## Army investigates after two helicopters hovered by Kid Rock’s pool as he saluted

Authored by theguardian.com

The army has launched an administrative review after two AH-64 Apache helicopters on a training run hovered near the hillside home of Kid Rock as the outspoken supporter of Donald Trump saluted their crews.

Kid Rock posted two videos on social media on Saturday.

Each shows a helicopter hovering alongside his swimming pool while the entertainer claps, salutes and raises his fist in the air.

“This is a level of respect,” Kid Rock posted, that the “Governor of California will never know.

There was no official request to the army from Kid Rock for the helicopters to come to his house on Saturday, Maj Jonathon Bless, public affairs officer for the 101st Airborne Division, said on Monday.

The division is located at nearby Fort Campbell, on the Tennessee-Kentucky border, and its helicopters often make training runs over the Nashville area.

The helicopters also overflew a Nashville No Kings protest against the Trump administration on Saturday, but Bless said the training run had nothing to do with the protest. »

### Democrats seen as taking back the House after Republicans quit in numbers not seen since the Great Depression

Authored by the-independent.com

But one of the biggest indicators of an impending Democratic win come November is the number of Republicans in the House of Representatives not running for reelection.

To give a good contrast, in 2018, when Democrats won back the House with a net margin of 41 seats, 34 Republicans did not run for re-election.

In 2010, only 17 Democrats and 15 Republicans did not seek re-election, when Republicans won a whopping 63 seats in the House of Representatives. »

### 'The money is there': New NDP Leader Avi Lewis plans to tax billionaires and corporations

Authored by cbc.ca

'The money is there': New NDP Leader Avi Lewis plans to tax billionaires and corporations.

New NDP Leader Avi Lewis said it's 'far past time to properly tax' corporations and billionaires in his leadership victory speech on Sunday.

'The money is there, my friends,' Lewis said. »

### ‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive

Authored by theguardian.com

Thirty-five years ago, when Jack Karlson was hauled into a police car outside a Chinese restaurant in Queensland, he couldn’t have known his bombastic speech would be watched by millions around the world, become a meme and, now, be preserved in Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive.

Batty’s speech, alongside Karlson’s, is one of the few non-music audio additions to make the collection.

More than 300,000 audio items are now housed in the National Film and Sound Archive, with one-third of the collection classified as at-risk and preserved through digitisation. »

### XCOM art director says PC genres went extinct because devs were “enamoured with consoles”, but every genre is coming back now that everything plays well with controller

Authored by frvr.com

Firaxis’ XCOM: Enemy Unknown not only revived the tactics genre back in 2012, but made the genre playable on console.

However, as XCOM: Art Director Greg Foertsch explains, the loss of these genres is due to how ”enamoured with consoles” the game industry became.

There are definitely some games, even with their snazzy new controller setups, that are infinitely easier to play with a keyboard and mouse. »

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