete and total" reform to restore trust in the police...
http://m.csmonitor.com/USA/2015/1209/Emanuel-s-apology-for-McDonald-shooting-brings-protesters-to-Chicago

Ten hidden new car costs - CSMonitor.com

Car dealers are experts at extracting as much money as possible from buyers. Of course, the dealer will try to get the highest price they can on the cars they sell, but there are many other sneaky costs involved. Here are some of these hidden new car costs and how to avoid them...
http://m.csmonitor.com/Business/Saving-Money/2015/1209/Ten-hidden-new-car-costs

Top U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, December 10

https://youtu.be/Yy_DIFsj5Fg

No, a college ID does not show Barack Obama was a foreign student at Columbia University

President Barack Obama is about to enter his eighth and final year in the Oval Office, but some people are still trying to say he was never eligible for that job in the first place...
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/dec/09/facebook-posts/facebook-posts-still-claim-obama-wasnt-born-us/

Opinion: 158 families are buying American democracy

Half of all money donated to presidential candidates so far has come from 158 wealthy families. The concentration of political donations suggests those with the means to donate large amounts of money are being disproportionately represented over the average American...
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Robert-Reich/2015/1209/Opinion-158-families-are-buying-American-democracy

Know Your Fascist Dictators

"...As long as we're on to the subject of fascist dictators and Donald Trump being compared to Adolf Hitler in major urban newspapers, I thought I should speak up on behalf of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini as the true porto-trump..."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/know-your-fascists-dictators

The Executive Action Obama Could Take to Restore a Shred of Democracy to Our Politics

Obama can take a step forward and reform Washington's culture of corrupt campaign money.
http://www.alternet.org/executive-action-obama-could-take-restore-shred-democracy-our-politics

We stand together. We are better than bigotry.

So when Donald Trump says America should close its borders to Muslim immigrants, he’s not just attacking a fundamental American strength.
He’s attacking us — our community, our neighbors, the rich, diverse fabric that makes up southeast Michigan.
http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/editorials/2015/12/08/free-press-editorial-muslims-trump-bigotry-we-stand-together/76974510/

Scalia: Affirmative Action Sends Blacks To Schools Too Advanced For Them

In the oral arguments Wednesday for a Supreme Court affirmative action case, Justice Antonin Scalia—a well known critic of affirmative action—suggested that the policy was hurting minority students by sending them to schools too academically challenging for them...
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/scalia-race-affirmative-action

The U.S. Is About To Get A Lot More Fracking, Thanks To Congress

Big Oil is going to get $22 billion in profits because of this...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/12/09/3729646/oil-export-ban-likely-lifted-in-spending-bill/

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