So there are actually a few respondents out there who think it's OK to punch a guy, but threatening to punch a guy is taking it too far.

They don't care. They just feel good that someone gets hurt because of 911, and the potential for the next 911. It doesn't matter that every expert on interrogation says it doesn't work and every study shows it doesn't work.

Have you seen this meme?

Interesting split ....
Always/sometimes = 48%
Never/Rarely = 42%

oh and ... here's another for ya Spex.

How is pumping food into someone's anus considered feeding?

Food, shoved in a hole. Close enough.

pie hole, brown eye hole - whatever it takes

Spoken like a true Sheldon!

:lol2:

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Causation? :eyebrow:

Apparently, this was done by a computer scientist not a biologist but the relationship is interesting if not conclusive. A question I'd like answered is, does Glyphosate destroy helpful gut flora? A problem we humans have is lumping things together. Monsanto is evil therefor Glyphosate causes autism is a fun thing for an activist's brain to latch onto, but it is conspiratorial thinking. That said I'm going to continue to drink my kombucha because it makes my system run better.

Short answer: absolutely.

Long answer: It's not the only one. The majority of pesticides also kill the majority of gut bugs. Meanwhile, the very definition of a preservative is something that kills microbes, thus delaying spoilage. Everyone sits there and shakes their head about the over-use of antibiotics, but every single time you eat something with any kind of preservative, you are literally swallowing a (tiny, but cumulative) dose of antibiotics.

Bitter answer: Even if this chart did make an impression on someone in charge, the likely outcome would be to remove that one herbicide from the legions in use, see the rate of autism go down not one whit, then shrug and put it back into rotation. Fixing something of this magnitude requires a change of equal magnitude.

It is clear that Monsanto has caused the increase in federal and state government
regulations to create, fund, and subsequent child-find activities of the IDEA program,
as confirmed by the 2001 slowdown in Roundup application being diverted
into the creation of the "No Child Left Behind program",
and then direct correlation seen in 2004.

:eek:

LIKE A ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE

Monsanto is a extremely well funded, lawyered up, business and politically savvy, corporation.
In my opinion they are the ultimate evil James Bond scale bad guys.
I find these truths to be self evident.

Back in my youth, mid-50's, a Monsanto engineer/executive type bought my grandfathers house next door. OK, next door was a third of a mile, but they were neighbors, his kids went to my school, yada, yada, yada.

I would listen to him tell the adults about the future Monsanto was planning, and wanted to play a big roll in shaping. To a ten year old kid, it sounded Buck Rogers here we come. And being immersed in agriculture, I knew the food production predictions were incredible, but in the 50's scientists could do... or undo... anything.

Oh, and do you know why we don't have flying fuckin' cars? Because Monsanto wasn't interested. ;)

None have more than 50% of their highways and byways named "street".

No Boulevard in Philly! The Boulevard is the main road through half of town.

And then there's dumb Street Road. Worst name ever

It's not "The Boulevard" it's Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Boulevard. And it comprises what percent of Philly thoroughfares? :eyebrow:

OK, YOU go through town and ask people where "Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Boulevard" is, and I will go through town and ask people where "The Boulevard" is, and we'll see who gets more answers. :D

What? I'm a MAN, I don't ask for directions.... mumble, grumble, where's my snit..

But the point is, one road isn't going to show up on a percentage graph.

2nded

They should name an avenue in its honor.

Street road isn't in Philly.

It stands to reason that hilly cities would have more terraces.

In an effort to bring you information you can use...

In Seattle, avenues run north-south and streets run east-west. Have any of you noticed a similar distinct pattern in your city?

Streets in Arlington VA are in alphabetical order going east to west going a-z with one syllable words and then starting over again a-z with 2 syllable words, and beginning with 3 syllable words but running out before they reach the county line. N-S they are numbered. There are a handful of old diagonal and meandering streets that are either "Roads" or "Boulevards."

Not really in the same vein, but...

We have South St., and North St., both of which run east-west.

And we have East St., and West St., both of which run north-south.

I don't think we have a blvd.

Boston had street builders follow wandering cows. :haha:

DC has the same pattern, but the diagonals are Avenues named after the States.

Here's one that I think is brilliant:

You beast! :(

What did you do with the corpses?

I bet he destroyed a good bit of the 'evidence'.

Took them for a ride in the country and left them where the coyotes might feast.

He took 'em to CoyFC!

The Aussie version of KFC.

Coyote Frozen Chicken.

*full disclosure: I am only an honorary Colonel.

What? Oh, I thought you said honorable... nevermind :haha:

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:)

I know China is down because of the one child policy but I wonder why the others fall below what I would expect to be in the 49% to 51% range?

You can't get real numbers in a closed society especially one where women are property.

edit add: There is a creepy factor to this. Women without rights can be killed without any state reaction. Thinking of the number of young males who are unattached with no hope of building a family... I'd go fucking jihadi.

A number of factors could be in play--more random death for women in general in the name of honor, higher illness-leading-to-death because women aren't worth wasting medical care on, women killing baby daughters either to please their male relatives' need for boys, or to spare them from the life they have in store.

Even still, 23% in Qatar seems ridiculously low. I do wonder if that's partly due to under-reporting because the women aren't considered people.

According to the Internets, it's the incoming contractors in oil and construction.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/data...ed-the-country

No wonder they made the stadium into a vagina.

From here

I can't say much about the other major cities, but yeah, Austin's stayed a high-growth area throughout the economic woes of the last decade. Even when the housing bubble burst, they kept right on building and successfully selling new homes right across the highway from me.

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ooooo looks like a hump day opportunity!

btw... Texas did have a nice run from 2008 on up but you can plot other states from their individual bottoms to skew similarly.

The article calls it "accidental."

Riiiight, because sometimes a stadium is just a stadium.

:D

Yeah but not every state... somebody had to go down for the overall US numbers to be at a loss. Admittedly, it could all just be Detroit.



I went looking for what the lone hit song about Thursday might be, and found it in the original article for Bruce's graphic: "Sweet Thursday," Johnny Mathis 1962.

This is an interesting document with some interesting graphs and charts if someone knows how to clip them. The bottom line is a somewhat different economy in Texas. Texas had pretty consistent higher unemployment than the country as a whole until around 2006. From then on Texas performed better than the rest of the country. Now with energy prices sinking we'll see if its a sustainable thing.

Goats everywhere, The Washington Post has an interactive map where you can check county by county.

No way. Over the years I gotten many people's goats, and never given them back.
No one knows the number or where they are now.

Obviously you left them, or they wandered to, Texas. :haha:

Watch your fingers...

"I'll just reach up into this jointer and clear out the chips... I'll just reach under this mower and clear out the clogged grass... I'll just stick my hand into this snowblower to loosen up the packed snow... Let me look down into this barrel and see why the gun didn't go off..."

There's a youtube video of the last one. The guy won the Bronze medal in the Darwin competition.

After you've mangled your hand (or what ever you're clearing the clog with, Studly) be careful driving to the hospital.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Highway Loss Data Institute, reports some interesting results. Realize they are recording real world results so it's primarily on vehicles three years old.

In 1989 the reported, A 700% variation between model.(pdf)

In 2011 they reported, "Death rates by model: SUV drivers are among least likely to be killed".

There's a lot of information there. I don't agree with all of their theories or conclusions, but the data charted should be pretty straight foreword.