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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Jun 12, 2020
June 12, 2020
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Canadians are talking about judging the length of the coronavirus pandemic by looking at the length of JUSTIN TRUDEAU’s hair. The NY Times reports videos of his hair --as well as the beard he started before the virus struck-- have been set to various styles of music and uploaded to YouTube. One has picked up more than 265-thousand views.
Obviously, since you still can't visit a barber shop or hair salon, this could be your internet photo poll for the day... how bad is your hair looking these days?
FYI: Barber shops and hair salons are set to open today in Ottawa, so people are asking... will he get a haircut?
Even if you don't listen to country music, you probably know LADY ANTEBELLUM. Yesterday, the group announced they were changing their name to LADY A because Antebellum has connotations with the slavery era. In case you're not up on this, the word antebellum is used to refer to the period and architecture in the Southern states before the Civil War. The group contends they took the name from the architectural style, but are "deeply sorry for the hurt this has caused." "As musicians, it reminded us of all the music born in the South that influenced us," they wrote. And a pretty good influence, since they have five Grammys and had seven top-10 albums, including three number ones.
Play it: "Need You Now," their biggest hit.
Today's shocker: a new International Atomic Energy Agency report sez Iran has DOUBLED its stockpile of enriched uranium since February, raising the question about when they might have enough stuff to put together a nuclear bomb. Of course, they would need nuclear engineers to take care of the task, and experts claim it would take them a couple of years to solve the problems, and a bit longer to make a missile to deliver it. Obviously, it's not the US which would likely be the target at that point, but Israel.
(Note content) Finally, doctors in India have removed a two foot phone charger from inside of a 30-year-old man’s bladder. Doctors believe it was swallowed or inserted for ‘sexual gratification’ and it was only after the guy had "abdominal pain" last week that he went to the doctors. Doctors gave him laxative for two days, but nothing came out and so surgery was indicated. It took five docs 45 minutes to remove the 24-inches of curled lead from the inside of his gastrointestinal tract.
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