DID YOU KNOW?

On March 29th, 130 years ago, John Pemberton of Atlanta brewed the first batch of Coca-Cola. The drink was the culmination of 20 years of research he had done in order to kick the addiction to morphine which he had acquired after being wounded in the Civil War. Its medicinal value was miniscule, and Pemberton tragically sold the rights to his invention to his business partners before dying in poverty two years later, still an addict.

Taken from the Washington Examiner's morning newsletter last week.

AVIATION: NASA says it will build a quieter supersonic passenger jet.

THE FIRST RULE of the GOP convention is that there are no rules. But if the 'no Trump ever' faction of the Republican establishment handpicks a nominee, it will mean the end of the Republican party.

Not that that is necessarily a bad thing.

NEW YORK TIMES: Don't Privatize Air Traffic Control. Here's the nut graf:

The bill could also disrupt the F.A.A.’s work to increase the nation’s flight capacity and reduce delays.... But the agency has taken longer and spent more than it expected. Mr. Shuster and his colleagues have pointed to this as a rationale for privatization, but they conveniently ignore the problems private companies often have with such large technical projects.

Hmm. I seem to recall a recent 'large technical project' the federal government took on -- called ObamaCare. How'd that work out?

TECHNOLOGY: Metallic mesh becomes invisible to antenna signals. It's not an 'invisibility cloak' -- yet.

JUST THINK, I was granted a PhD for learning this (among other things). Be sure to read the comments; they're hilarious.

PIERS MORGAN: Listen to Trump. They must not have Kool-Aid in Britain...

OBAMACARE UPDATE: Fewer insurers, higher costs. Anyone surprised?

FLINT, MICHIGAN: Democrat candidates flail Republican Governor for crisis of Democrats' own making.

Their hypocrisy has no limits.

HEH: Twitter taught Microsoft’s AI chatbot to be a racist asshole in less than a day.

Virtue signalling....

SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP: One college president has advice for our 'special snowflakes (with emphasis on 'flakes'.

SPACE TAKES OFF: Venture capital groups invested $1.8 billion in commercial space startups in 2015, more than in the last 15 years combined.

Finally.

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT POLITICS:

If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. --Jay Leno

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. --Henry Cate, VII

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. --Aesop

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these State of the Union speeches, there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven. --Will Rogers

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. Nikita Khrushchev

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. --Clarence Darrow

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. --John Quinton

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. --Author unknown

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. --Oscar Ameringer

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. --Adlai Stevenson, 1952

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. --Tex Guinan

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. --Charles de Gaulle

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. --Doug Larson

There ought to be one day--just one--when there is open season on Congressmen.
--Will Rogers

From my email.

SHOCKING NEWS: The more cannabis you smoke, the more likely you are to be a loser.

Clearly explains Democrats....

THE CHALKENING:



Obviously the government needs to institute 'assault chalk' control.

Seen first at Instapundit. Thanks!

DON'T LET anyone tell you Hillary Clinton accomplished nothing while in the Senate. In my book, 'accomplishing nothing' is laudatory given the mess(es) our Congress has gotten us into.

CONDEMMED for calling a spade a goddamned shovel spade. The video is here.

YES. NEXT QUESTION. Do self-driving cars have a dirty future?

AL SHARPTON might 'get out of here' if Trump wins. Why is it that all those liberals threatening to leave if [...whatever...] always threaten to go to Canada and never Mexico? Could it be that there is a border with Mexico, and not one with Canada?

CAN'T WE ALL GET ALONG? In a Republican debate, Kasich calls for 'more tolerance for one another'. It sounded good as a debate talking point, but it's just another case of liberal bullies punishing the innocent for the sins of the guilty.

We can no longer tolerate bullies; we must fight back.