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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Mrrzy Date: 05 Jan 24 - 02:46 PM NRA prez is out |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Stilly River Sage Date: 04 Jan 24 - 03:39 PM Throw the APA or MLA or Turabian book at the critics - let them understand what they're looking it. They'll back off with their tails between their legs instead of trying to get the rules about "over forty words must be placed in a blockquote." Meanwhile, the Trump supporters panting over pending lists of Epstein's cronies seem to have instead encountered his name dropping habits that are being debunked by the people themselves or their representatives. They cast a wide net trying to snag people they can use to bring down other people and it seems to just muddy the waters more. Jeffrey Epstein boasted of spurious celebrity connections, documents show Court document released Wednesday confirmed some celebrity connections but also showed late sex offender’s flimsy braggadocio |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Mrrzy Date: 04 Jan 24 - 01:03 PM Indeed. I read that too... |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Stilly River Sage Date: 02 Jan 24 - 06:24 PM It sounds like a proofreader or editor needs to step up regarding the charges of plagiarism for that Harvard professor - apparently some of the criticism of remarks posted "without quotes" was when they were delivered in blockquotes, which in scholarly publications means it is a quote and you never use quotes on it (this being a blockquote that actually isn't quoting anything, just here for mechanical reasons) but the block might not show up with the way they're searching, or they don't know what they're looking at. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Mrrzy Date: 02 Jan 24 - 02:23 PM Harvard prez out |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Mrrzy Date: 29 Dec 23 - 03:12 PM Ok ok... Go googlenews biarritz chef. I can't even. Oh, ok. Michelin-starred chef leaves Biarritz restaurant after an "incident" involving nudity, bondage, fruit, veg, and orifices. The search brings up all the funny headlines, though... Vraiment, la vie est intéressante partout. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Donuel Date: 04 Dec 23 - 05:45 AM Purdue Pharma is litigating a bankruptcy settlement regarding the creation of the opioid crisis. Its like 10 lbs of shit in a 5 lbs Sackler. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Donuel Date: 01 Dec 23 - 07:32 AM Besides, teaching at Harvard is a helluva Plan B. It turns out that only one woman in Israel's Intelligence Department warned of the Hamas attack for a year but was ignored by all the men who called her 'imaginative'. Sounds familiar. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Donuel Date: 01 Dec 23 - 07:18 AM Why did Tom Lehrer really stop performing? Most likely even though Lehrer was "a hero of the anti-nuclear, civil rights left" and covered its political issues in many of his songs and, even though he shared the New Left's opposition to the Vietnam War, and advocated for civil rights, he disliked the aesthetics of the counterculture of the 1960s and stopped performing, The hippy-dippy counter-culture was not his crowd. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Donuel Date: 01 Dec 23 - 07:09 AM Tom Lehrer's National Brotherhood Week, among other songs, can not be more perfect. As such, singing the truth probably attracted the bile of powers that be which can be quite punitive if not fatal. Remember the era of Tom. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 30 Nov 23 - 04:10 PM Queensland grazier makes sign to redirect lost travellers following Google Maps ... TRUST ME NOT GOOGLE - the place they want is 17.5km (11 miles) away! |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 30 Nov 23 - 01:37 PM I heard once (corrections invited) that Henry Kissinger getting the Nobel Peace Prize was the reason Tom Lehrer gave up performing, on the grounds that satire was no longer possible. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Mrrzy Date: 30 Nov 23 - 12:25 PM I was going to put Kissinger here, too. Wow. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Donuel Date: 30 Nov 23 - 11:48 AM 5 million Americans have a warrant out for their arrest. 31 States have Insurance companies backing out of claims related to climate change. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter From: Steve Shaw Date: 30 Nov 23 - 09:26 AM Cambodia. Vietnam. Pinochet. Nobel peace prize. Spot the incongruity. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter From: keberoxu Date: 30 Nov 23 - 08:49 AM Off-topic, I know, but Henry Kissinger died yesterday. Takes me back to Watergate . . . So off-topic it was moved over here. ---mudelf |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Donuel Date: 29 Nov 23 - 08:42 AM It is true but I suspect not to be confused with the most used or googled word. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 28 Nov 23 - 12:43 PM .... can't .... resist .... > Word of the year is Authentic Are you sure that isn't fake news, Mrrzy :-) ? |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Donuel Date: 28 Nov 23 - 07:59 AM The couple in the Bently were extremely drunk when they returned from a Casino and drove 80mph when they hit an inclined concrete barrier that separated lanes at the 'toll booth' sending them up up and over an 8 foot fence nose-diving into the booths. I am considering using a very old marine salvage law that would allow me to claim the 1,500 sq. mile ice berg as floating real estate. The only problem is I would have to go there. A beaver plane with skis should do the trick. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Mrrzy Date: 27 Nov 23 - 07:44 PM Word of the year is Authentic |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Donuel Date: 27 Nov 23 - 07:26 AM More news you can't use; A 1,500 sq. mile iceberg is now sailing the open ocean at 3 miles a day. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Stilly River Sage Date: 23 Nov 23 - 04:08 PM This was a rather strange event yesterday, when a Bentley (!) sped up, hit a barrier and went airborne. It crashed into a booth and exploded on the bridge between Niagara Falls, NY and Niagara Falls, Ontario. Fiery Bentley crash that killed two at US-Canada border likely not terrorism, says FBI Rainbow Bridge was closed on one of year’s busiest days after vehicle reportedly en route to Kiss concert exploded on Wednesday “More information could arise but, based on the preliminary investigation, no sign of terrorist involvement in the horrific explosion that occurred here in western New York,” the New York governor, Kathy Hochul, told reporters on Wednesday. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 08 Nov 23 - 04:27 PM How a Melbourne recycling program is using old hotel soap to solve a global health problem ... A decade after Soap Aid's inception, boxes of used soap from 250 hotels across Australia and New Zealand come to a warehouse in Melbourne's south. Some soap is yellow-brown, cracked, and filthy. Others are pristine and in their original wrappings. Phase one includes manually and visually checking, and sorting what is not salvageable. The rest is checked by a metal detector and scraped clean by hand. "I check up to 200 kilograms a day," shouts a worker proudly over the whirr of machinery. Then, soap that is deemed to be reusable is dumped into a machine for a multi-phase process to treat, smash, strain, and then re-mould the soap ... Mr Matulick said Soap Aid supplied 2.9 million bars of soap to communities in need across the world, including remote and regional Indigenous communities in Australia ... |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 02 Nov 23 - 05:56 PM Australia's fashion waste is a growing problem, but these scientists say they have an answer It looks and feels like children's playdough, but this colourful clay being made in a lab at Deakin University in Geelong, is actually old clothing. For the past five years, scientists at the university's Institute for Frontier Materials have been trialling different methods to figure out the best way to recycle Australia's growing textile waste. Now, they think they've found a way. "What we've discovered is that we can take waste textiles and grind them up into really fine particles, which we can then use as a pigment to re-dye new textiles," Emma Prime, Deakin University's strategic research manager, said. (read on) |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 27 Oct 23 - 06:18 PM wikipedia on tree kangaroos video |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 24 Oct 23 - 05:37 PM Orphaned eastern grey kangaroo joey fitted with prosthetic after losing part of tail awww, so cute! so clever - bloke who makes prosthetic limbs for people has a go making one for a roo cos it can't balance & hop about properly. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Donuel Date: 11 Nov 23 - 12:38 PM Iceland declared a state of emergency regarding an impending volcanic eruption. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Donuel Date: 04 Nov 23 - 07:11 AM He won't be fried, but he's going to the cooler. Who could buy his magic beans and not expect they were fake? |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Donuel Date: 27 Oct 23 - 02:49 PM I recently learned about tree kangaroos. Yep they live up in the trees. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Mrrzy Date: 03 Nov 23 - 10:12 PM Bankman fries? |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Mrrzy Date: 25 Oct 23 - 08:38 PM We have a Speaker! Pourvu que ça dure, as maman Létitia said (avec son accent corse) about her son Napoleon. I am reminded of Speaker-to-Animals, the not-so-docile Kzin. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Mrrzy Date: 22 Oct 23 - 09:36 AM ! |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: keberoxu Date: 18 Oct 23 - 06:27 PM Yes, the Poland parliamentary election shows a turn from right towards center. A big deal when you are part of the EU, and a big relief for the other nations as well as Poland's more moderate citizens. After what happened in Central Europe before the last world war, it is to be hoped that Poland will stay moderate now. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: keberoxu Date: 15 Oct 23 - 03:53 PM I don't know where else to note the developments in Poland. The parliamentary election today bears upon Poland's relationship with Ukraine, and indirectly on its longstanding position against Russia. Where would Lech Walesa stand if he were still alive, I wonder? |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Steve Shaw Date: 17 Oct 23 - 01:23 PM On the whole, the news from Poland looks good. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Steve Shaw Date: 13 Oct 23 - 03:55 PM Enjoy your annular eclipse, yanks. I don't know exactly where any of youse live so I don't know who if anyone will get the full view. Someone in Texas, huh! We had a total eclipse in Cornwall on August 11 1999 just after 11 am. Here in Bude the coverage of the sun was 99%, so we drove to Sharp Tor on Bodmin Moor (half an hour away) where we had to hike to the top. The cloud miraculously parted for a few minutes and we were just about the only people in the country to see it from the ground. The shadow rushing towards us across the countryside was scary and stunning, black as night and very chilly for a few minutes, and we saw Baily's beads, the diamond ring and the corona. Another time in the spring of 2015 I was in hospital when there was a partial eclipse with most of the sun covered. It didn't go dark but it was strangely dull despite the clear blue sky. I made a makeshift pinhole camera out of cardboard with a safety pin, and had all the beautiful nurses in the ward crowding round me to see it . Ah, science can be so rewarding! :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Steve Shaw Date: 07 Oct 23 - 02:04 PM The EU and the US have immediately condemned Hamas and sided with Israel. That's disgusting. I don't like what Hamas are doing but I'm not going to forget the dreadful things visited on the Palestinians over the last few decades, and, more specifically and relevantly in this instance, to Gaza, which get a free pass from Israel's chief ally. Two and a quarter million civilians blockaded into a stinking ghetto, deprived of proper medical care and even of decent drinking water by the Israeli regime. It's new news and it's bloody bad news. Sickening. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Stilly River Sage Date: 21 Oct 23 - 11:27 AM Mrrzy, it also means less red meat to chum the news cycle waters. Now if Britney Spears had just decided to not add to her 15 minutes of fame with a book and kept to singing, the news cycle wouldn't be so odd this weekend. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Stilly River Sage Date: 17 Oct 23 - 03:55 PM It does look good for Poland. A light spot considering so much gloom in other areas. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Stilly River Sage Date: 15 Oct 23 - 01:36 PM We had about 80% of the eclipse here, it was eerily dim outside for a while and lovely crescent shadows on the front path under the baldcypress. In 2017 we had a total eclipse pass over North Texas and it was quite an event on a nice day so those of us on campus got out and looked at all of the ways crescent shapes could appear as sunlight shone through all sorts of natural and manmade orifices. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Stilly River Sage Date: 10 Oct 23 - 11:52 PM Here's an interesting reversal of fortune: A California judge has quashed one of Sonos's legal victories against Google – and the $32.5 million royalty payout that came along with it – declaring Sonos's patents at the heart of the matter were the unenforceable work of a "pretender" attempting to "punish an innovator … by delay and sleight of hand." Summing it up: Sonos was trying to punish Google retroactively by reaching into the past and connecting patent filings made over a decade apart. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Stilly River Sage Date: 03 Oct 23 - 10:30 AM This scary story seems to have resolved itself overnight. Craig Ross Jr. charged with kidnapping 9-year-old Charlotte Sena from Moreau Lake State Park in Upstate New York Last we heard there was a huge search for the girl snatched from her bike in a large campground; lucky for Ms Sena she seems to have been kidnapped by a not-very-bright kidnapper who was pretty easily detected and brought in. Anyone who watches the police procedurals knows he should have worn gloves when handling a ransom note he stuffed into the family mailbox in the wee hours. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Donuel Date: 17 Oct 23 - 05:29 PM A Jupiter size planet with orbiting debris that may make 4 more moons. |
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Subject: RE: SEX CHANGE From: Donuel Date: 17 Oct 23 - 12:26 PM Sex change in ocean species is fairly common. Shrimp, oysters, parrot fish, clown fish, and many others are all born one sex and become another. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Donuel Date: 15 Oct 23 - 11:13 AM Suppose planetary debris with amino acids, water, and organic molecules, and perhaps DNA or RNA, then that would be the debris that the Pan Spermia theory proposes. On the other hand the Earth may have become an original womb of life without a headstart from previous bacterial or viral life. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Donuel Date: 09 Oct 23 - 08:01 AM The future of home building appears to be 3D digital printing of everything except the roof. print your house |
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Subject: RE: BS: News about halloween COCKTAILS From: Donuel Date: 08 Oct 23 - 05:56 PM ENCHANTED OOZE Enchanted Ooze is an edible glitter slime martini made with muddled pear and house-made green simple syrup. The outcome is a light, clean, fruit forward drink, far less ominous than its disturbing title. Ingredients: 2.0 oz House-made pear infused Tito’s Handmade Vodka 2 Slices muddled pear 0.5 oz Egg whites 0.5 oz Midori Melon liqueur 0.5 oz House-made green simple syrup Wilton Edible Glitter Mist of Absinthe Method: Muddle fresh pear (2 slices). Add egg white, melon liqueur, green simple syrup and pear infused vodka. Shake hard with ice and pour into a martini glass. Pinch of glitter and two sprays of Absinthe. ----------------- KOFEFE Kofefe is a revenge drink suitable for divorcing couples or horrible bosses. The outcome is a disguised disgusting drink that is sure to peese. Not suitable for minors. Ingredients: 3 oz. Stoli 1 oz. Kalua coffee liquer 1/2 oz Galliano splash of lemon juice as much urine as you think best. serve over ice |
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Subject: BS: Chocolate Colonialism From: Donuel Date: 08 Oct 23 - 12:29 PM One and a half million children work in Chocolate Plantations for little or no pay. Chocolate beans that make about 500 chocolate bars get the farmers only $80. The fair trade for coffee growers allows the farmers about 20% more for their crop. There is room for improvement for farmers, for sure. Fixing the child labor problem will make your chocolate more expensive. source: CBS Sunday Morning |
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Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023 From: Donuel Date: 03 Oct 23 - 01:42 PM Cat Bohannon has written a book called Eve, how the female body drove 200 Million Years of Evolution. Her work can be overviewed in Scientific American, Science Magazine, and an NPR interview that aired on today's date. This Guardian link misses the mark but does not have a paywall. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/30/how-women-drove-evolution-cat-bohannon-on-her-radical-new-history-of-humanity Until 1999 women were left out of most drug trials so even over the counter drugs have been a gamble for women who respond differently. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Donuel Date: 03 Oct 23 - 11:30 AM This beautiful area was the gem of Iroquois and Mohawk Indian land. https://nystateparks.blog/2020/01/07/state-parkland-expansion-touches-colonial-native-american-history/ |
