“What you saw was not even remotely close to pneumonia,” Eric said firmly, citing his own experience at dealing with upper-respiratory infections. “That was an immediate event that caused, obviously, a complete, almost like paralysis of her lower extremities. It’s insulting to not only physicians in the people that saw that, but also to everyday folks.”
No poop. Read it all. Thanks, Breitbart. The folks the Hildabitch condemns as the alt.right.
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“The website True Pundit quoted unnamed New York police sources saying Clinton was wearing an “inductive earpiece” during the NBC forum hosted by Matt Lauer. The website described the unit as the kind of tech used by stage actors in need of prompting to recite forgotten lines.”
True or not (and who would put it past crooked Hillary?) this is a laugher. I remember when W was accused of something similar by the usual Democrat suspects. Nice to see the needles turned back on them for a change.
Via FoxNews.
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As anti-Semitism becomes more prevalent and vicious at U.S. colleges and universities it’s easy to see it everywhere even when it isnt there. Thus you have to wonder about the SpaceX explosion yesterday in Florida.
That Falcon 9 that blew up on the pad, supposedly running an engine test of some sort, despite its payload already being in place atop the stack, destroyed an Israeli-made satellite belonging to Facebook. The sat was intended to improve Internet reception via smartphones in rural Africa.
The Times of Israel, whose initial reports carried no hint of terrorism, said the loss of the $200 million sat would be a major blow to the country’s space industries. Facebook merely vowed to soldier on.
UPDATE: Here’s an early, conspiracy-theory explanation. The Falcon 9 suffered a drone attack. The official investigation is going to take lots of time.
Globalization has changed many a once-famous American brand that is now made in China or Malaysia or even Vietnam to something less than its former grandeur. Cheaper, yes, but often not as good.
Corning Ware, however, took its hit back in the late ’90s when the company was bought out and its famous pyroceram cookware (made of the same stuff as rocket nosecones, the old ads said) was soon replaced with cheaper, and less resilient, stoneware. And made in China.
I discovered all this the other day when I dropped one of Mrs. Charm’s Corning Ware pyroceram casserole dishes taking it out of the dishwasher. It broke in half. Replacing it I soon discovered isn’t impossible but it takes more than a quick trip to the store. I went to three before giving up. All they had was the stoneware.
Old pyroceram Corning Ware is still sold, but only mainly in used versions. Amazon has them at new prices. The material is famous for not absorbing anything, hence a used casserole dish doesn’t carry any trace of the food that’s ever been cooked in it. Plus it can be swiftly moved from oven to freezer (or vice-versa) without coming apart—stoneware does absorb and it can’t stand rapid temperature changes.
If you have trouble believing that or anything else on this arcane subject, the above link is a great place to start. And the cooking blog below provides further illumination:
Via Cooking With Love.
UPDATE: Corningware still sells the pyroceram product but in limited sizes.
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Apollo Sixteen astronaut Charles Duke’s family snapshot, that is, face up on the lunar dust. Is it still there? Who knows. But it was when he put it there in 1972.
“‘This is the family of Astronaut Duke from Planet Earth. Landed on the Moon, April 1972,’ the spaceman wrote on the back of the picture.”
He wasn’t the only astronaut to leave mementos on the moon, according to NASA deputy administrator Robert Jacobs. “A lot of astronauts left some sort of personal memento. This one is a moment of humanity and what is important, for Charlie it was his family.”
Duke, a former Air Force test pilot, is 80.
Via NASA.
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Monte Verde in Chile caused an earthquake in modern archaeology. The site is an ancient (Paleoindian) small camp of about 30 people, just about 30 miles inland of the Pacific Ocean. It has produced stone tool artifacts that reliably date a millennium before the accepted 11,500 13,000-years-old first establishment of human occupation of the Americas. Some Monte Verde artifacts could be as old as 33,000 years.
The Gault Site, about 20 miles northwest of Georgetown in Central Texas, and about 250 driving miles inland of the Gulf of Mexico, was a larger and apparently more permanent Paleoindian site. It has yielded many tools and other artifacts that make it a close cousin to Monte Verde. A few artifacts have been found to be 15,000 years old.
Tours are your best bet since the Gault is on secured private property administered by Texas State University. Archaeologist Mike Collins, formerly of the University of Texas, is the boss and he generally conducts the infrequent tours that run $10 a person to help pay for the scientific work at the Gault Site.
Via Instapundit.
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