Happier...

British behavioural scientist Paul Dolan ignited a firestorm of controversy recently when he claimed that wives are “miserable,” while women who opt out of marriage and kids lead much better lives.

Dolan suggested that while marriage makes men happier and healthier, the opposite is true for wives: “If you’re a man, you should probably get married; if you’re a woman, don’t bother,” he told the crowd at the Hay literature festival in Wales. 

The intellectual tussle made one thing clear: Deep fissures remain between the married and single camps, this despite the myriad choices now available to couples, be it casual, open, monogamous, cohabitating, living apart together or long-distance relationships.

Women still face continual social cues and expectations from family and friends to pair up, especially when they are in their child-bearing 20s and 30s.

Many men completely disagree. Just a thought

Bloomberg...

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he sassed Sen. Elizabeth Warren for making the super rich her political punching bag.

“If my company wouldn’t be successful, we wouldn’t be here today,” Bloomberg said he told Warren backstage at an Everytown for Gun Safety event in Des Moines,  “So enough with this stuff.”

Billionaire Bloomberg founded Everytown and largely pays its bills. He used that role Saturday to take the stage alongside almost every Democratic presidential hopeful to give a speech targeting President Trump.

Chicken...

Almost all of the Mississippi chicken plants raided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials were "willfully and unlawfully" employing people without proper work documentation authorizing them to hold jobs in the U.S., according to unsealed court documents.

Federal investigators who executed the raid on seven plants in all arrested 680 people, drawing in part on informant information -- in what's been described as the largest immigration raid in a decade. (Roughly 30 of those arrested were released on humanitarian grounds, while another 270 were released after being processed by ICE, the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

An informant posing as a worker at the latter of two chicken processing plants, PH Food Inc. in Morton and A&B Inc. in Pelahatchie, told Homeland Security investigators that both are owned by a Chinese man from California, Huo You Liang. The informant contended that Liang, did not follow state regulations.

Outage...

Nearly a million people have been affected by a major power cut across large areas of England and Wales, affecting homes and transport networks.

National Grid said it was caused by issues with two power generators but the problem was now resolved.

Blackouts were reported across the Midlands, the South East, South West and North East of England, and Wales.

Hundreds of people were stranded at King's Cross station as trains were delayed and cancelled. Traffic lights in some areas also stopped working. 

At the height of the Friday rush hour, all trains out of King's Cross were suspended and remained so for most of the evening.

Looks familiar?

Busing...

The presidential primary is pretty clearly a four-way race at this point. As per the Real Clear Politics poll average, Joe Biden is still out in front with 27 percent, with Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris tied for second with 14 percent, and Elizabeth Warren only a point behind them. The other 2,000 candidates are all down in the low single digits or lower.

Not long ago Harris was only doing half as well. Clearly she was the major beneficiary of the recent debates, especially her forceful confrontation with Biden over school desegregation. But afterwards, she backtracked on the issue, saying that in cases where school segregation is not the result of discriminatory laws, "any tool that is in the toolbox should be considered by a school district."

That is directly at odds with her debate statement that the "federal government must step in" when schools refuse to desegregate. It's not the first time Harris has given reason to believe her answers to thorny questions are less than sincere.

The Harris campaign seems to be trying to thread this needle by arguing that mandatory integration was necessary back in the bad old days.

Dominance...

Marriages become distressed for a variety of reasons.  We see them all; infidelity, addiction, poor communication, lack of love, anger, and more. One of the most common difficulties leading couples to problems is one spouse controlling or dominating the other.

Some controlled or dominated spouses finally had enough and decided not to take it any longer. They took a stand and made it clear that if things do not change the marriage will soon be over. Others fell into an emotional relationship with someone who treated them with dignity and respect. All have one thing in common: they demand a different life than the one they have been subjected.

Though in actuality the marriage has been in trouble for some time, the other spouse did not recognize the severity of the problem. Most controlling or dominating spouses have little comprehension of how their actions affect their spouses. As they become aware of their husband or wife’s negative reactions to them, they typically justify their behaviors by explaining their intentions. 

“I thought I was helping by pointing out things to be done better.”

Fund me...

 

While GoFundMe has helped countless people out of real jams, the charity crowd funding website also attracts scammers, from the homeless man scam to the mother imprisoned for child abuse after pretending her son had cancer.  

Downloading a photo of someone else’s crisis and pretending it’s your own is easy to do  but so is spotting these fakes. Download the campaign image or copy paste the link and run a reverse image search. You may find the same image shared on the organizer’s social media pages, but steer clear of any campaigns where the images came from a different person entirely.  

Some scammers shoot their own photos, so original images don’t make the campaign a sure thing, but can weed out some of the fakes.

Reading through the comments before backing a crowdfunding campaign is a good idea that applies to identifying scams on platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo too. GoFundMe suggests looking for supportive comments from friends and family of the recipient. Lack of comments may also be a red flag.

Intrinsic...

Women go into marriage for the marriage itself.  For the woman, it’s a combo, a package deal. You get the house, the cars, the stuff, the kids and the guy. Many complain that they feel they are last on the list, after the kids, her job, her mother, her sister, her friends and Zumba. She can get her needs met in a variety of ways and can have close, intimate relationships with any one of those on that list, not only with him.

For many men, however, the woman is central. They desperately need to feel connected to her emotionally. They also need for their wives to admire and respect them. Women belittle that need, but it exists and it’s true.

Typically, when a man either has an affair or leaves a long-term marriage, the wife is often incredulous. She can’t understand how he could put everything they’d built together at risk. To the wife, the marriage itself has such an intrinsic value. But many men felt that, yes, they were part of it and they went along with it because she seemed to want it so much, but the institution of marriage was not what was keeping him there. It’s his wife that he wants. When she isn't there, it’s not that hard to walk away.

Once his interests migrated,  he’s not the man she thought he was and that is the beginning of heart aches.  

Reveal...

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a harsh summary report in May revealing that an FBI Deputy Assistant Director had numerous unauthorized contacts with the media, accepted gifts from journalists and disclosed the ‘existence’ of sensitive information under court seal to the media.

Several officials confirmed that the unknown senior FBI official is Bryan Paarmann. He is currently on leave and his security clearance has been suspended, sources stated.

 The large number of FBI employees who were in contact with journalists during this time period made it difficult to identify the sources of leaks.  Just a thought.

Can't...

We want the power by all and any means. We say any thing and we do any thing. Just a thought.