Saturday, July 29, 2023

Look at What's Happening Around Us

Now this is an example of real "rock and roll" music...

Taylor Swift fans earth-shaking dancing caused a seismic activity equivalent of a 2.3 magnitude in Seattle last week.

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Speaking of earthquakes, here's a list of them that have happened in the USA in the last 24 hours.

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Back to entertainment for a moment. Something is happening in Nashville where country music appears to be at a crossroad. For example, here's two of its most viral songs and why they reflect a change brewing in the industry.

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Check your lottery tickets today. The current prize has reached $1.05 billion - the 4th largest prize in Mega Millions history.

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Under the not so good news, this summer saw the first locally acquired cases in Colorado of another illness linked to mosquitoes and malaria. 

It's the dreaded West Nile virus and the CDC warned that a combination of an unusually wet season from rainfall and melting snowpacks and intense heat waves this year has increased the mosquito population.

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More medical danger.

Florida is making the news because rising evidence points to the possibility that leprosy has become endemic in the southeastern U.S. with Florida being named among the top reported states with 20% of the national cases.

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Americans are having a tough time getting passports because the State Department is overwhelmed with requests. 

Summer travelers want to know what the hell is going on. Personally, this doesn't seem like the best year to visit Europe and other oversea locations with the planet suffering from the highest temperatures on record.

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With all the talk about UFOs this year you may have noticed they are now referred to as UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena). Here's why the change.

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Just when you thought your truck was safe Ford has recalled 870,000 F-150 trucks (2021 to 2023 models) because of potential parking brake malfunction.

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Are you wondering why the Marine Corps is not having trouble recruiting young men and women, like the Army, Navy, and Airforce. Wonder no more. Here's the explanation.

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Those poor hard-working lawmakers in Congress have gone on their annual all-paid for by taxpayers 6-week vacation. As usual they accomplished very little, especially with their lack of movement on appropriations bills.

Recommended reading: "US Congress is a cozy club of multimillionaire boomer lawmakers hoarding power.

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I'll leave you with another Florida story... A Florida woman was arrested after biting ear off another woman during a fight over vape pens and alcohol.

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As it stands, what a wonderfully chaotic society we live in.

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