Not just stupid. Expensive!!-----Therapy dogs, chocolate, Play-Doh: Universities offer ways to cope with finals - The College Fix

Therapy dogs, chocolate, Play-Doh: Universities offer ways to cope with finals - The College Fix
"Therapy dogs, chocolate, Play-Doh, video games: 
Today’s college students are offered a variety of ways to cope with the stress of final exams.

At the University of Pennsylvania, for example, several different student groups offered various study breaks, including a Zumba class, a video game stress reliever, and a “Chocolate and Chocolate Labs” event, the Daily Pennsylvanian reports. 

Student organizers did not respond to The College Fix’s request seeking details.

An annual tradition at the University of Illinois offers students a “Reading Day.” 

“In place of classes, the university hosts a variety of non-mandatory events aimed at helping students study and de-stress,” the Daily Illini reports.
Penn State’s “De-Stress Fest” included origami folding, Wii gaming, “brain massage music” and more, according to the university’s website.

The University of Michigan offered Play-Doh and more in an event billed as a way to de-stress before final exams, according to its Facebook page. 

Other relaxers at the event included glitter bottles, Legos and dominoes..."

A Free Speech Tipping Point - Bruce Bialosky

A Free Speech Tipping Point - Bruce Bialosky:

"Many people have called for changes on college campuses. To a certain extent this has been treated with humor-based dismissal. The branding of these children acting in a petulant manner is referred to as "snowflakes." But now we have reached a dangerous tipping point that threatens to destroy the freedoms we all savor as part of our heritage."

Aspirin May Prevent Cancer From Spreading, New Research Shows - Slashdot

Aspirin May Prevent Cancer From Spreading, New Research Shows - Slashdot:
"An anonymous reader quotes a report from Scientific American:
In recent years scientists have discovered another possible use for aspirin: stopping the spread of cancer cells in the body after an initial tumor has already formed. 
The research is still developing, but the findings hint that the drug could one day form the basis for a powerful addition to current cancer therapies.
Not everyone responds equally well to the drug, however, and for some people it can be downright dangerous.
Investigators are thus trying to develop genetic tests to determine who is most likely to benefit from long-term use of aspirin..."

You May Like Obamacare, But Don't Forget About The People It's Hurt

You May Like Obamacare, But Don't Forget About The People It's Hurt
"...Arguing about it as if people like me don't is also not right.
You may know me as a political pundit and writer who has spoken publicly about how the Affordable Care Act negatively affected my family.
What you might not know is two years ago, I was a seven-month-pregnant widow with one toddler who got a letter two weeks after my husband died, informing me I’d lost my third or fourth health insurance plan since the Affordable Care Act passed. 
If you’ll remember, the promise was that I could keep my plan if I liked it.
I could not.
I predicted what would happen to my family’s insurance, and to much less fortunate people subjected to the exchanges with us, many of whom have seen doubled premiums and tripled deductibles.
If you’ll remember, the promise was everyone’s premiums would go down.
They did not.
For predicting it, I was routinely called a lying hack in public.
...Most people who aren’t in the individual market, which is the one most affected by ACA, have no idea what the plans look like.
It is a market where the costs of the bill’s mandates are more visible, even when subsidized. When I cite exorbitant deductibles, folks tell me to suck it up and pay $3,000. 
I laugh at a $3,000 deductible. 
What in the old system was considered a very high deductible is now among the lower available, and premiums for any kind of deductible are high, even with subsidies. 
Many families have to hit $12,700, and they’re paying a mortgage-sized premium..."
Read on!

Lunch video-----You've Gotta Love Millennials - Micah Tyler

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Library fines too stressful for Harvard students? What's next for our kids | Fox News

Library fines too stressful for Harvard students? What's next for our kids | Fox News:

"College is meant to be stressful because life is stressful. What better place is there than a college campus to learn important life lessons like how to handle stress, and why it’s important to take responsibility for your actions?

If these principles are too intense for college students to handle while they are enshrouded in a safety net that provides for their every necessity, how will they ever cope once they’re on their own? "

77% black births to single moms, 49% for Hispanic immigrants

77% black births to single moms, 49% for Hispanic immigrants
"More than three quarters of African American births are to unmarried women, nearly double the illegitimacy rate of all other births, according to new federal data.

The National Center for Health Statistics said that in 2015, 77.3 percent of non-immigrant black births were illegitimate. 

The national non-immigrant average is 42 percent, and it was 30 percent for whites.

The new numbers were in a Center for Immigration Studies analysis on the births to immigrants. 

That total is 32.7 percent, but to Hispanic immigrants it is 48.9 percent, according to Steven Camarota, the director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies.

Camarota calculated a huge rise in births to single Hispanic immigrants, something that could have a societal impact..."

Ya think? 

Read on!

Wal Mart Free-For-All A Taste Of Things To Come? These Maps Show Us American 'Danger Zones' When SHTF

Wal Mart Free-For-All A Taste Of Things To Come? These Maps Show Us American 'Danger Zones' When SHTF:
"In the new story over at Survival Dan called “During The Collapse: Where To Go And What Places To Avoid”, he reports that when IT hits the fan, America’s ‘population hubs’ will likely explode with violence, looting and the total breakdown of law and order as resources become next to impossible to get and the masses suddenly realize the government isn’t coming to save them.
Whether that be via total collapse, WW3 coming home to roost upon US soil or a ‘grid event’ that leaves tens to hundreds of millions either without power or access to the money in their bank accounts, the video directly below from a Wal Mart in Mexico gives us a very small taste of what that world without law and order can quickly devolve into.

Showing what happens when suddenly ‘lawless people’ realize that there aren’t enough security guards in a Wal Mart store to stop them, we witness the kind of all-out ‘free for all’ that we’ll likely see in a collapse event, though the smart people would be carrying out food, toilet paper and other necessities instead of flat screen TV’s. 
And in an all-out SHTF event, we’d expect that the people will likely be fighting with each other for the few remaining resources as they are now in Venezuela where children are literally starving to death..."
Read on!

There will always be an England?-----Muhammed most popular baby name in London, 2nd most popular nationwide

Muhammed most popular baby name in London, 2nd most popular nationwide

You ought to know!

Judicial Watch: Court Rules State Department Must Release Clinton Emails Detailing Obama Response to Benghazi - Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch: Court Rules State Department Must Release Clinton Emails Detailing Obama Response to Benghazi - Judicial Watch:

"Judicial Watch today announced that U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson has ordered the U.S. Department of State to turn over to Judicial Watch “eight identical paragraphs” of previously redact material in two September 13, 2012, Hillary Clinton emails regarding phone calls made by President Barack Obama to Egyptian and Libyan leaders immediately following the terrorist attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi. "

FLASHBACK: Obama Says Obamacare Will Decrease Premiums by 3000 Percent - Katie Pavlich

FLASHBACK: Obama Says Obamacare Will Decrease Premiums by 3000 Percent - Katie Pavlich
"As everyday Americans grapple with healthcare premium increases of 116 percent on top of losing their primary care doctors and networks, the White House and Democrats are attempting to do damage control. 
During a speech last (year) in Miami, President Obama said rate increases have nothing to do with him. 
...In 2010, he said Obamacare would decrease employer offered healthcare premiums by 3000 percent. 
Today employers are dumping healthcare coverage for employees in droves.

Obama also repeatedly said families would see their premiums decrease by $2500.

AM Fruitcake

History for May 8

History for May 8 - On-This-Day.com:
Jean Henri Dunant 1828, Oscar Hammerstein 1847, Harry S. Truman (U.S.) 1884 - 33rd president of the United States


Don Rickles 1926 - Comedian, Sonny Liston 1932, Ricky Nelson (Eric Hilliard Nelson) 1940 - Musician


1541 - Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River. He called it Rio de Espiritu Santo.


1794 - Antoine Lavoisier was executed by guillotine. He was the French chemist that discovered oxygen.


1886 - Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invented what would later be called "Coca-Cola."


1943 - The Germans suppressed a revolt by Polish Jews and destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto.


1945 - U.S. President Harry Truman announced that World War II had ended in Europe.


1956 - Alfred E. Neuman appeared on the cover of "Mad Magazine" for the first time.


1959 - Mike and Marian Ilitch founded "Little Caesars Pizza Treat".


1985 - "New Coke" was released to the public on the 99th anniversary of Coca-Cola.

DHS Uncovered More Than 60 Cross-Border Tunnels along Mexican Border Used for Smuggling

DHS Uncovered More Than 60 Cross-Border Tunnels along Mexican Border Used for Smuggling:

"The Department of Homeland Security uncovered more than 60 cross-border tunnels along the southwest border that were used to smuggle people and illicit drugs into the United States over a five-year period, according to a new government report.

The agency also detected more than 530 "ultralight aircraft" intrusions into the United States and roughly 300 drug smuggling incidents involving small fishing boats and recreational vessels along American borders from 2011 to 2016,"

The way we were-----Extremely Creepy 1960s Cereal Commercial

U.N. Survey: 3 Out of 4 Men and over Half of Women in Egypt Support FGM - Breitbart

U.N. Survey: 3 Out of 4 Men and over Half of Women in Egypt Support FGM - Breitbart:
"A new United Nations survey of male attitudes toward “gender equality” finds precious little appetite for it across the Middle East.
“Male attitudes towards the role of women in the workplace and at home, and of their participation in public life, were stereotypically sexist in the study of views in Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco and Palestine,” writes the UK Guardian in summarizing the report.
Egypt scored the lowest on the report’s “Gender Equitable Men” scale and is the source of the most striking headlines.
For example, CNS News reports that “70 percent of Egyptian men approve of female genital mutilation.” 
For that matter, 56 percent of Egyptian women also voiced approval for the hideous procedure, which is illegal but not unheard-of, in much of the world..."

Carr: FBI’s James Comey invents a novel defense for crooks | Boston Herald

Carr: FBI’s James Comey invents a novel defense for crooks | Boston Herald:
"The prisons have always been full of innocent men — just ask them during visiting hours.
But from now on the lockups will teem with a new class of jailbird — those who didn’t know they were committing crimes.
In case you missed it, FBI Director James “J. Edgar” Comey, in his latest attempt to broom the high crimes and misdemeanors of Crooked Hillary Clinton, told a Senate committee this week that even though Hillary, her top aide Huma Abedin et al. had undoubtedly committed all sorts of felonies, it was impossible to prosecute them.
“With respect to Ms. Abedin in particular,” J. Edgar Comey said, “we didn’t have any indication that she had a sense that what she was doing was in violation of the law.”
Really?
We always understood that the Clintons were trafficking in huge numbers of classified government emails that were illegally sent or deleted — for example, she destroyed at least 33,000 under federal subpoena, that we know of.
...She was just “extremely careless,” he stammered on, which is very different from “gross negligence.”
Think of the possibilities that are now open to the defense bar.
This could be a bigger boon to the element than Miranda warnings, or Annie Dookhan..."

10 Famous People Who Praised Venezuela's Descent Into Socialist Hell - Breitbart

10 Famous People Who Praised Venezuela's Descent Into Socialist Hell - Breitbart:

"However, Venezuela’s problems date back to 1999, with the election of socialist president Hugo Chávez, whose mass redistribution of wealth and financial mismanagement laid the groundwork for the country’s economic collapse.

Like his successor, Chávez was an authoritarian who clamped down on press freedom and regularly locked up his opponents. His government also funded gangs known as colectivos, tasked with intimidating poor communities into supporting him, while distributing pro-government propaganda across the country.

Nevertheless, Chávez’s regime received plaudits from numerous left-wing academics, politicians, and celebrities who have now gone quiet on the matter. Here are ten of the most prominent examples."

WALMART!!-----The 50 largest corporations, by revenue and industry — DataShown

The 50 largest corporations, by revenue and industry — DataShown

IN THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, A SCARY STORY ABOUT “CHILDREN” BEING SHOT, but then you find out…

IN THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, A SCARY STORY ABOUT “CHILDREN” BEING SHOT, but then you find ouy…:
"...but then you find out that it’s basically late-teen gang-bangers shooting each other. 
“Most of those between 15 and 19 were shot in an intentional assault, according to Silver’s research. 
This age group makes up the largest number of victims, more than 83 percent.”

Which is weird, because reading the headline you’d think Glocks were jumping up and blasting away at babies in cribs on their own."

Lunch video-----DUNKIRK - OFFICIAL MAIN TRAILER [HD]

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BREAKING: Army Secretary Nominee Withdraws After Leftists Attack Him For His Views On Transgenderism | Daily Wire

BREAKING: Army Secretary Nominee Withdraws After Leftists Attack Him For His Views On Transgenderism | Daily Wire:

"Mark Green, a religious Christian West Point graduate who served as an Army infantry officer and flight surgeon and had been nominated to become Secretary of the Army by President Trump, withdrew his name from nomination after being viciously attacked by Democrats and leftists for his religious beliefs."

If your city has low income housing (or a greedy meatpacker nearby!) you could get refugees « Refugee Resettlement Watch

If your city has low income housing (or a greedy meatpacker nearby!) you could get refugees « Refugee Resettlement Watch:
During the final years of the Obama Administration, the US Department of State created a little booklet for communities to use to help plan for their town to be a new resettlement site.

This morning, reader Joanne sent this news from Colorado: Ft. Collins hasn’t enough low income housing so refugees are not being placed there in any numbers.

I’ll give you the news and then send you to places where you can learn more about the refugee program.  (Commenter Nancy, in a followup e-mail, asked to be further educated!).  Apologies to long-time readers who find the repetition boring!

FORT COLLINS COLORADOAN – While national rhetoric on immigration, presidential executive orders and international factors slow in the number of refugees settling in the U.S., a lack of affordable housing has all but halted refugee resettlement in Fort Collins, experts say.

Just 13 refugees have resettled in Fort Collins since 2002, and none have moved to the city since 2012, according to newly compiled data from a USA TODAY Network investigation. Eleven of those refugees came from Iraq, and the remaining two came from Chad and Sudan.

“Housing drives where refugees live,” said Kit Taintor, Colorado’s State Refugee Coordinator.

This is a photo I took on my fact-finding mission in the heartland this past summer. Meat giant JBS (formerly Swift & Co) is a Brazilian-owned company that encourages Somali refugee labor, and as such it is changing the demographic make-up of Greeley, Colorado.

Cities the size of Fort Collins can serve as a boon for resettlement options, she said. But Fort Collins’ lack of affordable housing coupled with student competition for rentals in the university town has significantly limited resettlement options, making matters “really challenging.”

Greeley refugee flow is no great surprise! Taintor is not completely correct, meatpackers drive where refugees live too! (See ‘Big Meat braces for refugee shortage,’ here.)

...Refugee resettlement is not first and foremost about humanitarianism! 
It is about money! 
And, that is why you do not see any move toward reform from the Republican leadership in Congress!

Your short tutorial begins here:

Read the Department of State’s ‘New Site Development Guide,’ click here.

The DOS mentions that the UN High Commissioner for Refugees selects most of our refugees.  Here is a flow chart from the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement confirming that registration with the UNHCR is a first step.  But, please note that they are messing with the definition of a refugee when they say “war” makes one a refugee.  ‘Persecution’ makes one a refugee so just running from war and crime should not make one a legitimate refugee entitled to permanent resettlement.

The Open Borders Left wants every person on the move for any reason (including climate!) anywhere in the world to be considered a refugee! The Dems in the US want the reliable left-leaning  voters!

Medical studies are almost always bogus | New York Post

Medical studies are almost always bogus | New York Post:
"How many times have you encountered a study — on, say, weight loss — that trumpeted one fad, only to see another study discrediting it a week later?
That’s because many medical studies are junk. 
It’s an open secret in the research community, and it even has a name: “the reproducibility crisis.”
For any study to have legitimacy, it must be replicated, yet only half of medical studies celebrated in newspapers hold water under serious follow-up scrutiny — and about two-thirds of the “sexiest” cutting-edge reports, including the discovery of new genes linked to obesity or mental illness, are later “disconfirmed.”
Though erring is a key part of the scientific process, this level of failure slows scientific progress, wastes time and resources and costs taxpayers excesses of $28 billion a year...
...So why are so many tests bogus?
For one, science is hard. Everything from unconscious bias...
Then there is the funding issue.
During the heyday of the late ’90s and early aughts, research funding increased until Congress decided to hold funding flat for the next decade, creating an atmosphere of intense, some would say unhealthy, competition among research scientists.
...Add this to the truly terrible job market for post-docs — only 21 percent land tenure track jobs — and there is a greater incentive to publish splashy counterintuitive studies, which have a higher likelihood of being wrong, writes Harris.
One effect of this “pressure to publish” situation is intentional data manipulation.."

A nation of wimps-----Library fines too stressful for Harvard students? What's next for our kids | Fox News

Library fines too stressful for Harvard students? What's next for our kids | Fox News:
"This week, Harvard University announced that its libraries will be doing away with their traditional 50 cent-per-day late fee on overdue books.
Some might assume Harvard is terminating the fees because the school simply no longer needs the money.
After all, the “private” university does receive billions in tax breaks every year.
No, finances had nothing to do with this policy change, which was first noticed by the vigilant folks over at The Harvard Crimson.
The sole reason that this (once?) prestigious university is waiving the charge for overdue books is because this practice is just too stressful for students.
That bears repeating: Harvard U
niversity students, whom the school hails as the brightest young scholars our nation has to offer, simply cannot and should not have to deal with the stress of overdue book fees.
“We have witnessed first-hand the stress that overdue fines can cause for students,” Harvard administrator Steven Beardsley explained, even going so far as to declare that “Eliminating standard overdue fines…should help students focus on their scholarship, rather than worrying about renewing library books every 28 days in order to avoid fines...”"

You ought to know!