the "Headline That Caught My Attention or the WTF" thread

did it also start near the Wuhan Bacteriological Warfare Lab ?

terrific Happy 4th of July...............

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Now is NOT the time to stop playing the-national-anthem-at-sporting-events !!! The AP has it's head up it's ASS just as do those who don't like it. Don't even think of taking MY National Anthem away. Play MY National Anthem at every game and sporting event. If you don't like it MOVE, get the hell out of my country. We have enough runny nose assholes here without that bullshit !!.

....... Play MY National Anthem at every game and sporting event. If you don't like it MOVE, get the hell out of my country. We have enough runny nose assholes here without that bullshit !!.

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Grouper!

They're thinking outside the box now...

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They're thinking outside the box now...

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give me a freakin' break.........

This museum was close to my in IL. Had some very cool cars.

[NATION & WORLD
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[SIZE=7]Illinois museum: ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ car with Confederate flag to stay[/SIZE]

The Volo Auto Museum's director says people 'aren't offended by it whatsoever.'

ASSOCIATED PRESS

VOLO, Ill. — A northern Illinois auto museum has no plan to stop displaying a Dodge Charger from the “Dukes of Hazzard” television show with the Confederate battle flag painted atop the vehicle.

Statues of Confederate generals and soldiers are being taken down across the country, NASCAR has banned the flag from its races and the Confederate emblem is being removed from the Mississippi state flag.

But the Volo Auto Museum about 50 miles northwest of Chicago says the famed “General Lee” from the first season of the TV show isn’t going anywhere, according to a weekend report in the Crystal Lake-based Northwest Herald.

“We feel the car is part of history, and people love it,” museum director Brian Grams told the newspaper. “We’ve got people of all races and nationalities that remember the TV show and aren’t offended by it whatsoever. It’s a piece of history and it’s in a museum.”

Since the museum acquired in 2005 what it says is the last surviving 1969 Charger from the first season of the television program, Grams said nobody has complained. And the museum has continued to hear from people supporting the decision to keep the car as the push to rid the landscape of what is increasingly viewed as a symbol of racism, Grams said.

“Several people have reached out with positive comments about us leaving it on display,” Grams said, “complimenting us for leaving it there and not having a knee-jerk reaction to remove it like a lot of places are.”

Now before you go alinear on China, remember that there's usually 7 cases per year also found in the US Southwest.

It's just so "reassuring" to see an old friend like Yersinia pestis pop up again...

[SIZE=7]Bubonic Plague Is Diagnosed in China[/SIZE]
An Inner Mongolia city put control measures in place after one confirmed case of the disease, which caused the Black Death in the Middle Ages.

Read about it here: [[SIZE=5]Bubonic Plague Is Diagnosed in China[/SIZE]]('https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/world/asia/china-bubonic-plague-inner-mongolia.html?action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage')

Now before you go alinear on China, remember that there's usually 7 cases per year also found in the US Southwest.

It's just so "reassuring" to see an old friend like Yersinia pestis pop up again...

[SIZE=7]Bubonic Plague Is Diagnosed in China[/SIZE]
An Inner Mongolia city put control measures in place after one confirmed case of the disease, which caused the Black Death in the Middle Ages.

Read about it here: [[SIZE=5]Bubonic Plague Is Diagnosed in China[/SIZE]]('https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/world/asia/china-bubonic-plague-inner-mongolia.html?action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage')

I'm going back to bed............

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“Just imagine this bat waking up and flying straight at you,” one user [wrote in response.]('https://twitter.com/KingLeoRio/status/1276044969988493312') “I’d leave the country.”
“This bat is taller than me and [I’m] both horrified and impressed in equal measure,” another [added.]('https://twitter.com/CaptainTypho13/status/1276202859202334723')
“Dude that’s a vampire,” a third [joked.]('https://twitter.com/JamesTheMagpie/status/1276008502800953351')
While the picture may seem edited, fact-checking website Snopes [confirmed ]('https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/megabat-photo/')its authenticity in 2019.

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*“Third, the Biden campaign needs to understand that election day is not the finish line, the inauguration is. And fourth, neither the Supreme Court nor the military wants to touch any of this with a 10-foot pole.”

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:oops:

This is going to go over well....I can't see this panning out.

[COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][According to CNN, the company said that hypothetically a first owner could purchase a three-year subscription to heated seats, which is how long that person would expect to keep the car. Then, the next owner could decide for themselves if they wanted to subscribe to the heated seats, too. This, of course, requires the car to already have the feature's hardware built-in from the factory, such as the required sensors for adaptive cruise control or the heating elements in a seat or steering wheel. ]('https://www.yahoo.com/news/bmw-wants-customers-pay-subscription-200315059.html')
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[BMW casts the idea in a very favorable light in its press release, stating that it is "strengthening selection and personalization for customers, offering them maximum flexibility."Yet, this move can also be seen as the start of major automakers' dangerous slide into the territory of microtransactions. Microtransactions, known and hated in the gaming world as in-game purchases, have infuriated players by essentially charging them more money to enjoy a game they already bought.]('https://www.yahoo.com/news/bmw-wants-customers-pay-subscription-200315059.html')*[/COLOR]

This is going to go over well....I can't see this panning out.

[COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][According to CNN, the company said that hypothetically a first owner could purchase a three-year subscription to heated seats, which is how long that person would expect to keep the car. Then, the next owner could decide for themselves if they wanted to subscribe to the heated seats, too. This, of course, requires the car to already have the feature's hardware built-in from the factory, such as the required sensors for adaptive cruise control or the heating elements in a seat or steering wheel. ]('https://www.yahoo.com/news/bmw-wants-customers-pay-subscription-200315059.html')

[BMW casts the idea in a very favorable light in its press release, stating that it is "strengthening selection and personalization for customers, offering them maximum flexibility."Yet, this move can also be seen as the start of major automakers' dangerous slide into the territory of microtransactions. Microtransactions, known and hated in the gaming world as in-game purchases, have infuriated players by essentially charging them more money to enjoy a game they already bought.]('https://www.yahoo.com/news/bmw-wants-customers-pay-subscription-200315059.html')[/COLOR]

Kind of like On Star and Satellite radio, but on Steroids!!

This is going to go over well....I can't see this panning out.

[COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][According to CNN, the company said that hypothetically a first owner could purchase a three-year subscription to heated seats, which is how long that person would expect to keep the car. Then, the next owner could decide for themselves if they wanted to subscribe to the heated seats, too. This, of course, requires the car to already have the feature's hardware built-in from the factory, such as the required sensors for adaptive cruise control or the heating elements in a seat or steering wheel. ]('https://www.yahoo.com/news/bmw-wants-customers-pay-subscription-200315059.html')

[BMW casts the idea in a very favorable light in its press release, stating that it is "strengthening selection and personalization for customers, offering them maximum flexibility."Yet, this move can also be seen as the start of major automakers' dangerous slide into the territory of microtransactions. Microtransactions, known and hated in the gaming world as in-game purchases, have infuriated players by essentially charging them more money to enjoy a game they already bought.]('https://www.yahoo.com/news/bmw-wants-customers-pay-subscription-200315059.html')[/COLOR]

with what you are paying for a BMW that should all be included

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-supreme-court-deems-half-140750114.html[/URL]

[SIZE=7]**SERIOUSLY???

After lobbying efforts, U.S. Catholic Church won $1.4 billion in virus aid**[/SIZE]

[SIZE=4][COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)][After lobbying efforts, U.S. Catholic Church won $1.4 billion in virus aid]('https://www.pressherald.com/2020/07/10/after-lobbying-efforts-u-s-catholic-church-won-1-4b-in-virus-aid/')[/COLOR][/SIZE]

By REESE DUNKLIN and MICHAEL REZENDESAssociated Press
July 10, 2020

NEW YORK — The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of clergy sexual abuse cover-ups.

The church’s haul may have reached — or even exceeded — $3.5 billion, making a global religious institution with more than a billion followers among the biggest winners in the U.S. government’s pandemic relief efforts, an Associated Press analysis of federal data released this week found.

Houses of worship and faith-based organizations that promote religious beliefs aren’t usually eligible for money from the U.S. Small Business Administration. But as the economy plummeted and jobless rates soared, Congress let faith groups and other nonprofits tap into the Paycheck Protection Program, a $659 billion fund created to keep Main Street open and Americans employed.

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