The Spew 12-18-17

  1. Fifteen games down and two games to go in the Browns 2017 season after the game against the Ravens on the lakefront on Sunday. What are your thoughts on the game?
  2. The Carolina Panthers have announced that owner Jerry Richardson is selling the NFL franchise amid an investigation by the league into allegations of sexual and racist misconduct by Richardson in the workplace. Thoughts?
  3. In an effort to make mass-transit safer, the Transportation Security Administration is enhancing its scanners that designed to spot hidden explosives and suicide vests. The equipment is now being tested in Los Angeles, and it's also been tested at rail hubs in Washington. However, when you ride Amtrak there is no security clearance on luggage or screening of passengers. If enough being done to protect our rail lines?
  4. The father of Christopher Bowen, the boy who had 300 doctor visits and 13 surgeries that were deemed unnecessary is speaking out against the mother who is now in jail for faking multiple illnesses of the 8 year old. He says he's been in a custody battle for the child for the past three years, but the mother would always say their son was on his death bed when they would go to court. It's believed that the mother may have Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a disease where a caregiver fakes illnesses of someone for attention or sympathy. If that is the case, why would a doctor do the a surgery?
  5. A Japanese company will start paying a portion employees’ salaries in bitcoin, a cryptocurrency. They will pay up to 100,000 yen equivalent to about $900 per month starting in February. The offer is optional for employees. Would you take an offer like that?
  6. House Speaker Paul Ryan says American women need to have more babies to help prevent the collapse of Medicare and Social Security saying, “this is going to be the new economic challenge for America. Baby boomers are retiring — I did my part, but we need to have higher birth rates in this country.” Is millennials having more babies the solution to our Social Security and Medicare debt issues?
  7. Christmas is a week from today and stockings are hung by the chimney with care and Christmas trees are decorated with lights and family favorite ornaments. Do you like them real or fake?
  8. The French government will ban students from using mobile phones in the country’s primary, junior and middle schools at the start of the next school year. Reports say that children will be allowed to bring their phones to school, however they will not allowed to use them until they leave, even during breaks. The French education minister said the ban was also a “public health message to families”, adding: “It’s good that children are not too often, or even at all, in front of a screen before the age of seven.” Do you agree with the French government's efforts?
  9. The list of top baby names are out for 2017 and topping the list for girls is Olivia followed by Cora, Amelia, Charlotte, Isla, Isabella, Maia, Aurora, Amara and Ava. The number one name for boys is Atticus followed by Asher, Jack, Theodore, Jasper, Milo, Oliver, Silas, Henry and Wyatt. Mike and John don’t make the top ten. What do you think about Oliva and Atticus being the top baby names?
  10. In what is being hailed as one of the great finds in recent years, scientists in Egypt have discovered a hidden chamber inside Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza. The discovery was made using cosmic-ray based imaging, which shows how modern particle physics can reveal new information about ancient structures. The Great Pyramid was built during the reign of Pharaoh Khufu who reigned from 2509 to 2483 B.C. Archaeologists are still unsure how the Great Pyramid, which is 14 stories tall, was built. How could the pyramids have been built 4,500 years ago when human construction technology did not exist? Did an advance race of aliens build it?

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