Wednesday, September 06, 2017

Miss Cellania's Links

Medical Dangers of Sneezing. It's rare, but you can break something.

9 facts that explain DACA, the immigration program Trump announced will end. 

The Plane Went Down With His Wife, His Kid ... and a Secret. Crews searched for days, some to find Tony Mink's family, others to find the cash he had on board.

First Date Involves Human Poo and Firefighters. Isn't it wonderful when your Tinder horror story makes it into the local paper? (via Metafilter

How Wild Horses Became the West's New Pests. More than 70,000 horses are putting a strain on overgrazed public land.

The Photo Shoot that Drove Van Halen Apart. The images illustrated the cracks developing in the band.

A Brief History of Book Burning. It has been used as a terroristic threat, a symbol of power, and a cultural cleansing since ancient times.

Los Angeles is Battling the Largest Wildfire in Its History. The photographs are surreal and terrifying.

How to Fall to Your Death and Live to Tell the Tale. Science now has tips on how you can minimize the damage.

What Trump and His Team Have Wrecked So Far. This is a brief overview, but there are more inks at the bottom of the page.

5 comments:

xoxoxoBruce said...

Yes, but a most cromulent addiction.

gwdMaine said...

DACA is one of the finest examples around of the
dysfunctionality in our government. Congress fails
to act, President Obama oversteps his authority,
and the whole mess ends up in the courts where once
again, the judicial branch is forced to legislate.
President Trump did the right thing. DACA would
have been ruled unconstitutional and then there
would have been a real mess. The President’s
action maintains the status quo and nobody gets
hurt. Providing Congress pulls their thumbs out
of their arses and does their job.

Don said...

DACA is an example of what happens when a President tries to rule by executive power. The executive order authorizing DACA expired when President Obama left office. President Trump would have had to renew it. When Trump left office, the next President would have had to authorize it.

President Obama screwed up when he didn't get Congress to make the program permanent.

Barbwire said...

I do not understand why anyone would want to punish people who were brought here as children. They committed no crime. They should all be allowed to become citizens immediately. I also think this whole immigration thing is terribly racist. There are lots of undocumented Caucasian immigrants, but no one ever mentions them.

Bruce said...

Republicans have a short memory it seems. You people need to read this.... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128303672
Readers Digest version. " In 1986, Ronald Reagan signed a sweeping immigration reform bill into law. It was sold as a crackdown: There would be tighter security at the Mexican border, and employers would face strict penalties for hiring undocumented workers.

But the bill also made any immigrant who'd entered the country before 1982 eligible for amnesty."