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Two Americans and a Spaniard were gored Friday during the first running of the bulls of this year's San Fermin festival, medical officials in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona said.

A 46-year-old Spanish man was undergoing surgery for serious injuries to his head and leg after he was gored and then tossed by a bull.

Hospital officials said that the Americans had been gored as well during the run, but their injuries — in the abdomen for a 35-year-old man and in the scrotum for a 29-year-old — weren't considered serious. Not serious?!

Outlast...*

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Online searches for long-acting birth control devices spiked significantly in the hours after the presidential election ended.   Many women took to social media to advise other women to get an intrauterine device (IUD) which can "outlast" a conservative presidency.

The posts began over concerns that Trump and the Republican-held houses of Congress will repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Under the ACA, insurers participating in the healthcare marketplace aremandated to provide coverage for contraception without any co-payment or coinsurance, allowing many more women access to birth control.

The IUD is a small implant that, when placed in the uterus, acts as a continuous form of contraception.  Depending on the type of device an IUD can provide approximately three to 10 years of greatly reduced pregnancy risk, potentially outlasting even a two-term Trump presidency. 

Buh Bye...

Generally, when big-time television news stars and newspaper/magazine editors are pushed out or resign on their own accord, they publicly express a desire to "take some time" to think about their next move and consult with their families.

But, after being ousted by MSNBC late last week, Greta Van Susteren quickly made it clear - on Twitter - that she'd welcome another hosting job.
"Since I got fired, of course I will entertain any job offers that come my way," she told The Hollywood Reporter.

Van Susteren's program was the least-watched show on MSNBC between 5 p.m. 

Dinner...

LongTime...

Longtime Fox Business Network host Charles Payne has been suspended after a frequent guest on the network reportedly accused him of sexual harassment, adding to the list of sexual misconduct claims that have plagued 21st Century Fox over the past year.

Payne, who hosts the nightly personal finance show “Making Money,” will remain off the air pending an investigation, a Fox Business spokesman said in an emailed statement, without providing further details.

The suspension came after the National Enquirer published an article in which Payne admitted to carrying on a three-year “romantic relationship” with a married female political analyst who was a regular guest on Fox Business, and apologized to his wife, children and friends.
The Los Angeles Times, citing anonymous sources, reported.

These are two separate things. Sexual harassment and Cheating. Wonder why?

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The Dog...

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Self-preservation...

 


Between issuing fiery threats to immolate the United States and being ridiculed in various Hollywood films, North Korea is often caricatured as irrational and ridiculous.

But for all its apocalyptic bluster, the country's pursuit of a nuclear weapons program  including its first intercontinental ballistic missile launch Tuesday  is based on what it believes are a rational set of goals.

The most important of these is self-preservation. The country says it wants a nuclear bomb because it saw what happened when Iraq, Syria and Libya surrendered their weapons of mass destruction and their regimes were toppled or being toppled by Western-backed interventions.

It wants to stop others, namely the administration of President Donald Trump, from toppling its totalitarian regime.

"They learned their lesson from Libya, Syria and Iraq that the sure-fire way to prevent an attack is to have weapons of mass destruction, rather than just bragging about it," said John Nilsson-Wright, a senior research fellow at Chatham House, a London-based think tank.

That's why.  Just a thought.