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Culture

Canada sounds like a foreign country.

And it sounds so bleak.

Lying in bed this morning, I turned on the radio and got Canadian NPR instead of the regular kind.  Here is what’s in the news up North.

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Culture Music

Super Bowl Halftime Announcement

The Super Bowl Halftime performer is “Bad Bunny”.  I don’t know what that is.

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Culture Government

Pete Hegseth pushes around the big brass.

New details emerge on Hegseth’s unusual mass gathering of top brass

New details emerge on Hegseth’s unusual mass gathering of top brass

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered all military top brass to show up for a meeting at Quantico, Virginia, on Tuesday.  The generals and admirals aren’t used to traveling on short notice for a reason they don’t understand.  They don’t mind issuing orders like that to the people under their command, but probably don’t like taking orders.

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Food Health Science

Science says that chocolate is good for you.

Effect of cocoa flavanol supplementation for the prevention of cardiovascular disease events,

I’ve been buying this nutritional supplement from Aldi for years.

Cocoa extract supplementation did not significantly reduce total cardiovascular events among older adults but reduced CVD death by 27%.

Finally, nutritional science has some good news.  The study looks legit.

The study was conducted by Brigham and Women’s Hospital.  There were 12,666 women over 65 years old, and 8776 men over 60 years old in a double-blind, placebo controlled study.  A 27% reduction in death by cardiovascular disease is substantial.

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Music

TBDBITL has been playing Hang On Sloopy for 60 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD0kMYmCjVI

I don’t follow football, but Sparky wanted to watch the Buckeyes play the Huskies today.  The game wasn’t what he expected, so he lost interest.  We stuck with it through the half-time show.

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Education Government

Is this Heaven? No, it’s tragic immigration fraud.

Iowa school superintendent arrested by ICE, facing prior weapons charges, allegedly found with loaded handgun

How did the school district in the capital of Iowa acquire an illegal alien from Guyana as their superintendent?

Jackie Norris is the chair of the Des Moines School Board.  Norris used to be the White House Chief of Staff for First Lady Michelle Obama.

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Sparky

Sparky and I are friends again.

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Movies

Back when transsexuals were fun,

and not obese, degenerate sex clowns reading to children at the library.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is 50 years old, and I’m not sure how to feel about that.

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Government

How would you know if the government shut down?

Democrats dig in on health care demands with government shutdown days away

Does anyone care if the government shuts down?  This should be another issue that brings us all together.

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TV Shows

Nobody cares about Alyssa’s decision.

Alyssa Milano removes her breast implants: ‘Letting go of the body that was sexualized and abused’

This is dumb, but her sanctimony is so irritating.  Alyssa Milano got a boob job and it paid off when she starred on Charmed for eight years.  The show was about witches, romance and female empowerment featuring three sisters with ample charms that were generously displayed.  It had something for everyone.