June 8, 2019

One of the last remaining large advertisers on Laura Ingram's Fox News show, Bayer, has pulled their

https://twitter.com/Stop_Trump20/status/1137103914514432000

One of the last remaining large advertisers on Laura Ingram’s Fox News show, Bayer, has pulled their ads hour after her interview with Trump.

June 8, 2019

An autistic boy had a meltdown at a theme park, and an employee's simple, soothing act of solidarity

An autistic boy had a meltdown at a theme park, and an employee’s simple, soothing act of solidarity went viral




https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2019/06/07/theme-park-employee-lay-down-ground-next-an-autistic-boy-having-meltdown-her-act-solidarity-went-viral/?utm_term=.6e2c74fdd783

Lenore Koppelman had a professional conference to attend in Florida last week and decided it would be a perfect opportunity to visit Universal Orlando Resort with her husband and 9-year-old son, Ralph.


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“He was SO patient for SO long. As patient as he possibly could be,” Koppelman wrote. “He would say, ‘Okay’ and sigh, and then enjoy the next ride. But all the while, the excitement was building up to the pinnacle of his day: The Spider-Man ride.”

As the family approached the Spider-Man ride in the late afternoon and was about to get on, an employee announced that the ride was malfunctioning and would be closed. Koppelman, 44, and her husband Steve, 49 — who had gotten the family free tickets because he works as a computer technician for NBC in New York — knew Ralph was going to become overwhelmed and lose control of his emotions.

“My husband and I know the signs. We could see it coming, like an oncoming train. And yet we couldn’t dodge out of the way. There was nowhere else to go,” she wrote. “The autistic meltdown was GOING to HAPPEN. And happen it DID.”


Ralph collapsed to the floor while people were trying to leave the Spider-Man ride, “sobbing, screaming, rocking, hyperventilating, and truly struggling to breathe,” Koppelman wrote.

But as Koppelman was trying to get Ralph up from the ground to protect him, something unexpected happened.

A ride attendant who had been working the Spider-Man ride rushed up and told Koppelman it was all right for Ralph to stay where he was.

“She got down on the floor WITH HIM,” Koppelman wrote. “She rested next to him while he cried his heart out, and she helped him breathe again. She spoke to him so calmly, and while he screamed and sobbed, she gently kept encouraging him to let it all out.”

The ride attendant, Jennifer Whelchel — known by her colleagues as “Mama Jen” — told people who were stopping during his meltdown to please move along, and she also asked strangers not to take pictures.

June 7, 2019

Bear gets trapped in SUV in Tahoe area

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One unlucky driver will be looking for a new ride after a trapped bear thrashed the inside of their Honda SUV in the Tahoe area.

A bear got trapped in the SUV recently, tore up much of the interior, relieved itself and spit all over the vehicle.



The bear was eventually freed by a Placer County sheriff's deputy.

"Here’s the latest example of why you MUST lock your cars and windows AT ALL TIMES," the Placer County Sheriff's Office said. "This car is a total loss because the owner left the door unlocked — please be BEAR AWARE!"

https://www.kcra.com/article/movies-weekend-of-june-7-2019/27787710

June 7, 2019

Jobs creation slows dramatically with payrolls up just 75,000 in May, much worse than expected

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/07/nonfarm-payrolls-unemployment-rate-may-2019.html

Nonfarm payrolls for May increased up by just 75,000, the Labor Department says.

Economists surveyed by Dow Jones expected a gain of 180,000.

March’s job count was revised lower from 189,000 to 153,000 and the April number was lowered to 224,000 from 263,000, for a total reduction of 75,000.

The unemployment rate remained at a 50-year low of 3.6%.

Average hourly earnings year over year in May were up 3.1%, one-tenth of a point lower than expectations.

June 7, 2019

special ed teacher gives autistic 11 year old "most annoying male" award

https://twitter.com/InactionNever/status/1136751321997074434

https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/rex-huppke/ct-met-autism-student-award-most-annoying-gary-huppke-20190605-story.html

Boy with autism cruelly given 'most annoying male' trophy. Here's a proper award.

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We have enough bad things happening in the world, so let’s take one of them and turn it into a good thing.

Akalis Castejon, an 11-year-old with autism, is a fifth grader at Bailly Preparatory Academy in Gary. He became part of a national news story this week after a special education teacher at a school award ceremony gave him a trophy labeled “MOST ANNOYING MALE.”

That is, objectively, horrible. And the Gary Community School Corp. seems to have responded appropriately by swiftly apologizing to the family and promising disciplinary action against the teacher.

I don’t know what that teacher was thinking, nor do I care.

What I care about is Akalis. So I spoke with the boy’s father, Rick Castejon, and learned a little more about the 11-year-old.

Castejon, a motorcycle mechanic, said Akalis is mechanically inclined and regularly watches him working on bikes, always the eager assistant. His son loves four-wheelers and go-karts, and has proven himself a skilled rider of both.

Akalis collects and plays with Thomas the Tank Engine toy trains and enjoys making videos of his trains and posting them on YouTube.

He craves chicken nuggets. And ice cream sandwiches.

His favorite movie is the 2005 computer-animated Disney film “Chicken Little.”

Akalis is nonverbal and can get upset when he has to perform certain tasks or when he has difficulty communicating. But Castejon is proud of the progress his son has made both in school and at home.

“He’s just a kid and he wants to have a good time,” Castejon said. “He just wants to be treated like everybody else.”

Akalis didn’t understand that the award he was given was a cruel joke. He was excited to get a trophy, like the other kids at the ceremony.

“I’m kind of glad that he didn’t understand,” Castejon said.

June 7, 2019

there's something deeply disturbing about Trump claiming that he saw thousands of people celebrating

there's something deeply disturbing about Pres Trump claiming that he saw thousands of people here who were celebrating him and welcoming his arrival...There weren't thousands of people out there greeting him. There were several thousands protesters.

https://twitter.com/mitchellreports/status/1135941583914840065

June 7, 2019

Kid embarrasses woman with her feet in his face

https://nypost.com/video/thats-stinky-hilarious-tot-tells-off-woman-baring-her-feet-on-plane/

June 6, 2019

Really sad... Mexico police react to USA Tariff threat - sad to watch

June 6, 2019

CALIFORNIA LADYBUG SWARM WAS SO BIG IT SHOWED UP ON RADAR AS 80-MILE-LONG 'BLOOM'

https://twitter.com/NWSSanDiego/status/1136115889516867586

swarm of ladybugs in California was so big it showed up on a weather service radar map as an 80-mile-wide mass, according to officials.

The San Diego branch of the National Weather Service tweeted that a large "echo" which appeared on the SoCal radar wasn't rain, but in fact "a cloud of lady bugs."

This phenomena is known as a "bloom," according to the National Weather Service San Diego.


National Weather Service meteorologist Miguel Miller meanwhile told local radio station KNX the bloom appeared on screens as 80 miles long and wide. It was traveling from the San Gabriel Mountains to San Diego.


The blob was pictured moving from the city of Barstow in San Bernadino County 80 miles south to Riverside, a city near Los Angeles. It covered an area of more than 1,000 square miles in total, according to the Palm Springs Desert Sun.

Mark Moede, a meteorologist for the weather service, told the Palm Springs Desert Sun a weather spotter in Wrightwood in the San Bernardino mountains reported a higher than usual population of ladybugs. The weather service then linked the mass to this sighting.

Moede said: "He said there were ladybugs everywhere."

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However, one expert was skeptical that a loveliness (the collective noun for the insects) of ladybugs could show up so strongly on a radar map.

James Cornett, senior scientist at James W. Cornett Ecological Consultants, told the Palm Springs Desert Sun that the number of bugs needed to create such movement on equipment would have turned skies dark.

https://www.newsweek.com/california-ladybug-swarm-1442497

June 6, 2019

Trump is really unpopular in the most important 2020 battleground states

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/5/18653800/trump-approval-rating-by-state-2020-election-odds

Trump is really unpopular in the most important 2020 battleground states
Trump is deep underwater in New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Michigan, and other key 2020 states.

As he seeks a second term in the 2020 election, President Trump should be able to lean on his advantage in the Electoral College — in 2016, as you might remember, he lost the national popular vote but won enough states (and the right states) to secure 270 electors and take the presidency.

But new polling of his state-by-state approval ratings suggests the president is unpopular in some of the most important battleground states for 2020, an ill omen if the trends hold until Election Day 2020.

Trump has been unpopular since his first day in office. The question now is whether he’s so unpopular that it overrides his advantage as an incumbent and a pretty strong US economy. The new state polls from Morning Consult don’t bode well for him.

Here are the raw numbers for Trump in the states that are expected to be competitive in the 2020 election:

New Hampshire: 39 percent approval, 58 percent disapproval
Wisconsin: 42 percent approval, 55 percent disapproval
Michigan: 42 percent approval, 54 percent disapproval
Iowa: 42 percent approval, 54 percent disapproval
Arizona: 45 percent approval, 51 percent disapproval
Pennsylvania 45 percent approval, 52 percent disapproval
Ohio: 46 percent approval, 50 percent disapproval
North Carolina: 46 percent approval, 50 percent disapproval
Florida: 48 percent approval, 48 percent disapproval
Indiana: 49 percent approval, 46 percent disapproval
It’s a grim picture. Wisconsin and Michigan were critical Midwestern pieces of Trump’s Electoral College puzzle and he is now deeply unpopular in both states. Pennsylvania was maybe his most surprising win in 2016, and now he is seven points underwater. Perhaps Trump can take solace in his even job approval rating in Florida, but that is the only swing state where the president looks as strong as he did on Election Day 2016. Everywhere else, his support has deteriorated.