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Is this a great country or what?

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Imagine that!

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

I’m not sure I see the significance of two years. But hey. I quit worrying about my looks a long time ago.

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

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

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Trump ought to shave his head and grow a chin-beard. All the leftist heads would explode and it would ruin proglodyte fashion for decades.

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Funny how that works. But don’t forget that the tax reform bill was totally about helping the rich and harming the poor, women and minorities hardest hit, etc. etc.

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Not that you can do a whole lot about it….

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I bet you didn’t know that.

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I suspect that Trump’s election has emboldened a number of very subversive people.

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Women and minorities hardest hit, etc.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

The medieval step was much more toe-focused. Instead of hitting the ground with the heel, medieval European strollers stuck out their feet like ballerinas, touching the ball of the foot down on the ground first before putting their full weight down. This lighter step takes more muscle effort—Warzecha says he’s developed killer calf muscles after doing it for six months—but allows you to feel any potential obstacles before you put your whole body weight on top of them, lessening the chances that you’ll injure yourself on a rock or a piece of wood or even a hidden snake. If you touch your toe to the ground first, you can always lift your leg back up and avoid stepping down harder on that sharp rock/snake, but if you hit the ground with your heel first, it’s harder to jump back.

Walking in high heels has much the same effect.

Down side: It makes you walk like a Gungan.

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His interest having been piqued by CNN’s intense coverage of the big white truck obscuring President Trump’s golf outing at Mar-A-Lago earlier this week, Mike Magnoli of the CBS News West Palm Beach affiliate turned his investigative skills to the case. He tracked down the truck. He found that the vehicle belonged to the sheriff’s department. He determined, however, contrary to the heavy breathing at CNN, that the truck was not intended to block reporters’ views of Trump golfing.

Thank God! The First Amendment is safe!

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Along the New England coast, the cold appeared to be at least partially the culprit in the deaths of three thresher sharks found washed up on the shores of Wellfleet and Orleans on Cape Cod over the past several days, according to scientists.

We don’t hear about the sharks until paragraph 18.

Skomal hypothesised that the sharks, which are usually about 12 feet long, had begun to make their way south as northerly waters cooled, but got trapped by Cape Cod, as have wayward dolphins before them, and pushed up onto the beach, where the cold may have hastened their death.

Three paragraphs about sharks in the entire article.

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A convenient web site for those who want to bind their own books.

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Thanks in part to crowdsourced computers and smartphones belonging to over a million volunteers, the scientists have figured out how to choose the building blocks required to create a protein that will take on the shape they want.

In a series of papers published this year, Dr. Baker and his colleagues unveiled the results of this work. They have produced thousands of different kinds of proteins, which assume the shape the scientists had predicted. Often those proteins are profoundly different from any found in nature.

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Food scientists have successfully created a new type of bacon which has a reduced cancer risk.

In collaboration with Spanish chemists, British food manufacturers Finnebrogue claim to have produced the world’s first bacon that doesn’t include nitrites from vegetables or curing agents

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Using an ambulance to travel to the hospital in an emergency can cost upwards of $1,000 USD. Now research demonstrates that a significant number of people are instead choosing Uber to perform the same service.

The paper – currently being peer reviewed – examines the effect on ambulance usage as Uber was introduced to 766 cities across 43 states. According its findings, even the most conservative estimate shows a seven percent reduction in people traveling via ambulance where the service is available.

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Notice that all those people hugging him are black.

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America is facing a crisis over its crumbling water infrastructure, and fixing it will be a monumental and expensive task.

Two powerful industries, plastic and iron, are locked in a lobbying war over the estimated $300 billion that local governments will spend on water and sewer pipes over the next decade.

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But you have to remember that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his first year in office.

Harry Connolly, author of the Twenty Palaces novels, has a new novella out for purchase as an e-book.

Read his announcement.

I cannot recommend his work too highly (he is one of my Recommended Writers, see there on the right). The Twenty Palaces novels (and novellas) are the most creative and interesting approach to what is usually called Urban Fantasy that I’ve ever seen. My requirements for a good story are ‘interesting characters doing interesting things’, and Connolly’s stuff always delivers.

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I am not making this up.

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Lest they forget that this is a Communist regime.

Or maybe they’re engaged in some sort of one-upmanship competition with North Korea. Hard to say.

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Most of them voted Democrat in the last Presidential election.

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As Christmas quickly approaches and our ears fill with the sounds of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” it is impossible to ignore the festive spirit surrounding the year-end.

And one Twitter user, Cat Reynolds, has given us even more reason to celebrate.

She posted that all of Santa’s reindeer – Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and Rudolph – are female, an observation that immediately went viral.

According to experts, Reynolds’ tweet is likely accurate – because male reindeer shed their antlers at the end of the mating season in early December, while females sport their thinner antlers throughout the winter.

Well. There it is. Cue proglodyte calls on Santa Claus to resign in disgrace.

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Dramatic advances in powerful, high-intensity lasers are making it viable for scientists to pursue what was once thought impossible: creating fusion energy based on hydrogen-boron reactions. And an Australian physicist is in the lead, armed with a patented design and working with international collaborators on the remaining scientific challenges.

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Apparently, after his ‘humiliating’ defeat in Alabama (where he wasn’t on the ticket), Trump has decided to put another nail in the coffin of the Obama Legacy.

That sure looks like winning to me.

Steven Hayward totes it up.

I might as well get into the “hot take” game. Democrats and their media echo chamber will openly celebrate Doug Jones’s narrow win in Alabama, but inside I’ll bet they are actually disappointed. There is little chance they can hold this seat in 2020 (unless Republicans nominate Roy Moore again). Meanwhile, Jones deprives them of their favorite talking point that Republicans are all drooling knuckle-dragging morons. Worse, it means Al Franken will likely have to go through with his resignation after all. I’d bet money that a polygraph examination would reveal that Franken was secretly hoping for a Moore victory. It was his only chance of hanging on.

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We have the technology.

I’d want to see this thing go under an overpass safely first.

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The largest was, of course, Sister Mary Elephant.

They would, however, make a great Disney movie.

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We have the technology … Real Soon Now.

(Sorry, but Tiny Tumors sounds like a kid’s book written by a feminist.)

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Things haven’t changed a whole lot.

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Located off the North-Western seaboard of Europe, Ireland’s geographic situation is conducive to genetic homogeneity and isolation. Indeed, several traits are found to be at high frequencies within the Irish, compared to the mainland European populations, including; cystic fibrosis, lactase persistence, coeliac disease, galactosaemia, and multiple sclerosis. Studies of ancient Irish genomes suggest that the modern Irish genetic landscape was established about 3,500 years ago in the Irish Bronze Age. There have since been a number of significant historical migrations into Ireland; the Norse Vikings in the late first millennium, the Norman invasion of the 12th century, and the Plantations of the 16th and 17th centuries. The impact of these migrations on the modern Irish genome is largely unknown. 

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Where they will add much-needed diversity, I have no doubt.

How much extra would they charge to take their dad with them?

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More black and Hispanic Americans are getting jobs on President Donald Trump’s watch, the latest employment numbers show, although critics accuse him of ignoring such minority populations.

But of course you have to remember that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his first term.

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American Express today announced plans to eliminate signature requirements when customers make credit or debit card purchases, joining both Mastercard and Discover.

All three companies plan to stop asking customers to provide a signature when making a purchase in the United States and Canada starting in April of 2018. The change is designed to allow for a more consistent, streamlined, and speedy checkout experience for both merchants and cardholders.

This will save everybody a lot of time.

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Archaeologists from the Canterbury Archaeological Trust (CAT) working at St Albans Cathedral have discovered the grave of John of Wheathampstead, a former Abbot of national and international renown, who died in 1465, and whose burial site had remained a mystery up until now.

I guess they didn’t have milk cartons back then.

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

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Just so long as you remember that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in his first year in office.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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For a ‘man with no principles’, Trump is acting pretty thoroughly Republican.

I haven’t seen an American President do this many Republican things in one year since Reagan.

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Told you so.

They keep thinking that Trump eventually has to get around to using the old Republican Establishment playbook and can’t accept the fact that he ripped it up during the election campaign.