GOOD

Gisele Took To Instagram To Assure The World Neither She Nor Tom Brady Voted For Trump

More news comes to light about Bill Belichick’s supposed endorsement as well

 Penn Collins
11.08.16

Last night at a rally in New Hampshire, Donald Trump pulled out the time-tested strategy of appealing to voters by playing to their hometown sports allegiances. In this instance, he claimed that Patriots star Tom Brady had already voted for him. He also purported the team’s head coach, Bill Belichick, had written a letter of endorsement which Trump read from the stage.

Trump said to the crowd, convened in Manchester:

This guy is a true champ so he writes, Coach Belichick,

“Congratulations on a tremendous campaign. You have to help with an unbelievable slanted and negative media and have come out beautifully. You have proven to be the ultimate competitor fighter. Your leadership is amazing. I have always had tremendous respect for you for the toughness and perseverance you have displayed over the past year is remarkable. Hopefully tomorrow’s election, the results will give the opportunity to make America great again.

Best wishes for great results tomorrow,

Bill Belichick.”

The use of “tremendous,” a staple of Trump’s own lexicon, and Trump’s prominent history of fabricating endorsements from athletes, called into question the veracity of the letter, but it’s sounding like the sentiment and letter from Belichick is real.

CSN New England is confirming that the star coach “did indeed drop a note to Donald Trump on Monday,” and implied that the note Trump read was, in fact, the one Belichick sent.

As for Brady’s (alleged? possible?) endorsement, that saga continues with a little less clarity.

Trump said in the rally that he received a phone call from Brady that the star QB had voted early for the candidate.

But Brady said later yesterday that he hadn’t yet voted (for Trump or otherwise), and when Gisele Bundchen, Tom Brady’s wife, was asked if she and Tom were voting for Trump, she was a little less diplomatic on her Instagram comments:

So there you go. Trump may have (gasp!) oversold the reality of things to make himself look more popular.

Sports

The world is rallying around Tori, the Target employee Tweet-shamed by an irate cheapskate

via David Leavitt / Twitter

Anyone who has ever worked in retail knows that the worst thing about the job, right after the pay, are the unreasonable cheapskates who "want to talk to your manager" to get some money off an item.

They think that throwing a tantrum will save them a few bucks and don't care if they completely embarrass themselves in the process. Sometimes that involves belittling the poor employee who's just trying to get through their day with an ounce of dignity.

Twitter is rallying around a gal named Tori who works at a Target in Massachusetts after she was tweet-shamed by irate chapekate, journalist, and Twitter troll, David Leavitt.

Keep Reading
cnn target msnbc fox news tori target employee
Business

The cost of having a baby even with insurance equals average the monthly income of a woman

upload.wikimedia.org

Childbirth is the number one reason American women visit the hospital, and it ain't cheap. In fact, it's getting more and more expensive. A new study published in Health Affairs found that the cost of having a baby with employer-sponsored health insurance increased by almost 50% in the past seven years.

The study evaluated "trends in cost-sharing for maternity care for women with employer-based health insurance plans, before and after the Affordable Care Act," which was signed into law in 2010. The study looked at over 657,061 women enrolled in large employer-sponsored health insurance plans who delivered babies between 2008 and 2015, as these plans tend to cover more than plans purchased by small businesses or individuals.

Keep Reading
babies health insurance healthcare
Health

Scientists just found the crater of one of the biggest meteor crashes in Earth's history

www.nps.gov

A meteorite crashed into Earth nearly 800,000 years ago. The meteor was 1.2 miles wide, and the impact was so big, it covered 10% of the planet with debris. However, scientists haven't been able to find the impact site for over a century. That is, until now. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal believes the crash site has been located.

Tektites, which are essentially rocks that have been liquefied from the heat of the impact and then cooled to form glass, help scientists spot the original impact site of a meteor. Upon impact, melted material is thrown into the atmosphere, then falls back to the ground. Even if the original crater has disappeared due to erosion or is hidden by a shift in tectonic plates, tektites give the spot away. Tektites between 750,000 to 35.5 million years old have been found in every continent except Antarctica.

Keep Reading
science meteor crash