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by miked 16y ago
While your waiting for a B12 shot, you might try taking some sublingually with sorbitol. The latter allows most (but not all) people who have absorption problems to get enough. http://ajplegacy.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/193/3/5
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by miked 16y ago
>> it is doubtful that BP will have to pay much for this disaster Since Obama has gotten more campaign contributions from BP (also from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) that any other politician in the US, at least we'll know who to blam
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by miked 16y ago
can you provide references for #2? I'm not the OP, but Matt Ridley's book The Rational Optimist , just released a few days ago, has much more on this. Selection here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB2000142405274870369180457525...
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by miked 16y ago
Former IBM CEO Buck Rodgers worked standing up. He had a long thin table partly covered in butcher block paper. When he wanted to issue an order, he wrote it on the butcher paper, ripped it out and sent it out. I always thought this was a g
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Pennsylvania A.G. Tom Corbett Subpoenas Twitter To Identify His Critics(volokh.com)
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The DISCLOSE Act regulates blogs' political speech(reason.com)
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The FCC puts broadband under political control(online.wsj.com)
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Orwellian PA tax ad: This is not a spoof(youtube.com)
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White House Caught Altering Stimulus Baseline Projection by 7 Million Jobs(biggovernment.com)
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Wall Street cashes out investment in Chris Dodd(sfexaminer.com)
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Obama administration wanted warrantless access rights to most US email(news.cnet.com)
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White House Spam(blogs.knoxnews.com)
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by miked 17y ago
But when the data are complicated --- by which I mean, there are many different effects that must be accounted for in order to interpret the raw data as a measurement of a parameter of interest --- then it's not necessarily a surprise to f
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Britain: The Special Relationship with the US is now dead(timesonline.co.uk)
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by miked 17y ago
Question: British contributed in the Iraq War. What was the result? Roads, schools, hospitals? No, but hundred of thousands of deaths under the US and British army, more violence than ever and a corrupt political system. The result has be
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by miked 17y ago
Yes they are, and all three major bond rating agencies have recently publicly stated that treasuries are in danger of being downrated due to the massive increase in federal debt.
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by miked 17y ago
even as Vietnam itself reconciled and prospered Per capita income is $2,900 / year (PPP). https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/... While they have recently begun freeing up their economy, that still is less than
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by miked 17y ago
According to the WHO, the US has the most responsive health care system in the world. It also has the highest cure rate for many types of cancer. Much of the high cost of our system is due to an out-of-control tort system, which this bill m
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How lobbyists are keeping the public in the dark about broadband(advicegoddess.com)
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by miked 17y ago
Karl Rove practically invented the attack ad. Most people here are probably too young to remember it, but in the 1964 US presidential election Johnson attacked Goldwater as a warmonger who was going to get us all killed in a war. He ran a
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by miked 17y ago
I'd be curious to know what her husband's reaction was when he read this.
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by miked 17y ago
Interesting site. You may want to have a look at this page: http://oakland.universitytutor.com/chinese
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by miked 17y ago
Doh! My bad. the 140 per 100,000 rate I cited is for the capital, Caracas. For the country as a whole the rate is 54 per 100K, second highest in the world. The 4x increase under Chavez stands. See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/cont
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by miked 17y ago
In the 11 years he's been in office, the murder rate in the country has increased by a factor of 4, to a staggering 140 per 100,000, the highest in the world.
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Venezuela's Chavez calls for Internet controls(reuters.com)
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by miked 17y ago
You are a being very pessimistic. Europe and Japan declining in population? I find that hard to believe. Do you have figures to back that up? I'm not the you responded to, but here goes: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world
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Head of 'Climategate' unit admits 'pretty awful emails' to hide data(dailymail.co.uk)
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by miked 17y ago
George Soros had to hide from Nazis as a child. I hardly blame him for having to hide, but did he have to go out and help confiscate the property of his fellow jews? Couldn't he have stayed home? Not to mention that he's been convicted of
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by miked 17y ago
If you want to be a partisan newspaper, that's legitimate, If you want to be a partisan editorialist, that's legitimate. Leaving out key facts, say, because you claim that there is no objective reality, is wrong. Everyone is entitled to
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NHTSA Has No Software Engineers To Analyze Toyota(yro.slashdot.org)
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