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Australia held a national election yesterday which all of the polls predicted for weeks would be won handily by the Labour Party. The ruling Liberal Party (which is the conservative party in Australian politics because they still understand the historic meaning of liberalism) has been on office for over a decade, and had struggled as ruling parties often do when they grow stale in office. In fact leadership struggles within the Liberal Party had left it in chaos heading into the election campaign. The pollsters and the media called it an “unlosable election” for Labour.

But in a stunning upset, the Liberal Party has won the election. It sounds a lot like our 2016 election, no? Apparently lots of voters told the pollsters one thing, but voted differently in the voting booth.

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Fusion will be very nice, once they get it to work.

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Amazon.com has jumped into the market of the third-party logistics broker, roiling the waters and raising concern that the Seattle-based e-commerce giant could disrupt the freight industry forever and indelibly.

Amazon’s new freight-hauling site — located at freight.Amazon.com — has been up and running since August 2018, but it went largely unnoticed by media until early May, when The Wall Street Journal and others reported on Amazon’s entry into the market. Reports noted Amazon was offering “beta service” full truckload hauling in dry vans. The service is available for pickups in Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.

A tentacle here, a tentacle there,
Jeff Bezos brings you into his lair….

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For 2017, data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey shows non-citizens comprise about 7 percent of the country’s population, but the 2018 Annual Report and Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Statistics shows they committed more than 40 percent of all federal crimes.

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The White House has announced a new system that gives Americans the power to call out foul play by tech companies.

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Outline no longer works for some sites, like the New York Times and the  Wall Stdreet Journal.

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Meet George Jetson….

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Usually a Voice of the Crust like The Guardian go all hair-on-fire about things like this. I’m curious as to why they didn’t do that here.

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The multidrug “herding” technique, which forces cancer DNA to adapt to one treatment by developing weaknesses against others, could become an “effective cure”, ICR scientists said.

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To study screams is to probe the fuzzy boundary that separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. It is a way to explore our prelinguistic past. Although we are fully symbolic creatures today, on occasion a trace of our primal selves bubbles to the surface in the form of a scream. Understanding its characteristics could improve the treatment of nonverbal patients, help fight crime, or simply make movies more frightening. But first scientists need to explain what makes a scream, a scream.

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Something rather remarkable just happened in Idaho. The state legislature opted to—in essence—repeal the entire state regulatory code. The cause may have been dysfunction across legislative chambers, but the result is serendipitous. A new governor is presented with an unprecedented opportunity to repeal an outdated and burdensome regulatory code and replace it with a more streamlined and sensible set of rules. Other states should be paying close attention.

The situation came about due to the somewhat unconventional nature of Idaho’s regulatory process. Each year, the state’s entire existing body of regulations expires unless reauthorized for an additional year by the legislature. In most years, reauthorization happens smoothly, but not this year.

Instead, the legislature wrapped up an acrimonious session in April without passing a rule-reauthorization bill. As a result, come July 1, some 8,200 pages of regulations containing 736 chapters of state rules will expire. Any rules the governor opts to keep will have to be implemented as emergency regulations, and the legislature will consider them anew when it returns next January.

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Well, let’s see if these claims stand the test of peer-review.

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This is about a sign that says “Grassy Knoll.” To understand this story, you have to know that the words “grassy knoll” are forbidden in Dallas. No one is allowed to say them out loud, let alone put them on a sign.

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

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How many does that make? Really, I’m losing count.

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The resistance rises.

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I suspect that eventually the Supreme Court will have to weigh in on this issue.

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Some good news for a change.

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I am curious as to how this particular pissing match is going to turn out.

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The bizarre and mysterious explosions that rocked the UAE port of Fujairah on Sunday just got even more strange after Saudi Arabia admitted overnight that two of its oil tankers were attacked while sailing toward the Persian Gulf possibly as part of the incident.

The world just got more interesting.

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Amid China’s increasing military threat, Taiwan unveiled a miniature model of the country’s first indigenous submarine at a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday, reported Focus Taiwan.

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Obama’s lies to the contrary notwithstanding.

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In a nutshell, this team found that if you start learning a language before the age of 18, you have a much better likelihood of obtaining a native-like mastery of the language’s grammar than if you start later. This is a much older age than has been generally assumed and is really interesting for reasons I’ll get into a bit later.

I question the characterization of 18-year-olds as ‘adults’ but it’s still interesting.

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Marine experts, scientists and archaeologists have spent the past 15 years meticulously mapping thousands of kilometres under water in the hope of unearthing lost prehistoric tribes.

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But you have to bear in mind that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term in office.

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

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Trouble in paradise.

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Really, you can’t make this stuff up.

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It’s all in the genes … sort of.

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Raytheon Company has successfully shot down multiple drones using its advanced high powered microwave (HPM) and mobile high energy laser (HEL) weapon systems, stated the company press release Tuesday.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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Or maybe not. (I’m wondering who the ‘we’ is in that headline.)

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Women and minorities hardest hit, no doubt.

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We had to get the smell of Obama out of the room.

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After 201 years, German firm, Koenig & Bauer AG – the market leader for machines that print the world’s banknotes – is pushing into printing on Coke cans and beverage cartons.

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That will preserve us from a lot of whining.

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Democrat family values.

If ‘families’ get a break under the immigration laws, guess what? You get more ‘families’.

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Recycled materials are only valuable if they’re pure—a collection of a single type of metal or plastic that can serve as a feedstock for manufacturing or other industrial processes. The economics of recycling would actually be spectacular if you could get people to separate out a dozen individual classes of recyclables and then deliver them to a recycling center.

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On Sunday, Fox News Channel’s Steve Hilton reported on Peter Schweizer’s investigation of former vice president Joe Biden’s family’s business dealings with China’s government, concluding that Biden was “compromised by a foreign power and unfit to be president.”

But you knew that.

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In the next several weeks, Inspector General Michael Horowitz is expected to issue his summation of the potential abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by top officials in the Obama Administration and holdovers in the early Trump Administration who were overseeing the investigation of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

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Good. I would hate to think that her defective genes were being propagated.

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I gave up wearing a watch when I was able to buy a cellphone that told time.

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Quick, somebody notify Adam Schiff.

UPDATE: Russian-trained spy whale spooks Norwegian fishermen

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If you own Amazon stock, feel free to pat yourself on the back.

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Now that is a useful parrot.

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Carbon dating has already indicated that the bones are from a person who died between 1590 and 1620, while DNA tests have confirmed that the bones are of a Westerner from northern Europe. Japanese researchers are planning to reach out to sources in Britain to try to trace the Adams family line to a surviving descendant in order to compare the DNA.

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I’m not really sure what an ‘Instagram model’ is, but I’m glad we cleared that up.

For the record, my butt is actually real, too, if that matters.

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People were migrating, on the whole, to states in the south and west, according to researchers. The reasons they cited for that were lower costs of living, state budgetary challenges, weather, and job growth, among other factors.

If they had asked about ‘absence of crazy socialists’, I’m sure that would have gotten a lot of play.

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You can’t be a Real Democrat Candidate without a cadre of fat ugly black women on staff.

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Anybody who buys or drives a Tesla is insane.