An important message for my old friends on here from Randy

By: Randy  •  News & Politics  •  29 Comments  •  7 Likes  •  4 years ago

I just want my old friends on here to know that my wife of 26 years, Joan Luise, passed away peacefully in her sleep last night of heart disease after being home for the past 5 months on Hospice Care.

DIET SODAS Are the Dangers in the Chemicals or the Headlines?

Via: Randy  •  Health, Science & Technology  •  7 Comments  •  6 years ago

BY HARRIET HALL, M.D. In April 2017, there was a flurry of news reports with alarming headlines: “Diet Sodas May Raise Risk of Dementia and Stroke, Study Finds” “A Daily Diet Soda Habit May Be Linked to Dementia–Alzheimer’s” “Is Diet Soda Harming Your Brain Health?” “Diet Sodas Tied...

Some Stoic Philosophy from Marcus Aurelius just for the hell of it...if you don't like or understand it then feel free to shut the hell up/...after all, I am a 10th grade drop out....

Via: Randy  •  Other  •  25 Comments  •  6 years ago

IV. If to understand and to be reasonable be common unto all men, thenis that reason, for which we are termed reasonable, common unto all. If reason is general, then is that reason also, which prescribeth what is to be done and what not, common unto all. If that, then law. If law, then are we...

Remains of US Flier Shot Down over Laos in 1968 Return Home

Via: Randy  •  News & Politics  •  6 Comments  •  6 years ago

The Associated Press 6 Apr 2018 By Emery P. Dalesio MORRISVILLE, N.C. — The remains of an Air Force officer lost for almost 50 years after he was shot down over Southeast Asia finally came home Thursday to North Carolina, where he was greeted by his three children and a mile-long...

Madeleine Albright Is Worried. We Should Be, Too.

Via: Randy  •  News & Politics  •  4 Comments  •  6 years ago

By Michelle Goldberg Opinion Columnist April 13, 2018 Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state, was born into a totalitarian age. She was only a toddler when she and her parents, who were of Jewish descent but later converted to Catholicism, fled...

Lost and confused!!!!

Via: Randy  •  meta  •  69 Comments  •  6 years ago  •  LOCKED

It's getting easier by the day to violate the new CoC. I don't think the moderators have really got used to it themselves yet and decided on what the bumpers are, so some are deleting some things that others are not. It'll take awhile for them to settle down and confer with each other...

Naval Aviators Say They Were Kicked Out of Training Due to Racial Bias

Via: Randy  •  News & Politics  •  21 Comments  •  6 years ago

Military.com 4 Apr 2018 By Hope Hodge Seck Courtland Savage never expected to fly fighter jets. Though he had served in the Air Force Reserve before transferring to the Navy and knew his way around a C-17 Globemaster transport, his test scores weren't the highest and the demanding,...

Air Force Cancels Two Thunderbirds Shows Following Fatal Accident

Via: Randy  •  News & Politics  •  7 Comments  •  6 years ago

Military.com 9 Apr 2018 By Oriana Pawlyk The Air Force Thunderbirds have cancelled their next two airshows following the death of fellow pilot Maj Stephen "Cajun" Del Bagno, the team's commander said Monday. The Thunderbirds will not perform at the Lakeland, Florida "Sun-N-Fun Fly-In...

The Skeptical Virtue of Seriously Just Being Quiet

Via: Randy  •  Health, Science & Technology  •  30 Comments  •  6 years ago

Apr. 10, 2018 by Daniel Loxton | Comments (9) This post is something of a personal reflection. If you’re looking for some straight up debunking, my latest is here. Recently I attended a dinner party as the guest of a new friend among people who’ve known each other for decades. After dinner,...

Train Carrying 10M Pounds of Poop Stuck in Alabama Town

Via: Randy  •  The Lighter Side/ Humor  •  118 Comments  •  6 years ago

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff 'God help us if it gets hot and this material is still out here' (NEWSER) – Springtime in one small Alabama town smells more like manure than magnolias this year—and it's going to get a lot worse as the weather gets warmer. Dozens of freight cars carrying some...