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On the other hand, I will not lend my stuff to anybody who has to be convinced of the necessity to clean equipment every time it’s used.

Steve Sailer ran it down.

The way it works is there are different topics. You get “points” for how you answer each topic. For example, in the “Religion” category, if you’re Jewish, you get 25 points. If you’re Christian, you get just five points.

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Manufactured by Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Group under China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), the new drone boat, dubbed Marine Lizard, passed “delivery checks” and left the factory on April 8 in Wuhan, capital of Central China’s Hubei Province, state-run Global Times reported on Monday.

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Talk about one-issue voters….

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Why couldn’t Clinton have the grace to do that>

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Alberta’s United Conservative Party (UCP) won a landslide victory against the liberal New Democratic Party (NDP) Tuesday night.

UCP Leader Jason Kenney’s first priority: repeal the province’s carbon tax.

It’s the first time an Albertan government has been toppled after only one term in power, and it’s the third time in the last year conservatives have won a landslide victory on a platform centered around repealing carbon taxes.

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Note that they re-enact the medieval European culture, not the medieval (if that term even applies) native Argentinian culture.

No mention of the SCA, and I’m not aware of any SCA activity in Latin America.

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Some good news for a change.

I think kids ought to be taught not just ‘cursive’ but actual calligraphy.

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With thanks to Debby Witt, a kindred soul.

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Goldman Sachs must be one of the most heavily Democratic business organizations in the U.S., and it’s a good thing: given the company’s pervasive influence on American business, if its partners were Republicans they would be more vilified than the Koch brothers. So it is a day-brightener to see that Goldman predicts a Trump re-election in 2020: narrowly, but still.

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I’m sure you all want to know how to do that.

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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily lifted an order suspending the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), a Trump administration policy that requires Central American asylum-seekers to remain in Mexico before their appearance in immigration court.

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One of the ‘fun things’ about running for public office is the way that everything you do is subject to microscopic inspection.

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Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz unveiled his new resolution targeting House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff for his handling of the Russian collusion theory, during Tucker Carlson’s Wednesday show.

The resolution, titled “Preventing Extreme Negligence with Classified Information Licenses Resolution“—or “Pencil Act”—calls for Schiff’s resignation from the committee. The acronym is a reference to “pencil neck,” which is President Donald Trump’s recent nickname for Schiff.

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Senator Umbrage appears in trouble.

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1. Open.
2. Pour.

Any questions?

I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was a National Beer Can Appreciation Day.

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Immediately voted for Bernie Sanders.

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I’ve been waiting for President Trump’s approval rating to rise in the wake of the collapse of the Mueller investigation. That now seems to be happening, as Rasmussen Reports finds him at 53% approval, 45% disapproval, for a healthy +8 margin. It is also noteworthy that Trump’s “strong approval” now exceeds his “strong disapproval” by one point, something that rarely happened with Barack Obama.

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Tighten that screw….

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Unfortunately, those two tend to go together.

Eventually we will run out of jobs for people with average or lower IQs. Automation will take care of the rest.

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BLUF: Don’t drive a Tesla. Just don’t.

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Lock her up!

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As the elephant said when he pooped on the sidewalk, that about covers it.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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So-called ‘5G’ technology (you can forget the fake 5G that AT&T is peddling) would appear to be still a work in progress, although when it actually arrives it ought to prove well worth having. My iPhone 6+ will last me for another year or two, looks like.

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A study published by the Center for Advanced Defense has determined that the Russia security services are using a cutting-edge new technique, presumably to protect President Putin – as well as several government buildings in Russia, and military facilities in Syria – from drone attacks.

Perhaps it’s just his magnetic personality.

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Abortion Barbie rides again.

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Voting with their feet.

The company’s strained relations with Seattle became very public last year, when the City Council passed a head tax that would have cost Amazon and other large companies about $275 per employee, per year, for the next five years.

The council quickly rescinded the tax after Amazon and other businesses protested, but Amazon soon after signaled it was abandoning earlier plans to occupy all 722,000 square feet of office space in the mammoth Rainier Square skyscraper under construction in Seattle. Instead, Amazon is subleasing the space to other businesses.

When asked if he’d push for a head tax for Amazon and other tech firms in Bellevue, Chelminiak said, “We are not planning any head tax in Bellevue.”

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Now Israel’s Golan Heights.

Have you noticed how, every time Israel is attacked, it gets bigger?

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Even though CNN’s slogan these days is “Facts First,” the liberal network apparently doesn’t check all the facts about its national security “experts” and their connections to Qatar, a terror-funding Islamist nation in western Asia. As a result, viewers may be unaware of the analysts’ financial and institutional links to that country in the Middle East. Those relationships often extend beyond their on-air appearances and raise the possibility of conflict of interest when discussing such countries as Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Oh, say it ain’t so….

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That toddlin’ town.

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So young, and already a Democrat….

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Dutch maritime investigators searching for missing containers washed overboard during a North Sea storm have accidentally stumbled on a 16th-century shipwreck, the oldest such a find to date, officials revealed on Wednesday.

The wreck was discovered during a search for missing containers from the Panama-registered MSC Zoe, which lost almost 350 containers while battling a heavy storm in early January.

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And about fargin time.

Republicans ought to treat Democrats as Democrats treat Republicans.

Exactly the same.

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Every other organism on Earth relies on a quartet of genetic bases: A (adenine), C (cytosine), T (thymine) and G (guanine). These fit together in pairs inside a double-stranded DNA molecule, A matching T and C, G. But in 2014 Dr Romesberg announced that he had synthesised a new, unnatural, base pair, dubbed X and Y, and slipped them into the genome of E. coli as well.

Kept supplied with sufficient quantities of X and Y, the new cells faithfully replicated the enhanced DNA—and, crucially, their descendants continued to do so, too. Since then, Dr Romesberg and his colleagues have been encouraging their new, “semisynthetic” cells to use the expanded alphabet to make proteins that could not previously have existed, and which might have properties that are both novel and useful. Now they think they have found one. In collaboration with a spin-off firm called Synthorx, they hope to create a less toxic and more effective version of a cancer drug called interleukin-2.

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Raise your hand if you’ve heard anything at all about this in the news.

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

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Is there anything a Bobcat can’t do?

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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Spanish authorities announced on Tuesday that they are seeking 10 men who allegedly entered the embassy on Feb. 22, armed with knives, metal bars and dummy guns, before tying staff up and trying to convince the economics officer to defect. The group, which included Adrian Hong Chang, a Mexican citizen, as well as a US national and five South Koreans, reportedly took a number of computers, data discs and mobile phones before making their escape.

You now know as much about this as I do — or care to.

See, this is what happens while the American news media are hyperventilating about Trump.

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Maltese special forces have seized a Turkish oil tanker, El Hibu 1, which had been hijacked by the very migrants it stopped to rescue in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya.

Whoa. I didn’t know Malta even had any ‘special forces’.

Human rights groups have defended the hijacking, saying that the refugees were simply trying to escape the “hell” of detention camps in Libya.

Uh, that doesn’t justify piracy. Just sayin’.

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Computer scientists at University of California, Davis, Maynooth University in Ireland and the California Institute of Technology have created DNA molecules that can self-assemble into patterns essentially by running their own program. The work is published March 21 in the journal Nature.

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Sometimes the gaslights get turned off.

UPDATE: Chicago PD Quickly Dump Smollett Hate-Hoax Docs Before Case Sealed By Judge

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Plus they’re really, really good when properly cooked.

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Physicists have studied quantum heat engines for many years—they work in ways similar to classical heat engines, but their “working fluid,” which behaves in ways reminiscent of steam in a steam engine, can be in a coherent superposition. This has led many in the field to wonder if quantum engines could actually perform better than the classical engines we see around us every day. Just four years ago, a team at Hebrew University of Jerusalem claimed to have found the answer, reporting a theory that suggested that quantum engines could, indeed, be more efficient than classical engines. In this new effort, the researchers have conducted experiments showing that the theory was correct.

The Other McCain is on the case.

Remember that the SPLC became a $400-milllion left-wing hate machine by “exposing” alleged Thought Crimes by others, and is now the target of at least three different lawsuits — one by Baltimore lawyer Glen Keith Allen, another by the D.C.-based Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), and a third by Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes. The mounting problems at the “Poverty Palace” in Montgomery were compounded when a former SPLC official wrote about the “hate” scam in the New Yorker….

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To get an Apple Card, users will be able to sign up on their iPhone in the Apple Wallet app and get a digital card that they can use anywhere Apple Pay is accepted “within minutes.” Customers will also be able to track purchases, check balances, and see when their bill is due right from the app. There will be a physical titanium card, too, but there’s no credit card number, CVV, expiration date, or signature. All of that authorization information is stored directly in the Apple Wallet app.

I suppose it was inevitable. I doubt they can match the sweet deal I get from Costco.

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The nonprofit organization building a coalition of states that favor choosing the president by popular vote promotes itself as nonpartisan, but is financed by millions of dollars from left-leaning groups.

Some of the leaders of the movement are prominent Republicans, and most of the funding for the nonprofit, National Popular Vote Inc., has come from a wealthy Democrat and a billionaire Independent.

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Yeah, it’s a slow news day. What’s your point?

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Don’t ever say that we never have useful stuff here.

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When Beau Jessup came up with an idea to help Chinese families name their babies, even she thought it was a bit far-fetched.