Did you read any positive news lately?

Maryn · Feb 10, 2017

Our kids' childhood friend found love--and their wedding cake was topped with a pair of velociraptors.

Cmalone · Feb 18, 2017

Virginia has approved doctors to write a full year's worth of contraceptive pills for women instead of just three months' worth:

The bill states, “Any health benefit plan that is amended, renewed, or delivered on or after January 1, 2018, that provides coverage for hormonal contraceptives shall cover up to a 12-month supply of hormonal contraceptives when dispensed or furnished at one time for a covered person by a provider or pharmacy or at a location licensed or otherwise authorized to dispense drugs or supplies.”

http://wtkr.com/2017/02/18/bill-lets-women-get-1-year-of-birth-control-pills/

RedRajah · Feb 23, 2017

[h=1]This tennis tournament is using shelter dogs as ballboys[/h]

regdog · Feb 24, 2017

autumnleaf · Apr 18, 2017

Africa, a continent on the rise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ5j6tWPNOg

Kaiser-Kun · Apr 21, 2017

Alligator saves kid

RedRajah · Apr 21, 2017

[h=2]Tiny Jyn Erso Heads to Star Wars Celebration, Hands Every Leia a Copy of the Death Star Plans[/h]

RedRajah · Aug 3, 2017

Some local news in my neck of the woods...

https://www.clevescene.com/scene-an...h-mob-to-bring-laughs-support-for-coffee-phix

blacbird · Aug 3, 2017

The New York Yankees lost their game today.

caw

bin_b0x · Aug 5, 2017

Further developments have been made to slow Parkinson's progression in patients, with a drug often used for type-2 diabetes treatment. It doesn't keep brain cells from dying, but apparently does help manage the symptoms.

cmhbob · Aug 5, 2017

bin_b0x said:
Further developments have been made to slow Parkinson's progression in patients, with a drug often used for type-2 diabetes treatment. It doesn't keep brain cells from dying, but apparently does help manage the symptoms.

Amazing news.

nighttimer · Aug 6, 2017

Do you like beer? Do you like Heineken beer?

Whether you do or you don't you should take four minutes to watch this "beer ad" which really has almost nothing to do with beer, but a lot to do with how we as humans easily see our differences, but need to be reminded of how much we actually have in common.

autumnleaf · Mar 13, 2018

New scholarship set up for Choctaw students to study in Ireland:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/pol...es-scholarship-for-choctaw-students-1.3424287

This story has its roots back in the 1840s! The Choctaw people had just endured displacement and death during the Trail of Tears and were still suffering hardship in their new lands. Yet, when they were told of the famine in Ireland, they made a huge donation to relieve the suffering there. The scholarship is a "thank you" for this great historical act of generosity.

JimmyB27 · Mar 13, 2018

nighttimer said:
Do you like beer? Do you like Heineken beer?

Whether you do or you don't you should take four minutes to watch this "beer ad" which really has almost nothing to do with beer, but a lot to do with how we as humans easily see our differences, but need to be reminded of how much we actually have in common.

Heineken only counts as beer in the most technical sense. :tongue

Good ad though.

Talking of inspiring ads that have pretty much nothing to do with the thing they're advertising - this Toyota ad about Paralympian Lauren Woolstencroft is pretty good too.

Teinz · Mar 13, 2018

This made me smile today.

It's not news. But it's very positive.

https://mashable.com/2018/03/12/woman-sings-subway/#3Qf.RpOn4sqw

Lyv · Jun 5, 2018

Quincy celebrates LGBTQ community in first Pride Day

This city is just outside Boston, has been around a very long time, but this was our first Pride.

Quincy Pride Day drew more than 500 families, couples, kids and furry friends for its six-hour, family-friendly event on Sunday.

My husband and I were there!

Some of my favorite people made it happen, in the face of opposition, and made it a huge success.

Mayor Thomas Koch, a Catholic who has spoken out against gay marriage, donated directly to the event, contributing $250.

The city waived all permit fees for Quincy Pride Day and picked up the tab for the police detail.

CWatts · Jun 6, 2018

This is going viral and I'm not sure a theft counts as positive, but it is soooo entertaining. A soldier took an armored personnel carrier on a joyride through downtown Richmond yesterday. The truly amazing part is that he caused no accidents and was arrested unharmed. (The RPD shot an unarmed naked man last month...)

http://m.nbc12.com/story/38356938/s...r-stopped-after-joyride-through-richmond-city

edutton · Jun 6, 2018

The judge who sentenced rapist Brock Turner to six months in prison was recalled by voters!
http://thehill.com/homenews/state-w...rock-turner-sentencing-appears-to-be-recalled

frimble3 · Jun 6, 2018

CWatts said:
This is going viral and I'm not sure a theft counts as positive, but it is soooo entertaining. A soldier took an armored personnel carrier on a joyride through downtown Richmond yesterday. The truly amazing part is that he caused no accidents and was arrested unharmed. (The RPD shot an unarmed naked man last month...)

http://m.nbc12.com/story/38356938/s...r-stopped-after-joyride-through-richmond-city

So, safest to approach the Richmond police while securely inside an APC?

CWatts · Jun 6, 2018

frimble3 said:
So, safest to approach the Richmond police while securely inside an APC?

Apparently so. The APC thief turned out to be a 29-year-old National Guard lieutenant who was under the influence of drugs (ya think?) and was carrying an unloaded gun. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/0...-for-more-than-60-miles-soldier-arrested.html

Of course the other variable is that Marcus Peters, who was shot dead while nude and apparently also on drugs or having a mental health crisis, was black. So was the officer who shot him. The body cam video has been released.

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frimble3 said:
So, safest to approach the Richmond police while securely inside an APC?

Apparently so. The APC thief turned out to be a 29-year-old National Guard lieutenant who was under the influence of drugs (ya think?) and was carrying an unloaded gun. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/0...-for-more-than-60-miles-soldier-arrested.html

Of course the other variable is that Marcus Peters, who was shot dead while nude and apparently also on drugs or having a mental health crisis, was black. So was the officer who shot him. The body cam video has been released.

Alessandra Kelley · Jun 7, 2018

Middle America Reboots Democracy

(Authors: “LARA PUTNAM is Professor and Chair in the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh.” “THEDA SKOCPOL is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University and Director of the Scholars Strategy Network”)

... there’s a deeper and broader shift powering these indicators, and those who see only nationally visible events may miss it entirely. Far from the bluest strongholds, a huge demographic swathe of forgotten Americans is remaking politics, and it is not the one getting most of the press. The new upsurge is not centered in the progressive urban enclaves where most national pundits live; nor is it to be found among the grizzled men in coal country diners where journalists escape to get out of the bubble. Neither of those poles looks much like most of America anyway. About half the country lives in the suburbs, twice the number who live in either fully urban or rural settings. More than half of Americans are also women— and of those, half are in their thirties to sixties. It is in this Middle America, and among these Middle Americans, that political developments since the November 2016 election have moved fastest and farthest.

At the current pace, it seems likely that the pop-up leaders and grassroots groups of 2017 will, by 2019, have repopulated the local layer of the Democratic Party in much of the country. National media misperceptions to the contrary, this will not look like a far-left reinvention of Tea Partiers or a continuation of Bernie 2016. It will look like retired librarians rolling their eyes at the present state of affairs, and then taking charge.

frimble3 · Jun 7, 2018

Go for it, retired librarians! And, school teachers! And others who spent their careers trying to spread knowledge and enlightenment!

Alessandra Kelley · Jul 10, 2018

There is a whole thread about it, but I thought it belongs in here too.

A football (soccer) team of twelve Thai boys and their coach were trapped in a nearly inaccessible cave system for more than two weeks and were all rescued safely.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/20...-begin-operation-to-free-last-of-trapped-boys

shakeysix · Jul 16, 2018

Not any published news but I did see our gay guy kid walking into the General Store with teen friends. He was walking tall, in checkered vans, ankle sox, toreador pants, pink shirt, cupcake hair. This is quite a piece of social progress in a rural town of less than a 1,000 ultra conservative souls. A few short years ago...well, I hate to think what could have happened. Nope, folks, this particular Genie will not squeeze back into the bottle. --s6

RedRajah · Jul 16, 2018

RELEASE THE QUACKEN~!

[h=3]The World's Largest Rubber Duck Sails Through Lake Erie This Weekend[/h]

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