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Nonc Hilaire wrote:Whole Foods has the best steaks I have ever found in a grocery store.

Try a local meat market. One with local beef.

Good advice.

So who wants to be a fascist? The ONLY Difference between the Nazis and the Stalinists was the Nazis wanted to kill people based on Race and the Stalinists wanted to kill people based on Class. I want to see the local Putin lovers try to defend this without making ridiculous denials. But remember d...

The Stalinist also killed people based on ethinicity: not Russian meant being targeted for mass murder. Seeing that Stalin was not Russian, but Georgian, this is pure nonsense, as was to be expected. Stalin killed a lot of Volga Germans, Circassians, Chechens, etc., just based on the belief that ce...

Nonc Hilaire wrote:

Typhoon wrote:WP | Frosty fatwa: Saudi cleric bans snowmen

Frosty the Fatwa is not a jolly, happy soul.

In Saudi Arabia, banning snowmen is like banning unicorns, as useless as tits on a bull.

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This is fantastic! Much better than the Paula Abdul version! Such talent & humor!

Iran may get judged too harshly compared with Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia supported Al Qaeda and other terrorists. They've also supported the Pakistani nuclear weapons program (in exchange for nuclear weapons technology) for decades. The fanatics who bulldozed Muhammad's grave are essentially a nucle...

Does the FDA announce or publish something when they find bad practices?

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A knockout! Japanese?

Over-fitting is a big issue.

If only it were as easy to predict the future as it is to "predict" the past.

Nonc Hilaire wrote:White to mate in two moves

I see it in three. How only two?

What amazes me is that the Ukrainian forces allowed themselves to be surrounded. Incredibly incompetent. Since soldiers don't usually like to get surrounded, I'm guessing they were ordered to hold the position. This points to incompetence at the top, most likely in the civilian leadership. I agree....

noddy wrote:woohoo, the choice between cancer and heart disease versus starving broke on the streets.

isnt modern life grand.

Use a standing desk?

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A senior Israeli official suggested on Friday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been misled into thinking an invitation to address the U.S. Congress on Iran next month was fully supported by the Democrats. Netanyahu was invited by the Republican speaker of the house, ...

The beginning of the end http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xXW2guf2Qvo/VNKuj_24TWI/AAAAAAAAGxg/jurOtEcpbxg/s1600/Selection_046.jpg It seems the Ukrainian forces are now surrounded. Collapse will soon occur, thousands of Ukrainian military will be made prisoner and their equipment destroyed. Do not be surpr...

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The "postmodern" one is built like a Barbie Doll.

q_0xifuTqVA I'm looking at a buncha these. Here's another one: vz2p1SvuYjY Since you love big piston engines http://www.gizmag.com/go/3263/picture/6193/ If the Seven Wonders of the World was updated for the 21 st century, the Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine could be a ...

My guess is that people affiliated with the junta who used to rule Argentina are behind the bombing and (if it isn't a suicide) the investigator's death. They weren't shy about killing Jews while in power, and the bombing was a clever way to destabilize the country. They may have played the investig...

Speaking of a problem: Prince Andrew

The Welsh are definitely good at running things

Question: Who is this? She's a Victoria's Secret model, who often models their Pink line.

An Inquiry into the Possibility of Nonlocal Communication I think I saw this earlier, but wrote it off as overhyped by an amateur press. Context and a simple explanation of method and importance would be helpful. Time travel and wormholes . . . I can't even figure out how to get my car clock off 24...

Sax Coburg Gotha.

Typhoon & everyone else: What's your take on the upcoming Japanese election?

http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2014/09/15/Schizophrenia-is-actually-eight-disorders-not-one-disease/3961410817321/ Schizophrenia is actually eight disorders, not one disease "What we’ve done here, after a decade of frustration in the field of psychiatric genetics, is identify the way genes int...