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Archive for 2016
December 5, 2016
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Melissa Fell in Love With Lisa — Then Discovered She Was Her Mom.
BILL WHITTLE: Hillary’s Final Disgrace.
THEY CHOSE . . . POORLY. Johnson & Johnson Wouldn’t Settle for $1.8M. A $1B Verdict Followed.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Test flight success as Branson’s space tourism bid moves a step closer.
SHE DIED FOR TOURISM: Mysterious Mummified Legs Belonged to Queen Nefertari, Scientists Confirm.
To determine if the mummified legs belong to Queen Nefertari, scientists conducted various techniques and processes such as x-rays, chemical analysis, radiocarbon dating, genetics, paleopathology, Egyptology, etc. The study notes that this is the first ever multidisciplinary investigation performed on the mummified legs.
Results showed that the mummified legs belonged to Queen Nefertari. The tests also revealed that the legs belonged to a woman who was about five feet and four inches tall, had mild athritis and could be around 40 to 60 years old when she died, FOX News reports. The study also said the embalming materials that were used to mummify the legs coincide with the traditions of Ramesside mummification.
“The expertise that had gone into that mummification — even judging from the legs — the care, the attention, the wrapping, the materials employed; they are strongly suggestive someone of incredibly high status,” Joann Fletcher, co-author of the study, told The Guardian.
This stands in striking contrast to the legacy of Barack Obama, much of which is set to be erased in the 100 days after January 20.
THE CONNECTION BETWEEN migraines and weather.
EUROPE’S NEW MISSION TO MARS: Decades of attempts show how hard it is to land on Mars – here’s how we plan to succeed in 2021.
LOOKING AT SILICON VALLEY GIANTS’ H1B SALARIES. “The tool allows you to browse salaries by company, job, and city—for some companies, as far back as 2011.”
I’M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THAT 48 HOUR PERIOD LAST MONTH WHEN THE MEDIA WAS OBSESSED ABOUT NOT PASSING ON FAKE NEWS: U.S. Muslim Meets Eric Trump, Discovers Media Lied About ‘Muslim Registry.’
WAIT, I THOUGHT IF YOU LIKED YOUR DOCTOR YOU COULD JUST KEEP YOUR DOCTOR: Insurers’ Flawed Directories Leave Patients Scrambling for In-Network Doctors.
AMAZON HAS THE LifeStraw personal water filter on sale. A good thing to have in your car kit or go bag.
UPDATE: Sorry, it’s the LifeStraw Family water purifier that’s on sale. 53% off!
CHINA: Central Planning Stymied By Reality.
What China needs is a law against unintended consequences.
OUT ON A LIMB: Relax, Liberals, The Third Reich Isn’t on the Way.
Well, that’s a relief. Could somebody talk this would-be Dietrich Bonhoeffer off the ledge?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X77K_zeZUu4
WHEN THINGS GO WRONG in the vacuum chamber.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Ditching Electoral College would allow California to impose imperial rule on a colonial America.
Michael Barone:
If California continues to occupy one extreme of the national political spectrum, there may well be more such splits. At least unless and until the Democratic Party figures it needs more to make a case with more appeal beyond California if it wants to win 270 electoral votes.
All of which prompts renewed arguments about the Electoral College. The case for abolishing it is simple: Every American’s vote should count the same. But it won’t happen. Two-thirds of each house of Congress and 38 of the 50 state legislatures will never go along.
The case against abolition is one suggested by the Framers’ fears that voters in one large but highly atypical state could impose their will on a contrary-minded nation. That largest state in 1787 was Virginia, home of four of the first five presidents. New York and California, by remaining closely in line with national opinion up through 1996, made the issue moot.
California’s 21st century veer to the left makes it a live issue again. In a popular vote system, the voters of this geographically distant and culturally distinct state, whose contempt for heartland Christians resembles imperial London’s disdain for the “lesser breeds” it governed, could impose something like colonial rule over the rest of the nation. Sounds exactly like what the Framers strove to prevent.
The Founders’ genius has proven remarkably enduring.
SPACE HEROINE ALETA JACKSON: Rest In Peace. I knew her going back to the old L5 days, and this is true: “No one I know fought harder for our future in space.”
DONALD TRUMP — THE PROF. KINGSFIELD OF PRESIDENTS? Reince Priebus calls Trump “a Socratic method guy” — “It kind of reminds me of being back in law school.”
FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: Here’s how the NBA responded to the first Colin Kaepernick in professional group sports:
An odd controversy briefly dominated the sports pages in March 1996. A player in the National Basketball Association, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, refused to follow the league’s rule requiring that players stand in a “dignified posture” during the national anthem. Instead, since the beginning of the 1995-96 season, Abdul-Rauf had remained seated during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner.
A black, 27-year-old former Baptist from Mississippi who had converted to Islam in 1991, he declared that as a Muslim, he could not pay homage to the American flag – which he called a “symbol of oppression, of tyranny.” He argued further that the flag directly contradicted his Islamic faith: “This country has a long history of [oppression]. I don’t think you can argue the facts. You can’t be for God and for oppression. It’s clear in the Koran. Islam is the only way.”
The NBA responded firmly, suspending Abdul-Rauf until he agreed to obey league rules. He missed one game, then capitulated. Two factors probably weighed most heavily on him: losing a cool $31,707 for each game missed, and facing wide opposition to his decision from other Muslims.
What’s prevented the NFL from doing the same after Kaepernick began his ratings-destroying petulance this year?
(Via Kevin D. Williamson’s new article on “A Problem Like Keith Ellison.”)
AMERICAN THINKER: The Left’s Coming Counterattack.
#NEVERFORGET: Dec. 5 Is Repeal Day, the Day We Got Back Our Alcohol.
There are few things more difficult in American politics than amending the Constitution, yet Repeal forces got the job done in very short order.
So how is it that so much of what Washington does, no matter how disastrous, ends up having more staying power than Prohibition?
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: I Don’t Want To Be The Breadwinner In My Marriage Anymore! “Now herein lies my problem — I became the breadwinner in an extreme way. I committed to supporting us for two years, but we’re going on four now, and it will likely be five. Our income divide is so extreme that I pay for 90 percent of our living expenses. What I’ve found is I can’t live this girl-power lifestyle that I believe in. . . . I hate that I want a more traditional lifestyle with a husband who can provide for me.”
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Trump as FDR with the Fireside Tweet: Democrats think caring means a government program. Trump thinks caring is getting to keep your job, just as he promised.
FDR knew this. His New Deal economic policies were mostly snake oil — according to a study by UCLA economists, they actually prolonged the Great Depression by seven years. But FDR made people feel like he cared, even though he was a rich man from New York who had never been poor himself.
Now another rich man from New York seems to be repeating the formula. FDR gave the Democrats two decades of political dominance. Today’s Democrats should be worrying that Trump could do the same for the Republican Party.
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