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Volcanos and CO2 Emissions – Truth or Hoax?
Fact Check: When the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull erupted in March 2010, I received this mass email: VOLCANOES – MAKING LIBERALS LOOK STUPID…NATURALLY! *FOOD FOR THOUGHT ….. this was sent to me...
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The Safest Country in the World
In the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre, the NRA suggests that we need more guns – put trained guards with guns in all schools – which will make our children safer. If more guns create more safety, and...
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Comparing Two Cities
I don’t know who to attribute this to, but I lifted it off Facebook from Jera Moran through a like by a friend.
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Food Stamp Use by State
I recently took a look at a map of food stamp use by state (courtesy chartsbin.com) and found an apparent correlation between food stamp use and Obama vs. Romney states in 2012. Credit:...
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How I Think about Charity and Non-Profits
Over the decades, when I had something to give away to charity, I would always just call Goodwill. They’d come with a big truck and haul my stuff away. In the decades before the Internet – and...
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Elizabeth Warren and Student Loan Refinancing
Sen. Elizabeth Warren sponsored a bill that would allow students to refinance their student loans at today’s low interest rates – just like we all refinance our mortgages, if we can, to save money on...
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Technology Workforce – What it takes to get in?
There was an article on the front page of USA Today of July 24, 2014, titled “White, Asian Men rule the roost at Twitter,” with a subtitle of “Very few women part of its technology staff.” It showed...
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Does God Love Americans More than Africans?
I believe in the power of prayer because I know so many people all over the world have been praying for me. I join you in prayer now for the recovery of others. — Nina Pham, American Nurse and Ebola...
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Visualizing the Size of Africa
The size of Africa, being in the center of the world map, often is distorted to its disadvantage. Greenland, Alaska and Siberia look huge, Africa just looks big. How big really is it? Size of Africa...
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Executive Orders by President
This chart, created by Alissa Scheller for The Huffington Post, shows the average number of executive orders per year in office. My conclusion is that Obama did less executive orders than all...
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Bogus Scientific Facts and Dumb Quotes about Elevator Scheduling
I stumbled upon this article: How Microsoft And ThyssenKrupp’s Elevator Tech Saves Office Workers Years Of Waiting. The first paragraph reads: A Columbia University study found that New York office...
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Volcanos and CO2 Emissions – Truth or Hoax? – Take Two
In December of 2012, right after the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull erupted, I published a post here commenting about people posting nonsense about volcanos and anthropogenic global warming. At the...
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Executive Orders by President
So what are the Republicans complaining about Obama being the executive order president? Obama has the least executive orders since Grover Cleveland’s first administration (1885 – 1889)
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Trump, the Popular Vote and the GDP of California and New York
Trump keeps talking about having a mandate, and having won by a landslide. He is also upset about having lost the popular vote by the largest count ever in any presidential election. His supporters are...
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Building the Wall we do not Need
I do not believe in open borders. I actually agree with Trump’s sentiment that we are not a sovereign nation if our borders are open. We do have a problem with illegal immigration. It needs fixing. It...
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Is the American Military Depleted?
In a comment on a friend’s post on Facebook, someone answered my question for examples on our military being weak, decimated, needing more funding with the following challenge: Desert Storm was 2002...
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Death by Jihadists
Here is a little chart I put together listing numbers of deaths by various, sometimes surprising causes: Cause of Death Annual Source Islamic jihadist immigrants 2 Right-wing terrorists 5 Latex...
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Trump’s Claim about Pay Increases for U.S. Military
Going to have new equipment and well-deserved pay raises. We just got you a big pay raise. First time in 10 years. We got you a big pay increase. First time in over 10 years. I fought for you. That was...
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Paying for NATO – the Truth, the Myths, and Trump
Tara Dowdell: President Trump Says U.S. Contributes 90% to NATO. The Number is 22% | AM Joy | MSNBC from politics In the video above (at location 2:40) Tara Dowdell quotes Trump as stating the U.S....
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There are 153 million registered voters in the United States and about half of them end up voting in the average election. So say it’s high and it’s about 80 million. Trump says that the postal service...
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