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D-Mass...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., had some choice words about the GOP's tax reform bill unveiled on today 11/2/2017.

In an interview on CNBC's "Closing Bell," Warren called the tax plan a "$2 trillion giveaway to giant corporations" and added that the biggest beneficiary would be Wells Fargo, the bank at the center of a massive fake-accounts scandal last year.

She also said beneficiaries include foreign investors and multinational companies.
"This gives real subsidies to move jobs overseas," she said, adding she would "do my best to stop it."

On the nomination of Jerome Powell to succeed Janet Yellen as the next Federal Reserve chairman, Warren said it's a good sign that he has aligned himself with Yellen. Still, she plans to reserve judgment until after the nomination hearing.
"I'm going to ask him some tough questions and hear what his answers are," she said.

Great opposition, but can you get together with the rest of you and do something positive to the people. Just yelling and show angry face doesn't put food on someone's table.

chamber...

Scientists say they have found a hidden chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza, which likely to spark a new surge of interest in the pharaohs.

The purpose of the space is unclear, and it's not yet known whether it was built with a function in mind or if it's merely a gap in the pyramid's architecture.  

The scientists made the discovery using cosmic-ray imaging, recording the behavior of subatomic particles called muons that penetrate the rock similar to X-rays, only much deeper.  

The pyramid is also known as Khufu's Pyramid for its builder, a 4th Dynasty pharaoh who reigned from 2509 to 2483 B.C. Visitors to the pyramid, on the outskirts of Cairo, can walk, hunched over, up a long tunnel to reach the Grand Gallery. The space announced by the scanning team does not appear to be connected to any known internal passages.

Scientists involved in the scanning called the find a "breakthrough" that highlighted the usefulness of modern particle physics in archaeology.

Hypocrisy...

Self Destruct...

Only Two...

 

French feminist groups staged a protest against a retrospective honoring director Roman Polanski at film institute La Cinematheque Francaise.

A few dozen protesters gathered near the Paris institute as the event was starting, booing as Polanski attended the opening.

Two members of the Femen activist group went topless near Polanski inside the film institute, shouting "no honor for rapists."  The institute said its role was not to moralize.

Polish-born Polanski in the 1970s pleaded guilty to having sex in the U.S. with a 13-year-old girl, whom he plied with champagne and Quaaludes.

Since Polanski fled the U.S., he has mostly lived in Paris.

Director of Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby, he won the Academy Award for best director for The Pianist in 2003.

Softly...

Michael Oreskes has resigned as chief of NPR's newsroom following accusations of sexual harassment that dated back to the 1990s.

Oreskes said in a statement that he was deeply sorry to the people he hurt. He said: "my behavior was wrong and inexcusable, and I accept full responsibility."

He told Jarl Mohn, president and CEO of NPR,  that he would step down. Earlier, Oreskes had been placed on leave and Mohn appointed Chris Turpin as the temporary news chief.

Two women had accused Oreskes of suddenly kissing them when they were discussing job prospects with him in the 1990s, when he was Washington bureau chief of The New York Times.

Waiting for those who did it but softly. 

Ann-Laure...

Ann-Laure Decadt, 31, of Belgium, also died, leaving behind two sons -- a 3-year-old and a 3-month-old -- the mayor of the Belgian town of Staden told ABC 

Decadt’s husband, Alexander Naessens, called her death unbearable. She was on a trip with her mother and two sisters at the time of the attack on pedestrians on Halloween Night-Manhattan.

PAPA...

Papa John himself slammed NFL leadership, blaming the organization for lackluster sales at his pizza restaurants in the third quarter. Shares of the pizza chain fell more than 11 percent.

John Schnatter, the founder of Papa John's, said the league and its leadership "hurt" the company by not resolving the player protests that have been taking place during the National Anthem.

Papa John's, which has been the official pizza of the NFL since 2010, said the combination of declining NFL viewership and negative consumer sentiment associated with the league caused sales in the third quarter to slump.

"Leadership starts at the top, and this is an example of poor leadership," he said.

BullShitter...**

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it. When an honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he considers his statements to be false.

For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: he is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says. He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.  [Harry Frankfurt of Princeton U.]

Truth, Lies, and the Bullshit.    Which is your preference?... Just a thought.