Don’t feed your dog raw meat, study says

Raw meat, touted by some as an easily-digestible, nutrient-filled superfood for domestic dogs and cats, may put not only your pet at risk, but your own health too, researchers warned Friday. A survey of frozen, raw meat products sold at pet stores and supermarkets in the Netherlands, where more than half of dog owners buy such…

Dangerous recall of Ford vehicles could affect millions more

The massive 153,000 vehicle Ford recall from 2016 is continuing to plague the auto-manufacturer, this time at a potentially much larger scale. Federal authorities are investigating whether the 2016 recall should be expanded to include an additional 1.4 million vehicles after reports continued to flow in reporting the automatic transmissions on many of Ford’s cars and…

New Jersey Town to Ticket Non-Residents for Using Roads?

A small borough in New Jersey has decided to push back against the phenomenon of traffic created by navigation apps such as Waze and Google Maps. According to The New York Times, police in the New Jersey borough of Leonia will, starting in January, be penalizing nonresidents who use 60 local streets during rush hours, in…

Oprah Winfrey Called for the Death of a Whole Generation in 2013

There are still generations of people, older people…..and they just have to die.  – Oprah Winfrey

HOLLYWOOD-In a 2013 interview about racism, daytime television diva Oprah Winfrey who the left is now calling the future President of the United States said there’s an entire generation of people who were born and bred in the south that “Just have to die”.

Even the online liberal media “fact checker” Snopes admits she said it, but of course, she didn’t quite say it that way.

“Of course the problem is not solved. As long as people can be judged by the color of their skin, the problem’s not solved. As long as there are people who still…” the television talk show host said.  “And there’s a whole generation — I said this for apartheid South Africa, I said this for my own community in the South — there are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die.”

Apologetic Snopes said Winfrey’s comments were not racist, nor was her demand for the death of generations intended JUST for white people.

“However contentious and impolitic it may have been for Winfrey to claim that older generations steeped in prejudice will have to die before the problem of racism can be solved, the objection that it was racist of her to say so is absurd,” Snopes concluded.

Really?

“It’s valid, given the context, to infer that the majority of the people Winfrey was talking about are white, but invalid to infer that her remarks targeted all older white people, or only older white people,” Snopes continued to drivel.

This is where the media, if she was a white, male, Republican would denounce Winfrey as the next Adolf Hitler, but they won’t.

 

Saying goodbye to Julian Hoffman, good-humored founder, leader of Jewish organizations

Julian Hoffman, a leader in the Jewish community for decades, was remembered as a mensch and unafraid to stand up for the causes he believed in. Julian Hoffman is remembered as a “generous spirit,” unafraid of standing up for his convictions. He spent decades as a leader of Jewish and communal causes, including as founding president…

Scientist explains why we get ‘gut feelings’

Professor Digby Tatum of the University of Sheffield claims that our brains have the biological equivalent of a Wi-Fi, allowing other, nearby people to pick up micro-signals, gathering more information about our personality and what we’re communicating. Our brain avoids eye contact because it gets overwhelmed by stimuli. Image via Wikipedia. The interbrain We’ve known for…

Outgoing Gov. Christie to NJ: You’ll Miss Me!

The first time I asked Gov. Chris Christie a question we were 2,000 miles from New Jersey. I was a year into my first newspaper job in southeast New Mexico. Christie, just eight months into his first term, was there to stump for Susana Martinez’s campaign for governor. Noting the candidate’s law-and-order record, Christie played up…

Some people can really tell if you look sick, new study reports

How good are you at telling if someone’s sick? A new study finds that at least some people are quite good at identifying facial cues. Composite, overlaid images of the 16 individuals, sick (left) and healthy (right). Image credits: Audrey Henderson/St Andrews University. Detecting and avoiding sick people is a vital aspect of limiting exposure to…

Can eating mostly fat help you lose weight?

On paper, the ketogenic diet sounds great. Every January, fat’s in the crosshairs of health columnists, fitness magazines, and desperate Americans. This year, PopSci looks at the macronutrient beyond its most negative associations. What’s fat good for? How do we get it to go where we want it to? Where does it wander when it’s lost?…

N.J. woman wins $5M with accidental scratch-off lottery ticket purchase

A New Jersey woman won $5 million with a scratch-off lottery ticket she purchased accidentally in New York City and didn’t even bother checking for two weeks. Oksana Zaharov, 46, of Edgewater, told New York Lottery officials she meant to buy $1 scratch-off ticket but was mistakenly issued a $10 Set for Life ticket by the…

WARNING: Chocolate May Go Extinct In Next 40 Years?

Chocolate could reportedly vanish as early as 2050. This revelation has led scientists from the University of California at Berkeley to work with Virginia-based manufacturer Mars, Incorporated to save the cacao plant from disappearing. Warmer temperatures and drier weather conditions are expected to be the root of the cacao plants’ potential disappearance, according to Business Insider.…

Another death in Lakewood, in an accident that kills pedestrian

A pedestrian was struck and killed by a vehicle on Christmas Day in Lakewood, reported police, who were continuing to investigate the incident. The person was struck near the intersection of Cedarbridge Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive around 7:30 p.m., according to Lakewood Police Lt. Gregory Staffordsmith. Police did not identify the victim. Authorities were…

Fireball Shooting Across The Sky Captured By Dashcam

Typically, police dash cams are used to gather evidence during traffic stops. However, a New Jersey police officer accidentally captured something quite spectacular on his: a fireball blazing across the sky. Sgt. Michael Virga was on patrol when the camera recorded the bright meteor, at 3:09 am on December 2, according to a statement on Facebook…

Woman saves 3 boys, dog from house fire, police say

Authorities on Saturday hailed a car dealership employee as a hero after she saw smoke coming from a Toms River home and rushed inside to save three boys and the family dog from a fire. Suzanne G. Reynolds, of Matawan, was working at Pine Belt Cadillac on Route 37, when she saw smoke coming from the…

Police close Route 9 in Howell after pedestrian fatally struck

Howell police said a northbound section of Route 9 in the township was closed for an accident investigation Sunday night after a pedestrian was fatally struck between the Lakewood border and Alexander Avenue. In statements posted to social media late Sunday evening, police asked drivers to find an alternate route during the closure but did not…

Facebook to launch chat app for kids, with parental controls

Facebook on Monday unveiled a version of its Messenger application for children, aimed at enabling kids under 12 to connect with others under parental supervision. Messenger Kids is being rolled out for Apple iOS mobile devices in the United States on a test basis as a standalone video chat and messaging app. Product manager Loren Cheng…