- Is this why those darned flying cars are so late getting here?
- Couple arrested for living in squalor with their kids in the desert. I admit my first thought was, “Is this any more ‘abusive’ than sending the offspring to government school?” (The article’s attempt to tie this to the torture of the Turpin kids is the cheeziest of tabloidism.) UPDATE: Here’s an account with more sympathetic details.
- Even the devotedly leftist Intercept says there is no epidemic of school shootings.
- A former recruiter for Google has sued the company for being biased against hiring white and Asian men — and for firing him when he complained.
- Yuppie-driven “outdoor” emporia are rejecting bike helmets and water bottles because their maker also produces EBRs.
- Long but very informative read: A prepper goes to North Korea to evaluate just how dangerous it is. (H/T DB)
- From the Great Advances in Human Civilization (Not) Department: As demonic possession claims rise, the Vatican trains more exorcists.
- Is diabetes actually five different diseases?
Yes indeed… those golden retriever pups are vicious watch dogs. And, as my corgi likes to say, “death from the ankle down!!”
Reclaiming a word, or why you are, or should be a liberal.
https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2018/03/02/reclaiming-liberal/
All of this large corporate anti gun policy making sure is going to be helping my small local businesses when I go shopping!
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Flying cars? I thought This was why they never ‘got off the ground’ so to speak: http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1995-04.html
Squalor in the Desert reminds me of the title of an old movie. But still – since when is it a crime to be poor and not too bright?
No epidemic of school shootings? Well, duh. I suppose that’s important news to democrats, but how many are reading this blog? I suspect not too many.
Google – taking ‘diversity’ to a ‘whole nubba lebbel’ – outright discrimination. Wow, just wow.
REI – the next logical step will be to vet all suppliers to ensure they don’t make anything for the military. Please. I want to see what’s left in your stores. It won’t be me, however.
Exorcists – People are so darned nutty these days that sometimes I think the Devil is walking the earth unafraid. Maybe more exorcists, and fewer socialists, is just what we need.
The diabetes article was interesting and is already shared with all my friends and relatives who I think might have a personal reason to be interested. Thanks, Claire.
Even though I haven’t bought anything for a long time, I’ve been an REI member since the early ’70’s. So much for them.
I once delivered a simular concept airplane from one side of Canada to the other. A 1942 Aerocoupe. Not sure about the spelling. It had no rudder pedals and trailing landing gear so you drive it like a car. The inventor had the idea that every farmer could buy and fly it. It had 85 horse power and flew around 100 mph. You basically have to trust it in a crosswind as you land pointed sideways the trailing gear straighten the airplane on touch down. I hated it and you couldn’t pound a flax seed up my butt with a 5 pound hammer landing in a bad crosswind. However you couldnt stall or spin it no matter how hard you tried or screwed up and I bet a lot of recreational pilots are alive for that reason.
The ford air Flivver story was a cool one. At that time when aircraft were being tested there were so very many things that could go wrong it was frighting. It was a time when there were old test pilots and bold test pilots, but no old and bold test pilots.
@ maDDtraPPer – I think the aircraft you remember might be an Ercoupe. Hard to believe but some of these are still flying today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERCO_Ercoupe
I think the Devil is walking the earth unafraid.
I think he’s wandering around confused. Much like editors at The Onion, Satan’s wondering what he can do that’s worse than what we’re doing to ourselves.
IMHO the Kims have about as many options as the USSR’s leadership during the Reagan Administration. One of the options is apocalypse. Unfortunately, this time we have a clown instead of a cowboy. Nobody’s eye is on that ball.
Outdoors-oriented retailers are listening to social media and Wall Street, and forgetting that their customers aren’t.
They used a variety of government and nonprofit data sources, including data collected by the FBI, USA Today, and Everytown for Gun Safety, an organization that advocates for gun reform.
“Both sides of the issue,” right? “Dialogue,” right?
In the diabetes article’s classification of type 1 and type 2, type 1 was defined (not too well), while type 2 was correlated strictly to environmental factors, which is no definition at all, and did not explain what brings about the condition for purposes of comparison.
The Clusters tell us what the researchers see as being different, but do not define anything – and differences in degree should not be classified as a different disease. That is misleading and may confuse the patients into thinking they are better (or worse) than they really are.
Diabetes has become a chronic disease due to the manner in which medicine treated it with insulin. In light of new research and information on foods, specifically how low-carb/keto diets affect the body, we now know diabetes can often be treated satisfactorily with diet and exercise, and minimal or no medication. In fact this is not new; I saw it work in the 70s by a research doctor from Germany who came to America before WWII to escape the Nazis. As a GP in this country, he had minimal influence, but his patients were eternally grateful. Subcutaneous insulin was often reduced to oral medication, and some patients were taken off of medication altogether as long as they adhered to their lifestyle changes. Other non-traditional doctors are finding this is true now.
I suspect these researchers are setting up this Cluster theory to be treated with different medications for each Cluster; plus, by putting emphasis on weight (implying a CAUSE for diabetes), they will be trying to micromanage overweight people in every Cluster – another nanny-in-the-making for diagnostic medical/insurance purposes.
Well, I hope people stop driving GM vehicles because of their Humvee shame.
Folks may recall that previous nitwit CEO for REI was an Oxxx appointee to director of the department of the interior.
When a retailer politicizes his store, he reduces his customer base. I do not see this as a profitable concept of business methodology. 🙂
13.5 million hunting licensees. Four or five million NRA members. Add millions of other gun-bugs into the equation: That all adds up to a lot of pissed-off billlfolds.
Delta Airlines sold 18 NRA-discount tickets, and will lose tens of millions of dollars in tax breaks. Is that not a message?
16,300,000 carry licenses, plus the folks in no-license states.
Yep, some of them are discovering that there are no “Neutral Grounds” in this “debate”.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/business/nra-boycott.html?action=click&contentCollection=Business%20Day&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=EndOfArticle&pgtype=article
It’s also why in the comments in one of Claire’s previous posts, I hinted a bit about the Smith & Wesson Boycott. Admittedly, the smartest move a company could make is probably to keep quiet.
A crime to be dirt poor.Just not right.
OT: AAP calls for universal depression screening of teens. Of course firearms are mentioned in the article and of course the questions are answered “privately.” https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/02/26/588334959/pediatrians-call-for-universal-depression-screening-for-teens
“16,300,000 carry licenses, plus the folks in no-license states.”
Plus Outlaws and scofflaws.
My NRA phone app has been downloaded over 172,000,000 times as of the day this posted. Even allowing for a few million ‘progressive’ lurkers, that’s one crap-ton of people to offend.,
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