Ellen DeGeneres defends her Usain Bolt tweet some claimed was racist

If the Right did this they would be asked to resign, but the Left gets away with stuff like this and with no remorse.

Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres defended herself on Tuesday after some claimed that a humorous Usain Bolt tweet sent out from her social media accounts a day earlier was racist. MORE

Air Force Blames Its Serious Pilot Shortage On Lawmakers

2783337-840x420Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James said legislators on Capitol Hill, locked in partisan gridlock, shoulder part of the blame.

The U.S. Air Force faces a shortfall of 700 fighter pilots by the end of the year and as many as 1,000 pilots within a few years, Air Force officials said Wednesday.

“It is a crisis,” said Gen. David Goldfein, the Air Force chief of staff. “Air superiority is not an American birthright. It’s actually something you have to fight for and maintain.” MORE

Amoris Laetitia and “Sex Education”

download (9)Does Francis Really Love Children and the Family?
By Randy Engel

Francis Intent on Perpetuating “Sex Education”
Challenge indeed! Not only does Francis promote that which was formally forbidden in the pre-conciliar Church, he also reinforces a phrase taken from the Final Report of the Synod on the Family (October 24, 2015) which states that “a new and more appropriate language “is needed “in introducing children and adolescents to the topic of sexuality.” Continue reading

Average Silicon Valley home tops $1 million

Home SalesJust think of the Tax revenue these homes bring in.

In the heart of Silicon Valley, $1 million gets you an “average” home.

Boosted by the tech rebound, the average price of a single-family home in Santa Clara County has topped $1 million for four straight months, according to MLSListings, a Sunnyvale-based listings service that released a report on July home sales Thursday. MORE

One out of 113 people in the world seeking political Asylum

Macedonian policemen try to keep refugees and migrants under control at the Greek-Macedonian borderA record 65.3 million people were uprooted worldwide last year, many of them fleeing wars only to face walls, tougher laws and xenophobia as they reach borders, the United Nations refugee agency said on Monday.

The figure, which jumped from 59.5 million in 2014 and by 50 percent in five years, means that 1 in every 113 people on the planet is now a refugee, asylum-seeker or internally displaced in a home country. MORE

 

Chewing gum can help in improving memory, lower blood pressure.

woman-chewing-gumWant a brain boost? Grab a stick of gum and get chewing, new research suggests. Though you may want to ditch that wad before trying any mental gymnastics, as gum only helps improve test scores if chewed before, not during, testing.

The chewing motion gets blood flowing to the head, the researchers suggest, where it improves memory, according to how quickly a test-taker can recall information in the lab. The effect only lasted a few minutes, but researchers think chewing gum before a test could give students an advantage in some ways. MORE

Ricci Martin, son of Dean, passes away

09martin-obit-blog427-v2Ricci Martin, the youngest son of Dean Martin, who performed a tribute show to his father and wrote a memoir about growing up in Beverly Hills, died on Wednesday at his home in Kamas, Utah. He was 62.

His family announced his death, saying the cause had not been determined.

In the 1970s, Mr. Martin released a single, “Stop, Look Around,” and an album, “Beached,” produced by Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys. MORE