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Bad habit: can't break
My bad habit used to be finger biting: by forcing myself to not bite them, I transferred it to cheek and lip biting.
I've started using large doses of easy absorb magnesium powder, and that eases it off (if I take a dose about every 6-8 hours. If I forget, it takes an hour or two to kick in again.
Does anyone else do the same? Do they have a good solution?
Now, I gotta make sure I take some before work in the morning, and should probably mix a dose to take at work, then try to remember around supper, then maybe at bedtime....
Sigh.
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#ConfessYourRussianConnections
Alright, I'll confess.
In 1978, our ship docked in Venice, Italy. Docked nearby was a Russian tour ship. Little did we boots realize that the tour ship was a cover for something far more important.
Our crew was formed into ranks, and marched over to the tour ship our first night in port. We were all hypnotized by Russia's Hypnotoad, and given the agenda of the future. Russia was preparing, already, to cave in on the Cold War. But, they were also preparing their revenge.
During the briefing, we learned that the Russians had a tame Orangutan in a sleeper cell in New York. The Orangutan was to be Russia's "Trump card", so to speak. All of us were informed that the Orangutan would one day run for President of the United States, and that we would recognize him when the time came.
Almost all American servicemen were briefed between the years of 1970 and 2010. And, all of us veterans were prepared to vote Trump when the time came. A lot of civilians, too, of course, but all of us veterans voted Trump. Well, except for a few whose hypnosis didn't work very well.
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Alright, I was shooting for funny. My story isn't really all that funny though. What's REALLY FUNNY is, a lot of progressives will believe my bullshit story. Yeah, there WAS a Russian cruise ship in Venice. That's where this story's connection with reality begins and ends.
U.S. Space Corps
Op-ed at War is Boring. Found at NBF.
Are food is poison... and no one cares!
From the i-dunno-what-to-eat-anymore dept.
I was thinking about this kind of thing:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170213131150.htm
And was thinking: the article is saying "Go gluten free and increase your chances of getting cancer!"
What it really should be saying is "WTF? Our food supply is killing us because we are tooooooo stupid to not poison our food supply?!?!"
Kind of surprised me for some reason: i've looked at articles from various sides before (Hey, Hillary vs. Trump articles!!), but didn't at first look at this one except from the "it was probably sponsored and written by someone in the bread industry" point of view.
We are poisoning our food, and the best we can do is: don't go gluten free... it will kill you, just like all the other food we are poisoning but ignore that elephant behind the curtain.
Humans are so stupid: i guess we DESERVE to die as we chase after that Dog almighty dollar. I guess if i ever get RICH, i'd better create a food biome: somewhere i can have uncontaminated soil and air to grow my food supply in.
Maybe that's why there's such a rush to Mars: rich people need a place to grow food in an uncontaminated environment (that is until they find they can make an extra dollar by contaminating it).
Black Guns Matter
Tesla Driver Saves Volkswagen Driver, gets free repairs
Tesla Owner Who Sacrificed His Model S To Save Another Driver Gets Surprise From Elon Musk
Mmmh, that sweet good publicity. It's even better than bad publicity.
Chevy Cruze peak range: 702 miles on 13.5 gallons of diesel
New diesel Chevy Cruze can go an estimated 702 miles on a single tank of fuel
The 52 mpg highway fuel economy numbers apply to the six-speed manual transmission diesel Cruze, which gets 30 mpg on city streets. The car also comes in a 9-speed automatic transmission version, which returns 47 mpg on the highway and 31 mpg in the city with start-stop technology regulating the engine.
fraud phone call from the IRS
This one is a first for me. The IRS has never called me before - either for real, or as part of a scam.
"This phone call is to inform you that you have been named in a lawsuit by the Internal Revenue Service. If you wish to settle the claim against you before the suit is filed, you should call 6466326448. Thank you, the Internal Revenue Service."
I wish I had recorded it, to be sure that I got the phrasing precise, and the phone number accurate, but there it is, very close to what I heard. Note that neither my name, nor my wife's name was used - no names at all. Some mysterious "you". I used Google Talk to try calling the number, and got some tones, and a message that the number is not in service.
Funny that they didn't repeat the phone number - even scammers know that people don't always have a pen and paper in reach. I would think the scammers would want to make sure that the victim knows what number to call, so he can be properly scammed.
Ahhhh - looking at the telephone, I see that I got the number wrong - it is 6466321448. Dial that number, and I get a busy signal. I know it's the busy season, but, doesn't the IRS have like unlimited phone lines coming in? Gonna try a couple more times, just to get an idea how the scam works . . .
entering the number into Google leads me to this page, http://mobilecallertracker.com/phone-search/6466321 and 2/3 down the page, I find the number. So, the IRS callback number is a mobile phone? Wow - THAT is interesting!! I've heard that landlines are pretty much obsolete, but the IRS is all mobile now?
Well, still busy - I don't want to spend my day trying to scam a scammer. Maybe I'll try a couple more times later today.
Suggestions, anyone? I suppose I should inform my local sheriff's office of this call - maybe they will ask the local radio stations to warn their listeners - or something.
https://www.irs.gov/uac/stay-vigilant-against-bogus-irs-phone-calls-and-emails
https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/contact_report_scam.shtml
Online complaint made - I guess I've done my civic duty of the day.
Why does the U.S. still let 12-year-olds get married?
Mod journal flamebait!!!
Why does the United States still let 12-year-olds get married?
This is an opinion piece in WaPo written by the founder of a nonprofit. archive.is link because I figured out WaPo has a 5 article/month limit paywall.
While most states set 18 as the minimum marriage age, exceptions in every state allow children younger than 18 to marry, typically with parental consent or judicial approval. How much younger? Laws in 27 states do not specify an age below which a child cannot marry.
Unchained At Last, a nonprofit I founded to help women resist or escape forced marriage in the United States, spent the past year collecting marriage license data from 2000 to 2010, the most recent year for which most states were able to provide information. We learned that in 38 states, more than 167,000 children — almost all of them girls, some as young 12 — were married during that period, mostly to men 18 or older. Twelve states and the District of Columbia were unable to provide information on how many children had married there in that decade. Based on the correlation we identified between state population and child marriage, we estimated that the total number of children wed in America between 2000 and 2010 was nearly 248,000.
Turns out R2D*2pa$tramimacaronomy is doing just fine stateside, for the moment...
