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Boy, that came as a total surprise to me.

I guess that’s why they call it ‘news’.

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Well, good luck to ’em, I say.

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If, of course, you can eat them without barfing, which I have never been able to do.

(No, I have no idea what the difference is between Brussels Sprouts and Seasonal Brussels Sprouts. Perhaps the Seasonal Brussels Sprouts smoke weed or something.)

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

On the other hand, having a suit made out of $1000 bills works pretty well, too.

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We have the technology.

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It may sound silly, but try storing your plastic wrap in the freezer instead of tossing it in a drawer or cupboard. The cold temperature alters the polyethylene at the molecular level, which helps to remove the static and stickiness.

You may be wondering, “But isn’t that the point of cling wrap—to, well, cling to things?” Yes, that’s true. However, the freezer only temporarily changes the properties of the plastic wrap, giving you enough time to rip a sheet off and cover your leftovers with it while the material is still cool. Once the plastic wrap warms up, it will go back to its old, clingy self.

Haven’t tried it yet, although I intend to.

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If you’re interested in that sort of thing.

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            Today, we dive headfirst into the logistics of the migrant horde. If you missed my prior article on examining the improbable reporting on the speed of this group, you can find it here. On today’s docket, a discussion of how this group is organized, who is supporting it including what specific organizations and individuals have been named so far, and other logistical errata. Still to be discussed in a future article, the surprisingly tricky question of how many people, and what kind of people, make up the migrant horde.

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

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More than 400 Finnish police officers and military personnel swooped down on Sakkiluoto and 16 other properties in western Finland linked to Russia. Helicopters and a surveillance plane provided support. The air space over the region was closed to all craft not involved in the security operation.

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I prefer Chicago style by just a bit.

Don’t ever way we don’t have useful stuff here.

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Three paraplegics who sustained cervical spinal cord injuries many years ago are now able to walk with the aid of crutches, or a walker, after being fitted with a wireless implant which activates muscles when they think about moving.

Crucially the treatment works even when it is switched off, leading scientists to suspect that their nerves have grown back.

We have the technology.

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Go ahead and laugh. I did.

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Here are the facts to understand the size and scope of the issue.

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Being a shill for the Left pays pretty well.

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Don’t say we never have useful stuff here.

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When ionic salts, made of bundles positively and negatively charged particles, dissolve in water, the bundles break apart, leaving positively and negatively charged particles free to participate in osmosis. By placing charged, thin membranes in between salty water and freshwater, scientists can create an expressway for the flowing particles, generating electric current. But these membranes are often expensive to manufacture and they tend to get leaky over time. That lets particles pass back through in the wrong direction, cutting into how much electricity they can produce.

Now, researchers have developed a new kind of gatekeeper—a “two-faced” membrane that has different properties on either side, from the size of the pores to the charge of the membrane itself. This encourages a steady flow of charged particles from one side to the other while preventing them from drifting back in the wrong direction. These so-called Janus membranes, named after the ancient Roman god of gates and passages, can also be manufactured to have different-size pores and hold different charges, allowing them to accept different kinds of particles.

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Hopefully with better rivets and more lifeboats.

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I am not making this up.

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The reporter appears to be surprised by this.

He would probably be surprised by my uncanny resemblance to my grandfather, I suspect.

When did they start hiring Forrest Gump to write the news?

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Hey, whatever works. (It’s organic!)

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Great. Perhaps now all of the pot-heads will head north and we’ll be rid of them.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Cool.

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Police in the United States are being advised not to look at iPhone screens secured with Face ID, because doing so could disable facial authentication and leave investigators needing a potentially harder-to-obtain passcode to gain access.

I may have to get one of these. For those of you who haven’t been paying attention, the current state of the law is that passcodes are covered by the 4th Amendment while face-id and touch-id aren’t. Police can force you to touch or face a phone to unlock it, but to get your passcode they need a warrant.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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A North Carolina high school principal was replaced after she asked a student to take off his Trump jersey at a patriotic-themed football game.

Cindy Gordon, the former principal at Harnett Central High School, asked Matthew Collins, 18, to remove the jersey because it was political, according to WRAL Friday. The front of the jersey read “USA” in red, white and blue and the back of the shirt had the word “Trump” with the number “45” written below.

When you push the envelope, sometimes the envelope pushes back.

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And Winter is coming.

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We have the technology.

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The only thing worse than having the wrong tool is not realizing you have the wrong tool until it’s too late.  You will learn this the first time you put an arrow through a turkey and he flies off with it and you never see either of them again.

Don’t let this happen to you.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Good thing I don’t drink coffee, then.

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Terrafugia’s Transition, a “roadable aircraft” or flying car, depending on your preferred terminology, will go on sale this month, the firm’s Chinese parent company announced in late September.

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A Japanese coatings manufacturer has released the first paint designed to keep mosquitoes at bay, with health authorities in Zambia hoping that it will help them succeed in a nationwide drive to make the nation malaria-free by 2021.

Kansai Plascon announced the release of the new coating in Lusaka this week, describing it as a “value-for-money alternative vector” in the campaign against a disease that still accounts for one million deaths in Africa every year.

The Kansai Plascon Anti-Mosquito paint is designed to be safely applied in residential properties as well as public and commercial buildings, with studies demonstrating that it is effective in repelling mosquitoes for up to 24 months.

Good stuff, Maynard.

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That would be amusing.

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Which is why you won’t be a Senator from Texas.

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

Never has it been so easy or convenient to be a hipster.

If , of course, you can afford it.

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Repeat after me: ‘We Don’t Believe You’.

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Long time coming, but not unexpected.

UPDATE: Google Shuttering Google+ for Consumers After Undisclosed Data Breach

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Scientists have hailed the results of the world’s first gene therapy trial for blindness after 14 patients with one of the most common inherited forms of the disease experienced “significant” gains or arrested deterioration of their vision.

Oxford University researchers, working with the NHS, injected a virus containing a missing gene into the rear of the eyes of patients suffering from choroideremia.

Of the 12 who received the treatment without suffering any complications, all have demonstrated improved or maintained vision since having the injection, some as long as five years ago.

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In 2000, the FDA approved a new version of tissue adhesive for human use, sold as Dermabond. This new composition, octyl-cyanoacrylate, is a longer chain, still more flexible, and possess the yet-unexplained ability to inhibit bacterial growth — a godsend in surgery. It’s strong enough that it will likely replace a lot of suturing altogether someday. Small quantities of octyl-cyanoacrylate are sold to non-medicals for “research purposes” — it’s the genuine stuff, only in dispensers that aren’t sterilized, and therefore not approved for human use (only animal use).

To use any cyanoacrylate on a wound, keep it on the surface layer of skin, not down in the well of the wound – imagine you are taping the top of the wound together. The glue sloughs off by itself in time.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Think of it as evolution in action.

Note to self: Avoid Brazil.

UPDATE: Botched Brazilian bum-lifts inspired by Kim Kardashian costing NHS hundreds of thousands to put right 

How about that GREAT government-provided healthcare?

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And rightly so.

A poll by, of all people, National Public Radio shows that the Democrat smear campaign against Judge Brett Kavanaugh has motivated Republican voters ahead of next month’s midterm elections. In July, according to NPR’s polling, Democrats enjoyed a 10-point advantage — 78% to 68% — on the question, of whether the elections are “very important.” In a poll conducted this week, however, 80% of Republicans say the elections are “very important,” compared to 82% of Democrats. In other words, the GOP’s voter intensity has increased by 12 percentage points in less than three months, and only the Kavanaugh confirmation circus can explain this. “The result of hearings, at least in the short run, is the Republican base was awakened,” pollster Lee Miringoff told NPR.

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Sounds like a win-win. Go for it.

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Thank you, minimum wage.

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Over the past few months, The Heritage Foundation team has been traveling the country to explain the benefits of tax reform. Below, we answer the most frequently asked questions about last year’s tax cut and the effort to pass Tax Reform 2.0.

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I know it’s around here somewhere….

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I’ll risk it.

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For over a decade the Chinese army has been stressing accurate shooting in general. That means more time in basic training is devoted to shooting and rifle use in general. That is one reason China recently increased army basic training from three months to six. The three month course proved inadequate for many recruits. By doubling the basic training a lot of problems are solved. For one thing, no one graduates from the six month course without being physically fit and competent in basic military skills (including how to “act and look like a soldier.”) That last item has been an issue in China and the West were too many volunteers show up overweight and out of shape.

Don’t know how long basic training for infantry is in the U.S. these days but when I went through Navy boot camp in 1968 it was eight weeks. We got to fire a .22 rifle a few times and watched an instructor fire a .45.

UPDATE: Why do snipers open their mouth when about to shoot?