'You know the thing!' Watch Biden flub the Declaration of Independence - WND

'You know the thing!' Watch Biden flub the Declaration of Independence - WND:

Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden, whose infamous gaffes include firing shotguns to warn intruders and telling a paralyzed supporter to stand, recently claimed 150 million Americans were killed by gun violence.
That would be about half the nation's population.
But anyone who might think it couldn't get worse would be wrong:

The way we were-----Chopper Pilot

Boob-tube-----The Cafeteria from The Carol Burnett Show (full sketch)

Concerns About U.S. Military Supply Chains And Readiness Grow As COVID-19 Coronavirus Spreads - The Drive

Concerns About U.S. Military Supply Chains And Readiness Grow As COVID-19 Coronavirus Spreads - The Drive:

• The Pentagon says that it is working to mitigate these issues, but it's unclear how severe their impact could be if the virus' spread accelerates.

"Top Pentagon officials have said that the fallout from the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus has not impacted U.S. military supply chains, but there are growing concerns that it could in the near future. 
Worries about what it could do the readiness of American forces abroad and at home are mounting as the virus continues to spread around the world, including inside the United States, where it has now caused six deaths and infected dozens more.
"It's not just civilian businesses that are dependent upon products and components that come from China," Thornberry noted..."
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Why is he not executed? Immediately! That monster!!!-----Chris Matthews retires from MSNBC, cites comments to women - ABC News

Chris Matthews retires from MSNBC, cites comments to women - ABC News
"...He said that "compliments on a woman’s appearance that some men, including me, might have incorrectly thought were OK were never OK. Not then, and certainly not today, and for making such comments in the past, I’m sorry.”
The 74-year-old Matthews, who underwent prostate surgery last year, worked as a speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter and was top aide to House Speaker Thomas “Tip” O'Neill before turning to journalism as Washington bureau chief for the San Francisco Examiner.

• ...He apologized last Monday for likening Sanders' win in the Nevada caucus two nights earlier to the Nazi takeover of France. 
• On Friday's show, he confused the identities of South Carolina Senate candidate Jaime Harrison and Sen. Tim Scott, both black men.
• And he was criticized for an uncomfortable interview with Warren following the presidential debate, asking if she believed Mike Bloomberg was lying when he denied telling a pregnant female employee of his news company to terminate the pregnancy. “Why would she lie?" Warren said.
• In her first-person story GQ story released Friday, journalist Laura Bassett said Matthews behaved inappropriately toward her when she was a guest on his show in 2016. In the makeup room prior to the show, Matthews looked at her and said “why haven't I fallen in love with you yet?” she wrote. "When I laughed nervously and said nothing, he followed up to the makeup artist. ‘Keep putting makeup on her, I’ll fall in love with her,’” Bassett wrote. 
• “Another time, he stood between me and the mirror and complimented the red dress I was wearing for the segment. ‘You going out tonight?’ he asked.”
• ...Even before his last week, there was some discontent among Sanders supporters about Matthews' lack of enthusiasm for their candidate, putting the news network that appeals to a liberal audience at odds with a potential liberal presidential nominee.

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U.S. Companies Cancelling Conferences, Restricting Travel Over Coronavirus Concerns

U.S. Companies Cancelling Conferences, Restricting Travel Over Coronavirus Concerns:

U.S. companies are canceling conferences and restricting business travel amid concerns over the coronavirus.
The American Physical Society (APS) canceled a conference scheduled to begin on Monday in Denver, Colorado, over “concerns relating to the spread of the coronavirus disease,” according to a post on its website. The society represents 55,000 members including physicists in academia, national laboratories, and industry in the United States and throughout the world. It’s April 18-21 meeting in Washington, DC, has not yet been canceled. Approximately 10,000 people were scheduled to attend the conference.

How to Measure the Temperature of the Earth - American Thinker

How to Measure the Temperature of the Earth - American Thinker

• As concerns man-made climate change:

"The temperature of the Earth" is an ambiguous term that cannot mean anything.  
At any given time it is possible to measure the temperature of some very small part of the Earth, such as, perhaps, a shot glass of water.  
At that same moment, other temperatures of the Earth that could be measured will show a variation from the temperature of molten rock (1,300 to 2,200°F) to polar ice (32 to -76°F).  

• Daily variation of the same place on Earth can be 50 to 60°F.  
• Seasonal variation can be well over 100°F in high latitudes. 

Conceptually, we could imagine, but not actually measure, every possible place and thing, at every possible time through all the seasons, and then average these data.  
To detect "global warming," we would have to modify these data to include the specific heat of every thing measured, as well as the latent heat of all the things that change phase such as water, which appears as liquid, vapor, and ice.
Conceptually, yes; actually, no.  
Not possible..."
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Interesting article but READ the comments!!---Why Aren't More Schools Teaching Students How to Balance a Checkbook?--Intellectual Takeout

Why Aren't More Schools Teaching Students How to Balance a Checkbook?

• An important skill that hardly anyone teaches anymore

• "Penelope Finkelstein How about how not to wreck the environment, the importance of native plants, not misusing pesticides and herbicides, and just being less of a parasite to the planet in general.

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  Rebecca Ridgeway My high school offered a choice of either bookkeeping or record keeping (along with several other courses). I don't understand why they say there isn't enough time. A school day and year is pretty much the same. Is it because they are still teaching reading and basic arithmetic in high school because they won't hold anyone back?

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  Norbert Smith A more important set of skills that schools don't teach any more is how to safely handle a firearm.

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  Lou Kitz Because then they would understand how taxes work and how they hurt the middle class.

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  Alex Ray I'm 28, 10 years in workforce, own a house, own a car. I've written maybe two checks in my life. Broadly speaking, there's little use for a checkbook anymore.

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  John McDermott I have not written a check in 5 years. Maybe the skill is obsolete, or nearly so.

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  Laurence A. Nadeli Why aren’t medical schools teaching students how to bleed you to cure the common cold?

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  Jacob Laughbon Not necessary anymore. I used checks most of my life, but now checks are merely a debit transaction. There are no wait times now that would require a balance sheet. You can just look-up youf balance as you go. Financial planning is different. And in today's crazy economic world of non-math, it's almost literally impossible to keep it accurate.

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  Fred Bates Why not? Too busy teaching gender diversity and revised history... Heaven forbid they learn something useful.

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  Tanner Terry-Pruvost They do teach that. Usually an optional course.
  This is hardly the big picture issue tho lmao

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  Rachael M. Tillman Do schools not have Consumer Math anymore? I took that as a useful elective senior year and along with chequebook balancing, learned about interest rates, the stock market, budgeting, and taxes. I liked it actually, had good teachers. Anyway, a lot of kids took CM and as I worked all through college and opened my own bank account at 18, my Mum made sure I knew the basics of check writing and such.

Lunch video-----Why Are so Many Young People Unhappy?

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