In Other News

[SlowwHand]

[-Jrabbit]

These 2 self-promoting yahoos are living proof that any idiot can be elected a US representative:

Bill H.R.941, the TRANSPLANT Act, overwhelmingly passed the House in a 415-2 vote on Thursday night. This bill would reauthorize the National Marrow Donor Program, which matches bone marrow donors and cord blood units with patients who have leukemia and other diseases. The bill would help thousands of people diagnosed with leukemia and other diseases by reauthorizing the National Marrow Donor Program and the National Cord Blood Inventory for another five years.

The only two House members to vote against it were Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Lauren Boebert of Colorado.

[Broken_Erika]

They don't need transplants they just need to pray harder to Jesus.

[SlowwHand]

Raul Castro resigned.

https://apnews.com/article/fidel-castro-miguel-diaz-canel-raul-castro-cuba-be9643a492b1803b67e29c8de467f7e9

[-Jrabbit]

There's been a Castro running Cuba for as long as I can remember (literally since 1959; I was 6).
Weird.

[Egbert]

There's been a Castro running Cuba for as long as I can remember (literally since 1959; I was 6).
Weird.

The Castro brothers and our Queen are the two (er three) leaders who have been in office since before I was born.

The first Prime Minister of our queen was Winston Churchill. When she passes it will feel like the end of an era for the dominions. And reignite squabbles about republicanism.
(I am a very staunch monarchist)

[BeBMan]

Could be they found the Force or something:

From sticking a magnet on a fridge door to throwing a ball into a basketball hoop, the forces of physics are at play in every moment of our lives.


All of the forces we experience every day can be reduced to just four categories: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and the weak force.

Now, physicists say they have found possible signs of a fifth fundamental force of nature.

The findings come from research carried out at a laboratory near Chicago.

The four fundamental forces govern how all the objects and particles in the Universe interact with each other.

For example, gravity makes objects fall to the ground, and heavy objects behave as if they are glued to the floor.

The UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) said the result "provides strong evidence for the existence of an undiscovered sub-atomic particle or new force".

But the results from the Muon g-2 experiment don't add up to a conclusive discovery yet.

(snipsnap)

https://www.bbc.com/news/56643677

Take that, Midi-chlorians!

[Uncle Sparky]

I've been listening to The 5th Dimension since the '60s.

[SlowwHand]

[Uncle Sparky]

[Broken_Erika]

Italian hospital employee accused of skipping work for 15 years


A hospital employee in Italy has been accused of skipping work on full pay for 15 years, local media report.

The man is alleged to have stopped turning up to work at the Ciaccio hospital in the city of Catanzaro, Puglia, in 2005.

He is now being investigated for fraud, extortion and abuse of office, Italian news agency Ansa reports.

He was reportedly paid €538,000 (£464,000) in total over the years he is thought not to have been working.

Six managers at the hospital are also being investigated in connection with the alleged absenteeism.

The arrests are the result of a lengthy police investigation into absenteeism and suspected fraud in the Italian public sector.

The employee was a civil servant, and was assigned to a job in the hospital in 2005. It was at this point he stopped going into work, the police said.

The police have also accused him of threatening his manager to stop her from filing a disciplinary report against him.

That manager later retired, police added, and his ongoing absence was never noticed by her successor or human resources.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56822571

[SlowwHand]

Nice gig.

[Berzerker]

The office will continue to prosecute other crimes related to prostitution, including patronizing sex workers, promoting prostitution and sex trafficking, and said that its policy would not stop it from bringing other charges that stem from prostitution-related arrests. - Manhattan DA's office

They wont prosecute the prostitute but will the customer? That sounds constitutionally suspect. I guess since they aren't making prostitution legal it might pass muster.

[-Jrabbit]

The pimps are also being charged...

[SlowwHand]

Prostitution should be legal and health checks required for all involved.

[dannubis]

Prostitution should be legal and health checks required for all involved.

Mellowing with old age ?

BTW : i tried inserting a wink smiley but it doesn't seem to show...

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

I see two wink smilies. My DL does not.

That's something related to the downage Tuesday - I haven't been told anything, really, and don't expect it fixed before Saturday.