Author: Tom Faranda
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“To Save Time, CNN Will Now Run Retractions Simultaneously With News Stories”
Haha. ATLANTA, GA — As part of the channel’s ongoing quest to ensure accurate media reporting, CNN has elected to run live retractions simultaneously with the news stories being reported at the time. CNN CEO Mark Thompson confirmed the change in a public statement on Friday. “We’re really bad at our job, but we can…
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Pigs fly department: Actress at Oscars speaks out for marriage and motherhood
Wow. That’s the last Academy Award she’ll ever get! This taken entirely off Laura G’s facebook page. I never heard of Jessie Buckley until I saw Laura’s posting. Last night at the Oscars, Irish actress Jessie Buckley did something rare in Hollywood: She stood on one of the biggest stages in the world and delivered…
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Ohio Nat. Guard mourn loss of their colleagues killed in plane crash
Three of the six airmen whose KC135 air refueling tanker went down.
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“Media: No Motive Yet In Attack On Jewish Synagogue By Radical Muslim”
Sort of funny; but a real attack several days ago. With the nation reeling from an outbreak of violent incidents in the wake of the U.S. military strikes against Iran, the media clarified that there was no known motive yet in the attack on a Jewish Synagogue by a radical Muslim. Though an outspoken Islamic…
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Andrew Yang – former Dem presidential candidate – on AI & jobs
This is a good interview. A couple of cycles ago he ran in the Democrat Presidential primary and got a few votes. Since then he has left the party and is co-founder of the Forward Party, attempting to build a centrist coalition. He also owns a tech business and this is a good interview.
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Friday Cocktail – The Blood and Sand
The strange name comes from a 1922 movie featuring Rudolph Valentino, Blood and Sand. Below the two minute vid is a link to another video – Anders talking in some length about how the cocktail is not popular with bartenders and also his variation to pep it up a bit. Here is the link to…