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Paris Is Banning Cars From Its Centre, But Do Cites Need Cars Anyway?

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The city of Paris is renowned for being one of the cultural and historic hotspots of Western Europe, a place that’s considered in the minds of many as being the ideal town. Every year the city of Paris welcomes approximately 15 million visitors to its streets and it’s still the world’s top tourist destination. Yet one thing in particular has cast a particularly dirty, smoky pallor over France’s grand capital – namely the chaotic flood of traffic that drives through the city every day.

Last year, a dense smog settled over the “city of light”, in what experts have deemed the worst air pollution  in the region in over a decade. Airparif, an organisation which monitors air quality in the French capital, announced that air levels have now reached the alert threshold. However, in what her critics are calling a drastic reaction, the mayor of Paris Anne Hildalgo has announced a plan to pedestrianise the city centre; banning the majority of private cars and motorcycles from those central spaces without permission in order to “reconquer the public space” for pedestrians and cyclists. Paris’ traffic authorities have already tried a number of schemes in order to discourage needless car usage within the city limits. The RATP Group (Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens) has already introduced measures like making all public transport free on days when smog is particularly bad and banning vehicles built before 1997, which affected around 10% of cars on the road. But it seems that this isn’t enough, and Hildalgo is adamant that the pedestrianisation of the centre isn’t just important, it’s a necessity, stating “The idea is to go step by step towards the pedestrianisation of the city centre. It will remain open to vehicles belonging to local residents, the police, emergency services and for deliveries, but not to all comers.” “We say clearly that our aim is the significant reduction in car traffic, as all the world’s large cities are doing. We must constantly remind people: the fewer cars there are, the less pollution there is.” This move has angered certain residents and Hildalgo’s right-wing opponents. But is this backlash justified? Although many see the move as a restriction of civil liberties, there are others who support it wholeheartedly. Weighing the benefits of the policy against the disadvantages, the question remains: do we really need cars? Now this might sound absurd. “Of course we need cars,” I hear you reply, “look at the amount of roads and highways. Think of the factories that will close and the infrastructure around them. The money made by mechanics. We can’t throw it all away.” But would you feel the same way if everyone owned a private jet? They’d be just as unnecessary and the environmental cost would also be horrendous, but their ubiquity would make their usage appear equally justified. I’m not proposing we do away with cars entirely, but maybe we should restrict their usage. We tend to think of a car as an essential purchase, particularly (and not coincidently) in cultures where the automobile industry thrives. Cars are everywhere; they affect public transport, the price of fossil fuels, as well as the planning of modern urban development, and they’re revered by advertising as being the ultimate status symbol. The car is usually the second most expensive purchase a person will ever make, and the numerous costs of cars are almost too many and too varied to calculate … but we’ll try anyway. According to Forbes magazine the average price of a new car or light truck comes to around $30,000. According to consumer expenditures in 2006, released in February of 2008 by the U.S. Department of Labor’s U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average vehicle costs $8,003 per year to own and operate, and we spend around $2,227 on gasoline and $2,355 on repairs and maintenance – and that’s without factoring in payments made for the sake of parking. Since 2009 the annual revenue from U.S. car sales has surged 61% to a whopping $522 billion, according to analysis from TrueCar, a website that connects car buyers with dealers. We also need to consider the amount of time we spend in them and on them. In 2014 the American Driving Survey revealed that the Americans drove a total of 2.45 trillion miles each year, and that their driving habits were extremely inefficient. More than 86% of U.S. households have at least one car for every driver in the home and 28% report having more cars than drivers. So cars are expensive. Fine, we all knew that already. But there are more important things to consider than the personal cost. There’s a lot more at stake here, and even if, like me, you’re usually highly skeptical of conspiracy theories, it’s still difficult not to suspect that the automobile and oil industries are complicit in ensuring that the needs of cars and car users come first when it comes to urban transport. Hey, that’s the kind of clout that vast, multi-billion dollar corporations can command. If you’re not convinced by how much power these companies really wield then let me tell you about a little incident known as the General Motors streetcar conspiracy. Let’s travel back in time to the year 1938. Back then the motor car was not as pervasive as it is now, and only the affluent could afford them despite the mass production techniques developed by Henry Ford twenty five years earlier. In these days tram cars provided most city-dwellers with a cheap and convenient form of transportation. Rail was more comfortable and had less rolling resistance than street traffic on granite block or macadam and streetcars were, in most places, faster, more sanitary, and cheaper to run. Their environmental impact was far lower because they carried more passengers, and they were electric, instead of running on gasoline. Yet thanks to the great depression most American urban streetcar systems were aging, in dire need of repair and haemorrhaging money. It was the perfect time for the automobile industry to move in and buy out the competition. General Motors, Philips Petroleum and a number of other automobile manufacturers began purchasing controlling stakes in streetcar companies, ostensibly with the intention of running the streetcar service and providing the trains with some much-needed repairs. Instead the car companies began dismantling streetcars and replacing them with buses, as well as lowering the cost of motor cars and emphasising their importance to consumers. Only a handful of U.S. cities have surviving legacy rail urban transport systems based on streetcars, including Newark, Cleveland, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, and Boston; others are only now re-introducing them. All other cities in the U.S. have become designed around convenience to drivers and not pedestrians. The existence of American suburbs meant that people could live work in the city centre and drive home easily. In just a few short years the motor car went from a luxury to a necessity; just in time for president Franklin D. Roosevelt to commission the construction of America’s first interstate highways. Coincidence? Hardly.

So it’s fairly plausible that manufacturers have managed to pull the wool over our eyes and make us see cars as indispensable. But what are the alternatives? Is Hildalgo’s solution really a viable one, or is it a little unrealistic? Well it seems not. Paris has already closed a major thoroughfare for a period of six months last year. The Voie Georges-Pompidou expressway, normally one of the busiest highways which carries over 43,000 vehicles across the city from East-to-West and back again, was shut and pedestrianised over the summer, and caused almost no problems whatsoever. Rather than an apocalyptic vision of commuting hell, for the first time since 1967 when the highway was opened, the banks of the Seine were tranquil and serene.
But realistically, applying this same endeavour to an entire city centre is going to be much tougher, not least because other forms of public transport will have to be renovated and expanded in order to fill the vacuum left by the absence of cars. The Paris Métro is already the second busiest subway system in Europe after Moscow’s, carrying 1.541 billion passengers in 2012 at a rate of 4.210 million passengers a day. It is also already the densest, with 245 stations within the 86.9 km2 (34 square miles) of the city of Paris.
However, on the plus side, in 2016 it was ranked as the best public transport system in the world by the ITDP, with an incredible 100% of people in the city of Paris having an easy access to rapid transportation, ahead of 26 other international cities (including London, New York City and Tokyo). Furthermore, there are approximately 4,000 RATP buses serving the Paris region, and in 2014 983 million journeys were made on RATP bus lines, including 330.7 million journeys on Paris lines and 652.3 million journeys on suburbs lines, and furthermore the Transilien electric tram lines connect Paris’ main stations to the suburbs not reached by the bigger railways.
Our planet is approaching a critical point, a time in which our impact on the environment is almost irreversible, and it is only now, forewarned by experts and rational in face of potentially catastrophic climate change, that we can make the choices that will determine what kind of world we give to the next generation. Sure, a car ban sounds like small potatoes – the kind of officious red-tape that usually just frustrates us. But real change comes in small steps over many years, and maybe if we give the concept a chance, see whether or not things improve, we can change the way cities operate for the better and lower our carbon footprint at the same time.

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Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s Stuntman Is His Lookalike Cousin And No One Can Tell Them Apart

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Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is everybody’s favorite professional wrestler turned actor. While his most recent project was voicing a character in Disney’s instant classic, Moana, he’s usually associated with action-packed blockbusters like The Fast and The Furious and The Scorpion King.

Now, it’s emerged that he’s got a lookalike stunt double who’s an extremely close relation! Johnson’s wrestling career came in handy when filming all those action movies. In fact, it was his impressive physique that led to landing his first acting gig in The Mummy Returns back in 2001. While he may have only been on screen for 15 minutes in that movie as Mathayus, it led to his first big role in The Scorpion King the following year. Johnson was paid $5.5 million for the part, which is a record for an actor in his first starring role. Johnson’s movies are usually action packed with explosions, high-speed car chases, and incredible stunts, which means he often requires a stunt double. However, Johnson has been using the same stunt double for his entire career, and it’s someone he’s known his entire life. Johnson’s stunt double is his cousin, Tanoai Reed, and they look almost exactly alike! The Hawaii-born, 6’2″ Reed is just two years younger than 45-year-old Johnson and both share the same incredibly muscular physique. In fact, the two men look so similar that they pull the same expressions while working out… They often take photos together on set and it can be very difficult to tell the pair apart. They even pose the same way or have similar facial expressions in many of their pictures. Reed and Johnson are pictured below working out, and it’s almost impossible to tell them apart! Reed has been working as a stuntman for over 20 years. He has previously been a professional American football player but got his Hollywood debut as a stuntman in 1995 in the science fiction movie Waterworld alongside Kevin Coster. He also worked on the TV series Baywatch Nights the same year, which is interesting considering Johnson just stared in the remake of Baywatch on the big screen. The similarities between Reed and Johnson becomes all the more striking when they are pictured together. Reed has been married to stuntwoman Suzanne Reed since 1999. She is known for her work on Iron Man 2 and Jurassic World, but the pair worked together on Johnson’s movie, The Scorpion King. Reed, however, said the job can take a toll on his health. “I’m jumping off buildings, I’m getting hit by cars, I’m crashing stuff,” he told Scout.com. “My body – I’m 43 years old but I feel like I’m 83 sometimes.” But he’s also said that working with a man he’s known his entire life makes things so much easier. That being said, Reed loves his job, and he has a blast working with his cousin on set every day. In May, Reed posted a birthday message to Johnson on his Instagram page. He expressed gratitude for working with the actor and called him his “brother from another mother”. “Thank you for being a great example not only to myself but to all of the Polynesian youth, as well as every youth, woman and grown ass man from all over the world,” Reed wrote. The cousins are clearly best bros, and while working on Jumanji recently, they added comedian Kevin Hart into their circle of friends. Johnson and Hart have been posting videos of each other from the set of the 90’s family classic remake. Check out the hilarious video below of Johnson pranking Hart below. You won’t be disappointed! Let’s just hope Reed hasn’t been left out of the action…

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To Californians, It Looked Like a UFO. To Elon Musk, Success

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SpaceX’s launch Friday evening of a rocket carrying a batch of satellites into low-earth orbit caps a record year for the closely held company led by Elon Musk.

The mission from California’s central coast was Space Exploration Technologies Corp.’s 18th this year. That’s more than any competitor and far exceeds the eight it launched in 2016 before a September explosion grounded the company for the rest of the year while an investigation took place.

“SpaceX has had a phenomenal year, and they’ve motivated and inspired a lot of people as to what is possible,” said Eric Stallmer, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, an industry group for the private space sector.

The coming year is expected to be even bigger. With three launch pads now at their disposal after repairing the one damaged in the September 2016 blast, Musk and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell have said they expect to fly roughly 30 missions in 2018. That tally will include several missions for commercial satellite operators, military customers and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration using the Falcon 9 rocket -- which powered all of this year’s launches -- but also a planned expansion to include a larger rocket and crewed missions.

Big Year

Next year “will be the biggest year in the space industry since 1969,” Stallmer said, referring to NASA’s Apollo 11 mission to the moon.

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The maiden flight of Falcon Heavy, SpaceX’s bigger and more powerful rocket that will let it compete for heavier U.S. military payloads, is slated for January. SpaceX is also expected next year to demonstrate the Crew Dragon spacecraft it plans to use to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station, first with an unmanned mission as soon as April and then with a crewed test flight in August. SpaceX and Boeing Co. both have contracts with NASA to deliver American astronauts to the orbiting lab as part of the “Commercial Crew” program.

“If you liked tonight’s launch, you will really like Falcon Heavy next month," Musk wrote on Twitter early Saturday. “3 rocket cores & 3X thrust."

SpaceX’s 2017 total fell just shy of the 20 to 24 missions it had been targeting for this year. Still, its rate exceeded that of any rivals competing for the same missions. Arianespace, based in France, has completed 11 launches in 2017. United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin Corp., launched eight government missions on its Atlas and Delta rockets.

“SpaceX is now dominant in terms of launch volume,” said Marco Caceres, a senior space analyst with Teal Group Corp., an aerospace and defense market researcher. “They’ve established that they can launch more than any other program in the world, and they’ve established reusability. If they do 30 launches next year, it will be spectacular, but the big story for 2018 is Falcon Heavy and Commercial Crew.”

Rapid Reusability

SpaceX has made strides this year working reusability into its launch process. By landing, refurbishing and redeploying rockets and capsules in future missions, Musk’s company has been able to more closely emulate commercial airline flights and begin to lower space-access costs.

Related: Musk’s SpaceX Doubles Down on Method for Cheaper Launches

“They are No. 1 in terms of cost, and that’s why they are getting so much business,” Caceres said.

Friday’s mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California -- which carried 10 satellites into orbit for customer Iridium Communications Inc. -- reused the rocket booster captured after an earlier Iridium launch in June. SpaceX didn’t attempt to land the rocket after Friday’s launch for reuse.

The launch at dusk created some spectacular imaging in the sky that had some California residents wondering on Twitter if they were seeing a UFO. Musk played along, tweeting that the jellyfish-like shape was a “nuclear alien UFO from North Korea.”

Musk, 46, founded Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX in 2002. It recently added another $100 million to its latest fundraising round, which values the company at more than $21 billion, according to Equidate. Billionaire Musk is also chief executive officer of electric-car maker Tesla Inc.

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    Trumps Numbers Near a Tipping Point

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    Public opinion can take off like a runaway train once it gets going. President Donald Trump, already polling lower than any of his predecessors in his first year, might soon be hearing the hoofbeats of history.

    At 32 percent in the most recent Pew and Monmouth polls, he is perilously close to what most historians and political scientists say is a tipping point of 30 percent, below which a president can no longer effectively lead.

    President Nixon was at 22 percent when he resigned in August of 1974 and Republican Party affiliation had dropped to 18 percent, recalls Reagan historian Craig Shirley.

    Going below 30 percent kept Truman from seeking another term and going below 30 percent eventually drove Nixon out of office, he says. In the modern era, beginning with FDR, presidents get into trouble when they fall below 30.

    Nixon won a landslide re-election in 1972 with 61 percent of the vote, but it was all downhill after that. For most of the next year, his polls lingered in the mid to high 30s, a downward trajectory that began even before the White House taping system was revealed in July of 1973, exposing his legal jeopardy.

    Prior to that, Watergate had taken a steep toll on his numbers, along with campus discord over the Vietnam War and an oil embargo that led to long gas linesall of which led to a general sense of America in decline, says Shirley.

    Trump, much earlier in a presidency predicated on his promise to make America great again, is facing his own challenges. The GOPs loss of a Senate seat in ruby red Alabama thanks to the sexual misconduct allegations against Republican Roy Moore has to make President Trump uneasy about the power of todays newly awakened movement. Over a hundred members of Congress are calling for an investigation into claims of sexual harassment brought by multiple women against Trump before he was president. While the lawmakers are all Democrats for now, public opinion doesnt always abide by party lines.

    The Monmouth University poll released Wednesday found Trumps biggest drop in approval was among Independent women. Just 24 percent of women overall approve of Trumps job performance.

    Public opinion is everything, says Shirley, pointing to how the anti-war movement finally forced the hand of government when the Democratic-controlled House cut off funds for the Vietnam War. The Environmental Protection Agency came about because of public-health concerns about our air and water. People were wearing surgical masks in California then like they do in China today.

    The public demanded it, says EPAs first director, William Ruckelshaus. Nixon wasnt an environmentalist. He told his domestic policy adviser, John Ehrlichman: Just keep me out of trouble on the environment. Do what you have to do. In private, he mocked tree-huggers. He did it for political reasons, Ruckelshaus told The Daily Beast.

    Thats the way the system is supposed to work. Hed never run on the environment, and he didnt know much about it. He realized he had to do something because the public demanded it.

    No president has been as unpopular so early in his first term, but what we dont know is if Trump can go a whole lot lower, says Jack Pitney, a professor of American politics at Claremont McKenna College. He boasts about his base being so loyal he can shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any support. A certain hard core is never going to leave him.

    How big that base is, whether its 20, 25, or 30 percent, we could soon find out if his numbers keep dropping. Nixons supporters abandoned him because they believed in reality, says Pitney, recalling how California Rep. Charles Wiggins, the ultimate Nixon loyalist who led Nixons defense in the Watergate hearings, withdrew his support after being summoned to the White House and hearing the smoking gun tape. The difference today is the hard core can cocoon itself in their own reality, says Pitney.

    Republican pollster John McLaughlin says Trump isnt as bad off as the polls suggest. He says the ones getting headlines deliberately under-sample Republicans and dont screen for likely voters. He does agree that Trump spent a lot of political capital in Alabama, and got nothing. A Republican should be ahead by 20 points in Alabama, he says. If youre behind in Alabamawhere Trumps approval rating is now below 50 percentyoure behind everywhere.

    Trump is having trouble because hes his own enemy. Hes looking for an opponent, McLaughlin told The Daily Beast, whether its [Sen. Kirsten] Gillibrand or Hillary [Clinton]. Hes looking for an antagonist to his protagonist. Hes running against himself, and they dont have the political operation to wage a campaign.

    McLaughlin has a history with Trump. When Trump was looking at running for president an election earlier, McLaughlin drew up a plan for him, but it wasnt the right time, and it wasnt the right race. Last year, after Trump lost the Wisconsin primary, he brought in McLaughlin, who counseled him to double down on Hillary Clintons corruption because a crook always beats a fool, and Clinton was trying to turn him into a fool, which he said is why she was going after his temperament.

    The advice was distilled from his time working with legendary pollster and master of negative campaigning, Arthur Finkelstein, who died earlier this year. In the Nixon-McGovern race of 1972, Finkelstein told McLaughlin, We made McGovern the fool, tagging him as the candidate of amnesty, abortion and acid.

    Trump heeded the advice to wake up every day and go after Clinton, and sometime in October they found enough voters who were ready to vote against Clintons corruption instead of against Trumps temperament.

    Today, the line of demarcation is on Capitol Hill. A legislative victory on taxes will buy Trump time, but politicians are fair-weather friends. Political capital is about popularity, and Trump has a negative balance.

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    Trump White House Signals It Will Abandon Obamacare Repeal

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    Amid celebration over a massive overhaul of the nations tax code, the White House strongly signaled on Wednesday that it was abandoning efforts to roll back what remains of Obamacare.

    The president was first to hint as much when he triumphantly declared that Obamacare had been effectively ended by virtue of the tax bills inclusion of a repeal of the healthcare laws individual mandate. The penalty for those individuals who dont purchase insurance is, indeed, important to Obamacares functionality. But Trumps claim ignored the massive chunks of the law that remain on the books, from the Medicaid expansion to the insurance subsidies, to the regulatory changes on the provider and insurer side.

    Nevertheless, the presidents remark sent a signal to others that the White House wasnt itching for a fight over those remaining Obamacare provisions. And, sure enough, later in the day, White House officials did little to dispute that reading.

    Taxes are our issue. Health care is theirs, a senior White House aide told The Daily Beast on Wednesday, noting that the parts of health care wed be going afterwere they to attempt another run at repealwere incredibly popular, or at least would prompt a significant enough backlash to make that effort counterproductive during an election year.

    Asked point blank whether the White House still plans to make another run at repeal in the coming year, a separate White House spokesman referred The Daily Beast to a transcript of a call senior administration officials held earlier in the day. In the portion highlighted, however, those senior officials said the president planned to support two pieces of Congressional legislation designed to shore up what remains of Obamacare. There was no mention of a repeal-and-replace strategy.

    The White Houses reticence to take another crack at Obamacare repeal marks a dramatic shift. Following the Senates failure to undo Obamas signature law, Trump has publicly called for revisiting repeal in 2018. Political realities always stood in the way. And theyve grown only more complicated following the surprise election of Doug Jones, an Alabama Democrat, to the U.S. Senate.

    And so, the president has chosen to emphasize the part of Obamacare he has undone, call it fatal, and hope that the Republican base is convinced. White House sources told The Daily Beast that Trump and his aides plan to play up the nuking of the individual mandate so that the GOP can go into 2018 touting a technical Affordable Care Act repeal to its voters and donor base.

    "At least now, there's something," one senior White House official said.

    The dropping of Obamacare repeal as a legislative priority comes as welcome news to some Republicans on the Hill who have little appetite, and even less bandwidth, to relive that battle themselves. Already, the congressional schedule is packed. Federal government funding is set to expire at midnight on Friday. And even if lawmakers avoid that fight, there are several other major legislative cliffs coming soon, including the expiring legal protections for undocumented children and the funding of childrens health care.

    After those crises are resolved, all indications are that other legislative priorities will take precedence over any renewed push on Obamacare. Speaker Paul Ryan, fresh over the biggest victory of his tenure atop the House of Representatives, has signaled his intention to reform entitlement and welfare programs, which will require all the political capital Republicans can muster. And on Wednesday, Gary Cohn, the head of Trumps National Economic Council, talked up a $1 trillion potential infrastructure package.

    The president has his own project list too and its not clear if its in line with Republicans or, even, his own advisers. One Senator who recently met with Trump said that that the president never mentioned infrastructure as a priority.

    But Trump has talked about other items. Among them is an urban revitalization plan that externally has been spearheaded by Darrell Scott, a Cleveland-area pastor who also served as an official on the Trump presidential transition team. Scott told The Daily Beast that he visited the president on Tuesday afternoon in the Oval Office to bring the president up to snuff on the 13-point plan. The pastor said they discussed private-public partnerships, crime and violence in Chicago (a favorite topic of both candidate and President Trumps), and affordable housing, health and wellness centers, and other components of their black people plan, as Scott has previously jokingly called it.

    Chicago and poverty in black and minority communities in the United States is a big job [thats] not going to be easy, Trump said in the Oval on Tuesday, according to Scott. It'll probably be harder than this tax bill was, Trump added.

    Amid those and other initiatives, the White House and its national Republican allies will also be consumed by efforts to sell the tax bill to a skeptical public in a midterm election year. Marc Lotter, Vice President Mike Pences former communications director, said he expected both Trump and Pence to leave D.C. in the weeks ahead for campaign-style events to sell the cuts. He also imagined the bill taking up a healthy portion of the major addresses that the president has in the near future.

    As soon as we get back from the holidays we will have the one year mark of the presidency and ten days later will be the State of the Union, Lotter told The Daily Beast. It is lining up well for him to make a big push.

    Additionally, the Republican National Committee is expected to put resources of its own behind a campaign to sell the tax cuts. The party plans to promote tax reform and hold Democrats accountable for opposing higher paychecks for the middle class, RNC spokesman Michael Ahrens told The Daily Beast on Wednesday. He declined to get into specifics about what form that effort might take, but an RNC official told The Daily Beast that it would include both a paid componenttraditional campaign-style communications such as ads and mailersand a field component, or on-the-ground operations such as phone-banking and door-to-door canvassing.

    Though Republican officials firmly believe that the poor polling around the tax cut package doesnt reflect its actual and eventually popularity, they also recognize that there is work to do to convince the public. Another crack at Obamacare repeal would almost assuredly complicate that.

    And yet, even as the White House was signalling its desire to simply move on, others werent ready to let go. A spokesman for House Freedom Caucus chairman Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), told The Daily Beast on Wednesday that they expect to make another run at repealing Obamacare in the new year.

    "The President is right, repealing the individual mandate is a major step--no one should be forced to buy a product they don't want, Ben Williamson, Meadows spokesman, said. At the same time, the evidence is overwhelming that Obamacare is a broken, irreparable system that needs to be repealed, and we're still committed to doing that.

    Williamson said it wasnt yet clear what form a renewed repeal effort would take, but other Republican legislators are already charting a path. Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) huddled with colleagues this week to discuss the reintroduction of their Obamacare repeal bill next year. As originally devised, the legislation would turn Obamacares health insurance subsidies into block grants and leave it to state governments to administer them.

    "I think we're all going to say that we ripped the heart out of Obamacare with the individual mandate," Graham predicted on Tuesday. "It's pretty hard to rip the heart out of it and not replace it."

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    Donald Trump retweets doctored pic with CNNs blood splattered on his shoe

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    Five months after President Donald Trump tweeted a doctored video of himself beating up CNN in WWE-style, his latest attack on the network was a little more subtle. But only a little.

    On Sunday morning, Trump retweeted this image in which he’s seated in a limo on his car phone with the word “WINNING” written across the top. But if you look closely at the bottom of his shoe, you’ll see the bloody insult.

    That’s a blood-spattered CNN logo. In case you need a closer look…

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    A few minutes later, Trump blasted what he calls “fake news” and “fake polls” (as Vox noted this week, he has the lowest-rated poll numbers of any first-year president in history).

    But is Trump spending the morning of Christmas Eve watching the network he professes to hate? It’s possible.

    It also appears Trump is not winning the battle when people are asked about who to trust more. In October, a poll showed that people were trusting the media more and trusting Trump less.

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    OK, how does The Simpsons do this?

    First, they accurately predicted Donald Trump becoming president 16 years early.

    Video: Sean Spicer Hangs Himself In The Simpsons' Version Of Trump's First 100 Days In Office

    Now, it turns out they were even EARLIER on Disney buy 20th Century Fox. That pic (above) is from an episode that aired on November 8, 1998!

    We know they share some writers with Futurama, but that is some crazy prescience!

    We guess Family Guy and The Simpsons DO have a lot in common

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    Did Democrats Just Fall Into Roger Stones Trap?

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    With the resignation of Sen. Al Franken, I asked women on Capitol Hill if he should pay a lesser price than the one that Harvey Weinstein, Charlie Rose, Mark Halperin, and Matt Lauer paid. Or does Franken, for all his boorish behavior, fall closer to George H.W. Bush, aka David Cop-a-Feel, than to those who summoned underlings to their lair under the guise of meeting about work but actually to expose and, in some cases, force themselves upon them? Would it be fairer to let this play out before the ethics committee, now on notice that their job isnt to let folks off the hook? Should the voters of Minnesota decide?

    The answer was no to all. In light of the horror show thats been going on for years, women were willing to banish Franken first and ask questions later. New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand spoke first: When you have to start having to talk about the differences between sexual assault and sexual harassment and unwanted groping, you are having the wrong conversation. We need to draw a line in the sand and say none of this is OK, none of this is acceptable.

    Gillibrand is right that none of it is OK but she is not right when she says we are having the wrong conversation if we attempt to make distinctions among bad actors. For now, Democrats think zero tolerance and swift punishment gives them the high ground. But they already have that. They should know by now there is no shaming Republicans who are so far below sea level its a miracle they can be heard from down there.

    They are supporting a president whom 16 women have credibly accused of serious sexual misconduct and is on tape celebrating his culpable behavior. Then theres the pedophile they have endorsed for a Senate seat in Alabama, complete with financial support, despite most Republicans, including Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, saying they believe Moores accusers. Where did those two Republicans get off joining Democrats in calling for Franken to resign?

    Some women are urging caution, a pause before rushing to judgmentnot full due process but at least not painting everyone with the same brush. Sheryl Sandberg is warning of a backlash. Already, more senators are adopting the Pence Rulenever be alone with a woman not your wife. Sen. John Thune, a Republican, wont take a meeting with a woman after 8 p.m.

    These are heady times with women at last being heard. New power is fragile. But mix the #MeToo movement and politics and you get a more complicated brew than you do with network anchors. Republicans are already calling out Democrats for ulterior motives.Democrats want to stop the congressional Black Caucus from claiming that John Conyers was dealt with more harshly than Al Franken.

    And they get to lord it over Republicans with no political cost. Sacrificing Franken didnt mean losing a seat given that a Democratic governor of Minnesota will appoint a caretaker to it, probably the female lieutenant governor. They dont see the glee of Republicans planning to take the seat away from them in a special election down the road.

    Thursday afternoon Franken was unapologetic, denied most of the seven accusations against him, and regretted he didnt get his day before the ethics committee. Forcing him out was a hard call for many. Franken is among the most popular memberssmart but not arrogant, smart but still hardworking (see his questioning of Attorney General Jeff Sessions), funny but aware that humor better watch its step in Washington.

    As bad as the inappropriate touching during photo ops and Wednesdays charge of a foiled attempt at a kiss at the end of Frankens radio show (which Franken denies), it didnt take place in the Senate and doesnt approach the case of Conyers, who pressured more than one aide for sex, paying one $27,000 out of office funds to keep quiet. Republican Rep. Blake Farenthold repeatedly pressured communications director Lauren Greene to have sex, and paid her $84,000 out of a secret U.S. Treasury fund authorized by Congress to make trouble go away. Farenthold still has his seat. Greene has never been able to work in this town again. She babysits for extra money.

    And there are questions about the charge that got the ball rolling. Why did Trump adviser Roger Stone know well ahead of time that Playboy model and radio host Leeann Tweeden would be going public with her charges that Franken kissed her against her will in rehearsals for an X-rated USO tour skit (they are all X-rated) and that she had a 2006 photo of Franken groping, or pretending to grope, her chest over a flak jacket as she slept? Stone sent a heads up to conservative website The Daily Caller about it hours before a story in The Washington Post.

    There is also value in finding out if any of Frankens accusers told someone in real time about the conduct, as victims usually do, and if they happened in the work setting or were a professional power play. The answers may not absolve Franken but there is an ethics committee in place where the questions could have been asked.

    Making distinctions can only strengthen the movement. Establish standards and apply a finer gauge. Turn up the pressure on Congress to clean up its dirty little secrets. Abolish the internal Office of Compliance where everyone is on the take. Strengthen the ethics committee by bringing outsiders on board. Hear every accusation in a setting where there can be justice for both sides. No more NDAs. No more payouts.

    But yes, a conversation. Gillibrand and other women are now strong enough to have it.

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    15 Insane Double Standards That Will Make You So Frustrated With Society

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    When it comes to treating people equally, we still have a long way to go.

    Whether you're talking about race, gender, sexual orientation, or something else entirely, our society is plagued by pervasive double standards that we can't seem to shake. That's why people took to Twitter and used #NowThatsADoubleStandard to talk about the unjust assumptions and actions we face when confronted with double standards.

    Here are 15 of the most liked and retweeted posts from that hashtag.

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    Senate Republicans narrowly approved the most sweeping rewrite of the U.S. tax code in three decades, slashing the corporate tax rate and providing temporary tax-rate cuts for most Americans.

    The 51-49 vote -- achieved just before 2 a.m. Saturday in Washington and only after closed-door deal-making with dissident senators -- brings the GOP close to delivering a much-needed policy win for their party and President Donald Trump. 

    After the vote, Trump said on Twitter that he looks forward to signing a final bill before Christmas. Vice President Mike Pence tweeted that a pre-Christmas tax cut would be a “Middle-Class Miracle!”

    Before it goes to Trump, lawmakers will have to resolve differences between the Senate bill and one the House passed last month, a process that could begin Monday. Although both versions share common top-line elements, negotiations on individual provisions inserted to win votes, particularly in the Senate, may be protracted and difficult. The final product will end up being a central issue in the 2018 elections that will determine control of Congress.

    “We’re going to take this message to the American people a year from now,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said after the vote.

    Speaking in New York on Saturday, Trump also predicted the tax package would be a winner for Republicans in the 2018 midterm elections. “We got no Democrat help and I think that’s going to hurt them in the election,” Trump said at a fundraising event.

    Read about the sticking points between Senate, House bills.

    Both the House and Senate measures would cut the corporate tax rate to 20 percent from 35 percent -- though the Senate version would set that lower rate in 2019, a year later than the House bill would. Also, the Senate bill, unlike the House version, would provide only temporary tax relief to individuals, ending tax cuts for them in 2026. Both bills are expected to add more than $1.4 trillion to the federal deficit over 10 years, before accounting for any economic growth.

    Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, who had cited concerns over the bill’s effects on federal deficits, was the only Republican dissenter. McConnell rejected revenue scores that suggested the bill’s tax cuts would add to the deficit. He predicted it would be a “revenue producer” by stimulating economic growth. Congress’s official tax scorekeeper this week said otherwise.

    The House and Senate bills also align on the contentious issue of individual deductions for state and local taxes: They’d eliminate all but a deduction for property taxes, which would be capped at $10,000.

    Mortgage Interest

    But they differ on the home mortgage-interest deduction; the House bill would restrict that break to loans of $500,000 or less with regard to new purchases of homes. The Senate legislation would leave the current $1 million cap in place.

    They also differ -- narrowly -- on the tax rates they’d apply to multinational companies’ accumulated offshore earnings. The House bill would tax those profits at 14 percent for earnings held as cash and 7 percent for less-liquid assets. The revised Senate bill contains a lengthy section that has no direct mention of the rates, but a person familiar with the Senate plan said they’d be 14.5 percent for cash and 7.5 percent for less-liquid assets.

    Senate Republican leaders muscled the sweeping legislation through the chamber less than two weeks after releasing the bill draft. Many GOP lawmakers, including Corker and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, have expressed concerns that the party has little to show so far before next year’s congressional elections, after the collapse of an Obamacare repeal earlier this year and no action on issues ranging from immigration to infrastructure.

    ‘Working Families’

    Trump expressed gratitude to McConnell and Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch for steering the measure through the Senate.

    “We are one step closer to delivering MASSIVE tax cuts for working families across America,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

    Republicans were able to bring the legislation to a vote using Senate rules that allowed them to approve it with a simple majority, therefore without any Democratic support. The GOP controls just 52 votes in the chamber, eight shy of what’s typically needed to move controversial measures that draw delaying tactics by opponents.

    Narrow Majority

    That narrow majority made it important for Senate leaders to try to hold every member’s vote; moderate Senator Susan Collins of Maine used that leverage to secure various concessions, including an agreement to enhance an individual deduction for large unreimbursed medical expenses through the end of next year. The House bill would eliminate that tax break.

    Democrats decried the bill’s deficit impact and complained they were shut out of the process to help draft the measure. They cited research showing that the legislation primarily benefits the nation’s highest earners and business owners, and will bleed federal revenues in a way that hurts domestic programs.

    “At a time of immense inequality, the Republican tax bill makes life easier on the well-off and eventually makes life more difficult on working Americans, exacerbating one of the most pressing problems we face as a nation -- the yawning gap between the rich and everyone else,” said Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York during debate on the bill.

    ‘Back of a Napkin’

    Schumer noted that a set of last-minute revisions to the bill changed it in ways that had yet to be analyzed by the Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress’s official scorekeeper for the effects of tax legislation. “Is this really how Republicans are going to rewrite the tax code? Scrawled like something on the back of a napkin?”

    McConnell said the bill, the first text of which was introduced on Nov. 20, went “through the regular order.” He dismissed complaints like Schumer’s. “You complain about process when you’re losing,” McConnell said.

    Attention now shifts to a House-Senate conference committee -- a specially appointed, temporary panel that will be charged with hashing out the differences in the bills and preparing a final version for both chambers to consider. Party leaders will select a small group of lawmakers, likely from the House and Senate tax-writing panels in each chamber, who would then be approved by each chamber.

    That work could start as early as Monday, with many high-stakes issues to be worked through. The deadline of Dec. 31 is an artificial one, though -- aimed partly at securing a victory well in advance of the 2018 congressional elections. Republicans would have until the end of 2018 before they lose their ability to clear final passage in the Senate without a filibuster.

    Expensing Provision

    Both bills share some key central elements: They both almost double the standard deduction for individual taxpayers while eliminating personal exemptions. They both allow companies to fully and immediately deduct the cost of their spending on equipment for five years. But the Senate version would slowly step down the expensing provision after the five-year period -- a feature that the House bill doesn’t provide for.

    Yet there are many differences -- ranging from the taxation of business income to the amount set for the child tax credit -- and Senate negotiators may have the upper hand during talks. That’s because the wafer-thin two-vote majority in the Senate will make it harder to usher a final bill back through that chamber.

    The House bill would consolidate the current seven individual tax brackets to four, leaving the top tax rate at 39.6 percent. The Senate bill would have seven brackets -- with lower rates, and a top rate of 38.5 percent. Studies have shown that many of the tax bill’s benefits would go to the highest earners -- and some middle-class taxpayers might actually pay more -- a finding that could impact the House-Senate talks.

    The Senate bill includes a repeal of Obamacare’s mandate that most Americans have health insurance or pay a penalty. The House bill does not.

    Pass-Through Businesses

    Senators approved a 23 percent tax deduction -- subject to certain limitations -- on business income earned from partnerships, limited liabilities and other so-called pass-through businesses. The House version would create a 25 percent tax rate for such business income -- with restrictions on which businesses could qualify. Small businesses would get extra relief under the House legislation as well.

    The House bill would also eliminate the estate tax, while the Senate version would limit the tax to fewer multimillion-dollar estates, but leave it in place. And after 2025, the limits would lift.

    Under current law, the estate tax applies a 40 percent levy to estates worth more than $5.49 million for individuals and $10.98 million for married couples. The Senate bill would temporarily double the exemption thresholds. The House bill would double the exemption thresholds, and then repeal the tax entirely in 2025.

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      We Have Some Bad News And Some Good News About Gonorrhea

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      Scientists have been issuing increasingly urgent warnings about the dangers of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea, but it seems that may not be the only thing we have to fear from “the clap”. A team at the Melbourne Sexual Health Center have found evidence saliva may play a role in transmitting the bacterium, which would open up the possibility that even kissing may be unsafe. If you thought that might ruin your day, the good news is that antiseptic mouthwashes may prevent the disease's spread.

      The bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae has been interfering with people's sex lives for centuries. Some men, and about half of women, whose genitals become infected show no symptoms, greatly increasing the danger they will pass it on to others. Less fortunate women can suffer pelvic inflammatory disease and find sex becoming painful. For men, the most common symptom is a burning sensation during urination, but urinary infection also raises the risk of liver disease, some cancers and a range of other rare, but very nasty, outcomes.

      Once a common disease, gonorrhea’s frequency dropped markedly with the invention of antibiotics but made a comeback to peak in the 1970s. Increased use of condoms to protect against HIV had the beneficial side effect of causing rates of other sexually transmitted infections, gonorrhea included, to plunge dramatically. However, we are once again seeing a rising trend.

      Professor Kit Fairley of Monash University thinks our efforts to impede the bacterium's spread may have been hampered by misunderstanding how it is transmitted. He leads a team that has published a string of papers slowly building evidence that saliva is much more important than has been recognized, something we will need to come to grips with if we are to stop it.

      As well as the urinary tract, gonorrhea can infect the throat or anus. Symptoms in both are rare, and it usually clears within a few months or year depending on the site. These infections are rarely a problem on their own, but represent a major transmission risk. Painful urinary infections quickly drive people to get treatment, but without symptoms, most infections in the throat and anus go untreated, and can then be transferred to others. However, Fairley thinks sexual health experts have been misunderstanding how this occurs.

      Where conventional transmission models blame oral and anal sex for transmission, Fairley was struck by a surprising number of men coming to the clinic who said they had always used a condom during anal sex.

      A single individual might be lying or forgetful but to Fairley, the cases were too common to ignore. Gonorrhea is often found in saliva, but in recent times this was not thought to be important for transmission. In the journals Emerging Infectious Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections, Fairley proposes this is wrong. He suggests the use of saliva as a lubricant during anal sex could account for much of the pattern of gonorrhea transmission the clinic has observed. Add in transmission from throat to throat through kissing, and to the genitals through oral sex, and the rest of the story falls into place.

      Fairley told IFLScience a peck on the lips is unlikely to be a danger, but deep kissing with tongues in one another's mouths is a different matter. Unfortunately, studies on gonorrhea transmission seldom even ask how many partners someone has kissed.

      Even before anti-retroviral drugs, many nations brought the AIDS crisis under control, not by persuading people not to have sex, but by boosting condom use. Fairley hopes mouthwash could be gonorrhea's equivalent. Listerine was initially marketed against gonorrhea, before gaining a more profitable application for bad breath, Fairley's co-author Dr Tim Read told IFLScience. The clinic is about to start a large-scale trial testing the effectiveness of mouthwash for preventing gonorrhea's transmission.

      For reasons that are not fully understood, gonorrhea is most frequent in developed countries among men who have sex with men. However, rates of heterosexual transmission are rising, and the bacterium may soon be, once again, a much more widespread problem. If this combines with antibiotic-resistance, we could be facing the return of a disease thought to have been put behind us 60 years ago.

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      Like Human, Like Doggo — Funny Golden Mimics Owner’s Facial Expressions

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      Dogs have been proven to read human emotions by looking at people's faces. They've even been found to have sympathetic reactions when they see someone in distress.

      This pupper from Port Alegre in Brazil, on the other hand, seems to takes it a step further. While it might be a stretch to say the golden retriever feels empathy whenever he sees his owner's facial expressions corresponding to a certain emotion, he definitely knows how to replicate them -- and watching him do so is pretty adorable!

      Watch as this furry cutie demonstrates how doggo sees, doggo does.

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      If he was my pup, I'd probably be doing this all day. Thank you, dogs everywhere, for being so damn entertaining.

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      19 Times Holiday Laziness Totally Paid Off In The Decor Department

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      I don't know about you, but when it comes to setting up Christmas decorations, I just can't muster up the enthusiasm to go all out like most of my neighbors do.

      Don't get me wrong -- It's not that I don't like celebrating the holidays. It's just that when given the choice between hanging lights and lounging around, the latter usually always wins because it allows me to bask in my laziness, which really knows no bounds.

      These 19 people totally get what I mean, because when it came to getting into the festive spirit, they went to great lengths to put in as little effort as possible.

      1. Christmas is all about the birth of Christ, after all.

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      3. Tree, pumpkin, what's the difference anyway?

      4. "My girlfriend won't agree that this is a suitable Christmas tree substitute."

      5. "No one at work has taken responsibility for decorating the Christmas tree; for the last week it has been propped up in its box waiting. Today, I stepped up to the plate."

      6. "I trusted my husband to clean up from Christmas last year. This is what I discovered when I went down to our basement to begin decorating this year. He's so proud! I can't decide: life hack or lazy?"

      7. A modern nativity scene.

      8. Close enough.

      9. Meh-rry Christmas!

      10. "Repurposed our Halloween decoration."

      11. "Neighbors' outdoor Christmas decorations before the cops made them take it down."

      12. Christmas skeletons are WAY cooler than Christmas trees.

      13. "Australian Christmas tree."

      14. Honestly, I feel like he loves it.

      15. What are your neighbors good for if not to piggyback off?

      16. "Honey, I shrunk the Christmas tree."

      17. "Room = decorated."

      18. This hospital decoration gets 10/10 for its use of crutches.

      19. Simple yet genius.

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