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Both candidates in Iran were chosen by the Ayatollah. The people were voting between these two stooges of the Ayatollah, so they are supposed to think it is a democracy, but if both candidates are chosen by one man, it is a faux democracy. Even with this kind of rigging, there was yet another layer of rigging possible, where one candidate acceptable to the Ayatollah rigged the elections in his own favor. It was double rigged. Crooked as a dog’s hind leg. Using the cloak of democracy to mask a dictatorship richly deserves disrespect from the U.S. or any other legitimate democracy.

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It’s certain that if there is a cyber attack on any nation, the attackers would endeavor to deliver it as a unique surprise, so that there would be no immediate remedy to counteract it. By it’s very nature, this kind of invisible sneak attack would be very difficult to define in advance. Maybe it will be an attack to mine data from the military, or the military industrial complex, or govt., or maybe it would be in the form of a virus that would render computers inoperable. Who knows what the Chinese, N. Koreans, or some other nation or organization has up their sleeve? What is particularly disturbing is that our government doesn’t have it’s own private internet, unconnected with the world wide web.

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Tissue + Sneeze
Patty Loveless like water into wine
COP15
The earth warms and cools naturally without the help of pollution. Whether or not the computer models are sufficient to predict the future can be debated. Pollution might affect the weather, but I fall short of believing that it is a controlling factor. Yet, despite my agnosticism, I’ve always been against pollution. So, I’m cool with reducing pollution. The cap ‘n’ trade tactic is a loser, unfortunately. It won’t work because China and India and the rest of the 3rd world aren’t on the program. If it won’t work, do something else (That’s my politics in a nutshell: Pragmatism). The reason why polluting technology is used is because it’s the cheapest. Cap ‘n’ trade comes with a price, and maybe that money would be better invested in R & D, to develop technology that is non-polluting and cheaper than present technology.
Those Limeys! Plus a little Gymkhana
I’ve heard that coffee promotes fat. I’m not sure about that. Could be, but if you drink coffee, it should be taken black, no sugar. It’s an acquired taste, but it doesn’t take long to acquire it.
Green tea is the preferred drink. It has a similar drug effect that coffee has, but seems to be mellower. Green tea is consumed by itself, no sugar or fat content.

Avoid tap water. As a plumber/pipefitter, I know why you should avoid tap water, but that’s a long story.

Milk is pushed by doctors because they see the protein, calcium and vitamin D as being essential. I wonder if supplements are a better way to get those nutrients. Then again, I wonder if pills work.

Having watched that lesson on fructose, I’ll be reading the ingredients of bread at the supermarket. And maybe I’ll cut down the beer consumption a little, too.
Tissue + Sneeze
I sneezed last night.
ah…ah…ah-CHOO – HOO
My entire body quaked, my hat shot straight in the air, and I think my heart stopped. I’m sure it frightened the neighbors.
Those Limeys! Plus a little Gymkhana
@pat haskett
“My Boy Lollipop” hit the charts in 1964, even though it appears she lip-synced her hit, there, in that clip in 1973….in her scrumptious, little white jump suit. The thing is, in 1964, that was the depth of pop music, and into that exploded the Beatles to bring back the driving
down beat, the spirit of Chuck Berry, and the “rock group”.