Friday, May 27, 2022

News You May Have Missed

 It's time again for News you May Have Missed. In today's round up you'll read about water issues,  Ancient Amazon settlements, The My Pillow Guy slammed,  Gun Control refusals by the GOP,  390-million-year-old fish-like fossil with limbs, Ellen Degeneres, Scotland and Gay Marriage, and Mr. T admitting his support to "Hang Mike Pence." It's all here and more today. 


CALIFORNIANS COULD SEE MANDATORY WATER CUTS DUE TO EXTREME DROUGHT 

California Gov. Gavin Newsom threatened to impose mandatory water restrictions if residents don’t use less on their own as a drought drags on and the hotter summer months approach


ANOTHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MASSACRE NOT ENOUGH FOR GOP TO RECONSIDER GUN CONTROL 

The second-deadliest mass shooting at an elementary school wasn’t enough to shock GOP lawmakers into dropping their objections to gun control. “We’ve had guns forever and we’re gonna continue to have guns,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) told reporters. The Senate likely won’t immediately take up gun legislation, said Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and the scheduled two-week recess will go ahead. Meanwhile, gun-friendly Republicans, including Donald Trump, Gov. Greg Abbott and Sen. Ted Cruz, are sticking with plans to speak at an NRA convention in Houston Friday. 

Finally!  Church of Scotland to allow same-sex marriages!  - The Church of Scotland has voted to allow clergy to conduct same-sex marriages for the first time. 

HAHAHHAHAHAHAA-MyPillow CEO Sanctioned For Claims In Voting Machines Case

A D.C. federal judge has sanctioned MyPillow founder Mike Lindell and dismissed his claims against Dominion and Smartmatic, the voting technology companies who are suing Lindell for defamation after he said on television that they had contributed to election fraud.


> Josh Duggar, star of TLC's reality show "19 Kids and Counting," sentenced to 12.5 years in prison on child pornography charges (More)

> "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" final episode aired yesterdayafter 19 seasons and more than 3,200 episodes  

Aerial laser mapping reveals the remains of pre-Hispanic settlements in the Amazon basin; evidence resolves debate over whether the region could support ancient large-scale communities (More)

> High-resolution X-ray scans suggest a 390-million-year-old fish-like fossil was one of the earliest ancestors of four-limbed animals; specimen was discovered in 1890 but could not be placed in the evolutionary tree

 

> Study links type 2 diabetes with accelerated brain aging; patients with progressive forms of the disease saw a 26% quicker decline on average 


TRUMP EXPRESSED SUPPORT FOR JAN. 6 'HANG MIKE PENCE' CHANT Trump expressed approval of rioters chanting “hang Mike Pence,” witnesses told the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Trump has said that his vice president, as president of the Senate, should have refused to certify the electoral votes. 

Texas Judges, Not Agency, Can Decide Surface Water Fights

The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday that disagreements over who owns surface water rights fall under the purview of the state's judicial branch, reversing two lower court rulings that held that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality should handle such disputes.


Idiots-  THE MOST EXTREME ABORTION BAN IN THE COUNTRY WAS JUST SIGNED INTO LAW Oklahoma is now the state with the most restrictive abortion legislation in the country, after Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) signed a total abortion ban, effectively outlawing the procedure at fertilization


Southern Baptist Convention vilified sex abuse survivors - report - Leaders of the world's largest Baptist denomination covered up sex abuse by clergy for years and vilified survivors, an internal report says. The seven-month investigation found that survivors had come forward over two decades about abusers within the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).  But their pleas for intervention were met with "resistance, stonewalling, and even outright hostility" by officials.


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Trump Pays $110K To NY AG For Not Complying In Biz Probe

Former President Donald Trump has paid a $110,000 fine for his failure to comply with the New York attorney general's probe into his business practices and filed affidavits ahead of a Friday deadline to keep a court's contempt order lifted.


Doesn't he have enough money? - RAPPER LIL MEECH STOLE LUXURIOUS RICHARD MILLE WATCHES, COPS SAY. HE’S NOW CHARGED IN MIAMI -  Lil Meech, an actor and rapper who gained fame under the tutelage of Hip Hop megastar 50 Cent, was arrested last weekend for his part in a convoluted scheme to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of watches, police said.


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